Chris Berens

Oss, 1976

Chris Berens studied illustration at the Academy of Art & Design in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, graduating in 1999. He has developed a complex and time-consuming painting technique, mostly shown as mixed media on panel.

“I’m most comfortable using fine brushes and drawing inks and graphites, but I also regularly use water color paints, markers and acrylics”, Berens says. “For some time now I’ve added digital image making to my line of techniques, meaning 3D sculpting, digital painting and image processing. I combine and mix them with my more traditional media.”

After his first major solo show at Jaski Gallery in 2005, Chris Berens’ fame spread quickly. The young artist has already exhibited all over the world, from Amsterdam to New York, from Tokyo to Los Angeles, Seattle and Singapore. He also designed the cover for Panic of Girls, an album which was released in 2011 by Blondie. Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, founders of the band, are admirers of his work.

Back home Chris has been the subject of a television documentary. Chris Berens, Master of his Magical Universe was made for Dutch broadcaster Avro’s Close Up series in 2013 and has since been broadcast several times at home and abroad.

Chris Berens also featured prominently in the television documentary Krabbé searches for Van Gogh, in which actor/painter Jeroen Krabbé traced the path of Vincent van Gogh in co-operation with Dutch artists.

 

Works

Almost Mystic

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
Sold

Communication

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
Sold

The Crone

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
Sold

Edge of the Orbit

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
€ 4.500

Initial Spark of Fury

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
Sold

The Initiated

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
Sold

Letting Go

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
€ 4.500

Lilith

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
Sold

Magic

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
Sold

Mirror Shard

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
Sold

The Quiet Side

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
Sold

So Within, So Without

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
30 x 42 cm
Sold

Spin, Pause, Spin Again

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2026
42 x 30 cm
€ 4.500

Fury

mixed media on panel
2026
70 x 50 cm
€ 18.000

Mirror, Mirror

mixed media on panel
2026
70 x 50 cm
Sold

The Mystic

mixed media on panel
2026
70 x 50 cm
Sold

Vortex

mixed media on panel
2026
70 x 50 cm
€ 18.000

Orbit

mixed media on panel
2026
100 x 70 cm
€ 26.000

Stardust

mixed media on panel
2026
100 x 70 cm
€ 26.000

Of Girls and Their Companions – With the Creature that Remembers

mixed media on panel
2026
50 x 40 cm
€ 14.000

Of Girls and Their Companions – With the Creature That Never Left

mixed media on panel
2026
50 x 40 cm
€ 14.000

Fury of One

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
€ 4.500

Immaculate

mixed media on panel
2025
40 x 50 cm
€ 14.000

Answer

mixed media on panel
2025
30 x 60 cm
€ 14.000

Call

mixed media on panel
2025
30 x 60 cm
€ 14.000

Trough the Cloak, Seeking

mixed media on panel
2025
60 x 50 cm
€ 18.000

Blurring the Veil

mixed media on panel
2025
70 x 60 cm
€ 22.000

Rosebud Rebel

mixed media on panel
2024
18 x 13 cm
€ 3.500

Sunday Morning

mixed media on panel
2024
25 x 18 cm
€ 5.000

An Offer you can’t Refuse

mixed media on panel
2024
32 x 23 cm
€ 6.500

Encore

mixed media on panel
2024
32 x 23 cm
€ 6.500

Little Deity

mixed media on panel
2024
32 x 23 cm
€ 6.500

When Worlds Collide

mixed media on panel
2024
32 x 23 cm
€ 6.500

Time stopped, all felt senseless for a while

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2023
31 x 22 cm
€ 3.500

The way you might imagine the mist in the Arabian Nights to smell.

mixed media on paper
frame and museum glass included
2023
43 x 30 cm
€ 4.500

 

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Jaski Gallery is situated in the heart of Amsterdam’s Art & Antiques district, where we’ve been since 1988. We specialise in work from the CoBrA movement and contemporary art. The gallery regularly stages exhibitions and takes part in major art fairs such as TEFAF in Maastricht and PAN Amsterdam.

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Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 29
1017 DB Amsterdam
Tuesday – Sunday 12:00 – 18:00
+31 20 6203939
info@jaski.nl

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