Upcoming exhibitions/performances
9-12 february Re:Rotterdam
On the 8th of February the second contemporary art fair Re:Rotterdam will commence. This time it has a much larger space in which to exhibit. This year art events will be presented over 10,000 m2 in a ten-storey empty office block in a prime location on the Maas in Rotterdam. Because of the exhibition the emptiness of the office block will be seen in another light while the traffic through the block will bring the block to life. More than a hundred and twenty artists, galleries and initiatives will be showing their work.
Re: Rotterdam is exceptional in that it provides a new context for artists to show their work. Certainly in a period when art subsidies are being removed it is important that new approaches are adopted to the presentation of work in the art market. Re Rotterdam offers galleries and artists without financial support the rich opportunity to exhibit and sell work to a large and interested public.
This event will be held simultaneously to ArtRotterdam, just around the corner at the Boompjes 60-68 in Rotterdam. The event is organized by Galerie10 their affiliated galleries, network, artists, artist initiatives and sponsors, all on a non-profit basis.
27th of january - 4th of march 2012 exhibition "back to the hunting grounds", Galerie 10
Mette Sterre proudly announces her upcoming exhibition "back to the hunting ground", the opening was the 27th of january 2012 in Utrecht. Galerie 10 is located at the Schoutenstraat 10, near Neude.
Mette Sterre & Inge Aanstoot - Back to the Hunting Ground
Back to the hunting grounds is a duo-exhibition of Inge Aanstoot and Mette Sterre. Inge Aanstoot en Mette Sterre share the interest of the mystical and mythical, which they both interpret in different media.
Inge Aanstoot is a painter who lets classical tales and themes inspire her work. She is interested in symbolism, storytelling and human association capacities. Her interest mostly lies with the different interpretation of shown symbols and situations by different people(s), as well as the endless amount of visual images that people surround themselves with. She is currently examining differences in natural and cultural behaviour and drives, and will show the new works in which she does so. Also, the works will show her studies of new formats; both bigger and smaller canvasses than she is used to work with.
Mette Sterre is a performance artist, creating costumes and installations which she presents through lens-based media. She’s interested in the paradox of our moral humanist standards, in relationship to (contemporary) freakshows. Her work is theatrical and baroque often with a narrative structure.
She’ll show a new installation especially made for this occasion, a miniature jungle depicting a new scene in the story of paradise (lost), a travel through time, where thoughts of suspension of waiting for the kill and the afterlife are evoked.
On the opening on the 27th of February she’ll perform a new piece, “snakes don’t eat apples”. Inspired by allegorical paintings and Victorian aesthetics and a recent discoveries about snakes, she combines all this into a rewrite of history of our origins.
10th of January performance "Dodona Fan" in TENT
On the 10th of january, during the new year celebration in TENT Rotterdam, I'll perform "Dodona Fan" again in a new version. Dodona fan is a mixture between a classical burlesque fan dance, greec mythology and gift wrapping and has been previously performed in Worm Rotterdam, during the TENT variety show.
www.tentrotterdam.nl
On the 8th of February the second contemporary art fair Re:Rotterdam will commence. This time it has a much larger space in which to exhibit. This year art events will be presented over 10,000 m2 in a ten-storey empty office block in a prime location on the Maas in Rotterdam. Because of the exhibition the emptiness of the office block will be seen in another light while the traffic through the block will bring the block to life. More than a hundred and twenty artists, galleries and initiatives will be showing their work.
Re: Rotterdam is exceptional in that it provides a new context for artists to show their work. Certainly in a period when art subsidies are being removed it is important that new approaches are adopted to the presentation of work in the art market. Re Rotterdam offers galleries and artists without financial support the rich opportunity to exhibit and sell work to a large and interested public.
This event will be held simultaneously to ArtRotterdam, just around the corner at the Boompjes 60-68 in Rotterdam. The event is organized by Galerie10 their affiliated galleries, network, artists, artist initiatives and sponsors, all on a non-profit basis.
27th of january - 4th of march 2012 exhibition "back to the hunting grounds", Galerie 10
Mette Sterre proudly announces her upcoming exhibition "back to the hunting ground", the opening was the 27th of january 2012 in Utrecht. Galerie 10 is located at the Schoutenstraat 10, near Neude.
Mette Sterre & Inge Aanstoot - Back to the Hunting Ground
Back to the hunting grounds is a duo-exhibition of Inge Aanstoot and Mette Sterre. Inge Aanstoot en Mette Sterre share the interest of the mystical and mythical, which they both interpret in different media.
Inge Aanstoot is a painter who lets classical tales and themes inspire her work. She is interested in symbolism, storytelling and human association capacities. Her interest mostly lies with the different interpretation of shown symbols and situations by different people(s), as well as the endless amount of visual images that people surround themselves with. She is currently examining differences in natural and cultural behaviour and drives, and will show the new works in which she does so. Also, the works will show her studies of new formats; both bigger and smaller canvasses than she is used to work with.
Mette Sterre is a performance artist, creating costumes and installations which she presents through lens-based media. She’s interested in the paradox of our moral humanist standards, in relationship to (contemporary) freakshows. Her work is theatrical and baroque often with a narrative structure.
She’ll show a new installation especially made for this occasion, a miniature jungle depicting a new scene in the story of paradise (lost), a travel through time, where thoughts of suspension of waiting for the kill and the afterlife are evoked.
On the opening on the 27th of February she’ll perform a new piece, “snakes don’t eat apples”. Inspired by allegorical paintings and Victorian aesthetics and a recent discoveries about snakes, she combines all this into a rewrite of history of our origins.
10th of January performance "Dodona Fan" in TENT
On the 10th of january, during the new year celebration in TENT Rotterdam, I'll perform "Dodona Fan" again in a new version. Dodona fan is a mixture between a classical burlesque fan dance, greec mythology and gift wrapping and has been previously performed in Worm Rotterdam, during the TENT variety show.
www.tentrotterdam.nl
