Evi Vingerling (b. 1979, Gouda)
Lives and works in The Hague, the Netherlands
1985 – 1998, Atlanta, GA | 2007 – 2009 New York, NY
Education/ Residencies
Rjksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 2005 – 2006
Royal Art Academy, The Hague, NL, 1998 – 2002
Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA, 1997 – 98
WIELS, Brussels, BE, 2011
Professorship Positions
Art Academy Artez Zwolle/Arnhem, NL, 2010-2015, 2016, 2018
Royal Art Academy Den Haag, NL, 2007, 2010-2012
Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, NL, 2006, 2007
Art Academy HKU Utrecht, NL, 2015, 2016, 2021
Art Academy AKV St. Joost Den Bosch, NL, 2005, 2012
Selected Exhibitions
2026
Collection Presentation: The selection of Nieke Lemmens, SCHUNCK Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL
2025
Collection Presentation: Everything Flows, The Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, NL
Lecture-performance with Omar Kholeif and Evi Vingerling: Dreamwork: A Journey of Women’s Voices, Mudam Museum Luxembourg, LU
Collection Presentation, The Depot, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
Light on Things, Evi Vingerling with Katja Mater, Hartwig Art Foundation, Oud Amelisweerdhuis, Bunnik, NL
2024
Space In Between, Solo Exhibition, Galeria Fermay, Palma de Mallorca, ES
DAILY ENCOUNTERS and how to catch them, Museum Helmond, Helmond, NL
Permanent Collection Presentation: Contemporary Perspectives – 21st Century, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, NL
Recente Aanwinsten, VUMC, Amsterdam, NL
2023
Me as a Mountain, Solo Exhibition, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
Bloem, Verwey Museum Haarlem, Haarlem, NL
New Horizons, Centraal Museum, Utrect, NL
Collection Presentation: Painting Now, Singer Laren Museum, Laren, NL
2022
Here We Go, Fermay Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Commissioned Ceiling Mural, Club Morei, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Art Island, with Tegenboschvanvreden, Ijmuiden, NL
2021
see-saw-see-saw, Evi Vingerling with Ricardo Van Eyk, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
Collection Presentation: Dwarsverbanden, work presented with music composed by Sachit Ajmani, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL
Art Rotterdam, with Tegenboschvanvreden and Kristof De Clercq gallery, Rotterdam, NL
DUO, Evi Vingerling with Helen Dowling, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Wild Walls #1#2#3#4, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
L’heure Bleu, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2020, ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam, NL
The Painting Show, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
Commission, Waldorf Astoria, Spectrum Dining Space, Amsterdam, NL
2019
At the Gym, The Whitehouse Gallery, Lovenjoe, BE
Haagse Heritage, Heden, The Hague, NL
Upbringing, Solo Exhibition, Kristof De Clercq gallery, Gent, BE
Art Brussels, with Kristof De Clercq gallery, Brussels, BE
Self-Contemporary, Solo Exhibition, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
Commission of 4 large-scale ceiling paintings, Trippenhuis Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, NL
2018
A Walk in the Park, Eindhoven, NL
De Natura, Villa Valero, Rivarolo Canavese, IT
Arcadia, Solo Exhibition, Galeria Maior, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Art Rotterdam, Solo Presentation, with Tegenboschvanvreden, Rotterdam, NL
Beyond the Painting, SEA Foundation Tilburg, NL
Collection Presentation: NEW ARRIVALS II, SCHUNCK, Heerlen, NL
2017
Painted Bird, Marres, Maastricht, NL
Clair Lieu, Niederrhein, DE
New Works, Solo Exhibition, Kristof de Klercq gallery, Gent, BE
Art Rotterdam, with Tegenboschvanvreden and Kristof de Clercq gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Art Brussels, with Kristof De Clercq gallery, Brussels, BE
2015
Midnight Blue, Solo Exhibition, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
Current Current, Bob van Orsouw Galerie, Zurich, CH
New Paintings, Solo Exhibition, Kristof de Clercq gallery, Gent, BE
Collection Presentation, Schunck, Heerlen, NL
Collection Presentation, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2014
Collection Presentation: Beating around the bush Episode #2, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL
Buning Brongersprijs, Museum Hentriette Polak, Zutphen, NL
Biennial of Painting, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Vensters, KAdE Museum, Amersfoort, NL
2013
Evi Vingerling, Solo Exhibition, Kristof de Clercq gallery, Gent, BE
Self-Titled Space, PARK, Tilburg, NL
Evi Vingerling, Solo Exhibition, Wiels, Brussels, BE
Unisono26, Solo exhibition, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL
New Work, Solo exhibition, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2012
Royal Prize for Painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, NL
Nieuwe Schilderijen, Solo Exhibition, Temporary Art Center, Eindhoven, NL
Zomershow, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Door Schildersogen, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Against Interpretation, Whatspace, Tilburg, NL
Art Brussels, with Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Brussels, BE
2011
Légèreté, Maison de Particulière, Brussel, BE
Recent Aquisitions Maurice van Valen, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL
What’s Up? De Jongste Schilderkunst in Nederland, Dordechts museum, Dordrecht,
NL
Mind Games, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, USA
Royal Prize for Painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, NL
Riposte, Stedelijk Museum s’-Hertogenbosch, NL
I Promise to Love You, De Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
Paintings, Solo Exhibition, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2010
Dutch abstraction, TADA Projects, Singapore
New Minimalism, Duende, BRAK Rotterdam, NL
Royal Prize for Painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, NL
Thieme Award, Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
L’Exposition Continue (echo), CNEAI, Chatou, FR
PUSH PULL, Rijks Museum Twente, (project with WJM Kok), Enschede, NL
2009
Pacific, Solo Exhibition, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
Wandverwantschap, Museum Belvédère, Heerlen, NL
UND, Villa Carmeline, Nice, FR
Distilling a few words, Solo Exhibition, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
I love the BeNeLux, Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York, US
2008
l’Exposition Continue, Circuit, Lausanne, CH
Wolvecampprijs, Hengelo, NL
Golden Disc of the Sun, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US
2007
And More to Come…, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Evi Vingerling, Solo Exhibition, PRC, Bilthoven, NL
2006
De Buning Brongers Prijs, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
What a Finger is to the Moon, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Inlay, Consortium, Amsterdam, NL
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL
Parts, Parts gallery, Xiamen, China
2005
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL
Billytown, Rijswijk, NL (founding member)
Seven Young Painters, Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, NL
Prizes and Stipendia
2012
Royal Prize for Painting
Grant Mondriaan Fonds
2011
Awarded Wiels Brussel Residency
2010
Grant Fonds BKVB
Thieme Award
2007
Grant Fonds BKVB
2006
Buning Brongers Prize
Grant Ministry of Education and Sciences
Grant PRC B.V
2002
Overduin Prijs voor Jong Talent
Notable Commissions
2009 Pacific, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Royal Academy of Science, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Spectrum, Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam, NL
2022 Club Morei, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Work in notable museum and corporate collections (selected)
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL
SCHUNCK, Heerlen, NL
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, NL
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL
ING Bank
Rabobank
ABN AMRO
Ahold
De Nederladsche Bank
Akzo Nobel
VUMC
LUMC
Vingerling’s work is regularly on view in many museum collection presentations, institutions, and government buildings, including in the First Chamber (the Dutch equivalent of the Senate). Notably, her large paintings adorn the walls of many Dutch Consulates worldwide: in the United States, in Miami and Washington D.C., also in Bern, Switzerland, in Warsaw, Poland, in Cairo, Egypt and more.
Publications
Me as a Mountain 2024, 68-page, Artist publication of like named exhibition with beautiful color-prints of works, sketches and installation photos of the exhibition, a poem by accomplished poet Maria Barnas
Evi Vingerling 2013, 72-page Artist publication of recent works and an interview and text by Marijn van Kreij and van Abbemuseum Director of Collections Steven ten Thijen.
Selected Bibliography:
“Ghosts Sheltering Beneath a Cloud of Entropy”, Light on Things, Utrecht Centraal Museum, author Omar Kholeif, academics.edu, 2025
“I Can Fall in Love with an Artwork” Joop van Caldenborg, Kunsthal, author Sandra Smallenberg, NRC February 3, 2011
“An Abstract Orchid” Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, author Janneke Wesseling, NRC May 23, 2013
“Space is More Like a Body Without Clothes” a conversation with Navid Nuur, author Lili Boros, Müértö, 2014
“The Painted Bird ascending” Gijs Frieling metropolis m, February 21, 2017
“Front Desk” a paper on Commercial Galleries as spaces that balance intellectual and market-driven values, autor Robert Hamelijnk, Fucking Good Art Edition No 2, May 5, 2011
“The Choice of Jan-Mulder” Oscar van gelderen and Manuela Klerkx, Gallery Viewer Magazine, April 25, 2019
“Transformed in Imaginary Space, like in a Funny Mirror” see-saw-see-saw, author Kees Keijer, Het Parool, December 3, 2021
“En en en, of of of – the opening of gallery season” (“Vingerling again proves herself a world sized colorist”) Dominiek Ruyters, metropolis m, January 18, 2024
“A Painting to Warm Your Face To” Me as a Mountain, Tegenboschvanvreden, Esmee Postma, Volkskrant, January 18, 2024