Works

 

ARTIST

 

Wilfried Grootens

With my glass painting I fill transparent, geometric spaces whose visual explorations produce surprising variations in forms. Different perspectives on apparent spherical floating built-up forms of linear brush strokes, reveal to the viewer new perspectives within the object´s space.

Education & Teaching (Selected)

1989Own Studio in Kleve, Germany
1988Received a Master Craftsman’s Diploma in Munich
1973-1981Travelled through Asia, South and Central America and the Middle East
1969-1973Apprenticeship as glass and porcelain painter with Hein Derix in Kevelaer


Awards / Grants (Selected)

2017Fort Wayne Museum of Art Award
2016First Prize, Glass Finishing Prize - Glasstec 2016, Düsseldorf, Germany 
Collectors Award, International Glass Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, USA
2015Public Prize & Second Prize , Immenhäuser Glass Prize 
Fort Wayne Museum of Art Award
2013Third Prize, “Fun with Colours” , TGK International Competition 2013
2011State Prize, NRW Competition, Germany 
Third Prize, TGK International Competition 2011
2010Second Prize, Glasveredlerpreis zur Glasstec 2010
2009Third Prize, Immenhäuser Glass Prize
2003Second Prize, Immenhäuser Glass Prize
1991Second Prize, Glass Competition of The Galerie Ewers at Gross St. Martin


Exhibitions (Selected)

201745th Glass International Award Exhibition, Habatat Gallery, Royal Oak, USA 
Art Palm Beach, USA 
Longboat Key Center for the Arts, Sarasota, Florida, USA 
Exempla 2017 IHM, Munich, Germany
2016ART/TO Art, Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Canada 
SOFA Chicago 2016, USA 
“Glass Now”, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany 
“Summer of Glass”, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, USA 
The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Japan 
Notojima Glass Art Museum, Notojima, Japan 
Solo Exhibition, Etienne Gallery, The Netherlands 
“Ornament”, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark 
Europäisches Museum für Modernes Glas, Coburg, Germany
2015SOFA Chicago 2015, USA 
“Manu Factum”, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Köln, Germany 
Glasmuseum Immenhausen 6. Immenhäuser Glaspreis, Germany 
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, USA
2014SOFA Chicago 2014, USA 
Coburg Glaspreis 2014
2013The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 2013, Japan
 
SOFA, Chicago, USA


Collections (Selected)

Sparkasse Kellen, Kleve, Germany 
21 Fenster der St. Willibrord kapelle in Kleve Kellen, Germany 
Rabo-Bank, Millingen aan de Rijn, The Netherlands 
Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding, Germamy 
Portalfenster St. Anna Materborn, Germany 
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Germany 
Glasmuseum Immenhausen, Germany