Leaky Messages shows a collection of viewing instruments: texts, drawings and macrobe suits. Texts as walking instructions invite us to rmeander through our bodies and surroundings. The texts invite to act differently: think, speak, listen, anticipate, intertwine, understand. By walking just differently, automatisms can be examined and other possibilities explored. How does our environment influence how we can move, but also how we can think and feel? From the Tea House, Leaky Messages filter through porous bodies and flow into the landscape around Odapark and far beyond.

At the invitation of curator and writer Marjolein van der Loo, I am developing a plum cake baking workshop for the project Puree & Pruimenvlaai at Museum Het Nieuwe Domein in Sittard. Two thousand years ago, the Roman army introduced plums to Limburg. And Limburg flan has been recognized by the European Union as cultural heritage under the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) label since one year after years of lobbying by bakers. Baking together is an appropriate opportunity to have a conversation about eating together, local traditions and cultural heritage. What does EU recognition mean for culture? Who does culture belong to? Who do we want to share culture - food - with? Where are our boundaries? Is there room for porosity and leakage? In collaboration with poet and curator Roy Voragen, I will create a zine reflecting on the above and other questions from the workshop. In addition to photos from the workshop, the zine will include several recipes of plum pie (if those recipes are not copyrighted).

Between 2 and 30 November 2024, I will exhibit my work Leaky Memories for a month at Jendela, space for art and opacity in Maastricht. Jendela is a shop window as an exhibition space, curated by Roy Voragen. Jendela is showing four exhibitions featuring the following artists: Ratu R. Saraswati (Aug. 2–31), Kwinnie Lê (Sept. 6–30), Samboleap Tol (Oct. 4–31), Isolde Venrooy (November 2–30). Artist talk at Limestone Books Maastricht with the four artists and curator Roy Voragen: October 13 at 3 p.m.
Jendela is open 24/7, Brusselsestraat 87, Maastricht

I have been selected along with 20 other artists for the preview and opening of the Lyon Biennale. The contribution is intended to boost the international position of visual artists from the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom by stimulating their presence at important international events. The Mondriaan Fund thus offers visual artists the opportunity to gain insight into the international visual arts field, to strengthen their own international network and to support them in their international profiling.

My solo exhibition Leaky Cases includes new works developed for the Bewaerschole´s historical space and created as a result of a short residency on Schouwen-Duiveland.

One of the works is Leaky Bag XXXL, a giant bag made of fermented textile and it hangs in the space and leaks all kinds of elements, including seeds collected on Schouwen-Duiveland and residual materials from her making processes. I also made Leaky Boxes, a tapestry composed of cardboard boxes I collected in various supermarkets. I cut these boxes apart, arranged them for texts, symbols, logos, images and colors, and sewed them back together creating a large tapestry.

I invited writer Roy Voragen to share his A Curated Suitcase at the Bewaerschole to reflect on the themes of my exhibition Leaky Cases through publications. During the opening from 2:30 to 3:30h, Roy and I will engage in conversation by unpacking the suitcase with the audience.

Opening: July 20 at 14:15h
Finissage: August 18, 2024
Botram – a collaboration between Roy Voragen and me – will take place on Renesse beach on Aug. 18 between 14-17 p.m. Botram is made possible by Vfonds “Keep Your Heritage Alive to Strengthen Indonesian, Moluccan and Papuan Intangible Heritage in the Netherlands" and Ministry of VWS.

Botram – a collaboration between writer and curator Roy Voragen and me – will take place on Renesse beach on Aug. 18 between 14-17 p.m. Roy has lived and worked in Indonesia for fifteen years and my family on mother's side is from Indonesia. We organize the project botram: a picnic on the beach of Renesse where people can exchange stories. Coffee, tea, sponge cake and stories are exchanged as well as the botram zine, a publication that calls attention to words and flavors that migrate between languages and bodies. The botram publication is designed by COUP | Peter van den Hoogen.

Botram is part of the exhibition Leaky Cases in the Bewaerschole in Burgh-Haamstede.
Leaky Cases is open until August 18, 2024 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays between 14-17 hours.

Botram is made possible by Vfonds 'Keep Your Heritage Alive to Strengthen Indo-European, Moluccan and Papuan Intangible Heritage in the Netherlands' and Ministry of VWS (Health, Welfare and Sport).

'What is already there' is the world that surrounds us daily, the world we move through. How can we break out of an egocentric approach to encountering the world? What if we stretch and bend, crawl on our knees, play, with a searching gaze, to sense what the world wants to tell us? Burrowing our hands into the earth until the dirt digs under our fingernails, deep into our being. Can our bodies become porous, so that not only we can permeate the world, but the world can permeate us? Participating artists: Sarah-Joy Zwarts, Isolde Venrooy, Elli Ott and Merlin Kater.
Projectspace Mariastraat 13 Maastricht

I am participating in the exhibition Przyleganie (Adherence- forgotten choreographies), curated by Marta Lisok, on choreography in the landscape in the context of the climat crisis, with works from artists, whom works indirectly relates to practis of Richard Long. Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (Poland) – main organizer of exibition – will award him honoris causa in 2024. The exhibition will be held in Rondo Sztuki Gallery - one of the most valued cultural institutions in Silesia, which is run by the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice.

Participating artists: Richard Long, Alicja Bielawska, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Grzegorz Hańderek, Petra Janda, Cecylia Malik, Justyna Mędrala, Sylvia Noronha, Michał Smandek, Saša Spačal, Jakub Stelmach, Maria Stokłosa, Mikołaj Szpaczyński, Iza Tarasewicz, Isolde Venrooy

I resided a week in the beautiful city of Venice, a city I last visited during my artschool years twenty or so years ago. I spent a week nourishing on art from all around the world. Thank you Mondriaanfonds for the voucher to visit La Biennale di Venezia.

Stockholm Independent Art Fair is an international art fair dedicated to exhibiting artist-run spaces, artists’ collectives, nomadic spaces and independent artists’ initiatives of all shapes and from around the world. I am invited – together with Ana Guedes and Eleye Boerenkamps – by artist-run space De Fabriek Eindhoven to participate in the fair. The art fair exhibition is accompanied by the public Talks and Performance programme with invited performance artists and speakers from Sweden and abroad.

The city of Nijmegen commissioned me for a series of art works in a public wadi landscape. The series draws on ideas from my exhibition ·r·e·s·p·o·n·g·e· (De Fabriek Eindhoven, 2022) but in a public space context – and in collaboration with, among others, De Urbanisten, office for urban design and landscape architecture based in Rotterdam.

Roy Voragen and I responded to an open call to develop an intervention for the Maastricht neighborhood Randwyck. Our proposal – a mobile sponge cake bookbar inspired by the kaki lima – is selected and currently on show at Bureau Europa in Maastricht.

On Thursday March 28th, writer and curator Roy Voragen is invited to co-host a reading circle at SEA Foundation. This reading group event is part of SEA Foundations’ longer-term research of art and sustainability. In turn, Roy invited me to collaborate. As co-host of the reading circle in the fold #10 on Responsibility, Roy will bring A Curated Suitcase sharing the excerpts from publications from Southeast Asia, related to our practice and the theme of the fold. During the public conversation at the SEA Foundation, I will serve pandan sponge cake on ceramic plates, which I produced during my residency at EKWC. And we will be screening a video work by Kiri Dalena, an artist and activist from the Philippines.
7 – 8 pm, SEA Foundation, Tivolistraat 22 Tilburg. The event is free of charge.

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I was invited by the fine arts department of HKU Utrecht to visit them on Ameland again. I invited writer and curator Roy Voragen to join and together we gave a lecture and conducted walking exercises on the beach with first year art students.

The book launch is a collaboration between Limestone Books and crumbs (Isolde Venrooy & Roy Voragen). On Saturday 25 November at 14.30h we start with a performative walk ·L·e·a·k·y··W·a·l·k·. And when we have returned to Limestone Books, Peter van den Hoogen, Erik Benjamins (via video link) and me will share their thoughts on the book, my artistic practice, the book´s design and writings in conversation with Roy Voragen. We will serve pandan sponge cake, coffee and tea.

·L·e·a·k·y··W·a·l·k·s· book launch & walk at Limestone Books, a curatorial platform in Maastricht focused on art publishing within the context of contemporary art. Limestone Books showcases collections that promote non-western-centric perspectives and underrepresented voices. The emphasis on collective practices posits Limestone Books as a crucial establishment in fostering cross-cultural dialogues between international artists and the local art scene.

The graphic design of ·L·e·a·k·y··W·a·l·k·s· is by Peter van den Hoogen of COUP Amsterdam; Erik Benjamins contributed to the book with writings; Roy Voragen wrote the preface; the publication is offset printed by Zwaan Lenoir; the lithography is by Marco Kokkelkoren; and the book´s binding is by Aiga.

Limestone Books, Grote Gracht 63 Maastricht

www.limestonebooks.org

Three of my publications are part of The Book at de Meldkamer, a Maastricht based platform for experiments in Art and Design. The Book is an exhibition around artist books and book like objects as an unfolded form, a visual record, a map, an experience, a performance, an installation, a message, a game, a curtain, an accessory, a space, an object, a tray, a pause, a task, a garden, a window, a symphony, a teacher, a dance, a vehicle, an idea, a paperweight, a doorstop, a tapestry, a point of pure stillness.
Capucijnenstraat 21 Maastricht
Open: Friday, Saturday & Sunday 13-17h
Opening: 3 November 19h

·L·e·a·k·y··W·a·l·k·s· is a book of my past walks – walks with friends, co-authors, and strangers – that can accompany future walks. Walks are an essential component to my life and my artistic practice. I walk to connect, disconnect and, also, to share. The slowness of walking is a vital ingredient to shift how we encounter the familiar; with this book, I invite you to walk alongside me and sense the complexities of our surroundings, to connect presence to the present, and to initiate conversations on our position in the spaces we provisionally inhabit (however, through our activities we have impacted those spaces irremediably).

·L·e·a·k·y··W·a·l·k·s· is a book with many collaborators: first and foremost graphic designer Peter van de Hoogen of COUP Amsterdam who co-developed this book (and we walked down many different paths before arriving on this design); artist and writer Erik Benjamins, who wrote short pieces to accompany the works incorporated in the book; and curator and poet Roy Voragen, he wrote the book´s prelude.

The book ·L·e·a·k·y··W·a·l·k·s· is offset printed by Zwaan Lenoir; lithography by Marco Kokkelkoren; and binding by Aiga.
Spreads & pages: 17 spreads, 104 (foldout) pages
Size: 8,5 x 10 cm
Paper: Munken Polar 80 grams
Print run: 250

November 19 was International Children's Rights Day. And Lindenberg Cultuurhuis Nijmegen organized a special day for 6 to 12 year olds including children from asylum center AZC Nijmegen. I developed in collaboration with Roy Voragen a DEMO workshop for this day.

For this DEMO workshop we invited kids to reflect on four themes: housing, climate, care and friendship – the children reflected and talked together about bees (can you imagine a home for both you and a bee?), cool polar bears (where can they go if not the north pole?), penguins (how could you care for a penguin?) and trees (could you befriend a tree?).

The kids told – with gusto or hesitation – stories with crayon, pencils, markers and paint on paper, textile and cardboard.

The workshop concluded with a DEMO. The kids´ DIY protest was a  ludic way to showcase their protest banners and placards to moms, dads, sisters, brothers, friends and strangers. Children could raise their voices while not being allowed to vote in elections (which, on the other hand, have a huge impact on the lives of all children). 

We are grateful to all the children for sharing their stories and we thank Lindenberg Cultuurhuis Nijmegen for the kind invitation.

The third edition of the BOOKSHELF program took place on Saturday 16 December 2023 at ARTisBOOK Groningen. This one-day show, provides a platform for artists to showcase their work and connect with fellow makers and the public.

From September 15 to October 15 2023, ‘byob’ (bring your own book) will takeover Enter Enter Amsterdam and exhibit and sell the self-published works of artists, bookmakers, designers, publishers and writers from all over the world. Celebrating self-publishing and diy-printed matter in a weekly changing display. During the exhibition byob will host a public program with launches, workshop, readings, talks and performances. My publication ·L·e·a·k·y··W·a·l·k·s· is part of the exhibition.
byob is run by Susu Lee, Augustinas Milkus, Jordi de Vetten, Nelli Molfenter and Sophia Xu

www.byobfair.xyz

On 11th October 2023 I designed the seventh meeting of atelier KARTON at Greylight Projects Heerlen. During a performative walk, participants created viewing tools from cardboard. In my artistic practice, viewing tools are invitations to perceive and experience the environment in other ways. As a result, our own positions are questioned, allowing conversations to arise about the places we temporarily occupy.

www.greylightprojects.org

Very Contemporary presents Performing Landscapes, a one-day journey through art, land and sound. The Performing Landscapes festival takes place on 2nd September 2023 between 14-21h at IKOB Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Rotenberg 12B Eupen (BE). The event is a collaboration between the different institutions of the Very Contemporary network.
Participating artists: Stefania Crișan, Helena Dietrich, Robin Faymonville, Stefanie Klingemann, Mikail Koçak, ChunYao Lin, Sjors Smit & Isolde Venrooy.

During my residency at Greylight Projects I developed ·L·e·a·k·y··W·a·l·k· for international visual theater festival Cultura Nova in Heerlen. For this walk I sewed small porous bags out of five months fermented canvasses. In response to ·L·e·a·k·y··W·a·l·k· poet and curator Roy Voragen wrote a text.
26 & 27 August 2023, 16-17.30h
Start location: Greylight Projects, Schaesbergerweg 58 Heerlen

IKOB Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Eupen (BE) made a podcast episode of 'apropos', giving a glimpse into mine and artist Stefania Crișan's studios at Greylight Projects in Heerlen during the development of our new work for the Performing Landscapes festival.

The weekend of 13 and 14 May, Roy Voragen and I present crumbs at Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster in Aachen (DE). It consists of the publication crumbs, a curated suitcase and 23 home baked pandan sponge cakes on a selection of large ceramic plates. The crumbs publication is handmade and stitched together, and consists of my drawings of crumbs and a meandering text by Roy which brings together a pandan sponge cake recipe (in Indonesian) and personal reflections on food and memory. The curated suitcase by Roy includes publications on Southeast Asia. Taken together, we invite guests to eat and enjoy a slice of pandan sponge cake, to browse through the publications and read, and share stories of food and home. With this form of collaboration, we consciously aim to create a spongy ground for a porous, shared presence.

The flag has a long tradition of different uses and meanings. Flags are commonly used to transmit signals, to identify countries, regions or cities, or to visually demarcate a territory. Flags are also frequently used to represent political ideas and beliefs. Artists were asked to respond from their own work and vision of the medium “flag” within the context of the location in which they are shown. The different flags will be shown to the public at various locations in and around the inner city of Heerlen. There is also an exchange of artists flags between art organizations and museums in the Euregion, a collaboration within the Very Contemporary network.
Participating artists: Paul Koppers, Luuk Smits, Anna Neukamp, Athanasia Vidali, Jody Korbach, Kaya Erdinç, Kenneth Moreno Kiernand, Rose Nordin, Tom Bogaert, Vera Drebusch, Christian Landspersky, Isolde Venrooy, Stefania Crisan, Ben Weir, Éloise Alliguié, Famke Storms, Jean Boumans, Mikail Koçak.

I am selected for a residency of three months. The residency is a co-production by Greylight Projects, platform for art and culture in Heerlen (NL) and IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen (BE). The residency takes place in the framework of the performance art festival “Performing landscapes 2023” initiated by Very Contemporary, a network between different art spaces and museums in the border region of the Euregio-Meuse-Rhine. Guided by the open question “Where are we now?”, the residency invites two artists to reflect on the particularities of the Euregio-Meuse-Rhine region and its landscapes.

Open studio:
10 & 11 June 2023
13-17h
Schaesbergerweg 58 Heerlen

On the occasion of my current residency “performing landscapes” at Greylight Projects in partnership with IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Stefania Crișan and I present our respective practices at IKOB. Stefania and I will work at Greylight Projects in Heerlen (NL) between March and May 2023, each developing a new project to be publicly presented at the “performing landscapes” festival on 2nd September 2023, taking place at IKOB. The festival is a collaboration between the different institutions of the Very Contemporary network.
The talks will be in English. No registration necessary, admission is free.
28.03.2023, 19:00-21:00h
IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Rotenberg 12b, Eupen (BE)

Guest lecturer during the HKU project week The landscape as my studio on Ameland.

Roy Voragen – poet and curator of Greylight Projects and Drawing Centre Diepenheim – has written an essay based on his memories of visiting my exhibition ·r·e·s·p·o·n·g·e· in De Fabriek Eindhoven.

Exhibition SEIN-IN
Curator: Sophie van Kempen
Seinhuis, Dr. Jan Berendsstraat 69 Nijmegen

My ·r·e·s·p·o·n·g·e· hand-out is selected by Not Just a Collective, part of Not Just a Library based at P–OST Nijmegen/Arnhem. Not Just a Library is an art zine library, but not only a library. It is a space for gathering, showcasing artistic and experimental manners of publishing practices and printed matters. This library intends to expand the boundaries of the library outside the generally accepted definition, and refers to the library as a space to collect, read, discuss and sell books.

My solo exhibition ·r·e·s·p·o·n·g·e· brings together a number of objects, interventions and walks. The title ·r·e·s·p·o·n·g·e· refers to my fascination with sponges (the animals) and the sponge-like quality in ourselves. The exhibition reveals the interwoven nature of my walking performances, Indonesian heritage and my artistic working methods, which are rooted in ecological thinking and making.

2-25 September 2022
Friday, Saturday & Sunday 13-17h
Baarsstraat 38, Eindhoven

Residency Talk: Friday 23 September 2022, 20h
With Erik Benjamins, Yin Yin Wong & Isolde Venrooy

www.defabriekeindhoven.com

Very grateful to have developed an offset hand-out for my exhibition ·r·e·s·p·o·n·g·e· at De Fabriek Eindhoven, designed by Peter van den Hoogen with an in-depth essay written by Marlies van Hak and translated from Dutch to English by Jonathan Beaton.
If you couldn't make it to the exhibition in Eindhoven, and you wish to receive a hand-out, please send me a message.

www.fontsinuse.com

Review 'Het leven als spons in De Fabriek' written by Frits Dijcks of Jegens & Tevens.

www.jegensentevens.nl

Drawing - as a verb - and zine-making are both forms and ways of thinking. Drawings - as a noun - and zines are pauses to momentarily offer a material shape to thought to take part in conversations. A zine is distributed from hand to hand, planting seeds of dirty new ideas into the bodies of friends and strangers who, in turn, can draw up new ideas out of those seeds.

Drawing Centre Diepenheim presents the exhibition Drawing Zines as a meeting place between zines and drawings by makers of different generations and backgrounds.

Conceptualized by Isolde Venrooy / artistic advisor: Jan van IJzendoorn / text: Roy Voragen / photo: Tessa Wiegerinck / pr & communication: Annelien Dam / campaign design: Sinds1416

The Wildtuin is a joint project of circa...dit and Mestlab31 Arnhem. Different generations of artists are paired together for six weeks in duos. During this workingperiod the emphasis is on the process rather than the final product.

An anthology of text and graphic scores to be used while walking, from Fluxus to the critical works of current artists, through the tradition of experimental music and performance, gathered and presented by Elena Biserna (FR).

With scores and texts by, amongst others, Peter Ablinger, George Brecht, Haytham El-Wardany, David Helbich, Milan Knížák, Takehisa Kosugi, Alvin Lucier, Max Neuhaus, Yoko Ono, Open City & Emma Cocker, Nam June Paik, Michael Parsons, Mieko Shiomi, Isolde Venrooy, Ben Vautier.

www.lespressesdureel.com

At the invitation of Derde Wal Nijmegen I will show my work OBSERVER on September 4th at the Oudedijk in Nijmegen-Lent. OBSERVER consists of round canvas rugs with a diameter of about eight meters and some small round cutouts. The work is part of an art route curated by Derde Wal on behalf of Festival De Oversteek. Participating artists: Eef Veldkamp, Isolde Venrooy, Jakob van Klinken, Lola Bezemer and notjohn.

www.derdewal.nl/programma

From Friday 15 to Sunday 17 July, PrintRoom Rotterdam organizes the first Books Are Bridges Summit – a small-scale gathering for artist publishers with space for connection, experiment and DIY workshops, spread across locations in Rotterdam: from the allotment to the docks. On Saturday 16 July I am developing a walk.

www.printroom.org

My work CARDBOARD CARPETS (2003) is selected for the Intergenerational Graduation Show, curated by Design Academy Eindhoven at Salone del Mobile in Milan. The Intergenerational Graduation Show brings together works from graduates across 75 years of its existence.

CARDBOARD CARPETS' consists of pieces of cardboard, a material which is commonly considered a waste material, stitched together in the form of carpets. The carpets are inspired by the practice of construction workers, who spread out empty cardboard boxes in order to protect floors while constructions take place.

CARDBOARD CARPETS

VOX-POP is the ‘creative space’ of the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Humanities. They organise and host innovative and inspiring events in order to create a bridge between the academic world and the city, between art and science, between culture and society. I developed a walk as part of their program Wat is (t)huis?

As coordinator and curator of the ArtEZ Winterlab, I have had many inspiring conversations over the past few months. For this artistic multidisciplinary project of ArtEZ University of the Arts, I developed an extensive program consisting of 27 labs in which 400 students from 9 different disciplines of art & design, music and theater participate. For example, there is the lab of artist Pavèl van Houten, where students spend three nights in his recently purchased hotel and think together about what the term 'hospitality' means. Studio Claudy Jongstra shares their knowledge of ecological and sustainable working methods. Students visit Claudy's paint plants botanical garden and her sheep herd. Architect and urban planner Wouter Pocornie is investigating decolonization and community building in Bijlmer-West in Amsterdam with students.

Participating artists: Riet Wijnen, Willem de Haan, Pavèl van Houten, Theun Karelse, Sunjoo Lee & Ko de Beer, Jake Caleb, Studio Claudy Jongstra, Flora van Dullemen, Urok Shirhan, Lua Vollaard, Roshan Nejal, Marlies Leupen / Drawing Centre Diepenheim, Gabriel Fontana, Boey Wang & Simon Dogger, Rosa Paardenkooper, Stichting Strandlab Almere, Meta van Drunen & Cleo Thomas, Gouden Haas / Gienke Deuten & Marieke Nooren, Ana Guedes, Poernima Gobardhan, Wouter Pocornie, Sjef van Beers, Noufri Bachdim, Ikram El Messaoudi, Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz & Claudia Schouten, Dirk van Lieshout, Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries, Stichting Perdu, Nina van de Ven, Katrijn Verstegen, Domas van Wijk.

Concept & programming: Isolde Venrooy
Projectassistent: Koen van Zwol
Winterlab Talks: Nelleke Hendriks & Eef Veldkamp
Online poster design: Noa Zuidervaart
Riso poster design: Ilse Knook
Film: Eva ten Cate & Hannah Vonk
www.artez.nl

I am selected for a three month residency at SUNDAYMORNING@EKWC in 2021. The European Centre for Ceramics (EKWC) is an international workplace where artists, designers and architects explore the technical and artistic possibilities of ceramics.

sundaymorning.ekwc.nl

The European Centre for Ceramics (EKWC) will present all kinds of work-in-progress on Saturday the 3rd of July 2021 during Test Case XXIII. A Test Case is an open day where visitors can stroll through studios, workshops, and presentation rooms.

Participants Test Case XXIII:
Brian Anderson, Stéphanie Baechler, Elena Bajo, Ronald Bal, Sabrina Basten, Marcel van den Berg, Boris van Berkum, Dinie Besems, Marieke Bolhuis, Wilma Bosland, Carl Boutard, William Cobbing, Delphine Courtillot, Tomas Dirrix, Koen Dudink, Janina Frye, Maria Brisa Fumero Gonzales, Marly Gootzen, Kim Habers, Keele Haftner, Theo Harper, Humade, Nayoung Jeong, Gereon Krebber, Guus Kusters, Mirte van Laarhoven, Daniel Maalman, Domenico Mangano & Marieke van Rooy, Annemarie Nibbering, Denise Pelletier, Tamara van San, Linda Sormin, Maja Pop Trajkova, Isolde Venrooy, Anne Verhoijsen, Ton Vleuten, Birgitta de Vos.
www.sundaymorning.ekwc.nl

Support Space is an exhibition with works by Stan Gonera, Wanda Tiersma and Isolde Venrooy in Kunstruimte Willem Twee 's-Hertogenbosch and curated by Jade Kerste. Point of departure was the following question: how can we connect with each other if we have to keep a distance?

Review in Metropolis M online about Support Space, an exhibition with works by Stan Gonera, Wanda Tiersma and Isolde Venrooy in Kunstruimte Willem Twee 's-Hertogenbosch. Curated by Jade Kerste. Review written by Loes van Beuningen.

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I am invited to present a sketch proposal to the art committee of the municipality of Nijmegen. This time for an artwork for Dijkkwartier Oost in Nijmegen. In early February 2021 I will present my latest sketch proposal to the art committee.

BACTERIA, ARCHAEA, EUKARYA is an ode to all living organisms and their positive interdependence. Commissioned to design a proposal for an art work for Dijkkwartier Oost, a new housing area in Nijmegen, I recently presented my preliminary sketch to the municipality’s art committee. Bacteria, archaea and eukarya are the three domains of life. Humans – like plants, animals and fungi – belong to the eukarya, whose cells contain a nucleus. Bacteria and archaea are single-celled organisms. The housing complex will be inhabited by entities from all domains: interconnecting, co-living, sharing accountability. The work consists of globular glass forms, handblown and colored, that jointly sculpt the words BACTERIA, ARCHAEA, EUKARYA. The words are positioned on top of the tall buildings via especially designed metal constructions (referring to stained glass, visually resembling diatoms), and in smaller font above their front entrances, illuminated at night. Material and technical research for this work is based on the interacting of all things and beings. The work is a critique on weighty formal categorizations, while emphasizing the existence of significant entities at the same time.

Zomerlab is an interdisciplinary programme of ArtEZ University of the Arts in which students travel through The Netherlands accompanied by artists and designers. A total of 120 students from eight different courses – ranging from art & design and theatre – will take part.

Participating artists: Afra Eisma, Dirk van Lieshout, Roland van Dierendonck, Jake Caleb, Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries, Anaïs López, Wessel Verrijt, Boey Wang.
Concept & programming: Isolde Venrooy
Poster design: Hannah van der Heide
Film crew: Caya Emmelkamp & Carlyn Westerink
www.artez.nl

In recent months I, together with project assistant Koen van Zwol, have worked on the concept and programme for Winterlab at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Zwolle. Winterlab is an artistic, interdisciplinary programme where artists and designers are invited to work with a group of students for a week, centring on a certain topic. A total of 430 students from nine different courses – ranging from art & design to theatre and music – will take part.

Areas of attention for Winterlab include non-human entities, activism, post-colonialism, social design, queer theory, speculative design, but also crafts – old and new – spanning various forms of artistic expression in the Anthropocene era. The programme is informed by reflection on pressing social issues and artistic work from enthusiastic contemporary makers.

Participating artists:
Ambassade van de Noordzee, Soner Arslan, Sema Bekirovic, Annebelle Binnerts, Sara Blokland, Marjolijn Boterenbrood, Simon Dogger, Eat Art Collective, Caz Egelie, Bart Eysink Smeets, Florea, Harpo ‘t Hart, Esmay Groot Koerkamp, Maureen Ghazal, Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries, Studio Nienke Hoogvliet, Thijs Jaeger, Bart Koldewee, Anne van Leeuwen, Studio Nicky Liebregts, Fiona Lutjenhuis, Ceel Mogami de Haas, Oddstream, Ronald van Rikxoort, Helmut Smits, The Rodina, Tereza Ruller, Sam Samiee, Urok Shirhan, Laurette van Slobbe, Luca Soudant, Menno Vermeulen, Boey Wang, Domas van Wijk, Riet Wijnen, Bart van de Woestijne, Lieke Wouters.

Concept & programming: Isolde Venrooy
Projectassistent: Koen van Zwol
Poster design: Noa Zuidervaart, Maaike Plugge
Film: Hannes Schievink & Noa Zuidervaart
Administrative support: Arjen Grolleman
www.artez.nl

Interview about TRACK, my work for Biennale Gelderland in Metropolis M online. Written by Lotte van Geijn.

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Participating in Mind Your Step, a group exhibition and public program about walking as a form of knowledge gathering. Interactive walks are developed that take the public on a journey about mobility as a way of knowing the world around us. Participating artists: Tim Knowles, Tom Bekkers, Iris Hoppe, Justin Bennett, Chikako Watanabe, Naomi Bueno de Mesquita, Liesje van den Berk, Malú Cayetano Molina & Sonia Pérez, Ienke Kastelein, Isolde Venrooy, Esther Hovers.

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Together with researcher and writer Marlies van Hak I am a 'critical friend' on an educational program at the Radboud Honours Academy Nijmegen. It consisted of a series of workshops and discussions at cultural venues. As ‘critical friends’ we reflected on embodied learning, educational tracks and entanglement of artistic and theoretical domains.

For Seelenwanderung (Biennale Gelderland 2019), 16 artists were invited to create new work. We have developed new work in public space along the Sint Jansbeek in the center of Arnhem. In addition, we have shown existing work at Museum het Valkhof Nijmegen.

Participating artists: Frank Bruggeman, Mirka Farabegoli, Gijs Frieling, Roos van Haaften, Seet van Hout, Karlijn Janssen, Aldwin Lehr, Thijs Linssen, Erik Mattijssen, Erik Odijk, Maria Roosen, Rob Sweere, Gerda ten Thije, Isolde Venrooy, Gijs Verhoofstad, Rob Voerman.

Programming Zomerlab PREPPEN 2020 for ArtEZ University of the Arts. Zomerlab PREPPEN is an interdisciplinary project in which approximately 100 students art & design and interior architecture work on topical issues in society.
Participating artists: Daan Couzijn, Tinkebell, Domenique Himmelbach de Vries, Anaïs López, Maureen Ghazal, Andre Pielage, Bart van de Woestijne, Maarten Bel.
Concept & programming: Isolde Venrooy
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Participating in exhibiton Hooglicht, curated by Marena Seeling, at Omstand Arnhem. Participating artists: Jochem Rotteveel, Karlijn Janssen, Richard van der Aa, Maaike Kramer, Hans Everaert, Franck Gribling, Isolde Venrooy, Kathleen Huys and Simon Oud.

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In the exhibition Invisible Landscape the artists Florentijn Hofman, Gijs Verhoofstad, Isolde Venrooy, Rob Sweere, Attic Lab perfumes and Waag's Open Wetlab highlight aspects of the landscape that are normally almost unnoticeable or even completely invisible. They use different media for this; not only visually, but also in the form of odor and sound installations. Visitors are encouraged to discover more of the landscape by feeling, looking, tasting, hearing and smelling. Curator: Isabelle Bisseling.
Location: Van Borsselenweg 36, Oosterbeek.

Exhibition at the new location of Gallery O-68, formerly a church and a gymnastics room. Participating artists: Harrie Gerritz, Marena Seeling, Isolde Venrooy. Location: Oranjestraat 74, Velp
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