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News Archive 2009
HMK {Hotel MariaKapel} proudly presents an afternoon of dillemma's
With presentations by
Steven Jouwersma
Robert Kluijver
Jantine Wijnja.
Ton van Zantvoort
At this moment HMK is happily engulfed in Elopement www.hotelmariakapel.nl , an exchange project with artists initiative Art Bakery http://artbakery.250free.com in Douala, Cameroon. Working on Elopement has permitted us to experience how grand the differences in mobility can be between artists in the Western world and those working elswhere, and made us appreciate the absurd practical dilemma's in which this can result. We therefore gladly invite you for an afternoon in which these dilemma's are given central stage. Apart from presentation by Elopement-initiator Jantine Wijnja and participating artist Steven Jouwersma, filmmaker Ton van Zantvoort and curator Robert Kluijver will share their views on working with unbalanced borders and the specific side-effects of trying to realize artproductions in an unfamiliar cultural context. Join us for a tribute to the unknown.
In the week following the presentation, documentation concerning Elopment will be available in the Chapel. Also the documentaries Grito de Piedra and A Blooming Business by Ton van Zantvoort will be available for viewing.
About the speakers
Steven Jouwersma - http://stevenjouwersma.com makes installations and machines. Two noticeable components of his work are the collecting of discarded consumer goods and the involvement of people in his projects. During his stay at Art Bakery he undertook a brave attempt at starting the first black metal band ever in Cameroon and dressed up as a piece of jungle.
Robert Kluijver - www.labforculture.org is an independant curator and political analyst. In 2003 he founded the projectspace Foundation for Culture and Civil Society in Kabul, of which he was director until 2006. Between 2007 and 2009 he organised debates and shows with contemporary artists from Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Israel for Gemak in the Hague. He speaks and writes about current developements in the arts in the Middel East on a regular basis.
Jantine Wijnja - http://www.jantinewijnja.nl works as an artist and is co-director of Artist-In-Residence Hotel MariaKapel. Her practice revolves around the notion of 'articulated haziness': carefully rendered crystallizations of or tributes to obviously unclear events. In 2009 Wijnja realized projects at a.o. CAC, Vilnius and RED A.I.R., Amsterdam.
Ton van Zantvoort - http://www.tonvanzantvoort.nl makes documentaries. His movies are constructed like poems. They share the use of an intimate visual language and a big involvement of their maker. In 2006 Van Zantvoorts debut Grito de Piedra (Scream of the Stone) premi?red on the IDFA. The film observes the life of a mineworker in Bolivia and his son who is working as a tourist guide in the same mine. A Blooming Business, a cooproduction with the VPRO, showcasts the world behind the gigantic horticultural industry in Naivasha, Kenia.
Date posted:05-12-2009
Dear people,
Herewith I would like to invite you for:
One Mohr Time
Donderdagavond
10 december 20.00 uur
Als je een werk nog een keer
zou willen (laten) zien...
Marielle Buitendijk
Sibylle Eimermacher
Freya Eshuijs
Jobbe Holtes
Maria Jager
Annegret Kellner
Mina Minov
Maartje Overmars
Aldwin van de Ven
Franzis Wiese
Julie van der Scheer
11 alumni van de drie afdelingen van het Frank Mohr Instituut (FMI Masters, Groningen),
Schilderkunst, Theatervormgeving en Interactive Media and Invironments,
zijn uitgenodigd door Leo Delfgaauw.
Leo Delgaauw, voormalig stadsconservator Den Haag en curator van De Pont in Tilburg, werkt momenteel als teamleider autonome beeldende kunst aan de Academie Minerva en als hoofd Frank Mohr Instituut (FMI, Groningen).
Het Alumni van de drie afdelingen presenteren elk zijnn werk in Nest en zullen deze avond aanwezig zijn om hun keuze toe te lichten in een publiekspresentatie.
* One Mohr Time is de derde oneNeststand, dit is een NESTprogramma met presentaties vanavond. Curatoren van buiten Nest worden uitgenodigd om vanuit de eigen ervaring, omgeving en visie een invulling aan de avond te geven.
Tentoonstelling
Donderdagavond 10 december, 20.00 uur
De tentoonstelling is gratis toegankelijk
Nest
De Constant Rebecqueplein 20b
2518 RA Den Haag
070 3653186
info@nestruimte.nl
kijk voor meer info en route op:
www.nestruimte.nl/onemohrtime
One Mohr Time wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door:
de Mondriaan Stichting
Date posted:05-12-2009
Rachel van Balen
bij deze een uitnodiging om deze winter eens langs de etalages van
galerie Christof Beukema te lopen/fietsen/rijden (Kerklaan 9, Groningen,
Noorderplantsoen).
De expositie die ik daar heb ingericht is dagelijks te zien.
Van 's middags 3 uur tot 1 uur 's nachts te zien met speciale
verlichting, buiten die tijden bij daglicht/schemerlicht.
Met een maand zullen ook de ramen bovenin het pand van buitenaf mijn
werk tentoonstellen.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Rachel van Balen
Date posted: 05-12-2009
If I was more like you
The opening is on saturday the 5th december at 8pm. It is located at 1e Jacob van Campenstraat 59.
date:05-12-09
Small Marks/Silent Stories - SANNE ROUS
Winnaar George Verberg Stipendium 2008
Academie Minerva
23 t/m 27 november 2009
George Verberg Stipendium
Het George Verberg Stipendium is in 2004 door het stadsbestuur in het leven geroepen naar aanleiding van het afscheid van de heer G.H.B. Verberg als directeur van de NV Nederlandse Gasunie. Vanwege zijn grote verdiensten voor de stad Groningen en zijn bijzondere interesse in de beeldende kunst, gaf het stadsbestuur George Verberg als afscheidscadeau een stipendium dat zijn naam draagt. Gezien de relatie tussen de Groningse Gasunie en het Russische Gazprom en de bijzondere verdiensten van George Verberg bij de aanleg van de Russische (gas)pijplijn, wordt de winnaar van het George Verberg Stipendium in staat gesteld tijdelijk in Noord/Oost-Europa te verblijven. Het stipendium van ? 10.000,- wordt gefinancierd door de Gemeente Groningen en is onderdeel van Groningse Nieuwe.
Small Marks/Silent Stories
Sanne Rous werk concentreert zich rond kantelmomenten in het beeld, momenten waarop een beeld om kan slaan en verschillende betekenissen aan kan stippen. Tijdens haar reis naar de Baltische Staten, in het kader George Verberg Stipendium, heeft zij deze logica van kantelmomenten willen koppelen aan de veranderende betekenissen van de natuur en het landschap in dit gebied. Sanne Rous presenteert tijdens de expositie Small Marks/Silent Stories de resultaten van haar reis.
Sanne Rous
Sanne Rous (1984, Apeldoorn), winnaar van het George Verberg Stipendium 2008, volgende de opleiding Fine Arts aan de Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2006) inclusief een exchange programma (2005) aan het San Francisco Art Institute (USA). Daarna volgde zij de opleiding MFA Painting van FMI Masters aan Academie Minerva in Groningen inclusief een exchange (2007) aan de School of Design aan de University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA). Sanne studeerde af in 2008.
Date posted:24-11-2009
Tentoonstelling Sweaty Handshakes in nieuwe locatie Academie Minerva
Groningen, 18 november 2009 ? Sweaty Handshakes is de eerste aflevering van een nieuwe jaarlijkse traditie van FMI Masters (Frank Mohr Instituut). De tentoonstelling laat het werk van kunstenaars van twee vervolgopleidingen zien: FMI Masters (onderdeel van Academie voor Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en Popcultuur Minerva) en - in deze aflevering ? DNA (De Nieuwe Academie) uit Den Haag. De tentoonstelling vindt plaats op de nieuwe locatie van Academie Minerva aan de Praediniussingel 59 in Groningen.
Het idee voor deze tentoonstelling is vorig jaar ontstaan na verwondering over het beperkte contact tussen de vervolgopleidingen van de Nederlandse kunstacademies. Nu er een jaarlijkse expositie wordt georganiseerd door de studenten zelf, kunnen zij niet alleen nieuwe contacten opbouwen, maar ook een stap nemen naar de professionele wereld. Een kunstenaar hoort zijn podium niet alleen te kennen maar ook te begrijpen, en dit is een prima manier om daarmee te experimenteren.
De tentoonstelling is een initiatief van Erik Tode en Jan Wattjes, tweedejaars studenten Painting van FMI Masters. Sweaty Handshakes staat volgens hen voor een ontmoeting die misschien ongemakkelijk, maar wel belangrijk is. Dit idee komt terug in de samenstelling van de expositie omdat de geselecteerde werken een zo breed mogelijk beeld geven van de ontwikkelingen in beide instituten. Dat wil niet zeggen dat alle werken goed bij elkaar passen, maar het zorgt in ieder geval voor een interessante spanning.
Deelnemende kunstenaars:
Klaas Bijl, Rob Bouwman, Mil Ceulemans, Diederick Hees, Thijs Jansen, Robbert Pauwels, Amir Tirandaz, Erik Tode, Jan Wattjes.
Opening: vrijdag 27 november 17:00 - 19:00
Locatie: Praediniussingel 59, Groningen
Openingstijden: 30 nov t/m 11 dec. - ma t/m vr 10:00 - 17:00
date:15-11-2009
Hello,
Next month I will release the first two cdr's out of a series of 5.
All will feature tracks made for (or at) the FMI.
The first cdr will be a live recording from Maasticht.
The second one will feature three or four tracks build from various
source recordings (sessions played at home or at the FMI, environmental
recordings, etc).
Greetings
Kasper
Date posted: 01-11-2009
E-Pressed at the Bielefelder Kunstverein - Anja Hertenberger
E-Pressed at the Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany From 14 November 2009 to 24 January 2010 the Bielefelder Kunstverein shows the thematic group exhibition "More than a T-Shirt". It centres around the t-shirt as an artistic medium. The exhibition shows a selection of exemplary projects by international artists, designers and fashion designers.
The projects shown in the exhibition take up the diverse developments of the T-Shirt in cultural history. Not only T-shirts are on display, but especially works which, in a wider sense, engage with the medium of the T-shirt as an object or as a carrier of text or images. At the Bielefelder Kunstverein, there are accordingly represented, in addition to numerous T-shirts, the media of sculpture, painting, drawing and video, as well as the documentation of actions, performances or dance events too.
List of participants
Kader Attia / Jerome Bel / BLESS / Jacob Dahlgren / Tracey Emin & Sarah Lucas / e-Pressed (Anja Hertenberger, Barbara Pais, Danielle Roberts) / Carsten Fock / Jenny Holzer / Skafte Kuhn / Stefan Marx / Stephan Melzl / Jonathan Monk / Gianni Motti / Isabel Nolan / Daniel Pflumm / Postweiler Hauber / Michael Queenland / Jan Rothuizen / David Shrigley / Ross Sinclair / Silke Wagner / Vivienne Westwood / Clemens Wilhelm
Further information: www.bielefelder-kunstverein.de/en/exhibitions/2009/mehr-als-ein-t-shirt.html
Opening: Friday, November 13, 2009, 7 pm
Showing: November 14, 2009 ? January 24, 2010
Address:
Bielefelder Kunstverein / im Waldhof
Welle 61
D-33602 Bielefeld, Germany
www.bielefelder-kunstverein.de
Date posted: 11-11-2009
Margriet van Weenen
Date posted: 11-11-2009
Karl Klomp
http://www.creativeapplications.net/inspiration/karl-klomp-inspiration/
Date posted: 04-11-2008
TULCA 09 Festival of Visual Art
TULCA - an annual Galway season of contemporary visual art. Featuring local and international exhibitions, unexpected live-art performances and discussions & talks with artists with admission free to all events.
In 2009, with the appointment of Curator Helen Carey, the Festival will put Galway on the map for those looking for a fresh approach to the way they experience art.
TULCA 2009 will take place in venues throughout Galway City including:
Galway Arts Centre | Galway Museum | Fairgreen Building | St. Nicholas Church | Galway University Hospital | G126 | Bar 8
Our Need For Consolation Is Impossible To Satiate
Perhaps this is something we need to accept as part of the Human Condition perhaps this is something that before we live in society, we need to live with ourselves first, and then face the fact that the reality of being in the world means living together, accepting. So how do we recognise each other and how do we live together.
Living in the public place of the world and striving to be true to the private and interior spaces in the individual entails honesty. When honesty is complicated and when the challenges of living in the world make no sense, the articulation of complexity is the breakthrough that allows recognition. That breakthrough is what Tulca 09 tries to cradle, to host.
There are depths beyond which we try not to travel or imagine but there are heights we can reach and imagination can bring us oppositions are part of it. Thinking of Ted Hughes Crow, his place in the world depends on imagining the best and the worst, the survival of best needs recognition of both. The Artists in TULCA examine the armaturesin which the Human Being tries to articulate what living in the world means.
date: 05-11-09
Echo
Invitation Echo
date:21-10-2009
AUTOMATIC
Karl Burke (IE), Alicia Frankovich (NZ), Candice Jacobs (GB), Gereon Krebber (DE), Ruth Proctor (GB), Linda Quinlan (IE), Berndnaut Smilde (NL)
Curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak and Gavin Murphy
I walk into the large open room, something occurs independently of volition or control. A certain muscular action, involuntary. I dig the heels of my hands hard into my eyes. Milky spots, pinpoints of light?
A pinhole camera, erected at Lake St. Clair, Tasmania, constructed in an attempt to simulate a comet. A sculptural soundtrack, invisible spheres of sound, floating between a suspended ventilation system transforming the gallery?s air. A series of found objects, acted upon and left as a sort of carcass in the aftermath of the event. An assemblage of shimmering intentionalities.
Automatic is a two-part international group show of works that confront and insinuate themselves with the viewer. Attempting to question what might be innate or instinctual, each artist works within our daily experiences that lie beyond conscious decisions. Automatic explores contemporary art practices of temporary consolidations, cumulative processes that condense before dispersing. Presenting work that stretches out to the viewer with an immediacy that points beyond itself, Automatic sketches out the persistent, ghostly sensory circuit between the artist, artwork and audience.
Curated by artist Gavin Murphy and curator and critic Chris Fite-Wassilak, Automatic opens in Auto Italia South East, Peckham, before reconfiguring in Dublin?s Pallas Contemporary Projects in October. A free publication with an essay by the curators will be available for the exhibition.
In cooperation with Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin www.pallasprojects.org
This exhibition is supported by Mondriaan Foundation, Culture Ireland, Goethe-Institut
Auto Italia is supported by Arts Council England and Chelsea Arts Club Trust
Pallas Contemporary Projects is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council
Opening Friday 4 September 7 - 9pm
5 September - 26 September 2009
Wed - Sat, 12 - 6 pm
Auto Italia South East
1 Glengall Road
London
SE15 6NJ
www.autoitaliasoutheast.org
date: 21-10-09
MEMORABILIA
Expositie van Sibylle Eimermacher in De Kluis
30 oktober t/m 27 november
opening 30 oktober om 17 uur
De Kluis in Het Hoofdkwartier, Oude Kraan 72, Arnhem Open van maandag t/m vrijdag 10.00 - 17.00 uur
www.dekluis.org
www.sibsite.eu
date: 21-10-09
DE WEERZINWEKKENDE van MOMO / HOND van Opium voor het volk
het theaterseizoen begint goed met twee stukken deze maand
DE WEERZINWEKKENDE van MOMO (vanaf 17 sept)
en
HOND van Opium voor het volk (vanaf 19 sept)
waarvoor ik samen met marloes het decor heb vormgegeven
wees heel welkom volgens mij wordt het te gek!
zie voor meer informatie www.opiumvoorhetvolk.com
tot snel
grote groet
wikke
date: 21-10-09
Seminar on Research in Artistic Practices
Wednesday 28 October 2009, 15.00 ? 18.30
Frank Mohr Institute, Singelzaal, Radesingel 6, Groningen
In the context of October, Month of Knowledge Month the FMI Master?s course has organized, in conjunction with Kenniscentrum Kunst en Samenleving (Knowledge Centre for Art and Society) a seminar on the vision of research within the FMI Masters course. Theory and research occupy an important position in the curriculum of the three Masters programmes (Painting, Scenography & Art Direction, and Interactive Media & Environments). The precise role of research within artistic practice is the topic of broad and international conjecture. Depending on the interpretation of research and artistic practice, various standpoints have been taken on this issue.
To the Frank Mohr Institute, the significance of research within the Master?s art programmes has been a moot point for some time. The publication entitled Lets Bake the Future (2007) gave the programmes the opportunity to speak out on this theme and, more recently, Dieter Roelstraete, a guest author in the Frankie Says Mohr catalogue (2009), also reflected on this question. With a knowledge centre and a lectureship looming on the horizon, the FMI Master?s course again wishes to focus on ?Research in Artistic Practices? in a further exchange of ideas with tutors and students. The following questions will serve as a starting point in this discussion:
Which forms of research can be relevant within artistic practice?
Are there important differences between individual and shared artistic research practices?
Which position can these research practices occupy in a Masters programme?
Within this framework, which relationship can be formed with the knowledge centre and the lectureship?
Guest speakers at the seminar will be:
Anne Nigten *
Alejandra Wah **
Jeroen Boomgaard ***
Margo Slomp (discussion leader) ****
* Anne Nigten is the initiator and director of ?The Patching Zone, a praxis lab for transdisciplinary research and development?.
** Alejandra Wah is an alumna of FMI IME (2007) and is currently a PhD student at the University of Groningen (Art, Culture and Media).
*** Jeroen Boomgaard, as a Lector of Art and Public Space, is affiliated to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the University of Amsterdam
**** Margo Slomp is a Theory lecturer in FMI Painting and a lecturer in Art History at the University of Groningen
Programme:
15.00 - 15.20 - reception with coffee / tea
15.20 - 15.30 - opening by Simone Lippens (programme manager pf the Knowledge Centre for Art & Society)
15.30 - 15.50 - Anne Nigten
15.50 - 16.00 - question round
16.00 - 16.20 - Alejandra Wah
16.20 - 16.30 - question round
16.30 - 16.50 - Jeroen Boomgaard
16.50 - 17.00 - question round
17.00 - 17.20 - break with snacks and refreshments
17.20 - 18.30 - discussion of central issues, supervised by Margo Slomp.
18.30 conclusion
The Seminar is accessible to all interested students and teachers at Minerva Academy of Art, FMI Masters course, and the University of Groningen.
English will be the language of communication.
The programme may be subject to change.
date: 21-10-09
Anneke Wilbrink
ROYAL III
Winnaars van de prijs voor de Koninklijke Subsidie voor de beeldende kunst
Anneke Wilbrink - Antoine Berghs - Wouter Kalis
3 november t/m 27 december 2009
Jaarlijks wordt door Hare Majesteit de Koningin de Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst
uitgereikt sinds deze in 1871 is ingesteld door koning Willem III. Elk jaar komen meer dan 500 inzendingen binnen. Alleen de besten worden uitgenodigd om in het kort uit te leggen wat er zo speciaal is aan hun kunst. Met trots kunnen wij zeggen dat de drie grote kunstenaars Antoine Berghs, Wouter Kalis en Anneke Wilbrink, in Slot Zeist hun werken waarmee ze gewonnen hebben en van de periode erna zullen exposeren.
Het liefst, zo Antoine Berghs ooit, zou hij iets maken wat geen materie heeft. Voor een kunstenaar
die werk maakt dat zich in eerste instantie juist in de materiele verschijningsvorm onderscheidt, is
dit een opvallende uitspraak. Berghs: Ik zie mijn werk als onderdeel van een onuitputtelijke
stroom waar ik ieder moment op in kan pluggen,
alsof er een permanente, tijdloze onderstroom is
die de mensen en de dingen met elkaar verbindt.
Denk aan het klassieke pantha rhei van
Herakleitos: hij bedoelde hiermee te zeggen dat
alles in deze wereld steeds in verandering is. Zijn
leerling Kratylos beweerde dat men niet tweemaal
in dezelfde rivier kan stappen, omdat het steeds
weer vers water is dat je tegemoet stroomt. In het
werk van Antoine Berghs vormt het beeld dat in
beweging blijft, materie die niet uitmondt in een
vastomlijnde betekenis, de rode draad.
De keuzes van Wouter kalis worden beperkt door enkele
regels die hij zichzelf oplegt. Het is voor mij belangrijk te
schilderen binnen een set van regels. Het verhindert me te
denken over de vraag waarom ik iets schilder of wat het
voorstelt. De schilderijen worden uitsluitend opgebouwd uit
horizontale banen van contrastrijke kleuren. Ik volg een
strak principe met een losse uitvoering. Centraal in het werk
van Kalis staat het materiaal waarmee hij werkt en de
kwaliteiten van het materiaal. Zijn werk ontstaat door
herhaling van het aanbrengen van verf, laag over laag. De
afbeelding is voor het ontstaan van het schilderij minder
belangrijk. Belangrijk is de uitvoering van het schilderen: het aanbrengen van verf. Dit bepaalt
namelijk het schilderij.
Anneke Wilbrink was al genomineerd voor de Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst
(2002) en ook voor de Prix de Rome (2004). Haar schilderijen laten een opbouw zien in diverse
lagen van lijnen, structuren en vormen. Het werk van Wilbrink
lijkt vaak naar landschappen en stedelijke bebouwing te
verwijzen. Echter is het onderwerp in de eerste plaats de
schilderkunst zelf. ?Het gaat mij er om vanuit een intuitieve
benadering de lege ruimte al schilderend te verkennen. In de
uiteindelijke compositie wil ik door de opbouw, in een
naleesbaar schildersgebaar, een kijkervaring oproepen. Daarin
wordt een levendige wereld geschetst, waarin zich meerdere
standpunten aandienen., aldus Wilbrink.
Arrangement
Op maandag 9 en 23 november en 7 en 21 december 2009 vindt om 14.00 uur een arrangement
met een van de Koninklijke Subsidie winnaars plaats. U wordt op Slot Zeist welkom geheten met
koffie/thee en gebak waarna u een film kunt zien over het werk en het leven van de kunstenaars.
Daarna vindt de rondleiding door een Koninklijke Subsidie winnaar plaats over de expositie.
Kosten van dit arrangement bedragen 17,50. Wij verzoeken u spoedig te reserveren bij Slot Zeist
030-6921704.
Openingstijden
Dinsdag t/m vrijdag van 11.00-17.00 uur
Zaterdag en zondag van 13.00-17.00 uur
Gesloten: elke maandag (met uitzondering van de arrangementen)
Het Slot Zeist is rolstoeltoegankelijk.
De toegangsprijzen
Voor volwassenen 5,00
Voor 65+/CJP/MJK/Zeistpas/U-pas 4,00
Entree en koffie in het restaurant 6,50
Entree met korting en koffie in het restaurant 5,50
Jeugd t/m 15 jaar mag gratis de tentoonstelling bezoeken
Voor meer informatie en/of beeldmateriaal kunt u contact opnemen met:
Dick Bouma (Coordinator tentoonstellingen Slot Zeist)
Zinzendorflaan 1
3703 CE Zeist
T.: 030 69 217 04/ 06 138 595 72
E.: d.bouma@zeist.nl
www.slotzeist.com
Date posted: 21-10-2009
Move Me To Happiness
www.aldwinvandeven.com
Date posted: 27-08-2009
SO MUCH MORE
Meetfactory - International center of contemporary art
www.meetfactory.cz
August 8th - September 6th 2009
Opening hours Wednesday - Sunday 3 - 8 pm
If we understand art only in its sense of a specific mechanism for moving boundaries and temporarily remove its evolutionary frustrations we are bound to find many limitations in the current situation which have, without any obvious revolutions, advanced in various directions (social, psychological, scientific, ethnographic etc.) Despite all of this, contemporary art and thinking often sink into doubts. It questions itself and looks for its own possibilities outside itself. Even the most unobtrusive and altruistic forms are not explicitly satisfying.
Such a position is a fertile ground for romantic comebacks in the shape of parallel worlds and escapisms into new exoticisms being found either entirely outside the galaxy or inside the society itself, and not outside the geographical borders of the so-called civilized world in the manner of colonial politics. Contemplating the beginning and the end becomes a logical theme in the atmosphere of a globalized market and absence of superior ideological concept. Oversaturation, plurality, utopia, exoticism viewed as something different and distinct reflect the decay of the former hierarchy of values and power. Kaleidoscopic perception of the world does not allow us to believe in its apocalyptic unique termination and to anticipate it as one great and impressive image. Evolution contradicts itself, flows back into the past, offering plurality. The formal capacity of visual material may transcend its limits into more ultimate quantities and be enriched by irrational constructions reminiscent of other ways of organization such as organic structures, ritual, occult, conspiratorial, survivalistic, doctrinal, pseudo-scientific, and other empirical entities.
This exhibition is not intended to glorify the big questions concerning the civilization landmarks, (e.g. like Apocalypse - an exhibition held at the turn of the millenium at the Royal Academy in London, the sequel to the groundbreaking Sensation exhibition). Its aim is to think about the return of socio-irrational motives into the art of the youngest generation, about a new kind of responsibility of art and to introduce various formal ways of stepping beyond the boundaries of objectivity and reason as well as looking for the relationship between reality and fiction. The world?s oversaturation with possibilities of visual expression and frivolous and manipulative handling of images in today?s consumer and political society leads to hiccup like forms of artistic transcriptions such as collages, assemblages, edits, mash-ups, accumulations, stroboscopic and kaleidoscopic effects, channel surfing, sampling, various forms of destructive or intentionally raw inteferences into the traditional forms.
The exhibiting artists are mostly last year?s graduates, however, most of them already have a distinctive exhibiting history. Among the more established but still rebellious artists is Jubal Brown. Working in Toronto, he is an artist, curator, founder and a member of several collectives focused on the production and presentation of specific film genres. He is presented as one of the members of the now defunct collective Fame Fame which engaged itself in new forms of video-art reacting to the complex transformation of video-art following its embrace of forms associated with new technologies and internet portals, djing and vjing, thematically focused on activist and socio-political commentaries. The presented video - Total War - is based on confronting YouTube and Hollywood culture, interchanging entertainment and reality, staged and original (real) resources. Themes such as sex, violence and death are absolutely unavoidable. They are not directed towards a catharsis but rather their unbearable concentration makes a reference to the content of current mass media and entertainment images which are slightly more diluted. All the material ultimately comes from public TV and internet sources. On the formal level he employs a critical and parodic use of the methods common with YouTube users which he transforms into a feature-length film collage.
Filip Cenek. Living and working in Prague he has continually, individually and collectively (collective Fiume and cooperations with Jiř? Havliček and Magdalena Hrub?) practicaly and theoreticaly devoted himself to film, video and animation. In 2004 he was awarded the Tranzit Developmental Grant for the work in the area of visual media and participates in NewNew! and FreshFilmFest festivals. He is a co‑author of the visual aspect of the electronic project Midi Lidi. Factual resources and real stories in his videos and video-installations are deprived of linear narratives, he is not interested in telling a story, on the contrary, the concrete shapes are blurred and the contents are obscured. A spectator senses a concrete inspirational source. Through generalization it can also becomes his or her own problem. The intense and urgent atmosphere builds a larger frame-work, which when accepted, allows us to observe the functioning of the individual and collective memory and to deal with an event as a new myth.
Richard Healy, living in London, works with a relatively narrow scope of geometrical abstraction and graphic art and design. Even in such relatively constricted area the artist finds unlimited thinking resources and possibilities of its formal usage. He is fascinated with the new energy of old geometric directions, pop-art and op-art and at the same time he handles them very cautiously, being fully aware of their limitations. By profound application of geometric principles he misleads the spectator from the path of retro entertainment to the way of abstract frustration.
The non-existence of a higher ideal and the consumer principles forming the essence of our society which is in turn used as an instrument for its control and manipulation create a nearly paranoid image of the world built up on the conspiratorial networks or occultism. Timothy Roberts, an artist from London, uses these irrational concepts as a powerful aesthetic source for his installations. Weird mixture of both imaginary and real cults and rituals is presented as a spontaneous counterpart to the pragmatism of global economy and the feigned altruism of pro-government ecology. Through the destruction of the classical sculptural genre, he metaphorically attacks and questions the present ?democratic? value hierarchies and draws the attention to the hidden and raw undertows which permeate his rather harsh assemblage technique.
Matej Smetana, living in Prague, contemplates the purpose of art, functionality of a form and its relation to the content. The eventual end of art was a topic he episodically dealt with in his comic strip - Posledn malři (The Last Painters) - taking place in the age of a post nuclear war. In one of his best known works - an animated film Je to jenom film (Its only a film) - the emptiness of form and the content react to the saturated horror film imagery. The film is a result of mechanical tracing and animation of several cult horror trailers. Another ultimate variation is Hradčanoid - a spinning silhouette of the Hradčany castle. Infinity, on the other hand, is handled by means of fractal animation.
Erik Tode has devoted himself almost exclusively to drawing, in both large and small formats. Exoticism of the incorporated attributes of African culture reflects the change in perceiving the exotics - not as strange and fascinating but more as something parallel. For Tode it is just one of the options. In the merging of African and western cultures he looks for the missing links in the society of western Europe. A similar parallel world reflecting his reality is the army - a society with a specific organizational structure which the author transforms in the spirit of his romantic and aesthetic needs.
Charlie Tweed, living in London, constructs other worlds and other alter-egos. He puts on a pragmatic face in a fictive pre-apocalyptic world and misuses scientific information to construct hypothetical scenarios for the future to give some sort of premature potential survival instructions. Recycled film footage and sound collages, sometimes being made indistinct by simulated mechanical damage, mingle with his own film content. Using a captivating atmosphere, he melodramatically brings the moment of a worldwide collapse of science, technology, ecology and the whole civilization into the present tense.
Civilization and popular cultural products such as sentimentality, glamour and emotionality are the topics for Conrad Ventur, an artist living in New York. He employs various media - particularly video-installation and drawing. The basis of his work is always conceptual, yet he is able to divert the spectators attention to almost romantic moods. He is an editor of the Useless artistic magazine, published twice a year. His main interest is in original music performances designed for TV broadcasting, which he downloads from YouTube, puts them in new settings, creates new scenes and presents them in the form of a kaleidoscopic mosaic intended to evoke a strong emotional memory, a vivid recollection and a monument to a certain event. For this exhibition he is presenting a video-installation dedicated to Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit. The historical background of Billie Holidays performance in 1939 is no less important - Barney Josephson, the founder of the first ratially integrated night club, Cafe Society, in Greenwich Village, New York, introduced Billy Holiday to this song, written by a high school teacher Abel Meeropol as a protest agains racism and lynching in the Southern states.
George Young, another artist living in London, also succumbing consciously to the fascination by scientific illusion, associating it with the beauty of deconstructing an image - an artistic evidence. While his drawings and paintings on paper with their symbolic, scientific and utopist content are overlapped by structural elements of a physical painting, factual utopia takes place in the questioning of a visual icon which may reveal some new points of view but in the end it seems to return to itself.
?So Much More? deliberately ignores the requirements for the realization of certain tasks or thematic contents in particular works; it rather tries to fulfill its conception as a whole, i.e. not through the illustrative show of separate exhibits.
date: 21-10-2009
Club de Gootsteen door Steven Jouwersma
Periode September 2009 - Juni 2010
Locatie: Noorderstation NW Kastanjelaan 1 Groningen
Club de Gootsteen #1
Opening: vrijdag 25 september 17.00 uur met 'soup' van Bert!
Muziek:
Club de Gootsteen presenteert de muzikale activiteit in de buurt,
met elke maand een andere artiest of groep uit de omgeving van het Noorderstation.
Als eerste zijn de 3 schoolklassen ,3A, 4A, 5A van basisschool de Pendinghe te horen.
Met speciaal voor iedere gelegenheid ontworpen posters worden de artiesten aangekondigd.
Poster:
De eerste Poster is in handen van vormgever/kunstenaar Bert Scholten oa. vormgever van de Vera Club en Owsum artshop, Groningen.
Club de Gootsteen is mede mogelijk gemaakt door Sign, Groningen
www.clubdegootsteen.nl
www.sign2.nl
Date posted: 21-10-2009
Und auf deinem Kopf sitz eine Qualle und lacht
Date posted: 21-10-2009
Zondag 13 september Open Monumentendag en Strax # 6 podiumprogramma
Open Monumentendag 2009
Tijdens Open Monumentendag, zondag 13 september, is de DeFKa Campis van 11 tot 17
uur geopend. De voormalige Veningerlandschool, waar DeFKa sinds maart 2009 is
gevestigd, is volgens DeFKa een jong monument en een karakteristiek voorbeeld van
scholenbouw uit de jaren zestig. Vooruitlopend op een architectuurtentoonstelling in 2010
over scholenbouw kan tijdens Open Monumentendag vast een voorproefje worden
genomen en is er documentatie over de school te zien.
Strax # 6 podiumprogramma
De voorgaande afleveringen van dit festival vonden altijd plaats op vrijdag en zaterdag. Dit
jaar is er voor gekozen het programma tot ??n dag, zondag 13 september te beperken.
Om 13 uur is er beeldend theater van Floor Rieder en Yoko Heiligers. Samen met enkele
assistenten zullen zij de voorstelling Lokroep spelen. De voorstelling gaat over twee
jongedames die beide werden bedrogen door dezelfde jongen. De meiden namen
uiteindelijk wraak, zoals dat hoort. Dit alles in een vindingrijk vormgegeven, multimediale
voorstelling.
Om 14 uur volgt er een kunstenaarsgesprek met theatervormgeefster Maria Noel Dourron,
die onlangs is afgestudeerd aan het Frank Mohr Instituut en onder meer samenwerkt met
Tryater in Leeuwarden. Het gesprek zal gaan over haar manier van werken met beeldend
theater en sluit daarmee goed aan bij de ?echte voorstellingen? deze middag. Ook zijn er
video?s van haar te zien.
Om 15 uur is er een theater/performance door Michelle van Aggelen. Vanuit een
vouwwagen wordt de voorstelling Farawe Express opgevoerd, een muldisciplinair theater
waarbij grenzen worden verkend en wordt gepleit voor wereldburgerschap.
Om 16 uur beeldend toneel door Jaime Ibanez. Deze kunstenaar maakt animaties zonder
de computer te gebruiken en mechanismen die door handmatige bediening veranderen in
wonderlijke vertellingen. Ibanez neemt de toeschouwer mee in zijn belevingswereld door
zelf de rol van schrijver, verteller, acteur en regisseur op zich te nemen. De theaterzaal, de
muziek en het publiek zijn onderdeel van het mechanisme dat het verhaal verbeeldt en
vertelt.
Van 13 tot 17 uur is er doorlopend de befaamde architectuurfilm ?Een dagje naar Assen?
van Anne Jaap de Rapper en Barthold Boksem te zien. Deze film was een groot succes bij
de Giudici-tentoonstelling eerder dit jaar in DeFKa en wordt op veler verzoek nogmaals
vertoond.
De toegang is gratis.
DeFKa Campis, Venestraat 88, 9402 GP Assen
0592 315316, info@defka.nl, www.defka.nl
posted:14-10-2009
Uitnodiging:
Welkom,
o.a.
ROOM FL 240 4 X 2 RIGID
Redirected inner jam
eye - s i g h t - distance
o.a.
ALEX WINTERS
KUNSTEYSSEN
Koedijkerstraat 6
1823 CR Alkmaar
Vrijdag 4 september
20:00 uur.
www.kunsteyssen.nl/
4 sept t/m 25 okt.
Date posted: 21-10-2009
Long Distance Call
Please join us for the opening of Long Distance Call for an interview-over-distance with David Horovitz and some solid hands-on lessons in cooking a good Ramazan meal direct from Istanbul.
New technologies appear to make faraway or global connections easier then ever before; but how close does contact get without physical proximity?
With Long Distance Call HotelMariaKapel aims to investigate these new possibilities and their limits by focussing on instruction works in contemporary art: works developed by one artist and realized, over distance, by another. More specifically HMK wants to find out how intimate, intruding or locally embedded such new works can become. In other words: can collaborations overcome physical distances, and expand our creative possibilities?
For Long Distance Call, we proudly present the following:
David Horvitz (USA) and Annegret Kellner (DE)
David Horvitz has been sharing ideas and instructions for works on a blog since the beginning of 2008. His humorous and poetic ideas are free for everyone to use. In her photographic works, Annegret Kellner places objects in a process of material transformation, for instance by covering work tools in milk or sowing tulips onto paper.
HMK sees a correlation in the sense of poetry evoked by both the projects of Horvitz and the films and photographs of Kellner. In cooperation with Horvitz we invited Kellner to execute a selection of his instruction pieces and make adjacent, more personal, interpretations.
Julie Upmeyer (USA / lives and works in Turkey)
The Virtual Chef is a long-term project by Julie Upmeyer that has been taking place in Lille as well as near the Black Sea, and many locations in between. For The Virtual Chef, participants in two locations simultaneously cook a dish while being connected to the Internet in order to exchange information about the recipe, ingredients and anything else that comes to mind while cooking. At the opening of Long Distance Call Upmeyer will instruct visitors via Skype into cooking a Turkish Ramazan meal.
Lee Walton (USA) and Feiko Beckers (NL)
Lee Walton is a performance artist who recently started acting out the status updates of his friends on Facebook, a social networking site. These single lined status updates are interpreted as possible instruction pieces, visually transforming private statements into public performances.
The work of Feiko Beckers consists mainly of videos in which he investigates common notions of safety and social conduct. Attempting multiple times to trip over a banana peel, or acting out the instructions of an airline safety manual, his works are executed concise and rigorously.
HotelMariaKapel recognizes the analogies between the works and attitudes of Walton and Beckers, and asked them to work together in a collaborative effort for Long Distance Call.
more info: www.hotelmariakapel.nl
Date posted: 27-08-2009
Maartje Overmars
Hierbij de uitnodiging voor de expositie ?Quatre bras? bij Galerie gist in Amsterdam.
Vier schilders (waaronder ik) tonen hun werk. De opening is op 4 september om 16.00 uur.
De expositie duurt nog tot 10 oktober.
Date posted: 27-08-2009
Beste mensen,
Voor sommigen onder jullie ligt Groningen ver weg, voor anderen dichterbij; maar 1 ding is zeker: wij zijn van plan jullie een mooie voorstelling/ performance te laten beleven! Jullie zijn van harte welkom bij 'Het Duel' op Het Noorderzon Festival a.s. zaterdag 22 augustus!
Hieronder de link naar onze vermelding op de Noorderzon pagina:
www.noorderzon.nl/index.php?speech=nl&progid=392
Hopelijk tot dan!
Freya en Sarah
Date posted: 01-08-2009
NiMK/Amsterdam:
Nach Oldenburg wird unser wearable 'e-pressed' auch beim
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst in Amsterdam zu sehen sein.
Es ist Teil der 'Wearable Technology - Powered Art and Fashion
Design' Ausstellung.
Eroffnung: Juli 15, 20.00 Uhr im Melkweg Max, Amsterdam
Ausstellung: Juli 16 bis Juli 19, 11.00 - 19.30 Uhr,
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam
Presentation von e-pressed: Juli 18 von 16.00 - 18.00 Uhr,
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam
Mehr Info: www.montevideo.nl
unlimited liability/ Hamburg:
Identit?t in Bezug zu Medien, uberwachung und Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion:
Anja Hertenberger (Amsterdam) presentiert "Workplaces at night" und "e-pressed"
+
J?r?me Guigue (Paris) presentiert "Longboard-n.0" Videos.
Ein Projekt im ?ffentlichen Raum komponiert aus Warten, Begegnungen,
einem Longboard aus Gipsplatte und einer Videokamera.
Zeit: Samstag, 11.7.2009, 20:00 Uhr
Ort: unlimited liability, Norderstr. 71 ug, 20097 Hamburg
Vielleicht findet der ein oder andere spontan Zeit morgen zu der Pr?sentation
in Hamburg zu kommen. Oder dann nachste Woche zu 'Wearable Technology -
Powered Art and Fashion Design' in Amsterdam.
uber Dein/Ihr kommen freue ich mich sehr.
viele Grusse,
Anja
date: 23-08-09
Berndnaut Smilde / Carcass divided
U bent van harte welkom op de opening
Opening 24 Juli om 19:00
24 Juli t/m 1 September
Locatie: De Kijkkasten
Sint Nicolaasstraat Amsterdam
(zijstraat nieuwendijk / zijmuur hema)
Ine Boermans / 06-23037516 /
info@dekijkkasten.nl / www.dekijkkasten.nl
date: 23-08-09
westergasfabriek
date: 23-08-09
Noorderzon
Date posted: 27-08-2009
Tomorrows Graduates
In conjunction with Roemte, the final exam exhibition of the bachelors of the Academy or Fine Arts Minerva and the masters of the Frank Mohr Institute, the first year students present their work in the Painting Department at the Boteringesingel 14, entrance at the Noorderbinnensingel.
Studiopresentations designed for Tomorrow?s Graduates as well as a groupshow will be on view till thursday. The show features large drawings by Erik Tode and Yuan Gao, intallations by Sanne Klijs and Bi Rongrong, sculpture by Willemien Mostert, painting by Thijs Jansen and Jan Wattjes, works on paper by Ingrid de Boer and finally an installation by Julie van der Scheer who has been graduating this year.
Opening hours:
Monday, July 6, till wednesday, July 8, from 10 am till 9 pm
Thursday, July 9, from 10 am till 5 pm
Date posted: 07-07-2009
Report trip Baltic States by Sanne Rous - winner Georg Verberg Scholarship 2008
A trip along the coast of the Baltic States (March ? April 2009) by Sanne Rous
In March 2009, I made my way to the Baltic States where my first stop was Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. My plan was to travel from this point along the coast down towards Latvia and Lithuania. Arriving in a city covered in snow I soon got into the Nordic atmosphere.
I planned my trip to be about two months, which is really quite short if you want to get to know a country. That is why I contacted lots of people in advance to be able to talk to some locals while travelling. This worked out quite well, and all though the Baltic people are known to be difficult and closed I was at most places warmly welcomed.
Before I left I had read some books on the history of the Baltics, but I was amazed how much the landscape itself can tell about a country. It is no wonder that countries, which change in this speed will bear their marks, but I didn?t know that this could be so surreal.
Because the population is extremely small there is lots of space. Already by flying over these countries I was amazed by the incredible spreads of forest, which cover the countries and how few buildings there were. Because there is so much space, and due to economic reasons, there is little need to remove old buildings. Of course some are taken down, especially in the cities, but a lot of other ones are slowly fading. A lot of old Russian military buildings for example are just not taken care of with the eye of historic significance (there are very few signs which will tell you what you see), but are just standing there, slowly rotting away. Some people are happy to show you around, but some just see a heap of crap. When I was telling my hosts I was planning to visit Paldinsky (Estonia), a navy centre of major importance in soviet times, they told me: Sure you can go there, but there is not so much to see unless you like ugly stuff.
Paldinsky was like a lost city. In the centre there was a little bit of life, but in the former navy area there was just the sound of melting ice from the roofs, which were falling apart. The whole area is covered with young pine and birch forest growing over abandoned buildings.
Liepaja (Latvia) is similar, military shelters were built on the rocks near the sea. Now it feels like you are inside an Escher drawing; buildings have fallen into the sea, so everywhere there are pieces of concrete lying around. Stairs leading to nowhere, rooms broken in two and buildings filled with water.
Everywhere you look the history seems to lie as a blanket over the landscape. Or maybe now that I think about it it is more that the landscape lies over history. The strong connection between the two was extremely interesting to me.
It is through this landscape that paganism grew and it were these forests in which the resistance groups (the forest brothers) were hiding. Nature was one of the few things which could be the subject for a demonstration, due to this the term ?green? in politics has for a long time been connected to nationalism. Furthermore it was strange to realise that a lot of the areas where the trees are not fully grown there is a big chance that there is something underground; may it be from soviet times or from WWII.
Also now people seem to be very much connected to nature. A volunteer working in one of the national parks in Latvia told me; ?the people here can be a real pain in the ass, but the positive thing is that they all love nature.?
Travelling in March and April I felt that the seasons were in a way reflecting the idea of sudden changes. There seem to be only two seasons, winter and summer. One day it could be snowing and freezing and the next you could walk around in the nice warm sunshine with wet feet because all the snow was melting.
Another interest for me were the stories and myths in these three countries. In the Baltic countries stories were brought together to help build a national identity, they created national heros, like Kalevipoeg in Estonia and Lacplesis in Latvia. I noticed that these stories were really quite violent, not the average idea of a tale.
I dont know how many people still read them these days. A girl told me that it was obligatory to read it in school, but that most children thought is was quite boring to do so.
More than stories I felt that music and singing was very much alive. It was remarkable that it was not so much the singing as such but to do this within a group. I would ask people about these songs and if they could sing a part, but most of the time they replied that they would need a choir for that. On the island Hiiumaa someone showed me an old book full of songs handwritten by her grandma. A lot of them are about the country, its nature, its traditions. For me it is quite weird to think of singing songs about my country in a group. It is like nobody in the Netherlands feels the need to perform the idea of The Netherlands as a nation. While here I guess even after 20 years it is still something to be considered as special. I think it is also a kind of celebration of the language, as this is still quite a sensitive issue, especially in Latvia where there are even now entire cities consisting of Russian speaking people.
Date posted: 07-07-2009
PRESS RELEASE
ASKEATON CONTEMPORARY ARTS
WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
JULY 6-18 2009
Andrew Dodds / Joe Duggan / Magdalena Jitrik / Louise Manifold / Berndnaut Smilde / Curated by Michele Horrigan
Founded in 2006, Askeaton Contemporary Arts promotes contemporary visual art in Askeaton, County Limerick, Ireland. The fourth edition of Welcome to the Neighbourhood, an annual programme of invited international and Irish artists resident and working in the town, will occur from 6-18 July 2009. By developing and understanding how art might be produced and experienced in this locality, the project aims to open up fresh possibilities of how art might operate outside a city environment, while concurrently supporting the production of new artists? projects.
This years artists hail from Argentina, Holland, Ireland and the UK, with each artist making new projects around the town. Joe Duggan will investigate ideas of ecclesiastical architecture in a new installation, and Berndnaut Smilde will magically transpose part of Askeaton, Wisconsin, to Askeaton, Co Limerick. Magdalena Jitrik will create a new artwork from her interests in painting, film and music, and Andrew Dodds will make an audio work that will be based around his time in the town. Louise Manifolds interests in local history and industry will result in a new installation.
Several public events, screenings and workshops will occur in conjunction with the artists stay, please see www.askeatonarts.com for more details. On Saturday, July 18, artists projects will be presented throughout the town.
Day?s schedule:
2.30pm Transport to Askeaton from Limerick City. Please meet at Limerick City Gallery of Art at 2.20pm (booking recommended).
3pm Official opening at Askeaton Civic Trust
4pm Curatorial tour
5pm Music and events at The Green, including the revival of the local folk game, Donkeypatch
7pm Buffet
9pm Hellfire Club Party
Askeaton Contemporary Arts is sponsored by the Arts Council, Shannon Development, Limerick County Council, Limerick City Gallery of Art and many local businesses and individuals.
Artists are in residence and working in Askeaton from July 6 - 18. For press images, more information, and studio visits by appointment please contact Michele Horrigan at askeatonarts@yahoo.ie / 087-2977179.
date: 07-07-09
De Overslag
Sibylle Eimermacher en Katharina Galland - target blank
In het werk van beide kunstenaars is het schetsmatige karakter van de tekening het uigangspunt voor nieuw werk; objecten, installaties en schilderijen, waarbij de gekozen materialen in hun sterke fysieke aanwezigheid in contrast staan met de subtiliteit van een tekening.
www.sibsite.eu, www.katharinagalland.nl
OPENING: Zondag 14 juni om 15 uur
met uitgifte van De Kantlijn 11.
Het werk is te zien t/m 21 juni
open do. en vrij. van 11 - 15 uur, zo. van 13 - 17 uur e.o. afspraak.
De Overslag
Generaal Bothastraat 7F
5642 NJ Eindhoven
T 040 2815503/ 06 41432835
F 040 2822130
E overslag@iae.nl
www.deoverslag.nl
Vanuit A'dam/ R'dam volg centrum. Einde snelweg rechtsaf. Eerste stoplicht linksaf. Na rotonde eerste linksaf. Bij benzinestation rechtsaf. Volg de borden. Vanaf NS-station neem lijn 55 naar Pagelaan. Stap uit halte Bothastraat. Ga rechtsaf en volg de Overslagborden.
Date posted: 28-06-2009
The Alliance Francaise de Sainte-Lucie cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition by Michael Wong Loi Sing
Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
"The academic work is based on my studies at the Frank Mohr Institute in Holland which has a collaboration with the City University of New York and Hunter College NYC.
But the boundaries are very elastic as there is an aspect on the Shamanistic intuitive art, not necessarily in presentation but more in origin and coming from a state of mind which is not Western and mainstream.
(Michael Wong Loi Sing)
Michael Wong Loi Sing was born and raised in Suriname.
He belongs to a family of artists and he chose to study Fine Arts in the Netherlands at the Frank Mohr institute which has a collaboration with the City University of New York, Hunter College.
After his graduation in 2002, he returned to Suriname to pass on his knowledge : he became a lecturer in Fine Arts while he continued his artistic research.
He is one of the key figures as an artist in his country, and has also exposed internationally : he has had exhibitions in Denmark, California USA, the Netherlands, France, Trinidad? and now returning to his Caribbean roots, he is glad to have an exhibition in St Lucia.
Date posted: 09-06-2009
DeFKa Campis
Zondag 17 mei om 15.00 uur:
Opening tentoonstelling New York - Nieuw Amsterdam
Aanstaande zondag, 17 mei, wordt om 15 uur de tentoonstelling New York - Nieuw-Amsterdam geopend. Op deze tentoonstelling zullen installaties te zien zijn van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Ellie Irons onder de titel Masses and Tributaries en de video It never sleeps van de uit Bulgarije afkomstige Mina Minov. Ook is er documentatie over de historische relatie New York (Nieuw-Amsterdam) en Nieuw-Amsterdam (Drenthe).
Mede in het kader van het 400-jarige bestaan van New York.
Tijdens de opening vanaf 15 uur zijn er korte lezingen door Ellie Irons, Mina Minov, Petri Leijdekkers en Gert Wijlage. De lezingen gaan over New York als kunstmetropool en inspiratiebron voor kunstenaars, daarnaast zal de historische relatie tussen New York en Drenthe worden belicht.
De toegang is gratis.
Locatie: DeFKa Campis, Venestraat 88, 9402 GP Assen.
Tel. 0592 315316
info@defka.nl
www.defka.nl
Openingstijden expositie: donderdag, vrijdag en zaterdag van 13 tot 17 uur.
Date posted: 10-05-2009
"Ghosthouses. Mindscapes. I always wanted to live in the mountains."
Sibylle Eimermacher
Een installatie met objecten en zeefdrukken, twee foto's en ??n schilderij
Opening tentoonstelling op vrijdag 15 mei om 17.00 uur
De tentoonstelling is te bezichtigen tijdens kantooruren tot en met 5 juni 2009
21 en 22 mei is Plaatsmaken gesloten.
Plaatsmaken
Emmastraat 73
6828 HD Arnhem
www.plaatsmaken.nl
0263515697
Date posted: 22-05-2009
Showmaster ? Autonomous Art Seminar 20 May
On the relationship between the artist AND the curator and the artist AS the curator.
The curator occupies an important position in present-day exhibition practice. Curators, whether they be affiliated with institutions or independent, organize larger or smaller presentations within or outside the established institutions, and work in conjunction with artists. Artists themselves often assume the role of curator, either as an individual or as a collective. With Showmaster, Academie Minerva and the Frank Mohr Institute wish to give an impulse toward a greater exchange of knowledge between students of the programmes and representatives in the professional field. The central issue is: what is the relationship between the artist and the curator/ curatorship? And (how) does art education prepare (Bachelor/ Master?s degree) students for this position?
Date: Wednesday 20 May 2009
Duration: 11.00 ? 15.00
Language of communication: English
Location: Academie Minerva, Gedempte Zuiderdiep 158, Groningen
The seminar is accessible to everyone free of charge.
During the seminar, various representatives from the professional field will discuss the relationship between the artist AND the curator and the artist AS the curator, as well as the experiences they themselves have had in these roles.
Please look at the attached document for more information about the program and the speakers.
Date posted: 10-05-2009
Terrari
Date posted: 24-03-2009
Annegret Kellner
Date posted: 17-03-2009
Galerie Smarius
Date posted: 17-03-2009
Date posted: 05-03-2009
Dear people,
I'm pleased to inform you about Art Rotterdam. The art fair will take place 5-8 of February.
Marthouse Gallery presents Clodagh Emoe, Jack Holden, Aram Tanis and me. For more information: www.artrotterdam.nl
If you are planning to visit the fair: the website of Art Rotterdam (click on events) brings some suggestions for other exhibitions and shows which will take place simultaneously with Art Rotterdam.
At last I would like to report that my renewed website is online: www.aldwinvandeven.com
Warm regards,
Aldwin van de Ven
Date posted: 04-02-2009
Anneke Wilbrink
Date posted: 04-02-2009
Freya Eshuijs (graduated MFA Scneography, Frank Mohr Instituut, 2008) ins the Hendrik de Vries grant
The Hendrik de Vries ?08 grants were awarded on 21 January 2009. These grants were established by the Municipality of Groningen in 1986 as a tribute to the poet, painter and draughtsman Hendrik de Vries (1896-1989). Every year, the Municipality makes two grants, each worth ? 6000, available to two up-and-coming talents in the creative arts. This year, the prize was oriented toward the visual arts.
There were six candidates. The Frank Mohr Institute was well represented with no fewer than three former students (Freija Eshuijs, Dani?l Machado Valentim and Alex Winters) and by the current first-year student Sonja-Vanessa Schmitz. The other candidates were Feiko Beckers and Michael Karr.
In conjunction with her sister Sarah, Freya Eshuijs won one of the grants. The jury was extremely enthusiastic about their co-production.
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