MÊKH-web / live 13 years EX-MÊKH; Quartair, The Hague

In Quartair the Hague troika Ex-MÊKH (Maarten Schepers, Ellen Rodenberg and Kees Koomen) celebrate a 13 years collaboration which brought them amongst others to Berlin and Athens, apart from different Dutch venues.

In this case they invited three other artists to celebrate with them: Frans van Lent, Niels Post and Marian Wijnvoord.

It has resulted in an open and communicative exhibition which tries to avoid the idea of permanence.

Indeed no artistic statement seems to be permanent in this constellation, not even Schepers’ sculptures or Wijnvoord’s paintings, while Van Lent may enter Quartair any moment to fix things.

Koomen permanently works on his diary, while Post shows his next On Spam piece (nr. 68; you may have seen nr. 67 last month at The Balcony, here in town).

Rodenberg’s mobile work is in constant flux.

You may know Kees Koomen as my tirelessly blogging colleague, as you also may know Niels Post from the Dutch artistic blogosphere.

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Contents of all photographs courtesy to the artists and Quartair, Den Haag

Bertus Pieters

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Zahar Bondar, I would like to be a dancer to be able to dance with the circumstances; Heden, The Hague

I visited Heden to write a review about its exhibition of works by Zahar Bondar (1992) for Villa La Repubblica. Click here to read the review (in Dutch).

As I have written quite extensively about the show in VLR, i leave you here with some impressions and with a warm recommendation to visit the exhibition.

Click here to read the review about this show in Villa La Repubblica (in Dutch)

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Contents of all photographs courtesy to Zahar Bondar and Heden, Den Haag

Bertus Pieters

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Mybody.com; Nest, The Hague

I visited Nest to write a review about its present group exhibition Mybody.com for Villa La Repubblica. Click here to read the review (in Dutch).

As I have written quite extensively about the show in VLR i leave you here with some impressions and with a warm recommendation to visit the exhibition.

left to right, Suzie van Staaveren, Christian Jankowski and Bas de Wit

Click here to read the review about this show in Villa La Repubblica (in Dutch)

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Contents of all photographs courtesy to the artists and Nest, Den Haag

Bertus Pieters

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Façades of The Hague #95

Façade of an originally 17^th century building, Dunne Bierkade.

The wonderfully decorative wooden cornice is mid 18^th century and taken from another now demolished building at Spui in The Hague.

The door is early 19^th century.

According to the plaque over the door one Leendert Sillevis lived here in 1785.

He was a market skipper for Dordrecht.

Sillevis was the forefather of a dynasty of market entrepreneurs in shipping between The Hague, Dordrecht and Rotterdam.

For a long time the cities of Holland (the western part of the Netherlands) were best accessible for cargo (and generally for travellers) by boat.

The building is a state monument.

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All pictures were taken in March 2017.

Bertus Pieters

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Über Mensch; PARK, Tilburg

I visited PARK in Tilburg, to write a review about its present group exhibition Über Mensch for Villa La Repubblica. Click here to read the review (in Dutch).

As I have written quite extensively about the show in VLR, i leave you here with some impressions and with a warm recommendation to visit the exhibition.

Click here to read the review about this show in Villa La Repubblica (in Dutch)

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Contents of all photographs courtesy to the artists and PARK, Tilburg

Bertus Pieters

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Niels Post, On Spam, Comment Spam #67; The Balcony, The Hague

Spam are the purulent pimples of the advertising disease we are all suffering from. Niels Post (1972) makes it a feast of superfluity.

What irritates you in your email box or in the internet as spam, becomes something strange and unintelligible when posted in a more monumental way in a space where nothing seems to be for sale.

In spite of the superfluity of spam Post works with great dedication on the clarity of his works. Post makes a subversion of a subversion.

At the moment The Balcony shows a spam work by Post on its shop window in Herenstraat, one of those wonderful small initiatives in The Hague.

Herenstraat is used by many people as a passage way between their work and the railway station.

Do they notice? And what do they notice?

Contents of all photographs courtesy to Niels Post and The Balcony, Den Haag

Bertus Pieters

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Cedric ter Bals & Philip Akkerman, Twiemæl Sterben; Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague

For its exhibition Twiemæl Sterben (“Dying Twice” in an invented Germano-Scheveningen dialect) Galerie Maurits van de Laar has changed into a kind of war zone.

But don’t worry too much, as the battle is especially about the expansive way the human spirit can turn time and space upside down by sheer imagination.

So you may be shot at by colours and shapes that may or may not have any historic reference.

The duo show has come about by a tight co-operation of Cedric ter Bals (1990) and Philip Akkerman (1957).

Ter Bals presents his recent picture novel Tagebuch Oskar von Balz (Diary Oskar von Balz) about which i have already written extensively in Villa La Repubblica. Click here to read that article (in Dutch).

Akkerman, of course, won’t need much introduction as the uncurable self portrait painter.

No doubt Akkerman’s works are self portraits but on the other hand they are not, as they are also reflections on painting and its traditions, from medieval to post-modern, or rather a mix of it.

Philip Akkerman (Portrait of Oscar ter Bals)

Looking at them, one may think of different styles but they are always clearly in the first place works by Akkerman, who defies the usual linear idea of history.

Cedric ter Bals (Portrait of Philip Akkerman)

That is where he meets his much younger colleague Ter Bals, to whom he has given much space to arrange the show.

Some of Akkerman’s works even drown more or less behind the scene here and there.

Click here to read the article about Ter Bals in Villa La Repubblica (in Dutch).

Contents of all photographs courtesy to the artists and Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Den Haag

Bertus Pieters

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Façades of The Hague #94

Anonymous façade in Casuariestraat, once stockroom of a renowned piano dealer in the adjacent Lange Houtstraat, now part of a dancing and restaurant.

This street in the old city centre with its peculiar name was once called Sperlingstraat after one of its owners, Pieter Sperling.

It is said that in the 17^th century there was a tavern called De Casuaris (“The Cassowary”), a place so questionable that the street allegedly got its name from it.

Cassowaries were thought to be quite lascivious and potent birds.

All pictures were taken in March 2017.

Bertus Pieters

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