Curious Stranger [work]

[…] AN EXHIBITION ON ARTIST PROFILING ISTANBUL EDITION. An exchange project organized by Shirin Zeraaty and Tabitha Nagy. This was a collaboration initiated by THEARTCORNEROFTEHRAN, ARTHEREISTANBUL and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München.

[…] AN EXHIBITION ON ARTIST PROFILING ISTANBUL EDITION: https://www.theartcorneroftehran.com/projects-1

As participants we all wrote artist biographies signed with a pseudonym, those texts were exchanged. The anonymous artist biography was to be the foundation of an artwork, 6 months later shown an exhibition at ARTHEREISTANBUL.

The biography I received was about the path, as well personal as professional, of a musician. I decided to make a music piece. Later on in the process I discovered, the piece was actually meant for this unknown person. The piece became a gift, a tribute of this persons artist biography and it was send to the gallery ARTHEREISTANBUL to be further distributed to the real version of the unknown human.

The process of the act of sending the package became the piece that was shown at the exhibition at ARTHEREISTANBUL.

Listen to the piece here: https://www.theartcorneroftehran.com/copy-of-donya-h-aalipour

Beste Plek [work]

Beste Plek Photography series 2021

This was the view from out of my window at Ariën Verhoeffstraat 151. Apparently this was the best spot for dropping ones trash.

Ach,… [work]

Ach,…
Button 25 x 20 mm
Edition of 25

I made this work for Justina Ampletzer after she said this phrase to me. The buttons were given to her as a gift.

Momentarily she studies art pedagogy, even after 8 years of art practice and two finished studies, she doesn’t get dispensation for the ‘fine art’ part of the studies. She is obliged to show another round of her art that will be examined after certain criteria. Her professor told her exactly how to make and present her “art” for the “exhibition”.

When Justina showed her work the professor, the latter talked about the “art-exhibition”. Justina just sighed and said, “Ach, das ist keine Kunst das ist eine Prüfung.” [Oh, that is no art, but just an examination.]

The inside of ‘t Haarhuijs [work]

• The inside of ‘t Haarhuijs
• Chalk marker on glass
• 270 cm by 270 cm and 270 cm by 270 cm

During the Big Draw 2021 I was asked to make a window drawing at ‘t Haarhuijs.