photo : Sander van Wettum
“Escape into 16-inch Battleship Barrels”
2025
ongoing project
Perhaps model-making serves as escape from heavy history, as the focus on details allows one to temporarily forget the historical significance behind the object. The title refers to the place that is simultaneously one of the safest and most dangerous places to escape, which might be understood as an existence representing both death and life at the same time.
01/12/2023-27/12/2023
Grope exhibition “Other Entanglements”
Het Archief, Rotterdam
installation / performance
conch shells, metal shelf, carpets, audio equipments
size variable
photo 1/2/3/4 : Jan Andriaans
The performance creates a sense of vertigo for the audience, offering no stable narrative pathway. This disorientation potentially mirrors the experience of our time, combining research elements with personal history in a humorous yet unsettling presentation. The persona represents someone people might avoid yet embodies a unique artistic charisma and a reluctant point of contact between people.
16 & 17/09/2023
Groot Rotterdam Atelier Weekend
Drievriendenstraat, Rottedam
video / installation
03:34
This video was captured in night vision mode. We can not see the nature clearly without tech? Let’s go to a space colony there is only man-made environment. It would be upside down world as you can see in the video.
17/04/2023-30/04/2023
Growing Space Rotterdam
installation
conch shells, woods
4000 x 2500
01/09/2022–27/01/2023
Goethe Institute Rotterdam
(Artist Residency)
presentation / performance
photo 3/4 : Sander van Wettum
The performance creates a sense of vertigo for the audience, offering no stable narrative pathway. This disorientation potentially mirrors the experience of our time, combining research elements with personal history in a humorous yet unsettling presentation. The persona represents someone people might avoid yet embodies a unique artistic charisma and a reluctant point of contact between people.
29/10/2021-29/01/2022
When the Site Lost the Plot
Amsterdam
handmade wood spoons
Rizq رزق is an Arabic word that can mean livelihood, blessing, income, or work. It is used in different ways and for different reasons; rizq can be about money, but also about love and care. Rizq is a participatory gift shop initiated by Yazan Khalili, with affordable non-art objects by artists on sale. Through this platform we will discuss the current structures of the economy we work within, and produce an economy based on collective practices and sharing of resources. |
25/10/2021
Zaagmolendrift 12
Rotterdam
spoon making performance at studio window gallery
photo : Sander van Wettum
24/05/2018 - 25/05/2018
Kaus Australis
Rotterdam
wood counter, ceramics, cocktail, wall drawing
finger cup ceramics made by Micha Zweifel >>
cocktail “Electric Eel” made by Matthew Stadler
7000 x 4000
This social gathering space creates a deliberate tension: elements related to fingers, prints, and hands are juxtaposed with the eel's slippery nature that refuses fingerprints and conceals its origins. This paradox invites reflection on the unstable nature of relationships, especially in a space where drinking may blur memory.