Kunsthuis SYB

We are happy to announce that Anika Ahmed has joined our programming committee.

French artist Laurent David Garnier often works with scents, and evaporating and elusive materials, to create immersive compositions and sculptures. 

What can you do and make in 24 hours?

On the 1st of April, Josje Hattink interviewed Maarten Bel about his stay at Kunsthuis SYB in Februari & March of this year.

SYB’s current resident is Anna Hoetjes (1984, Amsterdam). While SYB is currently closed to the public, we still want to continue to offer artists the opportunity to further develop their work.

Open call for artists living and working in the Netherlands Deadline: 21 March, 11:59pm

Because of the coronavirus we have decided to cancel the last tryout and final show of Maarten Bel at SYB. These shows were scheduled to take place on Friday March 13th and Saturday March 14th. Instead, SYB will be open on Saturday, March 14 between 1pm and 5pm: at SYB, a video recording of the […]

Date: Saturday 14 December Conversation (in Dutch) from 3pm – 5pm dancing till bam

Curator Petra Ponte will be a resident at Kunsthuis SYB until 19 December.

On Sunday November 3, the 8th Sybren Hellinga Art Prize was awarded to visual artist Vytautas Kumža.

With: Kamilė Česnavičiūtė, Denislav Golemanov, Marnix Sixma and Eleni Tsompanidou Opening show & SYB Circles Artist Talk (with ZOMAAR Radio): 8 November, from 5PM Location: Music dome in Sterrebos, Groningen

Kunsthuis SYB is proud to announce a group exhibition at SYB, which will open on October 19. The exhibition features works Caz Egelie, Vytautas Kumža, Alina Lupu, Samuel Otte and Natalia Papaeva. 

With: Yanick Soland, Petter Dahlstroem Persson, Jamie Kane, Daphne Simons, Josie Perry, Berglind Erna Tryggvadottir, Jake Caleb, Annabelle Binnerts, Lukas Messner, Lucia B. Mendoza and Bernd Krauss.

Jasper Coppes has been working at SYB since August this year. At SYB, Jasper has been editing a film he shot in Greenland over the Summer, and is also using the location of Beetsterzwaag to research the Frisian landscape (especially the Wadden).

Jasper Coppes will be in residence from the 5th of August, and he will be presenting his work at SYB on Saturday the 14th of September (during Open Monumentendag). While in Beetsterzwaag, Jasper will be working on a film he shot in Greenland, but he will also be researching the Frisian landscape. In recent work, […]

Kunsthuis SYB is pleased to announce the nominees for the Sybren Hellinga Art Prize 2019. The jury, consisting of Peter van der Es (initiator and director Unfair, Amsterdam), Nathalie Hartjes (director MAMA, Rotterdam), Milena Naef (winner of the 7th Sybren Hellinga Art Prize), and Louwrien Wijers (artist), have nominated the following artists: Caz Egelie, Vytautas […]

We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of Old House Noises (the Sleeper, the Dreamer and the Guard), a publication-in by Ash Kilmartin. Her 6-week residency at SYB will be concluded on the 28th of July, with a reading of her work accompanied by the Groningen Vocal Exploration Choir, and a conversation with Vanessa van ‘t […]

From 22 June, Ash Kilmartin will be a resident at SYB, where she will be working on her project Klokkenstoel (Manuscript Illuminations). In the first weekend of her residency, during the Art Weekend of Beetsterzwaag, she will share an installation that was previously shown in Attent, Rotterdam.

Deadline: Sunday, June 23, 2019 (until 11:59 p.m.)

In May and June, Kunsthuis SYB welcomes Dutch/Irish artist Seán Hannan. He will delve into the controversial 17th diplomat, historian, and publicist Lieuwe van Aitzema, who has been branded a spy and a traitor by many historians.