work | exhibitions 2022
DISTANT SUFFERING VII- VIII - IX | i.d. of a shared cloud / wave / home In revitalized into a multiple for Noordstraat 74 in Terneuzen | 27 November – 31 December organised by Zeus Hoenderop
edition: 5 + 1 A.P. | 50 x 50 x 5 cm.
work
one photo print 35 mm. x 47 mm. of an explosion with codes super imposed on the images: unique location positioning from a military open source website; one photo print 35 mm. x 47 mm. of a wave with statistics on Global Warming; one photo print 35 mm. x 47 mm. of destroyed houses with a ground plan, send to me - in 1996 on my request – by in total 72 national libraries in The World Library Art Project.
price
1 piece: € 165,- incl. V.A.T. and 40% brokerage for Noordstraat 74
2 pieces: € 310,- incl. V.A.T. and 40% brokerage for Noordstraat 74
4 pieces: € 650, incl. V.A.T. and 40% brokerage for Noordstraat 74
Super BOOKS #3 11.11.22, 16 – 23 Uhr | 12.11.22, 12 – 20 Uhr
In November Haus der Kunst organizes the third edition of Super BOOKS. For two days, artists, designers and alternative publishers show their autonomous productions. Super BOOKS was first held in 2019 at Haus der Kunst as part of the exhibition “Archives in Residence: AAP Archiv Künstlerpublikationen”, curated by Sabine Brantl. The project fits in the tradition of independent, individual places for artist publications that have developed since the 1960s in the context of the international, post-avant-garde art scene.
Invited by Jürgen O. Olbrich’s NO-INSTITUTE in Kassel, I created distant suffering
XXVIII | Syrian skies 3,838 days | October 18, 2022 in an edition of 3 + 1 A.P. Plnt&flower press, prints of clouds on 300 grs. Plano Superior. After the presentation, the work will be included both in the Archive of Haus der Kunst as well as in the Archive Artist Publications, both in Munich.
DISTANT SUFFERING XXVI | brought to you by
The Militairy-Industrial Complex determines to an extreme extent our political decision-making and thus our economy. Almost all wars these companies provoke, serve as the floodgates through which billions of dollars flow uncontrolled into the pockets of the few.
The suffering associated with the generated violence is indescribable; the total damage is planet-destroying. Click her for the video-link. This work is part of the Violence Project by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.
distant suffering XXVI brought to you by
Tirana International Biennale of Graphic Arts, First edition, from October 25 - November 25 in the Tirana Art Gallery National Historical Museum in Albania diptych of embossed clouds
Exhibition Lípa Art Collection [ collected & curated by Roel van der Linden ] Luxfer Open Space | Česká Skalice | Czech Republic
Photo courtesy by Lukáš Jasanský
team/ruimteCAESUUR presented itself at Supermarket 2022 May 26 – 29 | Stockholm / Sweden
Art works by Giel Louws
I presented my multiple i.d. of a shared bullet
Click here for the catalogue of the presentations in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden
The weekend after Supermarket, I participated in the exhibition De Aningslösa / The Uninitiated in the garden of Slipvillan on Långholmen in Stockholm. June 4 - June 17
Click here for some images.
All the kites from the kite project kites sharing the sky | commemorating the palestinian exodus ( 2018 ) have become part of the art collection of the I.P.S. - the Institute of Palestinian Studies –with offices in Beirut, Ramallah, London and Washington D.C. Their first exhibition was held in the Palestine Hall / IPS building in Beirut. With the participation of 29 Palestinian, Arab, and other international Artists. April 1st -June 1st
Thanks to Sebastian Bernburg, Rana Anani, Ingrid Rollema and Suzanne Groothuis. Click here for the catalogue of the whole project.
The video of i.d. of a shared bullet, was selected by the curators
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and Yarina Butkowska, throughout the year screened at The Ukraine Darkroom on the Alphabet Art Centre, part of the The New Museum of Networked Art for the project Peace Letters to Ukraine
Some parts of distant suffering have been curated by Kim Hill for DiEM Voice, part of the art site / art gallery of DiEM25: the progressive movement for Europe. Click here for the relevant page.
In Expo Room Poortersloge, Kraanrei 19 in Bruges
I presented 'i.d. of a shared bullet' during AiR Biekorf 6.0 as an artistic reaction on the art work misfigure by Sylvie Crutelle. The exhibition ran from April 22 - May 22 Click here for the catalogue
February 2022
Lahore - Pakistan | Ranrez art gallery curator Mehreen Hashmi In the glare of grey moon
Long story, short films videos on the windows of ruimteCAESUUR in Middelburg, the Netherlands and Studio44 in Stockholm, Sweden the timelaps of the melting bullet December 10, 2021 - January 6, 2022
works of art included in collections
Karpuchina Gallery Rybná
Prague
Since 2013, by means of the ongoing art-series DISTANT SUFFERING, the Dutch artist Hans Overvliet (Leiden, 1952) investigates the role of the media in their representtation of (military) violence. This, in the context of themes as perception, memory and identity formation.
Overvliet uses a various range of media, symbols and codes, bringing together dichotomies like beauty and violence, refinement and brutality, the sublime and the vulgar.
Aspects of power, politics, exclusion, censorship and the connection between artist, artwork and viewer infiltrate his multifaceted conceptual oeuvre.
As a reporter, Overvliet was an eyewitness to the events in the Middle East during the 1980s. Of course these experiences resonate in DISTANT SUFFERING.
Elements of distant suffering were exhibited in the Netherlands, Belgium, Pakistan, England, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Lebanon and Sweden.
Next to his art-work he is, together with his wife Willy van Houtum, the founder and every day guardian of ruimteCAESUUR, the 27-year old space for contemporary art in Middelburg.
LahorePakistan | In the glare of grey moon | Ranrez Art Gallery | Curator Mehreen Hashmi
BruggesBelgium | Expect an Occasional Attack … and Flee | CultuurCentrum Brugge
Curator Jan Verhaeghe
Geelong Australia | KART | Curator David Delifiora
Peace letters to Ukrain #2Germany [ no. 38 – video i.d. of a shared bullet ]
BeirutLebanon | Kite project Art Exhibition at Institute for Palestinian Studies
Curator Sebastian BernburgU.K., Arts Coordinator London
StockholmSweden | presenting teamCAESUUR | i.d. of a shared bullet
Supermarket Independent Art Fair | Curator Alice Máselníková, Creative Director
StockholmSweden | part of the summer exhibition in Slipvillan | Curator team Studio44
Česká SkaliceCzech Republic | Luxfer Open Space | presentation Lípa Art Collection
Curator/collector Roel van der Linden
The Violence Project Germany | DISTANT SUFFERING XXVI | brought to you by
Curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
TiranaAlbania | part of the (first) Tirana Biennial of Graphic Arts - first edition
Art Gallery of Tirana | curators Beste GürsuTurkey, Helidon HalitiAlbania, Zake PrelvukajKosovo
MunichGermany | Super BOOKS 3 | Haus der Kunst –
Curator Jürgen O. Olbrich | KasselGermany
Middelburg | De Roofprintpers | Priority | Curator Lenie van den Berge
StockholmSweden | Studio44 | December 6, 2021 – January 6, 2022
Curator Rikard Fåhraeus
