Ger van Elk (9 March 1941 – 17 August 2014)Ger van Elk, “Nederlands boegbeeld conceptuele kunst, overleden (73)” NRC.nl 18 August 2014
/ref> was a Dutch artist who created sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work has been described as being both

conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...

and arte povera. Between 1959 and 1988 he lived and worked in Los Angeles, New York City, and Amsterdam, except for a period of study in

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in the 1960s.Ger van Elk
in the

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In 1996 he won the J. C. van Lanschot Prize for Sculpture. Ger van Elk had several solo exhibitions at

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from 1970 to 1987. This was his second serious gallery showing in Amsterdam.“In & Out of Amsterdam” MOMA, 2009 pp81-89
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Marinus Boezem Marinus Lambertus van den Boezem (born 28 January 1934) is a Dutch artist. He is known for his radical view of art and his works in public space. Together with Wim T. Schippers, Ger van Elk and Jan Dibbets, Boezem is seen as one of the main repre ...

Wim T. Schippers Willem Theodoor "Wim T." Schippers (; born 1 July 1942) is a Dutch artist, comedian, television director, and voice actor. During the 1960s, he worked mostly as a visual artist, associated with the international Fluxus-movement. As a television w ...

and

Jan Dibbets Jan Dibbets (born 9 May 1941, in Weert) is an Amsterdam-based Dutch conceptual artist. His work is influenced by mathematics and works mainly with photography. Life and career In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he started as an art teacher at the ...

, he is seen as one of the main representatives of these movements in the

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have work of Van Elk in their collection. Reflections on art history are an important part of his work.

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Van Lanschot Kempen Kunstprijs winners

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* Ger van Elk a
Grimm Gallery
* 1941 births Dutch conceptual artists Dutch contemporary artists Dutch installation artists Artists from Amsterdam 2014 deaths {{Europe-artist-stub

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