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Ministerie van Berge en Shi

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

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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.

Shen Mingquan

root — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:10:07 +0000

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No planet is smooth and lovely

In the Shen’s two videos work, she presents the behavior of a ranger who develops into obsessive behavior as they repeatedly photograph trees repeatedly. Through this behavior we witness the process of the ranger and a human ape exploring each other. In these two stories, the authors attempt to make visible movements hidden in linear time and real space, capturing what remains of the daily fracture, revealing, small and always unbridgeable gaps in time. At that point where nothing is seen, where there is no meaning, the image returns to our gaze, where one encounters one’s own object-relative. Do clues and information become lost in this flow?

Sigurdur Gudmundsson

root — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:14:30 +0000

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Sigurdur Gudmundsson

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Eight Poems

First opening at CEAC

Untitled Music

Rolling Snowball, Shanghai Expo, 2010

Rolling Snowball 2, Quanzhou, 2011

Rolling Snowball 3, Guangzhou, 2012

Rolling Snowball 4, Quanzhou, 2013

Drawing is thinking, thinking is moving

Rolling Snowball 5, Djupivogur, 2014

Rolling Snowball 6, Djupivogur, 2015

Rolling Snowball 7, Djupivogur, 2016

Rolling Snowball 8, Xiamen, 2017

Rolling Snowball 10, Datong, 2017

Rolling Snowball 13, Djupivogur, 2020

Eight European artists

SigurdurGudmundsson began his artistic activity in the 1960s.
He is making projects as documented and undocumented performances, photographs, drawings, prints, sculptures, installations and even musical compositions.His work can be divided into two periods. The photographic period until 1980 that brought his work all over the world through numerous international museums exhibitions and collections. After 1980 he started to do more sculptures, which also have been displayed in most of the European countries, in America and in China.

SigurdurGudmundsson is one of Iceland’s most international artists. Within the last twenty years he has mainly been living and working in China.
Major solo exhibitions include shows at the Baltic, Gateshead (2003), Malmö Konsthall (1992), Kunsthallezu Kiel (1993) and several shows at the National Gallery of Iceland and Reykjavik Art Museum. Many of Sigurdur’s works are in the collections of museums throughout Europe and he has made a number of public sculptures located in the Nordic Countries and Central Europe.

Gudmundsson’s idiosyncratic work is difficult to separate from the energetic and witty artist himself. His art has been based on a non-hierarchical flow between photoworks, sculptures, performances and ´visual poems´. The photoworks
from the seventies depict human existence in a humorous and pointed
way as part of nature. Throughout his diverse and prolific career,
Gudmundsson has undauntedly applied new methods and ideas but always
in his unaffected and personal approach, for example working with a
hypnotist in his performances to reevaluate his own work as an art
novice. Sigurdur has also published three novels.

SIRRA SIGRUN SIGURDARDOTTIR

root — Fri, 10 May 2019 09:11:52 +0000

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Inside the outside

Rolling Snowball 11, Djupivogur, 2018

Sirra Sigrun Sigurdardottir graduated from School of Visual Arts with MFA in Art Practice 2013, the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2001 and studied Art Theory at the University of Iceland from 2003 to 2004. She is one of the founders of the artist-run space Kling & Bang (2003) in Reykjavik and has in that capacity organized a number of exhibitions and projects. She has exhibited extensively in Iceland and internationally. Solo shows at Reykjavík Art Museum, The Living Art Museum, Kling & Bang and Dorothea Schlueter gallery. Group shows and collaborations include VedenVarassa, Amos Andersons konstmuseum, Helsinki,CIVILIZATION – Monumental Materialism, Colony, PS1 MOMA, New York, The Space Between Now and Then, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Tower of Now,No Soul For Sale, Festival of Independents, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London, UK, Sirkus, Frieze Projects, Regents Park, London, UK and Sundogs, Truck Gallery, Calgary, Canada.

Sarah Mei Herman

root — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:14:24 +0000

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www.sarahmeiherman.nl

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Screen Touch

Rolling Snowball 6, Djupivogur, 2015

Rolling Snowball 8, Xiamen, 2017

Rolling Snowball 10, Datong, 2017

Sarah Mei Herman was born in Amsterdam in 1980. She studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague, from which she received her BA in 2005. In 2010 she completed her MA in Fine Art Photography at The Royal College of Art in London. Her work has been shown internationally, among others at The National Portrait Gallery in London and at Le Chateau d’ Eau in Toulouse. She is represented by Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam.

Stephanie Rhode

root — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:26:16 +0000

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www.stephanierhode.nl

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Sandhouse-project: Stillness, Movement and Transience

Rhode will build the installation of ‘sandhouse-project’ on the beach of Xiamen.

During her stay in Xiamen she wants to find out how the people in Xiamen react to the phenomena of transience when shown and experienced through a piece of art. Everything in life is transient, nothing is the way it was, and everything is constantly moving. Artistic representation and the underlying message will be actively experienced. Transience will become visible in a monumental way.

STELLA RAHOLA MATUTES

root — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:27:38 +0000

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www.stella.cat

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Water (SHUǏ)

Even that Stella comes from Mediterranean Sea; she has felt in this tropical landscape of China the strong presence of the water. The water suspended in the air of the dampness, the water crossing the body as sweat, the violence of the nature in the shape of typhoons, the importance of the tea ceremony, where the water even runs over the wood table to warm the cups, or even the diluted Chinese ink as a tool of expression, the water of the sea for fishing… All these aspects connected with life… the organicity of the taichí as a flow, the soft and seductive movement of the Chinese calligraphy, or even the rhythm of the traffic, never drastic, but never intermittent, always fluid and crazy like a dancing. Shui….

Jessica Kung Dreyfus and Stéphane Dreyfus

root — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:18:31 +0000

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Do you have WeChat

Jessica and Stephane are CEAC resident artists from the USA. Jessica is an international artist who has exhibited in Rome, London, and many US cities. She is a graduate of Yale University cum laude. This piece will invite audience participation and is an interactive cultural commentary. With the inescapable presence of social media and smart phones, how has technology changed the way we connect with each other? What have we gained and what have we lost? “Tea Time” investigates this question within the cultural context of a familiar ritual. “Do you have WeChat? investigates this same question in another way.

Sandro Setola

root — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:32:03 +0000

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www.sandrosetola.com

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Sorry Out of order

At the basis of all my work lies a strong fascination for natural processes and phenomena. These sometimes dramatic processes, such as isolation, expansion, transformation, growth and decay are interpreted in a poetic, personal and sometimes cynical/humouristic way. Associations with architectural proposals allow these works to enter a twilight zone between desire and reality that in turn raises questions about their function or meaning. On the one hand they can be seen as comments on our everyday surroundings and urban environment by proposing buildings that seem to be designed for the expression of discomfort, spirituality or a lack of ideology or function. Other works transgress this seemingly critical attitude. In these works the strong links to the aforementioned natural or universal processes and their psychological parallels prevail and cause the proposed structures to be nothing more but representations of a particular state of mind or personality.

Sayaka Abe

root — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:55:12 +0000

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www.sayaka.nl

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MAAS at CEAC

Sayaka Abe (Japan)

Sayaka Abe and Rui Tian met each other for the first time in 2008. At that time they took part in a group exhibition in Xuzhou, China. Since 2005 Sayaka is staying in the Netherlands, she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute. The current MAAS Artist Rui Tian invited Sayaka to be the guest artist for the MAAS In Between and they decided to do the project together. When Rui Tian is in The Netherlands she feels she is really a Chinese. When Sayaka is in The Netherlands she feels she is really a Japanese. It’s the frist time both artists do a project together. They try to combine everything together. They started at MAAS their Chapanese Restaurant for just one Sunday-afternoon.