Kunstruimte I Artspace in Amsterdam
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Tentoonstelling I Exhibition 

Fountains without water

When energy forces to break the bonds that hold water molecules together, water evaporates. Water has dried up to leave room for imagination and playfulness, and what is left over are traces of water from the dried-out river in summer, bits of a cold iceberg in Antarctica, or the salty tears on our cheeks. 

Our fountains that once held water, have now relinquished it, allowing other substances to meander through their channels: wine, metal, salt, or even popcorn.

We present a group presentation where multiple artists will explore the idea of a waterless fountain. The show will consist of a series of sculptures and paintings that explore this theme. By disrupting the symbol of the fountain, we make space for something else, to explore different narratives. 

In this exhibition, we use the symbolism of fountains as a way to celebrate change, collaboration, and untried systems. The show is an invitation to imagine new stories together, by presenting different fountains, with everything but water, scattered in the space.

Á. Birna Björnsdóttir

Milena Anna Bouma

Janina Fritz

Ayesha Ghaoul

Elena Giolo

Juan Sebastian Guerrero

Laura Canha Malpique

Peer Vink

Opening: Saturday 2 September 19:00

Only 1 week open!

Wednesday 6 until Saturday 9 September 13:00-18:00

- Poster by Kristiāna Marija Sproģe - 

De Apotheek Tolhuis

Buiksloterweg 7A 

1031 CC Amsterdam Noord

(achterzijde gebouw/backside building)

 

www.deapotheek.org 

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  Tentoonstelling I Exhibition 

Atemporal Hiccup

Bin Koh
Emmett James Palaima
Shani Leseman
Sungeun Lee
Jochem van den Wijngaard


Opening: Saturday 8 July 19:00

Open until 29 july

Fridays & Saturdays 14:00-19:00 

The hiccup is a harmless malfunction, a gentle reminder that the procedures running
throughout our body are prone to error, wherein it’s usual functioning is interrupted (it is difficult to do anything when you have hiccups other than try to get rid of them). Being trapped in a fit of hiccups brings to the surface biological temporalities within our bodies (the breath, the heartbeat, the circadian rhythm) and freezes us in a time determined by them. The same goes for when we forget something important or say something unintentionally, the infamous Freudian slip. A spanner is thrown into the works of a machine that usually ticks along smoothly. Just as with a hiccup, a temporality emerges in the slip, a delay occurs due to our conscious intention being interrupted by another process at work (the unconscious). This delay may be short, shaving only a few seconds off from our intentions—in which case we just laugh off the slip and proceed to say the intended word—or we may ruminate upon it for the rest of our lives (e.g. spending hours and hours on the psychoanalyst’s couch wondering why it is one often says the word magnet instead of mother). In either case, the ‘error’ always gives us pause, an interruption that prompts reflection. 

The human is dependent upon and made up of a complex of biological and psychological processes that are error-prone, ranging from a harmless slip of the tongue to full psychotic breakdown. Whilst this capacity for malfunction may cause suffering, it is also what marks subjectivity. The incomplete structure of language that is particular to human culture is in many ways an inefficient and leaky system. Whilst the linguistic signs we depend upon facilitate communication amongst us, they also allow for misinterpretation (for example a word may conjure up an entirely different set of connotations for me than it does for you, stirring up completely different emotions). Despite this inefficiency that makes us error-prone, it is also what enables our capacity for reflection at all; interruption and reflection can not be separated.

The threat of artificial intelligence replacing humans or turning upon us emerges from an ideology--one which has been around for much longer than ChatGPT—which makes an equivalence between efficiency, speed and thought. Whilst the idea of an ‘efficient’ society running on pure, objective communication may have some appeal (wherein what one says cannot be misunderstood and in which we never say something embarrassing accidentally) it would also be no society at all; signals would replace signs and reflex would replace reflection.

Atemporal Hiccup stays with the interruption. Through a series of interventions, the
participating artists ask the audience to do the same. To pause, reflect and look afresh at the machines running in the background of our lives to the other side; where there is a pause or a slip, where there is a delay. In doing so, Atemporal Hiccup asks us to grasp these moments not as a failure but as a site for meaning and novelty, a space in which misunderstandings may occur alongside shared projects of imagination.

Text by Nick Reilly

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Poster by Kristiāna Marija Sproģe & Valters Kalsers

De Apotheek 

Buiksloterweg 7A 

1031 CC Amsterdam Noord

(achterzijde gebouw/backside building)

 

www.deapotheek.org 

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 Tentoonstelling I Exhibition 

SUGAR

In for a treat? SUGAR, the collaborative exhibition by Attila Buonsenso, Kyra Nijskens and Victor Crepsley, is taking De Apotheek by storm. It's a feast for the senses that'll have you questioning whether you're living in a saccharine dream or neon nightmare. 

This exhibition is a delightful mix of plastic souvenirs, immortal butterflies and hypnotic rainbow-colored collages that come together to create a realm that is both sweet and unsettling. 

As you wander trough the exhibition, you'll be transported to a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Abandoned flowers glitter in the light, but as you get closer, you notice that they are not quite real. They may look like they've been plucked from a candy-colored garden, but their sharp edges and artificial shine hint at something more sinister lurking just beneath the surface. These objects are remnants of a once-vibrant society that has become obsessed with the pursuit of fleeting pleasures.

And the butterflies? They are beautiful, sure, but there's something eerie about the way they seem to hover in midair. It's almost as if they're frozen in time, trapped in a moment that is both stunning and haunted. You can't help but wonder what kind of magic was used to make them immortal and what kind of price had to be paid for that kind of power. 

But perhaps the most dazzling aspect of the exhibition are the hypnotic collages. You'll find yourself getting lost in their kaleidoscopic patterns and vibrant hue's. It's like being sucked into a vortex of candy-coated chaos and you can't help but feel both thrilled and terrified by the experience. 

SUGAR promises a sensory overload that will satisfy even the most insatiable of appetites, leaving a bittersweet aftertaste.

Attila Buonsenso

Kyra Nijskens

Victor Crepsley

Opening: Friday 26 May 19:00

Open: until 17 June

Fridays & Saturdays 14:00-19:00

and by appointment

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Poster by Kristiāna Marija Sproģe

De Apotheek 

Buiksloterweg 7A 

1031 CC Amsterdam Noord

(achterzijde gebouw/backside building)

 

www.deapotheek.org 

Instagram:

@kunstplatform_de_apotheek

 

Tentoonstelling I Exhibition 

Poster by Kristiāna Marija Sproģe

Sediments of Sentiments

De tentoonstelling Sediments of Sentiments is ontstaan als een golf van materialen en ideeën die in de ruimte van De Apotheek aanspoelt en op een zeker moment is gestold. Vertrouwend op handen en ogen, al doende denkend, hebben Aquil Copier, Barbara Rink en Esmee Seebregts verkend wat verf, pigmenten, kleur, tijd, materialiteit, immaterialiteit en ervaring met elkaar te maken hebben. Het resultaat is een totaalinstallatie waarin de grenzen van de afzonderlijke werken wegvallen. Golvend papier, beschilderd paneel en doek en videoprojecties hopen zich op tot gelaagde sedimentgesteentes. De tentoonstelling kan gezien worden als een schilderkunstig landschap waar de toeschouwer door heen kan flaneren en die de lichamelijkheid en zintuiglijke ervaring aanspreekt en activeert.

'Sediments of Sentiments' is coming into being through a wave of materials and ideas, that washes ashore, and solidifies, into the space of De Apotheek. Trusting hands and eyes, Aquil Copier, Barbara Rink and Esmee Seebregts, explore what paint, pigments, colour, time, materiality, immateriality and experience have in common. The result is a gesamt-installation in which the distinction between their separate works dissolves. Cut-out paper, painted canvas and panels and video projections are accumulating as sedimentary layers of earth.The exhibition can be seen as a painterly landscape through which the viewer can stroll, one that activates an experience of the senses.

Aquil Copier

Barbara Rink

Esmee Seebregts

Opening: Saturday 4 March 19:00

Open: until 25 March

Fridays & Saturdays 14:00-19:00

De Apotheek Tolhuis

Buiksloterweg 7A 

1031 CC Amsterdam Noord

(achterzijde gebouw/backside building)

 

www.deapotheek.org 

Instagram:

@kunstplatform_de_apotheek

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Poster by Kristiāna Marija Sproģe

TWISTER

 

Twisters "raison d'etre" is showing of elaborate special effects that create 

the experience of being near and even in a tornado.  
A tornado isn't an easy phenomenon to build a plot around, they can't be predicted more than 3 minutes in advance. So it's partly forgivable that the artists haven't got a linear story but rather showcase a fluid piece of mess. So, when shit hits the fan do they mop it up or simply enjoy the momentum of adding a bit of confetti to it? Just when the bartender is about to answer 

this silly question, one of the guests orders a twister on the rocks. 

Eventually, someone will collapse and drop to the ground, but you'll have a great time experiencing it. In the end, we all get sucked into a twister and come out as a new person. 

  

 

Arash Fakhim

Frederique Jonker

Marcel van den Berg

Mike Moonen

Sander van Noort

 

  

  

Opening: Saturday 28 January 19:00

Open: until 18 February

Fridays & Saturdays 14:00-19:00

 

  

De Apotheek 

Tolhuis, Buiksloterweg 7A

1031 CC Amsterdam Noord

(achterzijde gebouw / backside building)

www.deapotheek.org

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@kunstplatform_de_apotheek

 

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Bonfire of Rhythms

 

Pim Blokker

Sarah Verbeek

Marjolijn de Wit

Maaike Schoorel

Thijs Rhijnsburger

Benjamin Roth

 

 

Opening: Friday 25 November 19:00

 

Open: from Thursday 1 until Saturday 24 December

Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 14:00-18:00

  

 

Poster by Kristiāna Marija Sproģe

  

 

De Apotheek Tolhuis

Buiksloterweg 7A

1031 CC Amsterdam Noord

(achterzijde gebouw/backside building)

www.deapotheek.org

Photo's on Instagram:

@kunstplatform_de_apotheek

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Poster by Kristiāna Marija Sproģe

Sharing your pulse

 

Kevin Bauer

Lily de Bont

Erik de Bree

Geertje van de Kamp

Maaike Kramer

Harry Markusse

 

 

Opening: Saturday 10 September 19:00

Open: until 1 October

Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 14:00-18:00

 

Kevin Bauer

In de Fragmentism serie van Bauer komen delen uit zijn fotoarchief en andere media samen in een serie wandpanelen. In deze assemblages brengt hij een veelheid aan fragmenten tot leven. De panelen zelf, die als achtergrond dienen, zijn opgedeeld in afzonderlijke delen die hellen en scharnieren. De assemblages zijn een samenspel van gereproduceerde gebruiksvoorwerpen die zijn opgebouwd uit verschillende materialen gepaard met commerciële beeldtaal, abstracte vormen en verleidelijke kleuren. Imitatie en maakbaarheid zijn belangrijke waarden in het werk van Kevin Bauer, die zich bewust is van de door de mens vormgegeven wereld waarin we ons dagelijks bewegen.

 

Lily de Bont

De Bont maakt in de ruimte hangende schilderijen. Het onderscheid tussen de voor- en achterzijde wordt opgeheven. Schoonheid en destructie gaan hand in hand. Lily de Bont verstoort de binding van het linnen door het kapot te snijden en uit elkaar te halen. Het werk komt deels in handen van de zwaartekracht, die zichtbaar zijn rol opeist. De abstracte minimalistische geschilderde vormen houden het linnen bij elkaar en hebben naast de beeldende ook een constructieve functie gekregen. Een taak die voorheen door de spielatten werd gedaan. Het werk is zowel extreem plat als uiterst ruimtelijk. Ver weg en tevens onverwacht dichtbij van wat we doorgaans van een schilderij verwachten.

 

Erik de Bree

Bij het het ontstaansproces van de werken van De Bree draait het net zoveel over afbreken als over opbouwen. In al zijn series, waarvan bij bepaalde werken behang het hoofdbestanddeel is en bij anderen acrylverf, ontstaat het uiteindelijke beeld altijd door een lang proces van materiaal aanbrengen en deze vervolgens weer gedeeltelijk te verwijderen. Aangezien zijn processen nooit voor de volledige 100% stuurbaar zijn creeërt hij als het ware een werkwijze waarin veel ruimte is voor toevalligheid en onverwachte wendingen. Het onderzoek ‘an sich’ speelt dan ook een grote rol in het werk van Erik de Bree.

 

Geertje van de Kamp

Van de Kamp is gefascineerd door gevouwen papier: van muizentrappetjes tot origami. Toch komt er geen papier te pas aan haar intrigerende kunstwerken, die bestaan uit twee (gedeeltelijk) beschilderde glasplaten. De schildering klapt als het ware over van de voorste op de achterste plaat; het vouwwerk wordt daarbij door je ogen en hersenen verricht. Met behulp van schaduwen, licht en reflecties laat Geertje van de Kamp zien hoe betrekkelijk het verschil is tussen ruimtelijkheid en platheid, en tussen abstractie en figuratie.

 

Maaike Kramer

De monumentale beeldtaal van Kramer uit zich in de materiaalkeuze: beton, zeil, en metaal. Door de vermenging met potloodtekeningen, papier, houtjes worden constructies gecreëerd die naast monumentaliteit ook twijfel en overdenking in zich dragen. Maaike Kramer onderzoekt hoe tijdsinvestering meerwaarde geeft. Het resultaat zijn trompe-l’oeilwerken. Als je dichterbij komt ervaar je niet alleen de monumentaliteit, maar zie je het handschrift en de overwegingen in het proces van maken.

 

Harry Markusse

De abstracte en fundamenteel minimalistische schilderkunst van Markusse draait rond kleur, vorm en beweging. Tijdens het intuïtieve werkproces ontstaan uitdagingen en keuzes die schilderkunstige oplossingen vereisen. Het werk uit zich dan ook in verschillende series en treedt buiten het kader van het traditionele schilderdoek. Harry Markusse ziet geen begrenzing in zijn schilderspraktijk. Muurschilderingen worden gecombineerd met bestaande schilderijen, zelfs met andere disciplines als grafiek.

 

 

De Apotheek Tolhuis

Buiksloterweg 7A

1031 CC Amsterdam Noord

(achterzijde gebouw/backside building)

www.deapotheek.org

Photo's on Instagram:

@kunstplatform_de_apotheek

 

 

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Poster by Kristiāna Marija Sproģe

 

 

 Counterpoint

In everyday life, each of us perceives and experiences our environment and society differently. In the repetition of our daily rituals – getting up, eating breakfast, brushing our teeth, getting to work – we may find moments of curiosity. Our eye might be caught by an architectural detail or material finish, or a particular aspect of a social phenomenon might stand out to us. These poetic discoveries create a degree of plurality to the mundane; another layer to everyday life. They allow us to define a space of our own within the constraints of a pre-existing system. They give us a counterpoint.

We exhibit our separate practices of observation and interests together in the space of De Apotheek. We see the exhibition space as a playground: we collaborate to create a group show through spatial experimentation. How do the artworks merge, relate and reflect on each other? Our shared interest is experiencing and experimenting with space through sculptures, installations and video-works. How can we perceive this curious and uncommon space with art pieces? Counterpoint presents the results of our curiosity with a combination of our pieces.

Brian D Mckenna, Jing He, Juri Suzuki, Marijn Roos Lindgreen, Mio Fujimaki, Sae Honda, Qiaochu Guo, Vincent Knopper

Opening: Saturday 11 June 19:00

Open: until 2 July

Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 14:00-18:00

 

Brian D. McKenna (CA) was born in Ottawa in 1975, some 2 hours and 20 minutes before the earth-orbit docking of Apollo and Soyuz. He grew up in the former European Union countries of Scotland and England before settling in Western Canada in the mid-1980’s. He received a multidisciplinary BFA in visual-art and music from the University of Lethbridge and an MFA in visual-art from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Since 2002 he lives and works in Amsterdam as an independent audiovisual artist and his work is presented internationally. McKenna works part-time as an instructor and researcher of media-technology at the Sandberg Institute and more recently is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam.

http://www.recordingmedium.com/   -   https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2021/films/unearth-%E2%80%93-in-between-states-of-matter

Jing He (CN) holds a Master degree from Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), a Bachelor degree from Gerrit Rietveld Academie(NL) . Jing He’s interest in culture, politics and the history behind various daily objects, leads to imaginative visual representations involving various materials and mediums.  www.he-jing.com

Juri Suzuki (JP) came to the Netherlands in 2008. She holds the Master of interior architecture of the Sandberg Instituut and BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, BEng Architecture from Tokyo University of Science. Her works are mostly related to space, local, global materials, and political issues. She writes her observations of everyday life and political issues such as immigration and the Fukushima Catastrophe.  http://jurisuzuki.com

Marijn Roos Lindgreen (NL, 1993) lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her artistic practice is driven by an interest in the human experience of architectural space. Some of the themes being explored, within this broader scope, are flexibility of spatial boundaries, relativity of mass, and the creation of fictions by means of space. Positive and negative space, inside and outside, and other poetic opposites often reoccur. Starting points for these explorations are found in the artist’s (and others’) immediate surroundings, literature and architectural prototypes. In the form of text or installation the work reflects on the function our environment, on all scales, fulfills and proposes alternatives.  http://marijnrooslindgreen.nl/

Mio Fujimaki (JP) Through the making process, Mio Fujimaki understands and connects to the world she finds herself in. Motivated by a quest for deeper or alternative understanding, she researches the manufacturing processes of ubiquitous items, everyday mundane objects and phenomena. Studying and replicating the spontaneous and temporary material manifestations of invisible powers such as stress fractures in glass, pigment separation in ink and dye discharge in textiles, Fujimaki uncovers  unsuspected and time-based patterns. Her audience is invited to share in her process of discovery and unyielding enthusiasm for the unknown. http://www.miofujimaki.com/

Sae Honda (JP) is a Japanese jeweller / artist based in Japan and the Netherlands. She graduated from Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 2010, and later studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 2013 to 2016. Some of her works are included in the permanent collection of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.   https://www.saehonda.com/

Qiaochu Guo (CN) is an artist based in the Netherlands. Her works care about the Mythological clues in a modern context. By gathering diverse and fringe perspectives, she reflects on the spiritual status in the accelerating society. She has a MA from Design Academy Eindhoven. Qiaochuguo.squarespace.com

Vincent Knopper (NL) is a visual artist and he lives and works in Amsterdam. He describes himself as an arthandler, artist, carpenter, designer, furniture maker, handy-man, painter, renovator, sculptor, woodworker. Through these descriptions he aims to articulate the similar yet distinctive faces of making, use of materials, references and labour that represent the core of his practice.

With shapes borrowed from elements such as railings, bumpers, and furniture, Knopper creates sculptures that are recognizable as functional while their function is not immediately identifiable. By leaving their function open, the material of the work and its relationship to its surroundings become the subject. https://www.vincentknopper.nl/

 

De Apotheek Tolhuis

Buiksloterweg 7A

1031 CC Amsterdam Noord

(achterzijde gebouw/backside building)

 

Photo's on Instagram:

@kunstplatformdeapotheek