2023
At Xxijra Hii gallery in London
Image 1: Nicola Arthen, Estefanía B Flores, Maria Joranko, Kate Kuaimoku - Printed Emergence, Display structures and exhibition design
Image 2-3: Achinoam Alon - Earth Fax 1
Image 5+8: Hesse + Wakil - Sieben / Sieving
Image 7: Ivo Rick - byte by byte
2022
At Rosa Stern Space in Munich
Image 1: Invite, design and dedicated font by Julie Héneault and Noëm Held
Image 3: Kate Kuaimoku - ƒx = Cubit - A4
Image 5-6: Nicola Arthen - Preighter/Stowaway (Section Of A Day)
Image 7: Estefanía Batista Flores – Meccatterfly
Image 8: Maria Joranko - To Bring You My Love VII
2022
Jacquard wool knits based on composites of 3D-modelled and AI-text-to-image-generated pictures, laser-cut and polished steel, Stoll machine knitting needle, office chairs, steel brackets, various cables, (disassembled) server racks, 2-channel audio (11’05’’)
The installation is based on five Jacquard knits hanging from enlarged, laser-cut machine knitting needles and draped over office chairs borrowed from a nearby workshop and suspended in an angle with a metal floor bracket during the time of the show. The space is circumscribed by two diagonal rows of pillars made from disassembled server rack parts. Each Jacquard knit depicts a double image, one modelled in a 3D-software by myself and the other a reflection of the prior generated by feeding a description of the first image to an Artificial Intelligence. A voice whispers several prompts used in this translation process. It comes from the ventilation shafts of a server rack which acts as an (opaque) black box in the space. A.I. produces images without a clear authorship. In contrast, their materialisation as knitted blankets brings these not only closer to the body, but also makes a conceptual connection between the Jacquard loom (and its punch card system from as early as the 19th century) as the preceding element to the binary code system of modern computers – the very host system of A.I. In this work, one knitted loop equals one pixel.
22 ready-hewn building blocks from red sandstone seem to have been delivered to the exhibition space in custom-fit cardboard boxes and are stored there for the duration of the exhibition without being unpacked. The building blocks were initially brought a hundred years ago to the landscape of a Dutch national park for the construction of a museum, which had never been built. With their initial displacement, they had accidentally introduced a species of moss to their new habitat. This moss is being cultivated during the exhibition inside a DIY-air-conditioning system recently developed by scientists to absorb aerosols in classrooms. The space is filled with voices from a phone conversation, the sound of trucks made by mouth and rhythms of stones being hit, all tracing the paths through which these diverse protagonists are connected.
Image 1:
The Architect, the Quarryman and the Philanthropist, 2021
6-colour neon sign (185 cm x 160 cm), transformers, wooden plate
Image 2-4:
_FOLDERS1—22, 2021
22 pieces between 30 to 165cm width Laser-cut cardboard, Maulbronn sandstone, packaging label, polyester strap, metal clips, pallets, pallet rack; wooden wedges to allow for the same angle as the stones usually lay in in the landscape
Image 3:
Untitled, 2021
CGI-animation on TV screen 3 min. 31 sec
2021
Image 2 and 10:
Hearing Trucks, Probably Dreaming Better, 2021
4-channel audio piece, 18 min. 36 sec. (in collaboration w/ Adrian Sölch)
Image 5:
Wall drawing of: Henry van de Velde, View: south facade (with chimney caps and stairs to the front), 12 June 1923 – Original at Collection Kröller-Müller Museum (KM 111.581), 2021
Crayon on wall
Image 7-9, 11:
Transmissions (after Max Planck Institute for Chemistry), 2021
Tubefoil, PE mesh, metal suspension system, ventilator, humidifiers, ceramic pipes, moss (Recurved Rock-Bristle), 1100 x 270 cm, cut gallery wall
Photos 1-6, 8-9, 11 by Charlott Markus, photo 7 and 10 by Nicola Arthen, courtesy of P////AKT Amsterdam
Presentation in the former changing rooms at Goldsmiths University's Deptford studios, London
A Beautiful, Grown-Up Horse In The Middle Of An Overheated Crowd
Modular system of 3D-printed ceramics, copper wire, concealed heating mechanism, found woven rug
I, I, The Neighbour Is Building A Twelve-Storey House
Casted epoxy resin, pigment, LED, transformer, wall panel
2019
PEGGY / DOBBY / Eagle vs. Drone / Drone vs. Eagle / LILY / LILY
Six sculptures, each: laser-cut wood, AC engine, microprocessor, relay, powder coated steel, stainless steel bolts, rubber; ca. 200 x 200 x 45 cm
In Fibre Of #1 (Crash Avoided)
Carbon fibre, epoxy resin, stainless steel bolts; 60 x 165 x 20 cm
In Fibre Of #2 (Frontal Crash)
Carbon fibre, epoxy resin, stainless steel bolts; 64 x 160 x 19 cm
VIDEO
Eagle & Hesitant Vehicles
Projection of HD video, 4 min 10 sec., looped
full video
Documentation: LNDW Studio
Five wooden replicas of Wi-Fi-routers are installed at a low height on the walls of a public location to suggest a potential broadband network – the minimum conditions for modern office work – rendering a specific place into a productive backdrop by minimum means. The work was conceived for a set of walls in Amstelpark – a physical remainder of the soft-ware company IBM’s pavilion at set place during the 1972 garden show in Amsterdam.
CNC-milled birchwood, weathered over three months, high-pressure cleaned stone walls;
Temporary and site-specific installation in Amstelpark Amsterdam during group exhibition Going Nomad
(Photos 1 + 2 in July: Coco Duivenvoorde, Photos 3 + 4 in September: Lukas Messner)
Group exhibition at puntWG initiated by Nicola Arthen with Alondra Castellanos Arreola, Paul Bernhard, Dan Walwin, Baha Görkem Yalim, Isabel Mager and François Girard-Meunier. See full documentation.
Audio piece (19' 38'') played in a hybrid car;
Working jacket from reflective fabric made by Alondra Castellanos Arreola
Photo documentation from solo exhibition Avenida Progreso at Plan B, Amsterdam in 2017.
Video documentation produced by PAOS, Guadalajara, Mexico in February 2018.
Duo exhibition with Ivo Rick at Artoxin, Munich
Documentation shows:
Avenida Progreso (y Union) - Neon tubes on styrofoam-casted concrete, transformer
Avenida Progreso (y Sindicalismo) - Neon tubes on styrofoam-casted concrete, transformer
DYN - Re-programmed electric blow heaters with each 3000 W from perforated and powder coated steel, control box
Cups - 3D-printed bioFila silk, cup holders from ABS plastic
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born 1990
lives and works in Amsterdam and Guadalajara
Education
2019-2022
MFA Fine Art (with distinction), Goldsmiths University, London
2011-2015
Fine Arts Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2013-2014
Class of Prof. Martin Gostner, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Awards / Grants / Residencies
2024
Residency at Tan Tan, Guadalajara (w/ Marco Valtierra)
2019-2022
Graduate scholarship, DAAD, Germany
Stipend, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, The Netherlands
Subsidy, Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, The Netherlands
2021
Project subsidy, Mondriaan Fund, The Netherlands
2020
Online residency at the Mythical Institution
2018
Residency at Taller Los Guayabos, Guadalajara, Mexico
2017
Started, Residency, Prague, CZ
Prix De Rome, longlist, Mondriaan Fonds, The Netherlands (nominated by Clare Butcher)
Projectsubsidy, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), Amsterdam
Werkbijdrage Jong Talent, Mondriaan Fonds, The Netherlands
2016
Autocenter Summer Academy w/ DIS collective, HMKV Dortmund
2015
StartPoint Prize, honorary mention of the jury, Prague
Fine Arts Prize (w/ Lieven Lahaye & Bastien Gachet), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2013
AABER Award, 1st prize (w/ Adrian Sölch), Munich
Solo exhibitions
2021
An Intricate Well, P/////AKT, Amsterdam *
2019
Eagle & Hesitant Vehicles, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands *
2018
La Etica de los Algoritmos (artist talk & performance), PAOS, Guadalajara, Mexico *
2017
Avenida Progreso, Plan B, Amsterdam
2016
Brought Up To Code, Galerija Simulaker, Novo Mesto, Slovenia
Selected group exhibitions
2024
Antes de tocar la tierra, Tan Tan, guadalajara90210, Mexico (curated by Marco Valtierra)
Salon ACME No. 11, Mexico City
2023
3DCXP MUC-LDN Printed Emergence, Xxijra Hii, London
Studio Abierto, Ghilardi 297, Guadalajara, Mexico
2022
Ghost Show: Haunted House, Unit AG.1, Copeland Park, London
3DCXP LDN-MUC, Rosa Stern Space, München
MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London
UNFAIR 22, Westerpark, Amsterdam
SE London Micro Sculpture Fair, St James Hatcham, London
2021
Ghost Show, Hartslane Gallery, London
STOREYS, Swiss Church, London
2020
UNFAIR TM, Westerpark, Amsterdam *
Landesgartenschau 2020, Mythical Institution, Minecraft, online
What Remains When The Story Ends?, DAAD Arts Project, online
2019
De la Mano a la Boca, Taller Los Guayabos, Guadalajara, MX
Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, NL *
Salon ACME No. 7, Mexico City, MX
2018
Even if it’s Jazz or the Quiet Storm, NEST, The Hague
Going Nomad, Zone2source, Amstelpark, Amsterdam, NL *
Moton Actuator Tour at LOVAAS, Munich
I Book You, The Ballery, Berlin
Klaus von Gaffron gegen den Rest der Welt, Kunstblock Balve, Munich (w/ Ivo Rick)
Salon ACME No. 6
, Mexico City
2017
Jahresausstellung, Galerie Artoxin, Munich
PIN. Benefit Auction, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (w/ Ivo Rick) *
Bad Flash, Berlinskej model, Prague (w/ Alondra Castellanos Arreola)
modul aero, Galerie Artoxin, Munich (Duo-exhibition w/ Ivo Rick)
In Support: Support Structures, De Kijkdoos, Amsterdam
The Weathers They Live In, puntWG, Amsterdam (incl. organisation and curation)
GELD, Semperdepot, Wien (w/ Ivo Rick)
2016
Project.Labour, GT22, Maribor, Slovenia
Exhausted lines and dead pipes, V240, Amsterdam
Do It Yourself Design, Bröhan Museum, Berlin (w/ Ivo Rick)
Machinery, easy!upstream, Munich (w/ Ivo Rick)
StartPoint - Prize for European Art Graduates, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
La Vie En Rose, Lockwood Project, Amsterdam
2015
Chambre de Schie, Fotofestival Schiedam, Schiedam
StartPoint, National Gallery, Prague
Best of Graduates, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Hesitant Autonomy, Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam *
Nothing works but that works just fine, Labor, Köln
2014
Moments in a Think Tank, puntWG, Amsterdam
low |lō|, lower white space, Amsterdam
Constant Companion, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Annual exhibition of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2013
AABER Award, Leonrodplatz, Munich (w/ Adrian Sölch)
FLAM Performance Festival, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Beyond Babylon, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
2012
Rietveld UnCut: The Making Of, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Demokratie, Das kleine Schwarze, Hamburg
* publication
Selected performances
2015
Becoming Wall, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2013
Wood Chuck, Leonrodplatz, Munich (w/ Adrian Sölch)
walk with me, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (w/ Pedro Matias, Angelo Custudio, Ivana Filip)
2012
Spray Paint Art, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam