Duende

Duende is proud to present our current artists in residence Suzanne van Rest and Jan Bode together with Roderick Hietbrink and Min Oh in the exhibition Afterimage.

Opening Friday June 24 at 7pm
Exhibition open Sat 25–Sun 26 June 1pm-5pm

Suzanne van Rest’s sculptural installations often combine objects with their representations. Be they photographic, or iconographic these playful parodies beg the question “what do we see right in front of our eyes?” Her fragmented installations burn like an afterimage of our once invincible consumer society.

The video works of Jan Bode reconfigure and challenge contemporary modes of mass communication and discussion. Be that youtube or the extra’s on a DVD; his works parody and challenge what is being communicated, the authenticity of the image and the stereotyping so readily accepted but such media.

Roderick Hietbrink’s meticulously composed images, silently manipulate the phenomenology of perception. Colors distort into forms and forms disperse into movements; questioning “the fidelity of projected space and its distance from reality, leaving one with the feeling that there is more than meets the eye”.

The deceptively playful video works of Min Oh seduce the viewer into a false sense of security. Her innocently manipulative, videos expose a dialectic between the sweet and the disturbing. These ‘unheimliche’ works reflect hidden power games present in society.

Made possible with the generous support of Gemeente Rotterdam, dienst Kunst en Cultuur.

Suzanne van Rest

Jan Bode

Roderick Hietbrink

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An exhibition with work by Sandro Setola, Karin Trenkel and Marleen van Wijngaarden at Duende Studios, Rotterdam.

Opening on Wednesday June 15, 2011 at 7pm. In good weather, the garden will be opened.

The show will run from June 15 till June 19.

Opening hours:
Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 12am-6pm
Friday 12am-9pm (with drinks)

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Submit now your application for a permanent studio / Duende membership.
Read the application requirements.

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Submit now your application for a 3-month residency in the periods January-March 2012 and April-June 2012.
Read the application requirements here.

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After a residency period of three months Siobhán Tattan and Tetsugo Hyakutake together with the for this occasion invited artists Harald den Breejen and Rubén Dario Kleimeer will have work on view at Duende.

Opening Friday 25 March at 7pm
Exhibition open Sat 26–Sun 27 March 1pm-6pm

Siobhán Tattan (IE)
Tetsugo Hyakutake (JP)
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Harald den Breejen (NL)
Rubén Dario Kleimeer (NL)

Siobhán Tattan’s film and slide projection installations function as an interest in the way one recounts a tale, be it fact or fiction. Her interest lies with the failed role of the historiographer, who laces historical accounts with personal fragments. Unnamed fictional characters traverse historical episodes in her work. The act of repetition and reiteration is experimented in her recent work. In Unmarked Gestures, a Victorian dance rehearsal, she extracted the actors’ movement and gesture from the earliest surviving celluloid film (Roundhay Garden Scene 1888 by Louis Le Prince) and presented it as a choreographed dance.
In 2010 Siobhán Tattan completed a two-year residency at De Ateliers, Amsterdam.
Tetsugo Hyakutake attempts to connect historical, economic, and social issues with personal experiences. Hyakutake pursues the past that is related to these issues and contemplate the relationship between past and present, individual and collective memory in history which includes wars and tragic events. Rotterdam, after recovering from the demolition of WWII became the world largest seaport (1962-2004). Hyakutake seeks to investigate it’s post-war development through an academic and aesthetic approach, questioning what human development really is. In addition Hyakutake is looking for alternative ways to commemorate the past.
In 2009 Tetsugo Hyakutake obtained a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.
In his work Harald den Breejen deals with the desire to derive meaning from experience. Rather than reaching a conclusion, the answer stays pending somewhere between belief and reason. To try to understand the life of a cube –who became known as Charlie– last year Den Breejen immersed himself in this shape to the point when even his appearance began to adapt angular features. Luckily, Charlie found the absolution he was looking for, and Den Breejen has also recovered to his regular form.
Harald den Breejen just finished a two year residency at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
Rubén Dario Kleimeer initiates photographic projects on urban landscapes and public spaces. With the gaze of an ethnographer, a researcher of spatial and social contexts, Kleimeer is interested in structures which are embedded in our urban society. The series ‘Yangzhou’ case studies the shape and use of newly built outdoor public spaces, where locals spent their leisure time. Because of flourishing economical perspectives, Yanghzhou (China) has become a key-player in it’s Jiangsu province. An ever growing number of citizens now move on to become members of the uprising middle-class. This leap forward has its effects on the urban tissue.
In 2009 Rubén Dario Kleimeer obtained a Master’s degree in Photography from the St Joost Academie, Breda.

Made possible with the generous support of Gemeente Rotterdam Dienst Kunst en Cultuur.

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RAiR#3 Guest House
An exciting selection out of a decade of work from international guest artists
Curated by Leo Delfgaauw

RAiR (Rotterdam Artists in Residence – Duende, foundation B.a.d., Het Wilde Weten, Kaus Australis and Kunst & Complex) will present a special show close to the main location of Art Rotterdam. RAiR#3 hosts a surprising selection of its many talented guests:

Brandon Jan Blommaert, Roxane Borujerdi, Diego Bruno, Amy Cheung , Erin Dunn, Hadassah Emmerich, Friederike Feldmann, Olivier Gourvil, Annika Hauke, Michiel Huijben, Aleksander Komarov, Susanne Kriemann, Maider Lopez, Tiina Mielonen, Noriko Mitsuhashi, Ekaterina Mitichkina, Shaun O’Connor, Nathan Redwood, Christine Rusche, Marco Schuler, Marit Shalem, Iwan van ʻt Spijker, Andrew Sroka, Soizic Stokvis and Nicola Unger.

Opening during Art Rotterdam
Thu – sun: noon – 6pm
Opening: Thursday February 10 at 5 pm

Location: Zuiderster, Hillelaan 28 Rotterdam (opposite to metrostop Rijnhaven)

Visit for more information and for the complete programme http://rair.nl

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Duende welcomes its new resident artists:

• Tetsugo Hyakutake (JP)
• Siobhán Tattan (IE)

Karl Orton (GB), resident via Hessische Kulturstiftung for a year, has been in Duende since July 2010.

For more information visit our residency section

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From January 22 till February 6, 2011 Duende will host the graduation show of the students of the Interieur Department of the Willem de Kooning Academy:

Joeri Bellaard
Joyce Brouwer
Els Kuijt
Daniëlle Linscheer
Eelco Roelsma
Lianne Siebring

The opening will take place on Friday January 21 at 8pm with a performance of the band Boring Pop.

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P©/Peter Carels – Furniture objects re-used materials
HHVI/Mirjam Carels – Other interpretations
DREDD/André Smits – Paintings, photography

Opening on Friday January 14, 2011 at 19.30 by former Duende resident Paul de Guzman

Exhibition open on January 15-16, 2011 from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m.

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Duende resident artists Momu & No Es and Fionna Murray, together with Keren Cytter, Arnoud Holleman and Martijn in ’t Veld

Opening Friday 10 December at 19.00
Exhibition open Sat 11 - Sun 12 December 13.00-18.00

Momu & No Es’ video installations present surreal and seemingly absurd worlds, which are rendered believable through a framework in which the reality suggested is composed of significant objects and characters with intrinsic and stable qualities. These fictional realities allow them to inhabit alternative modes of thinking or being posing the obvious conjuncture: what if?

Fionna Murray’s paintings take form from ideas of home, and an ordering of one’s immediate surroundings, but they are not ‘homely’. Instead they hint at fleeting moments of loneliness and insight in the midst of the everyday. Whilst retaining a distance that belongs to the sphere of the painting itself, in the struggles between representation and the physical matter of painting. Using photographs, film stills and remembered things as source material, her drawings and paintings are an accumulation of small truths and unexpected discoveries.

“I am interested in what the piece of gum under my shoe can tell me about the world.” Martijn in’t Veld’s sculptures stem from small, seemingly inconsequential observations, which he takes on a playful journey into the literary and philosophical qualities of the everyday. Through this he connects small objects of daily use to a bigger conceptual framework, where they become protagonists in a metaphysically orientated philosophy, often both humorous and serious in character.

Arnoud Holleman’s oeuvre spans a diversity of media: film, drawing, photography, theater and television; often revisiting old works that require renewed attention. His works are often only complete after the addition of his own textual analysis is integrated. Throughout the relation between image and text plays a central role. This attitude of continued reviewing reflects a deeply felt distrust of the image. Who is handling the image and with what presumptions and intentions?

Keren Cytter’s video works deconstructs cinematic norms picking up on its affective resonance but dismissing a linear structural logic. They wrap interpersonal social relations in a cyclic tapestry of desire, voyeurism, alienation and miscommunication. Figures appear out of sync with each other and the camera; exposing an inherent failure to connect.

Momu & No Es

Fionna Murray

Martijn in 't Veld

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