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

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.

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!

See Stephan Valk’s website for more information about his work.

We also say goodbye to Boris van Berkum.

Eleni Kamma & Elliot Collins
Opening 16 December 7pm
Exhibition 17-18 December 2011 1-5pm

Artists Eleni Kamma and Elliot Collins present within the ­context of their artist-in-residency period at Duende the ­exhibition ‘a lone a last a loved a long the’.

Eleni Kamma’s work ranges a broad spectrum of media: scripts, videos, books, installations and drawings in which she ­addresses inherent gaps and contradictions within existing ­cultural narratives and structures. These gaps are often objects or stories that, through the omission of their actual history, transform into stereotypes. By revisiting systems of classification and strategies of ­description and taxonomy, she examines the relation of the cliché, the banal and the stereotype, to the formation of ­history and the production of meaning. In her recent body of work she examines how words and images can co-exist and ­create meaning by disrupting it; make sense by seemingly letting meaning collapse.

Eleni Kamma has been working on the Rotterdam-part of a ­trilogy project. In Duende she will show the part situated in ­Jämtland, Sweden titled P like Politics, P like Parrots­ in which the amateur choir of the parish of Bräcke was asked to participate in a collaborative reading experiment of a two-page text. The text, P like Politics, shifts between the ­famous hand game, Paper-Rock-Scissors, and P-words chosen ­randomly from a 2003 speech by George Bush.

Eleni Kamma (CY/GR) 1973, lives and works in Brussels and Maastricht. Her work is presented internationally at: Wiels Project Room, Brussels 2010, Villa Romana, Florence 2012, ­IASPIS, Stockholm 2011, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2011, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht 2008.

Elliot Collins’ work starts from painterly concerns, but his practice is not directed at solely solving artistic issues. The paintings mostly consist of text and paint applied in a seemingly expressionist fashion. The nature of text often­ seems searching and poetic; probing the tentative space ­between viewer, maker and medium. Often these texts hint at reflections of a personal nature though maintaining a quality of generality.

Although at first glance expressionistic, his painting expresses­ a control and restraint. They point to the ambiguousness of them being construed. This apparent contradiction keeps the on-looker searching for the intention of the maker and the artwork, stressing the fact that we are looking for clues and answers, art’s core-business. Art here becomes the backdrop for communication in general. Collins’ concern lies in the space in between, the third space: the space between himself as the producer and the painting, the space between text and the painterly expression,­ the space between the on-looker and the artwork, the space between personal and the general.

Elliot Collins (NZ) 1983. Since graduating with an MA from Auckland University of Technology in 2007 he has been showing­ nationally and internationally. He has work in public­ and private art collections. He is represented by Tim ­Melville Gallery in Auckland and Bartley and Company Art in Wellington.­ He lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand.

Made possible with the generous support of dKC Rotterdam, dienst Kunst en Cultuur and Fonds BKVB.

Duende resident artists Elliot Collins (NZ) and Eleni Kamma (CY/GR) will take part at the RAiR Artist Talk at Het Wilde Weten on November 9.

Doors open 7.30pm
Artist talk 8-10pm

4 times a year Rotterdam Artists in Residence organizes an Artist Talk at Het Wilde Weten. This evening 10 current Artists in Residence show their work and tell about the plans for their stay in Rotterdam. The presentations are 10 minutes each.

Participating artists: Annabela Cuomo (IT), Arie Bouman (NL), Bebe Beliz (TR), Eleni Kamma (CY/GR), Jay Tan (UK), LucFosther Diop (CM), Nicky Larkin KAUS (IE), Sarojini Lewis (NL) Eleni Kamma (CY/GR), Eileen Maxson (USA) and Elliot Collins (NZ).

Het Wilde Weten
Robert Fruinstraat 35
3021 XB Rotterdam
How to get there

Read more about RAiR and about the RAiR Artist Talk at RAiR’s website
RAiR (Rotterdam Artists in Residence) is founded by artists’ initiatives Duende, Het Wilde Weten, Kaus Australis, Foundation B.a.d. and Kunst & Complex. Every year more then 50 artists stay for a longer or shorter period in Rotterdam. They join the local art scene and with their presence enriche cultural life in the city. RAiR is an international platform and network that aims to optimize the residency policy by making visible links between the artists in residence, the artists initiatives and the Rotterdam art and culture scene.

Duende welcomes its new resident artists:

• Elliot Collins (NZ)
• Eleni Kamma (CY/GR)

For more information visit our residency section

Kuin Heuff paints portraits on paper which she then cuts into a graphic lace-like structure, wich is a way of research towards the production of images by destructing them.

Women of all cultures take centre stage in Rolina Nell’s paintings, sometimes represented by motifs that traditionally belong to women, such as laundry and playgrounds. Often seen from the back, enigmatic, en profile or zoomed in. During her travels she takes photographs and makes sketches, back in the studio she incorporates this in her paintings.

Submit now your application for a 3-month residency in the periods July-September 2012 and October-December 2012, or for a 6-month residency in the period July-December 2012. Deadline September 30, 2011. Read the application requirements here.

Duende is proud to present our current artists in residence Václav Magid and Kim Engelen together with Kathrin Wolkowicz and René Lazcano in the exhibition ‘All Along the Watchtower’.

Opening Thursday 8 September 7pm
Exhibition 9-11 September 1-5pm

Václav Magid’s (CZ) point of departure is the tension between our normative ideas (e.g. in political, moral or aesthetic dimension) and our real existential attitudes which reveal themselves in everyday practices – in other words, a sense of impossibility to fulfill the ideal of ‘authentic life’. In his works he often confronts documentation of mundane situations with their wider ‘ideological’ frameworks. His primary form of expression is text, usually a short narrative, while visual elements mostly function as kind of subversive illustrations which slightly shift its meaning.
Magid currently lives and works in Prague Czech Republic and is Duende’s artist in residence as part of our exchange with FUTURA in Prague. He also took part in the residence of the international Studio & Curatorial Program in New York City.

Within the work of Kim Engelen (NL) the human plays the central role, with the focus on the intrinsic thinking world and the inner strength of this individual. People keep learning, re/creating and re/positioning themselves. This process of change and growth she finds interesting. Her work is about themes that are in her opinion the keywords of humanism: fulfillment and development, autonomy (within the meaning of freedom and the pursuit of a good and beautiful life), critical thinking, equality and humanity.
Engelen studied at the St. Joost in Breda and at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco (USA). In 2007 she won the Short Rotterdam Prize to create her short film ‘Woman’. She was also part of the AIR program in Hangar Barcelona and exhibited amongst others during Projector festival Madrid, International Festival of Art and Mobile Media, Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Paradoxes in Video in San Diego/United States.

For All Along the Watchtower Kim Engelen will collaborate with René Lazcano (MX), a philosopher currently living in Rotterdam. He studied literature, philosophy, and video art (with Rafael Corkidi at Universidad de las Américas Puebla), political philosophy (U.N.A.M.) and philosophy and economics (EUR). His work and interests are divided between political philosophy, in particular critical theory (Habermas v. and Rawls on the question of justice, notions and measures of poverty in mainstream and heterodox economics discourse and practice), video art and installation. This is the first time he collaborates with Kim Engelen on an installation.

Kathrin Wolkowicz (DE/PL) has been invited to participate in this exhibition as part of her 3 month artist-in-residence at FUTURA, Prague. Wolkowicz is a Rotterdam based artist working with text and image in the field of video, film, book and installation. Usually the text that she writes forms the base for her works which circle around memory, identity and desire. In her recent works, Kathrin Wolkowicz investigates the perception of time and space within the medium of film and book. Using text to tickle the memory of the spectator, she is primarily interested in the haptic experience of text and film.
Wolkowicz finished her Masters Fine arts in 2009 at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam. Her recent exhibitions include ‘An Exchange with Sol LeWitt’, Mass MoCA, Massachusetts and ‘Tapetenwechsel’ in Kunst- und Kulturverein Drensteinfurt.

The title of this exhibition is taken from a song title by Bob Dylan, which he wrote during his recuperation from a motorcycle accident in 1966.

Made possible with the generous support of Gemeente Rotterdam, dienst Kunst en Cultuur, Centrum Beeldende kunst Rotterdam and Fonds BKVB

Kathrin Wolkowicz, videostill from 'He writes the raincoat a note what I own of him' (2009)

Kathrin Wolkowicz, 'The b is silent', book (2010)

Vaclav Magid, Transfers (2011)

Vaclav Magid, Transfers (2011)

Kim Engelen, #1 I want to ride my bicycle [From the Series Words don't come easy], 4x3, 1'26 (2010)

Kim Engelen, Borderlines-series tape#hair, 4x3, 5’30 (2009)

David Stamp is interested in how cultural outcomes such as art, film, literature effect the manner it which we perceive the world around use. They are vessels for ideologies or ideas that provide a cultural backbone for people to relate to. They can feed desires, question morals or simply act of marker posts for our behaviour. They can supplement our daily perceptions with a kind of collective imagination. They are a faint voice that we consult when deciding what to do and how to go about it. David’s practice is a rather intuitive, often humorous, look at this common backbone. Using his interest in art, science, sci-fi and music he investigate the relationship between what we perceive and what significance it has–how it is linked to a wider cultural meaning.

www.davidstamp.com

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

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)

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

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

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)
and
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.