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.
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.
