Artists' lectures at De Ateliers

30/01/2012

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia is the first to start off the new artists' lecture series of De Ateliers: Spring Blossom 2012. Tomorrow, tuesday January 31st at 17.00 hrs.

Lecture programme:

Tuesday January 31st: Philip-Lorca DiCorcia
Tuesday March 20th: Nathaniel Mellors
Tuesday March 27th: Norbert Schwontkowksi
Tuesday April 3: Rem Koolhaas
Tuesday April 10: Tatiana Trouvé
Tuesday April 17: Falke Pisano

Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1951, Hartford, Connecticut, USA), lives and works in New York

The works of American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia alternate between informal snap shots and meticulously staged compositions with a baroque theatricality. Documentary work is mixed with the fictional worlds of cinema and advertising, stimulating a powerfull cross breeding between reality, fantasy and desire. Since his participation in the landmark New York Moma-exhibition ‘Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort’ in 1997, the artist exhibited worldwide. Recent institutional solo exhibitions took place at Manezh Hall (Moscow, 2009), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008), ICA (Boston, 2007), Foam (Amsterdam, 2006), Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa (Venice, 2005), Whitechapel Art Gallery (London, 2003), Museum Folkwang (Essen, 2003) and Magasin 3 (Stockholm, 2003). DiCorcia participated in Whitney Biennial (1997), Carnegie International (2003) and Gwangju Biennial (2010). Philip-Lorca diCorcia is represented by David Zwirner (New York), Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers (Cologne/ Munich/ London), Almine Rech (Paris) and Monica de Cardenas (Milan).

Nathaniel Mellors (1974, Doncaster, UK), lives and works in Amsterdam and London

British artist Nathaniel Mellors has earned a reputation with impressive exhibitions in which electronic animated sculptures are combined with absurdist films, objects and photo works. Recurrent theme is the alternating current between our inclination to project concepts and values onto objects and the digital culture in which the image invariably prevails over whatever it represents. Combining technology, theatre and television formats, Mellors’ eccentric universe reflects a fascination for the uncultivated. Mellors had solo shows at Cobra Museum (Amstelveen 2010-2011), De Hallen (Haarlem, 2010), SMBA (Amsterdam, 2009), Monterhermoso (Vitoria, 2009), South London Gallery (2009) and Lombard-Freid Projects (New York, 2009). He participated in the Venice Biennial 2011 and the Tate Triennial 2009. The artist is represented by Galerie Diane Stigter (Amsterdam), Monitor (Rome) and Matts Gallery (London).

Norbert Schwontkowksi (1949, Bremen), lives and works in Berlin and Bremen

The pictorial worlds of Norbert Schwontkowski represent an infinite private universe infected by melancholic feelings of isolation, hostility, desire and restlessness. Anonymous characters find themselves in situations which evoke a dark sense of humour and anarchy. The artists produces his own paints, using ingredients such as copper sulfate, iron chloride and tea, resulting in tertiary colours and gritty textures. Schwontkowski had major solo shows in Münchner Stadtmuseum (2009), KW (Berlin, 2008), Kabinet für Aktuelle Kunst (Bremerhaven, 2007) and participated in the Berlin Biennial 4 (2006). The artist is represented by Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin), Grimm (Amsterdam), Kerlin Gallery (Dublin), David Risley Gallery (Copenhagen) and Raucci/Santamaria (Napoli).
Tuesday April 3

Rem Koolhaas (1944, Rotterdam), lives and works in Rotterdam

Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of OMA and its research counterpart AMO, is an architectural theorist and urbanist whose books ‘Delirious New York’ (1978), ‘SMLXL’ (1995), ‘Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping’(2002) and ‘Content’(2003) became highly influential in the contemporary arts. The Pritzer Prize winner of 2000 was ranked amongst Time’s Top 100 of Most Influential People in the World in 2008. Amongst OMA’s projects are Kunsthal (Rotterdam, 1992), Casa di Musica (Porto, 2004), Netherlands Embassy (Berlin, 2004) and CCTV Headquarters (Beijing, 2009). Koolhaas’ research encompasses an encyclopedic variety of phenomena, from shopping to congestion, from Prada to the European Union, from Lagos to the Pearl River Delta.

Tatiana Trouvé (1968, Constanza, Italy), lives and works in Paris

In her sculptures and installations, former Ateliers-participant Tatiana Trouvé often incorporates architectural interventions. For over ten years, she has been working on her ‘Bureau of Implicit Activities’, an expansive environment that served as a repository and an archive of works. Tatiana Trouvé had soloshows in Kunsthaus Graz (2010), South London Gallery (2010), Migros Museum (Zürich, 2009), Kunsthalle Hamburg (2009), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2008) and Villa Arson (Nice, 2007). She participated in the Venice Biennial 2007 and is the winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2007. Tatiana Trouvé is represented by Galerie Emmanual Perrotin (Paris/Miami), Larry Gagosian (New York/Beverly Hills/Hong Kong) and Galerie Johann Koenig (Berlin).

Falke Pisano (1978, Amsterdam), lives and works in Berlin

Dutch artist Falke Pisano produces sculptures, installations, videos , prints and texts that generate an ongoing circulation of abstract signs, figures of speech and sculptural forms, the one morphing into the other. Solo exhibitions took place at CAC (Vilnius, 2011), Transmission Gallery (Glasgow, 2010), Extra City (Antwerp, 2010), Kunstverein (Graz, 2009) and Halle für Kunst e.V. (Lüneburg, 2008). Pisano participated in major groups shows such as the Venice Bienial (2009) and Manifesta (2008). The artist is represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam), Hollybush Gardens (London) and Balice Hertling (Paris).