Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

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.

www.womeinesonnescheint.com

Profile

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

www.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