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Who is?
Duende members list
Duende is the largest studio-complex in Rotterdam, hosting more than fifty artists in forty-two studios. Besides forty-six permanent members, Duende runs a residency program and hosts a variable number of guests who share studios with the permanent members.
Duende members are:
- Esther Akkerhuis
- Dagmar Baumann
- Bik van der Pol
- Jacqueline le Bleu
- Antoinette Bloemen
- Hanneke Breuker
- Peter Carels
- Laura d’Ors
- Cor Drost
- Rolf Engelen
- Risk Hazekamp
- Kuin Heuff
- Ari Hodgson
- Daan den Houter
- Maarten Janssen
- Aline Keller
- Arthur Kleinjan
- Peter Koole
- Marjan Laaper
- Ine Lamers
- David Maroto
- Mies van Marrewijk
- Marc Müller
- Ralph van Meijgaard
- Jan Neggers
- Rolina Nell
- Dorus Nijholt
- Désirée Palmen
- Hieke Pars
- Jan van de Pavert
- Axel Reusch
- Gert Rietveld
- Leslie Robbins
- Jan Willem v.d. Schoot
- Jack Segbars
- Niels Smits van Burgst
- Lieke Snellen
- David Stamp
- Maurice Thomassen
- Edward Clydesdale Thomson
- Karin Trenkel
- Stephan Valk
- Reinaart Vanhoe
- Lidwien van de Ven
- Dré Wapenaar
- Marleen van Wijngaarden
New residents
April-June 2012
Duende welcomes its new resident artists:
- Frédéric Sanchez (FR)
- Emily Whitebread (GB)
For more information visit our residency section
New member: Daan den Houter
From April 1, 2012
From April st1, Duende welcomes its newest member Daan den Houter. For more information about his work www.daandenhouter.com.
At the same time, we say goodbye to Huub Laurens and to longtime Duende member Jeanne van Heeswijk.
Sils: the self-moving number
Opening Saturday March 31, 2012 at 7pm
- Grégory Cuquel
- Luisa Kasalicky
- Bjørn Melhus
- Ornaghi & Prestinari
Sils Project Space is proud to announce its forthcoming exhibition, The Self-Moving Number. This exhibition brings together four artists whose work deals with notions of time, space and materiality. Aesthetics from different time periods, as well as questioning the stuff the moon’s made of and gifs steeped in gestalt are presented here as a survey that looks at the object. How do we associate with it? What is its role in the wider cultural field? How does an object’s composition dictate how we view it?
Exhibition
April 1-15, 2012
Duende Studios, Tamboerstraat 9, 3034 PT Rotterdam
Opening Saturday March 31, 2012 at 7pm
Opening times Friday-Sunday 1-5pm or by appointment
Artist Talk
Friday March 30, 2012 at 7pm
Magic Bar, Pompstraat 44C, Charlois, Rotterdam
Magic Bar will host a talk in which Grégory Cuquel and Ornaghi & Prestinari will give an introduction to their work. Food will be served afterwards.
Call for proposals
Deadline April 1, 2012
Call for proposals
Project space in Duende Studios
4 month period: May until August 2012
A 60 m² Ground floor studio with a 4.5 m high ceiling and internet connection: 250 euro per month (incl. btw)
We also offer, for an additional low price, the possibility of combining the project space with renting a bedroom in the building.
If you are interested please send us a c.v, documentation of your work and a proposal on how you would like to use the space for this specific period in pdf format to the email address below.
Deadline: 01 April 2012
For more detailed information and prices please contact:
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RAiR #5 at Het Wilde Weten and Duende
Friday March 23, 2012
6-9 pm Het Wilde Weten
Hellebou vol. 4: Here and there
9pm-onwards Duende
Tossing around with a chair in the corridor
Presentations by Simon Kentgens and Duende-residents Tetsushi Higashino and Jean-Charles de Quillacq.
Tetsushi Higashino and Jean-Charles de Quillacq will present the exhibition ‘Tossing around a chair in the corridor’ at Duende. During their residency period they became familiar with the work of the Rotterdam based artist Simon Kentgens, with which they found interesting connections. Higashino is fascinated by Kentgens’ artistic approach towards our daily life surroundings. Quillacq will react on Kentgens’ work with a performance during the exhibition’s opening.
Tetsushi Higashino (JP)
Tetsushi Higashino regards himself as an ‘unproductive production activist’, apparently his definition of an artist. His works make visible the logic of this notion and these metaphorical visions often derive from things that subliminally intervene in our daily lives. They transform the ordinary world we overlook into one of the most extraordinary nonsense.
Jean-Charles de Quillacq (FR)
Jean-Charles de Quillacq plays combinatory games by forcing different shapes and materials to make contact, often in an unnatural promiscuity without anything ever merging. This idea of closeness is coupled with resemblance, as in family resemblances, because de Quillacq often roughly reproduces or imitates his previous works for generating new ones, mimicking the lineage of a fake genetic family. Sexual reproduction is not the only organic process that de Quillacq’s works recall, since many of his shapes refer to the digestion and its converted substances. Moreover, his sculptures are hardly fixed and seem to result from simple and daily gestures.
Simon Kentgens (NL)
Simon Kentgens lifts everyday objects out of their normal environment. He creates new references in which they can be viewed. These objects and situations suddenly acquire multiple meanings. They seem to become strange in their new surroundings, as if they have to get used to their recently acquired status as a work of art. To create these unbalancing confrontations Kentgens applies different strategies.
Recently, during Re:Rotterdam, he transformed a former office space using the available materials, such as the door to the room and left over window blinds. A door, slowly revolving, continuously bumped into another open door. This site-specific installation was the reason for Quillacq and Higashino to invite Kentgens for their show at Duende. In this show Kentgens searches for common ground between both their practices.
RAIR #5 is an initiative by RAiR (Rotterdam Artist in Residence)
Another day another show
Opening Wednesday March 14, 2012 at 7pm
A group exhibition where six Fine Arts students graduating from the Willem De Kooning Academy take their own perspective on the role of the institution in art.
- Jim Impelmans
- Rosa Peters
- Remty Elenga
- Claire van Lubeek
- The Force of Freedom
The exhibition will run March 15-19, 2012
Open 1pm-6pm
AIR Stammtisch
Every third Wednesday
AIR Stammtisch is a monthly occasion for Rotterdam residents to meet each other. It gives the possibility to meet the other artists in residence in an informal setting and talk about your work or chat about your experiences during your stay.
AIR Stammtisch take place at 8pm at Locus Publikus, Oostzeedijk 364
January 18, 2012
February 15, 2012
March 21, 2012
April 18, 2012
May 16, 2012
June 20, 2012
The coordinator of RAiR, the network of Rotterdam Artists in Residence, will be there as well, in case you would like to propose a contribution or when you have questions concerning network or production.
AiR Stammtisch is an initiative by Duende.
New Year’s Reception
Sunday 15th of January, 2012 from 4pm
Duende would like to invite you to the New Year’s Reception
Presentations, StalkTalks & Music
Sunday 15th of January, 2012 4–7pm
Be welcome and let’s toast to the future!
