Wendelien van Oldenborgh

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Wendelien van Oldenborgh, 2014.

Wendelien van Oldenborgh (1962) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam.

The experimental cinematic works by Wendelien van Oldenborgh explore social dynamics and behaviours in order to cast attention on repressed, incomplete and unresolved histories. She frequently uses the format of a public film shoot in which she collaborates with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome. These occasions are often set against the backdrop of a unique public location. By enabling multiple perspectives and voices to coexist in the work, she reveals a reality commonly hidden from view, in an attempt to understand familiar stories in a new way. After graduating from Goldsmiths College in London, she worked in Belgium and Germany for many years. In 2014, Van Oldenborgh was awarded the prestigious Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art and lived in Berlin for a year on the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm residency.

Recent exhibitions include: From Left To Night, The Showroom, 2015; School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial 2015 (curators: Georg Schölhammer and Hedwig Saxenhuber); Confessions of the Imperfect, 1848-1989-today, Van Abbemuseum, 2014; Dead Reckoning: Whorled Explorations, Kochi Muziris Biennale (curator: Jitish Kallat), 2014; 12d Biennale of Cuenca, Ecuador (curators: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti and Manuela Moscoso), 2014; Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789 2013 (curator: Franscesco Manacorda), Tate Liverpool, 2014; If I Can’t Dance’s Edition IV Affect (2010-2012); 54st Venice Biennale, 2011; 4th Biennale of Moscow, 2011; 29st Biennale of São Paulo, 2010; 11th Biennale of Istanbul, 2009 and Berlinale Forum Expanded, 2011, 2013 and 2015. [1]

Selected publications

• Valérie Cudel and Wendelien Van Oldenborgh (editors). Stadtluft. Revolver and art3 (2004)
• Mariette Dölle and Wendelien van Oldenborgh. Wendelien van Oldenborgh: as occasions. Tent. (2008)
• Binna Choi and Wendelien van Oldenborgh. A Well Respected Man, Or Book of Echoes. Casco / Sternberg Press (2010)
• Emily Pethick and Wendelien van Oldenborgh (editors). Amateur: Wendelien van Oldenborgh. If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, The Showroom, and Sternberg Press (2016)

Filmography

Super-8 loops:

· St Anna (1996) double projection, not synchronized

· Horizontal (1997) double projection, not synchronized

· Splitising (1998) single loop

Slide projection works:

· It's full of holes, it's full of holes (1999) two screens not synchronized, 24 and 16 min, no sound

· Stadtluft (2001) three screens, two synchronized: 34 min, single screen: 23 min, no sound

· Studio. Rotterdam. 13 - 09 - 2002, 3:30 to 7:15 PM (2003) two screens, synchronized, 14 min, no sound

· The Basis for a Song (2005) 24 minutes, sound

· Après la reprise, la prise (2009) 15 minutes, sound

· Pertinho de Alphaville (2010) 20 minutes, sound

· Supposing I love you. And you also love me (2011) 13 minutes, sound

Moving Image:

· Maurits Script (2006) 67 min

· Sound Track Stage (2006–08) 23 min

· No False Echoes (2008) 30 min

· Lecture/Audience/Camera (2008) 28 min

· Maurits Film (2008) 45 min

· Instruction (2009) 31 min

· Bete & Deise (2012) 41 min

· La Javanaise (2012) 25 min / two screens

· Beauty and the Right to the Ugly (2014) 56 min (installation and single screen versions)

· From Left to Night (2015) 32 min

Teaching (selection)

· Guest professor at Kunsthochschule Kassel (DE) winter semester (2015)

· Seminar series To Make A Work with Grant Watson at the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem (NL) (2014)

· Mentor in Lux Associate Artists Programme, London (UK) (2013)

· Senior Lecturer at Masters Artistic Research, KABK Den Haag (NL) (2011)

· Guest professor at Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien. Department Kunst und kommunikatieve Praxis (AT) (2008-2010)

Work in collections

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Generali Foundation, Vienna (A), Muzeum Sztuki Lodz (P), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL), Collectie Dommering, Amsterdam (NL), FRAC Alsace, Agence culturelle d'Alsace, Strasbourg(FR)

References

http://wilfriedlentz.com/artists/Wendelien_Oldenborgh_van

External links

• Wendelien van Oldenborgh at knaw.nl