Gijs Bakker
Gijs Bakker
1942 Born in Amersfoort
1958 – 1962 Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs, Amsterdam
1962 – 1963 Konstfack Skolan in Stockholm, Industrial Design Department
1966 Marries Emmy van Leersum († 1984), with whom he opens the Atelier voor Sieraden (Jewellery Workshop) in Utrecht
1968 Gold and Silver Medal for jewellery, Jablonec, Czech Republic
1971 – 1978 Lectures at Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Design Department, Arnhem
1987 – 2003 Professor at The Design Academy, Department Living, Eindhoven
1988 Awarded Françoise van den Bosch Prijs for jewellery
1996 Ra Award 1996 for jewellery. Co-founds with Marijke Vallanzasca the “Chi ha paura…?” foundation for jewellery designed by international designers
2001 Global advisor American Craft Museum, New York
2002 Project “Sense of Wonder”, jewelry collection Chi ha Paura…? Foundation, together with SM’s s’Hertogenbosch , fi rst presented in Milan during International Furniture Fair.
2005 Project “What’s Luxury”, jewellery collection Chi ha paura…? Foundation, together with SM’s s’Hertogenbosch, fi rst presented in Milan, during International Furniture Fair. Retrospective jewellery exhibition “Gijs Bakker and Jewellery”, museum SM’s, s’Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Monograph,Ida van Zijl
1965 ‘Sieraden’, Emmy van Leersum and Gijs Bakker, Galerie Swart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1967 ‘Nederlandse edelsmeden 3’. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ‘Sculpture to wear by Emmy van Leersum and Gijs Bakker’. Ewan Philips Gallery, London, U.K.
1969 ‘Draagbare objecten’. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; ‘Objects to wear’, Gijs Bakker, Emmy van Leersum, Nicolaas van Beek, Françoise van den Bosch, Bernard Lameris. Travelling exhibition. Smithsonian Institute, Washington, USA; ‘Werfkelder voor multipliceerbare objecten’. Utrecht, The Netherlands
1970 ‘Kledingsuggesties Emmy van Leersum en Gijs Bakker’. Galerie Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Galerie Plus Kern, Gent, Belgium.
1972 ‘Objects to wear’, Gijs Bakker and Emmy van Leersum. Electyrum Gallery, London, UK and Ingenieursbureau DHV, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
1986 ‘New jewellery’. Helen Drutt Gallery, Philidelphia, USA and Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1989 ‘Solo voor een solist’, retrospective exhibition Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, USA; KunstRai
1989, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1993 ‘Gatenproject’. Galerie Ra, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ‘Gatenproject’. Galerie Spektrum, München, Germany
1998 ‘‘Holysport/Shot’. Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia and Sofa Art Fair, New York, USA
2001 ‘I don’t wear jewels, I drive them’. Galerie Ra, Amsterdam and KunstRai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Gallery Helen Drutt, Philadelphia, USA
2002 Centre for Contemporary Craft, Houston, USA. Selected Retrospective Exhibition.
2005 Retrospective exhibition ‘Gijs Bakker and Jewelry’ SM,s Museum, s’Hertogenbosch.Publication oeuvre catalogue by Arnoldsche, Stuttgart
Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Den Haag, The Netherlands;
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands;
Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, The Netherlands;
Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands;
Gemeentelijk Van Reekummuseum, Apeldoorn,The Netherlands; SM’s – Stedelijk Museum,s’Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands;
Nederlands Dans Theater, Den Haag, The Netherlands;
Cleveland County Museum, Middlesborough, England; Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseet, Trondheim, Norway; Power House Museum, Sydney, Australia;
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan;
National Gallery Bratislava, Slowakije;
Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, USA;
Denver Museum of Art, Denver, USA;
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany; Kunst und Gewerke Museum, Hamburg, Germany; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands;
Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia, USA;
Droog Design collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Chi ha paura….? collection, Amsterdam, The Netherland;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA