René Daniëls

° 1950

Born in Eindhoven (NL), lives in Eindhoven (NL).

René Daniëls graduates from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in ’s-Hertogenbosch in 1976. In the early eighties Daniëls participates in a number of exhibitions which gain him international acclaim.

Daniëls is strongly influenced by such music genres as punk, new wave and no wave. He also has a special relationship with Eindhoven and New York in the eighties, both cities are of great importance to the development of both his oeuvre and his career.

In 1987 Daniëls suffers a stroke. For a long time it is impossible for him to work on his art. In 2006 Daniëls once again starts to make art, only now on a smaller scale and with markers and spray cans.

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De Kelder, de Zolder

René Daniëls, De Kelder, de Zolder, 1987. Multiple, paint on cloth, wooden box, screenprint, pencil, 9.8 x 18.8 x 3.6 cm.

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The Eightees – A Decade o...

17 June 2016 - 18 September 2016.
The Eighties – A Decade of Extremes presents a nuanced picture of the eighties with all its contrasts, cheerful and playful, but also hard an