Home@735 Gallery is pleased to announce that Melbourne artist Irene Hanenbergh will be exhibiting a suite of painting in our last show for 2017 opening on Wednesday the 20th of September.
Irene Hanenbergh deals with concerns of disciplined immaterial sensibilities within (marginalized) Romantic, Visionary and Fantastic art practices. She uses various media including drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking.
Hanenbergh completed a Master of Fine Arts by Research at the Victorian College of the Arts (The University of Melbourne) in 2010. She holds as well a BFA (Hons) in Painting and Sculpture from The Academy of Fine Arts Minerva (1988, The Netherlands), a BFA (Hons) in Printmaking, from The Athens School of Fine Arts (1995, Greece) followed by 2 year Postgraduate Research at the same academy. Additionally she completed a Post Graduate Program at The Royal College of Art (1992, London). Intermittently over the last 25 years, she has spent considerable time on artist residencies & for the purpose of exhibitions, in various locations across Europe, Asia (Japan and Thailand) and the USA (NYC).
She has held solo exhibitions in Australia and internationally; amongst other Libertine, Celestine, at Neon Parc, House of Dandelion & Lohr (outperformance) at Hugo Michel Gallery, Adelaide; Argyle Dreaming (1863), a Black art project in Sydney; Dada-Roman (4711), at Caves in Melbourne and a collaborative exhibition Zilverster with Sharon Goodwin at Sarah Scout Presents in Melbourne. Other recent solo shows have included Long Live Jezebelusa (The overseer & the divide) and Lace Monitor (Victoria Everglades) at Ryan Renshaw in Brisbane; Periwinkle Flower for the Beggar and Laudanum & De Breeder at Neon Parc in Melbourne.
Over the last few years Irene has contributed to a number of notable group projects/exhibitions such as Lubok 11, a collaboration between Lubok Verlag (Leipzig) and PrintRoom (Rotterdam) presented at Museum Boymans Beuningen in Rotterdam; Like Mike (Neon Parc), Sedition (Bus Projects), The Parlour # 2 in Brooklyn, New York and previously in shows such as Athens Pride, The Breeder Gallery , Athens; New Psychedelia, QU Museum, Queensland; Show You My World, Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin, amongst other.
Hanenbergh’s work is held in public and private collections in the Asia-Pacific (Australia, Japan, New Zealand), Europe and the United States; including The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), QU Museum (QLD), The Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (Victoria), Artbank Australia (NSW), ABSOLUT European Collection (Stockholm, Sweden), Centre for Contemporary Art (The Netherlands), Collection ASKT (Athens, Greece) and Rabobank (The Netherlands). Irene was twice named as one of ‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectible Artists’ by Australian Art Collector.
Irene Hanenbergh is represented by Neon Parc
