Kunsthuis SYB

On the 1st of April, Josje Hattink interviewed Maarten Bel about his stay at Kunsthuis SYB in Februari & March of this year.

Open call for artists living and working in the Netherlands Deadline: 21 March, 11:59pm

Because of the coronavirus we have decided to cancel the last tryout and final show of Maarten Bel at SYB. These shows were scheduled to take place on Friday March 13th and Saturday March 14th. Instead, SYB will be open on Saturday, March 14 between 1pm and 5pm: at SYB, a video recording of the […]

Date: Saturday 14 December Conversation (in Dutch) from 3pm – 5pm dancing till bam

Curator Petra Ponte will be a resident at Kunsthuis SYB until 19 December.

On Sunday November 3, the 8th Sybren Hellinga Art Prize was awarded to visual artist Vytautas Kumža.

With: Kamilė Česnavičiūtė, Denislav Golemanov, Marnix Sixma and Eleni Tsompanidou Opening show & SYB Circles Artist Talk (with ZOMAAR Radio): 8 November, from 5PM Location: Music dome in Sterrebos, Groningen

Kunsthuis SYB is proud to announce a group exhibition at SYB, which will open on October 19. The exhibition features works Caz Egelie, Vytautas Kumža, Alina Lupu, Samuel Otte and Natalia Papaeva. 

With: Yanick Soland, Petter Dahlstroem Persson, Jamie Kane, Daphne Simons, Josie Perry, Berglind Erna Tryggvadottir, Jake Caleb, Annabelle Binnerts, Lukas Messner, Lucia B. Mendoza and Bernd Krauss.

Jasper Coppes has been working at SYB since August this year. At SYB, Jasper has been editing a film he shot in Greenland over the Summer, and is also using the location of Beetsterzwaag to research the Frisian landscape (especially the Wadden).

Jasper Coppes will be in residence from the 5th of August, and he will be presenting his work at SYB on Saturday the 14th of September (during Open Monumentendag). While in Beetsterzwaag, Jasper will be working on a film he shot in Greenland, but he will also be researching the Frisian landscape. In recent work, […]

Kunsthuis SYB is pleased to announce the nominees for the Sybren Hellinga Art Prize 2019. The jury, consisting of Peter van der Es (initiator and director Unfair, Amsterdam), Nathalie Hartjes (director MAMA, Rotterdam), Milena Naef (winner of the 7th Sybren Hellinga Art Prize), and Louwrien Wijers (artist), have nominated the following artists: Caz Egelie, Vytautas […]

We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of Old House Noises (the Sleeper, the Dreamer and the Guard), a publication-in by Ash Kilmartin. Her 6-week residency at SYB will be concluded on the 28th of July, with a reading of her work accompanied by the Groningen Vocal Exploration Choir, and a conversation with Vanessa van ‘t […]

From 22 June, Ash Kilmartin will be a resident at SYB, where she will be working on her project Klokkenstoel (Manuscript Illuminations). In the first weekend of her residency, during the Art Weekend of Beetsterzwaag, she will share an installation that was previously shown in Attent, Rotterdam.

Deadline: Sunday, June 23, 2019 (until 11:59 p.m.)

In May and June, Kunsthuis SYB welcomes Dutch/Irish artist Seán Hannan. He will delve into the controversial 17th diplomat, historian, and publicist Lieuwe van Aitzema, who has been branded a spy and a traitor by many historians.

On Friday the 26th of April, SYB is launching SYB Circles, a continuation and expansion of SYB’s Writers Programme. Date: Friday 26 April Time: 2pm – 6pm (+ drinks and snacks) Language: Dutch In SYB Circles, young artists and academics are encouraged to experiment with media other than critical texts to reflect on SYB’s residents […]

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has recently announced that it has acquired a number of artworks from eight contemporary artists. Their works are on view now, in the exhibition Freedom of Movement. Stedelijk Museum also purchased the video work Neither of Us is Powerless by Jort van der Laan, and Kunsthuis SYB is proud to have contributed […]

Hoe is het eigenlijk om te gast te zijn in een residency? En wat kun je doen en maken in 24 uur? In februari en maart nemen een aantal kunstenaars de proef op de som tijdens de 24-uurs residency in Kunsthuis SYB. Met: Radina Kordova en Kamile Cesnaviciute, Marieke Grunnewijk, Sven ten Berge, Jorien Ketelaar en Lola Diaz Cantoni, Laura Bolscher.

Review of A PIECE OF BLUE VELVET HANGING, Ben Cain en Jort van der Laan, 27–28 oktober 2018