Hedvig Koertz

sculptuur , Lichaam , installatie , Design

Employing versatile media such as installation, sculpture and drawing, the work of Hedvig Koertz repositions spacial points of view and negotiates the value and role of surrounding materialities and objects. Specifically, her work and research process explores the difficult relation between interiority, surface level and exteriority: focusing on how understandings of this relation influence design and how design, in turn, shapes the body. Her practice most often entails a site specific approach with a strong sensitivity toward the historical context and atmosphere of a place with attention to architectural detail. Hedvig is founder and caretaker of an other world project space in Rotterdam Carnisse. In collaboration with artists Jake Caleb and Ari David, she facilitates, hosts and programs events and exhibitions with a focus on experimentation, observation and dialogue.

**Inhabited forms (2023-ongoing)** - Research image panel developed in the context of the thematic workshop series: “Investegating E/Iconomic Sediments” - image oriented gatherings curated by Philipp Schwalb discussing a range of themes using art historian Aby Warburg’s Iconomy as method. My panel investigates the idea of “familiarity” as well as “inhabiting”. Images are taken from my ongoing research interest in design as confinement and includes various designs, works of art and artefacts that I inserted into the architectural typology of a family house. The panel served to discuss and deconstruct personal as well as collective perceptions and conceptions of the family . The images became a discursive tool to debate the familial gaze, family structures, family economics, kinship and more. Using images from books by Marshall Mcluhan, Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Dreyfuss, Valley Export and Ernst Neufert

**Enacted Displays (2024) Hedvig Koertz with drawings by Jakob Forster** - Taking the drawings by Jakob Forster as a starting point, different takes on display structures have been created. Each structure carries out an aspect of what displaying can be - elevate, hold, lean and frame. The wood is up cycled from a customised shelf system built for an other world project space. Photo by Jake Caleb

**Enacted display Hedvig Koertz with drawings by Jakob Forster** - Taking the drawings by Jakob Forster as a starting point, different takes on display structures have been created. Each structure carries out an aspect of what displaying can be - elevate, hold, lean and frame. Upcycled wood from a custom built shelf system on view in a different space. Drawings by Jakob Forster, using erasure as technique.

**half-consciously, from several angles** - process archive of photographs developed through an ongoing exchange with artist Jakob Ehrlich. The material is displayed on a piece of furniture from the Museum's archive. Museum Ovartaci 2018.

**Half-consciously, from several angles** - fragment from installation 2018. A collaboration with Jakob Ehrlich, shown at Ovartaci Museum Aarhus, a former psychiatric institution. In a series of photographs we re-enacted specific habits and bodily compulsions we had noticed ourselves doing in our own homes. Dwelling on otherwise unapparent, trivial gestures and placing them in an exhibition setting, turned them into markers of exposed intimacy. We countered this imagery with built spacial interventions which were meant to echo the portrayed behaviour into the spacial setting.

**dear Intruder - letter to an intruder** - 2018

**dear intruder - Up-keeping fresh footprints** - 2019, documentation photos of installation consisting of three sculptural gestures manifested in the exhibition space. Within each individual piece, the “letter to an intruder” had been placed in a barely visible way (mirrored, rolled up or covered). Part of the group show: “They Man-made it, so I exist” in Punt WG, Amsterdam, 2019.2019, dimensions: 29x31x8, installation fragment, materials: clay, transparent foil, A4 printed letter (hidden).

**Mat Work** - sculpture from the series: Invert, Recast 2020, dimensions: 23x13x1,4 cm, sculpture (documentation photo). Materials: concrete, latex, foam mat, acrylic paint.

**of the body or of leaves** - of the body or of leaves 2022 Multiple media (plaster, wood, metal, uv light, overhead projection of hand drawing), sculptural installation (documentation fragments). A room filling installation taking as its’ start the cavernous basement space and various casts stemming from interiors of worn garment and shoes. The work explores the physicality of labour and production from a (self) conscious and embodied perspective. Developed at an other world project space.

**Modernism without Modernity - sculpture series** - a collaborative sculpture project with Ramón Jiménez Cárdenas, creating sculptures using a shared "bank" of collected material from Mexico and the Netherlands. Developed and shown at an other world project space 2023.

**suspension piece** - sculpture from Modernism without Modernity, 2023, a series of sculptures developed in collaboration with Ramón Jiménez Cárdenas during a series of work sessions using found materials from Mexico and the Netherlands. developed and shown at an other world project space.

of the body or of leaves

Datum: 01-09-2022 t/m 01-10-2022

Locatie: an other world project space

sculptural installation (documentation fragments). A room filling installation taking as its’ start the cavernous basement space and various casts stemming from interiors of worn garment and shoes. The work explores the physicality of labour and production from a (self) conscious and embodied perspective.

https://anotherworldproject.space/Of_the_body_or_of_leaves_Hedvig_Koertz

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