hans overvliet
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Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen.
Theodor Adorno
Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zu Grunde gehen.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In 2023, all my paper collages 1999 - 2012 became part of the renowned collage & assemblage collection of Verbeke Foundation | KemzekeBELGIUM
A selection is on display at its Collage museum curated by Marie Verboven November 19, 2023 - until April 28, 2024
Click here for an overview of this oeuvre
Photos next pages: ©2023Giel Louws
International Mail Art Project | Luiz Sacilotto's 100th birthday
In honor of the centenary of the birth of the artist Luiz Sacilotto (1924-2003), born in Santo André. Sacilotto became one of the pioneers of concretism in the country and is considered one of the precursors of international Op Art. organizer | Marcia Rosenberger show | April 2024 Casa Âmbar de Cultura - Santo André-SP
Coletivo 308 - Guarulhos-SP
SEVENTEEN SECONDS #1
le sang des hommes et femmes de Metz paper collage
the map Is not the territory the word is not the thing the picture is not the suffering
“The map is not the territory” is a phrase coined by the Polish-American philosopher and engineer Alfred Korzybski. He used it to convey the fact that people often confuse models of reality with reality itself. The map-territory mental model tries to understand the difference between perceptions (the ‘map’) and the actual reality (the ‘territory’).
It is like having a map of a city: the map can help you navigate the city, but it’s not the same as experiencing it yourself.
Roads might be closes, intersections congested with traffic; the abstraction is not abstracted . . .
the map is not the territory | 1a&1b
03/03/’25
Used images: drone idf 01/03/’24 food stampede | 2/02/’24 maps Bellingcat 15/11/’23 cuts from ‘deadly pattern’ by me
Bergamo - Lombardi Italy
Looking back at Paul Cézanne (2010)
Ø 24 cm, 34 cm high stones of the Mont Sainte-VictoireFR , plaster, sand, miniature bench, cake stand sold in ruimtecAESUUR SALE2 January 28 – March 16, 2024
24 February 2024 - 24 February 2022
2 years annihilation war against UKRAINE Alphabet Art Centre is presenting
103 international participants
105 Peace Letters from 36 countries amongst them 25 Ukrainian artists commemorating this crime by sending their works to Peace Letters to Ukraine
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Carla Bertola
Visual poet - performer (Turin 1935 - Turin 2023)
Artestudio Morandi | 8 maart – 31 maart 2024
i.d. of remembering carla bertola
Betola's oeuvre shows enormous courage through her constant high quality confrontation with what is in a creating movement toward what can be. Her oeuvre to be seen and heard, requires a public sphere that can only thrive through a multiplicity and variety of diverse stories and perspectives.
Against this background, I created a "memorial" connecting Bertola with three other women: the American-Palestinian Shireen Abu Akleh, the Gazan Shaima El-Gazzar and the Lebanese Farah Omar.
Female journalists who gave their lives while record knowledge about a multiplicity and variety of stories and perspectives of others.
Emilio Morandi reacted: ”Thank you for your very important and beautiful work.”
Click here for a brief report on the local broadcaster.
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 KemzekeBE .
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 colllection.
Since 2022 I am working on DISTANT SUFFERING | i.d. or inequality. It tries to generate attention for the steering of the mobility of a certain, but very large group of people. Showing the paraphernalia of "travel", wants to indicate that mobility has become the leading indicator of power inequality in the neoliberal ideology of globalization.
The work has two parts: the presence of a poster in various public spaces all over the world and a publication with photos of all those events. Until now I received a lot of reactions: please click here for the condensed publication.
Also in 2024, the poster finds its way to art lovers, albeit at a slower pace than before. In Feruary, the poster appeared in Italy, Brazil and Argentina thanks to Emilio, Ruggero, Marcia and Silvio. They all responded to work I submitted for various open calls . . .
contribution to “Black and White Stories” exhibition dates: May 15 – 21, 2024
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi
İzmir / Turkey
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXV
i.d. of a repetitive anatomy of a cloud tryptich A4-photocollage Gaza / Zealand
2023 - 2024
La Cuna Festivals 2024 | Lanzarote, Canary IslandsSpain
Our Bodies / Our Homes
International Contemporary Art Festival organized by the Lacuna Studios ( La Cuna will post all submitted artworks via Instagram & Facebook ) June 1st – 30, 2024
My proposal:
The bodies of my wife Willy and myself are slowly falling apart. Given our age, not really spectacular. The speed at which it happens, on the other hand . . .
But in a society where Foucautian biopolitics of the (healthy) body reigns supreme, deterioration is kept out of the picture as much as possible.
I have been recording our regular visits to hospitals in recent years by capturing the deserted corridors and halls of the various hospitals we visited.
My proposal is to present three such images from that series.
i.d. of a deadly pattern attempts to keep alive the memory of the more than 50 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 enduredare relegated to obscurity. Click here for the full catalogue . . . Click here for a brief television report . . .
Click here for the catalogue
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Stichting Bewaerschole Weststraat 18 4328 AB Burgh-Haamstede
Middelburg anno 2024, seen from portals and some corridors of its homes & and (semi-)government buildings . . . Publishing date: September 2024.
Project proposal within the so-called arrangement Corona fund for creatives, made available by the Municipality of Middelburg granted in 2023; Dutch catalogue
GEEF JE MIJN RAAM
/ I GIVE YOU MY WINDOW | Flushing
exhibition project by Sylvia Hubrouck September 06 - October 20, 2024 in conjuction with
THROUGH W. ’S EYE | a selection of poetic videos 2023 - 2024
I keep what I can of you split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds . . .
The National | 2023 New Order T-shirt
Click here for the trailer
Click here for the complete edit
Click here for all the stills
Video edit / colour corrections Jochem Weststrate
Geträumtes
22 September 2023, 16.30 Uhr GMT, Kleve, Deutschland, museum Kurhaus
exhibition project by Lutz Anders | October 2024
Geträumtes Licht #2
12 Dezember 2023, 16.30 Uhr GMT, Flushing, die Niederlande, Boulevard
Mail art poetry – poetry is resistance curated by Ruggero
Maggi
POSVERSO - International Biennal of Experimental poetry of Argentia
Buenos Aires | October 18 – December 20, 2024
I work and live in the south-western rural part of the Netherlands: Zeeland. For centuries, people here had their own language to name the quality, location, properties, etc. of their lands. With the advent of chemical analysis, this language - passed down through the generations as a kind of 'rite de passage' - became obsolete and disappeared from the landscape of the regional language.With my contribution I try to give this language, which has also become unintelligible here in Zeeland, a stage to underline the necessity of linguistic diversity. A necessity, as Deleuze taught me: for rhizomatic resistance you need the diversity of language.
Zeeuws getij
lichte zavel zware zavel zeer lichte zavel kalkrijk kalkarm kalkloos vlagvaaggronden leemarm leemrijk met zaveldek & met kleidek kalkrijk kalkarm kalkloos [ dito voor ] poldervaaggronden, slikvaaggronden gors- nes- drecht- duin- vorstooivaag- liedeerd- en tochteergronden, leek- woud- beek- goor- kamakkereerd- eerdveen- & rauwveengronden wel knippg niet knippig poldergronden als padzol-B dan humuspodzolgrond geduid als Hn210III dan veldpodzol [ want leemarm met zwak lemig fijn zand ]
moerige gronden: dikke- dunneeerdgronden, lutumarme gronden gerijpte niet gerijpte minerale gronden kortom zeeklei [ getekend door ] grondwatertrappen met op- of aanwassen hoge & lage opslibbingen met in- en uitbrekingen
gestoeld op afzettingen van Calais Duinkerke Hollandsveen Kootwijk soms van lokale oorsprong vaak komen aanwaaien als fluvioperiglaciaal zand netjes bedekt met de leemlaag van Wouw
KULT Terneuzen | Toonbeeld Terneuzen
Rita Vermeersch & Barbara van Gelder
Context
20 kunstwerken; elk werk is uniek; deze werken meten elk 1 x 6 x 9 cm
International Mail Art exhibition curated by Ruggero Maggi organization Matera International Photography
The exhibition will take place in November 2024 at the Palazzo Ducale Malvinni-Mavezzi as part of the project Matera, the art that unites
My contribution is inspired by a sentence in Ruggero's invitation: Sometimes Absence screams more than presence . . .
After all, DISTANT SUFFERING XXXI | other than joyful peace, no news from the Western Front is exactly that: the realization that from "my" Dutch skies only falls sunshine, rain and occasional some hail. While the skies of my Ukranian friend and collegue Oleg Karch produce very different things coming from the Kremlin. The very Kremlin that Navalny fought with fire and sword. At the same time, I find it exciting to point out something else "absent": there is ambiguity in Ukraine about Navalny. His status as perceived in the West is there quite absent . . .
Supported by
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.
exhibition concertina / leporello / harmonica de Roofprintpers (robbery print press ) | Middelburg
November 29, 2024 – January 01, 2025.
The motive for creating this work was inspired by the words of Prof. Noam Chomsky in his Statement on Israel's War on Gaza: “The invasion and bombing of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire on Israel, it is not about achieving peace. (...)
Israel is using advanced attack aircraft and naval vessels to bomb densely populated refugee camps, schools, apart-ment buildings, mosques and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command, no army and calls it a war. It is not a war, it is murder.”
the firmament connects us all. . . .
with very emphatic thanks to Leni van den Berge | the Roofprint press
hARTslane is pleased to present All I Want For Christmas is… Peace the first edition of its annual International Winter Show and Fundraiser. Each year, we invite artists from all over the world to come together to exhibit and support us by donating a postcard-sized work in any medium. Each original work will be sold for £30 and all proceeds go to benefit hARTslane’s mission to bring people together and closer to themselves through the arts. This year we have decided to keep the price of each work to £30 so that all artworks exhibited can be more affordable and accessible.
hARTslane is a non-rofit arts organisation and exhibition space founded in London in 2012. The organisation is an alternative to mainstream institutions and empower both emerging talents and established artists, enabling them to curate, exhibit, and collaborate.
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXX | i.d. of a shared ( ceramic ) bullet – 2022-2024 utterly endlessly repurposed naive incantation gesture
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXXV | i.d. of a shared gold-plated bullet
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXXVI | i.d. of the shared tale of a bullet
DISTANT SUFFERING XXXXVII | i.d. an incased bullet - multiple
| i.d. of an artist’s portrait utterly endlessly repurposed naive incantation gesture stills from the video
Pop-up the machine | Zeeuwse Art Fair Vlissingen | October 25 and 26, 2024
XXXXVII | i.d. of an encased bullet performance | multiple (50 + 3 A.P.’s)
sold 44 for € 40,- each; the proceeds went to the Hope Foundation
Photos courtesy of ©2024 Sylvia Hubrouck | Bo de Jong | Giel Louws
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
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Kunstwerkplaats Kipvis | Sloeweg | Flushing
part of the Abby Complex / New church
still alive | voices from Gaza exhibition in the Nieuwe Kerk | Middelburg September 8 – November 1, 2024
Artists from Gaza: Marwan Nassar, Mohamed Abusal, Raed Issa, Yasser Thaher and Maisata Baroud, From the Netherlands: Godelieve Smulders, Hans Overvliet
Poet from Gaza: Refaat Alareer
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my contribution:
| i.d. of a shared kite II
3 kites, 190 x 260 cm, tails with names of 132 murdered journalists in Gaza, the poem “if i must die” by Refaat Alareer in Arabic, German, English and Dutch played in repetition.
REMEMBERING THE AL-MISHAL CULTURAL C
DISTANT SUFFERING #XIX | dissection of a disappearing cloud differenceandrepetition| work in progress | 2018 - 20 . .
Campo del Ghetto
Novo 2918 VENEZIA
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
SUFFERING III | i.d. of recovery print on A6 on 350 grs Plano
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 the work will then be included in the permanent collection.
Next to his art-work he is, together with his wife Willy van Houtum, the founder and every day guardian of ruimteCAESUUR, the 29-year old space for contemporary art in Middelburg in the province of Zeeland.
Thanks - people
Willy, Giel, Geert, leon, Jorieke, Ko, Johan, Tineke, Jürgen, Dani, Lutz, Geeske, Bo, Sylvia, Erjee, Emilio, Sait, Ilja, Marie, Hans, Chris, Onno, Ferdinand, Ruggero, Marcia, Jan, Sarah-Jane, Simon, Silvio, Sonja, Adolfina, Jochem, Tonnie, Adriaan, Daniël, Edwin, Wilfried, HuibertJan, Sam, Ben, Neeltje, Sam, Guus, Rezan, Sjef, Marwan, Marina, Mohamed, Raed, Yasser, Maisara, Godelieve, Leni, Wissem, Margo, Sam, Jaana, Marianne, Erica, Ruud, Marten, Loek, Ebeed, Dirk&Uli, Lucia en Rita
Thanks - instututes
Verbeke FoundationBelgium , ruimteCAESUUr, uitgeverij De Bovenkamer, PosversoArgentina , no-intituteGermany , Ballustrada, Smithart, Artestudio MoraniItaly , Omroep Zeeland, Traumland/DreamlandGermany , Gem. Middelburg, Bewaerschole, ik geef je mijn raam, UtsangaItaly , P.Z.C., Dokuz Eylül ÜniversitesiTurkey , Wij Zijn De Stad, Peace Letters to UkraineGermany , Galleria Visini AltreItaly , Casa Âmbar de Cultura Brasil , Hotel DaDaArgentina , @ORBI, Nederlands Dagblad, Lacuna StudiosSpain , Sisyphos GesellschaftGermany , Kunsthaus HamburgGermany , Kunsthal 45, Intern. Film Festival Film by the Sea, Roofprintpers, Matera International PhotographyItaly , Volos Art AssociationGreece , Sisyphos-Gesellschaft Germany , Miniprint InternationalArgentina , hARTslaneGreat Britain ,
An object that tells of loss, destruction, disappearance of objects. Does not speak of itself. Tells of others. Will it include them?
Jasper Johns in Susan Sontag | On Photography
