Silvia B.

human - sculpture

The images weave their way through the web of existential contemporary dilemmas. They move in small families along the boundaries of genders, ages, (sub)cultures and species and want to bridge the gap between cultivated reality and deeper intuitive and instinctive layers.

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    • A Cry from the Deepest Dephts of Lost Time

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 30-04-2023 t/m 09-07-2023
    • Location: Ultima Thule - Dutch Sea Lamprey Society Amsterdam, Amsterdam
    • Exhibition of artworks inspired by the sea lamprey and the living fossil phenomenon. The sea lamprey belongs to the last of the Jawless, which appeared 550 million years ago. Also on show: the sea lamprey as culinary heritage, as a scientific research object and striking representative of the living fossil phenomenon, as an artistic source of inspiration. Artists: Henri Roquas, Moritz Ebinger, Lizan Freijsen, Silvia B., Ruchama Noorda, LA Raeven, Jaap de Ruig, Maaike Gottschal.
    • https://www.facebook.com/roquashenri/

    togetherness

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 26-11-2022 t/m 12-03-2023
    • Location: The Kunstgemaal, Bronkhorst
    • Curated by the amazing Anya Janssen – celebrating friendship with this show. She is a great fan of the artists invited and I am lucky to be one of them!​​​​​​​​ Nice to have Eden's Expansion on show again, she has only once been on show in the Museum Rijswijk. Especially for that exhibition, Food for Thought, I made her. My first chubby hybrid who, in her mermaid look, contemplates all the wildfires, floods, diets and more depressing news before she goes to the party anyway.

    Wild Summer of Art

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 05-08-2022 t/m 04-09-2022
    • Location: BRUTUS, Rotterdam
    • 100 Rotterdam based artists were chosen, 80 for Part I, 100 for part II – with a little help from a number of scouts, like me :) who all proposed 20 names. Nice move, because this way it might be a better reflection of what's going on in the city. My sculptures are in good company in the last giant hall, called the Cathedral. Against the backdrop of the impressive old and grubby high walls, they look good: extremely young, hopeful, clean, naked and vulnerable.
    • https://brutus.nl/

    Female Contra positions

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 22-04-2022 t/m 11-06-2022
    • Location: Heejsteck#, Utrecht
    • Heejsteck# project space is a new initiative by collector Jaap Sleper and artist duo V&B (Alex Jacobs and Ellemieke Schoenmaker). With Female Contra Positions, different positions that women are assigned to and/or assume are on show. Works on show by Silvia B., Elsemarijn Bruijs, Kimberly Clark, Olga Fedorova and Yvonne Englander.
    • https://www.heejsteck.nl/

    WORLDING residency and performances

    Performance

    • 01-01-2022 t/m 27-02-2022
    • Location: An Art Center, Rotterdam-Charlois
    • A short multidisciplinary event with dance, music, light, sculptures and paintings, created in cooperation with painter/architect Caroline Bijvoet and dancer Yanaika Holle. Worlding, the title of this project, comes from Donna Haraway, biologist, philosopher and science historian, for whom the term means that the world and it's creatures should not be seen as separate stories, but as each others context in which all are constantly developing with each other.
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ZpZQkKb2E

    Food for Thought

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 29-08-2021 t/m 16-01-2022
    • Location: Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk
    • Twenty artists show their vision on food production and consumption. In the last theme part of this exhibition, Comfort/Punishment and Sin/Penance, lies my latest curvy girl sculpture Eden's Expansion. Together with my skinny Juni's Longings she is watching the installation 5200ml by LA Raeven.
    • https://museumrijswijk.nl/tentoonstelling-textiel-biennale-2021-food-for-thought-182

    We are Animals

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 05-02-2021 t/m 24-10-2021
    • Location: Kunsthal, Rotterdam
    • Extraordinary animal creations by more than thirty contemporary artists together. Works by Maurizio Cattelan, Candida Höfer, Paul McCarthy and David Shrigley, among others, show the relationship between humans and animals and show how we humans look at and try to understand ourselves through animals. Daniel Firman's Nasutamanus and my Blanche Leblanc are roommates.
    • https://www.kunsthal.nl/nl/plan-je-bezoek/tentoonstellingen/weareanimals/

    Entanglement in the Anthropodream scene

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 12-06-2021 t/m 17-07-2021
    • Location: NL=US Art, Rotterdam
    • Silvia B. turns her solo exhibition into a party of friends: colleagues, all creating art by elevating trash into beauty in their own personal ways. The exhibition reflects on the celebration and drama of human existence in the Anthropocene. With works by Geoffrey de Beer, Anya Janssen, Cindy Wright, Jochem Rotteveel, V&B, Niels Post & Petra van Noort and Silvia B.
    • https://nlisus.com/?page_id=9134

    The black Plague

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 25-02-2021 t/m 30-05-2021
    • Location: Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
    • In De Pest, the museum shows how one of the most devastating infectious diseases that ever ravaged the world left its mark on art and society. With more than 200 works by artists such as Gabriël Metsu, Albrecht Dürer, Erwin Olaf and Berlinde De Bruyckere and writers such as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio and Albert Camus, the museum connects the history of the plague with current events.
    • https://valkhofmuseum.nl/nl/bezoek/agenda/de-pest

    Beastly?

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 23-10-2020 t/m 21-03-2021
    • Location: Damme City Festival, Damme
    • City Festival Damme presents collected stories every year. The power of the word and the power of the image play the leading roles. The theme of the third edition is 'BEASTIG?' Like most people, many artists are fascinated by humanity and the animal kingdom. The exhibition BEASTLY? brings together a number of artists who create around this in their own way.
    • https://stichtingijsberg.be/ons-verhaalgoed/stadsfestival-damme.html

    Second Life

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 02-07-2020 t/m 30-09-2020
    • Location: White Gallery, Osikov
    • The unique collection of Oldřich Th. Uttendorfski, the honorary consul of the Principality of Monaco, is exhibited by the White Gallery in Osikov. My sculpture Eternamente from the Stringendo series is the figure head of the exhibition.
    • https://www.whitegallery.cz/exhibition/second-life

    Through the Looking Glass

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-06-2020 t/m 19-07-2020
    • Location: Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • Through the Looking Glass was created in response to an open call organized by Garage Rotterdam to offer Rotterdam based artists a stage at a time when this did not seem possible. The window exhibition 'Through the Looking Glass' shows works by Silvia B., Antye Guenther, Steven Maybury, Jochem Rotteveel, Olivier Scheffer and Lavinia Xausa.
    • https://www.garagerotterdam.nl/

    Saudade

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 29-06-2019 t/m 28-09-2019
    • Location: Watou Arts Festival #39, Watou
    • Every summer, the arts festival invades the village of Watou at the French border. Poets and visual artists, young and established artists, works of art from Belgium and abroad settle down and form a special arts trail. The interaction between those surprising, nostalgic spaces with contemporary visual art and poetry always creates a unique experience. Crescendo is on show in a very, very small room in the former monastery.
    • https://www.kunstenfestivalwatou.be/nl/

    Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 22-06-2018 t/m 22-06-2021
    • Location: Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
    • Nine successive cabinets in which the artists tell the story of 'La condition humaine' with their installations, the human condition in the 21st century. The nine artists are Bart Hess, LA Raeven, Berend Strik, Philip Vermeulen, Anne Wenzel, Peter Zegveld, Karin Arink (in collaboration with Renée Kool), Armando and Silvia B. Their installations follow the different phases from a human life, starting with 'desire' in the first room and ending with 'memento mori' in the last room.
    • https://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl/content/2125/nl/ars-longa-vita-brevisnbsp

    Stage of Being

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-12-2018 t/m 20-01-2019
    • Location: Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
    • Artists in particular dare to face down the fundamental questions of existence. In fact: the very essence of art might be found in diffusing that existential, human fear. Art can hold up a mirror to mankind. This mirror is sometimes quite direct, raw and confrontational. And sometimes indirectly, enshrouded in layers of meaning.

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • BKVB Fund

    • 2008
      Scholarship

    • BKVB Fund

    • 2006
      Scholarship

    • BKVB Fund

    • 2002
      Scholarship

    • BKVB Fund

    • 1995
      Scholarship

    • BKVB Fund

    • 1991
      Pricing

    • Dolf Henkes Prize nomination

    • 2014
      Collection

    • Rijksmuseum Twente

    • 2018, Enschede
      Collection

    • HRO collection

    • 2016, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • Museum Voorlinden

    • 2008, Wassenaar
      Collection

    • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

    • 2006, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • Museum MORE

    • 2014, Gorssel
      Collection

    • KRC Art Collection

    • 2008, London
      Collection

    • Museum Sculptures by the Sea

    • 2012, Scheveningen
      Collection

    • NV Nederlandse Gasunie

    • 2006, Groningen
      Publication

    • OR BEAUTY AND DOUBT

    • 2016
    • monograph
    • Jap Sam Books - Preface by director of the Rijksmuseum Twenthe Arnoud Odding, and essays by novel writer Marcel Möring, Dutch art critic Jaap Röell and Belgian art critic Anne-Marie Poels, Dutch art curator / writer Werner van den Belt, English professor in the History of Design Sarah Cheang
      Publication

    • Food for Thought

    • 2021
    • catalog
    • Waanders/Museum Rijswijk - Diana Wind, Arnoud van Aalst
      Publication

    • The Art Embassy in Rotterdam shares revenues and networks, but is above all about solidarity and collegiality

    • 2021
    • article
    • De Volkskrant - Sarah van Binsbergen
      Publication

    • After the Hunt

    • 2021
    • catalog
    • Rijksmuseum Twenthe - Josien Beltman
      Publication

    • 100 years of Realism

    • 2020
    • catalog
    • Museum MORE - Marieke Jooren
      Publication

    • Stage of Being

    • 2017
    • catalog
    • Voorlinden - Suzanne Swarts
      Publication

    • The fluid images of Silvia B.

    • 2016
    • Essay
    • The Green Amsterdammer - Marcel Möring
      Publication

    • The Source: Punk and DIY

    • 2016
    • column
    • De Volkskrant - Sacha Bronwasser
      Publication

    • CODABLACK

    • 2013
    • catalog
    • Coda Museum - Werner van den Belt
      Publication

    • Freehand, exploring materials with eleven artists

    • 2013
    • Photo album
    • Hood Fire - Fire Red, Twan de Veer
      Publication

    • The city, the artist and the museum

    • 2013
    • catalog
    • Museum Boijmans - Van Beuningen - Saskia van Kampen-Prein
      Publication

    • Camouflage

    • 2012
    • catalog
    • Kiasma, Helsinki - Leevi Haapala
      Publication

    • Hey, Modern Art & Pop Culture, Muséede la Halle St. Pierre, Paris

    • 2011
    • catalog
    • Ankama Editions - Anne & Julien
      Publication

    • New Realism

    • 2010
    • catalog
    • d'Jonge Hond - Patricia van der Lugt, Belia Giessen