Exhibition

KunstRAI | Amsterdam

17/05/12 09:46

STIL EVEN | Stedelijk Museum Zwolle

01/04/12 09:45

STIL EVEN
Group exhibition @ Stedelijk Museum Zwolle - 9 April until 12 August 2012
With Margriet Smulders, Wilma Kuil, Raquel Maulwurf, Fred Thoolen, Birgit Verwer, Roger Wardin, Daniele Galliano, Guido Geelen, Tamme de Boer, George Meertens, Merijn Bolink, Charlotte Dumas, Robert Zandvliet, Mark van Overeem, Jacco Olivier | Hendrick ten Oever, Pieter Symonsz. Potter, Charley Toorop, Carel Borchart Voet, Henri Fantin Latour, Simon Verelst, Willem Grasdorp, Pieter Boel, Willem Kalf, Pieter de Putter

OPENING MONDAY 9 APRIL 15:00h: STIL EVEN @ STEDELIJK MUSEUM ZWOLLE: INVITATION

Het bestuur, directie en medewerkers van het Stedelijk Museum Zwolle nodigen u uit voor de opening van “stil even” op tweede paasdag, maandag 9 april 2012 om 15.00 uur in het Stedelijk Museum Zwolle aan de Melkmarkt 41.

STIL EVEN

stillevens en landschappen rond het thema tijd uit de Gouden Eeuw tot nu.

Programma: Welkom en korte inleiding door Adriaan de Regt, directeur Stedelijk Museum Zwolle en curator van deze tentoonstelling. Opening door Joke J. Hermsen, die tevens het essay in de catalogus schreef. Bezichtiging tentoonstelling en borrel.

Joke J. Hermsen signeert “Stil de Tijd” en “Blindgangers”.

Genodigden die hun Museumkaart laten scannen hebben recht op een gratis catalogus van “stil even”. Indien u van deze uitnodiging gebruik maakt graag reserveren op reactie@stedelijkmuseumzwolle.nl

Deze tentoonstelling kwam mede tot stand door Museum de Pont Tilburg, Museum het Valkhof Nijmegen, Amsterdam Museum, Groninger Museum, Rijksmuseum Twenthe Enschede, Livingstone Gallery Den Haag, Nederlands Instituut voor Media Kunst Amsterdam, particuliere bruikleengevers, Galerie Paul Andriessen Amsterdam.

Stedelijk Museum Zwolle
Melkmarkt 41
8011 MB Zwolle
038-4214650
www.stedelijkmuseumzwolle.nl

Stedelijk Museum Zwolle
Open: Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 17:00h
Closed on Koninginnedag 30 April
Entry:
Adults € 7,50
Children under 18 € 2,50
65+ € 5,00
Museumkaart free entry

Tags: Stedelijk Museum Zwolle

On the Road Again | Livingstone gallery | The Hague

01/03/12 20:43

On the Road Again
Group Exhibition from 18 March until 29 April
with Adriaan Rees, Albrecht Genin, Arie van Geest, Birgit Verwer, Cornelia Schleime, Hugo Tieleman, James Brown, Jan Dibbets, Jan Wattjes, John van ’t Slot, Joke van Katwijk, Manfred Schneider, Melle de Boer, Raquel Maulwurf, Robert Rauschenberg, Roger Wardin, Ryan Mendoza, Simon Schrikker

OPENING SUNDAY 18 MARCH @ 16:00 H

RAW Art Fair | RAW EXPO

02/02/12 08:06

RAW RAW Art Fair & RAW EXPO) takes place from 8 - 12 February 2012
at the Fenix Loods 1
Veerlaan 9 -13
Katendrecht, Rotterdam

RAW EXPO is curated by Piet de Jonge (former chief curator of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Museum Kröller Müller and Van Abbemuseum) and Ruth Horstmanshoff

OPENING PARTY RAW Art Fair & RAW EXPO
Wednesday 8 February 21:00 - 0.00 h

Tags: Rotterdam, RAW Art Fair | RAW EXPO

Maulwurf & Verwer @ Spaarne 14

15/01/12 19:23

Maulwurf & Verwer @ Spaarne 14
Special presentation by Pieter and Marieke Sanders & Livingstone gallery:
Raquel Maulwurf (drawings) and Birgit Verwer (installations)
Pop-up gallery next to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem
20 - 29 January 2012

Raquel Maulwurf, U Boot II, 2009
152 x 217 cm

Birgit Verwer 2012

The lovers are all asleep, 2012
282 x 60 x 170 cm

Maulwurf & Verwer @ Spaarne 14
Special presentation by Pieter and Marieke Sanders & Livingstone gallery:
Raquel Maulwurf (drawings) and Birgit Verwer (installations)
Pop-up gallery next to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem
20 - 29 January 2012

Open from 13.00 - 17.00 hours:
Friday 20 January
Saturday 21 January
Sunday 22 January
Thursday 26 January
Friday 27 January
Saturday 28 January
Sunday 29 January
and by appointment: Livingstone gallery 070- 3609428
Spaarne 14
2011 CH Haarlem

On the occasion of the exhibition ’Met andere ogen’ from 20 January until 20 May 2012 at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem
Collection of drawings | Collection Pieter and Marieke Sanders
Contains works of artists such as Marcel van Eeden, Raquel Maulwurf, Marc Mulders a.o.
Teylers Museum
Spaarne 16
2011 CH Haarlem

Tags: Maulwurf & Verwer @ Spaarne 14, Livingstone gallery, Raquel Maulwurf

Kunst doet goed | CBK Utrecht

26/11/11 16:13

Group exhibition ’Kunst doet goed’ from 29 November until 24 December 2011
Opening Sunday 27 November 16:00 hrs
CBK Utrecht & DepARTmentSTORE

Centrum Beeldende Kunst Utrecht
Plompetorengracht 4
3512 CC Utrecht

Tags: CBK Utrecht

LINKED | Bink Vijf Hoog | The Hague

01/11/11 23:32

BINK VIJF HOOG
Binckhorstlaan 36
(part of BINK36)
2516 BE The Hague

BUY TICKETS HERE - DO IT NOW! | Livingstone gallery | The Hague

22/08/11 23:51

Solo exhibition from 4 September until 30 October 2011

Opening Sunday 4 September 2011 at 16:00 h
Birgit Verwer opening LS

Birgit Verwer | BUY TICKETS HERE - DO IT NOW! | installations | presentation catalog ’BIRGIT VERWER, BUY TICKETS HERE - DO IT NOW!’

Günther Förg | windows to abstraction | aquarels and paintings

project- room | Hugo Tieleman and Jan Wattjes | paintings

Livingstone gallery
Anna Paulownastraat 70 A/B
2518 BH The Hague
The Netherlands
T +31(0)70.3609428
F +31(0)70.3625877
livingstone@livingstonegallery.nl
www.livingstonegallery.nl

Open from Wednesday - Saturday from 12.00 - 17.00 hours,
the last Sunday of each month and by appointment

Tags: Solo show, Livingstone gallery, The Hague, Günther Förg, Hugo Tieleman, Jan Wattjes, BUY TICKETS HERE - DO IT NOW!

Art Amsterdam

11/05/11 18:42

Art Amsterdam 2011 | No Holds Barred | solo | GREAT LI(F)E or WASTE OF TIME?!
Birgit Verwer solo Art Amsterdam

* ’Palpitation’ (detail) | 2011 | installation | 200 x 107 x 78 cm | photo: Gerhard Zervaas

Tags: Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, No Holds Barred, Solo show, John van 't Slot, Roger Wardin, Daniele Galliano, Livingstone gallery, Bob Smit gallery, GREAT LI(F)E OR WASTE OF TIME?

GOING NUCLEAR | Sebastian Brandl | Cologne | Germany

08/04/11 10:31

GOING NUCLEAR
Raquel Maulwurf (drawings), Birgit Verwer (installations)

Opening exhibition Friday 8 April 2011 at 19:00 Hrs
Exhibition 9 April - 28 May 2011
Special opening hours Wednesday 13 April 2011, 18:00 - 21:00 Hrs

Sebastian Brandl
Brüsseler Str. 4
50674 Cologne
Germany
T +49 (0)221.222 99 793
F +49 (0)221.222 99 792
M +49 (0)178.925 2198
www.sebastianbrandl.com

Opening hours:
Tu-Fr 13-18 Hrs
Sa 12-16 Hrs
and by appointment

Raquel Maulwurf / Birgit Verwer
GOING NUCLEAR

Under the highly topical appearing title ’Going Nuclear’ the exhibition brings together works by two young artists living in the Netherlands. But the focus of the exhibition is not the still fragile situation of the damaged nuclear power plant in Japan, although, of course, it is nowadays nearly impossible to ignore this fact in light of this. In this synopsis, that had been arranged way beforehand of this worst-case scenario, the focus concentrates rather on fundamental thoughts about the Condition Humaine. Achievements of the supposedly progressive civilizing process, be it a blessing or a curse, are provided in a creative and joyful way.

Raquel Maulwurf, who lives now in Amsterdam was born in 1975 in Madrid and finished her studies 1997 in Arnhem. With seductively beautiful, monumental charcoal drawings, the artist captures the bright light, that spotlights at times our dance on a volcano, on large museum board. The references made in these images are all too familiar: war zones, debris fields, anti-aircraft fire and hails of bombs on large cities are vivid scenarios of the human destruction. There are those ’lightning incidents’, to refer here to a concept of the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, in which the world loses its colour. Obviously, it results from an incessant urge of man to destroy itself, his species and its environment.

With her black and white series on various topics Maulwurf transforms her way of world exploration towards a self-questioning. The manically drawing process goes however hand in hand with the exploration of her own destructive potentiality. Hence in this artistic act the white cardboard base mutates - taken to extreme - into a battlefield. A clear statement is, contrary to the general expectation, therefore, initially not given. For the current exhibition Raquel Maulwurf selected works from the series ’Going Nuclear’ which she started in 2008 and which show the well-known eerily beautiful, but above all nightmarish images of nuclear tests at various places in the world. With the Mururoa and Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, or Semipalatinsk in today’s Kazakhstan extinguished places are designated, which can no longer be visited by man much less inhabited. Only the traditional pictures tell more of their presence.

Also Birgit Verwer, born in 1972 and living in The Hague, puts the question of what the human mind is capable of in the centre of her artistic work. In her sculptural collages fragments of reality are represented, appropriated, incorporated, invented, manipulated and distorted. Here, the medium is less important than the urgency of the matter. This is to emphasize that we should revise the use of our symbols, values and models in a self-contained, critical and creative way linked with the invitation for an open dialogue about our world and about us. Knowledge, power and subjectivity of man are to be debated.

The logic of the systems and the universal context of delusion should be confronted in a pointed way and space for open human interaction should be claimed. For the gallery space in Cologne Birgit Verwer created another version of her ticket counters. A collage of disposed pieces of furniture, in which two stuffed foxes, representing the two souls in our hearts, offer tickets for misplaced priorities. The fact that we humans cannot live without illusions and therefore willingly content ourselves with simulacra is testified by another installation (Three Two One, 2011) which represents an automobile, such as children piece together with utensils of the home furnishings. In this kind of vehicle they make long journeys to the most remote corners of the world without getting anywhere. Obviously there is always a margin between form, an essence and a reality to correspond. Error and truth can just not be completely separated from each other.

So, how far could we enter into an age and understanding of the world, doing without myths, ideologies and illusions, and consequently without general truths that are relevant to us? Raquel Maulwurf and Birgit Verwer do not avoid those particular questions. The common characteristic of the two artists is the formal and sovereign way of articulating of their commitment, which at the same time means a radical rejection of the belief in progress and
its affirmative ideology.

Harald Uhr

Tags: Cologne, Germany, Sebastian Brandl, GOING NUCLEAR, Raquel Maulwurf, Harald Uhr