NEWS @ 8th January 2025
2025
April 27- June 8, 2025
TRACES, De Nieuwe Gang, Nederlands
An art project will investigate the traces of war, in the context of the commemoration of 80 Years of Freedom. There are traces in buildings and the landscape, there are monuments not to forget. Most certainly there are also traces that are deeply etched in the souls of different generations. The residents of the border area share a common past. However, where dialects move freely across borders, the views about this shared history are less obviously the same. For example, there is sometimes confusion about whether 80 Years of Freedom will be celebrated in 2025, or whether it’s 80 years of the end of National Socialism that will be commemorated. Some Dutch people are surprised that the victims of National Socialism are commemorated in Germany.
TRACES will research the theme from different perspectives and initiate conversation and discussion about it, between the artists, and also with the audience that will visit the presentation and will participate in the public program.
PUBLIC PROGRAM TRACES EXHIBITION - April 27 to June 8, 2025
VENUE: De Nieuwe Gang, Nederlands. Open on Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and can be visited by
appointment.
April 27 De Nieuwe Gang - Opening TRACES De Nieuwe Gang, with an introduction to the project.
Performance ArToll Klanglabor
May 7 ArToll Kunstlabor - Lecture and discussion about 'Zeitzeugen', the book by Clemens Reinders, Rees, about the WW2 testimonies of people from the Niederrhein region.
May 18 De Nieuwe Gang - Conversation with, among others, Wido Gerdsen, Iraq & Afghanistan veteran.
June 8 De Nieuwe Gang - Finissage with Artist Talk, a conversation between artists and the public.
Presentation of the TRACES leporello
Participating artists
Inna Abramova (UA/UK) Matt Hale (UK) Regina Friedrich-Körner (D) Nele Waldert (D) Claus van Bebber (D) Pier Pennings (NL) Anke Land (NL) Keiko Sato (JP/NL) Noor Roelofs (NL) Mike Roelofs (NL)
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7-15 February 2025
Readymades at Tension, London
Curated by Alison Aye & Ken Turner
Readymades – an impromptu exhibition in which artists were given the brief 24 hours before installation. An exploration of ingenuity, enthusiasm and spontaneity.
We invited twelve artists, friends of the gallery, to be part of this exhibition. Each artist invited a ‘guest exhibitor’, someone new to Tension. Everyone turned up with their work, drinks and nibbles. Once it was on the walls (plus ceiling and floor) we discussed the art, the artworld, Duchamp, DeepSeek and Fray Bentos pies.
‘Everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist’s act of choice’
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2024
14 September to 19 October 2024
Mutant Library at Tension, London
Organised with Nick Cask of BOOKEND- Matt Hale and Nick Cash have collaborated since 2016. Advised by Michael Hampton
An exhibition of art using processes of destruction, transformation and reclamation. A mutant library archive arranged into overlapping sections including destruction, transformation, reclamation, natural entropic disorder, decay and growth. Art in the form of altered objects, found and transformed objects, destroyed objects, plant life and preservation techniques.
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EXTEMPORE 24 at Tension, London Feb- March 2024 - group show
exhibited T.F. Future Nature specimen sample: 067 no.4 Fungus series, 2023.
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2023
December 2, 2022 - January 29, 2023
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Exhibiting a work from Leaf Series True Fuctive Nature 2023 in
@ The Art Station, Saxmunden, Suffolk
Curated by artists Annabel Dover and Karen Densham, the show is inspired by the 1952 game show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral where a panel of experts were asked to describe and classify an artefact of unknown origin. These artefacts were sometimes fake, sometimes modern and sometimes with an unknown origin.
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2022
15th November 2021- 13th February 2022.
True-Fuctive Nature works in NatureMax at GIANT, Bournemouth
Curated by Paul Carey Kent
17th June - 31st July 2021
rue-Fictive Nature at Tension, London- Solo Show
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2020 and early 2021 was a time creatively involved with online project opportunities. These have occurred as listed below. Please see the Selected Exhibitions menu button for images and links to the relevant website pages where they are sited. Perhaps some will become realised in the real world...
Online project link: BEELDEN OP DE KAART
November 11- February 2021
Online exhibition Images on the Map organised by artist Anja Middlekoop, Kunst in Millingen, Netherlands- x2 projects
Online project link: Table Memory for THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Online exhibiton organised by artist Mark Dean, Arts Chaplaincy Projects- a partnership between University of the Arts London & the Diocese of London, connecting arts practitioners with spiritual communities, and creating mentoring and exhibition opportunities- part two to follow in March 2021- a collaboration with artist Barbara Nicholls
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2019
31st May 2019
SOLO SHOW Camouflage- at Städtisches Museum Koenraad Bosman, Rees, Germany