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Michael Mackenzie

root — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 05:59:12 +0000

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CEAC exhibition

COMMENTS: Declaration of Love / Campaign of Hate

Michael Mackenzie is a multi-disciplinary artist and academic, who creates visual art, makes films and writes screenplays and novels. He has travelled extensively and lived in many parts of the world. His paintings, drawings, and video art have been exhibited throughout Australia, China and Japan. Michael currently works for the Institute of Creativity and Innovation within Xiamen University. He has just completed a new novel.

Ministerie van Berge en Shi

root — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:37:12 +0000

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Laila van Berge

Huilin Shi

CEAC exhibition

50/50

Ministerie van Berge en Shi(MBS) is a Sino-Dutch agency that activates an exchange P2P network. Through visual and research projects MBS bridges the geo-cultural distance. Hereby the focus lays on the creation of a connection between individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds. MBS is now operating a interdisciplinary research-based project entitled 50/50 inspired by the Sino-Dutch 50th Anniversaries of 2022. Here in MBS focuses on the current trade of goods and ideas between the two nations.

We are Huilin Shi (CN) and Laila van Berge (NL), and we are initiating a creative interdisciplinary research-based project as a duo specifically celebrating and reflecting on the Sino-Dutch-50 Anniversaries in 2022. We met during our studies at KABK in the Hague, where we were sharing the same workspace and have been exhibiting together in multiple group shows. Despite our different backgrounds and working methods, we share a similar interest in cultural identity and have a playful and experimental approach to the treated materials. Motivated by the rooted history of the Sino-Dutch partnership, in this intercultural exploration, we are both committed to collaboration.

Marike Schuurman

root — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 13:47:55 +0000

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Marike Schuurman

CEAC exhibition

So far

Rolling Snowball 13, Djupivogur, 2020

Rolling Snowball 10, Datong, 2017

Rolling Snowball 8, Xiamen, 2017

Rolling Snowball 6, Djupivogur, 2015

Marike Schuurman is an artist-photographer born in Groningen, The Netherlands. She studied photography at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she got her BFA in 1998, immediately followed by a two year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

In 2003, she got a stipendium from the Dutch Fonds BKVB (Mondriaan fund) for a one-year residency at Künstlerhaus Bethaniën in Berlin; in 2008 for a 6-months residency in Beijing, China and in 2009 for a residency in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2019 – 2020 for a 6-months residency at Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen.

Her work is exhibited a.o. in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, FOAM, Amsterdam, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland and KINDL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Her work is part of collections such as Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and KPN, The Hague, The Netherlands. Since 2003, she lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam.

‘The work of MarikeSchuurman explores the ambiguity of human-made spaces and landscapes, as well as of the media of photography in which she works. While Schuurman’s approach can be described as documentary – her subjects are usually bound to a certain location, often as curious phenomenons of this site-specific reality – the final images leave the realm of the documentary, moving towards a conceptual and sensory contemplation on what we see when we look at a photograph and what was there to begin with.’

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Milena Anna Bouma

root — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 03:37:35 +0000

Artist website

www.milenaannabouma.nl

CEAC residency

From January 2 till March 27, 2020

How to distinguish boundaries and the status of things that are alive within an order?

In order to approximate the idea of hybridization of things, objects and commodities, Milena Anna Bouma turns the meaning of everyday objects around. Where the “alive” and “non-living” objects and materials bump into each other, a complex collision of things and meanings takes place. Whereas objects usually have one dimension, the term hybrid suggests multiple dimensions.

How can an iron table or a random toy become a ‘tank’, ‘container’ or ‘station’ for something else, and how do they supplement, enhance or challenge each other? By representing these ideas in sculptures and installations, using both existing and handcrafted materials and objects, Milena advocates for new possibilities of the objects’ status in the world.

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MONIEK SCHRIJER

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:11:14 +0000

Artists website

moniekschrijer.com

CEAC exhibition

DIAMONDS AND RUST

Moniek Schrijer was born in Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Since completing a Bachelor of Applied Arts and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Jewellery and Printmaking at Whitireia New Zealand, she has been the recipient of numerous awards and residencies. Her most notable accolades include the Herbert Hofmann Preis and the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation artist in residence. Moniek has exhibited extensively in group and solo exhibitions; her work is in the collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Dowse Art Museum and Espace Solidor, France.

Mels Dees

root — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:25:30 +0000

Artist website

www.melsdees.eu

CEAC exhibition

Double Dutch 2

Mels Dees was trained as an architect at the Technical University in Eindhoven, Holland, but for most of his life he has worked as a visual artist, writer and translator, mainly in Europe and South America. Dees started out producing poetry, etchings and paper reliefs, but his work now also comprises large-scale installations and outdoor sculpture in wood, metal and other materials. His work has been collected by museums and private institutions, both national and international. Photography and digital collage techniques are important tools for his work. Mels lives and works in Eindhoven at the studio complex Ateliers Patagonia, which he initiated in 1981.

Mariëlle van den Bergh

root — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:39:13 +0000

Artist website

www.mariellevandenbergh.eu

CEAC exhibition

Double Dutch 2

Mariëlle van den Bergh lives and works in Eindhoven, in the south of the Netherlands. She was trained as an art teacher at Academie voor Beeldende Vorming in Tilburg and as an artist at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She had residencies at the sundaymorning@ekwc in the Netherlands and at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan, where she created ceramic work. She also works with paper, textile, glass and metal and participated in both national and international exhibitions. Her work is purchased by Philips Holland, Delta Lloyd, Academic Medical Centre Maastricht, Gemeentemuseum Weert, Hilvarenbeek, Van Abbemuseum and the art collection Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Currently she is working on a commission for a major piece in public space; her progress can be followed on www.vulkaanvannunspeet.nl, under Nieuws/Proces.

Marjan Laaper

root — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:37:30 +0000

Artist website

Marjan Laaper

CEAC exhibition

Rolling Snowball 4, Quanzhou, 2013

Rolling Snowball 5, Djupivogur, 2014

Rolling Snowball 6, Djupivogur, 2015

Rolling Snowball 8, Xiamen, 2017

Rolling Snowball 10, Datong, 2017

Old Chinese poets and painters often paid a tribute to nature. They made an ode to the mystery of life and the stunning beauty of the natural surrounding. How can artists nowadays bring an ode to nature in times of technology and urbanism? Marjan Laaper does an attempt in some new video works made in China during an artist in residence period at the Chinese European Art Centre (CEAC) in Xiamen. In these videos, man and nature come together. The natural and the urban surrounding combine. But most of all it is an ode to the mystery of life itself.

The work “The Gift” (2013) shows two hands that are filmed from above. The hands are close together as if they were asking for something. After a while a small bird lands into the hands and makes it his residence for a short while. After some time the bird flies away, leaving the hands waiting for the next gift.

The work “The Gift” can be seen on August 28th and 29th 2013 on a 6.45 by 15.5 meter LED screen. The LED screen is situated on Yanwu Road above “Fu Wan Bang” shopping mall opposite Xiamen University West Gate and nearby Nanputuo Temple in Xiamen, China.

The work “Birdsong” (2013) shows a hand filmed from above. A small bird lies
motionless in the hand with his eyes closed. After a while the sounds of nature
can be heard. A Chinese flute starts to play a song. The bird opens his eyes
and moves his wings on the sound of the flute. When the song ends, the bird
closes his eyes again and rests in the hand.

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Marianne Lammersen

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:47:12 +0000

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CEAC exhibition

Balancing on trembling ground

Rolling Snowball 3, Guangzhou, 2012

Rolling Snowball 5, Djupivogur, 2014

Rolling Snowball 12, Djupivogur, 2019

Marianne Lammersen is intrigued by the tension caused by the growth of technological development on one hand and the maintenance and preservation of human identity on the other hand. In her installations and collages, she creates a break in the daily hectics of the modern world, a meditative moment, in which the viewer contemplates himself, and is challenged to question his position in the continuously ongoing technology that surrounds him.

Meiya Lin

root — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:42:39 +0000

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Meiya Lin

CEAC exhibition

Mirage City

Rolling Snowball, Shanghai Expo, 2010

Rolling Snowball 2, Quanzhou, 2011

Rolling Snowball 3, Guangzhou, 2012

Rolling Snowball 5, Djupivogur, 2014

Rolling Snowball 8, Xiamen, 2017

Rolling Snowball, Nanjing, 2018

Rolling Snowball 12, Djupivogur, 2019

CEAC 15 Years Anniversary

Rendezvous at Xiamen

DV Space

The Dialogue

Meiya studied art at Xiamen University and later she worked as an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van de BeeldendeKunsten in Amsterdam. Meiya works in video and she also makes video-installations.