Ivo Rijkers

Current

• Collections manager at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
• Sculptor at Atelier Ivo Rijkers (Self-employed)

Past

• Collections manager at Link Art Company
• Collections manager at Helicon conservation support b.v.

Education

• Academy for Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)
• Municipal Institute of Ornamental Arts and Crafts, Antwerp (B)

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Arts and Crafts

Ivo Rijkers’s Summary

Ivo Rijkers (Etten-Leur, 1976) lives and works in Haarlem. He started his studies in 1996 at the Municipal Institute of Ornamental Arts and Crafts (SISA) in Antwerp, Belgium and graduated in 1999 from the Academy for Fine Arts (ABK) in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Here he was taught amongst others by Han van de Wetering and Fons Haagmans. Since then he works as a professional artist being rewarded for his work by a a scholarship from the Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture in 1999. Ivo Rijkers is also committed to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam where he works for the collection department.

Contact: info@ivorijkers.nl

Ivo Rijkers’s Specialties:

Fine art, Sculpture

Ivo Rijkers’s Experience

• Collections manager

  Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years)

• Sculptor

  Atelier Ivo Rijkers (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Arts and Crafts industry)

  July 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)

• Collections manager

  Link Art Company

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  2004 — 2006 (2 years)

• Collections manager

  Helicon conservation support b.v.

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

Ivo Rijkers’s Education

• Academy for Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)

  1996 — 1999

• Municipal Institute of Ornamental Arts and Crafts, Antwerp (B)

  1994 — 1996

Additional Information

Ivo Rijkers’s Interests:

Fine art, Sculpture

Ivo Rijkers’s Groups:

CBK Noord-Holland (CBKNH)

Ivo Rijkers’s Honors:

Scholarship (1999 - 2000): Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB)

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