Verbógen Verbrijzeld onderzoekt hoe wit licht versplinterd en verbogen kan worden – hoe je met de materie kan samensmelten.
In de solotentoonstelling van Philip Vermeulen maak je kennis met zijn nieuw ontwikkelde ‘hyper-sculpturen’, die wit licht ombuigen en mechanisch verbrijzelen tot duizenden stukjes kleur. Het kleurengeraas, het indringende geluid en de wind van de snel draaiende machines geven je een intens fysieke ervaring. De werken gaan in een meta-compositie met elkaar in dialoog, waardoor je ondergedompeld zal worden in de dynamiek tussen mens en machine.
Philip Vermeulen, gevestigd in Den Haag, maakt als kunstenaar grootschalige installaties. In zijn werk manipuleert hij primaire natuurkundige verschijnselen als licht, geluid en beweging. Zijn installaties vormen een onophoudelijk onderzoek naar de veranderingen van psychologische zijnstoestanden. Vermeulen creëert wat hij ‘hypersculpturen’ noemt: kinetische sculpturen die met zo’n hoge snelheid bewegen dat de fysieke eigenschappen van de materialen waaruit ze bestaan in de perceptie van de toeschouwer lijken te veranderen.
Zijn werk is vertoond bij onder andere musea (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Rijksmuseum Twenthe), kunstruimtes (W139, Arti et Amicitae), clubs (Berghain Berlijn), media festivals (Novas Frequências Rio de Janeiro, Ars Electronica Linz, TodaysArt, CTM Berlijn) en in de open lucht (Into the Great Wide Open). In 2020 werd Vermeulen genomineerd voor de Volkskrant Beeldende kunst prijs en later in het jaar werd zijn installatie More Moiré² genomineerd voor een Gouden Kalf in de categorie Best Interactive 2020.
Deze tentoonstelling wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Stroom Den Haag, Mondriaan Fonds, Gemeente Amsterdam, Kickstart Cultuur Fonds en PIP Den Haag.
Foto’s door Jeroen de Smalen.
Encompassing the curatorial underpinnings of the 2024 Biennial, the exhibition illuminates its themes of sensory encounters with the more-than-human, touching upon animatic beliefs, alchemic elements, and emotional cartographies. With works by Harun Morrison, Jota Mombaça, touche—touche, Annika Kappner, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, Brackish Collective, Pedro Matias, and Natasha Tontey. With a performative activation by Brackish Collective.
At 22:00, the Biennial opening will move to the nearby kanaal40 for a celebratory club night with Jessica Nightlife, Millie Rose Dobree, Money Lang, and Ingrate.
More information and tickets here.
Photography by Pieter Kers.
Join us on January 27th from 19:00 for the opening of Dead Skin Cash, the upcoming exhibition by Salim Bayri and Ghita Skali at W139. Get money for your dead skin.
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
The opening of That Those Beings Be Not Being will take place on Oct. 22, 2021. The opening will feature a performance by EMIRHAKIN, WHO’S GOING TO DIE IF I KILL MY SELF?
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
How are we shaped by language? Are languages merely tools for expressing our thoughts, or do they actually shape them? In this solo exhibition, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji explores the complexities inherent in these questions. Encompassed in the animations, large scale drawings, and murals that make up this exhibition, are the questions of what makes a language.
On Friday 30 September we celebrate the launch of Sonic Acts Biennial 2022 – warmly inviting you to the opening of our exhibition one sun after another at W139, Amsterdam.
In conversation with the works exhibited, the evening includes interventions by researchers, artists and performers, each responding in turn to the porous and cumulative ways toxicity traverses across micro and macro experience.
The evening questions how encounters with extraction, leakage and pollution might be rendered palpable — an interactive open lab by artist Cesar Majorana and tasting sessions by designer Leanne Wijnsma employing sensory experiences to illuminate environmental issues so often designated as invisible. The evening includes a collaborative performance by Loma Doom and G, directly responding to, and interweaving, the myriad of sonic elements present in the exhibition space.
Photography by Pieter Kers.
On Nov. 18, the well-attended opening of Turning Towards Fluidity took place. Joana Cavaco accompanied the opening as MC through the evening, to the musical accompaniment of snufkin. Queer Choir Amsterdam opened the evening. After a special warm-up by Kexin Hao, three games – specially designed by Gabriel Fontana – were played under the encouragement of 350 cheering spectators.
Photography by Zazie Stevens.
W139 cordially invites you to the opening night of W139 hosts… on Friday 8 September—kicking off seven weeks of artistic experimentation! Starting at W139 from 19:00 with drinks among the exciting projects of week one and food by Common Ground, continuing with a free afterparty down the street at our friends from Kanaal40.
We hope to see you there!
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
Substitutes engages with queer history and discourses around the body, gender, and sexuality. It features artists across several generations working in a variety of mediums to contextualise and converse with these discourses. The exhibition is about the absence of bodies, the abstraction of the body, and the tools and language we use to maintain or describe our bodies—costuming, staging, masks, layering, clothing. It questions the normative frameworks that queer and functionally diverse people are subjected to. The human body is, paradoxically, both absent and present within the exhibition.
Initiated by the artist Philipp Gufler, Substitutes brings together works of Lorenza Böttner, Johanna Gonschorek, Elisàr von Kupffer, Rabe perplexum, Louwrien Wijers, Johannes Büttner, and Bruno Zhu. Philipp Gufler will show a new work titled Body/Text: a large-scale silk screen printed textile piece that draws inspiration from Elisàr von Kupffer’s panorama painting Klarwelt der Seligen (Clear World of the Blissful). By connecting contemporary discussions to historical perspectives, the exhibition aims to create a ‘living archive’. Drawing together artistic positions from then and now, the exhibition traces queer lives and networks from the past to our present.
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
Visual identity by Jacob Hoving.
W139 invites you to the grand opening of People’s Forum, an exhibition by Farida Sedoc, on Friday 17 November from 19:00 to 22:00 at W139.
We hope to celebrate the kick-off of the exhibition with you! We will start with an opening speech by Urmy Macnack and Seada Nourhussen, followed by a dazzling performance of Strangie and sounds by Farida. As a welcome drink, we will serve herbal lemonade made by Yvonne’s Kitchen.
People’s Forum, Farida Sedoc’s first solo exhibition, explores the conditions for art as livelihood and as a vehicle for change. The exhibition will bring together a program offering alternative forms of artistic production and autonomy, including an office-in-residence by Platform BK.
We hope to see you there!
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
