BIOGRAPHY
Berry Holslag (The Hague, 1947) is a Dutch artist. She studied at the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague where she later became a teacher in the sculpture and modeling department. Since the late 1970s, Holslag started to work on the monumental ceramic sculptures which she is most known for. The sculptures portray ordinary people in their daily endeavors.
Through Holslag's clear visual language these sculptures become iconic, unique artworks that are accessible and inspire confidence in those looking at them. Her work explores the position of the human figure in the everyday environment and questions viewing habits and sculpture traditions.
She gives her sculptures an extra dimension by making them larger than life-size, by adding special attributes and/ or by placing them on a high pedestal. The large ceramic clay sculptures cannot be placed in the oven in one piece—after being modeled, they must first be cut into smaller pieces. The separate parts are hollowed out, baked, and coated with a glaze to then be reassembled to form the whole art piece. Characteristic for Berry Holslag is her use of the vertical and horizontal seams between parts of the sculptures as an abstract form element that quite literally interplays with the figuration of the sculpture.
Holslag lives and works in The Hague, is a member of Pulchri Studio, the Haagse Kunstkring, and the BBK.