Painting allows me to think. To paint is to get to grips with reality. I like the words of Francis Bacon who, if I remember this correctly said that painting is not about the illustration of reality but about depicting a condensed form of reality. In my opinion the true significance of a painting does not lie outside the human universe but exists somewhere in the domain of shared human experience. The idea that there are painted spaces…sometimes randomly found, but the very fact that these spaces have common ground between individuals is very appealing to me.
“The use of a wide range in size of the brushes in Berry Sanders ‘ work produces significant differences in detail and that adds to the dynamics of the image. Peacefully observing these images is a challenge. The eye is constantly torn between the immediate surface and the suggested depth. Perception pinches, because there is a clear tension between the different layers in which some-times a single swipe can suggest a painted space”.
– Essay by Elisabeth Schreuder, Art Historian, August 2009
Berry Sanders, Rotterdam, 1971
Education
Kunstacademie St.Joost, Breda
Radboud University, Nijmegen
Strabrecht College, Geldrop
Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen (Germany) April 15 – August 31 2023
Benefiet voor Brabant, van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, December – January 2021/2022
Salon Veneman, Eindhoven November – January 2021/22
Academisch Genootschap Eindhoven, June – August 2019
Grenswerk, van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, December 2016 – January 2017
Flipside, Eindhoven, November – December 2015
Bart Kunst in Huis, Nijmegen, October 2013
‘Spilliaert Ostend Blues Blues’, April- August 2012, Ostend (BE), galerie Theobald’s Boothuisje
5th anniversary Galerie Bart, 31 March-5 May 2012, Amsterdam (NL)
Zweigstelle Berlin (DE), 31 March-29 April 2012
Rotary Art Fair Eindhoven, 30, 31 March and 1 April 2012
Art Walk Eindhoven, galerie van de Water, December 2011
‘Preview Berlin’, presentatie galerie Bart, 8-11 sept. 2011
‘From different corners’, paperworks – artists from international galleries 2011. Düsseldorf, Vienna, Prague, Strassbourg.
Berry Sanders, Myra de Vries, Niels Helmink & René Kuipers, Bart Kunst in Huis, Nijmegen, March – May 2011
Berry Sanders, Galerie van de Water, Eindhoven, September 11 – October 27 2010
Oostende Cultuurstad van Vlaanderen 2010, “Licht aan de zee”, Galerie Theobald’s Boothuisje,
April-August 2010 Select Media Festival 8, Super Bad Ass Show, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (US)
Montanus5, Dicksmuide (B), November 2009
‘Tales from the Bubble’, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (US), November 2009
Galerie Peninsula, Eindhoven, september-oktober 2009
Saekkers, Eindhoven, June 2009
Strijp X, Eindhoven, March 2009
‘Verstand van Smaak’, Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, February 2009
Grenswerk, Flipside, Eindhoven, November 2008
Salon XI NBKS, Breda, November 2008
Work period Tripkau (D), August 2008
NEP, The Living Room, Amsterdam, March 2008
NEP, Galerie Peninsula, Eindhoven, November 2007
Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, April 2007
Around the world in 80 questions, global mobile exhibition October 2006
Galerie de Kunstkamer, Hoogeloon, October 2006
RotoSmeets GrafiServices Eindhoven, August 2006
Editfestival Strijp-S, Eindhoven June 2006
Bart Kunst in Huis – Nijmegen, May 2006
Hier 2 – Krabbedans/MU, Eindhoven, January 2006
Gelregaleries st. Eusebiuskerk, Arnhem, March 2005
Bart Kunst in Huis, Nijmegen, January 2005
Remy van Ulden, Geldrop, November 2004
Graduation Show St. Joost, Breda, juni 2004
