Exhibition open 9th - 17th November
Mon - Fri 12h00 until 18h00
Saturdays & Sundays: 13h00-17h00
NEVERNEVERLAND is proud and excited to present to you
'QUEERDOS', first solo show by Ro Buur ( NL)
Queerdos, the first solo exhibition of Ro Buur is an installation that emerges from a year-long research process into daily life that intertwines queerness, friends, nature and stories that live within the Dutch waters. Buur started researching their living environment, to learn and unlearn about imposed ideas of exclusion as a way to embrace their own queerness. Imposed ideas in which we are expected to behave and present in a certain way.
Queerdos tells the stories, which often remain unseen, forgotten, hidden, or do not yet exist. The artist started writing a film script,(work in progress) inspired by their daily life that takes place in the province of North Holland. The script tells a story about the search for acceptance and self-love.
“To find their way back to love they had to heal.”
Bell Hooks
The narrative in Queerdo’s (script in progress) centers on Birdie, a character navigating the complexities of self-acceptance and love, along with their friends. A transformative journey through nature by various rituals to discover deeper connections with themselves and one another.
The characters are illustrated through ceramics, inspired from the Dutch folklore surrounding "Bullebak," a mythical monster said to haunt the waters of North Holland to frighten children away. The script reimagines the relationship between fear and acceptance, framing personal transformation against the backdrop of nature's mystique.
Buur has been capturing their daily life through analogue photography since 2023, moments with friends and moments alone, wandering around in nature. The analogue archive functions as an extension of their memories and is used as inspiration of events and cinematic locations for the film script in progress .
In the mixed media installation Queerdos the artist will share a magical world with you, an in-between space in which we can all exist, beyond binarity.
This exhibition is supported by Stimulerings Fonds Creative Industrie
NEVERNEVERLAND (@neverneverland_amsterdam)
Friday 12th of November 17h00-21h30
Exhibition open:
Sat 13 November: 12h00 - 17h00
Location
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
Corona Guidelines:
Access only with a digital or printed corona check access pass / QR code & valid proof of identity.
NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present the premiere of "ON",
a group exhibition curated by the VAV3
– Moving Image Department Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Once upon a time
there was an image.
All it wanted was to move.
Once upon an image
time moved, the image stayed.
you may have painted over,
but time upon once
has already proclaimed:
The show is ON.
Come to perceive, feel, move and get moved
About the artists:
Maïa Taïeb
Hannah Zeeman
Adrián Kriška
Paula Megija Kārkliņa
Laura Eager
Yana Khazanovich
Ella van der Meer
Lucie Dudová
Jorn Vlaanderen
Dimme van Harten
Helena Foczpańska
Jil Kunkat
Clara Arámburo
Martina Laruffa
David Kloosterboer
Cecily Grant
Jet van Boekel
haskell tichell
Jim Biegstraaten
Astrid Ardgah
Félicie Vitrai
Greta Galiauskaitė
June Ohashi
Gila roytman
Anna Sieberns
Instagrams:
@maia_taieb
@adriaankriska
@paula_megija
@eager_laura
@jankhaz
@musroek
@mysterious_creator_1996
@suchneshity
@jilkitkat
@claraaram
@devswoop
@david kloosterboer
@cecilygrant
@jetjeevanboekel
@haskellll
@jbiegst
@beforeandafterart
@felicie.billionaire
@gretagaliu
@juneohi
@roytmans
@xannasun
The Exhibition is initiated by the VAV- Moving Image department.
Supported by
Audiovisual Services at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
Date: 05 November 2021
Time: 19h00 -
22h00
Duration: 3 hours
Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present the premiere of " Sacred Mystery of Confession"
About the work
Let the Eagle loose at night
As time flies with heavy wings.
Tip the glass upside down,
Bleed with its grain.
Teeth and bone tear open this man
Who slashed the ground beneath us.
Cut your hands and held them.
So desperate to
feel
I ask now only for penance,
So that I may heal.
I will wait for time.
Eyes to the floor
Hands around the clock.
Govern my soul
Have no mercy on my flesh,
Leave it out to rot.
I pray God forgives me,
Because I know that I will not.
- Olivia Harley
About the Artist:
Tuna Tunaboylu, born in Antalya, is an artist who is on his unpredictable and engrossing journey.
Before enrolling in Gerrit Rietveld Academie, he spent his life in Turkey.
This change is emblematic of his courage and passion for art which are also deeply woven in his performances and films. Although trained in different art forms, Tuna has found his calling in performance art in which he combines the elements of his mind and body. This mental and physical exploration has been and still is, exhausting and demanding but also has led to his self-identification both as an artist and as a person.
Tuna’s artistic vision is about self-expression, courage, and spontaneity. Using these components, he is exploring and pushing his mental and physical limits through which he grows as an artist. This transformation, even though, hard and painful, is a crucial path to take for the young artist who is serious and passionate about making self-expression. Tuna’s projects are making an impact on those who are curious to enquire about the limits of physical endurance, mental awareness, spiritual exploration but maybe, more importantly, life itself.
Opening night:
Fri 29 October 2021
19h00 First premiere
2h00 Second premiere
21h00 DJ'S : Emiranda:: soundcloud.com/3mir5nda3
22h00 Closed
Exhibition open:
Sat 30 October - Sun 31 October: 12h00 - 17h00
Fri 5 November - Sun 7 November: 12h00 - 17h00
Filmmaking workshop for kids: 14h00 – 17h00
Mon 1 November
Wed 3 November
Thu 4 November
Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present the premiere of "The Story of Leonora".
A film
by
Clemens Stumpf & Loïc Vandam
Music
by
Toxe
Sound design
by
Tove Agelii
Starring
Simone Eliens, Yvette Eliens, Luna Faye Naumer Mateos & Gio Ventura
The Story of Leonora is a short film about a little girl who is given a red eye by two giant water bears and follows her demon to the edge of another world, a red world. The film is a weave
of still images, different voices and music, spiralling into a riddle. But a riddle that only Leonora can answer.
About the workshop for kids:
Alongside the exhibition there will be a three day workshop for kids exploring the art of film making with still images, hosted by Bela Teiwes, Loïc Vandam & Clemens Stumpf. The workshop is
spread across three days and divided in three sessions. The intention is to find the stories hidden in the images/things that are around us. Contact for workshop info and subscription:
loickvandam@gmail.com
About the filmmakers:
Loïc Vandam (1998, BE) is an artist and writer living and working across Belgium and the Netherlands. They graduated from the moving image department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2021. The
whole of their work, which are mainly drawings and writings, is plagued by the image of the icon and mosaics that depict everything and nothing at the same time.
Clemens Stumpf (1996, DE) is a visual artist and filmmaker living and working from Amsterdam. His works range from short films to music videos and video installations. Through a playful,
participatory and magical approach to the medium of moving images he tries to find manifestations of the spirits between us, within us and beyond us.
This exhibition is supported by AFK - Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Presentation: Saturday 4 th of September 15:30-21:00
**VISIT EXHIBITION BY INVITATION ONLY**
Location
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present the videos produced in the masterclasses with seropositive youngsters in collaboration with Amsterdam UMC.
The festive presentation also includes a VJ workshop and presentation.
The masterclasses were lead by artists and designer Heleen Mineur and artist Sunyoung Glebbeek and were a collaboration between The One Minutes Jr. and Amsterdam UMC with the support of Gilead.
The One Minutes Jr. is a project of The One Minutes Foundation.
OPENING
Fri 23 JULY 17h00-21h00
Exhibition open:
Fri 23th July - Sun 25th July
17h00-21h00
Live Performance Friday and Sunday 19h00
Reservation for PERFORMANCE TIMESLOTS-Sign up:
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Location
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present: “Catching the water "a duo show by artists Tao Yang (China) and Jae Pil Eun ( South Korea).
The night of March 4th
Tao Yang presents an installation based on photographs, he uses fabric to create a space to communicate with people not by talking but by feeling and experiencing, you could travel to experiences he has had and associate with his memory or yours.
Monkey and the Moon
About:
Tao Yang
I like to feel something around me, light, space, people, sound…, these elements consist of images of many moments in my brain. After two days or a month, part of those details of these images disappear, people’s faces are vague, I even can’t remember how bright the sun was, but there is a more private emotion at that moment, maybe I forget how the lips look like of the guy, but I remember how blue his eyes where...
I like to use piecemeal emotion to record my life. Meanwhile, I hope to connect with other people with private emotion, perhaps the connection from the moment we are here at the same time, or from an individual experience, which can be recalled in the histories and memories.
Now, something I made is my life in Amsterdam. I am wondering what my life will be and what my works will be like here.
Jae Pil Eun
I have presented a journey of research of East Asian theatre, the highly abstract form of narrative concentrated on sound and light. I consider western society to have a single-narrative myth based on Christianity which caused hate and discrimination. In the name of ‘primitive’, myths from different cultures have been destroyed and censored. I consider our research of East Asian opera as a journey to find an alternative form of myth, based on different geological and cultural backgrounds.
Period:
26 October – 26 November, 2020
Location:
Heesterveld 35a, Amsterdam Zuidoost.
During the residency Loidys will continue experimenting with Blue Curaçao liquor and other materials that his recent pieces are made of, such as, color additive, glass and wood. Official Curaçao liqueur is made with the dried peels of a bitter orange native from Curaçao. For the artist the intense smell of “orange” coming out of a “blue” liquor is a disorienting experience.
The new pieces experimental aspect is amplified by activating sensory impressions beyond the purely visual, such as smell. Loidys does not work with any one brand of Blue Curaçao liquor, the bottles can be purchased locally anywhere. Although the exact shade of Blue Curaçao liquor varies slightly by manufacturer, the color is generally standardized across the industry.
Loidys prefers to work with restricted means, perhaps inside this restrained order he has latitude to comment on what touches him. The new pieces will explore space (site-specific), and the relationship between natural and artificial.
About the Artist:
Loidys Carnero (La Habana, Cuba, 1982). Graduated from the San Alejandro Art Academy in Havana and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He recently completed a master's in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. Combining photography, installation and sculpture in his works Loidys has addressed issues of displacement, adaptability, identity and craftsmanship. His work has been exhibited in: Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam; Decoratelier Nationale Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam; Art Center Faro Cabo Mayor, Santander; Havana Art Weekend, La Habana; Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen; Liverpool Biennial and La Casa Encendida, Madrid. Loidys Carnero lives and works in Amsterdam.
**VISIT EXHIBITION BY RESERVATION ONLY :
Reservations CLOSED 24HRS BEFORE OPENING HRS exhibition
Email to:
nevernever.reservation@gmail.com
Fri 23 October 17h00-20h00
Time Slot: 19-19h50 | 20h00-21h30 |
Sat - Sun 17, 18, 24, 25 October 12h00-17h00
Time Slot: 12-12h50 | 13-13h50 | 14-14h50 | 15-15h50 | 16-16h50
Location
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Brian D. Mc Kenna.
The exhibition “Standing Wave” invites an analogue of history: the sentiment that we are neither moving forwards nor backwards, merely oscillating in place; an argument that we must free ourselves from the trappings progress in order to find our bearings – to see what and where we are.
About the Artist:
Brian D. McKenna was born in Ottawa in 1975, he grew up in Scotland and England and settled in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1985. McKenna received a multi-disciplinary BFA in music & visual art from the University of Lethbridge and a MFA at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.
He lives and works in Amsterdam and his work presented internationally. McKenna’s art-works deal with technological environments and propaganda in relation to the tools we use and how we use them. His investigations highlight the importance of critical inquiry into technologies, the building of one’s own tools, and the quasi-religious role of technology in human endeavours and our place in the natural world.
During this period Zaira will collaborate with Christine Kipiriri.
Zaira and Christine collaborated before on projects which explore the more intimate experiences in spatial design, fashion and art. Such as The New Normal at Oscam X Modemuze, ‘Total Freedom’ WOMEN OFWAR, KIPIRIRI X F22 KIPIRIRI, 3Three Fold z_inna_flo and now with Let’s Keep in Touch at our Residency de Nachtegaal.
About the Masterclass
During this masterclass the participants will build a 3 dimensional spatial configuration. Their objective is to recreate a new representation of our built environment. One which comes closer to us, those who inhabit it and engage with it on a daily basis.
Sat 03 October 14h00 - 18h00
Total of 8 participants
Email to nevernever.reservation@gmail.com
Zaïra F. Pourier (Caribbean, Sicilian) and Christine Kipiriri (Burundian, Russian) collaborate to blur the convention.
Throughout their practice they mediate between art, architecture and fashion.
Their curious spirit, appreciation for fine detail and their cultural identity plays a significant role in their translations. With their bold visionary approach, they embrace what there is and create space they desire to see exist, this what empowers their union.
Instagram: @seetotouch
Amsterdam is known for being a multicultural melting pot. This diversity is reflected in the eclectic food scene, the arts and cultural initiatives. Since this pandemic however we are experiencing how our spatial routines, both public and private are being reconfigured to adapt to the needs and safety of each other. We witness how our built environment; the human-made structures of a city; the urban fabric, the architecture and the public space is fundamental and crucial to our well-being.
This made us question who and what do these permanent structures represent, and how does our diverse cultural background identify with this? During this residency it is of importance to us to juxtapose our identity within the built environment. To accomplish this we will engage with our environment as a playground; document and collect the traces of people, research the building materials, and map our routes which connect us to different places in the city. Our objective is to beautify these encounters by creating a visual representation that will translate what there is and what we envision it to become. Hopefully there will be serendipity where we will even find similarities
"Let's keep in touch" refers to: Let's stay closely connected with our built environment. At the end of the day this is the most essential and meaningful to us, humans.
About the Artist:
Zaïra Florence Pourier is a Caribbean - Sicilian architect and visual artist based in Amsterdam. She has lived and worked in Aruba, the United states, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. Throughout her career her interest has been focused on connecting people by means of exploring the interrelation of Art that appeals to our emotion, and Architecture that animates our physical reality. In 2014 she returned to her place of birth, Amsterdam, where she established her most recent practice; an experimental playground to investigate materials, human influences, and the inter connectivity between cultures.
At the beginning of this year she transformed her instagram page (@z_inna_flo) into a living embodiment of this practice. Zaira in her Florence...in her blossom - is the container in which she explores and documents her everyday encounters by visually altering them into an aesthetically unique Universal language. For her, it is important that what is seen as typically mundane is beautified and appreciated to the extent that it inspires society to take accountability in and of its current built environment.
“As I blossom the world shall evolve” - Zaira Pourier
Christine Kipiriri (Burundian, Russian)
After the Preliminary program at ArtEZ in Arnhem Christine studied two years International fashion & design at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute, she was the creative director at KIPIRIRI and now she is the creative director of Women Ofwar and has her autonomous practice as an artist.
*Cold-brewed Oolong tea and 58% Kaoliang liquor will be served during the show.
NO PIN
**VISIT EXHIBITION BY RESERVATION ONLY :
Reservations CLOSED 24HRS BEFORE OPENING HRS exhibition
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Fri 26 June & 3 July 17h00-20h00
Time Slot: 17-17h50 | 18-18h50 | 19-19h50
Sat - Sun 27, 28 June & 4, 5 July 11h00-17h00
Time Slot: 11-11h50 | 12-12h50 | 13-13h50 | 14-14h50 | 15-15h50 | 16-16h50
Location
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
We are not even aware of ourselves biting our lips, rubbing our feet under the chair, and being under water. None of us had period then in Lion’s Plaza. As a
trade-off, 12 years later when we say “lights off!” The lights go off. Being frightened, we all stay quiet and look away from each other. Even though we understand that a profile is not a person,
a mask won’t cover the conspiracy and an insecure security secures our imagination and properties.
What is after me is not a spy. That island used to be a wonderland of butterflies. Because we remember the route to the Grounds, by tracing the smell of human residues. These memories are later
transformed into genetic codes, an inherited sense of the whole species. Human's exploitation, you said. Sitting on the trees we watch our flashbacks replay around the globe.
When it rains, it pours. The leakage has formed a lake of boiling hot soybean milk, so we decide to sell it to make a living. Our all time favourite “The river of frozen blood” is now available
in the store again. According to the blacklist on my hand, you will get an unprecedented-crisis-limited edition delivered straight to your door without contact. Yes technically we always stay
seamlessly connected by the map which says there’s no light at the end of the tunnel.
This exhibition is based on the story of Lion’s Plaza, which is known for its haunted stories and suppressed history. It is said that many people fall ill by simply
entering the building. Located in the heart of Taipei, an area of youth culture and tourists, Lion’s Plaza was one of the most promising urban projects built in the 70s. While just within a few
years of its grand opening, numerous fires, suicides, gun-shots had made the building a notorious crime hub. Rising on the site of previous Taiwan Garrison Command, where had imprisoned and
executed innocent citizens under political accusations, Lion’s Plaza bears the covered brutal history of authoritarianism enacted by the political party Kuomintang (KMT).
After WWII, KMT was soon defeated by the Chinese Communist Party and retreated to the small island Taiwan from mainland China. With accumulated anger of injustice brought by the KMT, outraged
Taiwanese started a protest after a policeman shot an old lady dead on the street. The protest led to a bloody massacre by the KMT military force, between 5,000 and 28,000 people were killed in
one day, and followed by an imposed martial law that lasted for 38 years, which is the second longest in human history after Syria. During this period of time, around 140,000 people were
imprisoned and about 4,000 were executed under the accusation of being against the government. The dictator, Chiang Kai-Shek, said he would rather have killed a hundred innocent people not to
risk missing one protagonist. This part of history remains a taboo in public even until today and the KMT still wins 1/3 seats in the recent election in 2020.
“None of us had period then” names after six innocent women who were confined in Taiwan Garrison Command. While one was sentenced, the five survived mention that no women had period coming when
in captivity, which indicates their terrible physical and mental condition in confinement.
About Artist:
Tsai Mong-Hsuan (1989, Taiwan), is an artist who lives and works in Amsterdam and Taipei. Her practice reacts on daily life encounters, with her body trained as a dancer, her hands holding a camera or a brush, and her brain thinks like a child or her mom. Her works can be read as pursuits of joyfulness and insistence on free, open and airy mode of being. Her seeming work's poetry or lyricism are quite informed, stemming from different registers of thinking. She holds a Master degree from Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam since 2018 and a Bachelor degree in Psychology from National Taiwan University. She co-founded Green-Wave Dance Theatre group from 2008 to 2013 and Lambda Film Production in 2016.
Time Slot: 17-17:50 | 18-20:00
(there will be also a live stream of the performance:
https://www.facebook.com/nevernever.nl/
Video of the exhibition preview: https://youtu.be/-MiFqqDmn04
*If you would like to see the performance on site,
please email to book the time slot of 18h00-20h00 11th June Thursday.
**VISIT EXHIBITION BY RESERVATION ONLY :
Reservations CLOSED 24HRS BEFORE OPENING HRS exhibition
Email to nevernever.reservation@gmail.com
Fri 12 June 17h00-20h00
Time Slot: 17-17h50 | 18-18h50 | 19-19h50
Sat - Sun 13, 14, 20, 21 June 11h00-17h00
Time Slot: 11-11h50 | 12-12h50 | 13-13h50 | 14-14h50 | 15-15h50 | 16-16h50
Fri 12,19 June 17h00 - 20h00
Time Slot: 17-17:50 | 18-18:50 | 19-19:50
Program during exhibition:
Special thanks to Mio Fujimaki and Rara Gye.
*Reservation required
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NEVERNEVERLAND
On 20 th March 19:00 there is the Friday night talk “Moment” with guest speakers Lola Bezemer (visual artist/performer) and Arthur Nieuwendijk (Zen teacher). In this talk, we discuss about the “Moment” in different perspective such as Zen and artistic practice.
Juri Suzuki (JP) Born and raised in Fukushima, Japan. She graduated in Architecture, from Tokyo University of Science in 2005, from the Fine arts of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2013 and Studio for Immediate Spaces of the Sandberg Institute in 2015. She currently works as an artist based in Amsterdam and has participated in several artist in residences and group exhibitions in Japan, Korea, Greece and the Netherlands. Suzuki was an artist-in-residence and had a solo exhibition in De Fabriek in Eindhoven in 2018. She participated in the Fukushima Biennale 2016 and 2018.
Opening Performance
Angelo Custódio (PT) For years trained as a classical singer, Angelo explores the performative use of the voice and perverts embodied singing techniques to develop sonic encounters with the vulnerable. He urges to nourish empathic understandings of identities, with a focus on the contemporary failure of support structures towards queer bodies and bodies with disability. Angelo holds a MFA from Master of Voice, Sandberg Instituut and a BA in Classical Singing from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Zen Meditation Workshop
Zen meditation workshop is organised by Gioia Marini from Zen.nl Amsterdam.
Please send a message for participation before.
Reservation required. Max 8 people.
Friday Night Talk “Moment”
Lola Bezemer (NL) is a visual artist and perfomer. She graduated with a BFA from the department of Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2013. Her boldly coloured performance installations create moments in which she challenges notions of spatial and social relations. In 2015 she received the Stipendium for Emerging Artists from the Mondriaan Fund. She has exhibited and performed at, among others, Art Rotterdam; Bradwolff Projects,
Arthur Nieuwendijk (NL) studied philosophy, Sanskrit and logic in Amsterdam. In 1997 he obtained his PhD on the question of the validity of logical principles. Through the practical practice of Zen, he has learned how to convert the knowledge and experiences that you gain in your life into a lived, personal insight. He has a great drive to introduce and guide others on the path of Zen on their way to a life with more peace, balance and happiness. He leads Zen.nl Amsterdam.
Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND online
De Nachtegaal, residency of NEVERNEVERLAND
Heesterveld 35a, Amsterdam Zuid Oost
Poster design : Samuli Saarinen
Opening: Friday 28th of February 19:00 - 23:00
OPENING SOUND PERFORMANCE
28th of February (FRI) 19:00 - 23:00
by JUANA LEE (Andrés G. Vidal x Younwon Sohn)
Exhibition open:
28th Feb - 8th Mar 2020, Fri - Sun 12h00 - 17h00
Finissage: Sunday 08th of March 15:00 - 17:00
Saturday 07th of March: 16:00 - 18:00
BOOK LAUNCH, READING ‘What ties ties, ties’
by Amy Winstanley, Lana Murdochy, Kathrin Graf, Mariah Blue, Younwon Sohn
Book design : Alex Walker
Publication : Print Art Research Center
Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND
Frans de Wollantstraat 84
Amsterdam
Younwon Sohn’s solo exhibition Housewarming, Dear Ghost Ants is based on a four-week stay at De Nachtegaal, an artist residency at NEVERNEVERLAND Foundation in Amsterdam.
For her solo show Housewarming, Dear Ghost Ants, Sohn focused on how to approach the idea of hospitality and domesticity in relation to elements linked to architecture, sound, body and creatures. Often her hospitality is an invitation of her own distant living space and the collaborative effort of friends who wish to link and share their narratives and local sceneries with her. Sohn extends her invitation to Juana Lee, a sound project between Younwon Sohn and Andrés G. Vidal.
This project delves into monitored and manipulated soundscapes extracted from each other's local sceneries. The floor space which is reconstructed of her balcony at Nowon, in Seoul, provides a place for gathering and a platform to hold other linkages. On the floor piece, there are insect creatures which are not welcomed but are prior residents of Sohn’s home. Calling them as potential relatives or flatmates, Sohn draws the connection between the invisible signal of Wi-Fi to the ghostly traces of creatures around every corner of her house. She takes them as a crucial indicator to understand what is home now.
About the artist:
Younwon Sohn (Seoul, KR) enjoys making sculptures which function as hospitality. Most of her works are site-specific installations which use domestic architecture to reflect daily practices like cleaning, digesting and sharing, to produce energy for a future event. She received her Bachelor Degree at Korean National University of Arts (KR), 2014 and attended the exchange program at Maryland Institute College of Arts (US), 2011. Since 2019 she holds her Master Degree from Sandberg Institute (NL), she is currently working in Amsterdam and Seoul. Her work has been presented in group and solo exhibitions in several institutions and artist-run spaces such as Barim space, Gallery 17717, Ricehouse_Bahmyi in the cave(KR), MACAO(IT), Zone2Source(NL), Tiefkeller(DE) etc.
The project is supported by Print Art Research Center, Seoul, South Korea
Period: 09 March till 02 April 2020
Location:
Ateliers '89 / NEVERNEVERLAND
Dominicanessenstraat 34, Oranjestad, Aruba
NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present ”Reverse Hydro-Flows”, the project of De Driewieler Collectief at our collaborative residency in Aruba.
Reverse Hydro-flows draws its content from a perspective upon hydrocommonality and focus on the conceptualisation and development of a space installation as physical structure to host several encounters. The installation functions as an ecotone and as a space for facilitation of embodied practices and critical thinking, open to forms of knowledge that can drip, leak or spill from the non-western practices. A more liquid and inclusive space, aligned with a softening queer ethics, in search for an eco-deviant and yet-to-come utopia. These encounters will engage the Aruban community, activating flows of alterity beyond the binary and stimulating waves of reparation.
The concepts of Reverse Hydro-flows revolve around notion of liquidity and how does water shape new ecologies of living. Ateliers’ 89 / NEVERNEVERLAND and Aruba are a perfect context for such research. The omnipresence of sea water surrounding the island offers a perfect frame for Reverse Hydro-flows. More over, the socially engaged practice of our artistic collective was a big motivation for this invitation. Ateliers’ 89 program is deeply implemented for the surrounding population and to create a connection between the local population and international design and art. In addition to the encounter program, the final material production of Reverse Hydro-flows will take place in Ateliers’ 89 exhibition space in April 2020.
About the artists:
The Driewieler Collectief is composed by the artists: Arthur Guilleminot, Pedro Matias and Angelo Custodio.
As artistic living assemblage, we facilitate supportive structures to one another, daily.
Based on this experience, our artistic practice aligned with a queer ethics becomes life and life dissolves into practice and, therefore, our individual body of work informs our collective
practice. With this exchange, we build a fluid yet supportive framework for our projects. A wobbly supportive system that allows different outcomes and that facilitates new perspectives and ways
of doing, beyond our personal boundaries and fascinations.
Collectively, we research alternative structures based on our living, loving and working reality. By sharing each practice in fluid horizontal flows, we bridge critical thinking, developing
socially engaged works exploring performance, interactive installation, immersive soundscapes, choreographed objects and non-traditional forms of art making.
The facilitation of interaction with the audience, allows a collective creation of a liquid temporality and a queer micro-community.
We focus in promoting visibility to different compositions of bodies, both in life and art. It is fundamental to use our agency as queer bodies to facilitate radical resistance - decolonized,
horizontal, liquid, critical and destabilising the fixity of knowledge.
There is urgency in facilitating speculative approaches towards an optimist queer utopia, to allow new structures for ecologies of alterity to thrive.
By thinking with liquidity we rethink our bodies as wet matter and therefore with much more in common with other nonhuman bodies that what humankind wants to admit.
Our hydrocommonality with otherness and darkness should facilitate our understanding of our surroundings and ecosystems.
Websites: Driewieler Collectief, Pedro Matias, Angelo Custodio, Arthur Guilleminot
Instagram: Pedro Matias, Angelo Custodio, Arthur Guilleminot
The project is supported by Ateliers'89, NEVERNEVERLAND, Mondriaan Fonds, AFK, Bank Giro Loterij
Ateliers '89
The Ateliers ’89 Foundation is located in the heart of Oranjestad. The complex consists of a number of classrooms, studios and apartments, surrounded by a large garden. Established, foreign and local artists teach at the studios and exhibit since 2006 in the exhibition space of the foundation. Ateliers’89 has been actively involved in organizing workshops for young people and adults.
The foundation organizes workshops on site in villages for disadvantaged children, who cannot come to Ateliers’89 to attend workshops, meetings between the island’s people and international curators and writers, which created a huge inspirational exchange.
NEVERNEVERLAND invites young national and international artist to come and work and research for a period of 5 weeks in Amsterdam South-East our location is called De Nachtegaal and sinds 2018 we can host the artists as well at Ateliers '89 on Aruba.
In addition to this we organize workshops based on the practice of the Artist in Residence given by the artist or other artists we invite especially for the workshops at De Nachtegaal, residency of NEVERNEVERLAND.
More info about the Residency program go to Residency.
Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND at De Punt
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
Entrance (no pin)
5 Euro or 3 Euro (consession)
Opening: Friday 08 December, 19h00-23h00
Exhibition open: 09 December – 17 December, Fri-Sun 12h00 – 17h00
Finissage: Sun 17 December, 15h00– 17h00
[at 16:00 Artist talk]
Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND at De Punt
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
NEVERNEVERLAND is excited to present ‘STAMINA TROPICAL WINTER': the first solo exhibition by Aurélien Lepetit in The Netherlands.
‘STAMINA TROPICAL WINTER' is a site specific installation reshaping the architectural archetype of the Gym as a vitrine where Fitness is used as a societal obsession. It seeks to question the body as a tool to shape identities by merging sports movements and devices with clubbing aesthetics into visuals, sounds and olfactives interventions.
This exhibition will showcase glass sculptures with Fitness aesthetic which is activated by the performers and driven by a sound piece in collaboration with The Mountain.
Performers:
Pedro Matias (PT), Elisabeth Mesnier (FR) and Estéfano Romani (BR)
Sound of techno: The Mountain (NL)
About the artist:
Aurélien Lepetit’s work investigates movement, gestures and attitudes from daily-life motion as a choreography. He stages the carnality of a body which is no longer present by pushing its boundaries and limits beyond gender, sexuality, political, patriarchal and sociological pressures. Lepetit’s work seeks the meaning of masculinity by questioning the body as a cluster to research beauty ideals, societal pressure and its impacts through medium such as video, installation and performance. Overlapping and merging olympic sport’s movement as a dance, Fitness as a societal obsession and Clubbing as a space of anthropological analysis shaping identities.
Aurélien Lepetit b. Lyon, France lives and works in Amsterdam. He holds a B.A. in Design of Spaces specialized in Set and Stage Design, Lyon, France, an M.A. in Exhibition Design and an M.A. in Dirty Art at the Sandberg Instituut. His work has been exhibited during The Wandering School at M^C^O, Milano (IT) (short-listed for the Milano Design Prize for best Experimentation), Off the Record: Design Performs in the Wormhole between Milan and Rotterdam at The Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL), Lucky Larry’s Cosmic Commune, International Design Biennale, St Etienne (FR), and assisted the curator Florence Parot for the exhibition de Appel timeline: 40+ years of risks conceptualized by Niels van Tomme, De Appel Art Center, Amsterdam (NL).
The Exhibition STAMINA TROPICAL WINTER is supported by Amsterdam Funds for the Arts and 3M.
Opening: Friday 17 November, 19h00-23h00
Exhibition open: 18 November – 26 November, Fri-Sun 12h00 – 17h00
Finissage: Sun 26 November, 15h00– 17h00
Opening: Friday 17 November, 20h30
Anne Marijn Voorhorst is a writer and art-critic, during the opening she will perform a text written for the exhibition.
Finissage: Sunday 26 November, 15h00– 17h00
Sander van der Ham is an urban psychologist working for STIPO, during the finissage he will give a presentation about (among other things) the projects he does with Thuismakers Collectief.
Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND at De Punt
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
NEVERNEVERLAND is excited to present “The Burrow”: a duo exhibition by Minne Kersten and Jorik Amit Galama.
The exhibition “The Burrow” approaches the current obsession with feeling at home by looking at the specific intimacy people experience in their own house. The temporary expelling of the rules of public life creates a place where one gets as close as possible to something of a true self. At the same time, the vulnerability of this constellation often implicates the anxiety for its loss. The works in the exhibition encapsulate this fragility and play with the question what we try to protect with the notion of the home.
General text:
Although his apartment was located in a rather affluent neighborhood, the interior bore a close resemblance to the trenches that were dug during the Battle of the Somme. Old magazines and plastic bags had formed walls, the sleeves of suits hanging out in surrender, a tropical plant searched for sunlight and on the floor lay fragments of furniture that had been crushed by the weight they had supported. He tripled tirelessly between the four craters in which his mattress, the toilet, a kitchen sink and a small stool were located. When he sat down on the stool he tried to determine if he smelled or heard something that wasn’t his own. Memories of the outside world, with its parks, shopping centers, and boulevards, made him guffaw; how to cope with all those complete strangers! But he sometimes questioned if more had withdrawn, were only the delivery boys roaming the streets? When the doorbell rang to announce the arrival of his ration of food he shivered. A ringing doorbell meant the proximity of someone with eyes, and the eyes of others were like rifles, ready to fire a blasting gaze.
Artists:
Minne Kersten (NL) is an Amsterdam based visual artist and writer. She studied at Rietveld academie (Text & Image department, 2016). Her installations derive from fictional stories and metaphors about domesticated environments. She is interested in the living spaces that surround humans and how these are interacting with our bodies pumping of blood, flesh, skin and organs. Working across video’s, set-building and storytelling, she researches notions of architecture in relation to all sorts of building processes found in nature- and city life.
Her installations have been showed at i.a. at7 project space (2017), Museumnacht Appel Arts Centre (2017), Harbinger Iceland (2017), Worm S/ASH GA\\ERY (2017), Hrísey Iceland (2016), Oude Kerk (2015), de Brakke Grond (2015). In 2018 she will be a resident at kunsthuis SYB and a participant of the Slow Writing Lab.
www.minnekersten.com
Jorik Amit Galama (NL) is an Amsterdam based visual artist and writer of fiction and art-criticism. He graduated from the Text and Image department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2016. Working with the video essay as his main visual medium, he focusses on the ways in which image cultures determine people's behavior and how they try to rid themselves of this influence. His work often touches on topics related to anxiety and trauma, thereby drawing inspiration from methods of therapy.
His work has been showed at i.a. at7 project space (2017), Media Art Festival (2016), Worm S/ASH GA\\ERY (2016), de Brakke Grond (2015), Oude Kerk (2015), Lichthof (2015). In 2018 he will be a participant of the Slow Writing Lab.
www.jorikamitgalama.com
Poster design by Johanna Ehde.
The exhibition The Burrow is supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
Opening: Saturday 11 November, 15h00-03h00
Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND at De Punt
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
TR/PS is the 1st quarter meeting of The Travel Agency.
In an intensive 5-day working period on Site the we will employ our desires for cooperation and productive togetherness to engage in a live-research on the ‘corpus operandi’. Remote working
strategies allow us to incorporate Satellite Ventures, that add up to an immersive realm which seeks to show the strengths of cooperation.
Throughout the 11th of November the im-/material findings of this Joint Venture will be presented to the public in form of TR/PS, a 12hrs long event that takes its starting point at
NEVERNEVERLAND.
T rust R elations / n P eople S upport
PROGRAM
TA Trips: The green
NEVERNEVERLAND Foundation is a new initiative for the arts. In a drastically changing artistic landscape, NEVERNEVERLAND feels the urge to facilitate a broad range of artistic practices by
upcoming artists, with an focus on young, POC, Black LGBTQ+ and queer artist.
NEVERNEVERLAND is organizing exhibitions, artist residencies, masterclasses, events, lectures and screenings throughout the city of Amsterdam and abroad. With our new youtube channel we showcase our artists, masterclasses, lectures and events as well as our workshops in collab with organizations who work with young people who are marginalized.
NEVERNEVERLAND
Frans de Wollantstraat 70 (HQ)
1018 SC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
info.neverneverland@gmail.com