23 - 24 | hans overvliet | work / exhibitions 2023 - 2024

work | exhibitions 2023 - 2024

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work | exhibitions ‘23 – ‘24 hans overvliet studio-address | Dreesstraat 2 Vlissingen home-address | Lange Noordstraat 67, NL-4331 CC Middelburg www.hansovervliet.com | curiositas@zeelandnet.nl team member of www.caesuur.nu click here for my condensed portfolio click here for my extended portfolio click here for my C.V.

Martha Jager, curator Vleeshal in MiddelburgNL about the oeuvre (2023) after a studio visit: The dedication to art as a relational verb is central to Overvliet's work. On the one hand, the balance between poetry and criticism is special, in that the work never becomes bitter or pedantic, while at the same time the dialogue with the viewer is actively maintained.

It is a tender form of activism that moves and urges action and also continuously questions the role of art.

Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen.

Theodor Adorno There is no right life in the wrong one.

art works | exhibitions running now

Smith Art | Middelburg - October 2023 | Curator Johan de Koning REMEMBERING THE AL-MISHAL CULTURAL CENTRE

DISTANT SUFFERING #XIX | dissection of a disappearing cloud

difference and repetition | work in progress | 2018 - 20 . .

art works | publications 2024

Paper collages 1999 - 2012 part of the winter exhibition 2023 - 2024 Verbeke Foundation KemzekeBELGIUM COLLAGEMUSEUM November 19, 2023 - untill April 28, 2024

cross #2 | 2007 22 x 56 cm | 122 x 244 cm photos next pages: ©2023Giel Louws

idiosyncratic literary magazine since 1986 A selection of my paper collages 1999 - 2012, curated by Ko de Jonge, will be published in Ballustrada, volume 38 no.1/2, spring 2024.

Ko de Jonge: Ballustrada has enjoyed a growing number of contributors and subscribers in Flanders in recent years. I consider the extra attention to your work in Flanders very appropriate, in particular the collages included in the archives of the Collage Museum of Geert Verbeke.

My entire body of collages is since May 2023 included in the collection of the Verbeke Foundation in KemzekeBELGIUM. The core of the private collection of Geert and Carla Verbeke-Lens consists of an exceptional collection of about 6000 collages and assemblages from the twentieth century.

A separate room has been set up to permanently exhibit part of this collection.

Not all works are visible at all times. The Verbeke Foundation produces a summer and a winter exhibition each year with a changing selection of their collection.

From August 24 - September 22, 2024 I am participating in the program Nomadic life, wandering in times of overpopulation in Bewaerschole, curated by Geeske Pluijmers.

Bewaerschole, a special presentation space for experimental and contemporary art in Burgh-Haamstede, is located in a characteristic historical building from 1874, which was built as a nursery and which later served many other functions, as a post office and gymnasium and even mortuary.

Since 1975, Bewaerschole has been an exhibition space with exhibitions on an (inter)national level. Here attention is paid to reflection and imagination.

Stichting Bewaerschole Weststraat 18 4328 AB Burgh-Haamstede

IK GEEF JE MIJN RAAM / I GIVE YOU MY WINDOW | Vlissingen/Flushing

exhibition project by Sylvia Hubrouck September 09 - October 21, 2024 in conjuction with the 26th international filmfestival Film by the Sea

a selection of poetic videos - LOOKING THROUGH THE EYE OF W. #1

art works in progress 2024

DISTANT SUFFERING XXXII

i.d. of a deadly pattern

i.d. of a deadly pattern attempts to keep alive the memory of the more than fifty journalists who were brutally killed while trying to cover the massacres in the Gaza Strip and in Israel in October - November 2023.

With their very lamented deaths, the voices of the victims are also silenced and, at the same time, most of the crimes – in particular those which the Palestinians endured – are relegated to obscurity.

Click here for the full catalogue . . .

Municipality of Middelburg Hallways, a registration of corridors and halls in private homes and (semi-)government buildings in Middelburg.

Publishing date: December 2024

art works | exhibitions 2023

November 11 - December 3, 2023 | Kunstverein projektraum-bahnhof25 | KleveBRD selection of DISTANT SUFFERING featuring the German premier of DISTANT SUFFERING XXI | i.d. of a shared bullet

i.d. of a cup of tea is now part of the collection of the German sculptor Christoph Wilmsen-Wiegmann an element of i.d. of a shared key is now part of the collection of the artists Uli and Dirk Knickhoff-Scholder

February 2023 | Contribution to the artistamp revue by Adam RoussopoulosUSA Click here for the catalogue of i.d. of a shared bullet

2nd Contribution to the sympathetic initiative 'Pakje Kunst' ( small package of art ) cultural center Toonbeeld in Terneuzen – Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.

DISTANT SUFFERING XXXI other than joyful peace, no news from the Western Front Click here for the catalogue of the entire work

'Pakje Kunst' ( small package of art ) DISTANT SUFFERING XXXI other than joyful peace, no news from the Western Front (3x) 8,7 x 5,6 cm

DISTANT SUFFERING XXXI other than joyful peace, no news from the Western Front

studio setup

Slipvillan | StockholmSWEDEN | April 1st DISTANT SUFFERING XXXI other than joyful peace, no news from the Western Front photos ©2023 Masoud Shahsavari Click here for the catalogue of the entire work

Paper collage as a contribution to Bibliothek der Zukunft = Zukunft der Bibliotheken?

Library of the future - Future of Libraries?

22/04/’23 - 30/05/’23 Mail Art | Schillerstrasse 2 | 73312 Geislingen/Steige | Germany Middelburg, the Netherlands 22/04/’23 | Reims, France 06/09/’22 For us, the library of the future is a combination of the public and the private.

The public as for instant in Reims: it is the attitude from which this library was born. Any library conceived from this type of content and attitude suits its purpose.

The private, as is our own library, ‘collected’ in the last 45 years.

Warm greetings hans overvliet & willy van houtum Click here for the catalogue of the library project curated by Peter Schubert as a whole

Almost all my paper collages are now part of the collection collages and assemblages of the Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke in Belgium.

Click here for some examples 1999 - 2012

3rd Contribution to a special edition of the sympathetic initiative 'Pakje Kunst' (small package of art) cultural center Toonbeeld in Terneuzen – Zeeuws-Vlaanderen NO TITLE

22 works | 6 x 9 cm glue and sand on 300 grs. paper

WWII-Bunkers in Dishoek / Zeeland | June group exhibition with Jorieke Rottier, Dani Ploeger and leon riekwell

4th Contribution to a special edition of the sympathetic initiative 'Pakje Kunst' (small package of art) cultural center Toonbeeld in Terneuzen – Zeeuws-Vlaanderen NO TITLE

20 works - 2 A.P. | 6 x 9 cm 3 days of midsummer 2023 cell phone photos on 300 grs. paper

Warning: contains life. Notebook, Bullet Journal, Diary Exhibition July 15 - October 10, 2023 Klingspor Museum | Offenbach | Germany Curator | Dr. Dorothee Ader

DISTANT SUFFERING XXE | i.d. of liquid mobility

2021 Boulevard of beauty & solace | Vlissingen July-August 2023 | illegal initiative by decreet original work two Dutch newspapers [NRC / VK] wallpaper paste Perfix non-woven paint: Histor black 6372 - matt two Faller rowing boats blue, Artitec H0 Steel A387.09-BL approximately 50 x 33 cm The private as is our own library

Juxtapose Art Fair Aarhus - Denmark | September 1-3, 2023 presenting ruimteCAESUUR together with art work by Giel Louws DISTANT SUFFERING III | i.d. of a shared platter video link

DISTANT SUFFERING XXXI

other than joyful peace, no news from the Western Front Click here for the catalogue of the entire work

Slipvillan | Stockholm, Sweden ADAPTATION

ruimteCAESUUR | Middelburg BREATHE MY DEAR | Stockholm, Sweden CROSSING BORDERS

Durden and Ray | Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Slipvillan, StockholmSweden | August 26 - September 10, 2023

BREATHE MY DEAR | StockholmSweden | August 26 - September 10

Middelburgthe Netherlands | ruimteCAESUUR | August 12 - September 24, 2023

Durden and Ray | Los Angeles - U.SA. | September 16 - October 8, 2023 together wit the art work ‘schoolbus’ by Ben Jackel photos courtesy ©2023Ben Jackel

5th Contribution to a special edition of the sympathetic initiative 'Pakje Kunst' (small package of art) at cultural center Toonbeeld in Terneuzen – Zeeuws-Vlaanderen ABOUT LOOKING THROUGH THE EYE OF W. #2

20 works - 2 A.P. | 6 x 9 cm cell phone photos on 300 grs. paper on 5 mm board

8A - Totenfeld - Duitsland 08/09/’23

8B - Totenfeld - Duitsland 08/09/’23

DISTANT SUFFERING VI | i.d. of a shared key | work in progress

part of EEJ! | ‘Verzetsheldenbuurt (Resistance Heroes Neighborhood)’

Jacob Klaaijsenstraat 5, Goes | October 2023 thanks to | André Smits (photos), Iris Van ´t Bosch and Giel Louws

statement

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 representation 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, the U.S.A. and Sweden.

In 2023 his whole body of paper collages (1999 - 2012) joined Geert Verbeke’s renowned collection of collages and assemblages.

Next to his art-work he is, together with his wife Willy van Houtum, the founder and every day guardian of ruimteCAESUUR, the 28-year old space for contemporary art in Middelburg in the province of Zeeland.

acknowledgement

Thanks - people Willy, Giel, leon, Jorieke, Dani, Ko, Masouth, Jürgen, Jochem, Adam, Mehreen, Ramon, Harmien, Peter, Jannike, Laetitia, Rikard, Ingrid, Madeleine, Geert, Marianne, John, Dorothee, Valerie, Marie, Carlos, Ben, Sasha, Arezoo, Pamela, Cecilie, Jacob, Cor, Eduard, Geeske, Johan, Tineke, Lony&Willem&Bente, Ulrike, Loek, Liesbeth, Dirk, André, Iris, Tritske, Renske, Henk, Sylvia, Erjee, Christoph

Thanks - institutes Mehreen GalleryPakistan, Pakje Kunst, SlipvillanSweden, Toonbeeld, NO-INSTITUTEGermany, Mail Art - SchillerstrasseGermany, Smith Art, Bunker Dishoek, Durden and RayUSA, Klingspor Museum Offenbach am MainGermany, Verbeke FoundationBelgium, Studio44Sweden, ruimteCAESUUr, uitgeverij De Bovenkamer, Vleeshal - Middelburg, Ballustrada, Juxtapose Art Fair AarhusDenmark, DECREET, kunstwerkplaats Kipvis, Bewaerschole, Kunstverein projektrau bahnhof25Germany, EEJ! - Goes, Gemeente Middelburg, ik geef je mijn raam -i’m giving you my window Flushing

Without memory there is no limit to radical evil.

Hannah Arendt An object that tells of loss, destruction, disappearance of objects.

Does not speak of itself.

Tells of others. Will it include them?

Jasper Johns Quoted in Susan Sontag | On Photography

work | exhibitions 2023 - 2024

www.hansovervliet.com curiositas@zeelandnet.nl