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The Architecture of Mind: Inside Outsider

The inside-outsider is an insider and an outsider at the same time. He wanders about the city he lives in, being a part of its community, while being an anonymus infiltrator at the same time. He goes through that city as through a layered network of pressure tanks and quarantaine capsules, each with their own access codes and rules of conduct. The spaces in and between buildings create that network of nests. They are part of a growing rampant organism. The walls, windows and objects in it, they take over. At that moment he realizes that he lives in that organism, that he is wandering inside himself. He is the sick building, the nervous drawing room, the congested corridor, the psychotic bathroom. He is the audience inside the theatre looking at himself. He shivers while he hears the deep neverending moaning of the ventilation shaft, while the juice runs through the veins behind the walls.

While painting within the confined space of the canvas, I construct parts of his plan, as an Architecture of the Mind, and, if things work out, I concentrate and forget about all the things mentioned above. In the end, they are just paintings and drawings that can be nailed on a wall.

Level -1 / minus one (2009-2011)

I'm afraid we're out of Waldorfs (2009)

I've lost my blanket (2008-2009)



Selection of Exhibitions

The Solo Project, Basel CH, crt. Brandt, Jun 17-21, 2015

I AMsterdam You BErlin, Berlin D, crt. Brandt, Apr 30- May 3, 2015

PAN 2014, crt. Brandt, Amsterdam, Nov 23-30, 2014

RAW Art Fair 2014, crt. Brandt, Rotterdam, Feb 5-9, 2014

Arti et Amicitae, Arti-Select, "Interiors", Amsterdam, Dec 6, 2013 – Jan 12, 2014

PAN 2013, RAI Amsterdam, crt. Brandt, Nov 6 - Dec 1, 2013

ESKFF, ESKFF 2x2, Jersey City, NJ, Sep 29, 2013

KunstRAI 2013, solostand, RAI Amsterdam, crt. Brandt, May 15-20, 2013

RAW Art Fair 2013, crt. Brandt, Rotterdam, Feb 6-10, 2013

Arti et Amicitae, Nieuwe Ledententoonstelling, Amsterdam, Jan 12 - 21, 2013

Metropolitan Pavilion, Art Steven Petronio Company, New York, NY, Nov 19, 2012

PAN 2012, RAI Amsterdam, crt. Brandt, Nov 18-25, 2012

Club A Project, Amsterdam, Sep 22 - oct 1, 2012
SLAG Contemporary, soloshow: 'Inside-Outsider', Brooklyn, NY, Sep 7 - Oct 12, 2012

The Hort Collection Art tour, New York, NY, May 4, 2012

The Hole NYC, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, "Buy What You Love 2012", New York, NY, April 23, 2012

Brandt, Group Dynamics, Amsterdam, Dec 3, 2011 - Jan 25, 2012

Brandt, Summer Exhibition, Amsterdam, June 1 – 19, 2011
Art Amsterdam '11, RAI, crt. Brandt, May 11 – 15, 2011
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Dogtime, Mar 12 – Apr 10, 2011
CBK in Aa-Kerk, Groningen, Sep 2010
P/////AKT, Bougie, Amsterdam, May 6 – 10, 2010

Westergasfabriek, "ArtOlive Young Talent Award 2009", Amsterdam, Oct 9 – 11, 2009
Galerie Ronmandos, "Best of Graduates", Amsterdam, Jul 31 – Aug 29, 2009
Westergasfabriek, "PICNIC'07", Amsterdam, Sep 19 - 22, 2007
Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Jun 6, 2007
Lowlands, "Mister Motley Film Program", Biddinghuizen, Aug 17 – 19, 2007

Stipends

Fonds BKVB Bijdrage Werkbudget buitenland 2012
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst Ontwikkelbudget Beeldend Kunstenaars 2010

Recidencies

Point B, Brooklyn, New York, NY, Mar 1 - Jun 1, 2012

Nominations, prices

ArtOlive Young Talent Award 2009, nominated, {juryrapport (Dutch)}
jury: Roos van Put (chief editor Kunstbeeld), Wim van Krimpen (former Director Gem.museum Den Haag)
Ron Mandos Young Blood Award 2009, nominated

Publications

Poetry International #45 - 'Niets te verbergen / Alles te verbergen', June 10 - 14, 2014,

published by Poeziecentrum Gent,
Mister Motley, Motley academy - Inside Outsider, 2013

Reviews, interviews

Bushwick Daily, Sep 26, 2012,
The L Magazine, The Measure, Sep 14, 2012,
De Groene Amsterdammer, Aug 12 2009, {review (Dutch)}
De Volkskrant, Jul 3 2009, {review (Dutch)}
Metropolis M, August 5 2009, {review/interview (Dutch)}
BLEND\ Magazine, issue 45, October 2009, New Talent, pg.58 – 59, {interview (Dutch)}

Art Education

Gerrit Rietveld Academy BFA Fine Arts, Amsterdam, 2005 – 2009