27/10 - 06/11/2021 / Gerda Kruimer + Gracia Khouw / #130
GALLERY ABSTRACT PROJECT
5, rue des immeubles industriels, 75011 Paris (FR)
Images of the exhibition and opening October 27, 2021. Photos: Jun Sato.
About the series ERoverheen page









27/10 - 06/11/2021 / Gerda Kruimer + Gracia Khouw / #130
GALLERY ABSTRACT PROJECT
5, rue des immeubles industriels, 75011 Paris (FR)
Images of the exhibition and opening October 27, 2021. Photos: Jun Sato.
About the series ERoverheen page
Gallery Abstract-Project.com
5, rue des immeubles industriels,
75011 Paris, France
> open: Wednesday - Saturday, 14.00 - 19.00 hrs
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/
Accordian-fold prints (leporello) proofs next to a book by Marjorie Welish, June 2021
Project X is a collaboration with painter and art critic Marjorie Welish. We’ve been working on our project when Marjorie invited me for a collaborative dialogue in 2019. To start we had agreed on which words we would concentrate on, complex concepts from the book A work, and .../ by Marjorie. Also in addition, I suggested categories of words which have a certain attraction, a more musical association. I selected the words and worked them out into images. Marjorie responded to this with six images with drawings and actions: overlapping and superimposing images.
The images have now been printed, mine here in Amsterdam and Marjorie’s in New York. The giclee prints are folded as accordians (also called ‘lepporellos’ or zig-zag folds) and are brought together in an archival box. They will accompany an exhibition of our collaboration . More information will follow soon.
Link Marjorie Welish
Waar ik nu ben / Huis de Pinto / July 14, 2021
The reading room of House De Pinto has a wide range of magazines and newspapers. The room adjacent to the reading room is a study room with bookcases and also has beautifully painted ceilings. The exchange library is situated there.
Open: Monday till Saturday, 13.30 - 17.00 hrs.
Last day of the wall installation: Tuesday August 31, 2021
Link Huis de Pinto, address: St. Antoniebreestraat 69, Amsterdam,
Location: a 12 minute walk from Amsterdam Central Station - or 1 subway stop to ‘Nieuwmarkt’
Link to project page
NOT ACTIONS BUT WORDS >>> Finisage >> Sunday July 18, 15.00 - 17.00 hrs
- Program is in Dutch-
Vrijdag 16, zaterdag 17 en zondag 18 juli zijn de laatste dagen van de tentoonstelling.
Op de allerlaatste dag sluiten we af met een kort en fel programma:
- PJ Roggeband komt spreken over '11-letterige woorden'
- Korrie Besems over 'woorden en enkele zeer korte gedichten'.
- Jan Verhaeghe zal doorlopend zijn performance 'Artbooks by The Censored Censor #2' uitvoeren.
- Onder leiding van Maria Barnas kunnen bezoekers meedoen aan de workshop ‘woordhappen’.
Gratis teras, reserveren niet nodig. Welkom!
Omstand (link)
Van Oldenbarneveldstaat 92 A, Arnhem
open: 12.00- 17.00 uur
(click on the image bellow to view the series)
LIKE 2021 / 64 x 64 x 2 cm / print on plexiglass
For me, LIKE is intrinsically linked to Facebook. So is LEUK in Dutch. It's meant to be affirmative; but there's no room for nuance, such as ' a little like' - a little like. I don't like the word LIKE; while I find LEUK slightly less problematic. I am ambiguous about the significance. Visually, the four capitals have angular and sharp horizontal and vertical lines; I have marked the residual area with diagonal lines. Although the sound is inviting, as if with two arms you want to claim or pull something in for yourself, all the linear strokes repel. LIKE and LEUK are typical cliché words. In a personal conversation, you can't get away with these words; you continue to ask why something is liked. If the person can't explain it, they represent a superficial view of things.
Or would that be true of most four-letter words?
> LIKE is part of GEEN DADEN MAAR WOORDEN exhibition at Omstand, exhibition space for contemporary art, Arnhem - show runs till July 18 > Artist Talk at Finissage on Sunday 18th. Welcome!
>> More images FIVE FOUR, MORE LESS page
LEUK-rood-lichtblauw, 2018
NL
Voor mij is LIKE is onlosmakelijk verbonden met Facebook. Net als LEUK in het Nederlands. Het is positief bedoeld; maar er is geen ruimte voor nuance, zoals ‘een beetje leuk’ - een beetje like. Ik hou niet van het woord LIKE; terwijl ik LEUK iets minder problematisch vind. Ik sta ambigue tegenover de betekenis. Visueel hebben de vier kapitalen hoekige en scherpe horizontale en verticale lijnen; de restvlak heb ik met diagonale lijnen gearceerd. Hoewel de klank uitnodigend is, alsof je met twee armen iets wil claimen of binnenhalen voor jezelf, stoten al die rechte lijnen af. LIKE en LEUK zijn typische cliché woorden. In een persoonlijk gesprek kun je niet wegkomen met deze woorden; je vraagt door waarom iets leuk is. Als degene dat niet kan uitleggen symboliseren ze een oppervlakkige kijk op de dingen.
Of zou dat voor de meeste vierletterwoorden gelden?
LUCK (proof, nr 3), 64 x 64 cm, 3 mm plexiglass
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.
Huis de Pinto will reopen on June 9 and the exhibition is extended to September 1 , 2021.
Regular opening hours: Monday - Saturday, 13.30 - 17.00 hrs.
Link to Huis de Pinto
Project page LINK.
An afternoon in Huis de Pinto, november 2020
>> With special thanks to Jacqueline Verhaagen, Maarten Borger, Cuneke Mertens, Herman Feddema, Emma Hogendorp, Tine Sijbesma and Diet Verschoor.
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
XXXL / 2015
giclée print / fine art paper 305 gsm / 59,4 X 42 cm, edition of 8
When requested to design for a specific location, I often offer the blueprint or studies for sale as inkjet prints. Sometimes an exhibition space has little budget and selling prints is a welcome addition to my design budget.
About these prints: they’re are also called piezography or giclée and are printed on archival fine art paper and the ink is fade resistant. Now I've put together a page on which the prints can be seen. Please contact me for information and to order.
LINK Prints Site-Specific Works
NL
Wanneer ik een ontwerp te maak voor een specifieke locatie of tentoonstelling, bied ik vaak daarbij het ontwerp of studies hiervoor als inkjet prints te koop aan. Soms heeft een tentoonstellingsruimte weinig budget en is verkoop van prints een welkome aanvulling op mijn ontwerpbudget.
Over deze prints: ze worden ook piezografie genoemd of giclée; ze zijn op geprint op zuurvrij fine art papier en de inkt is ‘fade resistant’. Nu heb ik een pagina samengesteld waarop de prints te zien zijn. De prints kunnen direct bij mij besteld worden.
LINK Prints Site-Specific Works
For those who weren’t able to come to the opening I’ll be in the gallery this Sunday (15.00 - 17.00 hrs). Welcome!
Please mail or send me an sms to let me know if you’re coming. Thanks!
Link to Galerie De Zaal
Koornmarkt 4, NL 2611 EE Delft
T 015-2145913 M 06-24112130
Exhibition view in Galerie De Zaal, with work by Arie Berkulin, Guido Lippens, Gracia Khouw
Present at the gallery on
++ Saturday 28 November - official opening 1/2, (= update Nov 12: fully booked)
+ Saturday 21 November, 15.00 - 17.00 hrs
+ Sunday 13 December, 15.00 - 17.00 hrs
No reservation is required on regular days: Thursday/Friday/Saturday (12 - 17 hrs) - Sunday (14 -17 hrs)
Link to Galerie De Zaal, Delft
update Nov 12: link to exhibition images
The title 'Where I am now' is taken from the book of the same name by Jhumpa Lahiri. A quote from the book can be found on the wall of the reading room of Huis de Pinto, as a prelude to this project.
In the past weeks I have had six interesting conversations with volunteers who are deeply committed to this cultural literary center. Text fragments distilled from these talks will be added to the wall installation in the final phase. Starting point for these conversations is a question from the book: is there a place we are not passing through? This question intrigued me because the answer shows a vital connection between language, place and personal history.
>> With special thanks to Jacqueline Verhaagen, Maarten Borger, Cuneke Mertens, Herman Feddema, Emma Hogendorp, Tine Sijbesma and Diet Verschoor.
> Open Monday - Saturday, 13.30 - 17.00 hrs. >> St. Antoniebreestraat 69, Amsterdam LINK
> For more information please check previous post on September 15
Prelude, October 25 -2020, Huis de Pinto
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
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
Amsterdam - For the reading room of Huis de Pinto, I’ll be making a text image on the wall that will grow over the course of the weeks. The texts are excerpts from conversations I’ll collect with people who have a warm heart for Huis de Pinto. The basis for the conversation is a quote from the book Dove mi trovo (Where I am now) by Jhumpa Lahiri.
A question in the book intrigues me : is there a place we are not passing through? It formulates a connection between language, place and personal history. Is the HdP a sheltered place where you are not passing through and make contact with others? And at present another relevant question is: what does an HdP mean as a meeting place in Corona time?
Quote: ... Is there a place where we are not in transit? Disoriented, perplexed, confused, lost, stunned, dazed, defeated, bewildered, lost: I feel at home in that family of terms. So that is my place, the words that bring me into the world.
Link Huis de Pinto
Download Project informatie (NL)
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Repetition brings rhythm, structure, efficiency, beauty and is sometimes soothing and contemplative. The traveling exhibition Contemporary Contemplations has now settled in Gallery Ursula Walter, Dresden (DE).
For this exhibition I’m designing a text installation on the windows of the gallery and showing a painting from the new series ER- . From 3-6 September I’ll be present in Dresden. The opening is on Friday afternoon - 4 September; a talk on Saturday September 5 at 12 AM with the curators and artists. Welcome !
LINK GALERIE URSULA WALTER
Thank you Gerda Kruimer, Patricia Westerholz, Andreas Kempe, René Eicke for curating the show!
Links to ER- page site specific work and ER- paintings on birch plywood
Project X (working title) is a collaboration with painter and art critic Marjorie Welish and myself. We met in Paris in 2012, when I was introduced to her by Olivier Gourvil. She encouraged me to apply for a residency at ISCP and I did. During my residency in 2017 we visited each other’s studios, not knowing one day we would start a project together.
More news on our collaboration project soon.
Project X (working title) detail 1st image
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