For the project Quietly my Broadcast, artist Ruth Legg has used a residency at Kunsthuis SYB to take a closer look at the Frisian broadcasting corporation Omrop Fryslân. The material collected by Legg has provided inspiration for a third and final video piece, which together with the other works in the series will be shown […]
The project ‘Nocation: Hello to the People’ has been a co-operation with the Piet Zwart Institute, Master of Fine Art Program, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam. For six weeks Kunsthuis SYB has functioned as a laboratory for education and active reflection. The location and the area often function as preconditions for artists to develop and […]
During the Nocation project, a co-operation with the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, Kunsthuis SYB will function as a laboratory for education and active reflection. By exploring the parameters of the phenomenon artist-in-residence as a starting-point, students divided in groups will reside in SYB. The location and the area often function as preconditions for artists to […]
translation: Pieter de Bruyn Kops ‘De Stille Revolutie’ (The Silent Revolution) by Rory Pilgrim (Great Britain, 1988) begins in Beetsterzwaag. In the windows of Kunsthuis SYB posters hang with slogans carrying an evangelical under tone. One poster reads – “My House is Your House, Come Inside, You’re Welcome”. Passersby are provoked to come inside and […]
Until the 17th of May the British artist Rory Pilgrim will be in residence at Kunsthuis SYB. Central to Pilgrim’s practice is questioning the role of cultural, social and global ownership and responsibility. Investigating a concern of ‘glocality’, between global and local structures, Pilgrim explores the forms in which we profess what we believe in, […]
translation: Pieter de Bruyn Kops ‘The landscape painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure. I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in.’ – Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862). ‘Walking’ is Thoreau’s glorification […]
In the project ‘Une condition naturelle’, Arjen de Leeuw and Walter van Broekhuizen come into the possession of the wilderness. In their work, both artists are enthralled by the role of nature in the everyday city life. The city, that with its bricked houses and citizenship has overgrown nature since the nineteenth century, is central […]
translation: Pieter de Bruyn Kops “Exaggerated friendship Adventure How men tell it Heroin Survive, energy, swap Tested to its very limits Fill your volume with air Further” The weblog of the Israeli, Noa Giniger (1977), is filled with a seemingly random selection of words, pictures, film clips and videos. Only the titles of the material […]
In SYB, Noa Giniger turns the intimate creative process inside out and opens her studio doors. During her residency, she will invite six artist friends to each share with her a week in her ‘Zimmer’, or holiday home. With this Giniger bridges the physical distance that normally separates them. The artists have slowly become part […]
If your visual field would actually be a kind of space, then what would this space look like? Mathilde van Beekhuizen will create different kinds of spaces for the visual field in the display window of SYB in the coming weeks; miniatures consisting of walls and a ceiling. The viewer can view every space, just […]
Jetske Verhoeven (Nijmegen, 1980) was awarded for the fifth Sybren Hellinga Kunstprijs. Especially her film “J’attends la guerre” (waiting for the war) was well-received by the jury, and “has a great personal and strong presence and ingenuity, also in the use of languages. Through this, she creates a productive tension between what is being made […]
On October 23rd, 2010, Kunsthuis SYB celebrates its 10th anniversary with a symposium and a party. The symposium ‘Our House in the Middle of the Street’ concentrates on subjects that were brought up by the diverse projects that took place in SYB since the start of the residency, formulated along the lines of the various […]
The Object Lag, Cross-Reference looks into the practice of writing and use of theory as an integral part of work by artists and designers. Cross-Reference aims to explore potential ‘readings’ of essays, texts and approaches in writing by experimenting with possible forms of presentation, that aim to stretch further than a linear reading of text […]
Together with inhabitants of Beetsterzwaag, Laurence Aëgerter and Ronald van Tienhoven work on a reconstruction of a series of photos from the fifties of the French cultural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in the next few weeks. The photos appeared as a supplement of the book Tristes Tropiques (1955), by Susan Sontag considered as one of the […]
Usually, Erica van Loon works in her studio on artificial landscapes in set-like constructions. She alternates building, painting and photographing, using wooden constructions and transparent plastic, whether painted or not. The alienating new landscape that comes into existence in this way is often shown by Van Loon as pictures in light boxes. Recently, Van […]
5th Sybren Hellinga Art Prize 2010 Call to visual artists who graduated in May 2005 or later DEADLINE ENTRY Tuesday 13 July 2010 For the fifth time the Sybren Hellinga Stichting distributes her incentive prize for young artists. Artists who are residential in The Netherlands and who have graduated from an undergraduate art degree after […]
Visual artists Sybren Renema and Timmy van Zoelen will establish the The New Frisian Museum in SYB during the summer weeks: a mark of honour to the solitary individual in the cultural inheritance. According to the artists, collections in small regional museums, such as the Ruurd Wiersma Hûs and the catacombs in Wieuwerd, often appeal […]
“The unknown artist, his bad taste and the way he moves his famous body” Kunsthuis SYB invited Nina Wijnmaalen as a representative at De Kunstvlaai. The eighth Kunstvlaai will take place in and around the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, where 70 art stages, a great amount of master’s programmes and about 400 artists will present themselves. […]
Students and ex-students of the Sandberg Instituut will establish a fictitious colony of artists in Kunsthuis SYB the upcoming weeks. Every week, a new group of artists will design the colony. The first group will define the way the colony has come into existence: does the group come into existence in the past, the present […]
Lieke Snellen is interested in the environment built around us and in the way the human body navigates by this architecture and these objects. In Kunsthuis SYB, Lieke Snellen will reduce the architecture and the direct environment of the building to base shapes. She makes these shapes of materials from the builder’s merchant’s, such as […]
