OPENING: Friday 22th of November 18h00-22h00

Exhibition open 23rd - 1st December
 Wed - Fri 12h00 until 18h00
 Saturdays & Sundays: 13h00-17h00

Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

NEVERNEVERLAND is proud and excited to present to you

'MAY MY ROOTS CRACK YOU OPEN', first solo show by Tara-Eva Kuijpers Wentink ( NL)

“As light touches the surface of the Earth’s waters, we enter a moment in time where a change begins to grow within us. Like a seed in the darkness of the soil, our cells start to form a pouch of flesh filled with light.”
 

MAY MY ROOTS CRACK YOU OPEN, the debut solo exhibition of Tara-Eva Kuijpers Wentink, presents an installation that emerges from a speculative future where a new, mysterious organ begins to grow on the vena cava–the largest vein connecting the liver and the heart. This enigmatic organ, called the Lumen Nodus, or “Lightseed”, is thought to arise as a response to a world where the human body has become evolutionarily outpaced by the complex sociological, economic, and technological demands of modern life–conditions ironically brought about by humanity’s own striving to control the world around them.

As humanity faces escalating stress, confusion, and profound exhaustion, this imbalance threatens not only the survival of humankind but also the planet itself. In response, the human body develops the Lightseed—an organ purported to convert stress and trauma into energy and empathy, synthesizing both heart and mind. Seen as a gift from the earth, the Lightseed could also be interpreted as nature’s own defense mechanism, a way to adjust to the current condition, steering humanity in the direction of earth’s recovery.

Read the full narrative below, where this tale of speculative truth unfolds...

NARRATIVE

As light touches the surface of Earth’s disturbed waters, we enter a moment in time where a change begins to grow within us. Like a seed in the darkness of the soil, our cells start to form a pouch of flesh filled with light.

Its first discovery was when a young woman named Elana underwent an X-ray due to ongoing chest pains. However, nothing seemed abnormal regarding her heart's health. On the X-ray image, illuminated by the lightbox in the sterile treatment room, a small white dot appeared on the vena cava artery. This artery is responsible for carrying purified blood from the liver to the heart. The dot was not meant to be there.

This was the beginning. The small white dot grew larger, transforming into an amorphous shape with twisted roots. Tests were conducted on those who experienced unexplained symptoms, leading to the discovery of more people carrying this unknown organ. Eventually, a baby was born with the organ already nestled in its tiny chest, as if it had always been a part of us. People were scared, but also felt like something important was happening.

Scientists and philosophers came together to uncover why this new organ was beginning to grow inside people’s bodies all over the world, regardless of their background, gender, or ethnicity. The Lumen Nodus, or “Lightseed”, became the name given to the unknown organ. The debate was heated, and there was no consensus regarding its function or how it came into existence. At the same time, minor changes seemed to develop in the world that people had known.

The theories circulated quickly. Ecologists speculated that the organ's origin was due to a lack of oxygen in the air, resulting from the disappearance of forests and the absence of flora in our urban environments. Medical doctors believed it was a consequence of the prevalence of processed foods, which had replaced nutrient-rich options. Neuroscientists hypothesized that the small pouch formed due to overstimulation of the brain, caused by the overwhelming nature of the online environment.

A remarkable explanation came from a team of biologists, social scientists and philosophers. They argued that humanity was being outpaced by the sociological, economic, and technological conditions it had brought into existence, due to its drive to control the world. As the world grew more complex, confusion and exhaustion set in, causing individuals to become more self-centered and rigid in their thinking, which became an evolutionary disadvantage. Their disconnection with reality and society resulted in behavior that accelerated societal and ecological breakdown. In the team’s view, the evolution of the Lightseed was a way of the natural world–for Earth itself–to adjust to the current condition, guiding humanity toward a new equilibrium. Not necessarily by enlightening people on an intellectual level, but by reuniting thought and feeling, critical analysis and empathy–by synthesizing the heart and mind.

Despite the promise of change, misinformation quickly spread, claiming the new organ was either a malignant tumor or a tool for authoritarian regimes to exert control over the population. As rumors swirled, fear and paranoia took root in communities around the world. Driven by this growing anxiety, some sought drastic measures, opting for risky surgeries to remove the Lightseed. But in doing so, they often found their anxiety, confusion, and exhaustion only deepened, leaving people more disconnected from themselves and each other.

Amid this turmoil, Elana—the first known carrier of the Lightseed—began to sense subtle shifts unfolding within herself. In the midst of growing complexity and uncertainty, she felt a quiet, yet powerful sense of calm. Instead of succumbing to helplessness or indifference, Elana began to see the world with a clearer vision, feeling both empowered and profoundly connected to those around her. She began to gather others who, like her, had discovered their new organ and were beginning to experience similar alterations within themselves.

Though the changes in the world around them were still barely perceptible, Elana couldn’t help but wonder if the transformation they were experiencing were part of something larger, something that could eventually shift the course of human existence and Earth itself. Within her chest, Elana felt the warm, rhythmic pounding of something new.

 This exhibition is supported by MONDRIAAN FONDS

NEVERNEVERLAND (@neverneverland_amsterdam)

Friday 12th of November 17h00-21h30

Exhibition open:

Sat 13 November: 12h00 - 17h00

Location

NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO

Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

Corona Guidelines:

Access only with a digital or printed corona check access pass / QR code & valid proof of identity.

NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present the premiere of "ON",

a group exhibition curated by the VAV3

– Moving Image Department Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Once upon a time

there was an image.

All it wanted was to move.

Once upon an image

time moved, the image stayed.

you may have painted over,

but time upon once

has already proclaimed:

The show is ON.

Come to perceive, feel, move and get moved

About the artists:

Maïa Taïeb

Hannah Zeeman

Adrián Kriška

Paula Megija Kārkliņa

Laura Eager

Yana Khazanovich

Ella van der Meer

Lucie Dudová

Jorn Vlaanderen

Dimme van Harten

Helena Foczpańska

Jil Kunkat

Clara Arámburo

Martina Laruffa

David Kloosterboer

Cecily Grant

Jet van Boekel

haskell tichell

Jim Biegstraaten

Astrid Ardgah

Félicie Vitrai

Greta Galiauskaitė

June Ohashi

Gila roytman

Anna Sieberns

Instagrams:

@maia_taieb

@adriaankriska

@paula_megija

@eager_laura

@jankhaz

@musroek

@mysterious_creator_1996

@suchneshity

@jilkitkat

@claraaram

@devswoop

@david kloosterboer

@cecilygrant

@jetjeevanboekel

@haskellll

@jbiegst

@beforeandafterart

@felicie.billionaire

@gretagaliu

@juneohi

@roytmans

@xannasun

The Exhibition is initiated by the VAV- Moving Image department.

Supported by

Audiovisual Services at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

A Performance one night only on Friday 05 Nov!!!

Date: 05 November 2021

Time: 19h00 - 22h00
Duration: 3 hours

Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present the premiere of " Sacred Mystery of Confession"

About the work
Let the Eagle loose at night
As time flies with heavy wings.
Tip the glass upside down,
Bleed with its grain.

Teeth and bone tear open this man
Who slashed the ground beneath us.
Cut your hands and held them.
So desperate to
feel
I ask now only for penance,
So that I may heal.

I will wait for time.
Eyes to the floor
Hands around the clock.

Govern my soul

Have no mercy on my flesh,
Leave it out to rot.

I pray God forgives me,
Because I know that I will not.

- Olivia Harley


About the Artist:

Tuna Tunaboylu, born in Antalya, is an artist who is on his unpredictable and engrossing journey.

Before enrolling in Gerrit Rietveld Academie, he spent his life in Turkey.

This change is emblematic of his courage and passion for art which are also deeply woven in his performances and films. Although trained in different art forms, Tuna has found his calling in performance art in which he combines the elements of his mind and body. This mental and physical exploration has been and still is, exhausting and demanding but also has led to his self-identification both as an artist and as a person.

Tuna’s artistic vision is about self-expression, courage, and spontaneity. Using these components, he is exploring and pushing his mental and physical limits through which he grows as an artist. This transformation, even though, hard and painful, is a crucial path to take for the young artist who is serious and passionate about making self-expression. Tuna’s projects are making an impact on those who are curious to enquire about the limits of physical endurance, mental awareness, spiritual exploration but maybe, more importantly, life itself.

Opening night:
Fri 29 October 2021

19h00 First premiere
2h00 Second premiere
21h00 DJ'S : Emiranda::  soundcloud.com/3mir5nda3
22h00 Closed

Exhibition open:
Sat 30 October -  Sun 31 October:   12h00 - 17h00
Fri 5 November - Sun 7 November:  12h00 - 17h00

Filmmaking workshop for kids:  14h00 – 17h00
Mon 1 November

Wed 3 November

Thu 4  November

Location:
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present the premiere of "The Story of Leonora".

                                                   A film

                                                     by

                             Clemens Stumpf & Loïc Vandam

                                                  Music

                                                     by

                                                   Toxe

                                            Sound design

                                                    by

                                             Tove Agelii

                                                 Starring

 Simone Eliens, Yvette Eliens, Luna Faye Naumer Mateos & Gio Ventura

The Story of Leonora is a short film about a little girl who is given a red eye by two giant water bears and follows her demon to the edge of another world, a red world. The film is a weave of still images, different voices and music, spiralling into a riddle. But a riddle that only Leonora can answer.


About the workshop for kids:
Alongside the exhibition there will be a three day workshop for kids exploring the art of film making with still images, hosted by Bela Teiwes, Loïc Vandam & Clemens Stumpf. The workshop is spread across three days and divided in three sessions. The intention is to find the stories hidden in the images/things that are around us. Contact for workshop info and subscription: loickvandam@gmail.com

About the filmmakers:
Loïc Vandam (1998, BE) is an artist and writer living and working across Belgium and the Netherlands. They graduated from the moving image department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2021. The whole of their work, which are mainly drawings and writings, is plagued by the image of the icon and mosaics that depict everything and nothing at the same time.

Clemens Stumpf (1996, DE) is a visual artist and filmmaker living and working from Amsterdam. His works range from short films to music videos and video installations. Through a playful, participatory and magical approach to the medium of moving images he tries to find manifestations of the spirits between us, within us and beyond us.

This exhibition is supported by AFK - Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst

Presentation: Saturday 4 th of September 15:30-21:00
 
 **VISIT EXHIBITION BY INVITATION ONLY**

Location
NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present the videos produced in the masterclasses with seropositive youngsters in collaboration with Amsterdam UMC.

The festive presentation also includes a VJ workshop and presentation.

The masterclasses were lead by artists and designer Heleen Mineur and artist Sunyoung Glebbeek and were a collaboration between The One Minutes Jr. and Amsterdam UMC with the support of Gilead.

The One Minutes Jr. is a project of The One Minutes Foundation.

http://theoneminutes.org/

OPENING

Fri 23 JULY 17h00-21h00

Exhibition open:

Fri 23th July - Sun 25th July

17h00-21h00

Live Performance Friday and Sunday 19h00

Reservation for PERFORMANCE TIMESLOTS-Sign up:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vwf7SlOsbsi0IuDkShdZOxfQ9ieJo_R3-eE407OTNKs/edit?usp=sharing

Location

NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO

Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present: “Catching the water "a duo show by artists Tao Yang (China) and Jae Pil Eun ( South Korea).

The night of March 4th

Tao Yang presents an installation based on photographs, he uses fabric to create a space to communicate with people not by talking but by feeling and experiencing, you could travel to experiences he has had and associate with his memory or yours.

Monkey and the Moon

About:

Tao Yang

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hunger-focus-tickets-159137421311

Period:

26 October – 26 November, 2020

Location:

During the residency Loidys will continue experimenting with Blue Curaçao liquor and other materials that his recent pieces are made of, such as, color additive, glass and wood. Official Curaçao liqueur is made with the dried peels of a bitter orange native from Curaçao. For the artist the intense smell of “orange” coming out of a “blue” liquor is a disorienting experience.

The new pieces experimental aspect is amplified by activating sensory impressions beyond the purely visual, such as smell. Loidys does not work with any one brand of Blue Curaçao liquor, the bottles can be purchased locally anywhere. Although the exact shade of Blue Curaçao liquor varies slightly by manufacturer, the color is generally standardized across the industry.

Loidys prefers to work with restricted means, perhaps inside this restrained order he has latitude to comment on what touches him. The new pieces will explore space (site-specific), and the relationship between natural and artificial.

About the Artist:

Loidys Carnero (La Habana, Cuba, 1982). Graduated from the San Alejandro Art Academy in Havana and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He recently completed a master's in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. Combining photography, installation and sculpture in his works Loidys has addressed issues of displacement, adaptability, identity and craftsmanship. His work has been exhibited in: Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam; Decoratelier Nationale Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam; Art Center Faro Cabo Mayor, Santander; Havana Art Weekend, La Habana; Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen; Liverpool Biennial and La Casa Encendida, Madrid. Loidys Carnero lives and works in Amsterdam.

www.loidyscarnero.info

Fri 23 October  17h00-20h00

Time Slot: 19-19h50 | 20h00-21h30 |

Sat - Sun 17, 18, 24, 25 October 12h00-17h00

Time Slot: 12-12h50 | 13-13h50 | 14-14h50 | 15-15h50 | 16-16h50

Location

NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO

Brian D. Mc Kenna.

The exhibition “Standing Wave” invites an analogue of history: the sentiment that we are neither moving forwards nor backwards, merely oscillating in place; an argument that we must free ourselves from the trappings progress in order to find our bearings – to see what and where we are.

About the Artist:

Brian D. McKenna was born in Ottawa in 1975, he grew up in Scotland and England and settled in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1985. McKenna received a multi-disciplinary BFA in music & visual art from the University of Lethbridge and a MFA at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.

He lives and works in Amsterdam and his work presented internationally. McKenna’s art-works deal with technological environments and propaganda in relation to the tools we use and how we use them. His investigations highlight the importance of critical inquiry into technologies, the building of one’s own tools, and the quasi-religious role of technology in human endeavours and our place in the natural world.

During this period Zaira will collaborate with Christine Kipiriri.

Zaira and Christine collaborated before on projects which explore the more intimate experiences in spatial design, fashion and art. Such as The New Normal at Oscam X Modemuze, ‘Total Freedom’ WOMEN OFWAR, KIPIRIRI X F22 KIPIRIRI, 3Three Fold z_inna_flo and now with Let’s Keep in Touch at our Residency de Nachtegaal.

About the Masterclass

During this masterclass the participants will build a 3 dimensional spatial configuration. Their objective is to recreate a new representation of our built environment. One which comes closer to us, those who inhabit it and engage with it on a daily basis.

Sat 03 October 14h00 - 18h00

Total of 8 participants

Email to nevernever.reservation@gmail.com

Zaïra F. Pourier (Caribbean, Sicilian) and Christine Kipiriri (Burundian, Russian) collaborate to blur the convention.

Throughout their practice they mediate between art, architecture and fashion.

Their curious spirit, appreciation for fine detail and their cultural identity plays a significant role in their translations. With their bold visionary approach, they embrace what there is and create space they desire to see exist, this what empowers their union.

Instagram: @seetotouch

Amsterdam is known for being a multicultural melting pot. This diversity is reflected in the eclectic food scene, the arts and cultural initiatives. Since this pandemic however we are experiencing how our spatial routines, both public and private are being reconfigured to adapt to the needs and safety of each other. We witness how our built environment; the human-made structures of a city; the urban fabric, the architecture and the public space is fundamental and crucial to our well-being.

This made us question who and what do these permanent structures represent, and how does our diverse cultural background identify with this? During this residency it is of importance to us to juxtapose our identity within the built environment. To accomplish this we will engage with our environment as a playground; document and collect the traces of people, research the building materials, and map our routes which connect us to different places in the city. Our objective is to beautify these encounters by creating a visual representation that will translate what there is and what we envision it to become. Hopefully there will be serendipity where we will even find similarities

"Let's keep in touch" refers to: Let's stay closely connected with our built environment. At the end of the day this is the most essential and meaningful to us, humans.

About the Artist:

Zaïra Florence Pourier is a Caribbean - Sicilian architect and visual artist based in Amsterdam. She has lived and worked in Aruba, the United states, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. Throughout her career her interest has been focused on connecting people by means of exploring the interrelation of Art that appeals to our emotion, and Architecture that animates our physical reality. In 2014 she returned to her place of birth, Amsterdam, where she established her most recent practice; an experimental playground to investigate materials, human influences, and the inter connectivity between cultures.

At the beginning of this year she transformed her instagram page (@z_inna_flo) into a living embodiment of this practice. Zaira in her Florence...in her blossom - is the container in which she explores and documents her everyday encounters by visually altering them into an aesthetically unique Universal language. For her, it is important that what is seen as typically mundane is beautified and appreciated to the extent that it inspires society to take accountability in and of its current built environment.

“As I blossom the world shall evolve” - Zaira Pourier

Christine Kipiriri (Burundian, Russian)

After the Preliminary program at ArtEZ in Arnhem Christine studied two years International fashion & design at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute, she was the creative director at KIPIRIRI and now she is the creative director of Women Ofwar and has her autonomous practice as an artist.

Fri 26 June & 3 July 17h00-20h00

Time Slot: 17-17h50 | 18-18h50 | 19-19h50

Sat - Sun 27, 28 June & 4, 5 July 11h00-17h00

Time Slot: 11-11h50 | 12-12h50 | 13-13h50 | 14-14h50 | 15-15h50 | 16-16h50

Location

NEVERNEVERLAND, OSO

We are not even aware of ourselves biting our lips, rubbing our feet under the chair, and being under water. None of us had period then in Lion’s Plaza. As a trade-off, 12 years later when we say “lights off!” The lights go off. Being frightened, we all stay quiet and look away from each other. Even though we understand that a profile is not a person, a mask won’t cover the conspiracy and an insecure security secures our imagination and properties.

What is after me is not a spy. That island used to be a wonderland of butterflies. Because we remember the route to the Grounds, by tracing the smell of human residues. These memories are later transformed into genetic codes, an inherited sense of the whole species. Human's exploitation, you said. Sitting on the trees we watch our flashbacks replay around the globe.

When it rains, it pours. The leakage has formed a lake of boiling hot soybean milk, so we decide to sell it to make a living. Our all time favourite “The river of frozen blood” is now available in the store again. According to the blacklist on my hand, you will get an unprecedented-crisis-limited edition delivered straight to your door without contact. Yes technically we always stay seamlessly connected by the map which says there’s no light at the end of the tunnel.

This exhibition is based on the story of Lion’s Plaza, which is known for its haunted stories and suppressed history. It is said that many people fall ill by simply entering the building. Located in the heart of Taipei, an area of youth culture and tourists, Lion’s Plaza was one of the most promising urban projects built in the 70s. While just within a few years of its grand opening, numerous fires, suicides, gun-shots had made the building a notorious crime hub. Rising on the site of previous Taiwan Garrison Command, where had imprisoned and executed innocent citizens under political accusations, Lion’s Plaza bears the covered brutal history of authoritarianism enacted by the political party Kuomintang (KMT).

After WWII, KMT was soon defeated by the Chinese Communist Party and retreated to the small island Taiwan from mainland China. With accumulated anger of injustice brought by the KMT, outraged Taiwanese started a protest after a policeman shot an old lady dead on the street. The protest led to a bloody massacre by the KMT military force, between 5,000 and 28,000 people were killed in one day, and followed by an imposed martial law that lasted for 38 years, which is the second longest in human history after Syria. During this period of time, around 140,000 people were imprisoned and about 4,000 were executed under the accusation of being against the government. The dictator, Chiang Kai-Shek, said he would rather have killed a hundred innocent people not to risk missing one protagonist. This part of history remains a taboo in public even until today and the KMT still wins 1/3 seats in the recent election in 2020.

“None of us had period then” names after six innocent women who were confined in Taiwan Garrison Command. While one was sentenced, the five survived mention that no women had period coming when in captivity, which indicates their terrible physical and mental condition in confinement.

About Artist:

Tsai Mong-Hsuan (1989, Taiwan), is an artist who lives and works in Amsterdam and Taipei. Her practice reacts on daily life encounters, with her body trained as a dancer, her hands holding a camera or a brush, and her brain thinks like a child or her mom. Her works can be read as pursuits of joyfulness and insistence on free, open and airy mode of being. Her seeming work's poetry or lyricism are quite informed, stemming from different registers of thinking. She holds a Master degree from Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam since 2018 and a Bachelor degree in Psychology from National Taiwan University. She co-founded Green-Wave Dance Theatre group from 2008 to 2013 and Lambda Film Production in 2016.

Fri 12 June 17h00-20h00

Time Slot: 17-17h50 | 18-18h50 | 19-19h50

Sat - Sun 13, 14, 20, 21 June 11h00-17h00

Time Slot: 11-11h50 | 12-12h50 | 13-13h50 | 14-14h50 | 15-15h50 | 16-16h50

Fri 12,19 June 17h00 - 20h00

Time Slot: 17-17:50 | 18-18:50 | 19-19:50

Program during exhibition:

Special thanks to Mio Fujimaki and Rara Gye.

*Reservation required

For the live stream check:
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NEVERNEVERLAND

On 20 th March 19:00 there is the Friday night talk “Moment” with guest speakers Lola Bezemer (visual artist/performer) and Arthur Nieuwendijk (Zen teacher). In this talk, we discuss about the “Moment” in different perspective such as Zen and artistic practice.

Juri Suzuki (JP) Born and raised in Fukushima, Japan. She graduated in Architecture, from Tokyo University of Science in 2005, from the Fine arts of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2013 and Studio for Immediate Spaces of the Sandberg Institute in 2015. She currently works as an artist based in Amsterdam and has participated in several artist in residences and group exhibitions in Japan, Korea, Greece and the Netherlands. Suzuki was an artist-in-residence and had a solo exhibition in De Fabriek in Eindhoven in 2018. She participated in the Fukushima Biennale 2016 and 2018.

Opening Performance

Angelo Custódio (PT) For years trained as a classical singer, Angelo explores the performative use of the voice and perverts embodied singing techniques to develop sonic encounters with the vulnerable. He urges to nourish empathic understandings of identities, with a focus on the contemporary failure of support structures towards queer bodies and bodies with disability. Angelo holds a MFA from Master of Voice, Sandberg Instituut and a BA in Classical Singing from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Zen Meditation Workshop

Zen meditation workshop is organised by Gioia Marini from Zen.nl Amsterdam.

Please send a message for participation before.

Reservation required. Max 8 people.

Friday Night Talk “Moment”

Lola Bezemer (NL) is a visual artist and perfomer. She graduated with a BFA from the department of Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2013. Her boldly coloured performance installations create moments in which she challenges notions of spatial and social relations. In 2015 she received the Stipendium for Emerging Artists from the Mondriaan Fund. She has exhibited and performed at, among others, Art Rotterdam; Bradwolff Projects,

Arthur Nieuwendijk (NL) studied philosophy, Sanskrit and logic in Amsterdam. In 1997 he obtained his PhD on the question of the validity of logical principles. Through the practical practice of Zen, he has learned how to convert the knowledge and experiences that you gain in your life into a lived, personal insight. He has a great drive to introduce and guide others on the path of Zen on their way to a life with more peace, balance and happiness. He leads Zen.nl Amsterdam.

Location:

NEVERNEVERLAND online

De Nachtegaal, residency of NEVERNEVERLAND

Heesterveld 35a, Amsterdam Zuid Oost

Poster design : Samuli Saarinen

Opening: Friday 28th of February 19:00 - 23:00

OPENING SOUND PERFORMANCE

28th of February (FRI) 19:00 - 23:00

by JUANA LEE (Andrés G. Vidal x Younwon Sohn)

Exhibition open:

28th Feb - 8th Mar 2020, Fri - Sun 12h00 - 17h00

Finissage: Sunday 08th of March 15:00 - 17:00

Saturday 07th of March: 16:00 - 18:00

BOOK LAUNCH, READING ‘What ties ties, ties’

by Amy Winstanley, Lana Murdochy, Kathrin Graf, Mariah Blue, Younwon Sohn

Book design : Alex Walker

Publication : Print Art Research Center

Location:

NEVERNEVERLAND

Frans de Wollantstraat 84

Amsterdam

Younwon Sohn’s solo exhibition Housewarming, Dear Ghost Ants is based on a four-week stay at De Nachtegaal, an artist residency at NEVERNEVERLAND Foundation in Amsterdam.

For her solo show Housewarming, Dear Ghost Ants, Sohn focused on how to approach the idea of hospitality and domesticity in relation to elements linked to architecture, sound, body and creatures. Often her hospitality is an invitation of her own distant living space and the collaborative effort of friends who wish to link and share their narratives and local sceneries with her. Sohn extends her invitation to Juana Lee, a sound project between Younwon Sohn and Andrés G. Vidal.

This project delves into monitored and manipulated soundscapes extracted from each other's local sceneries. The floor space which is reconstructed of her balcony at Nowon, in Seoul, provides a place for gathering and a platform to hold other linkages. On the floor piece, there are insect creatures which are not welcomed but are prior residents of Sohn’s home. Calling them as potential relatives or flatmates, Sohn draws the connection between the invisible signal of Wi-Fi to the ghostly traces of creatures around every corner of her house. She takes them as a crucial indicator to understand what is home now.

About the artist:

Younwon Sohn (Seoul, KR) enjoys making sculptures which function as hospitality. Most of her works are site-specific installations which use domestic architecture to reflect daily practices like cleaning, digesting and sharing, to produce energy for a future event. She received her Bachelor Degree at Korean National University of Arts (KR), 2014 and attended the exchange program at Maryland Institute College of Arts (US), 2011. Since 2019 she holds her Master Degree from Sandberg Institute (NL), she is currently working in Amsterdam and Seoul. Her work has been presented in group and solo exhibitions in several institutions and artist-run spaces such as Barim space, Gallery 17717, Ricehouse_Bahmyi in the cave(KR), MACAO(IT), Zone2Source(NL), Tiefkeller(DE) etc.

The project is supported by Print Art Research Center, Seoul, South Korea

Period: 09 March till 02 April 2020

Location:

Ateliers '89 / NEVERNEVERLAND

Dominicanessenstraat 34, Oranjestad, Aruba

NEVERNEVERLAND is proud to present ”Reverse Hydro-Flows”, the project of De Driewieler Collectief at our collaborative residency in Aruba.

Reverse Hydro-flows draws its content from a perspective upon hydrocommonality and focus on the conceptualisation and development of a space installation as physical structure to host several encounters. The installation functions as an ecotone and as a space for facilitation of embodied practices and critical thinking, open to forms of knowledge that can drip, leak or spill from the non-western practices. A more liquid and inclusive space, aligned with a softening queer ethics, in search for an eco-deviant and yet-to-come utopia. These encounters will engage the Aruban community, activating flows of alterity beyond the binary and stimulating waves of reparation.

The concepts of Reverse Hydro-flows revolve around notion of liquidity and how does water shape new ecologies of living. Ateliers’ 89 / NEVERNEVERLAND and Aruba are a perfect context for such research. The omnipresence of sea water surrounding the island offers a perfect frame for Reverse Hydro-flows. More over, the socially engaged practice of our artistic collective was a big motivation for this invitation. Ateliers’ 89 program is deeply implemented for the surrounding population and to create a connection between the local population and international design and art. In addition to the encounter program, the final material production of Reverse Hydro-flows will take place in Ateliers’ 89 exhibition space in April 2020.

About the artists:

The Driewieler Collectief is composed by the artists: Arthur Guilleminot, Pedro Matias and Angelo Custodio.

As artistic living assemblage, we facilitate supportive structures to one another, daily.
Based on this experience, our artistic practice aligned with a queer ethics becomes life and life dissolves into practice and, therefore, our individual body of work informs our collective practice. With this exchange, we build a fluid yet supportive framework for our projects. A wobbly supportive system that allows different outcomes and that facilitates new perspectives and ways of doing, beyond our personal boundaries and fascinations.
Collectively, we research alternative structures based on our living, loving and working reality. By sharing each practice in fluid horizontal flows, we bridge critical thinking, developing socially engaged works exploring performance, interactive installation, immersive soundscapes, choreographed objects and non-traditional forms of art making.
The facilitation of interaction with the audience, allows a collective creation of a liquid temporality and a queer micro-community.
We focus in promoting visibility to different compositions of bodies, both in life and art. It is fundamental to use our agency as queer bodies to facilitate radical resistance - decolonized, horizontal, liquid, critical and destabilising the fixity of knowledge.
There is urgency in facilitating speculative approaches towards an optimist queer utopia, to allow new structures for ecologies of alterity to thrive.
By thinking with liquidity we rethink our bodies as wet matter and therefore with much more in common with other nonhuman bodies that what humankind wants to admit.
Our hydrocommonality with otherness and darkness should facilitate our understanding of our surroundings and ecosystems.

Websites: Driewieler Collectief, Pedro Matias, Angelo Custodio, Arthur Guilleminot
Instagram: Pedro Matias, Angelo Custodio, Arthur Guilleminot

The project is supported by Ateliers'89, NEVERNEVERLAND, Mondriaan Fonds, AFK, Bank Giro Loterij

Ateliers '89

The Ateliers ’89 Foundation is located in the heart of Oranjestad. The complex consists of a number of classrooms, studios and apartments, surrounded by a large garden. Established, foreign and local artists teach at the studios and exhibit since 2006 in the exhibition space of the foundation. Ateliers’89 has been actively involved in organizing workshops for young people and adults.

The foundation organizes workshops on site in villages for disadvantaged children, who cannot come to Ateliers’89 to attend workshops, meetings between the island’s people and international curators and writers, which created a huge inspirational exchange.

NEVERNEVERLAND invites young national and international artist to come and work and research for a period of 5 weeks in Amsterdam South-East  our location is called De Nachtegaal and sinds 2018 we can host the artists as well at Ateliers '89 on Aruba.

In addition to this we organize workshops based on the practice of the Artist in Residence given by the artist or other artists we invite especially for the workshops at De Nachtegaal, residency of NEVERNEVERLAND.

More info about the Residency program go to Residency.

Location:

NEVERNEVERLAND at De Punt

Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

Entrance (no pin)

5 Euro or 3 Euro (consession)

Opening: Friday 08 December, 19h00-23h00

Exhibition open: 09 December – 17 December, Fri-Sun 12h00 – 17h00

Finissage: Sun 17 December, 15h00– 17h00

[at 16:00 Artist talk]

Location:

NEVERNEVERLAND at De Punt

Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

NEVERNEVERLAND is excited to present ‘STAMINA TROPICAL WINTER': the first solo exhibition by Aurélien Lepetit in The Netherlands.

‘STAMINA TROPICAL WINTER' is a site specific installation reshaping the architectural archetype of the Gym as a vitrine where Fitness is used as a societal obsession. It seeks to question the body as a tool to shape identities by merging sports movements and devices with clubbing aesthetics into visuals, sounds and olfactives interventions.

This exhibition will showcase glass sculptures with Fitness aesthetic which is activated by the performers and driven by a sound piece in collaboration with The Mountain.

Performers:

Pedro Matias (PT), Elisabeth Mesnier (FR) and Estéfano Romani (BR)

Sound of techno: The Mountain (NL)

About the artist:

Aurélien Lepetit’s work investigates movement, gestures and attitudes from daily-life motion as a choreography. He stages the carnality of a body which is no longer present by pushing its boundaries and limits beyond gender, sexuality, political, patriarchal and sociological pressures. Lepetit’s work seeks the meaning of masculinity by questioning the body as a cluster to research beauty ideals, societal pressure and its impacts through medium such as video, installation and performance. Overlapping and merging olympic sport’s movement as a dance, Fitness as a societal obsession and Clubbing as a space of anthropological analysis shaping identities.

Aurélien Lepetit b. Lyon, France lives and works in Amsterdam. He holds a B.A. in Design of Spaces specialized in Set and Stage Design, Lyon, France, an M.A. in Exhibition Design and an M.A. in Dirty Art at the Sandberg Instituut. His work has been exhibited during The Wandering School at M^C^O, Milano (IT) (short-listed for the Milano Design Prize for best Experimentation), Off the Record: Design Performs in the Wormhole between Milan and Rotterdam at The Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL), Lucky Larry’s Cosmic Commune, International Design Biennale, St Etienne (FR), and assisted the curator Florence Parot for the exhibition de Appel timeline: 40+ years of risks conceptualized by Niels van Tomme, De Appel Art Center, Amsterdam (NL).

The Exhibition STAMINA TROPICAL WINTER is supported by Amsterdam Funds for the Arts and 3M.

Opening: Friday 17 November, 19h00-23h00

Exhibition open: 18 November – 26 November, Fri-Sun 12h00 – 17h00

Finissage: Sun 26 November, 15h00– 17h00

Opening: Friday 17 November, 20h30

Anne Marijn Voorhorst is a writer and art-critic, during the opening she will perform a text written for the exhibition.

Finissage: Sunday 26 November, 15h00– 17h00

Sander van der Ham is an urban psychologist working for STIPO, during the finissage he will give a presentation about (among other things) the projects he does with Thuismakers Collectief.

Location:

NEVERNEVERLAND at De Punt

Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

NEVERNEVERLAND is excited to present “The Burrow”: a duo exhibition by Minne Kersten and Jorik Amit Galama.

The exhibition “The Burrow” approaches the current obsession with feeling at home by looking at the specific intimacy people experience in their own house. The temporary expelling of the rules of public life creates a place where one gets as close as possible to something of a true self. At the same time, the vulnerability of this constellation often implicates the anxiety for its loss. The works in the exhibition encapsulate this fragility and play with the question what we try to protect with the notion of the home.

General text:

Although his apartment was located in a rather affluent neighborhood, the interior bore a close resemblance to the trenches that were dug during the Battle of the Somme. Old magazines and plastic bags had formed walls, the sleeves of suits hanging out in surrender, a tropical plant searched for sunlight and on the floor lay fragments of furniture that had been crushed by the weight they had supported. He tripled tirelessly between the four craters in which his mattress, the toilet, a kitchen sink and a small stool were located. When he sat down on the stool he tried to determine if he smelled or heard something that wasn’t his own. Memories of the outside world, with its parks, shopping centers, and boulevards, made him guffaw; how to cope with all those complete strangers! But he sometimes questioned if more had withdrawn, were only the delivery boys roaming the streets? When the doorbell rang to announce the arrival of his ration of food he shivered. A ringing doorbell meant the proximity of someone with eyes, and the eyes of others were like rifles, ready to fire a blasting gaze.

Artists:

Minne Kersten (NL) is an Amsterdam based visual artist and writer. She studied at Rietveld academie (Text & Image department, 2016). Her installations derive from fictional stories and metaphors about domesticated environments. She is interested in the living spaces that surround humans and how these are interacting with our bodies pumping of blood, flesh, skin and organs. Working across video’s, set-building and storytelling, she researches notions of architecture in relation to all sorts of building processes found in nature- and city life.

Her installations have been showed at i.a. at7 project space (2017), Museumnacht Appel Arts Centre (2017), Harbinger Iceland (2017), Worm S/ASH GA\\ERY (2017), Hrísey Iceland (2016), Oude Kerk (2015), de Brakke Grond (2015). In 2018 she will be a resident at kunsthuis SYB and a participant of the Slow Writing Lab.

www.minnekersten.com

Jorik Amit Galama (NL) is an Amsterdam based visual artist and writer of fiction and art-criticism. He graduated from the Text and Image department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2016. Working with the video essay as his main visual medium, he focusses on the ways in which image cultures determine people's behavior and how they try to rid themselves of this influence. His work often touches on topics related to anxiety and trauma, thereby drawing inspiration from methods of therapy.

His work has been showed at i.a. at7 project space (2017), Media Art Festival (2016), Worm S/ASH GA\\ERY (2016), de Brakke Grond (2015), Oude Kerk (2015), Lichthof (2015). In 2018 he will be a participant of the Slow Writing Lab.

www.jorikamitgalama.com

Poster design by Johanna Ehde.

The exhibition The Burrow is supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

Opening: Saturday 11 November, 15h00-03h00

 Location:

NEVERNEVERLAND at De Punt
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

TR/PS is the 1st quarter meeting of The Travel Agency.
In an intensive 5-day working period on Site the we will employ our desires for cooperation and productive togetherness to engage in a live-research on the ‘corpus operandi’. Remote working strategies allow us to incorporate Satellite Ventures, that add up to an immersive realm which seeks to show the strengths of cooperation.
Throughout the 11th of November the im-/material findings of this Joint Venture will be presented to the public in form of TR/PS, a 12hrs long event that takes its starting point at NEVERNEVERLAND.
T rust R elations / n P eople S upport

PROGRAM

TA Trips: The green