Stroom studio visiting program archives

On Friday 29 November and Saturday 30 November, Pieter Boons, senior curator of the Middelheim Museum, will make a number of studio visits to artists in The Hague. For his areas of interest, refer to his biography (see below).

Sign up
If you are interested in a studio visit by Pieter Boons, you can register through an online registration form until Wednesday, November 13. We ask you to briefly motivate your interest in a studio visit and to include a link to your artist profile on haagsekunstenaars.nl and your personal website.

The responses received, together with any suggestions from Stroom, will be presented to the curator. From this list he will make a selection on the basis of which the visiting program will be composed. You will receive a message shortly after the deadline to inform you whether you have been selected for a studio visit.

Short biography
Since 2008 Pieter Boons (1980, BE) has been affiliated with the Middelheim Museum and in 2017 he was appointed curator. The Middelheim Museum was founded in 1950 as an open-air museum for contemporary sculpture in a protected landscape. It’s a free and open-air museum where a permanent display of some 350 artworks are being altered with temporary exhibitions.

The Middelheim likes to experiment in close collaborations with contemporary artists often resulting in making new commissions, tailor-made for the museum collection or the exhibitions. Therefore, Pieter Boons' curatorial practice needs to be hands-on, and so it often starts pragmatically from the making itself of artworks or exhibitions. He has worked very closely with artists such as Roman Signer, Joan Jonas, Bernhard Wilhelm, Kader Attia and William Forsythe amongst others. 

Although most projects test the resilience of sculpture in the most broad sense, the projects also relate to an (inter)national zeitgeist where issues as gender, power structures, the politics of identity and the history of imperialism are never far away. Recent projects include soloshows by Camille Henrot (2022) and Anna Mendieta (2019) and the ambitious group show Congoville, unfolding the museum’s own unseen colonial history (cocurated with Sandrine Colard).

On Thursday 3 and Friday 4 October 2024 curator Heeseung Choi will visit the studios of The Hague artists. Heeseung describes her areas of interest as follows:  

"Heeseung Choi is interested in examining and analyzing the work of living contemporary artists from different perspectives, observing and engaging in dialogue about how they evolve in their practice, what they follow, and how they can improve. Choi believes that this process expands her insights as a curator. She is interested in multidisciplinary artwork, including literature, science, and sociology, and is concerned with the impact of artists on society. She focuses on creating specific environments where works of art connect with their audiences, believing that the active exchange in contemporary art expands our perception of art." 

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If you are interested in a studio visit by Heeseung Choi you can sign up until Thursday 5 September 2024 23:59 CET. We kindly ask you to include a brief motivation for a studio visit, as well as links to your personal website and your artist profile on thehagueartists.nl All entries will be sent to the curator and she will make her personal selection of artists to visit. Shortly after the deadline you will receive notice if you have been selected for a studio visit.  

Short biography  
Heeseung Choi (b.1985) is a curator and writer currently based in Seoul, South Korea. She worked as a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2015-2020) and at Doosan Gallery, a non-profit institution in Seoul (2020-2023). She was also a co-organizer of the Seoul-based curatorial initiative WESS (2019-2021).
Between September and December, Choi is a guest curator at Billytown in The Hague, The Netherlands. She co-curated The Sea We Want to See Part 1 (Korea Foundation Gallery, 2024) and will soon present The Sea We Want to See Part 2 (Billytown, 2024). In addition, she is co-curating NJP Commission: Humming Chorus at the Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea, in 2024, alongside Amsterdam-based artist Egl Budvytyt.

On Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 June 2024 artist and teacher Falke Pisano will visit the studios of The Hague artists. Falke describes her areas of interest as follows: 

'I'm interested in cultural practitioners who (want to) break with dominant norms (of production, productivity, visibility, temporality, relations, authorship, representation etc) within the art field, and/or who are trying to find a way to practice more in alignment with their values. I am usually more helpful in thinking through a practice (sustainability, ethics, methodologies, strategies, doubts) than exchange on art works as such.'

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If you are interested in a studio visit by Falke Pisano you can sign up until Sunday 26 May 2024 23:59 CET. We kindly ask you to include a brief motivation for a studio visit, as well as links to your personal website and your artist profile on thehagueartists.nl. All entries will be sent to the artist and she will make her personal selection of artists to visit. Shortly after the deadline you will receive notice if you have been selected for a studio visit.  
  
Short biography  
Falke Pisano (based in Rotterdam) considers her practice as a way of public thinking about/in the world - ideally in conversation - with a particular focus on how certain enduring ideas, divisions, institutions and systems have developed (historically, culturally) and how artistic practices might play a role in questioning and challenging the institutions and structures that shape our socio-political and narrative spaces. Recent projects are: Where Should We Begin (2022), a yearlong project at the M HKA, Antwerp, which investigated interlocking value producing mechanisms within the institutional art context and the tensions they produce within cultural practitioners as they take part in them, are not able to take part in them and/or do not want to take part in them; not / to be / governed like that / by that (2023-ongoing), a long-term research project on institutional governance and its relation to the educational within the broader regime of neoliberal governmentality. Falke Pisano teaches at the Master Fine Art of HKU. 

On Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 May 2024, artist, curator, writer, editor and artistic director of A Tale of A Tub Isabelle Sully will visit the studios of The Hague artists. Isabelle describes her areas of interest as follows: 

"I am particularly interested in language-based practices, intersectional and feminist histories, conceptual approaches to institutional and administrative realities, and work that uses subversion and/or (re)distribution as a key artistic techniques." 
 
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If you are interested in a studio visit by Isabelle Sully you can sign up until Wednesday 17 April 2024 23:59 CET. Please include a brief motivation. All entries will be sent to the curator and she will make her personal selection of artists to visit. Shortly after the deadline you will receive notice if you have been selected for a studio visit.    

Biography  
Isabelle Sully is an artist, writer, editor and curator. Originally from Melbourne/Naarm, she now lives in Rotterdam where she is the founding editor of Unbidden Tongues, co-curator of Playbill and artistic director of A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam. Isabelle Sully practices across art-making, curating, editing and writing. Working with feminist histories in mind, she takes the mechanisms and materiality of administration as a main focus within her work, developing conceptual projects that span experimental writing, sculpture, performance, exhibition-making and publishing. Her involvement with the administrative sphere of institutional practice played out in her previous role as assistant director-curator (2020-2024) at Kunstverein, Amsterdam, and does currently in her role as artistic director (2024-) at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam. 

On Friday 12 and Wednesday 17 January 2024, curator, art historian and artistic director Bart Rutten will visit the studios of The Hague artists. Rutten is artistic director at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, and is also involved as a curator for Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd. He has a broad interest in different forms of art; from conceptual art to painting and from drawings to installations. 

Apply: Until Sunday 17 December 2023
If you are interested in a studio visit by Bart Rutten you can sign up until Sunday 17 December 2023 23:59 CET. Please include a brief motivation. All entries will be sent to the curator and he will make his personal selection of artists to visit. Shortly after the deadline you will receive notice if you have been selected for a studio visit.  
  
Short biography  
Bart Rutten (1972), art historian, has served as artistic director since May 2017. He and business director Marco Grob are responsible for the museum policy, with Rutten responsible for the exhibition programme and collection policy. Since Rutten arrived, the museum has developed a more explicit focus on contemporary art as a permanent part of the programme, while the exhibition and collection policy has become more inclusive. 

The latest exhibition he curated was internationally acclaimed Double Act, master pieces in paint and video, where iconic video art installations from the world-famous Kramlich collection were placed in dialogue with highlights of seventeenth century paintings from the collection of the museum. In the past two years he is also responsible for exhibition on the mid-career Dutch artists in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd. In December 2023 a new transhistorical and interdisciplinary collection display will open that he has curated.

Before his appointment in Utrecht, Rutten worked at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam as head of collections and as curator, responsible for exhibitions such as The Oasis of Matisse (2015) and Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde (2013). Prior to that he worked at the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch and the Netherlands Media Art Institute.

Rutten presents items on exhibitions for the TV programme Nu te zien (‘On show now') and sits on several advisory committees and boards in Utrecht and elsewhere in the Netherlands. These include the Supervisory Board of Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, the artist run space W139 and the role of adviser for Vereniging Rembrandt, Musea Bekennen Kleur (which he initiated) and the interdisciplinary platform HEM in Zaandam