4 March till 19 April 2009

ENCOUNTER

Residency Masashi Echigo

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 […]

21 January till 1 March 2009

THE DRUNKEN ARTIST, HIS STRANGE APPETITE AND AN IMAGINARY COLLECTION OF UNTAMED RABBITS

Residency Nina Wijnmaalen, Maciej Sarna

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 […]

3 December 2008 till 18 January 2009

WAITING ROOM

Residency Maja Bekan

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 […]

22 October till 30 November 2008

METHODS – REMOTELY

Project Vincent van Gerven Oei, Michela Pelusio, Dorota Walentynowicz

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 […]