Karin Voogd

literary - spirituality - drawing - comics/cartoons - graphics

In collaborations I find the limitation necessary to channel associations. I gain a new perspective on a subject through others and can use it to detect blind spots in my own perception. In a drawing or painting I prefer to look at the remaining space. About what lies in the dark, the margins, the unnameable. I've always had trouble pinpointing a topic that interests me. And I often found a concept too insufficiently concrete to enter into a relationship with the medium of drawing or painting. I love it when ideas turn into matter. The language of the visual arts is exciting because it cannot be precisely described. With that 'vague' interest I then enter a field into which I am invited by others. At the moment, a book with an essay of a series of images with text fragments is the most convenient medium.

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    • Fri Yeye 2023-2024

    Other

    • In collaboration with: TRC Promotion
    • Location: Rotterdam Hoogvliet, Rotterdam
    • Drawing during the rehearsals of the play Fri yey that will premiere in Theater Zuidplein on May 9, 2024.
    • www.trcpromotion.com

    100 zines for lamu

    • 01-01-2023
    • In collaboration with: Lamu Museum Library. Khadija Issa Twahir. Sauda Kassim
    • Location: Lamu, Lamu Town
    • In a previous symposium theaudience expressed the wish to collect books about their own Swahili culture. The opinion was: there are not many books on our culture and in our language. The librarian, and I organized a workshop to make zines. In the first session 11 books were created on subjects like, weaving, poetry, arts, childrens plays in an edition of 2. To be continued:making 100 zinesby different authors and artists, making bigger editions to be spread in other libraries. (scholastic)

    Lamu Maktaba ya Sanaa

    Project

    • 01-02-2016 t/m 07-06-2025
    • In collaboration with: Lamu Museum /National Museums of Kenya
    • Location: Library, Lamu
    • LMYS, Lamu Maktaba ya Sanaa. A library for the arts in Lamu. is a collaboration with librarian Khadija Issa Twahir. The goal is to make a collection of materials that can be helpful for artists and others interested in art and heritage of Lamu, Kenya. To this end we ask stakeholders to provide titles or suggestions and try to raise funds to buy the materials.
    • www.lamu-maktaba-ya-sanaa.com

    Rotterdam Paper for Rotterdam Artists

    Task

    • 01-05-2021 t/m 01-04-2022
    • In collaboration with: Papermaker Marieke de Hoop
    • Location: De Kroon, Rotterdam
    • Marieke de Hoop asked Karin Voogd and Michalina Maiolepza to develop paper for their own practice. For this we got to know the process of papermaking. The possibilities of this technique also provide a new impulse in the own practice of graph making
    • www.papermakerijdehoop.nl

    Rufus and Jane

    Project

    • 01-06-2021 t/m 31-12-2022
    • Rufus and Jane is a series of graphics and essay written as a result of James Baldwin's rereading of Another Country. During the development of this series of graphics and the essay, insights about the text that arise from the reading club Another Country were used. The essay with reproductions of the prints was delivered as a publication in a small edition. The reading club took place at various public spaces in Rotterdam (De Kerk, Niffo Gallery)

    Bleeding in the Water

    Project

    • 28-02-2022 t/m 10-04-2022
    • In collaboration with: An Art Center in collaboration with Lea von Terzi. with Zoe Cochia, Jose Quintanar, Bernd Hokken, Duifje Engbersen, Yvonne Bronner.
    • Location: Kaatsbaan 8, Rotterdam
    • project on the theme: apprentice journeyman or senior/junior artist in the context of the larger exhibition program: Recovery. Karin invited Lea von Terzi with whom she shares a studio. Lea is doing Define Arts at the WdkA (second year). -Creating autonomous work: paintings and sculptures. -Documenting this process, in images and text. -Program of support activities by third parties.

    The expanding universe.

    Task

    • 01-12-2022 t/m 15-12-2022
    • In collaboration with: Platform for Loneliness (Amsterdam) Wijck (Zoetermeer)
    • Location: Oosterheem, Zoetermeer
    • 11 artists were assigned one of the 11 neighborhoods of Zoetermeer to make an intervention in the context of loneliness. I got the Oosterheem district where many elderly people live and many people with a large house of their own. I made drawings and interviews. I handed out the booklet I made from it in the church and pasted the drawings on a free poster column.

    Seven Walks in Zuidwijk

    Task

    • 06-04-2018 t/m 08-03-2019
    • In collaboration with: Kunstlab
    • Location: Zuidwijk, Rotterdam
    • A publication with reports of seven neighborhood exploration walks and illustrations. The walks were with the other artists of the Skarlokaal Bornerveld project and with local residents. They were about nature, the social institutions there and the children.

    Acknowledgments

      Pricing

    • Painting Prize Rembrandt Painting Award

    • 2011
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    • nomination Hans Baaij Essay Prize cbk Rotterdam

    • 2006
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    • Nomination NRC Essay Prize

    • 1997
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    • Buning Brongers Painting Prize nomination

    • 1995