` CV

Harald SCHOLE lives and works in Amsterdam and Zaanstad, The Netherlands
info@haraldschole.nl
+31 614 719 353
+31 20 694 5479

If the world could be understood, art would not exist
Albert Camus

Fellowships / Stipendia / Awards

2022 Grand Prize of the Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh
2020 Gemeente Amsterdam, MUPI-project
2019 Gerbrandy Cultuur Fonds, NL
2016 Gerbrandy Cultuur Fonds, NL
2005 FONDS BKVB, Amsterdam, NL

Exhibitions

2024 CICA Museum, Korea, Portrait 2024
2023 WG-kunst, Amsterdam
2023 NL44, Gent, Belgium, Orange, mon Ange, d’Orage, curators Mariel van den Eerenbeemt, Tania Desmet
2023/4 Solo, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2022 Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19th Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh
2022 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Beyond Borders with mail-art of OFAA members
2022 Art Space, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Sleutelfiguren / Key figures
2021 Tekenkabinet, Amsterdam, curator Manja van der Storm
2021 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Hurray, summer keeps coming, curators Friso Witteveen, Harald Schole
2021 NSDM building, Amsterdam, Fuse, Dutch Sculptor’s Association
2021 Zandvoorts Museum, Ode aan het landschap, curator Dolf Middelhoff
2021 Göl, Istanbul, International Mail Art Exhibition, curator Müberra Bülbül
2021 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, de Wintersalon, NEW, nieuw werk
2020 New Dakota, Amsterdam, Corona Archives
2020 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Arti 2.020 Sumer Salon, curators Friso Witteveen, Harald Schole
2020 Nautilus, Expobar, Amsterdam, Beyond Quilting in The Netherlands
2019 Valencia, Spain, Biennial of Ciudad Vella Oberta, curator Victoria Cano Pérez
2019 Maharashtra Cultural Centre (Sudharsan) Pune, India, Beyond Quilting
2019 The Monalisa, Pune, India, Upcycled/Display/Dialogue, curated StudioAlternatives
2019 Bergen, kunst10daagse
2019 Sint Barbara Church, Culemborg, Boven de Kronen / The Sky is the Limit
2019 Venduhuis de Eland de Zon, Diemen, curator Anja Swart, Artists in Diemen III
2019 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, De Salon
2018 Pulani, India, curator Babita Das, 10th IAM, International Art Meeting
2018 Art House, New Delhi, India, IAM pop-up exhibition
2018 Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, National Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh, curator Mehmud Ul Bashar, 18th Asian Art Biennial
2018 NSOMNIA, Festival INTRAMURS and Faculty of Fine Arts of Valencia
2018 The Research Center Art and Environment (CIAE) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, Art and Environment, curator Victoria Cano Pérez

Commissions & Cultural Projects

2022 NECTAR art & urban nature, exhibition, publication and extensive public program, Sint-Joriskerk, Amersfoort, commission LKG De Ploegh
2022 Ruimte waar het licht kan komen / Space for Light, exhibiton young artists from HKU, publication, Janskerk, Utrecht, in collaboration with Oecumenische Studentengemeente Utrecht
2021 iPad workshops, Hurray, summer keeps coming
2021 Dan liever de lucht in / Going into the air, curating the exhibition for Foundation the Rose, Sint Barbara Church, Culemborg
2020 Villa Belmonte residency, exploring the Dutch countryside
2020 Telephone, an international art experiment, Nathan Langston and his team, Seattle
2020 MUPI project, City of Amsterdam in collaboration with Friso Witteveen
2020 Vliegend Vrij / Free Flying, curating the exhibition for Foundation the Rose, Sint Barbara Church, Culemborg
2020 Beyond Quilting in The Netherlands, in collaboration with Rucha Kulkarni Chaudari and Edith Rijnja
2019 Beyond Quilting, an innovative design project in collaboration with Quilt Culture, Rucha Kulkarni Chaudari and Edith Rijnja, Pune, India
2018 Boven de Kronen / The sky is the Limit, curating the exhibition for Foundation the Rose, Sint Barbara Church, Culemborg

Publications

2022 NECTAR, Harald Schole
2021 Tekenkabinet, Manja van der Storm
2021 Telephone, an online international art experiment, Nathan Langston
2020 Hidden Signs, an artistic research project, Harald Schole
2019 Boven De Kronen, Rieks Hoogenkamp, Harald Schole
2018 10th IAM, International Art Meeting, Babita Das
2018 Hold…on, Buddha Enlightment art & world peace, Anjani Kumar Singh, Dianne Hagen, Edith Rijnja, Sanjeev Sinha

Researcher, Curator & Author

Ymere housing company
2003 - now Independent free lance curator for art commissions related to architecture and urban development (commissions, among Jurgen Bey, Rob Birza, Tom Claasen, Kiki van Eijk, Stefan Glerum, Levie Jacobs, Ineke Hans, Hansje van Halem, Gino, Bud Hoiting, Gabriel Lester, Nicole Martens, Thomas Trum, Chris Kabel, K. Michel, Piet Parra, Jan Rothuizen, Aam Solleveld, Boris Tellegen, Tjep, Roy Villevoye, Jasmijn Visser, Marijke Warmerdam)
Arti et Amicitiae
2021 Hurray, summer keeps coming, Sumer Salon, members of Arti in the Arti Society in collaboration with Friso Witteveen, including an iPadworkshop
2014 – 2022 Curator: My Collection, series of exhibitions in the Arti Society + interviews about collecting art topics:
2020 Arti 2.020, Zomersalon, members of Arti in the Arti Society in collaboration with Friso Witteveen, including a 185 MUPI’s art project in the city
2020 Celebrating the Chinese New Year in collaboration of the Chinese Cultural Center, The Hague (artists: Zhou Le Sheng, Tu Ning Ning, Sun Zhuo Zhang, He Ping, Dai Hong Qian, Chen Hai Lan)
2019 Brasa mi ori / Groet mij met…Art and artists in relation with Suriname culture including a public program, Collection of Myra Winter and Carl Haarnack
2019 Zachtzinnig Radicaal / Gentle Radical, exhibition, screenings, theatre, performances and a public programm, including publication about seven years YAA awards in collaboration with Edith Rijnja
2018 African Amicitiae, the art collection of the Thami Mnyele Foundation, including publication in collaboration with Edith Rijnja

Art Magazines

BK-informatie
2016-3 BK-informatie Column Guwahati
kM, a quartly about art & material
2022 kM, a quartly about art & material chief editor kM
1997 - now Since 2021 Chief editor, researcher, author, manager start-up Facebook- en Linkedin-account for quartly kM, founders: Pieter Keune (1948-2021) and Anne van Grevenstein, editors: Monika Auch, Annelies van Loon, Edith Rijnja, Sanneke Stigter.
Arti Newsletter
2014 – 2022 My Collection announcements for the printed Newsletter and online information.

Guest Lector & Lectures

2023 Wortels in de Oude Kerk, Amsterdam i.s.m. Gijs Stork
2019 History of Arti et Amicitiae and contemporary art, Society Arti, Amsterdam
2018 Spinoza meets Buddha, Pilani, Birla Institute, India