Agenda 2021 - Stefaan van Biesen

 

 

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S U M M A R Y

 

 

 

E X H I B I T I O N S :

[Verbinding / Connection] travelling educational art project ⋈ RASA Belgium 2020 > 2021. Artists: Agnieszka Lepka (PO), Annemarie Maes (BE), Bronwyn Katz (Z-A), Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (SP/BR), Gino Rizzi (IT/BE), Jalila Essaidi (NL), Koen Vanmechelen (BE), Ledell Moe (Z-A), Lizan Freijsen (NL), Otobong Nkanga (NI/BE), Rosana Paulino (BR), Shaakira Jassat (Z-A/NL), Solanga Pessoa (BR), Stefaan van Biesen (BE), Thijs Van der Linden (BE), Tinka Pittoors (BE).

 

[Precious Cargo, ​Precious World 2020-2021] Art Science Exhibits Mary Patricia Warming Berlin Germany.

Artists: Louise Beer [New Zeeland/UK], Dave Biddle & David Ehrenreich [Canada], Adam Crosson [USA], Brent Dedas [USA], Frederic Derieu & Nathalie Erin [France], Manuela Fisher [Switzerland], Nikolina Kovalenko [Russia], Dr. Agniezka Kozlowska [Poland], Jordan Lab [Max Planck Institute Germany], Les Marneurs architectural Group [France/Belgium], Gerardo Nolasco [Mexico], Nina Schipoff [Switzerland], Stefan Schlumpf [Switzerland], Alisi Telengut [Canada/Mongolia], Stefaan van Biesen [Belgium], Rosa Vitrano [Italy], MP Warming [Berlin/USA] founder.

 

[Sporen in het landschap] Moerbeke Belgium ⋈ 01.07 > 20.09.2021 Curator: Olivier Deprez. Artists: Blauwhaus, Michael Pycke, Myriam G. S. mestiaen, Olivier Deprez, Stefaan van Biesen, Tekenwerken De Vos, Warre Mulder, Wim Wauman.

 

[Ex aequo ... double takes] group exhibition ⋈ De Koolputten Waasmunster Belgium 12.09 > 17.10.2021.

18 Photos Paul De Malsche. Artists: Stefaan van Biesen, Jan De Maesschalk, Sofie Lachaert & Luc Dhanis, Koen Muller, Dan Van Severen, Renaat Ivens, Mark Verstockt, Gisleen & Frans Heirbaut, Marcel Maeyer. Gieles Van Duyse, Jaco De Maesschalck, Josse De Maesschalck, Mieke Cappaert, Catherina Dhaen, Leen Huysmans, Michael Pycke, Loes De Gendt, Niko Vaerewijck.

 

 

 

H E R B A R I U M • S T U D Y • D R A W I N G S :

[Weed & Herbs Drawings] Vijd project Herbarium exhibition ⋈ Beveren Belgium 16.05>05.06.2021.

 

 

 

P U B L I C A T I O N :

[Psiax #4] Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto 2021.

[Rooftop Gardener] The Art Couch Belgium ⋈ sketchbook publication 2021.

 

 

 

S O U N D S C A P E • C O M P O S I T I O N S :

[I Don't Remember Me The Rain] iInterview National Radio Slovenia by Katarina Radaljac 13.10.2021.

 

 

 

C O M M I S I O N E D :

[(V)ader] Wall integration/installation ⋈ Cortewalle castle Ter Vesten Belgium 2020 > 2021.

[Thought Carrier] watercolor on paper ⋈ Prices spiritual and christian Book ⋈ edition 2020.

[Hospitality for Strangers] Artwork for Gastvrij Beveren ⋈ Beveren Belgium 15.12.2021 > 2022.

[Drawings] A new China book by Pascal Coppens 2022.​

 

 

 

A R T I S T I C • R E S E A R C H :

[Oratio De Hominis Dignitate] Drawings & visions ⋈ an artistic research about the human condition 2021.

[The Veronica Suite] contemporary nomad stories based on the painting of Robert Campin 2021.

 

 

 

P R O J E C T S :

[Under the Church Tower] exhibition project ⋈ artists, curators, locations ⋈ Belgium & Middle East.

[Earth Connections] Archive of Art/NaturSci Movement & Art Science Exhibits Berlin Germany.

 

 

 

E N G A G E M E N T S :

Co-founder and member of the Milena principle [international independent art platform].

Founding Member of the Art/NaturSci Movement international art & ecology project.

Member of ArtScie Exhibits community Berlin Germany Humboldt University Mary Patricia Warming (USA).

Member of underthechurchtower.org an artistic dialogue with artists form Belgium and the Middle East.

 

 

 

 

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Interview radio broadcast National Radio Slovenia by Katarina Radaljac 2021.

 

Arsov art atelje; art studio Ars Modern. Experimental radio. The show is a presentation of the newest audio zoom drafts, talk with guests, composers and sound artists.

 

 

 

01. I Don't Remember Me The Rain [a suburban walk] 23:35 - 02. Madrigal for Beatrice [Requiem] 15:54 - 03. The Passing at Palanca [Giudecca Walk] 11:04

 

Released September 9, 2020.

 

Full CD available on Band Camp:

https://stefaanvanbiesen.bandcamp.com/album/i-dont-remember-me-the-rain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ex aequo ... double takes]

group exhibition ⋈ De Koolputten Waasmunster Belgium 12.09 > 17.10.2021.

 

18 Photos Paul De Malsche. Artists: Stefaan van Biesen, Jan De Maesschalk, Sofie Lachaert & Luc Dhanis, Koen Muller, Dan Van Severen, Renaat Ivens, Mark Verstockt, Gisleen & Frans Heirbaut, Marcel Maeyer. Gieles Van Duyse, Jaco De Maesschalck, Josse De Maesschalck, Mieke Cappaert, Catherina Dhaen, Leen Huysmans, Michael Pycke, Loes De Gendt, Niko Vaerewijck.

 

 

 

 

 

Fly Ways installation, shown at Equilibrium [Art Science Exhibits Berlin] at the Venice Biennale 2019.

 

 

 

 

Fly Ways Fan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Psiax #4] Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto 2021.

Publication of drawings.

 

 

Artists: Alicia Beatrice Gomes De Medeiros, Claudia Amandi & Paulo Freire De Almeida, Fabio Araujo & Paulo Luis Almeida, Pedro Maia, Paula Simoes & Susana Mendes Silva, Rosie Montford, AllhiheyAll, José Miguel Carvalho Cardoso, Metod Blejec, Michael Croft, Stefaan van Biesen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hospitality for strangers] Beveren Gravenplein Belgium 2021.

 

 

 

Banner for 111 nationalities [Gastvrij Beveren] Belgium.

Design ©Stefaan van Biesen & Annemie Mestdagh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rooftop Gardener] The Art Couch Belgium ⋈ sketchbook publication 2021.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sporen in het landschap] Moerbeke Belgium ⋈ 01.07 > 20.09.2021 Curator: Olivier Deprez.

 

Artists: Blauwhaus, Michael Pycke, Myriam G. S. mestiaen, Olivier Deprez, Stefaan van Biesen, Tekenwerken De Vos, Warre Mulder, Wim Wauman.

 

 

Buzzer (I) tree installation, wood and feathers

 

 

Conversation Units

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skin on Skin

 

 

Rooted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Weed & Herbs Drawings] Vijd project Herbarium exhibition ⋈ Beveren Belgium 16.05>05.06.2021.

 

 

 

Exhibition: Joos Vijd and de Vijds, Plant Drawings Flora Lamb of God and Florient Express. Joos Vijd and de Vijds : 24 plant drawings by artist Stefaan van Biesen. Plant drawings of the Flora on the Ghent Altarpiece by Stefaan van Biesen make a link with plant manuscripts in the Middle Ages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Earth Collections: Precious Cargo, ​Precious World 2020] Berlin Germany 2021-2022.

 

The Viewing Room for Earth Collections is now open for private showings in the home of Mary Patricia Warming [Berlin/USA, curator of ArtScie Exhibits Community Berlin - Humboldt University.

 

With the kind help of artist/filmmaker Alisi Telengut, her home has been filled with art and redesigned. The art works are either on display or "at the ready" to show to curators, directors, and art writers in Berlin. A new 24" Mac with a beautiful 4.5K retina display is set up for video screening.

 

 

 

Photo: installation 'Inscription X' Stefaan van Biesen 1993. ©Peter Maes.

 

Stefaan van Biesen 2020. Earth Collections, the Permanent Collection of the Art / NaturSci Movement

 

Time is pressing. In over 4.5 billion years of geological time, Earth’s carbon cycle has suffered few extremes like today's. We and our fellow species are in trouble - here and now. ​The immediacy of the effects of weather changes, humankind’s degradation of the forests and oceans, and the intimacy of the effects on us, is stunning. And the driving force for the determined action of many to meet these challenges head on. And so, Art Science Exhibits Berlin has developed the most solution based partnership possible - with Timbercoast Shipping, a brave, new company offering zero carbon footprint for transport. ​Because when people begin to connect to beautiful answers, change can occur. ​​​

 

See: https://www.artscienceexhibits.com/2020-artists-blog

 

Artists & Activists: Louise Beer [New Zeeland/UK], Dave Biddle & David Ehrenreich [Canada], Adam Crosson [USA], Brent Dedas [USA], Frederic Derieu & Nathalie Erin [France], Manuela Fisher [Switzerland], Nikolina Kovalenko [Russia], Dr. Agniezka Kozlowska [Poland], Jordan Lab [Max Planck Institute Germany], Les Marneurs architectural Group [France/Belgium], Gerardo Nolasco [Mexico], Nina Schipoff [Switzerland], Stefan Schlumpf [Switzerland], Alisi Telengut [Canada/Mongolia], Stefaan van Biesen [Belgium], Rosa Vitrano [Italy], MP Warming [Berlin/USA] founder.

 

About: Set in motion by international artist mp Warming, Art Science Exhibits Berlin is an independent enterprise created, and consistently recreated, by artists and scientists. The exhibitions and public programs we present work to greater the sphere of ArtSci conversation - towards positivity and solutions. Our mission for the future of nature-kind is to help regenerate Earth's ecosystems through innovative ideas and partnerships.

 

Future: Soon we will travel the Mediterranean for our first launch of Earth Collections, the Permanent Collection of the Art/NaturSci Movement. The collection will be a part of AVONTUUR's Manifest, which in turn will become a part of Earth Collections' archive. This Manifest, and our solution based exhibitions on Climate Change and Ecosystem Regeneration, is our Manifesto. With Timbercoast's AVONTUUR, we hope to influence a limit to the vast carbon footprint and pollution caused by shipping worldwide. Together we are working towards sailing the Adriatic into the 2022 Venice Biennale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Verbinding / Connection] travelling educational art project ⋈ RASA Belgium 2020 > 2021. Artists: Agnieszka Lepka (PO), Annemarie Maes (BE), Bronwyn Katz (Z-A), Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (SP/BR), Gino Rizzi (IT/BE), Jalila Essaidi (NL), Koen Vanmechelen (BE), Ledell Moe (Z-A), Lizan Freijsen (NL), Otobong Nkanga (NI/BE), Rosana Paulino (BR), Shaakira Jassat (Z-A/NL), Solanga Pessoa (BR), Stefaan van Biesen (BE), Thijs Van der Linden (BE), Tinka Pittoors (BE).

 

 

(1) : Fly Ways [child version] & (2) : Library of Walks

 

 

Letter to a tree [prop for performance]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Thought Carrier] watercolor on paper ⋈ Prices spiritual and christian Book ⋈ edition 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A R T I S T I C - R E S E A R C H :

 

[The Veronica Suite] contemporary nomad stories based on the painting of Saint Veronica,

[Flémalle panels circa 1420-1425] by Robert Campin [Flemalle's master, 1378-1445].

 

With all the suffering that continues to dominate the contemporary world, it is a justification to bring this age-old theme back to the spotlight in a contemporary way. For the last 10 years I took pictures of people I met all over Europe. Refugees, migrants, colleagues and friends. We all have a migration background. Everyone bears their own shared suffering. The entire cycle is based on the painting of Saint Veronica, [Flémalle panels circa 1420-1425] by Robert Campin [Flemalle's master, 1378-1445].

 

 

Sudarium 1 to 8

When we consider the theme of the painting [apart from Christian iconography], it is essentially a person, Veronica, who, in a universal gesture of compassion, takes care for a politically condemned dissident. She wipes his face with a sweat cloth. His bloodied face makes a lasting print on the woven cloth. She declares her solidarity with his suffering. And it is also a wordless sign to him: "you are not alone, despite everything. Know that I know and that I think of you! "

 

By her action and intention, she stands out from the group, on the side of the road where the executed is on his way to the execution of his death sentence. As a woman she symbolically places herself as the mother of all mothers in the world. Her mother's heart is stronger than the ratio of the fate of the person who passes her with all his pain and despair. In this way she also places herself as the mother of all who suffer. As an archetypeal image of carers worldwide.

 

 

Volto Santo The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand"). Various existing images have been claimed to be the original relic, as well as early copies of it; representations of it are also known as vernicles. The story of the image's origin is related to the Sixth Station of the Cross, wherein Saint Veronica, encountering Jesus along the Via Dolorosa to Calvary, wipes the blood and sweat from his face with her veil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Oratio de hominis dignitate] An artistic research. Galerij Het Vijfde Huis Antwerpen 2022.

 

"Human dignity lies in the perseverance with which the hopeless work is done" [Arnon Grunberg]

"De menselijke waardigheid schuilt in de volharding waarmee het hopeloze werk wordt verricht"

 

Drawings & visions about the human condition 2021. This artistic project aims to make a connection between our human and social behavior in relation to the literary and philosophical legacy of the renaissance writer and thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

 

 

This artistic research is conceived as a commentary on human behavior in relation to social, ecological, philosophical visions and observations. It is a multidisciplinary diary in which certain of these themes are questioned in order to understand what concerns people. Pico della Mirandola's metaphysical vision, based on Neo-platonism, [prayer in the Renaissance world of ideas], is taken as a guideline for portraying these phenomena.

 

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, count di Concordia, (born Feb. 24, 1463, Mirandola, duchy of Ferrara [Italy]—died Nov. 17, 1494, Florence), Italian scholar and Platonist philosopher whose 'De hominis dignitate oratio' [Oration on the Dignity of Man, a characteristic Renaissance work composed in 1486], reflected his syncretistic method of taking the best elements from other philosophies and combining them in his own work.

 

 

Fragment: "At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. He therefore took man as a creature of indeterminate nature and, assigning him a place in the middle of the world, addressed him thus: “Neither a fixed abode nor a form that is thine alone not any function peculiar to thyself have we given thee, Adam, to the end that according to thy longing and according to thy judgment thou mayest have and possess what abode, what form, and what functions thou thyself shalt desire. The nature of all other beings is limited and constrained within the bounds of laws prescribed by Us. Thou, constrained by no limits, in accordance with thine own free will, in whose hand We have placed thee, shalt ordain for thyself the limits of thy nature. We have set thee at the world’s center that thou mayest from thence more easily observe whatever is in the world. We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with freedom of choice and with honor, as though the maker and molder of thyself, thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power to degenerate into the lower forms of life, which are brutish. Thou shalt have the power, out of thy soul’s judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine.”

 

Pico dela Mirandola [1463-1494], Oration on the Dignity of Man.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Brainrooted] exhibition project ⋈ artists, curators, locations ⋈ Belgium & Middle East.

UNDER THE CHURCH TOWER is an exhibition project that links a broad range of artists, curators and locations from the Belgian and Middle East region. Numerous initiatives, exhibitions and residencies have been cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19. The momentum has been lost but the need remains: to create, to connect and to exhibit.

https://underthechurchtower.org/

 

 

 

 

Why Artists and curators are forced to work locally, or ‘under the church tower’ as said in Flemish, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Residencies and exhibitions have come to a halt. The momentum has been lost but the need remains.

 

What -An exhibition project that connects a wide range of artists, curators and sites, both in the Belgian and Middle East region. -A work in progress that begins and expands locally and on a small scale; the fragmentation and multiplicity forms the whole. -Small physical exhibition sites within existing institutions, in both regions, are the starting point. -Visibility gradually increases thanks to a website with images and texts about the participants, whose locations are indicated on a geographical map.

 

How A key team monitors both content and process and defines the framework. The role of this team is to define a clear context, to guide, to accompany. Each contact introduces another new artist or location to the project. The key decision-making criteria are: perception, position, border areas, mapping, measuring and monitoring.

 

Who Key team: Jack Persekian, artist and curator > Al Ma’Mal Foundation, Jerusalem > Els Van den Meersch, artist > Els Vermeersch, curator > Griet Dobbels, artist > Essa Grayeb, artist >

 

Where Emergent, Veurne, B Al Ma’ Mal Foundation, Jerusalem And many more to come..

 

 

 

 

 

©stefaan van biesen-annemie mestdagh 09.01.2022