Join us at Unity Bookshop, with curator Jules van den Langenberg and artist Annee Grøtte Viken as they share their forthcoming publications on art, ecology and heritage.
As regular collaborators since 2021, Van den Langenberg opens the gathering at Unity Bookshop with a brief introduction of the preliminary work on the publication series ‘Parallel Archive’ on long term relations in the arts, supported by the Dutch Mondriaanfonds. Viken continues by launching her newest printed publication ‘Domestic Encyclopaedia - Oblique Encounters of Domestic Space’ about the spaces closest to us and what they are made of supported by Arts and Culture Norway Norway and Trøndelag County Authority.
Workshop
Following the publication presentation, the curator and artist invite the audience into a short workshop. Visitors of the gathering get to touch and try out various pigments and material samples.
Curious neighbors, experts and nature lovers are invited to join and discover how objects and public space can transform through ‘woodgraining‘, a traditional painting technique for imitating wood using natural pigments, water and linseed oil.
Meanwhile Van den Langenberg and Viken give a preview into their most recent research and plans for a new type of public artwork: a site-specific work that is based on a plant to paint to public
Image: paint to public prototype by artist Annee Grøtte Viken curated by Jules van den Langenberg, in collaboration with the (Nelly&)Theo van Doesburg Foundation, photo by Sander van Wettum.
Background information
Annee Grøtte Viken
As an artist, writer and restoration architect Annee Grøtte Viken (1984, she/her) uses fiction as a tool for exploring the cultural and material realities of space and the potential they hold for repairing broken relationships. Viken studied at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and imitation craft studies at Institut Supérieur de Peinture van der Kelen – Logelain in Brussels. Since 2021 she collaborates with the (Nelly&) Theo van Doesburg Foundation and curator Jules van den Langenberg on the development of a public art work based on locally cultivated flax that is turned into linseed oil paint and applied to objects in public space.
Jules van den Langenberg
Jules van den Langenberg (1988, he/him) is an artistic director and independent curator focusing on the intersections of contemporary art, bio regional programs, art in landscapes and talent development. He studied conceptual scenography and exhibition design in The Netherlands and Sweden, and resided in Paris, Athens, the Dutch Noordoostpolder and Berlin. His experience includes initiating and curating projects with biennials, museums, city festivals, collectives and artist-led spaces.
(Nelly&) Theo van Doesburg Foundation
From their base in the capital of The Netherlands, the (Nelly&) Theo van Doesburg Foundation develops collaborations between emerging artists, curators and progressive organizations and developers. Since 1987 the foundation strives to realize visual art projects and initiate formats that generate positions and commissions for emerging- and early career artists that studied or resided in Amsterdam. Through a carefully curated activity program the Foundation develops unsolicited proposals for site specific public art works.