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.
Foto: uit 'Drach', van Josje Hattink (2017). Haar project werd beschreven in de tekst 'Wie niet weg is wordt gezien' door Alix de Massiac (Schrijversprogramma 2017/2018)
On Friday the 26th of April, SYB is launching SYB Circles, a continuation and expansion of SYB’s Writers Programme. Date: Friday 26 April Time: 2pm – 6pm (+ drinks and snacks) Language: Dutch In SYB Circles, young artists and academics are encouraged to experiment with media other than critical texts to reflect on SYB’s residents […]
image: Jort van der Laan, Neither of Us is Powerless, 2018, video, 8-minute loop, courtesy the artist
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has recently announced that it has acquired a number of artworks from eight contemporary artists. Their works are on view now, in the exhibition Freedom of Movement. Stedelijk Museum also purchased the video work Neither of Us is Powerless by Jort van der Laan, and Kunsthuis SYB is proud to have contributed […]
Hoe is het eigenlijk om te gast te zijn in een residency? En wat kun je doen en maken in 24 uur? In februari en maart nemen een aantal kunstenaars de proef op de som tijdens de 24-uurs residency in Kunsthuis SYB. Met: Radina Kordova en Kamile Cesnaviciute, Marieke Grunnewijk, Sven ten Berge, Jorien Ketelaar en Lola Diaz Cantoni, Laura Bolscher.
Review of A PIECE OF BLUE VELVET HANGING, Ben Cain en Jort van der Laan, 27–28 oktober 2018
Josine Sibum Siderius becomes the new general director of kunsthuis SYB
Maritt op de Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm
Last August, artistic director Maritt S. Kuipers said goodbye to SYB. Maritt had been closely involved with SYB since 2010. After a period of four years as a member of the Programming Committee and interim coordinator, she became SYB’s Artistic Director in October 2014. Maritt was responsible for the development and implementation of our artistic […]
You are invited to join us for our last dinner on Saturday, 15th of December, 2018 at 18:00 at Kunsthuis SYB. We will be in the company of artist Toon Fibbe and art historian/gallerist Fred Wagemans, who will join us in preparing the meal we will share together. While we eat and drink, we will […]
Still from Bob’s Burgers, “An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal,” Season 3 Episode 5, Directed by Tyree Dillihay, Written by Lizzie Molyneux and Wendy Molyneux, 20th Television, November 18, 2012.
You are invited to join us for the second dinner at Kunsthuis SYB on Saturday, 1st of December, 2018 at 18:00. We will be in the company of writer and educator Vivian Sky Rehberg and urban forester Bernd Krauss, who will join us in preparing the meal we will share together. While we eat and drink, […]
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Peasant Wedding, 1567, 114 x 164 cm, Oil on panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
As artists we continuously chew on what has already been digested. We repurpose, augment, regorge and attempt the performance of authenticity. We participate in a collective process of cultural digestion and regurgitation, a cannibalistic cycle of consumption and production. If we participate in this metabolic process, whose life are we sustaining? The production of thought […]
image: Jort van der Laan, Neither of Us is Powerless, 2018, video, 8-minute loop, courtesy the artist
A two-day exhibition by Ben Cain and Jort van der Laan that’s concerned with the changing definitions of, and the porosity between bodies and things. October 27 & 28, 2018 13.00 – 17.00 Ben Cain (UK, 1975) and Jort van der Laan (NL, 1986) were selected for a two-stage residency program organized by the King’s […]
The slowness, the patience, the receptiveness, the stagnation. Certainly not starting positions where you think: it’s gonna happen now! No, silence prevails; we wait in expectation, in limbo. Passivity opens a world that we’d rather not see. We prefer a world of action: achieving goals, making statements. Bam, bam, bam! Why do we actually view passivity as something […]
Eat my words, video still from work in progress, by Rosie Heinrich in collaboration with Katrin Hahner
From outside the SYB house, when looking in through the window, a projection shows hand gestures and a face gesticulating. When entering the space it takes time to decipher the video of Rosie Heinrich (UK) who speaks backwards, on a video that is played forwards. The artists’ facial features are accentuated in their muscular presence, […]
Listen online to the first SYB ON AIR podcast on Zomaar Radio
This autumn, Kunsthuis SYB presents the second edition of the triennial festival of visual arts: the Triennial of Beetsterzwaag. During the four days of the festival you may choose between viewing art, or live performances, participating in activities, listening to seminars, meeting artists, or just meandering through our historic locations while enjoying fantastic food and […]
It is hard to imagine a greater contrast than between the bustling metropolis of London and the quiet and quaint Frisian village of Beetsterzwaag. In 2017, Kunsthuis SYB began its first collaboration with King’s College in London, one of the oldest universities in the United Kingdom. It presented a unique opportunity for the participating artists […]
We construct our reality by telling stories. And when faced with something that is inconsistent with our story, we most often find ways to reframe it, construe it to our convenience, or dismiss it. ‘Alternative facts,’ so to speak. But sometimes events take place that differ so profoundly from what we have told ourselves that our […]
