Concepts in Abstract Art, Amsterdam

Works by Bas Ketelaars, Oleksiy Koval and Henriëtte van ’t Hoog

Concepts in Abstract Art
Reuten Galerie
Prinsengracht 510
1017 KH  Amsterdam

 
December 12, 2018 – January 5, 2019
Hours: Wed–Sat, 1–6 pm, and by appointment

 
Participating artists: Richard van der Aa, Christoph Dahlhausen, Theresa Ferket, Lon Godin, Henriëtte van ’t Hoog, Maarten Janssen, Bas Ketelaars, Oleksiy Koval, Eric Martijn, Jan Mulder, Marena Seeling, Wright & Van ’t Hoog
 

Publication Rhythm Section

Front cover

Front cover

Rhythm Section
Issued on the occasion of the exhibition Boogie Woogie Rhythm Section. 100 Years after De Stijl at Karin Wimmer Contemporary Art, Munich, in cooperation with Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam.

 
Artists: Anneke Bosma (NL), Karina Bugayova (DE/UA), Christoph Dahlhausen (DE), Iemke van Dijk (NL), Daniel Geiger (DE), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Oleksiy Koval (DE/UA), Guido Nieuwendijk (NL), Xiao Tang (CN), Marije Vermeulen (NL), Veronika Wenger (DE), Guido Winkler (NL), Michael Wright (UK).

 
Texts: Ine Dammers, Dmytro Goncharenko, Wies van Moorsel, Antoinette Reuten, Karin Wimmer, and others.

 
Graphic design: Folkert van der Hoek, together with Studio van Es.

 
Supported by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich and by Kastner AG.
 

Boogie Woogie Rhythm Section, Munich (I)

Wedge XI, 2017, 54x45x26 cm

Wedge XI, 2017, 54x45x26 cm

Boogie Woogie Rhythm Section
100 Years after De Stijl

A group exhibition by Rhythm Section

Karin Wimmer Contemporary Art
Amalienstraße 14
80333 Munich
Germany

December 1, 2017 – January 25, 2018
Hours: Wed 2–6 pm, Thu 2–7 pm, Fri 2–6 pm, Sat by appointment
Opening reception: Thursday, November 30, 7 pm

Participating artists: Anneke Bosma (NL), Karina Bugayova (DE/UA), Christoph Dahlhausen (DE), Iemke van Dijk (NL), Daniel Geiger (DE), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Oleksiy Koval (DE/UA), Guido Nieuwendijk (NL), Xiao Tang (CN), Marije Vermeulen (NL), Veronika Wenger (DE), Guido Winkler (NL), Michael Wright (UK)


De Stijl & Rhythm Section

Wedge IX, 2014-2015, 68x47x32 cm

Wedge IX, 2014–2015, 68x47x32 cm

The groundbreaking Dutch artistic movement known as De Stijl was founded in 1917. The most famous representatives of De Stijl were Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. In 2017 the Netherlands commemorated De Stijl’s centennial with dozens of exhibitions.

Rhythm Section wants to continue to celebrate the birth of De Stijl. The title of this exhibition at Karin Wimmer Contemporary Art in Munich refers to Mondrian’s famous paintings Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie. In this exhibition we focus on the networking and exchange between contemporary artists who are concerned with the De Stijl movement.

This exhibition is supported by Kastner AG, Wolznach; Landeshauptstadt München; Tijl Fonds voor de beeldende kunst, Amsterdam; Dr Wies van Moorsel, Amsterdam; and Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam. The exhibition takes place in cooperation with Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam.

Reductive Non Objective, Freiburg

Wedge XII, 2017

Wedge XII, 2017

Reductive Non Objective
e9a – projectspace for abstract and minimal art
Eschholzstraße 9a
79106 Freiburg
Germany

 
September 17 – October 15, 2017
Hours: Wed and Fri 3–7 pm, Sat 10 am – 2 pm and by appointment
Opening: Saturday, September 16, 7–10 pm

 
Curated by Werner Windisch and Billy Gruner.

 
Participating artists: Richard van der Aa (FR), Wahida Azhari (DE), Arvid Boecker (DE), René van den Bosch (NL), Christoph Dahlhausen (DE), Edgar Diehl (DE), Fabian Freese (DE), Daniel Göttin (CH), Christiane Grimm (DE), Billy Gruner (AU), Tilman Hoepfl (DE), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Sarah Keighery (AU), Jürgen Oschwald (DE), Frank Piasta (DE), Steffen Schiemann (DE), Reinhard Wiedemer (DE), Werner Windisch (DE).
 

Auftakt, Freising (I)

Facet I, 2012, 43x41x13 cm

Facet I, 2012, 43×41×13 cm

Auftakt
Rhythm Section im Schafhof

Schafhof – Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern
Am Schafhof 1
85354 Freising
Germany

 
February 20 – April 17, 2017
Hours: Tue–Sat 2–7 pm, Sun 10 am – 7 pm
Admission free

 
Opening reception: Sunday, February 19, 6 pm
– Eike Berg (director of the Schafhof), Welcome
– Jochen Meister (art mediator, Munich), Introduction

 
Symposium: Sunday, February 19, 3 pm
Presentations by members and guests of Rhythm Section:
– Ezgi Bakcay (art historian, Istanbul), ‘Rhythm of the Utopias’ (in English)
– Michael Wright (artist, London), ‘The Role of Scanning and Kinesthestic Modes of Perception in Relation to Rhythm within the Visual Arts’ (in English)
– Veronika Wenger (artist, Munich), ‘Help Alive Inside. Im Innersten der Zeichnung’ (in German)
– Dmytro Goncharenko (curator, Kyiv/Berlin), ‘Forschung zum Rhythmus in der modernen Kunst: internationale kollaborative Erfahrung’ (in German)

 
Extra presentation: Sunday, March 26, 3 pm
– Oleksiy Koval (artist, Munich), ‘Die schöne Formel’ (in German)

 
Participating artists: Anneke Bosma (NL), Karina Bugayova (DE), Christoph Dahlhausen (DE), Alison Dalwood (UK), Mert Diner (TR), Daniel Geiger (DE), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Gonghong Huang (CN), Oleksiy Koval (DE/UA), Markus Krug (DE), Çağrı Saray (TR), Esra Sağlık (TR), İsfendiyar Söyler (TR), Nermin Ülker (TR), Veronika Wenger (DE), Michael Wright (UK).
 

Boogie Woogie Rhythm Section, Amsterdam

Wedge VI, 2014, 43x30x18 cm

Wedge VI, 2014, 43×30×18 cm

Boogie Woogie Rhythm Section
Celebration of the Centennial of De Stijl

A group exhibition by Rhythm Section

 
Reuten Galerie
Prinsengracht 510
1017 KH  Amsterdam

 
January 14 – February 19, 2017
Hours: Wed–Sat 1–6 pm, and by appointment
Opening reception: Saturday, January 14, 4–6 pm

 

Wedge VIII, 2014, 54x35x20 cm

Wedge VIII, 2014, 54×35×20 cm

Participating artists: Anneke Bosma (NL), Karina Bugayova (DE/UA), Christoph Dahlhausen (DE), Iemke van Dijk (NL), Daniel Geiger (DE), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Oleksiy Koval (DE/UA), Guido Nieuwendijk (NL), Xiao Tang (CN), Marije Vermeulen (NL), Veronika Wenger (DE), Guido Winkler (NL), Michael Wright (UK)
 

Hydrography III, Bad Nieuweschans

Gold, silver, copper, 2016, 60x45 cm

Gold, silver, copper, 2016, 60×45 cm

Hydrography III
International group exhibition with conceptual and abstract watercolours

 
LaKaserna
Molenstraat 5
9693 EJ  Bad Nieuweschans
The Netherlands

 
May 19 – June 26, 2016
Hours: Thu–Sun 12–5 pm

 
Opening reception: Saturday, May 21, 4 pm

 
Hydrography III is an initiative of Iemke van Dijk and Henriëtte van ’t Hoog.

 
Participating artists: René van den Bos (NL), Karina Bugayova (DE/UA), Christoph Dahlhausen (DE), Ine Dammers (NL), Iemke van Dijk (NL), Hildegard Elma (DE), Daniel Geiger (DE), Lon Godin (NL), Ilona Hakvoort (NL), Brent Hallard (US), José Heerkens (NL), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Oleksiy Koval (DE/UA), Irene van de Mheen (NL), Eric de Nie (NL), Stefan Schessl (DE), Jessica Snow (US), Aimée Terburg (NL), Veronika Wenger (DE), Werner Windisch (DE)

 

Orange, green, purple, gold, silver, copper, 2016, 60x45 cm

Orange, green, purple, gold, silver, copper, 2016, 60×45 cm

‘Het medium waterverf wordt door de deelnemende kunstenaars op onconventionele wijze toegepast. Essentiële eigenschappen van het materiaal, zoals de grote kleur- en lichtkracht en de transparantie, zijn autonoom aanwezig in het werk. Qua uitgangspunt en werkwijze zijn er onderling veel verschillen. De kunstenaars hanteren echter allen een abstracte vormentaal.’

 
Hydrography III is een vervolg op Formeel 2015 in Museum Waterland in Purmerend en Hydrography II in 2013 in de Vishal in Haarlem. In steeds wisselende formaties laat een mix van internationaal bekende en minder bekende kunstenaars hun werk zien. Dit jaar is LaKaserna het podium van dit topevenement op het gebied van abstracte aquarelkunst.’