http://www.mediakaal.nl Mediakaal now Art Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:53:33 +0000 http://www.mediakaal.nl en http://www.mediakaal.nl/2821272 http://www.mediakaal.nl/following/mediakaal.nl/2821272 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:53:33 +0000 Mediakaal now Art 2821272 <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2821272/IMG_6686.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1005" width_o="853" height_o="1280" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2821272/IMG_6686_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2821272/_MG_9263.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="471" width_o="1280" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2821272/_MG_9263_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2821272/P1060272.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="1280" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2821272/P1060272_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.mediakaal.nl/Curriculum-Vitea http://www.mediakaal.nl/following/mediakaal.nl/Curriculum-Vitea Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:03:38 +0000 Mediakaal now Art 2653900 Description of my Art projects that still affect my present work. Patricia de Ruijter Adress:Oude haagseweg 58, 1066BW Amsterdam. NL Contact:Mobile phone +31 (0)6 41814325 patricia@mediakaal.nl Style and Work: *Art and photography http://www.mediakaal.nl Blog:http://mediakaal.tumblr.com/ Other work on Art: *Founder of Test-Portal international Now Art exhibitions. www.test-portal.nl *Teacher final year students at the Photo Academy Amsterdam. http://www.fotoacademie.nl/ Education *Developing physical experimental performances from 1989 till 1996. Collaboration with School for modern dance, Amsterdam. Dance / Circus School, Barcelona. *Studied painting at the Leonardo Da Vinci art school in Barcelona, 1990/1991 *Gerrit Rietveld Academy 1991/1995, majored in painting. During this study I specialized in photography, and became qualified. *1994 Exchange with the Academia Del Arte, Seville, Spain. *1996/2002 Concentrated especially on photography and photographic manipulation, and took courses in the new media (Graphic Lyceum,Open studio Amsterdam, Artweb). * Free Academy Amsterdam /philosphy and Art / History and Art/ Grants: *2002: Basic grant (working and living):The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. (BKVB) *2007: Production grant for the installation no –land: Amsterdam Funds for Art (AFK) *2009: Working grant: The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.(BKVB) Creation: * Title: Raw Space as design photographic works: (1987-present) Very early, while on the city's fringe (Amsterdam and Barcelona), I got the idea of Raw Space as Design. It all started with 'comfort zones'. I photographed the places where I lived and worked, places I felt personal ties with.I wanted to show the essence of those spaces, the room to experiment.These were unfinished, pioneering places, places that invited you to create, to go beyond the visible. One could see the constant movement of creation versus destruction.This produced a sense of wholeness, of connecting with nature.To show the importance and beauty of these cityscapes and still lives I call these works ‘Raw Space as Design’. <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/beauty.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="240" width_o="320" height_o="240" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/beauty_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/DSCN2324.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="240" width_o="320" height_o="240" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/DSCN2324_o.jpg" align="left" /> Presentation at the Amsterdam Museum Night in de Bazel, De Zuiderkerk Amsterdam, Urban Resort A'dam, Free academy Den Hague, ADM A'dam, Architecture centre Arcam A'dam. *Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NYC, USA. I presented 6 photographs. Group exhibition with catalogue. Funding: New York city council *Publication of my photographs and statement in the Nirov Magazine. *Title: White and Dirty Installation An other expression of ‘Raw Space as Design’, titled ‘White and Dirty’, was an installation consisting of found white materials, poetry and projections, challenging the audience to participate. They could write texts in space using an overhead projector, enabling the visitors to not just be part of chaos, but also making them aware of the poetic side of raw creation. Exhibition @ Arti and Amecitia A'dam, Art festival "Niet de Kunstvlaai" Westergasfabriek A'dam, Art community RHVD A'dam. <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/DSCN5524.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="383" width_o="640" height_o="383" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/DSCN5524_o.jpg" align="left" /> Texts written by visitors on this stll live: *How dreary to be Somebody!/ How banal /exactly one way/ - E.Dickinson* *She expected someone every time the door opened* *Actually, I think we should ask these questions in the opposite direction* *self-rising flour* NewLand For the Newland project I travelled together with Klaas Kuitenbrouwer to New York and Iceland. New York is the ultimate city: fast, raw,modern, anonymous, technological. Iceland is the ultimate wilderness: rough, mostly uninhabited, vulcanic. We had discovered certain similarities in the way we love the big city and rough nature. Of both places the rawness is attractive as well as the feeling of space. The intellectual freedom entices us in the city, the physical freedom in nature. Nowadays, as a result of the media landscape and the availability of fast transport, the experience of hopping from one reality to another has become more and more common. Traveling has become more like ‘zapping’ . In the same way films on different channels are edited into a new one by the experienced TV –watcher with his remote control, physically distant places are knitted together in one’s experience by the fast traveler. We want to investigate this phenomenon. The flight from Amsterdam to New York stops over in Reykjavik. We zap ourselves from the New York wilderness to the Icelandic wild, places we perceive as connected because they are complementary. We approachthese places with a similar attitude and as artists we transplant with sound, words, film and photographs aspects between New York and Iceland. In this way we create NewLand, a place that satisfies our desire to be a pioneer. NewLand was created in 1998 it was the first step in the third direction. <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/landscapeempty.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="453" width_o="1134" height_o="767" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/landscapeempty_o.jpg" align="left" /> Exhibition @ Gallery Buro Empty, Amsterdam. * V.P.R.O. Radio "Ongehoord" (unheard). Title: Art travel programme "Newland" Publication in the VPRO magazine. Test-Portal international now Art festivals. General: Working as an artist/curator I created the Test-Portal International nowArt exhibition in 2003 and 2005, both editions involving the participationof about forty artists Test-Portal international now-Art took place in the gigantic Docklandshal at the NDSM-wharf in Amsterdam. Of special note was the architectural treatment of this vast space: creating a fluid, flowing structural shape. A city of poetry by night, a transparant formation based on a dynamic principle. A place to celebrate the individual as well as the whole. Test-Portal 2003 During the first Test-Portal I strived to bring an experience to both artists and visitors alike. That combination was very important! Artists were all assigned a part of the enormous space to present their individual works, their worlds or philosophies. But they also transgressed their (assigned) space, crossing borders. I stimulated cooperation between artists and they in turn annexed new, unexpected space, their interaction producing an unpredictable and exiting result. This was essential to Test-Portal: openness towards the unexpected. http://www.test-portal.nl/tp03/index2.html Test-Portal 2005: City with Breathing space. Test-Portal 2005 researched the concept of "Space" on several levels. The way in which this was addressed was -and still is- contemporary: how much space do we let others have? Where are the borders? Who or what controls them? <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/DSC_0064.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="315" width_o="709" height_o="334" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/DSC_0064_o.jpg" align="left" /> What space can an artist create in a progressively compartmentalized but globalise society? Can art have an essential, critical influence on our social-political reality by becoming borderless? http://www.test-portal.nl/tp05/basis_content.html Publications: Parool, Volkskrant, NoordHollands Dagblad, Vlucht Magazine Test-Portal 2003, 2005 on Salto TV in collaboration with Bellisima TV Test-Portal 2005 Collaborations with: De Balie, The Sugar factory, Illuseum and De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. Funds: Mondriaan Stichting, VSB Fonds, Stichting NDSM-Wharf, Amsterdam North, Amsterdamse fonds voor de kunsten. Supported: MAConline, mts-audiovsuieel, bellsima, dwarsliggende audiovisueel, SBK, Curator of and artist at the exhibition “Walls no Walls” @NDSM -Wharf A'dam, part of the Temporary Museum Amsterdam 2008 'Borders' are in fact entirely fictitious illusions, besides being interchangeable and different to everybody! A globalise world and traveling on the internet make it clear: there are no borders, except for those we create ourselves. As old manmade boundaries are not self-evident anymore, it is interesting to rediscover what binds us universally. To do this we should readjust our concept of our bonds Participating artists: VoindeVoin, Abdellatif Benfaidoul (Morocco),Ate M Hes (NL), pieterWpostma (NL), Zoot Derks (NL), Jeanette Groenendaal (NL), Adam Zaretsky (USA), Merel Zwart (Nl), Juliette Erkelens (NL), MarjoleinEdwall (Nl), JanDominique van Amsterdam (NL)and myself: Patricia de Ruijter (NL). http://www.test-portal.nl/walls/index.html Funds: Stichting kinetisch Noord. Reconstructed high way Exhibitons @ Test-Portal now Art festivals, Kruithuis Den Bosch, International art festival, Magdeburg, Germany.Publication: Zeitreise Spuren I'm Werden. <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/space3.jpg" border="0" width="398" height="567" width_o="398" height_o="567" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/space3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/space1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="452" width_o="1280" height_o="864" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2653900/space1_o.jpg" align="left" /> *Founder of the Test-Portal now Art gallery 2009- 2010 www.test-portal.nl With the Test-Portal now Art gallery I experimented with the concept of 'gallery', exploring the boundaries of what a gallery can be. A place that is as much a gallery as an art institute. There were 'plain' exhibitions (just showing works) but also thematic exhibitions and exhibitions inviting audience participation. The experiment depended on subsidies but also sales. Ten exhibitions Test-Portal now Art gallery led to ten very different exhibitions. An overview: * Opening exhibition with Stanza, pieterWpostma, and myself. *“Wild nature in the City” part 1, with the artists: Ernst Coppejans en Marc Driessen Wild nature in the City part 2 with Bodine Koopmans, Rob van Betuw, Sanne Thunissen and myself. Also participation by bloggers, like Femke Lutgerink on Detroit, Koert van Mensvoort on Next Nature and Claud Biemans on wild vegetables and the biodiversity of a city. See what we explored http://www.test-portal.nl/blog/?cat=42 *”Emotive male nudity” with Milan Gies. *”We want our Utopia now” with Merel Zwart. *”Looking at the pain of others” with Mieke Bal, Marjolein Edwall, Juliette Erkelens and Sanne Thunissen. *”The inner world of” with MiaMia, Bart Sabel, Marina Metaal, Bethany de Forest and Rob van Betuw. *An exhibition with the artists Monique Eller, Milan Gies , Riette Wanders. *”the city, a living organism!” with Stanza, Renata de Andrade. *”Ins Blaue Hinein” with Marc Koolen, Rombout Oomen, Janneke de Jong. 2011/ 2012 I focus on my personal photographic Art work. The subject "Wild nature in the City" has stolen my heart. If you want to know more about any project or if you are interested to exhibit or buy my work. Please take contact for any question. patricia@mediakaal.nl http://www.mediakaal.nl/BLACK-SEA http://www.mediakaal.nl/following/mediakaal.nl/BLACK-SEA Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:40:33 +0000 Mediakaal now Art 2610941 <img src="http://payload15.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2610941/blackseaSquare.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="322" width_o="1134" height_o="546" src_o="http://payload15.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2610941/blackseaSquare_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.mediakaal.nl/Wild-Nature-in-and-Around-me http://www.mediakaal.nl/following/mediakaal.nl/Wild-Nature-in-and-Around-me Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:35:18 +0000 Mediakaal now Art 2581533 Wild flowers and plants in the limelight. Oeverlanden Amsterdam. <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1060374.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="893" width_o="768" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1060374_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1060404.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="1280" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1060404_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1060377.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="1280" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1060377_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1050800.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="1280" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1050800_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1060386.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="893" width_o="960" height_o="1280" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/P1060386_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/snownetelkl.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="510" width_o="992" height_o="756" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2581533/snownetelkl_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.mediakaal.nl/NewLand-part2 http://www.mediakaal.nl/following/mediakaal.nl/NewLand-part2 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:16 +0000 Mediakaal now Art 2580893 There are not as many walls as you think. And they are breaking down before your eyes.The city creeps into nature, and cultures mingle, while reality and digital-reality morph rapidly into each other... and imagination sneaks in too, something I love. Everything underneath the image is interpretation, feeling: mostly inner space (which I, paradoxically, want to show on the outside). They are tangible symbols for intangible longing or feelings. An attempt at wholeness.Contemporary, because the landscape feels partly digital. The work is literally about travel, but also about movements on the web. As such, it reaches beyond the horizon. <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/silverscape.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/silverscape_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/roodball2.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/roodball2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/redline.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="411" width_o="640" height_o="411" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/redline_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/berg2.jpg" border="0" width="639" height="284" width_o="639" height_o="284" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/berg2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/flyerphoto1.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="479" width_o="640" height_o="479" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/flyerphoto1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/lavamoes.jpg" border="0" width="630" height="640" width_o="630" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/lavamoes_o.jpg" align="left" /> Copyright: Patricia de Ruijter <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/highroadwithbird2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="334" width_o="1280" height_o="639" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/highroadwithbird2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/highraod with bird.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="325" width_o="1280" height_o="622" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2580893/highraod with bird_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.mediakaal.nl/No-Land http://www.mediakaal.nl/following/mediakaal.nl/No-Land Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:26:09 +0000 Mediakaal now Art 2578951 No-land is created in 2007 and is an ongoing project. What do you leave behind for the next passer-by, in a land that starts allover again? I created No-land with 10 life sized photographic works in 5 double sided light boxes. Together they form a way of experiencing space you can wander through. No-land has an atmosphere of undeveloped or lost space, space to reinvent oneself again and again. This space urges you to discover, to fantasize and create. Not much is set in stone yet, but there are traces to be found that will provoke the spirit. Traces of a turbulent past and of a distant future. No-land belongs to everybody. There is no religion, no fuzz, no excess of information.It is space that has just started and that will never be finished. These are my keywords: raw/original/undeveloped, together with digital/futuristic/cosmic. This combination is of vital importance and is reflected by the photography in (the) space. The project gets revisited regularly since 2007 and now. Please contact if you are interested: patricia@mediakaal.nl The audience and fresh (international) artists are challenged to react to this space. Every exhibition site invites a new experiment. Invited artist : *Art City NDSM wharf A'dam. Stanza with the work bio city, and diversity http://www.stanza.co.uk/biocities/index.html http://www.stanza.co.uk/diversity/index.html Writer, culture journalist Jowi schmitz *Art festival RHVD Fashion Artist Renata Zabsky http://www.renatazabsky.nl/blog.html Musician Andres van beek. *Art festival Ground three http://www.hetdepartement.net/ground3/?#/event/?164 Musician Paul Klaui. <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000663.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000663_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1010877.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1010877_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000587.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000587_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000594.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000594_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000627.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000627_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/Afbeelding 1.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="458" width_o="640" height_o="458" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/Afbeelding 1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000604.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1000604_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1010829.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/P1010829_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/DSC_0024a.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="417" width_o="640" height_o="417" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578951/DSC_0024a_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.mediakaal.nl/Wild-Nature-in-the-City http://www.mediakaal.nl/following/mediakaal.nl/Wild-Nature-in-the-City Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:26:06 +0000 Mediakaal now Art 2578794 I am living at the border of the City Amsterdam. Between the Airport Schiphol, a lake called New Lake, the motorway A4, and a nature area called, The Oeverlanden. I observe this area with my camera and display this contemporary landscape. <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/P1060558.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="1280" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/P1060558_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/P1050814.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/P1050814_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/P1040736.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="1280" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/P1040736_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/grasmetboltjes.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="509" width_o="992" height_o="754" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/grasmetboltjes_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/IMG_9126.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1024" height_o="682" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/IMG_9126_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/_MG_9690.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/_MG_9690_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/IMG_2014.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1024" height_o="682" src_o="http://payload13.cargocollective.com/1/5/177584/2578794/IMG_2014_o.jpg" align="left" />