| 1943 |
Born in in Dordrecht, Holland |
| 1953 |
His family emigrates and lives in
Southern California |
| 1956 |
Lives in Dordrecht for six months, and
returns to America |
| 1962 |
Moves to Zwijndrecht, on the riverside
across from Dordrecht |
| 1963 |
Back to Long Beach California and
Studies art (ceramics) and Language (Russian) at California State University at Long Beach |
| 1965 |
Meets the Dutch environmental sculptor
Joop Beljon during a sculpture symposium on the campus in Long Beach. Returns to Holland
at the end of the year |
| 1966 |
Studies for a teaching degree in art at
the Tilburg School of Art |
| 1967 |
Makes first work composed of different
units, calculating their proportions to have the same volume |
| 1968 |
Receives his first commission for a
large bronze work, discoid form |
| 1969 |
Graduates and enters the last year of
sculpture class at the Rotterdam Art Academy |
| 1969 |
First one man exhibition of sculpture
in the office of Dicke Architects in Dordrecht |
| 1969 |
Teaches at a secondary school in
Zwijndrecht for two years |
| 1969 |
Receives his first commission for an
environmental project, garden and fountain, for the DSW plant in Dordrecht |
| 1970 |
Graduates and receives the Rotterdam
Art Foundation Threshold Prize |
| 1970 |
Meets Henry Moore and his wife Irina
for the first time in Forte Dei Marmi, Italy |
| 1971 |
Start of membership of various
organizations and government committees |
| 1971 |
Visits Irina and
Henry Moore at their summer
house in Forte Dei Marmi |
| 1972 |
First work, perpendicular cylinders 2,
in which he uses a transitional stage as the final work |
| 1972 |
Makes lines on the surface of curved
glass planes in order to create spatial linear forms |
| 1973 |
Receives a grant from the Arie Scheffer
Foundation |
| 1973 |
Works in plexiglas with Vera Röhm in
Darmstadt, Germany |
| 1974 |
Works in marble in Querceta, Italy, at
Henraux, where he is introduced by Henry Moore |
| 1976 |
Makes first works without a closed
interior, having open curved planes, called the planes, junction series |
| 1977 |
Is professor of sculpture at the
Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam for two years |
| 1978 |
Participates in the Tenth Sculpture
Conference in Toronto, Canada |
| 1979 |
Secretary of the Dutch Sculptors'
Association for five years |
| 1979 |
Marries Lidwien Kuster |
| 1981 |
Professor of sculpture at the Royal
Academy of Art in Den Haag for two years |
| 1981 |
Meets the glass artist Andries Copier
in Delft |
| 1981 |
Member an later chairman of the
Committee for Artists and Architects of the Ministry of Culture for three years |
| 1982 |
Designs and builds his studio after
four years of preparation |
| 1982 |
Together with Jan Jelle Stroosma he
visits Truus
Schröder-Schräder in the house that she and Gerrit Rietveld built |
| 1983 |
Corresponds with Charles Biederman |
| 1983 |
Joost Baljeu visits his studio for the
first time |
| 1983 |
Chairman of the East West Forum, a
sculpture symposium with Japanese and Dutch artists participating in Dordrecht, The
Netherlands |
| 1983 |
Meets Queen Beatrix formally |
| 1984 |
President of the Dutch Sculptors'
Association for two years |
| 1984 |
Designs a bridge in Dirksland, Holland |
| 1985 |
Travels to Medellin, Colombia to meet
and pick up the two adopted daughters Carmen and Julia |
| 1986 |
Princess Juliana unveils his Durrer
monument, primum movens ultimum moriens in Amsterdam. Meets the Princess and Prince
Bernhard |
| 1986 |
First meeting with Donald Judd in
Mönchengladbach; a year later in Eindhoven |
| 1987 |
Start of yearly work in Finish Lapland,
above the polar circle, working in wood again |
| 1987 |
Corresponds with and visits Annie Oud,
the widow of J.J. P. Oud, several years until her death |
| 1988 |
Together with Wim Smits he visits
Donald Judd in Eichholteren, Switzerland |
| 1989 |
Meets with Charles Biederman, in the
car driving from Vlissingen to Dordrecht |
| 1990 |
Divorces |
| 1990 |
Constructs his stainless steel work
Opening the Arctic Circle in Kemijärvi,
Finnish Lapland |
| 1990 |
Executes photographic light sculpture
aurora borealis on the Pyhä Tunturi in Finland |
| 1990 |
Six Dutch sculptors: van Bennekum,
Glandorf, Goerres, van Loo, Schole and Wubben write a letter to Kemijärvi attempting to
discredit him, purportedly as board members of Dutch Sculptors' Association. A year later
the problem was resolved with the board itself |
| 1992 |
Marries Marjo Heikkinen, in Kemijärvi |
| 1992 |
Is secretary of the Dutch Sculptors'
Association again |
| 1992 |
Birth of Oskar in Turku Finland |
| 1993 |
Birth of Vincent in Zwijndrecht Holland |
| 1993 |
Takes the initiative to develop a
sculpture park along the river banks near Zwijndrecht |
| 1994 |
Participates in a panel discussion
Konkrete Kunst und öffentlicher Raum, Haus Dacheröden in Erfurt |
| 1994 |
Is asked to submit a design for a park
on the Suvantoranta in Kajaani, Finland |
| 1994 |
Conducts a workshop on landscape
design, studying the river Wien in Vienna Austria |
| 1996 |
Realises the
Drecht Riverbanks Sculpture Park which is opened on
June the 5th by Queen Beatrix |
| 1996 |
Birth of Vera in Zwijndrecht, Holland |
| 1997 |
Visits Bulgaria in preparations of an
exchange between Bulgarian and Dutch art |
| 1997 |
develops his own domain on internet
http://www.st-ives.net presenting the site
selected art with professional artists from around the world |
| 1998 |
coordinates an exchange between Dutch
artists and Bulgarian; the first
exhibition
being in Varna Bulgaria |
| 1999 |
coordinates the second exhibition which is preseded by a symposium in the
Open Air Museum OPAM which is opened by His Majesty King Simeon II of Bulgaria and Her
Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands |
| 1999 |
has two one-man shows in
Helsinki
and
Lahti,
Finland |
| 2000 |
leaves the Dutch
Sculptors'Association |
| 2000 |
Victory
is removed by the populistic Mayor Vreeman of the Dutch town of Zaanstad |
| 2000 |
participates in
Struktur
und Form in der Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach (Structure and form in
the music of Johann Sebastian Bach) in Erfurt Germany |
| 2000 |
gives a lecture -
Die
Erkundigung der Grenzbereiche zwischen Landschaftsarchitektur und bildende
Kunst - at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETH),
of Zürich Switzerland - other lecturers were Vito Acconci, Magdalena
Jetelova, Dani Karavan, Andy Goldsworthy, Bernard Lassus, Peter Latz,
Franco Zagari |
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Lives and works in Zwijndrecht, Holland
and Kemijärvi, Finland |
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