Lennart Creutzburg (b. 1994, Breda) (all pronouns) is a third-generation Indo-Dutch mixed-media artist, living and working in the Netherlands as well as internationally, among others in Finland.
The core of their artistic practice concerns a search for the origins of identity in which Creutzburg relates to themes of intergenerational transmission and trauma, cultural alienation and interspecies desire. “During traumatic periods in our lives, we create our own personal symbols, epistemologies, truths, rituals and realities.” Driven by their own deep-rooted intergenerationally inherited trauma, Creutzburg feels the inner necessity, through the creation of artistic work, to break with their own traumatic transmitted cycle, as well as to express the fluidity of identity and its interdependence and relationality with its (cultural) environment. In their work Creutzburg seeks an authenticity in visual language that expresses the bodily-automated, mystical and the multilayered in species and identity. The use of Creutzburg's own conditioning combined with research serve as the most important material for the creation of artistic work.
Creutzburg's practice has expressed itself in the past into large graphite drawings aiming to express the multilayered and bodily coded within species. This similar process has transformed itself recently into sculptural work in which inner and external worlds merge in the form of hybrid and de-binary fragmented realities and identities. Their practice extends itself also In the performative where Creutzburg emphasizes on our inner psychological conditioning and intergenerationally inherited trauma's and narratives through spoken word and wearable tech-integrated sculptures.
Creutzburg has obtained their MFA in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Their work has been shown internationally in group shows and solo’s under which at SEA Foundation (Tilburg, The Netherlands), on the premises of HIAP at Gallery Augusta (Helsinki, Finland), Kunstpodium-T (Tilburg, The Netherlands), Vent Space (Tallinn, Estonia) and the Limburg Biennial in Marres (Maastricht, the Netherlands). They are one of the founders of the Vrouw Muskens residency. An artist residency in Dongen (the Netherlands) which focuses on the collaboration between contemporary artist and mental health and care institutions.
Their work has been supported by het Cultuurfonds, Greta Ja Alfred Runeberg Foundation and het Makersfonds Tilburg.
creutzburglennart(At)hotmail.com
Coming up
2025, Pragovka Residency, Prague, Czech
Solo
2023, An-Otherworldly whim, solo, Vent Space, Tallinn, Estonia
2022, Let me back into the cave, please. , SEINÄ gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2020, Searching for Transformation, Theater de Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Group exhibition (selected)
2024, Limburg Biennale 2024, Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2024, SIM OPen Space, Reykjavik, Iceland
2024, Bug Party, Vapataiteentila, Helsinki, Finland
2023, Kino club expanded cinema vol.2; mediations, Augusta Gallery Suomenlinna, Finland
2023, UIT ZICHT - de kunstenaar als toerist, duo-show with Thomas Swinkels, Kunstpodium-T, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2023, Nuremberg Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
2023, Kuvan Kevat, Kuva Tila, Helsinki, Finland
2022, PAU open house festival, Tanja Silvestrini's livingroom, Helsinki, Finland
2022, Shake, Rattle, Mold, Project space, Helsinki, Finland
2022, Fondia gallery, Fondia, Helsinki, Finland
2021, Achterland, Kruisruimte, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
2021, The opening of Moya, Museum of Young art, Oosterhout, the Netherlands
2021, My Mother's Daughter, curated by Julia Fidder, SEA-Foundation, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2020, Benefit for Brabant, Park, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2020, Sham-movements | Schijnbewegingen, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
2020, Jamais-vu, Theater de Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2019, Vernissage het Atelier, Studio 68, Hoboken, Belgium
2019, TF Boulevard, Babel, Den Bosch, the Netherlands
2019, art, act, re-act, Graduation show, Rozenstraat, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Online
2021, PUNCH!, Punch online art-space, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2020, International art exhibition part 2, Curated by Ashok Kumar, India
2020, Rizoom take-over, Rizoom instagram, The Netherlands
Residency
2024, SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland
2023, UIT ZICHT, Kunstpodium-T, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2021, Achterland, Kruisruimte, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2020, De Kluis, Theater de Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2018, The Darling Collection, The Darling collection festival, Darling, South-Africa
Grants, awards, nominations
2023, Uniarts Scholarship
2023, Artsthread, global design graduate show
2023, The Greta ja Alfred Runeberg Foundation
2022, Uniarts materialgrant
2022, Het Cultuur Fonds, NL
2021, Makersfonds Tilburg
Collective
2024, Association of Finnish Sculptors, Finland
2022, PAU [Performance Artists Unite]
2022, Muu Association, Finland
2019, Vrouw muskens
2019/21, Vrouw Muskens residency , One of the Founders
Education
2022, Mfa, Uniarts (University of the arts Helsinki) Master Fine art; sculpture, Helsinki, Finland
2019, Ba / BE, Fontys (School of Fine and performing arts) Fine arts and education, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2015, MBO, Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam (Post-secondary vocational education) Spatial design and presentation, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Employment
2022/24, Design Museum, Exhibition builder/ art Handler, Helsinki, Finland
2019 / 21, Curio, (ISK) International connection class (Mbo) Art Teacher and cultural coordinator, Breda, the Netherlands
2019, Snens Freelance Art teacher, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2019, Museum Jan Cunen, Volunteir for Art-based learning guide, Oss, the Netherlands
Internships
2019, Museum Jan Cunen, Art-based learning guide and the creation of educational material, Oss, the Netherlands
2017, Michael College (Secondary education) Art teacher, Prinsenbeek, the Netherlands
2017, Villa Zebra(Primary museum education) Exhibition and workshop guide, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2016, Radius College, (Post-secondary vocational education) Art teacher, Breda, the Netherlands
Interview
2023, UIT ZICHT by Julia Fidder and Myriam Gras together with, Thomas Swinkels at Kunstpodium-T, Tilburg, NL
2021, SEA Foundation, By Julia Fidder for my participation for the exhibition; My Mother's Daughter, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2019, Rizoom by Anisa Demirci and Cheyenne Pattiwaël; about my takeover of the Rizoom online platform, The Netherlands
2018, The Darling Collection, By Izak de Vries for my artwork; Die Lewenslyne van Darling, Darling, South-Africa
2018, The Darling Collection, By Izak de Vries for my artwork; Mother Obscura, Darling, South-Africa
2018, The Darling Collection, By Sydney Marte for my participation in the Darling Collection, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Publication
2023, UIT ZICHT publication, written by Julia Fidder and Myriam Gras during the residency at Kunstpodium-T, Tilburg, NL
2023, HBL [Swedish paper in Finland]
2023, HBL [Swedish paper in Finland]
2019, De geconditioneerde kunstenaar, Research combined with a fictional story
2018, Binnen het kader van een vader, Photographic serie published in the form of a book