hans overvliet | distant suffering | selection
DISTANT SUFFERING XXe | [ difference and repetition ] i.d.ofliquidmobility
updated June 20, 2023
DISTANT SUFFERING III
i.d.ofasharedrestauration platters each 60 cm. Ø - 2015 video link
DISTANT SUFFERING VI
i.d.ofasharedkey#1
2015
selection from in total 215 old, cleaned tin cans an imprint of a key, pressed into plaster in the shape of a gold bar
Palestinian refugees whom I met from the early eighties, to the present day, keep up the keys of their homes from which they were expelled from 1948 on by the state of Israel. The current generation Palestinians carries all kinds of keys and key chains as jewellery. In 1991, for the first time I read the book Pity the Nation, Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk1. The chapter "The Keys of Palestine"2 associating me with my own experiences, I always remembered.
The artwork consists of 215 scoured biscuit tins, of which I removed the enamel and / or paint. Inside the tins are a print of a key, pressed into plaster in the shape of a gold bar. The can functions also as a container of the memories of my own childhood storing my treasures. It is also the metaphor of the forgotten memory [with forgotten postcards, far forgotten coins from countries visited, etc.] that everybody has tucked away.
Each
DISTANT SUFFERING VII-VIII-IX
‘out-lines’ of filing cabinets, each 134 cm. x 49,5 cm. x 71 cm. [ h x w x d ] each filled with 1,000 images, printed on sheet – 2016 a commentary on global warming, war and destruction
DISTANT SUFFERING XVIII | defacingpalestine|thenakba 1948- 2018
I spent 40 days - starting April 24, 2018 – charting 417 destroyed Palestinian villages / towns with the name, both in Latin and in Arabic script, the geographical location, the number of inhabitants in 1948 and a photo of the remains of that village / town. I poured that information into 417 obituaries and stored them in a steel archive cabinet. To complete the installation, I made a video of my laptop screen, which shows all the actions I made and which shows all the sources I used that led to each individual obituary.
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DISTANT
SUFFERING XX1 | [ difference and repetition ]
i.d. of a shared assemble game set - 2019
photos ©Lukáš Jasanský | courtesy by Luxfer
DISTANT SUFFERING XXI
i.d. of a shared bullet
a bullet of ice, made using a cartridge from a Kalashnikov A-47
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DISTANT SUFFERING XIX0 | dissectionofadisappearingcloud\workinprogress nine parts
total dimensions work | 287,7 x 192,9 cm. | March 26 - April 26, 2019
Cloud, actually painted with rubble from the spot in Gaza where annihilated Mishal Cultural Center was situated, in extremely diluted East-Indian ink & Arabic gum on Simili Japon, 225 grs. 96,0 x 65,0 cm. in nine wooden frames, each 97,9 x 66,3 x 4,5 cm.
Total dimensions 287,7 x 192,9 cm.
Connecting the Said al-Mishal Cultural Center Gaza - obliterated in a bomb strike by the Israel Defence Forces on August 9, 2018 with the Watermans Arts Centre in London. Radical Immersions in parallel with the Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts [ D.R.H.A. ] conference | 2019. The exhibition was curated by Klio Krajewska.
From every exhibition space in which I display work within DISTANT SUFFERING, I collect dust and I paint a picture with that dust mixed with the debris of the Mishal Cultural Center. At the moment 23 works, displayed in 18 art spaces in nine countries.
Gaza City | January 26, 2018 | the rubble in the plastic bag photo’s ©2019 | Mohammed Al hawajri
Gaza City | January 26, 2018
spot 0f the the SAID AL-MISHAL CULTURAL CENTER
photo’s ©2019 | Mohammed Al hawajri
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXI | other than joyful peace, no news from the Western Front December 22, 2022 – February 24, 2023
for Olech Kartchenko, my artist-friend who fled from Kiev
53 Zeeuwse landscapes on 16,3 x 7,5 cm. colourprint Canon Pixma TS700 on Superiour 350 grs. white on 5 mm. cardboard on slats 35 x 3 mm. number to be displayed is decided in situ
Exhibitions in Stockholm ( Slipvallen April 2023, Studio44 September 2023)
Los Angeles, Gallery Durden and Ray, September 2023
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exhibitions / art-related activities | selection
2023
ChaskaU.S.A. | THE ARTISTAMP REVUE | Curator Adam Roussopoulos
Cultural Center Toonbeeld in Terneuzen | 'Pakje Kunst' ( small package of art )
Curator Harmien Hamelink
StockholmSweden | Slipvillan | Curator team Studio44
Dishoek - Bunker WWII | curator leon riekwell
KemzekeBelgium | Verbeke Foundation | paper collages 2002 -2015 are included in the collection of collages and assemblages by Geert and Carla Verbeke-Lens
AarhusDenmark | Juxtapose Art Fair | Curated by Cecilie Bernts, Pamela Grombacher, Sasha Rose Richter and Jacob Juhl
StockholmSweden | Längholmen | KEEP ON BREATHING | Curator Masoud Shahsavari
Los AngelesU.S.A. | Gallery Durden and Ray | Curated by Carlos Beltran Arechiga
Middelburg | ruimteCAESUUR | groep met 3 kunstenaars van Gallery Durden and Ray
curated by teamCAESUUR
2022
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 | David Delifiora
Middelburg, ruimteCAEUUR, LIPA art collection
Peace letters to Ukrain #2Germany [ no. 38 – video i.d. of a shared bullet ]
BeirutLebanon | Kite project as part of the exhibition Salute to the Prisoners of Freedom Art Exhibition at Institute for Palestinian Studies
Curator Sebastian BernburgU.K., Arts Coordinator London
StockholmSweden | presenting teamCAESUUR with Giel Louws and 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 | part of the presentation of the Lípa Art Collection Curator/collector Roel van der Linden
TiranaAlbania | part of the (first) Tirana Biennial of Graphic Arts - first edition | Art Gallery of Tirana curators Beste GürsuTurkey, Helidon HalitiAlbania, Zake PrelvukajKosovo
2021
Česká SkaliceCzech Republic | Luxfer Open Space | residency / solo - oeuvre exhibition
AarhusDenmark | Juxtapose Art Fair | curator Sasha Rose Richter
2020
Zeeland | Art Magazine decreet | Also in the public space of Middelburg
MilanItaly | MEN OF (street art) | Independent Artists | curator Martina Buttiglieri
Tilburg | Steal like an Artist! | Kunstpodium ‘T’ | Curated by Lost Painters | Niek Hendrix
2019
KarachiPakistan | Kabutar 1 | curator Mehreen Hashmi
Milantaly | Kabutar 2 | Manuel Zoia Gallery
Watermans Arts CentreEngland | London | exhibition D.R.H.A. | curator Klio Krajewska
2018
Willem Twee art space | Den Bosch | DISTORTION | curator Loek Grootjans
2014 - 2017
Middelburg | Abby Complex | Iconoclastic Fury | 2017
Amersfoort | Biënnale Foreign Guests | 2016
Gouda | Art Gouda | het Weeshuis | 2016
SYMPOSION | Gorinchem | 2015
Mon Capitaine - Middelburg | 2015 | solo
AntwerpBelgium | (WOOT) | solo | 2015
Vlissingen | Willem3 / Goes | W45 kunstruimte | 2014
1999 – 2014
Le Secet | 2014
CBK Rotterdam | 2013
Veere | SPRING | Grote Kerk Veere | 2012
Kunstuitleen Terneuzen | 2011 | solo
Stadsgehoorzaal Middelburg, Foyer | 2009 | solo
Sanders Geluk: PROJECT ARTIST-IN-CARAVAN | Kunstsuper Rotterdam | 2007
1/1 ALMOST GENUINE | CBK Zeeland Summer Studio | Middelburg | 2006 | duo
Jan van Leeuwen Stichting | Middelburg | 2005 | solo
[LOGO! NO LOGO?] | BrughesBelgium | 2003
VERDER TERUG | Trechter 5, Goes | 2002
Koetshuis van de Groep Planning, BruggeBelgium | Brughes Cultural Capital Europe | 2002 | solo
RAAMWERK | OostendeBelgium | 2001
ENGAGÉ! - West-VlaanderenBelgium, Zeeland, Nord-Pas de CalaisFrance | 2000
Galerij Germinahof | Sterksel | 2000 | duo
Presentatieruimte De Overslag | Eindhoven | 1999 | solo
Financial support
Mondrian Fund
SBKM / Vleeshal Middelburg
Frits Lensvelt Stichting
KulturrådetSweden
Region StockholmSweden
Awards, residencies, commissions and public collections
Winner Global Arts Award 2020 from Red Line Art Works, a UK-based global arts project, category art series
Sea foundation | Tilburg | [ residence ] September – October 2018 / Mondrian Fund
Work in private collections, Independent ArtistsItaly , Ramírez Art GalleryPakistan, LIPACzech Republic , Karpuchina GalleryCzech Republic , The Institute for Palestine StudiesLebanon | Palestine | London | Washington
Public spaces in Axel and Neeltje Jans
Art-related activities Hans Overvliet as part of his art praxis
2015 - 2021 Co-initiator of Association Art House Zeeland, platform for artists
2012 - Co-creator / co-curator Kunstpark Vlissingen / Landscape Art Park Vlissingen
2009 - 2019 Chairman Foundation Studio Complex KipVis
2009 - 2014 Chairman Foundation decreet / concrete, Art magazine decreet
2005 - 2012 Chairman PLUS MIN Foundation, Renesse, succeeded by IK Foundation, Vlissingen
1995 - Founder, curator and co-director of Art Space ruimteCAESUUR
1995 - Curator / art educational projects / advising governmental institutions on art
hans overvliet
studio address | Dreesstraat 2, Vlissingen
+31 6 282 77 052
www.hansovervliet.com
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