Basic information

Name: Hortence Brouwn, 1937
Place of birth: Suriname
Based in: Curaçao (living and working there since 1973)
Discipline: Sculpture

EDUCATION

2001            Pietra Santa, Italy
1998            Pietra Santa, Italy
1994            10 months working in & Pietra Santa Italy
1987            Workshop Art Student League New york, by A. Padovano & B. Robes
1973-1976  Sculpting lessons from Dries Kreykamp, Curaçao
1963-1973 Sculpting workshops in the Netherlands (Amsterdam; Haarlem)
1960-1963 Kunstacademie Suriname

BIOGRAPHY

Hortence Brouwn is a sculptor born in Suriname and based in Curaçao. The human body is the main theme of her work. In 1997 she started a bronze foundry, with the help of different people and organizations in Curacao.
The feelings of the human being come to be expressed in the movement and attitude of her sculptures. Feelings like sadness, happiness, fear and despair reveal themselves in the body language. Even when a person is seen from the back, his essence can be read.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2000

2019 Garden exhibition ,Gallery Alma Blou, Kaya Tapakonchi, Curaçao
2013 Gallery Alma Blou, Curaçao
2007 Gallery Alma Blou Willemstad, Curaçao
2002 Kas di Alma Blou, Curaçao
1999  Kas di Alma Blou, Curaçao

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS since 2000

2005  Kas di Alma Blou, Curaçao
2004  Hotel restaurant Karel V, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2003  Gallery Pauw, Oisterwijk, the Netherlands
2002  Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
2001   DZD Art, Roermond, the Netherlands
2001   Holland Art Fair, The Hague, the Netherlands
2000  Galerie Rudolf, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2000 Holland Art Fair, The Hague, the Netherlands

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hortence Brouwn ISBN 978-99904-60-64-3

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Big Mama, Avila Beach Hotel and Kurá Hulanda
Sculpture garden, Zeelandia Office Park, Sculpure Garden of Blue Bay, Fort Amsterdam
Portraits of Elis Juliana, Pader Brenneker and Ciro Kroon