For Platforms Project NET 2021 EX-MÊKH decided to make a video of the making of an installation. In it one could follow the decisions of each member on enriching the whole. Maarten Schepers built a booth like the ones we usually show our work in Athens in. During a cold week in February we came together daily to add to the installation. We decided the booth could also be seen as a stage on which performance could take place, so a number of actions were executed. We didn’t talk to each other about what each of us would do so we went through a series of surprises. My personal input was based on works of artists that inspired me. Here you can see my additions to the Stage Arousal as the video was called. I leave it to you to recognise the inspiration for the work!

Vorig jaar kwam van mij het essay A Secret Alliance uit in Issue #2, een magazine dat onregelmatig wordt uitgegeven door The faculty of In-humanities. Het blad is voor € 14,- , inclusief verzending, verkrijgbaar bij R.S.O.L, Room for the Study Of Loneliness

“Coming from a little village in a rural area with nobody around me with any intellectual or artistic ambition I felt a bit eccentric wanting to make paintings and swallowing everything about art I could find in any discipline I liked. All my information came from television, newspapers and magazines then. I studied and created for my own pleasure and felt a bit guilty about it. After finishing art-school and my studies in the USA I took jobs to earn enough money to live on, leaving enough time to continue my artistic practice anonymously. At this time I was greatly influenced by the poetry I had gotten to know. Since my first hitchhiking travels I wrote diaries and in the USA I continued to do so but now I would keep them in any discipline I could in order to gather material to work from.”

“So I started chmkoome’s blog which became quite popular. In the beginning it was rather personal with things I experienced: labels of the wine I drunk, atmospheres during a walk or an opinion on politics, but eventually I started to visit exhibitions and openings more and I posted that. The emphasis changed to art in my posts.”

“Looking back at it now I think this concept suits me as a viewer and as an artist. The attention is with the artwork and the viewer. The work is visible for who wants to see it and there’s no artistic persona in between who can influence the valuation. I want to work on my art and make it accessible in the most unstressed way possible. I want to have my ideas, my engagement with art and my own work touching and inspiring people Through collaboration I hope colleagues and I will both benefit from each-others art and interpretations. It is with an attitude of openness, respect and a certain generosity towards each other that the visibility of art and artists will grow.”

R.S.O.L.

Zoals elk jaar werd ik door Ron van der Ende uitgenodigd een lijst met muziek te leveren voor ART-BBQ. Op deze site verzamelt hij lijstjes van bevriende kunstenaars waarop ze hun favoriete ateliermuziek plaatsen. Mijn lijstje ziet u hier!

I updated the EX-MÊKH website so that you can find the account of the openingperformances and the exhibition FeMaler on it’s page. I also posted Cquence, the video we did for Platforms Project.NET 2020. This is the page we got on the digital version of the Greek Art Fair. On my blog you can also find the post on Geen Bloem Zonder Wortel (in Dutch).

At the occasion of her leave from HEDEN in Den Haag Lia Bender was given the opportunity to curate an exhibition with works from the collection of HEDEN. In it she shows three old artworks of mine that I didn’t see for 20 years or more. I thought they were sold but here they are, still for hire!

HEDEN

In de tentoonstelling “Haagse Heritage” bij HEDEN in Den Haag hangt een kunstwerk van Navid Nuur. Het publiek wordt daarin uitgenodigd een frottage te maken van een zinkplaat die de kunstenaar bewerkte. Het resultaat mag mee genomen worden. Nuur maakt heel veel oplages die gedeeld worden en deze past wel erg mooi in mijn eigen manier van werken! Na het “Forget” van de kunstenaar schreef ik NOT, als een vervliegende herinnering!

In de loop van het afgelopen jaar suggereerde Rien Monshouwer me al enige malen om kennis te maken met de culturele salon die hij maandelijks organiseert. Na twee voor mij geslaagde bijeenkomsten vroeg hij me of ik ook niet iets over mijn praktijk als beeldend kunstenaar wilde vertellen, vooral over hoe ik het belang zie van mijn kunstblog t.o.v. mijn beeldende werk. Ik vond dat wel een uitdaging en begin oktober, op een mooie avond deed ik mijn verhaal voor een publiek van een man of dertig. Tijdens de lezing voerde ik mijn performance The Diaries, October 6, 2018 uit!