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Thuy Huynh – Mijke Goth – Jelle van Assem

[EN] Opening: 16/11/2017 at 17:00 – 20:00
Period: 16/11 – 26/11/2017
Open: Fr./Sat./Sun. 12:00 – 17:00
Location: Stroinkbleeksweg 2, 7523 ZL, Enschede
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Artist Residencies Enschede invites you to the opening of the exhibition of AKI students Thuy Huynh, Mijke Goth and Jelle van Assem.

Presenting: A selection of photos and paintings made during the stay of Thuy, Mijke and Jelle in Shenyang, China. This year these three students went to the art academy of Shenyang for an exchange of three months. The exhibition at XPO shows their experiences and in what way the visit to China contributed to their artwork. The Exchange was a coöperation between AKI-ArtEZ, the city of Enschede and Dalian, sistercity of Enschede.

Thuy Huynh
Mijke Goth
Jelle van Assem

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[NL] Opening: 16/11/2017 om 17:00 – 20:00
Periode: 16/11 – 26/11/2017
Open: vr./za./zo. 12:00 – 17:00
Locatie: Stroinkbleeksweg 2, 7523 ZL, Enschede
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Artist Residencies Enschede nodigt u uit voor de opening van de tentoonstelling van AKI-studenten Thuy Huynh, Mijke Goth en Jelle van Assem.

Presenteren: Een selectie van foto’s en schilderijen gemaakt tijdens het verblijf van Thuy, Mijke en Jelle in Shenyang, China. Dit jaar gingen deze drie studenten naar de kunstacademie van Shenyang voor een uitwisseling van drie maanden. De tentoonstelling bij XPO toont hun ervaringen en op welke manier het bezoek aan China heeft bijgedragen aan hun werk. De exchange was een samenwerking tussen AKI-ArtEZ, de gemeente Enschede en Dalian, zusterstad van Enschede.

Thuy Huynh
Mijke Goth
Jelle van Assem

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[EN] Opening: 14/09/2017 at 17:00 – 20:00
Period: 14/09 – 24/09/2017
Open: Fr./Sat./Sun. 12:00 – 17:00
Location: Stroinkbleeksweg 2, 7523 ZL, Enschede
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Artist Residencies Enschede invites you to the opening of the exhibition of ARE guest Alice Pedroletti. Italian artist Alice Pedroletti concludes her residency at Enschede with an exhibition at XPO. She has been living and working at one of the studios of ARE at art initiative B93 this summer.

“A book is also an object. Made of paper, cardboard, ink, images, and words.
Words are made by letters and each of them has a shape that recalls many different and possible things.
So I could say that a book is made of objects.”

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“Do Nothing” – Art Education Group (Zhang Bin & Ye Hongtu)
Exhibition by Dalian (China) artists Zhang Bin and Ye Hongtu)
Opening: Thursday, 17th of August 2017 at 5 p.m. by ARE director Petra Groen.
Period: 17th – 27th of August 2017
Open: Friday-Sunday 12:00-17:00
Location: Project-space XPO, Stroinksbleekweg 2 te Enschede, the Netherlands.

The Art Education Group’s art project wares the title “Do Nothing”. The project focusses around a banner, which is a protest against the omission of public affairs in the current Chinese society. The banner represents mordacity. The art education team brought the banner to Europe to make a statement and to worldwide satirize and criticize the contemporary society, politics and contemporary art for their dereliction of duties.

This exhibition is a result from the warm cooperation between the city of Enschede, Dalian Zhongshan Art museum (China) and ARE (Artist Residencies Enschede). Zhang Bin & Ye Hongtu have been invited by Cheng Liang, curator of Dalian Zhongshan Art museum, to participate in the exchange program between Dalian and Enschede. They have been living and working at the ARE studio at art initiative B93 for several weeks and conclude this period with an exhibition.

Opening/ performance: 14/06/2017 17:00
Period: 15/06 – 18/06 and 22/06 – 25/06, from 12:00 to 17:00.
Location: XPO, Stroinksbleekweg 2, 7523 ZL, Enschede, Netherlands

Another populist, bank crisis, referendum, terror attack, refugee, free trade agreement or plan to build a wall. Every day, we receive images, symbols and messages about figures, events and ideas from the media. Together they create our reality and perception on the world around us. The overwhelming amount of information makes it difficult to read and understand the global situation. The overall picture remains abstract and dark. One asks oneself: How is everything related? Where does this all lead to? Can we get out of here? When will a social change start?

Graphic designer, artist and magician Benedikt Wöppel presents his self-designed card game ‘Black Media’. Similar to Tarot, it is a mirror of internal and external processes and a messenger between conscious and subconscious levels. However, its figures, events, and ideas are based on the vocabulary of today’s media. Benedikt Wöppel invites you to a new kind of card reading, to shed light on the blackness of the media universe.

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This year, the MakerFestival will be organised in ‘het Roombeek’ in Enschede, XPO’s homeground! For the festival a drawing machine is being designed (currently) in XPO and will be on display during the festival from May 20 to May 21st. XPO will be used as project space, construction- and control room. The project is conceived, designed and constructed by Janwillem te Voortwis and Edwin Dertien for PlanetArt. The tower has been designed (on three sides) by ViaOral, the fourth side is used for our DaVinci (mona lisa) drawing machine…

Creative talents show their work

CMGT (Creative Media & Game Technologies) students at Saxion show their independent work in graphic design, illustration, drawing, painting and photography.

This exhibition shows works of Jennifer van den Brand, Kristin Dimitrova, Nique Huiberts, Stefaniya Kolarova, Andrei Lumpan, Yenchi Nguyen, Danny Seraphim and Jeffrey Kortekaas.

Opening: Thursday March 2nd, 17:00 uur

Opening hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 13:00 – 17:00, 3,4,5 and 10,11,12 March

Presentation: February 16th, 2017, 17:00

SquareWave breaks sunlight into a dazzling pattern of colours, constantly changing, constantly moving. It is conceived, designed and constructed by Paul Klotz and Edwin Dertien

SquareWave consist of 81 small square rotors that break light using refractive foil. The rotors are suspended from a frame consisting of four concentric squares which move like a gimbal. Tiny motors move this frame periodically so the rotors perform a chaotic, rocking motion.

SquareWave has been commissioned by the Math faculty of University of Twente in 2013. Due to an infortunate re-location of the group, the work temporarily became orphaned..

In January 2017 it was decided to re-construct and finish the work anyway – so it can be shown to the word and perhaps find a new place to brighten up.

The work can be seen (from the outside) until March 1st. February 16th a public demonstration will be given at 17:00

foto door Paul Clason

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Presentatie: 16 februari 2017, 17:00

SquareWave (blokgolf) breekt zonlicht in schitterende kleurpatronen, steeds verandered, steeds bewegend. Het werk is bedacht, ontworpen en gebouwd door Paul Klotz en Edwin Dertien.

SquareWave bestaat uit 81 kleine rotors die licht breken zoals een prisma. De rotors zijn opgehangen aan een bewegend frame bestaande uit vier concentrische vierkanten die als een gimbal bewegen. Kleine motortjes bewegen het frame van tijd tot tijd zodat de rotors een chaotische deinende beweging maken.

SquareWave was gemaakt in opdracht van de groep Toegepaste Wiskunde aan de Universiteit Twente in 2013. Door een verhuizing had het werk rondom de geplande oplevering ineens geen plaats meer.

In Januari 2017 werd besloten het werk alsnog op te bouwen en af te maken zodat het getoond kan worden en misschien op een andere locatie geplaatst kan gaan worden.

Het werk wordt getoond bij XPO en is zichtbaar van buiten (vooral rond 13:00-14:00  bij direct zonlicht is het spectaculair). 16 februari is een publieke opening/presentatie gepland vanaf 17:00

picture by Paul Clason

Opening: 15/12/2016 at 17:00 – 19:00
Open: 15-16-17-18 and 21-22-23 december 12:00 – 17:00
Location: Stroinkbleeksweg 2, 7523 ZL, Enschede
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ARE (Artist Residencies Enschede) invites you to the opening of the exhibition of the last ARE guest of 2016 – Anna Raczynska.

“The train leaves at 5.30 in the morning. I’m standing here with my mom and a group of other children holding their parents hands. “I put your sandwiches in the left side pocket”- she said. I’m hoping there is one with ham and pickle. I like pickles. Finally the train is here, the teacher jump first, then let the children in and slowly counting them.. 1, 2, 3…39, 40. “OK, we have everybody, say goodbye to your parents”. As we do I check my sandwiches. None has pickles. I guess It’s not a perfect start of summer camp.”

Anna Raczynska (b.1990, Poland) graduated in 2015 with a master degree on Academy of Fine Art and Design in Wroclaw – Sculpture department. Her work can be taken as a recurring attempt to access a world less crude than our current. Carefully crafted sculptures and installations are all drawing from the visual reality of daily life but yet ignoring most rules of naturalistic resemblance by drastically altering size, material or context in an often abstractive manner. Her viewers are left in the void between empathy and mockery, in confronting situations that appeal to everyone’s very own humane core – would you laugh if I dropped my ice cream?

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Opening: Thursday, 24th of November 2016 at 17:00.
Period: 24/11 – 11/12/2016
Open: Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12:00-17:00.
Location: XPO, Stroinksbleekweg 2, 7523ZL Enschede, The Netherlands

The artwork of Marloes Staal usually consists of big sculptures and installations, but also photography and drawings. Her work is based on the anthropological context in which people in different cultures live. What does this context say about man and what makes us so different and yet the same.

Dutch:
Het werk van Marloes staal bestaat overwegend uit grote sculpturen en installaties, maar ook fotografie en tekeningen. Haar werk is gebaseerd op de antropologische context waarbinnen mensen in verschillende culturen leven. Wat zegt deze context over de mens en wat maakt ons zo verschillend en toch hetzelfde.

www.marloesstaal.com

During GogBot 2016 XPO will show the exhibition – Dancing White Man (the making of) by Leonard van Munster and Edwin Dertien featuring photo’s by Julia Blaukopf.

Opening: Wednesday September 7th, 17:00

Opening hours during Gogbot: Friday September 9th – Sunday September 11th: 12:00-20:00

Leonard van Munster makes Site-specific and Subject-specific work. He studied from 1992 to 1996 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. This included an exchange programme to Parsons School of Art and Cooper Union in New York.

Van Munster’s installations are to be found mostly in public spaces, where the surroundings play an important role in the work and how it is experienced. Sometimes, he chooses a location that suits an already made sketch, and sometimes he makes a work especially for a specific location. Although his works at first glance have a cheery or boyish look about them, there is a more sensitive idea at their basis. Recurrent underlying themes are desire, homesickness and sentiment: a frozen moment of happiness or a childhood memory. (from Wikipedia)

With the dancing white man he tries to capture the intimate (and sometimes slightly ‘out of control’) feeling of dancing to reggae music – in a self-portrait realized ‘in robot’. The project was commissioned by the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, supported by the Mondriaan Fund. Visit leonardvanmunster.com for more information

The Dancing White Man has been on display in Amsterdam for the past five years. It featured in the dutch children’s TV show ‘Het Klokhuis’ and on TEDx Amsterdam in 2012.

Edwin Dertien has a fascination for robotics, and has worked on several projects involving (autonomous) robots, both from an engineering or artistic interest. He holds a Ph.D. in mechatronics and lectures in the Creative Technology program at University of Twente. His company ‘Kunst en Techniekwerk’ (Making Art Work) has provided the engineering backbone in many art projects and has spawned a FabLab inspired workshop tailored for technusiasts diagnosed with ASD run by the ASSortiMENS foundation. Together with Marlies van Grootel (B93/ARE) he started the XPO project space. His work can be found online at edwindertien.nl

His work on the dancing white man was a roboticist’s dream-come-true. A project containing all the mad-scientist qualities (and cliches) of the modern-age Frankenstein …