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05-08 december 2019, Miami USA
Solo presentation with paintings (2019), represented by Dürst Britt & Mayhew gallery.
curator: Antoon Erftemijer, Lars Been.
Hoe manifesteerde zich de virtuoze manier van schilderen in de moderne tijd? Welke kunstenaars slaagden er in om langs deze weg verdere vernieuwing dan wel verdieping te vinden? Leeft virtuositeit nog in de hedendaagse schilderkunst? Deze vragen vormen het uitgangspunt voor de omvangrijke tentoonstelling Virtuoos! Israels tot Armando in het Frans Hals Museum, locatie Hal, die loopt van 29 juni tot en met 3 november. De focus ligt daarbij op Nederlandse schilders voor wie de afgelopen honderd jaar de vrije, uitdrukkingsvolle en rake toets wezenlijk was
Artists: Henny Adank, Arnout van Albada, Peter Anton, George Belzer, Jan Bouman, Rolet Brandt, Quiringh Gerritszoon Brekelenkam, Sjoerd Buisman, Wim Chabot, Cornelis Cruys, Esther Derkx, Jessica van Deursen, Elvira Dik, Moritz Ebinger, Jan van Empel, Lernert Engelberts & Sander Plug, Jacques van Erven, Georg FlegelKees Franse, Itamar Gilboa, Kenne Grégoire, Klaas Gubbels, Bernard Heesen, Henk Helmantel, Jan Henderikse, Ton Hoogerwerf, Adrie Huisman, Jacqueline de Jong, Lonneke Jonker, Rick Koren, Lebasille , Johan Gerard van Loon, Lucebert, Martijntje Cornelia, Niels NielsenJan Olis, Ilona Plaum, Roger Ruhulessin, Chloé Rutzerveld, Nina Sajet, Don Satijn, Floris van Schooten, Frans Snyders, Joris van Son, Tjalf Sparnaay, Daniel Spoerri, David Teniers, Vera Teunen & Hilbert Tjalkens, Angelique van der Valk, Marije Vogelzang, Juliette Warmenhoven, Wieske Wester
CODA Apeldoorn (NL) 30-09-2018 / 03-02-2019
Group exhibition Curated by Wim van der Beek.
artists:Abramovic/Ulay | AES+F (RU) | Tamme de Boer (NL) | Barbara Broekman (NL) | Eishôsai Chôki (JP) | Childish Gambino (USA) | Katsushika Hokusai (JP) | Damian Kapojos (NL) | Patrick Koster (NL) | Abbas Kowsari (IR) | Utagawa Kunisada (JP) | Utagawa Kuniyoshi (JP) | Abu Bakarr Mansaray (SL) | Mohau Modisakeng (ZA) | Hertog/Nadler (IL/NL) | Jens Pfeifer (NL) | LA Raeven (NL) |Ronald Tolman (NL) | Harm Weistra (NL) | Wieske Wester (NL) | Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (JP) | Ali Zanjani (IR).
group presentation represented by Dürst Britt & Mayhew gallery The Hague.
KONINKLIJKE PRIJS VOOR VRIJE SCHILDERKUNST 2017
07/10-2017-05/11/2017 Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam (NL)
Mohamed Aarab, Kim David Bots, Tessa Chaplin, Steef Crombach, Ricardo van Eyk, Philipp Gufler, Vera Gulikers, Quint Hartman, Niek Hendrix, Sam Hersbach, Rosa Johanna, Paul de Jong, Frederique Jonker, Raha Khademi Langroudi, Mirte Klück, Rabi Koria, Lilian Kreutzberger, Wouter van der Laan, Janine van Oene, Diana Riog, Suzie van Staaveren, Julius Stibbe, Wieske Wester, Anouk van Zwieten.
CODE ART FAIR
31/09/2017- 02/10/2017 Copenhagen (DK)
Dürst Britt & Mayhew presents works of Jacqueline de Jong, Paul Beumer and Wieske Wester.
08-02-2017 / 12-02-2017 booth 25. Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam (NL)
Dürst Britt & Mayhew presents a solo presentation of Wieske Wester.
Laureates Exhibition, Higher institute for Fine Arts, Gent (BE)
17/11/2016-12/12/2016
Lydia Debeer, Indrikis Gelzis, Minja Gu, Alejandra Hernández, Lien Hüwels, Almudena Lobera, Oleg Matrokhin, Pedro Moraes, Joke Raes, Jura Shust, Diana Tamane, Anne Van Boxelaere, Wieske Wester
Curator: Philippe Van Cauteren
I was kindly supported by the Mondriaan Fund to work at HISK.
BIG ART
Capital C, Weesperplein 4 1018 XA Amsterdam, (NL)
19/11/2016 - 27/11/2016
BIG ART (initiated by Anne van der Zwaag) is showing more than 50 oversized artworks!
For 10 days the iconic building of Capital C Amsterdam will be filled with XL artworks by contemporary artists and designers. A unique mix of acclaimed names and upcoming talents, monumental paintings, drawings, large sculptures, big photos and huge installations. On show, and for sale.
Dürst Britt & Mayhew presented my large scale drawing 'Octopussy' and a video work of Sybren Renema.
Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague (NL)
11/09/2016 - 29/10/2016
Dürst Britt & Mayhew is delighted to present Dutch artist Wieske Wester’s first exhibition at the gallery.
A cabbage, a bunch of bananas or a whiskey glass. The strength that lies in simple and everyday objects is often the starting point for Wieske Wester’s work. These are images without masks that appeal by their lack of visual violence and spectacle, but are nevertheless characterized by a certain degree of ambiguity. Wester’s paintings and drawings depict the human desire for identity, yet are peppered with references to aggression and sexuality. Wrestlers, genitals and figures that hover between beast and man regularly pass in review. For Wester the physical act of painting and drawing is the most direct way to capture the fluidity and forcefulness of the human spirit.
Immediately after obtaining her Bachelor’s degree from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Wieske Wester was selected for a two-year working period at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. In 2008 she was nominated for the Buning Brongers Prizes in Amsterdam and for the Focus Abengoa Painting Prize in Seville, Spain. In 2014 she enrolled at the HISK in Ghent to place herself into a new critical context and to further develop her chosen themes and imagery. Wieske Wester lives and works in Ghent and The Hague.
Higher institute for Fine Arts, Gent (BE)
27, 28, 29 and 30 May 2016 from 2PM to 8PM.
Kasper De Vos BE, Lydia Debeer BE, Aslan Gaisumov RU/CE, Indrikis Gelzis LV, Elias Ghekiere BE, Minja Gu KR, Alejandra Hernández CO, Lien Hüwels BE, Pepa Ivanova BG, Ola Lanko UA, Ariane Loze BE, William Ludwig Lutgens BE, Rebekka Löffler DE, Oleg Matrokhin RU, Cadine Navarro FR/US, Jonathan Paepens BE, Joke Raes BE, Jura Shust BY, Diana Tamane LV, Anne Van Boxelaere BE, Vesna Faassen & Lukas Verdijk NL, Wieske Wester NL, Ella de Burca IR, Buren BE/NL
i was kindly supported by the Mondriaan Fund to work at HISK.
Dürst Britt & Mayhew
06-02-2016/19-03-2016, Opening: sat. 6 febr. 17.00-21.00
Dürst Britt & Mayhew; Van Limburg Stirumstraat 47, 2515 PB, The Hague
International group exhibition with: Sylvie Fleury, Celia Hempton, Dean Hutton, Rachel de Joode, Leigh Ledare, Walter Pfeiffer, Daniel Sinsel, Martin Soto Climent, Julie Verhoeven, Taocheng Wang, Wieske Wester.
The French term ‘un certain regard’ can actually and ironically enough be described as a look or glance that is hard to describe. In its inevitable erotic connotation it can both be a look of longing, love or lust, as well as of disapproval or disgust. It therefore continually hovers between gazing and staring. While gazing can very well objectify a body, only staring is considered rude as it is directed at difference, deviation and otherness. The borders however can be hard to determine and are bound to very personal predilections or fears.
The works in this exhibition all to different degrees objectify the body and test the boundaries between gazing and staring. Various sexual personae and erotic references may make audiences feel both titillated as well as voyeuristic. The works on display manifest a sensitive, but emancipatory form of eroticism. Therefore, from the exhibiting artists’ position ‘un certain regard’ is not a vague concept, but translates as a convinced, assertive and genuine view on contemporary sensuality.
Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives The Hague (NL)
National Drawing manifest, initiated by drawing centre Diepenheim
11 t/m 27 march 2016
Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives
Toussaintkade 55
The Hague
This group exhibition is showing the work of: Femke Bakker, Justin Bennett, Channa Boon, Ronald Cornelissen, Paul van der Eerden, Melissa Cruz Garcia, Sara Pape Garcia, Anne Forest, Johan Gustavsson, Wieteke Heldens, Michael Karr, Rens Krikhaar, Jorn van Leeuwen, Erik-Jan Ligtvoet, Marjolijn van der Meij, Astrid Nobel, Johan van Oord, Lieke Peeters, Nina Roos, Stefanie Scholte, Cybil Scott, Tanja Smit, Babette Wagenvoort, Wieske Wester en Thom Vink.
Royal Academy for Visual Arts The Hague (NL)
Trial & Triumph: Farewell exhibition Johan van Oord
31 October - 20 November 2015 | Gallery KABK
The exhibition Trial & Triumph is showing work by twelve artists graduated from the Fine Arts department under his leadership.
Gallery owners Jaring Dürst Britt and Alexander Mayhew have curated the exhibition and highlight the department's qualities from van Oord's perspective: Passion, Persistence and Professionalism.
The selected artists are: Maarten Boekweit, Pim Blokker, Yair Callender, Nare Eloyan, Myung Feyen, Wieteke Heldens, Maja Klaassens, Kianoosh Motallebi, Femmy Otten, Eric Peter, The Holls Collective and Wieske Wester. With works ranging from paintings, drawings to video and sculpture, all disciplines are represented in this exhibition and underline the diversity of the Fine Arts Department of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
6TH MOSCOW BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART -special project
'And it doesn't matter if the phone rings...' FABRIKA centre for creative industries (RU)
26 / 09 / 2015 - 29 / 10 / 2015
An exhibition featuring works by graduates of the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent; they focus on the fragile harmony of the modern world, which can easily be disrupted by a single telephone call. Assuming, of course, that it isn’t ignored altogether.
Organizers: CCI FABRIKA, E.K.ArtBureau
Curator: Oleg Matrokhin
Co-curator: Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich
Artists: Joke Raes (Belgium), Luokia Alavanou (Greece), Ella Littwitz (Israel), Lydia Debee (Belgium), Tramaine de Senna (USA), Klaas Vanhee (Belgium), Lien Hüwels (Belgium), Laure Cottin Stefanelli (France), Diana Tamane (Latvia), Emmanuel Van der Auwera (Belgium), Johanna Kristbjorg Sigurdardottir (Iceland), Benjamin Verhoeven (Belgium), Raffaella Crispino (Italy), Minja Gua (South Korea), Leyla Aydosslu (Belgium), Oleg Matrokhin (Russia), Egon Van Herrevweghe (Belgium), Wieske Wester (Netherlands)
HISK OPEN STUDIO's 2015
Higher Institute for Visual Arts, Gand (BE)
2015/05/29→2015/06/01
HISK, Charles de Kerchovelaan 187a, 9000, Gent (BE)
Opening times: 14:00 - 20:00
Loukia Alavanou, Leyla Aydoslu, Flurin Bisig, Laure Cottin Stefanelli, Raffaella Crispino, Tramaine de Senna, Lydia Debeer, Indrikis Gelzis, Minja Gu, Alejandra Hernández, Lien Hüwels, Jóhanna Kristbjörg Sigurðardóttir, Marie-Fleur Lefebvre, Ella Littwitz, Almudena Lobera, Oleg Matrokhin, Pedro Moraes, Joke Raes, Jura Shust, Diana Tamane, Anne Van Boxelaere, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Egon Van Herreweghe, Klaas Vanhee, Benjamin Verhoeven, Wieske Wester
Friday 29 05 2015 — 14:00 > 20:00
Saturday 30 05 2015 — 14:00 > 20:00
Sunday 31 05 2015 — 14:00 > 20:00
Monday 01 06 2015 — 14:00 > 20:00
Studio Talks: Vincent Geyskens and Oscar van den Boogaard will interview the artists in their own studio. I was kindly supported by the Mondriaan Fond to work at HISK.
17 mei t/m 2 juni 2013
Naar idee van beeldend kunstenaar Pim Voorneman.
De titel van de tentoonstelling is gebaseerd op de laatste opera van de Duitse componist Richard Strauss.In de opera staat de vraag centraal wat belangrijker is in de kunsten: het woord of de muziek. Het drama wordt verbeeld door de verliefdheid van de hoofdpersoon op twee personen, een dichter en een componist. Na twee uur meeslepende muziek blijft de vraag in het gesammtkunstwerk onbeantwoord. Het antwoord ligt in de verbeelding van de luisteraar. Het beeld lijkt bij de opera van Strauss secondair te zijn.
In de tentoonstelling Capriccio wordt het beeld gekoppeld aan de muziekkeuze van de kunstenaar en wordt de toeschouwer bloot gesteld aan de vraag: beeld of muziek?
De tentoonstelling wordt afgesloten met muziek. Michael van Hoogenhuyze zal voorafgaand aan deze muzieksalon het woord voeren.
De tentoonstelling ´Capriccio´ van Pim Voorneman bij JCA DE KOK was een groot succes. Pim Voorneman heeft tijdens de afsluiting van deze bijzondere tentoonstelling de gelijknamige CD ´Capriccio´ gelanceerd met daarop de muziekkeuze van de kunstenaars die gedurende de tentoonstelling en de muzieksalon (17 mei t/m 2 juni 2013) te horen was. De CD bevat een bijbehorend boekje met afbeeldingen van de tentoongestelde kunstwerken. Zo kunt U de beelden en de muziek nogmaals bekijken en beluisteren.