Visual artists Noa Giniger and musician Anat Spiegel (aka. Noon & Ain) create poems from cutouts of their own Gmail chats and WhatsApp correspondence; functional communication turns into pure poetry. In their texts, video works and audio recordings the duo explores different feminine and existential topics through a personal, friendship- based dialogue. Noon & Ain originated in Kunsthuis […]
CROSS SECTION OF A LANDSCAPE #2 – Yeb Wiersma & Miek Zwamborn Dressed in shorts we lift our legs, clay sticking to our feet, from the soles up to the calves. I cannot hear anyone talking, the wind on the mudflats has free rein and sweeps into all ears. Never before have I seen such […]
WALK II: No Solid Ground.. Am I the walker, the path and the landscape combined? Infected by their fascination for walking Miek Zwamborn (author and poet) and Yeb Wiersma (visual artist) roam along the coastal salt marshes of Ferwert, Friesland. Along their way the guides will make various interventions by displaying and reading from their […]
Old Man [the sun] showed them the roots and the berries, and showed how to gather these, and certain times of the year they should peel the bark of some trees and eat it… (Grinell, G.B. 1913. Blackfeet Indian stories. C. Scribner’s Sons, New York.) For centuries, the inner bark of pine trees was an […]
4th May 2015, a sunny spring day. The Netherlands commemorates the Second World War, and in Kunsthuis SYB Pieter Paul Pothoven presents the budding start to the ‘lengthy writing project’ – he refrains from calling it a novel – that he’s been working on these last few weeks. Bathing in the last rays of sunshine […]
Kunsthuis SYB will be represented at the independent art fair SUPERMARKET in Stockholm. Supermarket is an international artist-run art fair for artist-run galleries and other artists’ initiatives. The goal of SUPERMARKET, is to provide a showcase for artists’ initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish as […]
Orchidee uit de kas van Wim Kool. Wageningen. September 1981, Fotoarchief Familie Kool
Think of the resistance in the Second World War. How many of the images that now spring to mind come from a Dutch film or from an exhibition you once saw in one of the 25 national war and resistance museums? An entire generation has grown up with images of the war and the resistance that have been […]
Opening: Friday the 13th of March, 20:00h. Exhibition: 14-22 March 13:00-17:00h. During the Kuhntradictions project, a co-operation with Academie Minerva, Groningen. Kunsthuis SYB will function as a laboratory for thought experiments and strategies on how abstract conceptual material can be a point of departure for the production of art works. Imagine you place a cat […]
SYB has a new graphic designer. We would like to introduce him: Maarten van Maanen (Leiden, 1975) lives and works in Amsterdam. He received his BA in Audiovisual Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (1999) and studied type design and typography at the Royal Institute of Art in The Hague (2001-2002). Maarten […]
There is much to say about the project WHEN SPECTATORS WORK, WORKERS OBSERVE… We let the curators and artists speak for themselves in two interviews, both in English). For the conversation they had with Angela Serino, curator and former member of SYB’s Programming Committee, click here for the one by Vincent van Velsen, former writer in SYB’s Writer’s Programme, and new […]
You might also be interested in the interview by Angela Serino The curators and the artists showed an overview of the research process that they developed during their stay at the residency. Apparent were traces of individual reflections as well as of the collaborative work with the guests and the audience, next to diagrams on […]
In this attempt to analyze what it is that we mean when we talk of artistic production and its relation to the condition of being in a residency, the new ‘temporary’ collective looked back at the previous use of SYB house as a candy factory and used this information as a starting point of their investigation.
We started 2015 with a partly renewed Programming Committee. The old committee recently saw three seats vacated: Maritt Kuipers to our delight became SYB’s new artistic director in October and Arjen de Leeuw and Angela Serino left SYB in December. Starting 2015, current members Noor Nuyten and Timmy van Zoelen will be joined by the […]
Saturday 20th December at 3 pm the final presentation of the six weeks long residency project When spectators work, workers observe – The beginning is the last part to be created will take place at Kunsthuis SYB. The curators and the artists will show an overview of the research process developed through the setting up of […]
IN COLLABORATION WITH MARCEL DICKHAGE AND CATHLEEN SCHUSTER FINAL PRESENTATION: DECEMBER 20th The cinema museum in Lyon is housed in the Lumière brothers’ old film factory; DIA: Beacon in New York resides in a building where biscuit tin labels used to be printed; WIELS is situated in a former brewery in Brussels; and Kunsthuis […]
What happens when you bring together two artists who deal with the interface between art and life? During their residency, Rumiko Hagiware and Mounira al Solh investigated the contemporary meaning of laziness. They studied texts on this subject, searched for ways to be lazy, and spoke with many people about the subject. They filmed the […]
FINAL PRESENTATION: Saturday 8 November, 2 to 5 PM A presentation of all the materials collected so far, text, images and film footage. With foods and drinks and some tools to be in a lazy state all together. “Six days you shall labour, and do all your work.” That’s how it’s written in the ten […]
Each plant has its own sound. A leaf tears apart and rustles between your fingers: the soft cracking of its veins, alternated by the laceration of its fleshy cellulose, produces a characteristic, almost pleasant sound. The mutilation of plants comes natural to us. It is part of a process of construction through destruction that lies […]
A jungle is a tropical wilderness according to the Van Dale’s Great Dictionary of the Dutch Language. However, a jungle can also refer to a complex entity of rules and connections dominated by the law of the fittest, as in an ‘urban jungle’. There is no word for jungle in Frisian; a tropical wilderness in […]
Jelena Andjelovski and Paula Müller met in December 2013 in Zagreb. The two artists were invited to interact in the frame of a workshop for Pogon Jedinstvo, together with other artists from Serbia, Croatia and Germany. They discovered their shared interest for the message that lies between language and image and decided to work together. […]
