PAUL DERREZ

🎉 20/02/1950 - The Netherlands

EDUCATION

1968-1970       
Design Academy, Eindhoven (NL).

1971-1972       
School for drama, Utrecht (NL).

1972-1975       
Goldsmith training, Schoonhoven (NL).

2000                
Three month residency in Object Studio’s, Sydney (AU).

2005                
Two month residency at Monash University, Melbourne (AU).

MEET THE THE ARTIST!

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

 

Solo exhibitions

  • 2009 Paul Derrez, Cool Creator 1975-2009, rétrospective, Villa Bengel, Idar Oberstein (DE).
  • 2015 Paul Derrez, MAKER - jewellery and objects -  1975-2015, CODA museum, Apeldoorn (NL).
  • 2025 Paul Derrez, Celebrating Life, retrospective, Dutch Silvermuseum Schoonhoven (NL).
  • 2026 Paul Derrez, Celebrating Life, retrospective, Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau (DE).

 

Group exhibitions

  • 2012 Unexpected Pleasures, the art and design of contemporary jewellery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne/AU, Design museum London (UK).
  • 2020/2021 Grassi Messe, Leipzig (DE).
  • 2022 Art Wear, Contemporary Jewelry NL, Villa Bengel, Idar Oberstein (DE).
  • 2023 Portraits, Galerie Handwerk, Munich (DE).

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

During 50 years I collected jewellery and always wear jewellery, from others or myself.

 

Catherijne Convent, Utrecht (NL).
Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL).
CODA, Apeldoorn (NL).
Danner Stiftung, Munich (DE).
GemeenteMuseum, The Hague (NL).
Grassi Museum, Leipzig (DE).
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam (NL).
MIMA, Middlesborough (GB).
Municipality of Amsterdam (NL).
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL).
Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Hamburg (DE).
Museum Arnhem (NL).
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (JP).
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (SCH).
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseet, Trondheim (NO).
Power House Museum, Sydney (AU).
Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, The Hague (NL).
Rijksmuseum ( the Marjan and Gerard Unger donation ), Amsterdam (NL).
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim (DE).
SM’s, ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL).
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL).
The Museum of Fine Arts ( Helen Williams Drutt Collection), Houston (US).
Zilvermuseum, Schoonhoven (NL).