Make something. Find a use for it. AND / OR Invent a function. Find an object.
One thing working one way
Another thing working another way. One thing working different ways at different times. Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. " " " " " "
Jasper Johns
1965 | in Catalogue Raisonné of Drawing
Samuel
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Beckett | 1983 | Worstward Ho
Marie Verboven, curator - exhibitions & collection at the Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke in Belgium presents an oeuvre exhibition of my work during the winter exhibition 2024 – 2025.
Click here for a Dutch spoken tv-item by Ilja Tuning;
Click here for a Dutch article on the expo, also by Ilja Tuning.
Campo del Ghetto
Novo 2918
Galleria Visioni Altre ( Other Visions )
Adolfina de Stefani | Venice / Italy
January – February 2025
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXV | i.d. of a gold-plated bullet
To be presented in the Chrysoula Zogia Museum and Art Gallery
Volos - Greece
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXXIX | i.d. of a body map for snipers
print 12 x 21 cm on 350 grs Plano
Kunsthaus Hamburg | Germany open call | the politics of love 31/11/’24 – 02/02/’25
| i.d. of recovery print on A6 on 350 grs Plano
For Friends of the Tent Of Bethlehem
February 8 – March 8
Three kites made out of newspapers with articles on the genocide in Gaza and war crimes in the West Bank.
Tail made of 106 names of murdered journalists in Gaza, the Westbank, Israel and Lebanon
Size | 270 x 170 cm.
Poem from loudspeaker:
Dutch / German / Arabic / English
If I must die | Refaat Al-Areer (1979 – 2023)
Voices | Rezan Habash, Dani Ploeger and Hans Overvliet
Recording | Sjef Hermans
Edit | Jochem Weststrate
Thanks to / photo
Chris Kors
02 - 31 May 2025
Final format poster: 3560 x 2520 mm
2 0 2 4 – 2 0 2 5
i.d. of a shared gold-plated bullet variation #I
#III in production
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXXV
i.d. of a shared gold-plated bullet variation #II
#III in production
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXXVII | i.d. of an encased bullet performance / multiple (48 + 6 A.P.’s) for HOPE Vlissingen | October 25 and 26, 2024
print of a sugar beet for a project in Brazil about industrial destruction of agricultural land 20 x 20 cm, 350 grs plano
i.d. of a vanishing object
Leiden 1959 | West Bank 2025
Work fom Gaza | Maisara Barud
| I’m still alive
Maisara Baroud print on canvas 470 x 160 cm
thanks to Jochem Weststrate, Giel Louws, Dani Pleger, leon riekwell, Chris Gors
Click here for the catalogue
Kunstwerkplaats Kipvis | Sloeweg | Flushing
part of the Abby Complex / New church
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.
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, Albania, Germany, Lebanon, the U.S.A., Brasil, Argentina and Sweden.
In 2023, his whole body of paper collages ( 1999 – 2012 ) joined Geert Verbeke’s renowned collection of collages and assemblages.
In 2024 - 2025 the whole oeuvre of distant suffering was exhibited in the museum part of the Verbeke Foundation. All works will then be included in the permanent collection.
Next to his art-work Hans is, together with his wife Willy van Houtum, the founder and every day guardian of ruimteCAESUUR, the 30-year old space for contemporary art in Middelburg in the province of Zeeland.
Thanks - people
Willy, Giel, Geert, Marie, Jorieke, Ko, Johan, Tineke, Jürgen, Dani, Bo, Sylvia, Erjee, Ilja, leon, Hans, Chris, Onno, Jan, Sarah-Jane, Rita, Simon, Silvio, Sonja, Adolfina, Jochem, Tonnie, Adriaan, Daniël, Edwin, Wilfried, Sam, Ben, Neeltje, Sam, Guus, Rezan, Sjef, Marwan, Mohamed, Raed, Yasser, Maisara, Godelieve, Leni, Wissem, Marianne, Erica, Ruud, Marten, Loek, Ebeed, Dirk&Uli, Lucia, Chris, Fé, Rita, Mohamed,
Verbeke FoundationBelgium , ruimteCAESUUr, uitgeverij De Bovenkamer, no-intituteGermany , Omroep Zeeland, Wij Zijn De Stad, Galleria Visini AltreItaly , Lacuna StudiosSpain , Roofprintpers, Kunsthaus HamburgGermany , Matera International PhotographyItaly , Volos Art AssociationGreece , Sisyphos-Gesellschaft Germany , FriendsTent of Nations Nederland, Movies That Matter, Mohamed Hart-ArtGaza ,
An object that tells of loss, destruction, disappearance of objects. Does not speak of itself. Tells of others. Will it include them?
Deluge.
Jasper Johns
Sketchbook | 1964
