Statement
Is nature a place, a comprehensive system or an ideal? Living in an highly urbanized society I became interested in the problem of representing nature. Nature that is unreachable and far away but also everywhere around us. Where does culture stop and nature begin, or is there a real difference anyway?
With the tradition of romantic landscape painting in mind, I’d like to start with my own experience of walking through empty landscapes and translate this experience to the contemplation of objects. I’m interested in the means of both photography and drawing: the interchangeability of the technical with manual labour to create images where different systems are not so much opposing each other, but producing an image together.
Foundation Wo Meine Sonne Scheint
Where light creates space.
In 2013 in the city of Rotterdam (NL) I founded, together with Beatrijs Dikker, the Foundation Wo Meine Sonne Scheint. Our goals are to stimulate the development of artistic concepts and to support artists in making and showing their work. We organize site-specific residencies in various locations that result in a group exhibition. We are a platform that emphasizes the artists’ practice. We foster artistic experiment and encourage the development of new working methods. WMSS is an integral part of my artistic practice.
Our last project Tireless Line will be continued in Berlin.
Profile
GlogauAIR resident from 01/04/2019 to 30/09/2019
GlogauAIR Project
There are two complementary plans I’d like to carry out during my stay:
- Developing my work with emphasis on integrating its environment to my drawings. Trying to make the process of work more vital through different modes of documentation.
- Organizing/preparing the fourth project of Wo Meine Sonne Scheint in Berlin. Which will be a continuation of Tireless Line with a focus to in situ.
The main reason I’m searching for a residency place right now is time and a temporal change of base. You cannot force a breakthrough but you can shape its conditions.
The way I work right now is focused towards an image (drawing) as one final result of a process. This makes it vulnerable for mistakes and hard to make a connection with its environment. Since I deliberately seek for slowness in the process of translation and a layered density in the surface, it happens too often that small imbalances, which are specific to the process of translation, lead to an irreversible loss of transparency. The surface then isn’t just dense but becomes saturated and loses all depth. The image just points to the place and time the original photograph was taken but smeared graphite blocks this window which turns the drawing into a somewhat hermetic object. To make this process more vital I’d like to use the camera again and apply it as a safety mechanism. When the photographs taken during the process of drawing transcend mere documentation then they might be able to function as autonomously as the drawing is now. This hopefully leads to a more installation-like approach where I’ll be able to place my work in a broader perspective and open up my process to different techniques and approaches. I want involve the space around and integrate the translation of images in their own in-between environment. Between the there and then of the photographic realm and here and now of the (studio) space around.
If a work week counts as 6 days I expect to allow at least 4 days for the work described above. The other time I’d like to spend organizing our fourth edition of Wo Meine Sonne Scheint, which is to take place in Berlin (my colleague and co-founder works at Air Berlin Alexanderplatz). Thematically, it will be a continuation of our last project Tireless Line but with a less strict focus on drawing. The question addressing the position of artists who work relatively isolated will be maintained. We aim for a mid-sized exhibition project combined with a symposium in the last quarter of next year.
CV Summary
EDUCATION
- 2005 – 2009 St Lucas University College of Art and Design Antwerp, Belgium (Master with honours)
- 2008 Erasmus exchange KHB-Weissensee, Bildhauerei, Berlin, Germany
- 2000 – 2002 Academie of Art and Design, s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
RESIDENCIES
- 2018 Work retreat, Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania
- 2017 Summer Residency at PARK, Tilburg Stichting IK, [grant Mondriaan Fund] Nida Art Colony [grant Mondriaan Fund]
- 2015 The Drive of Drawing, Masterclass at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
- 2014 Ateljé Stundars, Solf, Finland Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania
- 2011 Ateljé Stundars, Solf, Finland
- 2009 Borderlines and thesis disappearance, workshop by Wesley Meuris
- 2009 A Suivre, Bordeaux, France Lokaal01, Antwerp, Belgium
- 2008 Skoki international symposium, Skoki, Poland
PROJECT/ORGANIZATION
- 2013 Co-founder of Foundation Wo Meine Sonne Scheint womeinesonnescheint.com
CURATOR/ORGANIZER
- 2018 ‘Tireless Line’, Exhibition + symposium, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
- 2015 ‘Canned Laughter, Humor in Crisis’ curated by Pieter Vermeulen, Rotterdam
- 2014 Expositie in Situ, Rotterdam
- 2013 Co-curator and daily organization for Wo Meine Sonne Scheint
EXHIBITION (selection)
- 2018 Tireless Line, Group exhibition and symposium. Wo Meine Sonne Scheint. Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam 6 voor 6, Loods 6 Amsterdam, Reuten Galerie ‘DARK DRAW’, curated by Ian Damerell, Vilnius, Lithuania ‘Zo helder is het werkelijk zelden’, Laag Keppel 139 x Nothing but Good. Group, PARK Tilburg
- 2017 Views on Landscape, group show at Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam [Line of Sight] solo show at PARK Tilburg Perpetuum 2. Group show at Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam Perpetuum, Group show at Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam Distant Light, solo show with a contribution from Frans van Lent. Stichting IK Oost-Souburg
- 2016 Works on Paper / Amsterdam Drawing, Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam Get Fed, Arnhem Amsterdam Art Fair, Amsterdam Drawing Front, Drawing Centre Diepenheim
- 2015 The Drive of Drawing, Group show, Jan van Eyck, Maastricht Amsterdam Drawing AD XL Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam Works on Paper, Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam L’abstraction géométrique belge, L’espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux Amsterdam Art Fair, Amsterdam Art Rotterdam, Reuten Galerie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 2014 Works on paper, Reuten Galerie Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam Drawing 2014, Reuten Galerie Group show at Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam Art Rotterdam, Reuten Galerie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 2013 Kunstroute Kralingen, Art walk, Rotterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam Drawing, Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands Young Talent, Group show at Bob Smit Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands Route du Nord. Group show, Art walk, Rotterdam, Netherlands Raw Art Fair (project space B) Rotterdam, Netherlands Solo, De Witte Slagerij, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 2011 Solo show, Culture Centre Korsholm, Korsholm, Finland ‘De Lading’ Group show, Wetteren, Belgium
- 2010 Solo show, Het voorportaal, Oirschot, Netherlands ‘Big Black’, Previous<>Next, Group show, IS Projects, Leiden, Netherlands
- 2009 ‘Out-box’, Solo, A Suivre, Bordeaux, France ‘Richting Porceleinkast’, group show, Sint Amanduskapel bij Campo Santo, Ghent, Belgium Solo, Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium ‘Borderlines and their disappearance’, group show, St Lucas University College of Art and Design, Antwerp
- 2008 ‘This Morning… ‘ Group show. 44[sic] CotéCour, Antwerp, Belgium
PUBLICATION/PRESS
- 2018 Nida log NO. 8. 2015 – 2018. On Newness
- 2017 Volkskrant Magazine. Foto Jaap Scheeren ‘Lijnen en Arceringen’ Gerrit van den Hoven, Brabants Dagblad ‘Herinnering aan tijd’ Edo Dijksterhuis, Het Parool
- 2015 ‘L’Abstraction Géometrique Belge’ Exhibition catalogue. Espace de l ‘art concret ‘Exakt’ (Mouans-Sartoux: Geometrische Abstraktion aus Belgien) Jens E. Sennewald, Kunstzeitung
- 2014 ‘Mustaa metsää yötä myöten’ Jarkko Kangas, Pohjalainen Nida Log. Techno Ecologies ‘Eeuwig Licht’ Sandra Smets, AMC Magazine
- 2011 ‘Melkein näkymätön’ Jussi Sormunen, Pohjalainen ‘Konst som nästan inte syns’ Bertel Nygard Vasabladet
- 2009: ‘Lokaal01 – 2009’ Jaarverslag
