Maria Hees

Maria Hees, 1948, Netherlands.

Education 
1975-1979 Arnhem Academy of Arts, Department for design in metal and plastics, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Professional Developments
2012 Nomination exhibition New Nomads
2007 Prize of the Keramikmuseum, Westerwald, Germany
2003 and 2005 Stipend to work at the European Ceramic Work Centre, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
from 1986-2009 6 times a stipend of the Art-Fund from the Dutch Government: Fonds voor de Beeldende Kunsten,Vormgeving en Bouwkunst
since 1990 Member of art-committees of 2 dutch municipalities
from 1979 Lectures and workshops at art-academies, museums and galleries in The Netherlands and abroad

Exhibitions (selection)
2015  Object Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2014 ‘Designing Woman 20th century’, MoMA, New York, U.S.A.         
2014 'Chain Reactions', CODA, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
2014 'The Jewellery Collection of Annie Brouwer-Korf', CODA, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands 
2014 'Bodyjewels', Textielmuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2014 Metropolitan Museum, New York, U.S.A.
2014 Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h, Montreal, Canada
2014 KunstRai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
2012 Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, Arnhem The Netherlands
2011 Pewabic Pottery Museum, Detroit, USA
2011 Sunkok Art Museum Seoul, Korea 
2011 Newton Museum of Art Palm Beach 
2010 CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands 
2009 Tassenmuseum Hendrikje, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Natuurhistorisch Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2007 Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2006 Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
2005 Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France
2004 Lesley Craze, London, England 
2003 'Spoons', Galerie RA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
2002 'Masterpieces', Torino, Italy 
2001 Kunstrai, Gal.Lous Martin Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
2000 'Parures', Mudac Lausanne, Switzerland
2000 Jewels of mind and Mentality travelling in Europe and the U.S.A.

Maria Hees is not an industrial designer, not a free artist, not a craftswoman in the tradition of her craft, not an ambitious businessperson. She is committed to the development of her own ideas about the nature of jewellery, objects, and bags; she examines the applicability of materials, often applying materials in entirely novel ways. She does acknowledge any of the restrictions so often imposed on the manufacture of products by tradition or other standards; on the contrary, she fights them in an attempt to create new solutions. She shapes her own freedom and, in doing so, the freedom of those who use her objects. She can do this by working on a small scale, making almost everything herself and doing only what she thinks is worthwhile. It is in her work that her true being manifests itself...
Maria Hees regularly exhibits in shows at home and abroad. Her work has been included in the collections of various museums: including Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Arnhem, Coda Museum in Apeldoorn,Stedelijk Museum in Den Bosch, Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Museum für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt, Israel Museum in Jerusalem , Museum of Fine Arts Houston , Museum of Fine Arts Montreal , Museum of Arts and Design New York, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

2012 JEWELBOOK , Stichting Kunstboek, Belgium
2011 Nieuwe Veluwe, Viveka vd Vliet 
2011 Items, Peter van Kesteren
2011 Meesterlijke Vrouwen Kunstenaars ( v) uit de Rijkscollectie Ministerie OCW
2011 Kunst op Kamers “Het Vervolg”
2011 OPEN MIND, Sungkok Art Museum, Korea 
2010 Tableau, Chris Reinewald 
2010 Brabant Cultureel, Clairette Gitz
2009 The Compendium of Contemporary Jewellery Makers, Uitg. Darling Publications, Andy Lim, Keulen maart
2009 Vrije Vormgeving.Mapping Conceptual Crafts Uitg, BNO Publicaties

Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Galerie Agnes Raben, Vorden, The Netherlands
Galerie Beeld & Aambeeld, Enschede, The Netherlands
Galerie Hoogenbosch, Gorredijk, The Netherlands
Galerie Kunst op Kamers, De Rijp, The Netherlands
Online design shop Wannekes