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Participating in IAMAIR during Museumnacht010

Just over a month ago I had the opportunity to participate in a pilot performance of IAMAIR at Depot Boijmans van Beuningen. Lisa Meijer created IAMAIR and gave artists, performers and actors the opportunity to infiltrate the museum and to translate their vision of the institute into a work. It has been incredible to collaborate, engage in discussions on effectively presenting the performances, and to lead the guided tour.

Lisa wrote the following text about the project:
IAMAIR is an art project and agency that facilitates interaction with audiences in cultural institutions through unexpected narratives co-created with artists and performers. Operating on the borders where reality meets fiction, our interventions aim to build new bridges between institutions, audiences and artists, shaping venues into public forums where artistic freedom meets self expression. During Museum Night, working on its debut performance at Depot Boijmans van Beuningen, IAMAIR will present a pilot-series of interventions by artists Elisa Strinna, Joshua Thies, June Yu, Katharina Thomas, and Mar Gimeno Lumbiarres. These performances will be brought to life by themselves, and actors Josebelle Silva, Annelou Bangert, and Jason Gwen. If you want to be part of the journey, keep your eyes and ears open, it can happen anywhere, anytime. And if you are looking for a clue, ask guides Thomas Meijerman and Ailen Meester on the ground floor, they won’t tell you anything but might point you in the right direction.

Stay up to date via the IAMAIR Insagram: https://www.instagram.com/___iamair___/

The photos are taken by Isha Dirkse.



Exhibition at Brutus

A view weeks ago I showed a new work in an exhibition that was organised by the Bcademie. The exhibition was called Something Sticky Under Your Feet.

The work that I showed is part of two bigger projects in which I am reflecting on our contemporary vision of the world and what we should share with the next generation.

Send me an email for more information.

The second photo is taken by Melissa van Venrooij.


Exhibition photos Dämmerung

The exhibition that I curated called Dämmerung (German for twilight) at the gallery Frank Taal is getting great responses.
Here is an impression!

With works by:
Aldo van den Broek
Jessica van Deursen
Otto Egberts (1949-2019)
Jasper van den Ende
Johnny Mae Hauser
Daan den Houter
Marilou van Lierop
Pieter Jan Martyn
Mike Ottink
Marcel Wesdorp
Vincent Zanni



























Dämmerung

The summer exhibition Dämmerung is exclusively opened during twilight; the moment of
day in which the amount of sunlight declines, and the day transforms into night. During this
exhibition, all phases of dusk will be addressed; from the so called ‘civil’ dusk – in which the
human eye is still capable of detecting all small details -, until the ‘astronomic’ dusk, -in
which the darkness finally takes away our sight- .

During twilight, our senses sharpen; as if preparing to hunt. By catching shadows, that will
slowly crawl over the artworks, the visitors will experience the artworks as never before.

Twilight is not only a natural phenomenon: it also marks a mental area: a period that rises
more questions than answers, which forces us to rely on mere interpretation.

Each work in this exhibition relates to the theme of twilight in its own way. Aldo van den
Broek, for example, shows us scenes from Eastern Europe, in which civilians live in the
inbetween of communism and the following era. His black works are composed with
masked materials, likewise the way deteriorated materials in communist architecture are
often coveredd with a thin layer of masking plaster.

The work of WDKA graduate Vincent Zanni, departs from a whole different perspective: in
his dark blue cyanotypes, he shows us slowly fading memories.

As the summer progresses, the days will shorten. At the beginning of the show, the
artworks will still somewhat be lit by sunlight. But at the end of the exhibition, visitors must
probably use some lights of their own, to reveal all hidden structures. However, the show
won’t be obscured completely, as it takes place in a city that never completely sleeps itself.

Curator Thomas Meijerman (Westervoort, 1995) graduated in 2020 from the WDKA and
has since then, been studying dynamic natural phenomenon.

With works by:
Aldo van den Broek
Jessica van Deursen
Otto Egberts (1949-2019)
Jasper van den Ende
Johnny Mae Hauser
Daan den Houter
Marilou van Lierop
Pieter Jan Martyn
Mike Ottink
Marcel Wesdorp
Vincent Zanni

One-Time View

This work is about an experience. Buyers will have to decide whether or not want to see the work. However, if this is chosen, the work will immediately begin to degrade until there is nothing left of it. The experience of the work is only for this person and for no one else. The instructions on the envelope also provide an experience

The best experience comes from following the instructions on the envelope. The envelope will only be opened after following the instructions.
https://unnoticedart.com/thomas-meijerman-one-time-view/

The influence of the tides on my work

The tides are a big factor within the formation of a coastal landscape. The landscape that I choose for a conversation with the landscape had to have a big difference between low tide and high tide. It had to have strong currents, so the landscape would be able to evolve over the time of my stay. That also meant that it changed both my physical and mental state. I want to share this photo of how the tides dissolved my work.

Residency Pictura Dordrecht

The 15th till the 28th of August I have been working in Pictura Dordrecht to start a new project. The ”experimental project weeks” can be seen as a sort of residency in which 5 artists are invited to work in the same space for two weeks. These are photos of my work during the final presentation.







Wild Summer of Art Part II

Tomorrow is the opening of the Brutus Wild Summer of Art Part II in which I will show a selection of works from the project a Conversation with the Landscape.

The exhibition is curated by Piet de Jonge (former curator of the Van Abbemuseum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Museum Kröller-Müller), Jessy Koeiman (curator Collective Learning, Art Institute Melly) and Liesbeth Bik (visual artist and curator).

For more information visit: https://brutus.nl/nl/programma/programma/wild+summer+of+art+part+ii/
and:
https://art.brutus.nl/Mjg1LzA=