Memory is not static, but is formed over and over again, according to the Finnish/Irish artist Deirdre M. Donoghue (1971). By expressing memories and sharing them with others they take a new shape. In A Certain Capacity for Occupying Space Donoghue works with memories of works of art, and tries to make these visible. Donoghue […]
The American performance- and video artist Nina Yuen will enter the new decade in Beetsterzwaag through a thorough analysis of the morning ritual. First, Yuen observes the morning habits of friends and strangers in great detail, such as waking, brushing teeth, stretching and breakfast. Then she attempts to reenact these actions in her own decors, […]
The “smartlap’’ (sing along song) is a message of hope, desire, unrequited love and loss, packaged in a universal language that everyone understands. The meaningless emptiness, as a result of this universal language, is often accompanied by a beautiful landscape, folklore, flapping flags, a person stood in front of a backdrop facing the camera, a […]
The Polish artist Mariusz Tarkawian always carries pen and paper. He notes down life around him in an endless stream of intricate little sketches called Peeped Drawings. During conversations with friends and appointments with gallery owners he sketches away relentlessly, also recording fragments of dialogues. His report in drawing, reads as a succession of awkward […]
In ongoing pursuit of young talent SYB goes to the extreme. A younger art duo than this one is hard to come by, a much better one, as it goes, as well, because these two represent the absolute top. In the summer weeks Herman Knottnerus en Pikachu will reside in SYB. A collaboration that started […]
These coming weeks the visual artist and story teller Abner Preis will be working on a new video work titled BEAR MAN AND ALICE. The American, also known for his impassioned work drive uses both miniature as well as life size characters and backdrops together with drawings and special made objects, some of which are […]
As a seesaw, roundabout, slide and swing choreograph children’s movements, parents sit still on surrounding benches. This is how the South Korean composer and visual artist, Hee-Seung Choi (Seoul, 1976) remembers the defined space of the playground. At a young age Choi emigrated to the United States and learnt, early on in life, how to […]
The Japanese artist Masashi Echigo will take up residency in Beetsterzwaag over the coming weeks. Echigo changes the perception in the spaces he embarks on with his large sculptural installations. In his work he departs from the differences found in Japanese and Western approach toward Space and Echigo’s own experience of western construction. Echigo is […]
Nina Wijnmaalen has played in short films for many years making fun, in a lovable way of her everyday obnoxious fellow man. She detests man’s bad traits and magnifies them with her ‘characters’. Simultaneously she is aware that she is making a self-portrait. With her photographs Wijnmaalen is searching for the representation of a very […]
During the project WAITING ROOM by Maja Bekan visitors are denied access to Kunsthuis SYB, however, through the display window a space is visible. The sound from speakers on the sidewalk draws the attention of the coincidental passerby to this space and to what is taking place inside. Unlike an ordinary waiting room this one […]
The aim of the project is to explore the influence of physical distance on out perception of virtual space-time and digital image. Using simple principles such as reflections, replications, camera tracking, delay and reverberation the artists will turn the gallery space of Kunsthuis SYB into an organism responsive to the presence of observers. The observer […]
