Category: Studio’s & Residencies

 

Ny-Ålesund is a research town in Oscar II Land on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard. It is situated on the Brøgger peninsula (Brøggerhalvøya) and on the shore of the bay of Kongsfjorden. The company town is owned and operated by Kings Bay AS, who provide facilities for permanent research institutes from ten countries. Ny-Ålesund has an all-year permanent population of 30 to 35, with the summer population reaching 120. Its facilities include Ny-Ålesund Airport, a Mine Museum, as well as fifteen permanent research stations by countries such as, Norway, Germany, France, England, Italy, Japan, South-Korea China and Holland. It is the northernmost functional civilian settlement in the world.

The Dutch Arctic Center of the University of Groningen uses a couple of small buildings in Ny-Alesund as polar station. There they are studying barnacle geese and their ecology. The study in Kongsfjorden started in 1990 and is continuing till today. Dr. Maarten Loonen is keeping a personal log of this study.

I was invited by Maarten Loonen for a stay of 8 days in Ny-Ålesund as part of his team, a great experience for which I’m very thankful.
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After returning from Ny-Ålesund I stayed in Galleri Svalbard one more week. From there I made one more trip in the evening to Skansbukta and Nordenskiöldbreen (Nordenskiöld Glacier). Other than that I worked some more on small drawings and spend time in Galleri Svalbard’s fantastic library.

 
Library Photo 1 & 2: Armin Elbers.
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Since November 2014 I have been working in a SKAR studio in the Insulindestraat in Rotterdam.
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Between 2009 and 2013 I worked in Paris in two studios where I primarily worked on drawings. The first one was in Noisy le Sec, in the eastern suburbs of Paris. Later I worked in the studio of Duncan Wylie in St. Ouen in the northern suburbs of Paris.
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Celebrating a decade as Miami’s landmark alternative artspace, Locust Projects organized its 10-year anniversary exhibition called Inevitable Continuum curated by executive Director Claire Breukel and artist Gene Moreno. Dan and Kathryn Mikesell offered the Fountainhead Residency to me as a place where I could realize my work New Sun for Inevitable Continuum. The exhibition opened on November 8 2008.  I shared the studio with artists W. Tucker (USA) and Mike Swaney (Spain).

 

With thanks: Claire Breukel, Dan and Kathryn Mikesell and Beatriz Monteavaro.…

 

In 2007 I was invited by David Bade, Nancy Hoffman and Tirzo Martha to come to Willemstad (Curacao) for a three month residency at the Instituto Buena Bista. During my stay there I worked on new sculptures and made a special issue of Wormhole magazine with the students of Instituto Buena Bista.

With thanks to: Nancy Hoffman, David Bade and Tirzo Martha.
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