Hilde Onis

sculpture - installation

Hilde Onis's (1994) work is expressed in amalgams of sculpture, installation, video work and textual interventions.
The work plays with the characters of trivial objects, questioning our daily reality subsequently materialized in physical forms and solid metaphors. By making objects that seem to be wanting to talk to you, referring to language systems and transforming object and material hierarchies, the work tries to expose underlying structures of human assumptions and constructed semiotic agreements. Much of the work centers on the idea of ​​contingency, the idea that things only act when they are needed, holding some kind of dormant potential energy until requested.
Recognizable objects and physical metaphors play a refined game for attention. The dense installation compulses each work to be each others neighbor and creates room for an everlasting dialogue, balancing on meanings, like thoughts that have no end or beginning.

  • Portfolio
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  • Awarded
  • Contact

    • LoO0ⓞｏ𝑜օₒp, Public sculpture at YART, Duivelsteen, Ghent, BE

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 15-03-2020 t/m 15-04-2020
    • Location: Duivelsteen Castle, Ghent

    'Unknown afterglow affection collection' Solo Exhibition

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 06-03-2019 t/m 16-05-2019
    • Location: Kunstenlab, Deventer

    'Trying to touch like 14 year olds in crash cars hit each other' Solo Exhibition

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 14-09-2017 t/m 24-11-2017
    • Location: Roodkapje, Rotterdam

    'I can't talk to you about my dreams when you're busy' - 5 hour solo performance, TENT Rotterdam, NL

    Performance

    • 14-03-2017 t/m 15-03-2017
    • In collaboration with: CBK Rotterdam, TENT Rotterdam, Roodkapje Rotterdam
    • Location: TENT Rotterdam, Rotterdam

    'And me, Streams of You' (group exhibition) - Marres, Maastricht, NL

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-12-2020 t/m 31-01-2021
    • In collaboration with: Marres, Z33
    • Location: Marres, Maastricht

    LICHEN, Group exhibition curated by Koi Persyn and Leo Lopez,

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 17-09-2020 t/m 30-09-2020
    • In collaboration with: in collaboration with Claptrap Antwerp as part of Brussels Gallery weekend
    • Location: CLAPTRAP , Brussels

    Waldeinsamkeit

    Project

    • 01-08-2020 t/m 31-08-2021
    • In collaboration with: KASK
    • Location: Private domain Wildenburg, Beernem

    Love@Secondsight

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 15-05-2019 t/m 01-08-2019
    • Location: Corrosia, Almere

    duckkumenta

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 03-01-2019 t/m 05-04-2019
    • Location: Studio Omstand, Arnhem

    Night Shift

    Performance

    • 18-07-2019 t/m 19-07-2019
    • Location: Vooruit, Ghent

    BOOKS, Stop Reading

    Task

    • 22-02-2019 t/m 28-02-2019
    • Location: Ghent Arts Library, Ghent

    Red Pack Finals

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 27-09-2018 t/m 31-10-2018
    • Location: Roodkapje, Rotterdam

    S01E02 exhibition + residence period at Het Resort, Groningen, NL

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-06-2018 t/m 28-06-2018
    • Location: Noord Nederlands Theater, Groningen

    Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 08-02-2018 t/m 11-02-2018
    • Location: Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam

    LOOK AT US NOW

    Performance

    • 20-12-2017 t/m 31-12-2017
    • In collaboration with: This art fair
    • Location: Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam

    Orchestrating Coincidence

    Project

    • 23-04-2021 t/m 25-02-2023
    • In collaboration with: Galerie Nieuw Charlois, Stichting Stokroos, Jaap Harten Fonds, Drukkerij Voetelink
    • Location: New Charlois Gallery, Rotterdam
    • With Orchestrating Coincidence, Hilde Onis and Liza Wolters take on the representation of the in-between,resulting in a series of 30 sculptures that defy odds by finding connection at their breaking point. By developing a method that aims to constrain but meanwhile evokes accident the series' individual objects have a say in controlling it's own contours. Departing from these notions, they explore existing linear views of (gendered) positive and negative space in sculpture.
    • www.orchestratingcoincidence.com

    To Engulf

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 16-06-2022 t/m 08-09-2022
    • In collaboration with: Municipality of Amstelveen, Fertilizer Consulting
    • Location: Public space Amstelveen, Amstelveen
    • 26 ceramic objects hidden under the tree foliage have assigned letters from A to Z and act as a scavenger hunt within the main route. The sculptures are based on the phenomenon of edaphoecotropism, the ability of trees to engulf, grow around or break objects they encounter in their growth.The objects attribute small, sometimes magical, fictional events to the habitat of the trees and function as an informative pennant for remarkable incidents packaged as facts in the public space.
    • https://hildeonis.com/To-engulf-Biotoop-Amstelveen

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Work contribution Young Talent Mondriaan Fund

    • 2016
      Scholarship

    • Prince Bernard Culture Fund

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • Project investment Mondriaan Fund

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Stichting Stokroos for project 'Orchestrating Coincidence'

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • Jaap Harten Fund for publication project 'Orchestrating Coincidence'

    • 2022
      Collection

    • KASK Collection

    • 2020, Ghent
      Collection

    • Collection Alain Servais

    • 2015, Brussels
      Publication

    • 'Hilde Onis balances objects and meanings'

    • 2023
    • Online article/interview
    • The Low Countries - Maarten Buser
      Publication

    • About 'And me, streams of you'

    • 2020
    • Shops
    • Heart Magazine -
      Publication

    • 'And me, streams of you'

    • 2020
    • Shops
    • Metropolis M -
      Publication

    • Spreadmag Issue 3

    • 2020
    • Shops
    • SpreadMAG -