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

The Brightest Trail

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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A Crown of Mist and Shadows

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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Dark Ember

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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The Fierce Fellowship

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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Fury of One

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
€ 4.500

Flutterless

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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The Little Bellringer

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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Lone Thunder

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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Muffled Tracks

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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No Place like Home

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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Prickle Power

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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Silent Victory

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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The Smallest Spark

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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Tales from the Mire

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 19 cm
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The Tiny Warrior

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
€ 4.500

True North

mixed media on book
2025
22 x 16 cm
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Release

mixed media on panel
2025
40 x 30 cm
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Sentience

mixed media on panel
2025
40 x 30 cm
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The Snow Weavers

mixed media on panel
2025
50 x 30 cm
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Answer

mixed media on panel
2025
30 x 60 cm
€ 14.000

Call

mixed media on panel
2025
30 x 60 cm
€ 14.000

Chimeric Flame

mixed media on panel
2025
50 x 40 cm
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Grace

mixed media on panel
2025
50 x 40 cm
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Dial of Dawn

mixed media on panel
2025
50 x 40 cm
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Immaculate

mixed media on panel
2025
40 x 50 cm
€ 14.000

Open Invitation

mixed media on panel
2025
50 x 40 cm
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The Seeker and the Sage

mixed media on panel
2025
50 x 40 cm
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The Hidden Counter

mixed media on panel
2025
60 x 40 cm
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Upward Bound

mixed media on panel
2025
60 x 40 cm
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Darkling

mixed media on panel
2025
60 x 50 cm
€ 18.000

Trough the Cloak, Seeking

mixed media on panel
2025
60 x 50 cm
€ 18.000

Beyond the Curtain, Waiting

mixed media on panel
2025
70 x 50 cm
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Silent Flight

mixed media on panel
2025
70 x 50 cm
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Velvet

mixed media on panel
2025
70 x 50 cm
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Measuring Boundaries

mixed media on panel
2025
70 x 60 cm
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Blurring the Veil

mixed media on panel
2025
70 x 60 cm
€ 22.000

Approaching: Department of Fleeting Visions

mixed media on panel
2025
100 x 50 cm
€ 24.000

The 4 o’clock Meeting

mixed media on panel
2025
120 x 100 cm
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Blurring the Boundaries

book
2025
33 x 28 x 2 cm
Edition 1000
€ 50

Blurring the Boundaries – Special Edition – including the print ‘Velvet’

book plus gicleeprint
2025
33 x 24 x 3 cm
Edition 100
€ 450

‘Velvet’ print included in the Blurring the Boundaries Special Edition

giclee print
2025
33 x 28 cm
Edition 100

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
€ 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
€ 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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