The works by Anne de Vries access our increasing entanglement with technology – its material and symbolic origins, its influence on our sense of social reality, its socio-political implications and its future potentials.
From the mines, energy plants and factories, where the hardware basis of information technologies comes into being, to brand names, advertising images, product displays, personal use and ultimately – piles of toxic waste – commodities undergo a variety of state changes throughout complex ecological cycles. What does it take for a commodity to live, and what are the ecological principles of art?
Via het werk van Anne de Vries worden we geconfronteerd met onze toenemende verbondenheid met technologie; diens materiaal en symbolische bronnen, de invloed op ons besef van maatschappelijke realiteit, de bijbehorende sociaal-politieke implicaties en potentieel voor de toekomst.
Goederen ondergaan een scala aan transformaties via complexe ecologische trajecten; van de mijnen, krachtcentrales en fabrieken waar de hardwarebasis van de informatietechnologie ontstaat, via merknamen, advertentiebeelden, productdisplays, persoonlijk gebruik tot - uiteindelijk - bergen chemisch afval. Wat is er nodig om een product te maken en wat zijn nu de ecologische principes van de kunst?
CURRICULUM VITAE (SHORT)
Solo and group exhibitions
2012 'Trails of the Hive Mind‘ solo at Sandy Brown Gallery, Berlin, DE
2012 '002 Eye Rubs' at Elaine's in Basel, CH
2012 'Becoming Emmersed‘ Ghoete Institute Rotterdam, NL
2012 'Forecast the days of aquarius lake placid blue like oceanbursts stage‘ at Max Mayer Dusseldorf, DE
2011 'RijksOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2011 'Lucky pdf at FRIEZE art fair byob set up at 2k11, FRIEZE London, UK
2011 'Target Language‘ at Apendix Space in Portland, US
2011 'Stil/life', FOAM Museum Amsterdam, NL
2011 'Public Abstraction Private Construction-II', Kunstverein Arnsberg, DE
2011 'DDA award' (Dutch design award), Old Galata Bridge, Istanbul, TR
2011 'Whats Next' Arles Photography Festival 2011, FR
2011 'Amerika, AmÃrica, Amerique!', Cleopatra‘s, Berlin, DE
2011 'Not to be confused with..', Von Cirne Gallery, Köln, DE
2011 'TruEYE SurView', W139, Amsterdam, NL
2011 'BASED IN BERLIN', Monbijoupark, Berlin, DE
2011 'Travelin’ Light', Grimm Museum, Berlin, DE
2011 'The Digital Age', Lebanon, LB
2011 'READ/WRITE', JSTCHILLIN Offline show, 319 Schole, Brooklyn, (NY), US
2011 'The Armory Show, Rhizome Booth (affiliation of The New Museum), New York, US
2010 'L'etat des choses', DarsaComfort, CH
2010 'Anne de Vries v.s. Billy Rennekamp’, The Future Gallery, Berlin, DE
2010 'DDA award', Eindhoven, NL
2010 'Sister Sister City', video screening Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles (CA), US
2010 'If A then B', Gentili Apri Gallery, Berlin, DE
2010 first ever 'BYOB' at Bureau Friedrich, Project Studio Berlin, DE
2010 'Exhibition IV‘, Appartment, Berlin, DE
2010 Party Animal, Sugar gallery, Buswick Brooklyn, (NY), US
2010 KERNEL, 'Index of Potential', Athens, GR
2010 'Rivage d’ Ectoplasmes', Tour des Templiers, Hyeres, FR
2010 'Spring Rape', Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, MX
2010 Preteen Gallery, CIRCA art event, Convention Center in San Juan, PR
2009 'Photography In Reverse', FOAM, Amsterdam, NL
2009 'Ada Bojana FKK art symposium, Montenegro, ME
2009 'Monumental - Ornament Enter', (performance) at Basso Berlin, DE
2009 ''The New Easy Show', ArtNews Project Gallery, Berlin, DE
2009 'The Painting Show', Gallery Art Since the Summer of ‘69 gallery and Private Circulation, NY, US
2009 'The New Easy', Agentur, Amsterdam, NL
2009 'Disco resurrection,performance with Voin de Voin 'if i can't dance' Frascati, Amsterdam, NL,
2008 'Graphics Interchange Format', Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn (NY), US
2008 'All Hallow's' Even', The Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn (NY), US
2008 'Estafette', FOAM, Amsterdam, NL
2008 ‘Bring your own Camera, (BYOC) FOAM, Amsterdam, NL
2008 'Dysfashional', MUDAK, Lausanne, CH
2008 'Plat(t)form', Winterthur Fotomuseum, Winterthur, CH
2008 'Club Internet’ curated by Harm van den Dorpel, WWW
2007 'Voorstel tot aankopen’, CBK Dordrecht, NL
2007 'Future Primitive', Cassetteplaya (s/s 2008), London, GB
2007 Fette gallery, Los Angeles (CA), US
2007 'Rendez-Vous', exhibition pictures made in collaboration with KIND, Paris, FR
2007 Metafiction, solo at FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Arnhem Fashion Biennial, photo route true the center of Arnhem, NL
2007 10.000,- euro show, curated by Constant Dullaart, W139, Amsterdam, NL
2005 'Around Vondel lake (30 min)', PSWAR, Amsterdam, NL
2004 'Traveling without moving', studio galleria, Budapest, HU
2004 'Landing in Amsterdam', W139, Amsterdam, NL
2004 Happy Chaos: “State of the Arts”, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, NL
2004 A4 show, PSWAR, Amsterdam, NL
2004 'Nothing in particular', incolab with Alexandra Bachzetsis at PSWAR, Amsterdam, NL
2004 AFK price exhibition for W139, Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, NL
2003 Watou 2003, 'Opzij van het kijken' curated by Jan Hoet, Watou, BE
2003 'At least begin to make an end', curated by Ann Demeester, W139, Amsterdam, NL
2002 W139, Ann Demeester's opening event, Amsterdam, NL
2002 'Vice Versa' 'Under the fabric' Artotheek-oost (cbk), Amsterdam, NL
2002 Exam Show, VAV Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2000 'One week in the dark room' aka 'Opening', incolab with Alberto de Michele
at Gerrit Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam, NL
1999 'Soulsa' Cooper Union Gallery, New York (NY), US, installation with Alberto de Michele
1999 Park of the future, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL
Lectures and workshops
2012 Rearview Mirror - Age-ism: Lecture/Presentation at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2008 Parsons School of visual arts, Lecture/Presentation New York, US
2007 Guest teacher, MAHKU, Utrecht, NL
2007 Guest teacher, VAV Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2005 VHDG, Lecture/Presentation at VHDG, Groningen, NL
2004 Guest teacher at VAV Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Stipends/fellowships
2011 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds - De By van der Heyden Fonds & Straver Fonds
2011 Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds
2006 Fonds BKVB, starter stipendium, Amsterdam, NL
Education
2000-2002 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
1999-2000 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, US
1997-1999 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
'Trails of the Hive Mind' 2012
by Anne de Vries
Two works by Anne de Vries: 'FORECAST' 2011 a HD video projection on screen and 'The Days of Aquarius' (2011)
This role of vinyl on the floor printed with solvent ink contains the correct calendar of all days of the age of aquarius. The 2150 year long period that presumably started on 1962-04-02 and continues up to 4122-04-02, the total size is 180 cm x 42 meter.
'Timetables' 2011
A installation by Anne de Vries, made with wood, digital photoprint, table feed and ceramics.
CAVE2CAVE (nr.3), 2010
Photographs of the reflections of cave paintings in wrinkled mirror foil.
Size: 140 x 95 cm
Material: print on mirror foil
Katanga Bub 2011
by Anne de Vries
- The extreme ends of the mobile device industry are brought together in 'Katanga Bub'. It is based on a press image depicting the landscape and workers of Katanga, in The Democratic Republic of Congo - an area mined for many minerals like tungsten and coltan, which have been crucial for the manufacture of mobile devices.
For this work the press image of the Katanga mines has been re-photographed underwater and set within a freestanding display unit. as water ripples and bubbles float over the surface, distorting the scene underneath, the screens of numerous mobile phones show clearer details of the same view of the Katanga mine. The elemental earthy origins of the mines are (re)connected with the liquefied luxuriance of global technology commodities and their marketing aesthetics, to express the easy exchange of information through these devices.
This work fuses two opposing but connected ends of the story: on one hand the mobile devices help spread knowledge and raise global awareness, with the false promise of engendering a better world. On the other hand, while the economy of "rare earths" props up the problematic social and political infrastructures of the Democratic Republic of Congo, it also reveals the recursive relationships between matter and information underwritten by the move from production to product; from raw material to data generation.
Time Stone, 2011
This XXL mobile device, size: 135 cm x 65 cm x 25 cm, displaying the infrastructure around stonehenge via google maps. the work flirts with being a mobile grave for the mythical history of this prehistoric monument.
Steps of Recursion, 2011
by Anne de Vries
