Kim Bouvy

With: Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum / Kim Bouvy / Left Hand Rotation

Only 15.05.2012 during De Derde Dinsdag from 19.30h!
Location: project space Het Wilde Weten, Robert Fruinstraat 35 Rotterdam NL

Research by walking works as the beginning of an open work-in-progress project that will be expanded during the curator’s residency at Het Wilde Weten. Focusing on the role of artists in the gentrification processes in the city of Rotterdam, the exhibition puts together a series of research material Alba is using for her project with three works by Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum, Kim Bouvy and Left Hand Rotation.

After finishing her Humanities studies at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and King’s College London, Alba Colomo achieved a MA in curating Latin American Art from the University of Essex. Her research focuses on the possibilities of visual art practices to liberate and destabilise the assumptions embedded within our everyday lives.

Her most recent work is the publication Art Control Society, which compiles the work of three artists around the topic of social control.

More information:

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http://www.hetwildeweten.nl

The curatorial residency of Alba Colombo was made possible by Sala Rekalde/ BizkaiKOA, Bilbao (ES) and is realized in cooperation with TENT.

On March 10 2012, the publication ‘The Dutch Photo book’ was presented at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, a book containing a selection of 124 books published between 1945-2010 that describes the relatively recent history of the famed Dutch photo book. I am very proud and honored to see my book ‘ Phantom City’ in the selection on page 184. Published by Nai Publishers, ed. Frits Gierstberg, Rik Suermondt.

The Dutch Photobook

The Dutch Photobook describes the relatively recent history of the famed Dutch photobook. Editors Rik Suermondt and Frits Gierstberg chose over 120 of the most significant Dutch photobooks and placed them in the context of developments in photography and society.

The post-Second World War Dutch photobook is unique because of the long tradition of graphic designers and photographers working closely together. It is highly prized abroad, and many photobooks have become part of the collections of museums and private collectors. This book shows the immense variety and allure of the Dutch photobook and makes it accessible to a broad audience.

Six chapters, organized both thematically and chronologically, examine company photobooks, photobooks about youth culture, landscape books, city books, travelogues and autonomous photobooks. For each theme, the 20 most noteworthy books are described and represented by gorgeous illustrations of their covers and parts of their contents.

Available March 2012
Editors: Frits Gierstberg, Rik Suermondt
Authors: Wim van Sinderen, Claudia Kussel, Patricia Börger, Pim Milo, Flip Bool, Karen Duking, Max van Rooij, Tamara Berghmans, Mirelle Thijsen, Bart Sorgedrager, Mireille de Putter, Pieter van Leeuwen, Karin Krijgsman
Photography: Hans Bol
Design: Studio Joost Grootens, Illustrated (colour), Hardback, 240 pages, 24 x 28 cm
English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-846-8, € 59.50
Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-845-1

Exhibition at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam from 10 March until 20 May 2012

In September 2011, another book about photo books, this time about Germany in the Photobook - ‘Deutschland im Fotobuch’ - was published by Steidl (ed. Thomas Wiegand, Manfred Heiting): ‘Niemandsland’ can be found on page 305.

Deutschland im Fotobuch
Thomas Wiegand, Manfred Heiting

Welche Fotobücher haben auf besonders überzeugende und charakteristische Weise Einblick in »Deutschland« gegeben? Deutschland im Fotobuch zeigt sie: Bücher aus den letzten Tagen des Kaiserreichs und der Weimarer Republik, aus dem »Dritten Reich«, der Bundesrepublik, der DDR und dem wiedervereinigten Deutschland. Viele wichtige Fotografen sind mit gestalterisch geschlossenen Werken zum Thema vertreten: August Sander und Albert Renger-Patzsch, Abisag Tüllmann und Edith Rimkus, Leonard Freed und George Hashiguchi, Dirk Reinartz, Chargesheimer, Will McBride, Heinrich Riebesehl, Christian Borchert u.v.a. Deutschland im Fotobuch versammelt 273 Werke, die mit Beispielseiten, einem kurzen Text und bibliografischen Daten vorgestellt werden. Der Band ist in thematische Gruppen gegliedert: Landschaften, Städte, Menschen, Arbeit, Architektur, Zeitgeschehen, Grenzen, »Typisch deutsch« u.a. Jedes Kapitel wird von einem Essay eingeleitet.

Book Gebunden im Schuber
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-86930-249-2
Publication date: September 2011
Steidl

Both books can still be ordered at my web store here.

I will present 13 new works during the art fair ‘Re:Rotterdam’, an art fair held in parallel to the renewed art fair Art Rotterdam. Re: Rotterdam will be held at Boompjes 60-68, 3011 XC Rotterdam and is an empty office building filled with solo presentation from more than 80 artists and galleries. http://www.rerotterdam.com/2012/

Me and my work can also be found during the OPEN STUDIOS at our studio building, artist-run space Het Wilde Weten, Robert Fruinstraat 35, 3021 XB Rotterdam. Open Sat 11 and Sun 12 between 14 and 19h.
On Friday 10 Feb at 19h at Het Wilde Weten, there will also be the opening of the already infamous WBM (WildeBoekenMarkt /WildBookMarket) that will be held for the third year in a row and which presents the finest and most recent of artist’ publications. www.hetwildeweten.nl

If you would like to come around and / or meet up with me, please send me a message! I cannot be in all places at the same time….
Hope to see you somewhere!

These are some images I took last April of an old weavers’ house in the small city of Assendelft in Noord-Holland. The house was in the process of being deconstructed, peeled as an onion, to possibly be reconstructed again at the Zaanse Schans: a peculiar time-capsule, where significant traditional wooden buildings from the area around Zaandam have been relocated to, mostly in the sixties and seventies. This collection of nomadic green wooden houses form a new constellation that has a certain Disney-like feeling about it - although different since many of the houses are inhabited by real people.

I was asked by Michiel van Iersel from Non-Fiction (how appropriate) to document the house in its ‘most original state’ at its plot of land, where a new villa would arise after the house had been deconstructed. While making the photos, construction workers were taking the house apart, bit bit by bit, some pieces were numbered, many pieces were not. The man in charge of the deconstruction, would also be building the new villa. The house would be transported into parts to a storage, where it probably still sits today.

The future will tell if this house will ever be reconstructed and presumably renovated, but to which authentic glory, I asked myself? What will be restored of the entropic but very characterstic state of the building, formed by many layers of use, before it went down? Who will decide how its real and original character will be revived?
I was fascinated by the way the layers and colors of paint had, together with the wooden skeleton of the structure, had a certain formal, abstract quality.

End of June, beginning of July, I was in Berlin to revisit some of the sites that I photographed in 2001/ 2002 for my book / project ‘Niemandsland - Berlin without the wall’. In 2009, my interest in the project was rekindled since the landscape had managed to transform itself again in such a way that it deserved some closer attention. It seemed as if more and more parts of the wall started to come back and reappear in the landscape - a remarkable seemingly retrograde movement.
Apart from ‘Niemandsland’, the Karl Marx Allee drew my attention because of its remarkable formal architectural beauty and urban structure. The image shows the back side of the Kino International.

About a year ago, I started working on a series of views, that would be placed in the waiting areas of a newly built hospital in Rotterdam. The Maasstad Hospital approached Gerco de Ruijter, Bas Princen and me to come up with a proposal for these spaces of transit and waiting. The series is called ‘Points of View’ and depicts remarkable points of views in the city. I wanted to simulate space in these spaces, to give the opportunity to wander off in your mind, while waiting for a treatment or doctors’ appointment. For the commission, I went to Barcelona and Valencia and added two images I took in Shanghai last summer. Now they are finally installed!

All images are 150×190 cm, mounted on dibond, framed in wooden frames with plexi glass.
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Shanghai, 2010
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Barcelona, 2011
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Barcelona, 2011
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Shanghai, 2010
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Barcelona, 2011

Barcelona 2011

My book ‘Phantom City’ is on the longlist of the Dutch Doc Award!

Order it HERE

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25 Feb 25 - 6 March
EXHIBITION ‘1 Maand Marxloh’, Het Wilde Weten
With works by Jetske de Boer, Christine Saalfeld, Eric Jan van der Geer, Kim Bouvy, Elian Somers, Ine Lamers and Sandro Setola. A project organized by Kim Zieschang and Arnoud Schuurman.

Opening: Friday Feb 25, 17h by Hugo Bongers, Director of the Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture.

Guided tour by Jetske de Boer – Staatsorgaan voor Toekomst Organisatie en Planning (S.T.O.P.) during the opening and by appointment (jetskedeboer@gmail.com)

Open February 25 – March 6 Thursday – Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00 hrs and by appointment (tel. 0652-144001, eenmaandmarxloh@yahoo.de)

1 Maand Marxloh