Publications

Jan Henderikse (b. 1937, Delft) began his career as an informal painter. In 1960 he co-founded the Dutch Zero group and began experimenting with assemblages and the impact of large numbers of common objects such as corks, produce crates, crates of beer, licence plates and money. In the mid-1970s he became involved in film-making, the publishing of limited editions, photo sequences and installations of found and rejected photographs.

Henderikse shamelessly uses whatever materials come his way. The originality of his work lies in its method: serial composition and his presentation of slices of reality without further comment. Searching for his materials amongst cast-off and the coincidental, he long preferred the relics of 'small' human needs. In his more recent works, however, he has occupied himself more with the threatening aspects of major world events.

Selected collections:

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; The Art Institute of Chicago; Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, the Netherlands; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany; University of Iowa, Des Moines; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany; Groninger Museum, Groningen; Kunstmuseum The Hague (Gemeentemuseum); Indiana University, Indianapolis; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; The Berardo Collection, Lisbon; Tate Gallery, London; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Yale University, New Haven; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York; Robert J. Ruben Collection, New York; Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo (NL); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL); Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL); Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany; Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany; Søderjyllands Kunstmseum, Tønder, Denmark; Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)