Contemporary Collaborations 2.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contemporary Collaboration 2.0 is the follow-up to an earlier version of this international exhibition project that focuses on stimulating new forms of multilateral cooperation. The exhibition presents the work of an international group of artists who are all connected to different art networks and who collaborate intensively with each other in both their artistic processes and the development of the further professionalization of the various professional practices.

Contemporary Collaboration 2.0 shows a selection of contemporary artists whose work relates to subjects related to the concept of diversity in all its facets and its representation and interpretation. The exhibition is part of a broader program of exhibition projects that are being developed by the 10dence platform for the benefit of the affiliated artists in the Netherlands and Belgium, in which they jointly ask themselves the question to what extent they can be relevant when it comes to issues related to diversity. and inclusion.

The international group exhibition Contemporary Collaboration 2.0 is a continuation of the previous exhibition under the same name in the Klinkenberg galleries I and II in October 2018, which will again be on view in a slightly more extensive form from 5 to 28 September 2020 in the Klinkenberg I and II and the Voorhout galleries at Pulchri Studio. Under the title Contemporary Collaboration 2.0, organizer and visual artist Ron Weijers curated this international exhibition.

Participating artists: Carl Heyward and Madeleine Wories from the United States, Akiko Suzuki and Susumu Ohira from Japan, Dimitri Xato from Catalonia, Romeo Battisti from Italy, Anneke Hodel-Onstein and Michael Oberlik from Austria, Vered Gersztenkorn from Israel and Frans van Viegen, Larisa Sjoerds, Trudy Kunkeler, Anja Steketee and Ron Weijers from the Netherlands.

The exhibition Contemporary Collaboration 2.0 will be officially opened by TV presenter Andrea van Pol on September 5 at 5 pm in the Klinkenberg Gallery I and II and the Voorhout Gallery - Pulchri Studio at Lange Voorhout 15 in The Hague. The singer Rosita Molendijk will provide a suitable musical accompaniment for the opening. The Contemporary Collaboration 2.0 exhibition can be seen from 5 September to 28 September 2020 at Pulchri Studio in the Klinkenberg Gallery I and II and the Voorhout Gallery.

The objective of the 10dence platform is the stimulation, introduction, organization and realization of alternative, inspiring and inventive trajectories to promote and support professional art practice. A breeding ground that collaborates intensively within various international networks with the aim of independently offering artists a platform for presenting and exhibiting their work at home and abroad. 10dence, in collaboration with artist initiatives such as Global Art Project (GAP), Artist Run Alliance (ARA), High Art Fridays (HAF) and Inspirational Magazine, explores how the creation and production of art can be cultivated through alternative innovative networks and residencies that combines collaboration, experimentation and multidisciplinary practice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl Heyward - USA

Carl Heyward is an exceptionally prolific mixed media artist and writer who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. Carl has been a longtime educator at the San Francisco Academy of Art on a variety of disciplines and programs. He is the founder of Global Art Project (GAP), an international, multicultural, multinational, pan-ethnic art platform. A group of international artists working in various media promoting collaboration, experimentation and mutual development of art practice, regularly organizing international workshops and exhibitions. Experimentation is an almost genetic basis for his artistic work and he is also particularly driven and adept at stimulating artists and collaborative processes within the international art sector. 

 

 Madeleine Wories - USA

Madeleine Wories is a Dutch graphic artist and artist who grew up in Costa Rica and Australia, studied in Canada and currently lives in California. Her works evolve through a continuous dialogue and an intuitive interaction with her work process. In the spirit of abstract expressionism, she strives through color, shape, line, texture, markings, gesture and movement for a balance between control and spontaneity where intention and unpredictability meet. She often draws inspiration from her surroundings: landforms, geology, textures, seas, skies, wind and weather, but also from current events. In her semi-abstract interpretive paintings she tries to capture the essence and spirit of her living environment, whether through light, through the movement of water and wind, or through the rawness and tones of the earth.

Akiko Suzuki - Japan-USA

Akiko Suzuki grew up with the sound of needle, thread, scissors, stitching and fabric. From 1990 she is active in making and studying the fabrication of patchwork quilt productions. Originally she made works based on authentic kimono techniques, learned from tradition by her grandmother and her teacher Michiko Shima. Her designs have evolved from traditional to an abstract style and form. By joining the Japan Contemporary Quilt Association, she actively contributed to the promotion of creative quilt production in Japan. Her current collaboration with the Global Art Project (GAP) has become an important source of inspiration in her career. The frequent artistic collaborations with artists associated with GAP energetically stimulate its processes. She always made great work by stacking small things, but she became fascinated with the interesting shapes that came from a repetitive aspect that would be reconfigured by cropping to arrive at something bigger.

 

Susumu Ohira - Japan

 

Susumu Ohira initially developed his work on the concept of light and shadow and secondarily the concept of time manifested itself within his work. Circular motifs entered his work around 2000 and since 2008 he has been working with the integration of visual material as the underlying basis for his paintings. His background images are blurry for specific reasons. Our eyes cannot capture a second-to-second or moment-to-moment change caused by the passage of time. For Susumu Ohira, what he sees 'now' doesn't seem to happen right now, but it has already happened. People live in circular time patterns such as morning, afternoon and evening, and spring, summer, autumn and winter. Landscapes and cities never seem to change, but they do change, as do all living things.

 

Dimitri Xato - Catalonia 

Dimitri Xato lives and works as a multidisciplinary artist in Catalonia, Spain. His artistic forms of expression cannot be captured in a frame and the production of a multitude of paintings, installations and assemblages are therefore completely regular for him. He vehemently refuses to be imprisoned within a particular discipline. He works in an instinctive way that is far from fashion and trends. When his ideas fail to echo, he feels the urge to emancipate himself. He develops collective exhibition projects that have given him the satisfaction and opportunities to communicate with both fellow artists and the general public. Non-existentialist concepts eminently return him to the primitive, unpretentious unproductive aspect necessary for the intellectual evolution of humanity. This journey has led him step by step to "black", the color of all colors, which is meditation, upliftment and rebellion at the same time, black, color that reflects its opposite in the light.

 

Romeo Battisti - Italy

 

Romeo Battisti graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of L'Aquila and lives and works in Poggio Bustone, Italy. As a result of his constant drive for research and experimentation within his work, he made it his quest to discover the meaning of things beyond their appearance. With his extremely technically developed and mastered visual language, he manages to express the unspeakable. He has studied the techniques of the old masters and uses every known material necessary for modern expression. Inks, earths, temples, oils, veils, paste, drops, abrasions are part of the repertoire. Never satisfied, he feels the need to break the surface and reveal the underlying. Romeo Battisti strongly strives to show his vision to the world with the work he does. 

 

Anneke Hodel-Onstein - Austria

 

Anneke Hodel-Onstein is of Dutch origin and lives and works near Vienna in Austria. She describes her work as a process that makes her mind wander around images and sounds, which therefore give her direction and stability. Abstract paintings help to dispel irrelevance, because they are not intended to represent anything in particular, but to reveal what is behind it. Fragments and impressions of reality, deeply rooted in nature and her personal background. Partly due to her musical background, she saw melodies, rhythms and sounds as shapes and colours, which is why music still plays a leading role in many of her works. It is her intrinsic visual world and associative spaces, emotions created by sounds. Thus arises a kind of visualized segments of her consciousness and an approximation of their hidden secrets. 

 

Michael Oberlik- Austtria

Michael Oberlik mainly generates series of new works based on the inspiration and impulses he gained during his multiple travel experiences, from absorbed literature and poetry and images that caught his eye. In terms of concept and theme, his works develop slowly over a longer period of time and it takes years before change is imminent. He develops his paintings according to a fixed pattern of levels and routines. All color areas in his work are handmade from mixed pigments and added sand or earth. He recently started integrating collage into his work and is currently exploring the different possibilities of working with mixed media. The final stage of his creative process is the positioning and integration of his own sign language in his paintings.

 

Vered Gersztenkorn - Israel

Vered Gersztenkorn lives and works as a visual artist in Israel. With an abundance of associations, she suggests a complexity that is not immediately revealed in her work. The rich imaginary images embedded in the colorful environment could be labeled naive by the viewer, but the worlds she portrays are not naive at all. Her artistic language does not hide her sources and forms the motivation to create as a social protest or a critical reflection of society. Her work is curious, humorous and deals with distorted people, animals and forms that appear naive and childish. Sometimes we tend to think that naive painting is easy, but it is not. The more you learn, the harder it is to return to the freshness of a child. She combines painting, mixed media, abstraction and figuration. Her work is an extension and a reflection of her feelings and experiences.

Frans van Viegen - The Netherlands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frans van Viegen is a Dutch photographer who made a career switch from international bank management to his passion for photography in 2008 and subsequently graduated cum laude from the Photo Academy in Amsterdam. Taking the photography of people and their context as a starting point, he combines various techniques to create an (interactive) experience for the viewer. Within his interactive work he integrates personal images and personal context as a starting point and encourages the viewer to generate his own story. In his latest oeuvre he investigates and transforms everyday urban panoramas into visual stories. With the saying of Confucius in his head: "Tell me, and I shall forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I shall understand", he is constantly exploring new ways of portraying people and their environment.

Trudy Kunkeler - The Netherlands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since the 1990s, Trudy Kunkeler has been working alternately in her studios in Dordrecht and Barcelona. She has used a residency in Andorra for two years and has worked on locations in the French Pyrenees over the years. In 1996 she made a study trip to Yemen to study clay architecture. Those periods were and still are decisive for the development of her work. Landscape, architecture, archaeology, geography and cartography are the disciplines Kunkeler uses in her work. She not only questions the division between sea, landscape and city and between photography, ceramics, sculpture and installation, but also between the different technical processes and material treatments and always discovers a new way of working that arises from her way of thinking. Whether her work refers to antiquity or contemporary press photos, she always freezes a moment of disappearance, of destruction. A new city arises in which the traces of the old have been incorporated, a city that has been inserted into the existing landscape and new landscapes that bear the traces of an old city. A constant line of construction and deconstruction.

"Before landscape can ever be a relaxation of the senses, it is a work of the mind. The scenery is constructed as much from layers of memory as layers of rock.". Quote from: Landscape and Memory, Simon Schama.

Larisa Sjoerds - The Netherlands

As a visual artist, Larisa Sjoerds works intensively with her favorite medium, ink, combined with all kinds of obvious and non-obvious media that can influence the consistency of ink. Her drawings have a high degree of individuality and visualize abstracted human figures in a surreal world and are literally inspired by the shapes and patterns of cells in the human body and other fauna and flora, but never just a copy of those existing shapes and patterns. Blueprints of the subconscious, executed in various shades of blue ink, are inspired by our subconscious. Her statement: “Our emotions and instincts can be very disturbing and intriguing. Somewhere deep in our body, various processes take place. Such as the beating of a heart, ovulation, impulsive thoughts related to fear, sexual or violent actions. These mostly hidden processes, thoughts, emotions and instincts are what she wants to visualize. The creative development of this visualization is partly rational and partly just as organic and intuitive as the (dis)functioning of our brain and body.

Ron Weijers - The Netherlands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As an artist, Ron Weijers provides visual commentary on our everyday (sur)realities and stimulates dialogue and discussion about social and geopolitical issues of our time. In his work he considers the everyday absurd - larger than life - (im)possibilities of this world by visualizing the essence and capturing the core of the problem. Within an infinite and unstoppable range of different media and ways or approaches of artistic visualization such as music, film, photography, drawing, painting, collage and assemblage, one can feel a special harmony between the expressed and the produced, between the personal and populist, the traditional and modern, premeditated and intuitive, but also between physically perceived and spiritually felt. Weijers is one of those artists who constantly question the techniques they use, their meanings and their aims, and are well aware that there will never be a definitive answer and that their work is meant to remain empirical. He is not an abstract painter who uses figuration, but a figurative painter who produces abstraction.

Anja Steketee - The Netherlands  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anja Steketee studied at the Artisan Training in Ceramic Techniques and the Dutch Ceramics Training in Gouda and received a Talent Award for her work in 2015. An important source of inspiration and conceptual starting point in much of her recent work is the architecture of the city. For her, the multitude of buildings form a fascinating spectacle of rhythmic patterns of lines and surfaces. Depending on the time of day, the incidence of light and the place where the viewer is located, a different image is created each time. In contrast to the well-defined buildings in a city, the elements of her work allow for a multitude of different compositions to be configured. The parts of her works invite you to arrange them according to your own insight and idea, by stacking or linking them together. A form of playing with the imagination.