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Exhibitions 2021

The following posts are about the different exhibitions we visited during the first semester in the course Workfield orientation. We went to a lot of different places, but all were somehow connected with one key theme: Nature.

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Moving Gallery Utrecht: Gathered Self, featuring many artists, like Lisette van Hoogenhuyze, Yasmina Ajbilou, Iriée Zamblé, Georgia Biggs and Chase Middleton

First exhibition of the year, here are the works I found the most interesting.

This first gallery we visited with the class gave me a nice introduction for this years exhibitions with different concepts and accents for each.

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Visit of the exhibition building at De Vrijstaat, Utrecht, with the exhibition "Flower Bomb". We learnt about this initiative, drank "home"-grown infusions of different plants, herbs and fruits, and we made flower bombs, balls of soil, gravel, and seeds. When they are finished, you are supposed to throw them somewhere where the flowers could then grow.

I really liked the architecture of the building, shaped like the “hands” of a compass, with two floating upper sections.

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Exhibition 365 Plants by Marielle Videler, Casco Art Institute [not my photographs]

I really enjoyed her creational process: she starts with cutting out paper from her imagination, then coloring the blank cut-outs with black ink, making them remember organic, flower and plant shapes

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We went to the Casco Headquarters (HQ). I really like it's architecture, and the fall made this place look even more pretty. The Casco team welcomed us, but despite their attempts and patience to try and explain us the general concepts and details of Casco, I found that they are rather difficult to grasp; I am sure that it is interesting, but a bit hard to understand under it's pure theoretical form.

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The Casco HQ featured a few exhibitions from different artists, like The Mother Mountain Institute, Workable Geographies, and "Den tur circumstancia nos lo sigi move" (Under all circumstances we will continue to move) (see pictures above).

I got immersed in the story of The Mother Mountain, with the two slowly rotating spheres and the audio recording. The map and the 3D grids of this same map also caught my attention.

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Galerie SANAA: Painting back the wild, by Jessica Skowroneck

The fact that she mostly paints these forest landscapes from her mind is baffling, I also like how she uses purple and pink in her paintings, but especially in her drawings, to contrast with the green color palette of nature

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Kunstliefde Utrecht: Art and Design for the Holidays

My favorite paintings, drawings, collages and prints

In this exhibition there were so many things to discover, I spent a long time at the Kunstliefde watching every individual artwork, because most of them were small, but meticulously detailed.

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Moving Gallery: Vertekend Beeld (Distorted picture)

Sculptures