Art Office

On Wednesday 28 September, Art Office, in collaboration with Fonds Kwadraat, is organizing an information and networking afternoon about financing your art practice. The afternoon is intended for visual artists from the Rotterdam region. The language of instruction is English.  
 
Professional visual artists can apply for an interest-free loan from Fonds Kwadraat. The loans are intended for the development, creation and presentation of new work or a new project. Think, for example, of an exhibition or presentation at home or abroad, a residency, a photo book or artist's book, a prototype, website or for the purchase of equipment. Click here for more information about the CBK Fund Kwadraat loan. 
 
Program 
Gili Crouwel van Fonds Kwadraat enters into talks with Simon Schrikker (1973) Catherine Heil (1982) in Wille Meike Brand (1992) ohow and why they applied for an interest-free loan from Fonds Kwadraat to realize their plans. scare asked in 2021 a loan for the purchase of aequipment, Heil used the loan in 2020 for the production costs of a duo exhibition in Berlin and Brand used in 2021 of the interest-free loan for a residency. Afterwards there is an opportunity to ask questions, meet and discuss.  

Register 
Admission is free. Because of a Limited number of places, it's nice if you can register in advance via artoffice@cbkrotterdam.nl. Mention you in the emaile First and last name en as subject: 28 September 2022.

Artists present
Katherina Heil (1982, Hamburg) uses different media such as drawing, installation and sculpture to investigate the human perception of space and time between microcosm and macrocosm. Her works consider factual and fictional interrelationships between such things as language, matter and scientific concepts and their relationships between subjective and objective experience of the universe to create vivid and poetic visualizations. She graduated with a focus on photography from the University of Applied Art & Design BTK-FH in Berlin, Germany (BA) and from the Master Institute AKV|St.Joost in den Bosch in the Netherlands (MFA). She attended the residency programs of the European Ceramic Work Center in Oisterwijk (NL), Stichting Kaus Australis in Rotterdam (NL), DeFabriek in Eindhoven (NL) and Nida Art Colony (LT), department of Vilnius Art Academy. Her work has been presented in various exhibition locations and programs, including Fabrik der Künste in Hamburg, Raum left right in Hamburg, WEST Den Haag (online publication), Exgirlfriend Gallery in Berlin (duo), De Fabriek Eindhoven (solo), VITRINE Galerie in Basel , Billytown artist-run gallery in The Hague, and Boetzelaer | Nispen gallery in Amsterdam. In 2019 she initiated the Sensory Threshold LAB, a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. Since 2019 she has been part of the Billytown artists' initiative in The Hague.

Wille Meike Brand (1992) is a visual artist from Rotterdam. In her works she reuses existing images from waste textiles, which she deconstruct, edit and merge into imprints. This technique derives from her experimentation-based approach, through which she has developed a new textile printing technique that embodies the quality of extracting color and print from polyester textiles. She takes this undervalued and useless material and reveals their beauty and deviations by capturing them down to the fiber. Brand has shown her work at Fashionclash, PADA Studios (Barreiro, PT) and New Order of Fashion during DDW. zhe won the Textielmuseum Reinventing Textiles prize, where she also exhibited her installation “Reproduction of the Replica”.

Simon scare (1973, Utrecht) graduated in 1999 from Academy Minerva, Groningen. His work is represented in collections such as Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Drents Museum, Kunst Museum The Hague and Museum Voorlinden Wassenaar. His work has one binding factor: seeking out the boundary between the figuration and the material. Sometimes this happens literally, with the thick layers of oil paint creeping outside the frame of the canvas like a slowly advancing lava flow, sometimes more figuratively or associatively because of the alienating atmosphere in his watercolors, animations and sculpture murals. Schrikker wants to appeal to the viewer with his work. What do I see? What happens literally and what is fulfilled on a psychological level? When does the image transcend itself and does the meaning go deeper, ie when does it become necessary to be seen? When Schrikker translates his fascinations into paint, the work is based on emotions and instincts such as fear and power and the clichés that cling to them, subconsciously and consciously mixed into a cohesive mush. 

Date, time & location 
Wednesday September 28, 15.45 - 18.00 hours  
Auditorium TENT/Art Institute Melly  
Witte De Withstraat 50, 3012 XD Rotterdam 

Photo: Simon Schrikker, 'Dark Mountains Seeing Things', collaboration with Brush, Hilton Art Lab, 2021