100XLucebert (curator)
Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar
30 March - 1 September 2024
Lucebert (1924-1994) is one of the best-known Dutch artists of the 20th century. He lived and worked in Bergen (North Holland) for most of his life. Talented as both a poet and a visual artist,
he left behind an extensive and varied oeuvre. In this exhibition honouring his 100th birthday, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar presents Lucebert’s life and work in 100 objects.
Lucebert himself once said: ‘A work of art should be a prism, reflecting all manner of things.’ Drawing from this idea, 100XLucebert reflects Lucebert the man and the artist in all of his facets. The exhibition presents a selection of his poetic works as well as his most famous paintings. Also included are drawings from his teenage years, a war letter, works never exhibited before, poems he left behind, his final works on paper and an unfinished painting. All brought together to shed light on the inner world of this unique artist.
Nieuwe Vrijheidsbeelden (curator)
Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar
30 Sept 2023 - 3 March 2024
Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar celebrates the 450th anniversary of Alkmaar’s liberation with new art.
Freedom plays an important role in Alkmaar’s history. Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar’s permanent exhibit traces the variety of ways in which ideas about freedom and liberty have been depicted over time. In an age when myriad freedoms are being constrained, the museum asked artists to expand on this longstanding pictorial tradition.
Based on a selection of 143 submissions and a public vote,
Sina Dyks, Gabriel Lester and Marinke van Zandwijk were each commissioned to produce a work of art giving their contemporary take on the concept of freedom. These three new images
of freedom were created with input from the people of Alkmaar and invite viewers to think and talk about what freedom means
to them.
Buiten Westen #3 (curator)
Drawing Centre Diepenheim
12 Nov 2022 - 29 Jan 2023
With Frida Berntsen, Ina Kodrzycka, Caillyn Vos, Sterre Arentsen, Layla May Arthur, Ida Leijting, Bart Pols and Abiha Naderi.
The exhibition seeks to promote the quality and visibility of young talent from the East Netherlands region and make it accessible to a wide audience. The participating artists were trained at the art academies ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem and Enschede, and Minerva Academy and the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen.
The exhibition is kindly supported by Mondriaan Fonds, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds | Lente Fonds, Provincie Overijssel, Gemeente Hof van Twente, Ars Donandi | Madeleine Fonds.
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Photo: Tessa Wiegerinck
New acquisitions Ministerie Binnenlandse Zaken (art advisor)
Rijksoverheid
Jan - Dec 2020
Art advice for the office building Beatrixpark of the Dutch Government at the Rijksoverheid in The Hague. Completion is scheduled for beginning December 2020.
With new acquisitions and commissioned works by Noor Nuyten, Marinke van Zandwijk, Bastiaan de Nennie, Danne van Schoonhoven, Ian Paul de Ruiter, Oana Clitan, Rutger de Vries, Carlijn
Kingma, Ellen Kooi, Eelco Brand, Siep van den Berg en Piet Dieleman.
Images: 'Your privacy is very important to us' by Oana Clitan (2017), 'Reciprocity 01' by Danne van Schoonhoven (2011), 'Anima' by Ian Paul de Ruiter (2020), 'Swiped Horizon' by Noor Nuyten (2020).
Buiten Westen #2 (curator)
Kunstvereniging Diepenheim
29 Feb - 1 June 2020
'Buiten Westen' is a departure from the usual route. The title is a shipping term. In the past, when bad weather was forecast, seafarers chose to steer a course that differed from the usual western route: they ventured ‘outside the West’ / ‘buiten westen’.
The exhibition seeks to promote the quality and visibility of young talent from the East Netherlands region and make it accessible to a wide audience. The participating artists were trained at the art academies ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem and Enschede, and Minerva Academy and the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen.
'Buiten Westen #2'
presents work by Rakshita Bhargava, Henry Byrne, Kamilė
Česnavičiūtė, Swaeny Nina Kersaan, Tessa Langeveld, Hedwich
Rooks, Tom van Veen and Jochem van den Wijngaard.
The exhibition is supported by Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Mondriaan Fonds, Madeleine
Fonds, Fair Practice Fonds, Provincie Overijssel and Gemeente Hof van Twente.
'Buiten Westen' is initiated and curated by Hélène Webers.
Photographs by: Rik Klein Gotink
Video by: Pim Christian
RE:Collecting (curator)
Museum Singer Laren, public sites in The Netherlands
11 December 2018 – 7 April 2019
The exhibition 'RE:Collecting' explores untold stories of corporate art collections in The Netherlands. Presenting site specific commissions and existing works by Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Marlene Dumas, Ryan Gander, Erik van Lieshout, Navid Nuur and Nicky Zwaan.
Curated by Hélène Webers and Mels Evers.
Exhibition design by Edi Winarni.
More information about the exhibition and the new artworks in the public space can be found at: www.re-collecting.com
'RE:Collecting' is supported by Mondriaan
Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Singer Laren, Vereniging Bedrijfscollecties
Nederland.
Photographs by: Peter Tijhuis
Buiten Westen #1 (curator)
Kunsthal KunstAanZ, Deventer
15 Sept - 25 Nov 2018
'Buiten Westen' is a departure from the usual route. The title is a shipping term. In the past, when bad weather was forecast, seafarers chose to steer a course that differed from the usual western route: they ventured ‘outside the West’ / ‘buiten westen’.
The exhibition seeks to promote the quality and visibility of young talent from the East Netherlands region and make it accessible to a wide audience. The participating artists were trained at the art academies ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem and Enschede, and Minerva Academy and the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen.
The first edition showed works by Data Bosma, Liona Dekker, Jacco Jansen, Nokukhanya Langa, Nils Leibeling, Ruben Planting and
Rosanna ten Have & Kim Wawer.
The exhibition is supported by Stichting Hanzefonds and Armeva Deventer.
'Buiten Westen' is initiated and curated by Hélène Webers.
Photographs and video by Pim Christian
15/LOVE, De School, Amsterdam (co-curator)
14 Sep - 8 Oct 2017
'15/LOVE' kicks off the new cultural season with grandeur. Eight artists will be displaying sculptural work, on
location at De School, within an alternative version of the classic sculpture garden: the outside exhibit has been moved inside and is now situated on a tennis court.
'15/LOVE' plays with the notion that new meaning is conceived from coincidental circumstances. Differing materials, forms and colours combine on overlapping tennis courts, drawn up in red gravel.
As in tennis, an energy field is created that follows certain rules of the game, but in reality is a product of boundless variables.
With Semâ Bekirovic, Tim Breukers, Bram de Jonghe, Markus Karstiess, Ana Navas,
Ian de Ruiter, Sjoerd Tim and Kasper de Vos.
'15/LOVE' is an exhibition concept by Sjoerd
Tim and Ian de Ruiter, organised by Hélène Webers.
'15/LOVE' is supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
Images: ‘Cerameat lover’ by Kasper de
Vos (2016), ‘Satyr Schaaf-Wesen, Hieronymus-Blatt-Wesen and Isenheim-Rochen-Wesen (Fetisch)’ by Markus Karstiess (2013-2015), 'Odoodem' by Ian de Ruiter (2017), 'Untitled' by Tim
Breukers (2017), 'Waterdrop' by Ana Navas (2014).
Photographs by: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam (co founder, director, curator)
2016 - 2017
In a drastically changing artistic landscape, NEVERNEVERLAND feels the urge to facilitate a broad
range of artistic practices by upcoming artists. NEVERNEVERLAND organises exhibitions, artist residencies, lectures and screenings throughout the city of Amsterdam and abroad.
Some examples of past exhibitions are 'Workwatugot
but Dontloseurhead' by Anna Reutinger (2016), 'DOGHME' by Robertas Narkus (2016), 'A Desire for Things to Work' by Gerda Paliusyte (2016), 'SWEAT' by Doris Boerman (2017), 'PARROT
ICE' by Mike Moonen (2017), ‘Transmutants and Emotional Curves’ by Arnar Ásgeirsson (2017).
Images: 'Workwatugot but Dontloseurhead' by Anna Reutinger (2016), 'DOGHME' by Robertas Narkus (2016), 'SWEAT' by Doris Boerman (2017), 'PARROT ICE' by
Mike Moonen (2017), ‘Transmutants and Emotional Curves’ by Arnar Ásgeirsson (2017).
Marres Currents #2: Rumour Has It (curator)
Marres - House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
2014 - 2015
‘Marres Currents #2: Rumour Has It’ is the second episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents. 'Rumour Has
It' presents work of a new generation of talented young artists. In an exhibition full of stories, shapes, colours, and movement, the artists reach out to meet an audience that is also searching
for new ways to grasp the world.
‘Rumour Has It’ is a proposition for searching and finding, both for the artists and the visitor. Amidst environments brimming with stories, shapes, colours, and
performances, both can meet somewhere in the middle.
With R’m Aharoni, Laura van Biervliet, Oliver Blumek, Polien Boons, Jerome Daly, Lydia Debeer, Thorben Eggers, Carolin Eidner, Timo van Grinsven, Hanne Haesevoets,
Tom Hallet, Evelien Mattheij, Tessa van der Meeren, Mike Moonen, Griet Moors, Vincent Vreeke, Moritz Wegwerth, Simon Weins and Arnold Wittenberg.
Curated by Hélène Webers and Mels Evers.
Images: 'Untitled' by Polien Boons (2014), 'Science of Signs, Signs
of Science' by Timo van Grinsven, (2014), 'Someplace #1' by Tom Hallet (2014), 'Untitled (Party Delay 2)' by Carolin Eidner (2014).
Photographs by: Gert Jan van Rooij
deSERVICEGARAGE, Amsterdam (curator, coordinator)
2012 - 2015
deSERVICEGARAGE is a cultural platform with exhibitions, events and studios for artists. It aims to provide a substantial contribution to the development of
contemporary (inter)national art.
Over the years, deSERVICEGARAGE has organised exhibitions with amongst others Frank Ammerlaan, Maurice van Daalen, Zoro Feigl, Martha Hjorth Jessen, Daniel Hofstede, Judith Leysner, Charlott Markus, Sachi Miyachi, Linda Nieuwstad, Oscar Peters, Thijs Rhijnsburger, Benjamin Roth, Ian de Ruiter, Michiel Schuurman, Fraser Stewart, Sjoerd Tim, Arik Visser, Alex Winters, Anami Schrijvers, Maurice Bogaert, Avi Krispin, Sarah Vanagt, Feiko Beckers and Johann Arens.
Images: 'The arranging of books by color' by Feiko Beckers (2012), 'A Distant Bird Singing' by Avi Krispin and Sarah Vanagt (2013), 'IEDEREEN' with Ian de Ruiter,
Zoro Feigl, Thijs Rhijnsburger and Charlott Markus (2013), 'SHUTTER SPEED' by Steven Bos, Susan Lanting and Sohrab Baya (2013)
SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (assistant curator)
July 2008 - Nov 2012
SMART Project Space was an alternative nonprofit platform for visual art and contemporary culture. SPS commissioned, produced, and presented a variety of
exhibitions, films, performance events, drawing together a wide range of approaches from emerging international artists.
Since its founding in 1994, SMART has organized and produced over 70 exhibitions featuring national and international artists. Some examples of past exhibitions
are: Hohere wesen befahlen: anders malen! (2001), Endure (2002), Hit & Run: Interventions in the City of Istanbul (2004), ADAM 30: international art projects through the city of Amsterdam
(2005), Gavin Wades project Kiosk 7 (2008), Coalesce: Happenstance (2009), Modernity and Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic (2010), Smooth Structures (2010), Hadley+Maxwell (2010), Chto Delat?:
what is to be done between tragedy and farce (2011).
Image: 'Swallowing Black Maria' by Lindsay Seers (2007)
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