13 februari 2022
Tagarchief: A TRANS
Selfiesanalog
7 oktober 2021
Vanavond geopend in Berlijn: Selfiesanalog van Marcus Golter!
Small sized portraits, modeled and formed by hand and thereby based on cell phone photos.
The Reason Why
22 mei 2021
Ik ben jarig, dus ik vind dat ik wat van mezelf mag laten zien:
This year also EX-MÊKH participates in the on-line Platforms Project again , it’s the art-fair in Athens for independent art-platforms all over the world. This time we decided to collaborate with the international Artist Collective KRAATZ and with the Berlin based independent art platform A TRANS, both of which we have worked with before.
KRAATZ shows the video Idioliths which I interpret as an inspired contemplation on elements in our exhibition FEMALER in Berlin last fall. We also collaborate with the independent Berlin based art-platform A-TRANS that compiled its activities in video. EX-MÊKH produced a video in which their working method is shown: Stage Arousal ! It shows how we have a place to exhibit and build up a show. We decided to include performance, because video is time-based, as is performance. Please click under the picture underneath to visit the EX-MÊKH page. Video’s can be seen from May 27!
VERDENSRUM V, Japan: Mountain of Sadness
The Act/PROBE
8 december 2019
Vandaag werd de tentoonstelling ingericht die in de gehele maand december te zien zal zijn in Das Haus der Statistik. Improviserend en uitproberend voor publiek werden de werken van Maarten Schepers, Ellen Rodenberg en mijzelf geplaatst om uiteindelijk een installatie te vormen met de naam PROBE die zichzelf formeel mooi aanvult en die ook inhoudelijk opvallende elementen combineert. Bij deze een indruk:
Performance weekend
7 december 2019
Naar aanleiding van de EX-MÊKH tentoonstelling MÊKH-web werd EX-MÊKH spontaan uitgenodigd in Berlijn voor een pop-up tentoonstelling voorafgegaan door een performance-weekend. Deze uitnodiging kwam van A-Trans, het tentoonstellingsplatform waar EX-MÊKH in 2015 de tentoonstelling Augentausch maakte. Dit maal vindt het hele gebeuren plaats in het Haus der Statistik, een oud DDR-archief achter de Alexanderplatz.
Vandaag opende het performancefestival met Kraatz, een internationaal collectief in dit geval vertegenwoordigd door Marian Wijnvoord uit Berlijn en Forbes Morlock uit Londen. In de performance “Writing on Art” werden tekeningen van Marian Wijnvoord beschreven en bewerkt door Forbes Morlock waarna de werken tot boekjes werden gevouwen.
De volgende performance, Tssssss K-BAM werd uitgevoerd door uw correspondent en slagwerker/electronisch musicus Yorgos Dimitriadis. Hierin probeerde ik de geluiden van de Improvisatie van Yorgos op te schrijven op de ruit van de galerie die van binnen en van buiten door het publiek bekeken werd.
Daarna volgde “Feed”van Ellen Rodenberg samen met Yorgos Dimitriadis die heel andere geluiden ten gehore bracht. In een gezamenlijke interactieve happening werd een veelvormige installatie gecreëerd waarin Rodenberg wat van haar belangrijke bronnen opschreef en zo haar creatief proces probeerde te tonen.
Dan was het de beurt aan Maarten Schepers samen met Yorgos Dimitriadis. In de performance werkte Schepers vooruit naar de tentoonstelling “PROBE” die morgen middels de performance “The Act” in de ruimte zal worden ingericht. Snel en effectief zette hij een schoorsteenmantel in elkaar en zette daar wat foto’s uit de krant van vandaag op nadat hij ze ingelijst had. Door begeleiding van Dimitriadis kregen de geluiden van het proces een heel andere waarde waardoor een totaal geluidsbeeld ontstond dat een heel eigen kwaliteit kreeg.
Platforms Project 2019 – The Fair
17 mei 2019
KOPEKT (Corect) is a group that shows an attitude sooner than artworks. I could find myself right away in this referential amalgam.
Drawings from the taverna where they meet
And the drawings are not bad at all!
At Daily Temporary from Sweden I was asked to participate in a performance by Leticia Maria from Palma.
I was the surface for a projection of the art-cake that was made by visitors
The visitors got an apron and started to get creative on the cake which was projected on my belly…
Political art by studio Asynchrome at Kunsthalle Graz
Nice work by the Greek-Rotterdam artist Maria Ikonomopoulou at Vita Zita Studio
Various Artists from Bruxelles (B) showed a fantastic project in which they have the audience make their own artwork
The result is always minimalistic and beautiful. This is “Pocketwork” -Carbon on paper worn in the pocket for two or three months.
Orphaned Images: Video-cakes by The museum of Forgetting
Topp and Dubio from Den Haag participated with an intricate installation about a sign in a shop they encountered.
The details are pretty hilarious as often
Another platform from Den Haag is Elders with Paintings by Lucius Pax and Liesbeth Bos, ceramics by Corine Barendregt and photographic work by Liesbeth van Woerden.
Corine Barendregt shows abstract Ceramics, created by pressing clay in the structures she finds on the street.
Liesbeth van Woerden adds 3D elements to her minimalistic photographs
Lucius Pax shows a series of Paintings with urban portraits
From the UK: H-M-S with numerous artists
Ed’s video from Guelph in Canada shows an installation by Jérôme Havre based on Plato’s cave
A Hero from my youth: The Silver Surfer in mosaïc- technique in Transform Art Platform from Beograd by Milan Cuk
The Bureau d’art et de recherche Roubaix with works on paper by Guilaume Krick and sculpture by Clara Juliane Glauert
A-Trans from Berlin shows beautiful works by Concha Argüeso from Spain
Which is clear when you get closer, the artist writes and paints on the back of the paper with wax
Other minimalistic works like this ensemble also look strong
Lucia Bricco showed the stage for her performances at Sub Rosa Space from Athens
Kunsthalle Kleinbasel shows vulva’s by Nina Herrmann under the name Where are you from?
I think I prefer these
Galleria Rajatila from Tampere in Finland shows these little pieces that I like.
Heidi Lincke’s work at Scotty from Berlin is great, but making pictures in this light is difficult. The rapper worked with Kendrick Lamar
These drawings at Scotty are also great: Magnetfelder by Zuzanna Skiba
ID:I Gallery from Stockholm uses textwork, though Alexander Mood seems to be sleeping on the side it is an interesting installation
I Always like the beautiful small collages by Sandra Gea. Here she seems to broaden her perspective
Very subtle works!
This light and airy installation was a nice surprise from Backspace in Athens, done by artists group Bo.Ba (Katarina Botsari and Eleanna Balesi)
Great Urban Photography from the AC-Institute in New york
The Bcademie, a post academic course in Rotterdam, was also present with the old Dutch game of pulling strings and win an Artwork
Amongst which this SD-card on which the whereabouts of a buried artwork is indicated, by Lucas van Eeden
This is done by Kimon Kirligitsis and it has soon disappeared
This is by the same artist, it did not take long for this one to be chosen by a winner.
The Alpineum Produzentegalerie shows great painting by Reto Leuthold
This drawing was shown at Pow Wow: Coming in Waves by Katerina Papazissi
The beautiful presentation of IS-Projects shows American abstractionists from NewYork
Like Jacob Cartwright
And Patricia Zarate
At Und. the work of Vasilis Bótoulas stood out. It was an interesting stand of a cultural site that issues maps of cultural spaces in Athens and has an interesting blog. Check und-athens.com
It’s al about La Divina Comedia with beautifully ingraved metal circles,by Niki Zachari
Left Sub Rosa Space with Lucia Bricco’s installation and on the right EX-MÊKH’s installation
And back at Und. this nice textpiece by Kiriakos Spirou
In the evening Lucia Bricco continued her performance “The morning, The morning, the morning by entering with a blanket with technical toys in a blanket that she carried like a baby. She then let it all fall on teh ground, wound the toys around her head as you can see here
Ant sat down, waiting.
A bigger machine came at her, trying to get pieces of the ground
She put toys under her shirt, let them fall again and then had another coffee
And EX-MÊKH was talking again, with colleagues, with student, with visitors…
Art Athina 2016 Socially
28 mei 2016
Some pics made by different people at the fair
Waiting for the public
And there’s a lot of small talk!
Art on location
Group Picture of A-Trans and EX-MÊKH
Maarten Schepers likes this work, folding flyers!
here’s the public
Collaborating on Navine Khan Dossos’ beautiful Capacity-project at Out Of The Box media
A hit, the finger lights that Ellen Rodenberg took with her
The French guys from Nantes at Extra Muros: Romain and Guillaume
Artemis took the director of the fair to our Booth
And my dear and faithful friend Triantafyllia also visited our booth
A light from within ….
The Druid
A beautiful square, a delicious meal….
View from the hotel room with a half moon
The new Opera/cultural centre by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation by Renzo Piano
And a view from the side.
Platform Project & Art Athina 2016
May 27, 2016
In spite of the crisis atmosphere in Athens and the refugee-problems that haunt the country the Athens artfair took place again this year. The Taekwondo Stadium had been occupied with refugees in winter during heavy rains which resulted in a lot of problems. Nevertheless, the fair continued but the big galleries in Greece didn’t show up and the galleries that did show up were very conservative in their choice of artists. The Platform Project on the other hand was very interesting this year. It is always worth to visit but now the side show for non-commercial art platforms showed great art and awareness of the human and the political situation which in some cases led to moving art works.
Look at the fair from the platforms
Derek Liddington at 8Eleven, a very interesting sculptor. these are studies after an Elsworth Kelly drawing
This video was shot by Liddington, having four actors making a pillar of clay and creating a tension between disciplines
This was an ongoing performance in 8eleven in which a dancer would reenact the choreography “Ode” which was executed by les Ballets Russes in 1913. The floor on which the dancer moved was a square meter of clay
I found this work very moving: in an inter-active work, Navine Khan Dossos tries to paint the 2000 people that have sought refuge in the Taekwondo Stadium last winter. Visitors and colleagues are invited to contribute as the artist will continue to paint until the end of the fair.
This beautiful Painting has been made by an icon-painter for Kallio Kunsthalle (FI), following the text that Petri Saariko had prepared.
Andreas Martí installed this drawing installation at Dienstgebäude
It is continuing to draw during the fair
This wall sculpture of Bettina Diel could also be seen at Diensgebäude
From Nantes (FR) came Extra Muros in which these wall sculptures by Romain Rimbaud were shown
Interesting painting at Foss (GR)
A short visit to the real fair: here a photograph by Sarah Lucas
Nice political drawings by Tasos Pavlopoulos
Collage by Maria Ikonomoupoulou
who also made beautiful embroideries on newspaper, shown at Mulier Mulier
Where also work of the painter Guy van Bossche was shown
I rather liked these collages because of the use of material. made by Nikos Varitymiadis
Taubert Contemporary showed an artist with over-all design: Lars Arrhenius
Curator of Platform Projects, the wonderful Artemis Potamianou, an artist also, showed at the floor of the fair
Kallio Kunsthalle showed performance “about the self-determination of women”
At MUU (F) the performance artist Helinä Hukkataival showed a very sensitive performance
resulting in a beautiful series of personae
From the Netherlands came Bcademie, a post-graduate training for artists (after A you have to say B). Here initiators Alex Jacobs and Daan den Houter talk with their students, of which six were doïng performances durig the fair. One for a Euro!
The students found props in Athens and used those to arrange their space
They proved quite popular, here Elsemarijn Bruijs working on chewing gum
The shift was together with Philippa Driest
Who showed pictures of urban places accompanied by sounds of airplanes
AKA artist run from Saskatchewanm, Canada with sculpture of Svea Ferguson
Super 8 video by Leslie Supnet
and Lori Blondeau who researches diverse persona’s
The Lo and Behold (GR) wants to fertilise the soil in “Bureau of Soil making” by Yiannis Hiridoglou
From Boston (USA) the Museum of Contemporary Cuts with heavy conceptual work with a direct approach
Which works rather good I think
Then an installation of Amiraly from Parking Gallery/New media Society from Iran, a presentation which is well worked out
Cut the Fence, a project of Copa & Sordes: the 657 meter long fence of a Swiss refugee camp is transformed in to the same length of African damask fabric with fence pattern: everybody who cuts a piece of it contributes to the destruction of the fence
Groupshow at SCI (UK) with very nice works, some fresh from the boats coming to Greece
Ed video: always interesting video-stuff, here by Iris Fraser and David Hanes
Foreign Affairs, A beautiful collaboration by Bella Easton, Tiny Dominguez and Julia Riddlough of resp. Beaston projects, Rosa Lux and A Brooks Art
The beauty of statistics, by Tiny Dominguez
In the mean while the Capacity-project of Navine Khan Dossos is a large succes
The refugee-camp is turning in a large field of flowers!
At A-Trans beautiful work on paper by Marian Wijnvoord
Who also burns down the Netherlands in her Photo-collages
The line in Andreas Martí’s installation is lengthening
Bcademy’s students don’t stop performing, here Maud van den Beuken moves sand
from stage to visitor
and Casper Braat plans a make-over for your humble reporter
Various Artists from Belgium, a research in shit which Belgians find interesting in general
Trying to find the pearls which are being digested by test-persons
And also the deterioration of Bonsai-trees under water is a process that results in esthetic pleasures under the name Agua con Gaz
The very big collective EN-FLO (GR) installed suit-cases with fillings
And then there is the very interesting Milena Principle, showing projects that relate to our own activities. Action in public space about silence and slowness.
In Venice
And Athens, we will hear more from them!
Last but certainly not least Kunstenaarsinitiatief Elders from Den Haag (NL), here an expanding painting by Lucius Pax
Painting by Liesbeth Bosch
And surprising ceramics by Corine Barendregt
AUGENTAUSCH, finissage
31 oktober 2015
Kees Koomen: “Darf ich auf Ihre Gedanken mit fahren”
Kees Koomen: “Darf ich auf Ihre Gedanken mit fahren”
Kees Koomen: “Darf ich auf Ihre Gedanken mit fahren”
Kees Koomen: “Darf ich auf Ihre Gedanken mit fahren”
Kees Koomen: “Darf ich auf Ihre Gedanken mit fahren”
Kees Koomen: “Darf ich auf Ihre Gedanken mit fahren”
Kees Koomen: “Darf ich auf Ihre Gedanken mit fahren”
Ellen Rodenberg (i.s.m. Yorgos Dimitriadis – slagwerk)
Ellen Rodenberg (i.s.m. Yorgos Dimitriadis – slagwerk)
Ellen Rodenberg (i.s.m. Yorgos Dimitriadis – slagwerk)
Ellen Rodenberg (i.s.m. Yorgos Dimitriadis – slagwerk)
Ellen Rodenberg (i.s.m. Yorgos Dimitriadis – slagwerk)
Ellen Rodenberg (i.s.m. Yorgos Dimitriadis – slagwerk)
Ellen Rodenberg (i.s.m. Yorgos Dimitriadis – slagwerk)
Yorgos Dimitriadis – slagwerk solo
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