Mels van Zutphen

video - film - photography - sound - installation

Nature and science are major inspirations for Mels van Zutphen. What intrigues him is natural phenomena in themselves, and the impression they make on us as humans. At the same time, he is interested in fields of science that study and quantify the occurrence.

Van Zutphen does not aim to find hard evidence or investigate the truth. By observing, documenting and staging, he seeks to put our perceptions of 'reality' to the test. In doing so, he playfully displays the beauty and absurdity of the human drive to explain our place in the cosmos.

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    • Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2020: The Imagination of Time

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 07-02-2020 t/m 23-02-2020
    • Location: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
    • Presentation 3-channel video work and publication 'The Speed ​​of Light'
    • https://www.yebizo.com/en/

    From A to B

    Exhibition / presentation

    Kosmos

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 27-08-2020 t/m 27-09-2020
    • Location: The Wild Known, Rotterdam
    • Last winter, Mels van Zutphen worked in a studio in Het Wilde Weten. He completed ongoing projects and new works were created. Under the name KOSMOS, these photo, video, text and sound works are now brought together in the projectspace of HWW
    • https://www.hetwildeweten.nl/mels-van-zutphen-kosmos/

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Mondrian Fund

    • 2014
      Scholarship

    • Mondrian Fund

    • 2021
      Collection

    • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

    • 1992, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • ,
      Publication

    • The Speed ​​of Light

    • 2017
    • leporello
    • The Eriskay Connection - Mels van Zutphen/Eriskay Connection
      Publication

    • Kosmos

    • 2020
    • book
    • Art Agent Orange - Mels van Zutphen / Hieronymus Bosch