Events
Chromatography Workshop
In this workshop by artist and educator Nicoline Goris, you will work with chromatography, a chemical method in which various colored patterns reflect the condition of the soil. This technique is derived from Elena Khurtova’s artistic practice, where soil plays a central role both as a material and subject. You can use soil you bring yourself, or soil types that are used in the exhibition Soil Works. (fully booked).
Soil Seminar
To conclude the exhibition by Elena Khurtova, we are organising a SOIL SEMINAR with two expert guests: Jan Mark Oosterhuis and Joop Okx. They will engage in a dialogue with artist Elena Khurtova, moderated by Edward Clydesdale Thomson.
Joop Okx is an experienced physical geographer. His work focused on soils. In addition, he has also taken significant steps toward the visual arts. Art and science are often seen as separate domains. Yet there is a rich overlap between the two, and they share many connections that call for exploration. In recent years, Joop has explored the connections between soil and art. This has, among other things, resulted in a series of articles about artists who connect their work to the soil.
Jan Mark Oosterhuis is a director of the family-owned Oosterhuis b.v., which operates as an agricultural and a civil engineering contractor, and a transshipment company. He leads Op- en Overslag Meppel b.v., including its soil bank (grondbank), which focuses on the collection, quality control, and distribution of soil and related materials. The Soil Works exhibition was developed in collaboration with this organization, which kindly provided the soils for the project.
At the end of the event, we invite the audience to take the soil with them — to place at their gardens, to be shaped by hand, or to acquire a new meaning.
Commercial Galleries
We kindly invite you for the first event of the year, our Professional Development Series focused on commercial galleries, with guest speakers from GRIMM GALLERY (Amsterdam), DIEZ GALLERY and ALTHUIS HOFLAND FINE ART (Amsterdam). This event, free of charge, is for art professionals, collector and art lovers that want to learn about the way galleries operate, what services they provide, their different visions and areas of focus, and what is their advice for artists wanting to enter the commercial market. Initially planned to take place 10 January, this event has been moved to 24 January to the winter weather conditions.
Drenthe Contemporary Award
Soil Works is a site-specific project by artist Elena Khurtova, unanimously chosen by the jury as the winner of the inaugural Drenthe Contemporary Art Prize, developed in collaboration withgrondbank, Meppel. This project is a part of the artist’s long term engagement into relationships between humans and soil.
Fanfare 2025
preview of the film FANFARE 2025, by Priscila Fernandes. Free entrance. Reservation needed. BOOK HERE.
Project Art Spaces
An event dedicated to Project Arts Spaces, with presentations by director Josien Pieterse from Framer Framed, artistic director Madelon van Schie from Rozenstraaat - a rose is a rose is a rose, artistic director Isabelle Sully from The Tale of the Tub, artistic director Regina Broersma from Campis,
Helia Rafie
Final presentation of artistic trajectory of Helia Rafie at Kunstwerk Kolderveen. More details to follow.
Biennials and Triennials
In collaboration with Kuunst.Nu and K&C, Kunstwerk Kolderveen is hosting an event for art professionals about biennials and triennials by bringing 5 case studies: the international editions of Sonsbeek in Arnhem, Into Nature in Drenthe, São Paulo Biennial in Brazil, Façade in Middelbeugh, Paper and Textile Biennial of Rijswijk Museum. This is an opportunity to learn how these exhibitions work, from the perspective of the director, curator and artist. Guests include: Julia Geerlings, Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg, Hilde de Bruijn, Priscila Fernandes and Edward Clydesdale Thomson.
Lecture Tuomas A. Laitinen
Lecture talk by our current artist in residency Tuomas A. Laitinen. Lecture is in English and free entrance. reservation needed.
Tuomas A. Laitinen is an artist who works with moving image, sound, light, glass, chemical and microbial processes, as well as algorithms to explore the entanglements of multi species coexistence. Laitinen composes situations and installations that inquire into the porous interconnectedness of language, body, and matter within morphing ecosystems. In recent years, Laitinen has been working with questions of ecology, the notion of the extended mind, and processes of knowledge production. The works are often made with translucent and transparent materials.
Laitinen´s works have been recently shown in the 21st Biennale of Sydney, 7th Bucharest Biennale, Screen City Biennale 2019 (Stavanger), SADE LA (Los Angeles), Amado Art Space (Seoul), Moving Image New York, A Tale of a Tub (Rotterdam), Art Sonje Center (Seoul), Helsinki Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, MOCA Shanghai & Cinemateca do MAM Rio de Janeiro.
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Free entrance. English language.
Mnemosyne
MNEMOSYNE - Final presentation by Nuria González Alcaide
Memory, in Aristotle's opinion, “is what has already happened. Memory is neither a sensation nor a judgment, but a state or affection when time has passed in one of them”. It is as if the senses left an imprint on the soul, and the memory is responsible for evoking them, once the sensation has passed.
Mnemosyne is a project that dissects and reassembles the shades of Nuria’s memory, where she relives and interprets them into objective sensations in which color is all that is left. Memories are deconstructed into transparent brushstrokes, filled with vibrancy and life, reflecting the essence of different locations. By isolating and reinterpreting these color palettes, the project seeks to create a unique dialogue between place and memory.
Each installation is a journey into Nuria's inner world, inviting viewers to experience the interplay between memory, color, and space. The works are not just representations of external environments but are also deeply introspective, revealing the layers of personal history and emotional landscapes that shape her own perception of the world.
Meet & Greet
Meet & Greet our new artist in residency - Nuria González Alcaide during an informal BBQ at Kunstwerk Kolderveen. Send us an email if interested to join!
Encaustic Painting Workshop
Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is made of heated bees wax mixed with pigments and resin, applied to paper, canvas or wood. Since the medium is thermally malleable, it can be sculpted, heated and melted. Artists often use spatulas, knives, brushes, torches, heat guns or heating tables when painting.
In this workshop we will learn how to work with encaustic on a heating table, this will allow us to have a very fluid, transparent and vibrant paint which we apply on sheets of paper.
The workshop takes 3 hours. No need to have previous knowledge of the medium. You can take the paintings you made home. Bring working clothes.
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Open Call Artist in Residency
OPEN CALL for two month art residency at Kunstwerk Kolderveen, from 1st July till 31st August 2024. (CLOSED)
FLOATING
FLOATING was an exhibition with Loes Heebink, Priscila Fernandes, Bouke Groen, Rory Pilgrim, Anne Fie Salverda, Gejan Stol, and Edward Clydesdale Thomson. Kindly supported by Provincie Drenthe, Het Burgerweeshuis and Gemeente Meppel.