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de/cipher > FINISSAGE - May 21 > ARTI et AMICITIAE, Amsterdam + Photos

 

On the semiotic interplay of ciphering and deciphering and their translation into lines, shapes, colors, patterns, signs and symbols.

Curator Susannah Cremer-Bermbach / Participants
José Heerkens, Gracia Khouw, Johanna Reich, Marjorie Welish, complemented and deepened by objects, works on paper, video, artist books and works and performances dedicated to the acoustic aspect of language by Carlo Battisti, Julia Bünnagel, Jochen Gerz, Eugen Gomringer, Jill van Grinsven + Jakke Jalink, Keti Kapanadze, Naho Kawabe, Wjm Kok, Joseph Kosuth, Tatjana Macić, Vera Molnar, Franz Mon, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Gerhard Rühm, Eva-Maria Schön, Anita Stöhr Weber, Timm Ulrichs, Peter Wüthrich; Paul Goede, Jane Brucker + Jeremy Wasser, Timo Berndt
link to press release NL/EN

de/cipher > April 21 - May 21, 2023
Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, Amsterdam > arti.nl

-> A catalog of de/cipher gkg Bonn is available €7

Images: snapshots of the opening and public programme, installation views of the show by Maarten Nauw Photography

-> SCHEPPEN photos
-> about the wall work
-> limited editions

PUBLIC PROGRAMME
click here for details

  • April 22
    2 PM - Paul Goede - Séance
    3 PM - Curator + Artists Talk

  • April 23, May 6 + 7, all at 2 PM - Paul Goede - Séances

  • Friday April 28, 4 PM - Timo Berndt - Literaturperformance A  und B  leuchten im Klee - Poetry as sound, material and subtle play with language.

  • May 12 + 19, at 4 PM - Friday MEET, GREET & READ - Gracia Khouw, reading SCHEPPEN

  • Sunday 21 May (finissage),
    2.30 PM - Jane Brucker & Jeremy Wasser - Unravel performance
    3.30 PM - Booklaunch Gonzalo Reyes Araos - Bitmap Poemarium

below: invite designed by Katja Vercouteren, click on the image for enlargement.

The Distance Between Two Intersecting Lines (part 1) 28/09 - 08/10/2021, ARTSPACE - Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

OVER (black, green) #0708 - 2020 / 41 x 45 x 2 cm, size 2 / edition of 3 / private collection

OVER (black, green) #0708 - 2020 / 41 x 45 x 2 cm, size 2 / edition of 3 / private collection

The first part of a two person exhibition with works about space, emptiness, residual form and shape in Amsterdam. The next show will be in Abstract Project Gallery in Paris.

ARTSPACE, Sociëteit Arti et Amicitiae
(Society of visual artists)
Rokin 112, Amsterdam
Open on weekdays Monday - Friday, 13.30 - 17.00 hrs
Link Gerda Kruimer

Arti et Amicitiae and its fascinating history is closely linked to its monumental building on the Rokin. Arti presents a topical, experimental, high profile exhibition program which includes both local and international subjects in its central location in the heart of Amsterdam.

https://www.arti.nl/tentoonstelling/gracia-khouw-en-gerda-kruimer/

GEEN DADEN MAAR WOORDEN - NOT ACTIONS BUT WORDS

LUCK (proof, nr 3), 64 x 64 cm, 3 mm plexiglass

Jan Verhaeghe (BE) photo of detail Censuursculpturen (Censorship sculptures), ongoing series

Jan Verhaeghe (BE) photo of detail Censuursculpturen (Censorship sculptures), ongoing series

I’m very excited about this exhibition about the use of words in the visual arts. Language is the connecting factor between the artworks in which words are manipulated, visualized or made audible in a variety of ways.

For this exhibition, I used several words from the collection of four-letter words beginning with the letter L. I now focus more on the centerpiece and keep a square format. Additionally, I‘m experimenting with printing on plexiglass. The clarity and sheen of the plastic material suits the through simplification that the words want to convey. Twelve images on plexiglass are installed in the show, forming a dialogue with the 4 letter words by Gerard Koek.
Link to FIVE FOUR page

June 12 - July 18, 2021
OMSTAND, exhibition space for contemporary art, Van Oldenbarneveldstraat 92 A, Arnhem

Opening: June 12, 16.00 hrs
Also present on Sunday June 27, 14.00 - 17.00 hrs (please rsvp)

>> Many thanks curator Korrie Besems and Rob Groot Zevers, Omstand!

NL
GEEN DADEN MAAR WOORDEN is een groepstentoonstelling over vormen van taal in de beeldende kunst. Taal is de verbindende factor tussen de kunstwerken waarin woorden op uiteenlopende wijze worden bewerkt, verbeeld of hoorbaar worden gemaakt. Van jonge en meer ervaren kunstenaars worden werken getoond die de volle bandbreedte beslaan van hoe taal een beeld kracht bij kan zetten of hoe taal geen beeld meer nodig heeft om een krachtig beeld op te roepen.

Voor deze tentoonstelling heb ik een aantal woorden gebruikt uit de verzameling van vierletterwoorden die beginnen met de letter L. Ik concentreer me nu meer op het middenstuk en houd een vierkant formaat over. Ook ik experimenteer met het printen op plexiglas. De helderheid en de glans van het plastic materiaal past bij de doorgeslagen versimpeling die de woorden willen overbrengen. In de tentoonstelling zijn 12 panelen te zien die in de ruimte een dialoog aangaan met de vierletterwoorden van Gerard Koek.

..more about FIVE FOUR, MORE LESS

**UPDATE > March 26 > 'THEMA, METHODE, KEUZEVRIJHEID' IN DE ZAAL, DELFT

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This exhibition is extended till April 4 and open by appointment.
After the lovely meeting last Sunday March 7, I’ll be in the gallery again on Friday March 26 . Please mail me if you plan to visit in the first (14.00 - 15.30 hrs ) or the second time slot (15.30 - 17.00 hrs).
Welcome!

Click here to view the invitation and the images.

Galerie De Zaal (link)
Koornmarkt 4, NL 2611 EE Delft
T 015-2145913 M 06-24112130

Exhibition overview Galerie De Zaal: works by Guido Lippens, Arie Berkulin, Gracia Khouw / photo Jan-Willem Groenendaal

Exhibition overview Galerie De Zaal: works by Guido Lippens, Arie Berkulin, Gracia Khouw / photo Jan-Willem Groenendaal

update> Galerie De Zaal Delft, 'Over thema, methode en keuzevrijheid' opening November 28+29 - 2020

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I’m thrilled to be invited for ‘Over thema, methode en keuzevrijheid’ ( ‘About Theme, Method and Freedom of Choice’ ) a group show in Galerie De Zaal, curated by Jaap van den Ende.

With Anjes Andriaansens, Erik Jan van de Geer, Maarten Janssen, Jan Smejkal, Jos van Merendonk, Arie Berkulin, Phillip Akkerman, Gerko de Ruiter, Rien Monshouwer, Guido Lippens, Jaap van den Ende and myself.

I’ll be showing paintings from the ER - series, with Dutch words on birch plywood. A text about the series can be found here ‘Kijken naar restvormen’ (‘Looking at residual forms ) .

Link to Galerie De Zaal
Koornmarkt 4, NL 2611 EE Delft
T 015-2145913   M 06-24112130
Email dezaal@dezaal.nl

Dates
2020 >> November 12 - December 20
2021 >> January 7 - 31

Open: Thursday - Saturday 12.00 - 17.00 hrs
Sunday 14.00 - 17.00 hrs, and by appointment.
- No reservation required on regular opening hours-

About the show (NL )

Jaap van den Ende: Thema, methode en keuzevrijheid zijn het uitgangspunt voor de tentoonstelling!  Op het eerste gezicht een nogal ruim uitgangspunt. Is het niet zo dat iedere kunstenaar zijn of haar eigen thema’s heeft, een eigen werkwijze en de vrijheid om vele keuzes te maken?  Een kunstenaar kan zich vanzelfsprekend compleet aan de verbeelding overgeven en zo onbekende paden bewandelen.  De kunstenaars in deze tentoonstelling lijken dat nu juist in mindere mate te doen door te kiezen voor het werken vanuit eenzelfde onderwerp, een basistekening die in elk schilderij vrijwel identiek is, of door een methodische of systematische werkwijze te kiezen.  Deze beperking vergroot en stimuleert juist de vindingrijkheid in het vormgeven.  Altijd hetzelfde onderwerp hebben, lijkt stomvervelend.  Systemen ogen steriel en onpersoonlijk, waarbij gemakshalve vergeten wordt dat systemen en methodieken geen bestaande gegevens zijn.  Een systeem wordt bedacht en ontwikkeld.  Systemen en methodieken zijn creaties die ontstaan in het hoofd van de maker en zij zijn in wezen een vorm van verbeelding.

Bovenstaand uitgangspunt was voor Jaap van den Ende de drijfveer om 11 beeldend kunstenaars te vragen voor een groepstentoonstelling en een publicatie waarin in het kort hun werk wordt beschreven.  Het bijzondere van zijn keuze is dat hij duo’s heeft gezocht waarin hij de werken van twee kunstenaars laat reflecteren.  Deze paren vormen unieke combinaties die eigenlijk alleen te zien zijn in collecties van verzamelaars of musea.  Het geheel van de 6 tweetallen is een mooie studie naar de methodes, thema’s en keuzevrijheid  die deze kunstenaars zich hebben eigen gemaakt.

U bent van harte welkom,
Marja en Jan-Willem Groenendaal

OVER (red) 09082020 / 81 x 89 x 2 cm / acrylic on birch plywood / position 1 / photo Kato Tan

OVER (red) 09082020 / 81 x 89 x 2 cm / acrylic on birch plywood / position 1 / photo Kato Tan

About the show (EN)

Jaap van den Ende: Theme, method and freedom of choice are the starting point for the exhibition! At first sight a rather broad starting point. Isn't it true that every artist has his or her own themes, his or her own way of working and the freedom to make many choices? It goes without saying that an artist can completely surrender himself to the imagination and follow unknown paths. The artists in this exhibition seem to do just that to a lesser extent by choosing to work from the same subject, a basic drawing that is virtually identical in every painting, or by choosing a methodical or systematic way of working. On the contrary, this restriction increases and stimulates the ingenuity in designing. Always having the same subject seems annoying. Systems look sterile and impersonal, forgetting for the sake of convenience that systems and methods are not existing data. A system is conceived and developed. Systems and methods are creations that arise in the mind of the creator and they are essentially a form of imagination. ‘

The above starting point was for Jaap van den Ende the motivation to ask 11 visual artists for a group exhibition and a publication in which their work is briefly described. The special thing about his choice is that he searched for duos in which he allows the works of two artists to reflect. These pairs form unique combinations that can only be seen in collections of collectors or museums. The whole of the 6 pairs is an interesting study of the methods, themes and freedom of choice that these artists have made their own.

You are most welcome,
Marja and Jan-Willem Groenendaal

Finissage Sunday February 9 / 15.00 - 17.00 hrs / De Vishal, Haarlem. Welcome!

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‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where -‘ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
‘- so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation.
‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’

Alice’s Question
For this cabinet I’ve used this quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll (1886) the Dutch translation. The installation makes a connection with the exhibition "Camino del Deseo" that can be seen in the Great Hall; compiler is Irene van de Mheen. The Kleine Zaal De Vishal can be seen 24/7 from the square.
Many thanks to curator CP Leinenbach.

De vraag (van Alice)
De citaat uit Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland van Lewis Caroll (1886) heb ik als beeld gebruikt voor dit kabinet. De installatie maakt een verbinding met de tentoonstelling ‘Camino del Deseo’ dat in de Grote Zaal te zien is; samensteller is Irene van de Mheen. De Kleine Zaal is 24/7 uur te zien vanaf het plein.
Met dank aan curator CP Leinenbach.

Opening Friday January 10, 17 hrs
On view from January 10 - February 9 2020
De Vishal, Grote Markt 20, Haarlem

Page Alice’s Question

Alice’s Question (work in progress) / vinyl foil on glass and on back panel / 225 x 175 cm / 2020 / Kleine Zaal, De Vishal Haarlem

Alice’s Question (work in progress) / vinyl foil on glass and on back panel / 225 x 175 cm / 2020 / Kleine Zaal, De Vishal Haarlem

Last chance to see DNA IKEA at Cacaofabriek, Helmond - November 17 2019 - January 19 2020

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DNA IKEA is a follow-up to the Billy Combinations exhibition in Hoofddorp and Berlin (2010, 2018).
Ikea once started to make affordable and accessible for everyone from the ideal design furniture. That "democratic" design is simple, but sophisticated in design and now recognizable as part of countless interiors. You could say that such furniture forms the backdrop to today's life. Equality is a wonderful ideal, but uniformity is intolerable. I’ll be showing ‘IKEA is a Four Letter word’ (2018).

This project is based on a concept by Guda Koster and Frans van Tartwijk. Thank you!

De Cacaofabriek is the cultural centre of Helmond. On view till January 19, 2020. De Cacaofabriek
Open daily 13.00 - 17.00 hrs

Text /About this work, EN/NL

Invite, click on the image

ISCP > FALL BENEFIT AUCTION 2019 > MISS, print (M)

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2019 / 7–9:30 PM
8 PM LIVE AUCTION OF SELECTED WORK CONDUCTED BY SARAH KRUEGER OF PHILLIPS
NANCY HOFFMAN GALLERY
520 W 27th STREET, NEW YORK

MISS - white - green print, from the FIVE FOUR, MORE LESS series / digital print on archival paper 315 gsm / 24 x 30 “ (61 x 76 cm) / AP, 1 of 2 ( edition of 5 ) / signed on the back / click on image for enlargment

Link to ARTSY

Stay tuned for the online auction on ARTSY
> October 1–October 16, 2019

The Fall Benefit has become an ever more successful event each year to generate support for ISCP.
I donated a MISS - white - green print, from the Five Four, More Less series for this auction on Artsy.

During my residency at ISCP in 2017, I worked on the series which was based on a selection of words in English consisting of four letters. I referenced Robert Indiana’s artwork LOVE, in which the four letters comprising the word are stacked in units of two to form a square. Approaching letters as abstract motifs and signs, that is to say the meaning of the word is secondary - while the interplay between the shapes and the background, between positive and negative space, is crucial. The images are composed of broader colored planes as well as lines of different thickness.
> View more images of the series Link to FFML page

CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPLATIONS #5 IN ACEC, APELDOORN> OPENING May 11 - 16.00 hrs

Repetition brings rhythm, structure, efficiency, beauty and is sometimes soothing and contemplative. The traveling exhibition Contemporary Contemplations is now located in ACEC Apeldoorn. Happy to be in the show which is now presenting it’s fifth edition. Curated by Gerda Kruimer and Rene Eicke. The show will open on Saturday May 11, 16.00.

Finissage: June 23, 14.00 -16.00

LINK ACEC, Apeldoorn / May 11 - June 23 / Open: Wednesday - Sunday, 12.00 - 17.30 hrs
I’m showing studies of the Closed Circuit series there. LINK to Circuit-page

Participants: Linda Arts / Cees Andriessen / Isabelle Borges (D) / Bram Braam / Piet Dieleman / Marieke van Diemen / René Eicke / Carina Ellemers / Ditty Ketting / Gracia Khouw / Peter K. Koch (D) / Gerda Kruimer / Annekatrin Lemke (D) / Bas Lobik / Zaida Oenema / DAG (D) / Marleen van Wijngaarden / Patricia Westerhoz (D) / Yumiko Yoneda (JP)

Wall installation with Closed Circuit series at CC#5 in ACEC, Apeldoorn. At the back wall painting by Bas Lobik.

Photo, from left to right:
CC3 (yellow-black) / 2012 / 29 x 29 x 0,4 cm / acrylic on mdf
CC2 (red-black-white) / 2012 / 2019 / 29 x 30 x 0,4 cm / acrylic on mdf
CC2 - s (red-black-white) / 2012 / 2019 / 26 x 26 x 0,4 cm / acrylic on mdf
CC4 (black-white-red) / 2012 / 30 x 30 x 0,4 cm / acrylic on mdf

The Closed Circuit series are made up of identical letters that are grouped in such a way that they form a closed unit. You no longer distinguish what form and negative form is; and riveted to each other that it can no longer be visually separated. Searching for the boundary between language, meaning and image it’s a study of what makes a logo. These works were created in 2012/2013 and lasercut from 4 mm MDF plate. The following year I made the work larger on 4 mm dibond. Link to CC-page

Kees Koomen Blog

A post about the exhibition HET WOORD. Kees Koomen, visual artist and organizer of art events, writes about the shows he’s visited. ‘A bundle of broken mirrors’ it says on his blog. He was also present at the artis talk in Pictura, Dordrecht last Saturday April 20.
Link to Kees Koomen’s blog

From the Pictura Instagram post: Monica Aerden (moderator) in conversation with Gracia Khouw and visitors

From the Pictura Instagram post: Monica Aerden (moderator) in conversation with Gracia Khouw and visitors

UPDATE 5 >> Het WOORD / Ode aan de Synode, Pictura Dordrecht

>> change of programme
April 20 (Saturday)

> 3 PM - concert T. Smit’s work

>> 4 PM - walk - through with Monica Aerden >> I will be present !

March 30 - May 5 2019
Tanja Smit, Niels Post, Gracia Khouw

TWELVE / TWAALF
The number twelve carries religious symbolism, generally representing perfection, entirety, or cosmic order in traditions since antiquity.
For the exhibition 'Het woord' I’ve collected approximately 900 Dutch twelve-letter words. From this list I’ll select twelve twelve-letter words that I’ll elaborate into twelve images. These will be shown as large format posters, fine art prints and a leporello.

For this project I’m collaborating with Landa van Vliet who’s sense of language is extensive, and for me related to the area of South of Holland specifically. I’ve asked her to write a text about the number 12 and twelve letter words. We discussed about the words, and also about the words that did’t make the selection. Words like ‘keelgeluiden’ (throat sounds) or ‘verhandeling’ (treatise or essay). Her text ‘Levenswandel tot mijn twaalfde’ (‘Walk of life until I was twelve’) has an overwhelming quality, a bit like all the twelve letter words in the list. I’m very proud of the result. Brought together in the zig zag fold prose and images add different approach to thinking about the Dutch language and it’s connection to images.

Preview images
Read Press release Pictura NL/EN

Schotschrift, leporello, with prose Landa van Vliet (NL),
103,6 x 21 cm (folded A5 = 14,8 x 21 cm), digital print, limited edition
limited edition 144 + 12 / € 24,00 + shipping mail to reserve a copy

001 /from the series TWAALF (TWELVE), 2019 / dimensions variable

001 /from the series TWAALF (TWELVE), 2019 / dimensions variable



> Click on the images and invite (NL)
LINK to Pictura

Photos of Pictura, Dordrecht and Robotlab, installation near Het Hof van Nederland museum

The Synod of Dordrecht was an international Synod held in Dordrecht in 1618–1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a divisive controversy initiated by the rise of Arminianism. The synod also initiated an official Dutch Bible translation (the Statenvertaling, i.e. Translation of the States or, The Dutch Authorized Version) from the original languages that would be completed in 1637. Translators were appointed, and the States-General were asked to fund the project. It had a lasting impact on the standard Dutch language, which was just then beginning to gain wider acceptance and developing a literary tradition. It would remain the standard translation in Protestant churches for more than three centuries and still is used in some sister churches of the Netherlands Reformed Congregations and similar, smaller denominations.
(Wikipedia)

UPDATE>> CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPLATIONS >> CC#4 at PHK18 Rotterdam →

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UPDATE>> CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPLATIONS >> CC#4 at PHK18 Rotterdam

JANUARY 20 - MARCH 29 / 3 - 6 PM /PHK 18, Rotterdam
The exhibition CC#4 is centered around artists focusing on repetition, rhythm, and gestures with an emphasis on the moment and feeling of duration. For this occasion I made a wall painting for the ‘canteen’ wall.
Curators CC #4 Gerda Kruimer, René Eicke and Marleen van Wijngaarden (PHK18).
A limited edition is available.

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