destination berlin

DESTINATION BERLIN, http://destinationberlin2012.blogspot.com.es/

A group show by Jacqueline Kooter, Shirley Wiebe, Susana López F,

Thea Jentjens, Wai Kit Lam & Wai Yi Monti Lai.

Destination Berlin 1 Hong Kong

http://destinationberlin2012.blogspot.com.es

http://destinationberlin2012.blogspot.com.es

Jacqueline Kooter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. www.jacquelinekooter.nl/ 7

Shirley Wiebe, Vancouver, Canada. www.shirleywiebe.com 13

Susana López Fernández, Gijón, Spain. www.susanalf.es 18

Thea Jentjens, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. www.theajentjens.nl 25

Wai Kit Lam, 林慧潔, Hong Kong. www.waikitlam.com 29

Wai Yi, Lai (Monti) 黎慧儀, Hong Kong. http://waiyilai.blogspot.com.es/ 38


http://www.jacquelinekooter.nl/

http://www.jacquelinekooter.nl/

http://www.shirleywiebe.com/

http://www.shirleywiebe.com/

http://www.susanalf.es


http://www.theajentjens.nl

http://www.theajentjens.nl

http://www.waikitlam.com


http://waiyilai.blogspot.com.es


二零零九年十一月，當柏林市在慶祝柏林圍牆倒塌二十週年，轉折的命運

聚合了六個國際藝術家：Jacqueline Kooter，Shirley Wiebe，Susana Lopez F，

Thea Jentjens，林慧潔及黎慧儀。

1a空間呈獻《DESTINATION BERLIN》，一個始於柏林藝術家駐留計

劃，關於尋找個人及集體身分的展覽。

由我們不同的看法開始旅程，從石墨繪製到多媒體藝術創作，我們探索不

同的藝術技巧，前往研究不同臉孔和身分釋義。

Jacqueline, Shirley, Susana, Thea, 林慧潔及黎慧儀一同探索城市中的通訊與

整合概念，面對陌生的德文成為他們一個弱點，但同時間，這境況驅使他們走

在一起，去發表及回應新鮮而又錯錯綜複雜的事物。


In November 2009, when the city of Berlin was celebrating the 20th anniversary

of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a twist of the fate brought together six international

artists: Jacqueline Kooter, Shirley Wiebe, Susana Lopez F, Thea Jentjens, Wai Kit Lam

and Wai Yi Lai.

1a Space presents Destination Berlin, a group exhibition about the search for

individual and collective identity through the work that was created during their

shared art residency in the city of Berlin.

We start a journey through their different views and we explore different art

techniques from graphite to paint to multimedia art, and we travel to investigate the

different faces and interpretations of identity.

Jacqueline, Shirley, Susana, Thea, Kit and Yi investigate concepts such as

communication and integration in a city where the unfamiliar language of German

made them vulnerable. At the same time, these circumstances help them to go within

in order to express and respond to new complexities.


DESTINATION BERLIN: the search of identity.

1a Space is pleased to introduce Destination Berlin, a group exhibition about the

search for individual and collective identity through the work of 6 international artists:

Jacqueline Kooter, Shirley Wiebe, Susana López F., Thea Jentjens, Wai Kit Lam and Wai Yi Lai.

The concept of identity has been an ongoing discussion between artists and

philosophers from the early centuries to the present. We define identity as “the state or fact of

remaining the same one or ones under varying aspects or conditions”.

This exhibition reveals six individual glances and expressions on the theme of identity,

through a common platform: the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the

reunification of the German city.

The nomadic and fluctuating qualities that define contemporary life often require us to

relocate to another city, a different country, with a new language and cultural background that

are different from our own.

Connections between environment, memory and identity form a continuous thread of

questioning in Shirley´s work. Much of it is transient and migratory, reflecting our ability to

move and relocate, to shift our lives into new settings.

In Destination Berlin, Shirley exhibits two large-scale drawings, the first one created in

Berlin, and second, upon returning to Vancouver. The works vividly reflect the experience of

being immersed in a new environment and culture through fragmentary elements that appear

to float and drift across a surface.

Susana López F. shows in her work a reflection of many hours spent at airports waiting

for flights. She explores how airports are places where identity is scrutinized and we become

anonymous, but at the same time is the centre of contemporary culture.


In Destination Berlin, Susana show us Letzter Aufruf. This project is a convergence of

both topics from the show: Identity and the reunification of Berlin. In November 2011, Susana

travelled to Berlin to give graphic testimony of two airports: Tegel and Schönefeld, which are

still memory of that Wall that some day ago divided the city and also the whole world into two:

West and East.

And perhaps Identity, that we consider so valuable nowadays, was something people

from East Berlin wanted to lose in order to have an anonymous life that let them be free.

Jacqueline Kooter reflects on the lack of freedom to move around using three videos:

“Walled in”, “Blocked off” and “Trapped in the city”. These videos are based on her stay in

Berlin during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2009.

Thea, shows us a series of drawings mostly with architectural elements, a reflection of

her long walking tours in the formerly divided city. A reflection about how absurd history can

be in a city where most of the official buildings are duplicated because of its old leaders´

search of identity.

As a result of her constant international trips Wai Kit Lam thinks about who She is very

often. she feels as Chinese when she is abroad and when she comes home she feels closer to

Western culture than Chinese Traditions. During her stay in Berlin in 2009, Wai Kit continues to

examinate her identity in this foreign city through a language she does not speak and is not

able to understand.

We are going to conclude with Wai Yi Lai´s work. She is a Chinese artist, which work is

about the relationship between the environment and people. She looks for her identity through

the sorrounding environment, but for her sorrounding environment refers to the correlation

between humans and the entities embracing us. In Destination Berlin she shows us a tribute

to Mr. and Mrs. Gu . . . and all who have lost their home in China.


JACQUELINE KOOTER

Visual artist.

Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands en 1960.

[email protected]

www.jacquelinekooter.nl

ARTIST BIO

Jacquel ine Kooter graduated from The

Amsterdam Academy for the Visual Arts. She started

out as a painter, then used painting more and more in

site-specific installations. The last three years she has

also made videos and occasionally she had combine

with contemporary dance in differente maneer.

For “Destination Berlin” she is going to show

three videos: “Walled in”, “Blocked off” and “Trapped in

the city”. These videos are based on her stay in Berlin

during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

in 2009. In all of them a general theme of Jacqueline´s

works is present: the lack of freedom to move around.

Jacqueline Kooter 1960 年於阿姆斯特丹出生，畢業於Amsterdam Academy for

the Visual Arts。她的藝術旅程由繪畫開始，繼而運用繪畫於特定場景的裝置藝術上。在過去的三

年裡，她亦以獨特的手法把錄像及當代舞蹈巧妙地結合。她的作品揭示了人類肉體中的強項或弱

點，以及人際關係中的種種複雜性。


mailto:[email protected]


http://www.jacquelinekooter.nl

http://www.jacquelinekooter.nl

ARTIST STATEMENT

Trapped in the city. 2011

Movie

The visual work of Amsterdam based artist Jacqueline Kooter is about both the strength

and vulnerability of the human body and about the complexity of human relations.

She works on location as well as in her studio. She started out as a painter, then used

painting more and more in site-specific installations.

The last three years she has also made videos and occasionally she has combine her

work with contemporary dance in different manners. On these projects she works together

with the Rotterdam based contemporary dance-company Conny Janssen Danst.

In the fall of 2009, when Germany was celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of

the Berlin Wall, Jacqueline Kooter spend a month as an artist-in-residence in Berlin. During her

stay, she did research on the building and the fall of the Berlin Wall and on the Ministerium für

Staatssicherheit (MfS) / the Stasi, the Secret Service of the DDR and their archive and prison

in Berlin. Themes such as the lack of freedom to move around, the lack of privacy and

individuality versus group behaviour are related to her work in general, so she was inspired by

her Berlin-research to make two short (dance)movies: "Walled in" and "Blocked off".


Walled in still. 2009.

Movie

Blocked off. 2009

Movie


EDUCATION

1978-1982 The Amsterdam Academy for the Visual Arts (Textile design)

1983-1990 Founder and member of the Board, STOV, Amsterdam Foundation for Textile,

Education and Design.

1997-2000 Member of the Board and curator, Outline, Amsterdam foundation of artists.

Since 1992 Working as a visual artist.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (a selection since 1997)

2010 Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam_Julidans 2010, Amsterdam. Double screen video

installation.

2009 Installation subwaystation Waterlooplein, Amsterdam

2008 Installation Crossfire Project Base, Amsterdam

2007 Installation for ConnyJanssenDanst, VanNelleFabriek, Rotterdam (NL)

2002 Lawrence Mills Gallery, Central College of Iowa (USA) -artist in residence,

exhibition and lecture-.

2001 Gallery Kunstkeizer, Amsterdam

1998 Outline, Amsterdam

KunstRAI_Amsterdam ArtFair_Amsterdam

1997 Gallery Ronkes Agerbeek, The Hague (NL)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (a selection since 1997)

2012 Rockefeller Arts Gallery, State University of New York (duo with Jan Theun van Rees)

1aspace, Hong Kong

Installation Staatsliedenbuurt, Amsterdam

Kunstlinie, Almere (NL)

2010 Berliner Kunstsalon 7, Art Fair, Berlin

Alte Feuerwache, Berlin

Gallery Exhibeo, Berlijn / Berlin (duo with Thea Jentjens)

2006 Schloss Burgau / Duren (DE)


Kommensienachhause , Frankfurt / Beiroet (LB)

2005 No Schmuck, De Witte Ruijter, Amsterdam

2004 Anatomisches Institut, Cologne (DE) artist in residence and exhibition

2003 kommensienachhause, Cologne (DE) / Amsterdam / Berlin

2002 Kentler International Drawing Space. Brooklyn, New York

Artoteek Oost, Amsterdam

2001 Gallery Kunstkeizer, Amsterdam

ArToll Labor, Bedburg Hau (DE)

1999 Outline_Amsterdam



SCREENINGS

2011 Movietheatre LUX, Nijmegen (NL). Film: The anonymous city.

Filmfestival "Dancing in the dark", Malmö (Sweden). Film: Trapped in the City.

Dutch Dance Festival, Maastricht (NL). Film: Trapped in the City.

Dance in Focus Festival_Bowdoin College, Brunswick Maine. Film:The dark corner

Tanz Nite_Oper, Graz (Austria). Film : "The dark corner".

American College Dance Festival, Keene State College, New Hampshire.

Film: “The dark corner”.

2010 Bosch Artspace, Arnhem (NL) (poetryclip)

Outdoor screening at Dijkgraafplein_Amsterdam/Films: Walled in & Blocked off

Screening at Moving Media Festival Cinedans, Amsterdam

Literary festival "de Wintertuin", Nijmegen (NL) (poetryclip)

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2009 Takt Kunstprojektraum. Berlin

2004 Anatomisches Institut_Cologne_DE

2002 Central College of Iowa_Pella_USA

2001 Artoll Labor_Bedburg Hau_DE


ARTIST LECTURES

2012 State University of New York, Fredonia, USA

2007 University of Southern Indiana_Evansville_USA

2002 Central College of Iowa_Pella_USA

GRANTS

2010 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst_video installation during the International

Contemporary Julydance Festival

2009 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst_ installation in subwaystation Waterlooplein

Amsterdam


S H I R L E Y W I E B E

Self taught visual artist.

Born in Canada

[email protected]

www.shirleywiebe.com

ARTIST BIO.

Shirley Wiebe is a Canadian artist who lives and

works in Vancouver. Her work encompasses drawing,

sculpture and installation, and she has created a number

of environmental and public art installations in the Pacific

Northwest. Connections between environment, memory

and identity form a continuous thread of questioning in her

explorations, reflecting our ability to move and relocate, to

shift our lives into larger patterns and diverse

communities.

In Destination Berlin, Shirley exhibits two large-scale

drawings, the first one created in Berlin, and second, upon

returning to Vancouver. The works vividly reflect the

experience of being immersed in a new environment and

culture through fragmentary elements that appear to float and drift across a surface.

加拿大籍藝術家 Shirley Wiebe 居於溫哥華。創作範圍涵蓋繪畫、雕塑和裝置，亦曾於太

平洋西北地區創作環境及公共藝術。她的作品持續探索環境、記憶及身份之間的關聯，反映我們在

不同的文化和環境底下，有能力改變與及重塑自己的生活模式，而變得更多元和豐富。




http://www.shirleywiebe.com

http://www.shirleywiebe.com

ARTIST STATMENT

The Berlin art residency was a catalyst for me to work in different ways and with less

familiar media – to be immersed in another culture and environment, and to simultaneously

express new experiences in a process comparable to breathing in and out. The individual

studio spaces also functioned as bedroom/living areas, creating the intimate relationship of

waking, working and sleeping while continually surrounded by one’s work.

Alongside the focus on three-dimensional construction and materials exploration, I

began a daily practice of drawing. Influenced by site and space, I chose to cover one wall of

the studio with paper, and to approach it vertically, using a ladder when necessary. The

objective was to produce a wall painting, a visual chronicle that recorded impressions and

associations from day-to-day life in Berlin. Eventually, over a period of one month, the imagery

was to coalesce, fragments informing other fragments, held together in a framework.

One year later I repeated the process in my Vancouver studio, and over a three-month

period, another odyssey unfolded on the wall.

90 days. 2011

Mixed media on paper


30 days. 2010

Mixed media on paper


EDUCATION

Fine Arts, Langara College, Vancouver BC

Diploma of Applied Arts in Social Services, Conestoga College, Kitchener ON

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 (are you talking to me?), Kwantlen Art Gallery, Kwantlen University, Surrey BC

2005 Underpinnings, Odd Gallery, Dawson City YT

Lebenswelt, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon BC

2001 Surrounding, Campbell River Public Art Gallery, Campbell River BC

1999 Arm’s Length, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton BC

1998 Brief District, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 [upcoming] Destination Berlin, 1a Space, Hong Kong

2011 art(IS)LAND exhibition, Art is Land Network, Granville Island, Vancouver

Monomania, Trench Gallery, Vancouver

Art Outside XII (annual participation since 2000), Port Angeles Fine Arts Centre,

(PAFAC) Port Angeles WA

2010 Overgrowth & Understory, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) Seattle

and King County Parks, Cougar Mt. Regional Wildlands Park, WA

deerBLNproject No. 4, Strychnin Galerie, Berlin

2009 Within Spaces | Spaces Within, Harcourt House Arts Centre, Edmonton AB

2005 Topophilia, Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw SK

Art as Environment, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento CA

2004 Biennial Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue Arts Commission, Bellevue WA

2003 Art in the Meadow: Whispered Conversations With The Land

Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council, Bainbridge Island WA

2002 Trace Elements: Fugitive Terrain, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George BC

2001 Art and Nature, Westcott Bay Reserve, San Juan Island WA


ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2009 TAKT Kunstprojektraum, Berlin Germany

2008, 2009 Stanley Park Environmental Art Project, Vancouver BC

2007 International Environmental Art Residency, I-Park, East Haddam CT USA

2006 Project for Social Transformation, Bursa International Residency, Istanbul

2005, 2003 Klondike Institute of Arts & Culture (KIAC) Dawson City YK

2003 University of British Columbia Farm in conjunction with the Faculty of Agricultural

Sciences, Vancouver BC

PUBLIC PROJECTS

2012 Passing Strange and Wonderful, Trench Gallery, Vancouver BC

2010 HOST a social sculpture, G.A.S.-station ArtProjectRoom, Berlin

2009 Immersed, an installation in conjunction with Ravishing Beasts, Vancouver

Museum

2008 Light Waves, public art commission for Bentall 5 Lobby, Vancouver BC

2007/06 Interstitial Space, collaborative installation with Michael Bjornson Projects for the

Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF), RBC Lounge, Toronto

2004/05 Solar Patterns I & II, Public Art Projects, City of Vancouver, Vancouver BC


SUSANA LÓPEZ FERNÁNDEZ

Born in Gijon (Spain) in 1977.

[email protected]


lastcall (http://lastcall-susanalf.blogspot.com)

ARTIST BIO

Susana has born in Gijon. She is graduated in Fine

Arts from Barcelona University, where she also took a PhD.

She completed her formation with several courses in

different cultural art institutions : Central Saint Martin´s

College of Art & Design in London, Parsons School for

Design in New York, Art Superior Istitute in Madrid, etc.

Focused mainly on photography and mixed media,

the subjects of her work come from personal experience.

For this show, she presents Letzter Aufruf: Destination

Berlin. A special edition of Last Call where she reflects

about the limits between public and private spaces as well

as these artificial cities and the lonelinees.

Susana Lopez F 出生於西班牙希洪。她畢業於巴塞羅那大學藝術系，並於同校獲取博士

學位。曾在不同的文化及藝術院校深造，包括倫敦中央聖馬丁藝術與設計學院、紐約帕森設計學院

及馬德里Art Superior Institute等。作品主要為攝影及混合媒介。從個人經驗出發，以客觀又帶著距離

的角度，揭示有時令人驚訝的事實。






http://lastcall-susanalf.blogspot.com/

http://lastcall-susanalf.blogspot.com/

http://lastcall-susanalf.blogspot.com

http://lastcall-susanalf.blogspot.com

ARTIST STATMENT

LASTCALL, a blog about airports.

An airport is a tract of levelland where aircrafts land and take off, usually equipped

with hard-surfaced landing strips, a control tower, hangars, aircraft maintenance and refueling

facilities, as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo. Airports are public and busy

spaces, they are the most complex and dynamics station owed to the importance of the air

traffic in our times.

But an airport is much more than that. An airport is a conglomeration of all cultures, it

is a place of floating bodies of people in limbo, a place where everyone is waiting to be

somewhere else, it is a place of contradictions. It is a so called “No-Land”, where dead time

seems constantly present. An airport is the ultimate waiting room. And yet, it is a center of

contemporary culture, a place where identity is scrutinized thoroughly, and also shed like a

snakeskin. We become anonymous and homogeneous.

Lastcall is an online diary that show us every airport where some day ago we were

waiting at.

LastCall was born on July 2010 as a reflection of many hours spent at airports waiting

to fly out.

LastCall, is a personal project as well as an open project, it is an invitation to artists

and non-artists to share their photos and opinions about the time spent at airports around the

world. I invite them to reflect about the use of the new public spaces, to analyze by photo

language how limitis between public and private space disappear in an airport terminal.

After two years, this project was shown in PhotoarteKomite Gallery (Bilbao, Spain) in

December, 2010. Later in April 2011 LastCall landed in London in Viewfinder Gallery. And in


November 2011 LastCall travelled to Berlin to give us some inside into two airports, both of

which near their disappearance: Tegel and Schönefeld. LastCall - Letzter Aufruf, was

opened last 27th November in Takt Berlin (Grünberger Str. 1 - 10243 - Berlin). During the

opening the exhibition was available online through lastcall blog lastcall and in Ph´a´ke:

espaciophake.

Now, in September 2012, two years and three months after its birth, LastCall is landed

here, in Honk Kong, 1a Space.

Letzter Aufruf - Tegel. 2011

Movie


http://lastcall-susanalf.blogspot.com.es/

http://lastcall-susanalf.blogspot.com.es/

http://espaciophake.blogspot.com.es/

http://espaciophake.blogspot.com.es/

Letzter Aufruf - Tegel. 2011

Digital print


EDUCATION

2000-2002 PhD Fine Arts. University of Barcelona

Elisava School of Design. Master “Design and layout of public spaces”. Barcelona

1995-2000 BA in Fine Arts. University of Barcelona and University of La Laguna, Sta. Cruz de

Tenerife

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 SinPrisas. Photo Show in PhotoarteKomite. Bilbao

Letzter Aufruf, a LastCall especial edition for Berlin. Takt Kunstprojektraum. Berlin

2010 Last Call. Photo Show in PhotoarteKomite. Bilbao

20 years later. Eurostars Grand Madrid Hotel. Madrid

2008 Photo Exhibition in Chinatown Manpower Project, Inc. NY

Casa de Cultura de Arriondas. Asturias

Island Groove. Barcelona

2007 Rodríguez- Amat Foundation. Gerona

Alvargónzalez Foundation. Gijón (Asturias)

2006 Casa de Cultura de Arriondas. Asturias

2005 HOTEL EUROSTARS LAIETANA PALACE. Barcelona

Librería Itaca. Gijón (Asturias)

2003 Colores de África. ARTKAFFEE. Barcelona

Smooth gallery. Barcelona

GROUP EXHIBITIONS.

2012 Crisis. What Crisis?. PhotoArte Komite Gallery. Bilbao

2011 La imposibilidad del retrato unico. PhotoArte Komite Gallery. Bilbao

Between Space. Viewfinder Photography Gallery. London

2010 The Moment of Privacy has Passed. Usher Gallery, Lincoln

100 Painting Summer Show. London

Photo travelling exhibition. THERE IS BEAUTY IN THE CITY.

Exhibition Michael Landy. South London Gallery. London


2009 Casa de Cultura de Arrionas. Asturias

Exhibition hall Cajastur Monte de Piedad. Gijón (Asturias)

2008 Exhibition East Asturias.

2007 Anna Barcons´ Gallery. Tarragona

2006 Representarte Gallery. Barcelona

Palacio de Congresos, Auditorio Príncipe Felipe. Oviedo

2004 FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE. Crisolart gallery. Frankfurt

2003 Christmas Exhibition (small format) Barcelona

Cultural association: “Unidos por el arte”. Gijón

Espai ... D´art. Barcelona

Centro asturiano de Oviedo. SPAIN

2002 Cultural association: “Unidos por el arte”. Gijón

Espai Vaho. " EROTISMO ". Barcelona

El Triangle: Davinci, escola d´art ". Barcelona

Sala Batik Art. Barcelona

AWARDS

2008 Finalist in XV Painting art competition in east Asturias

2007 Finaslist in the II Painting Biennial Prize Torres – García Ciutat de Mataró. Barcelona

2006 Finalist in the EXPLUM art competition. Murcia

PUBLICATIONS

2011 SinPrisas. PhotoarteKomite.

Greenshoots Calendar.

Londres/Berlín a personal journey by Photoartekomite.

Between Space by Viewfinder Photography Gallery.

2010 LastCall by Photoartekomite


RESIDENCIES

2009 Residency at Takt kunstprojektraum. Berlin

2001 Residency at Tapir. Berlin

GALLERY EDUCATION

2011 Forman´s smokehouse Gallery. London

ProtoBLA. Ellevator Gallery. www.elevatorgallery.co.uk

Photographer in some events at CoolTan Arts.

2010 There is Beauty in the City. THERE IS BEAUTY IN THE CITY

James Taylor Gallery. London

2009 Performance with home sweet home, subjetcttochange, Battersea Arts Centre.

London

2007 Painting performance on barrel. Altaalella. Barcelona

2001 Centro de Cultura Contemporáneo –CCCB-. Worked as part of a team of artists in a

project involving design and set up of an exhibition: Marshall McLuhan. Bcn


http://www.elevatorgallery.co.uk

http://www.elevatorgallery.co.uk

http://thereisbeautyinthecity.blogspot.com/

http://thereisbeautyinthecity.blogspot.com/

THEA JENTJENS

Visual artist

[email protected]

www.theajentjens.nl

ARTIST BIO

With a background in biology, Thea recived her

Bachelor in Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy for

Arts and Design in 2001 in Amsterdam.

Her education in science reflects itself in her work

where she uses the world as it appears under a

microscope as a guide. She works with colour, form and

structure to show us images that have been unearthed

from memory.

In Destination Berlin she shows us a serie of

drawings mostly with architectural elements, a reflection

of her long walking tours in the former divided city.

在 Thea Jentjens 專注其專業為藝術家前，她於阿姆斯特丹的 Gerrit Rietveld

Academie 畢業，專業為生物學家。此等背景令她從顯微鏡中得到啟示，發現我們的世界不是我們

能看見什麼，而是怎樣從不同深度和無限層面來觀看世界。從她的畫作中，我們可發現她巧妙地運

用顏色、形狀和結構，以影像來揭示已被深藏的種種回憶。




http://www.theajentjens.nl/

http://www.theajentjens.nl/

ARTIST STATMENT

Before Thea Jentjens graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and

started working as a professional artist, she was trained as a biologist and worked as a

scientist. This background expressed itself in paintings where she uses the world as it appears

under the microscope as a guide. Not what can be seen, but how it can be seen in terms of

depth and the suggestion of an infinite number of layers.

For her the canvas is a test site for experiments with colour, form and structure. This

playing with the materials allows her to create images that have been unearthed from

memory. Over the years a switch in attention from the microscopical world to architectual

spaces can be seen in her paintings.

In 2009 she was invited to stay in an Art Residency in Berlin, where she became

interested in the attemps to make the former divided city, one city again. Her long walking

tours of Berlin have led to a series of drawings, mostly with architectual elements. In the

series of paintings that followed, she brought architecture into her microscopical world. She

paints buildings or parts of buildings as if they are seen through a microscope.

12/T1. 2012

Acrylic and pencil on paper.


10/T02. 2010

Acrylics on paper.

12/T02 . 2012

Gouache and pencil on paper.


EDUCATION

1996-2001 Gerrit Rietveld Academy for Art and Design, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1985 PhD, Faculty of Medicine, University van Utrecht, The Netherlands

1973-1981 Biology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

EXHIBITIONS ( a selection) (*solo)

2012 Het Expertise Centrum; Den Haag, The Netherlands*

2011 Noordwaarts 6; Amsterdam

2010 Exhibeo, Berlin

Werkstatt Galerie; Mönchengladbach, Germany*

2009 Open studio; Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin

Cracking the Combinations; Turn-Berlin Gallery, Berlin

Uncommon thread; Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin

Bij Anna; Anna Paulowna, The Netherlands

2008 NoorderIJkunst; Amsterdam

De leerling en de meester; Atelier de Baaij, Oss, The Netherlands

2007 Atelier 408, Herengracht 408, Amsterdam

2006 Griffioen Theater, Amstelveen, The Netherlands*


2004 Natural Sources; De Rietlanden, Amsterdam

Herengracht 408, Amsterdam


2002 Kunst-Event; Antwerpen, Belgium

Nederlands Hervormde kerk, Ravenstein, The Netherlands

2001 Promising, Promising; Galerie AYACS, Keizersgracht, Amsterdam

Robeco Zomerconcerten; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Eindexamenexpositie Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

2000 Male/Female; Stichting Open Space, Amsterdam

Spring; Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

1999 Grafiek; Mediatheek, Universiteit van Amsterdam*


Wai Kit Lam 林慧潔

Born in 1966, Hong Kong (China)

www.waikitlam.com

[email protected]

ARTIST BIO

Wai Kit is received her Master of Fine Arts

Degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong

(2003) and a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths,

University of London (1996). SInce 1996, Wai Kit has

traveled and show her work around the world

extensively as an international artist.

Wai Kit´s works merge photography with video

and sound in a constant search of identity. For

Destination Berlin she show us the results from her

stay in Berlin during three months in 2009. In this

time, “Undelivered Letters” is a reflection about

identity in a foreign city through language.

林慧潔

林慧潔1966年於香港出生。1996年於英國倫敦大學金匠學院獲純藝術學士學位；2003年於香港中文

大學獲純藝術碩士學位。林氏曾於柏林、西班牙、萄葡牙及挪威進行藝術家駐留計劃。作品為攝

影、錄像及聲音。其研究課題為身分建構，及個體與周遭事物間之互動關係。作品為香港文化博物

館收藏。






ARTIST STATMENT

I wanted to do evil. 2009

Digital print

Undelivered Letters

“… reading a book without understanding it … meeting someone without knowing him/her…”

In the second month of my stay in Berlin, I continued to examine my identity in this

foreign city through language. The new piece is based on a book that I found in a second-hand

store. It was once belonged to someone called Alexander Simon and that he had highlighted

some sentences in the book. I reinterpreted those German sentences by my own

interpretation, in which I could not understand the language and the content. The

understanding of the content is not important; it is rather a link of the relationship between

the unknown Alexander Simon and me instead.

These images are accomplished with individuals sound that is a response of the unknow

language that she encountered.


He wants his past back with tears. 2009.

Digital print

I used to think that I deserve my fate. 2009.

Digital print


EDUCATION

2001 - 2003 Master of Fine Art, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

1993 - 1996 BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Sleight – Wai Kit Lam, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong (up-coming)

Small But Great - photography, video art & sound by Wai Kit Lam, Casa

Monsaraz, Monsaraz, Portugal

2009 Unknown – Works of Wai Kit Lam, Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme IV;

Hong Kong

Film Archive & Tse Wan Shan Centre, Hong Kong

2007 The Other Month; The Other Day, Schmidt Leica Photo Gallery, Hong Kong

Divided Minds V - Photography and video installation by Wai Kit Lam; Amelia

Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong

2004 The Other; Shanghai Street Artspace, Hong Kong

2002 Displacement; First Institute of Art & Design Gallery, Hong Kong

2000 Frozen Words II -- Dialogues within Oneself; First Institute of Art & Design

Gallery, Hong Kong

Frozen Words; The Gallery, Art Forest, Toronto, Canada

The Secret Gardens; Montblanc Gallery at the Fringe, Hong Kong

1998 This is you; this is not you; Agfa Gallery at the Fringe, Hong Kong

1997 Beyond Colours; Dragon's Back Gallery at the Fringe, Hong Kong

1996 Change; Goldsmiths College, University of London


GROUP EXHIBITIONS ( a selection)

2012 G.O.L.D - What the #*@& is Value?, Voxfire Gallery, Hong Kong

New Wave Fresh Looks, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery, HK

Time is Love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, curated by Kisito Assangni,

[.Box]

Videoart Project Space, Milano, Italy; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Garage

4141 Gallery, San Diego, USA; Rich Mix Foundation, London; The Cornaro

Institute, Larnaca, Cyprus; Galerie Octobre,Paris; City Art Gallery, Kharkiv

2011 The Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.3, curated by Kika Nicolela, Museum of

Modern Art, Buenos Aires; Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France; Atelier397,

São Paulo; Objectifs, Singapore; Watertowerfest, Sophia, Bulgaria; Gallerywest,

Toronto; Forman's Smokehouse Gallery & Hackney Wicked Art Festival, London

The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin.

1a@Beijing: open the pages.you see me seeing you, Part II, 1a space, HK

Fuori4; curated by Valentina Trisolino, Galleria Gallerati, Roma

2010 Hong Kong Photo Festival: Four Dimensions – Contemporary Photography from

China, Hong Kong, Taiwan & Macau; Hong Kong Arts Centre.

1a@Beijing, opening the pages . you see me seeing you; Kubrick Bookshop,

Beijing, China

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.2, curated by Kika Nicolela; Blueprint,

London

Wikitopia, Hong Kong; Galerie Carla Magna, Paris

19th dokumentART - European Documentary Film Festival: videoART; curated by

Antoni Karwowski, Neubrandenburg, Germany & Szczecin, Poland

In Details; agnès b.'s LIBRAIRIE GALERIE, Hong Kong

Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009; Hong Kong

Hong Kong Photography 2010; curated by Evangelo Costadimas, INDEXG gallery,

Toronto

Sideward Narration; 1a Space, Hong Kong

Back to Drawing; Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong


2009 Self and Other Representations; curated by Kika Nicolela, 10th aluCineLatin

Media Festival, CineCycle, Toronto

Takt Kunstprojektraum Artist Residency; Berlin

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.2; curated by Kika Nicolela, V.art09 -

Värnamo, Sweden; Magacin - Belgrade, Serbia; CONTATO - São Carlos, Brazil;

Kulturpalast Wedding International, Berlin; VTape, Toronto; Supermarket Art

Fair; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Wikitopia, Hong Kong

Josetti Grand Bazaar; turn-berlin Gallery, Berlin

2008 White Pillow - visual art + fashion exhibition; 8640 fazhion+idea gallery, HK

Hong Kong Arts Centre 30th Anniversary Award – Invitational Art Competition

Women's Work; Osage Gallery, Hong Kong

Who’s that girl? Kinà Art Cafè, Marino, Roma

Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme IV Launching Exhibition; Exhibition Hall,

Hong Kong City Hall Low Block

2007 Video Art in the age of the Internet; Chelsea Art Museum, New York

Talkover/Handover-Dialogues on Hong Kong art 10 years after 1997; 1a space

[PAM] Perpetual Art Machine, The Video Art Portal, 2006-2007, Volume One,

Year One

2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Special projects: We are your future;

Art Center Winzavod, Moscow

Cameras Inside-out; Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong

Transmediale 2007; Berlin,

2006 Winter 06/07; Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong

Ex-otica; curated by Luca Vona, Vitamin Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italia

2005 Winter 05/06; Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong

The Long March Framed - China Hong Kong Festival in 20 Years; organised by

Videotage, Agnes b. Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Muse Gaze – Seven female photographers of a new generation; curated by Janet

Fong, 1aspace, Hong Kong

If Hong Kong, A Woman / Traveller; curated by Ivy Ma, 1a space, Hong Kong


The Eyes are the Objects (part 1); a project with AMAE Artgroup, curated by

Isabella Tam; Hui Gallery, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong

Kong.

Mirror Me: Recent works of LAM Wai-kit and Vivian LEUNG; curated by Jeff

Leung, Para/Site Central, Hong Kong

Third International Film & Video Festival; The Museum of New Art (MONA),

Rochester, USA

2004 Fotanian – 2004 Open Studio; Wah Luen Industrial Centre, Hong Kong

Shanghai Biennale, Techniques of the Visible; Black Box: International Film

Program, Shanghai

Hong Kong + Seoul + Tokyo Videoart – Landscape of Transmitted Images; POLA

Art Foundation, POLA Museum Annex (Ginza), Tokyo

Dislocation Re-launch Exhibition; organized by NuNaHeDuo, LEE Ka-sing Gallery,

Toronto

Dislocation Re-launch Exhibition; organized by NuNaHeDuo, Volkswagen

Fotogalerie, Fringe Club, Hong Kong

Take Two; Hui Gallery, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2003 Fotanian: ‘Close to the Blind Track’; a project with AMAE Artgroup, Wah Luen

Industrial Centre, Hong Kong / Zun i arte contemporanea, Ferrara, Italia

The Retelling of Drawing II–Story of Peach Flower Garden; curated by Stella

Tang Ying Chi, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre

Post-Graduate Exhibition, The Art of CUHK 2003; The Chinese University of Hong

Kong

The 8th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards (IFVA); Hong

Kong Arts Centre

FotanGathering: NEOstalgia; Wah Luen Industrial Centre, Hong Kong

2002 Confession - works by Woody Lee, Tsang Chui Mei and Lam Wai Kit; Wah Luen

Industrial Centre, Hong Kong

2000-2001 Behind the Eyeballs - a non-visual exhibition; curated by 1a Space, Hong Kong

Visual Arts Centre


1999 Millennium Souvenir Exhibition; curated by Stella Tang Ying Chi, The Gallery, Art

Forest, Toronto

1998 Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial 1998; Hong Kong Museum of Art

The Retelling of Drawing-by 12 Hong Kong Woman Artists; curated by Stella

Tang Ying Chi, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre

1997 Hong Kong Incarnated, Museum 97: History, Community, Individual; organized

by Hong Kong Arts Centre,

Souvenir 1997: A Design Project; organized by Hong Kong Arts Centre

1996 Degree Show - Goldsmiths College; University of London

1992 Philippe Charriol Foundation Modern Arts Competition; Hong Kong

ART FAIRS

2011 Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair Hong Kong 2011 / Hong Kong

2010 ARTHK 10 / Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong

2008 ARTHK 08 / Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong

2007 ACAF NY 2007 / New York, USA

Scope Cinema, Scope – International Contemporary Art Fair / Hamptons, USA

Entre la Piedra y la Flor - CIRCA '07 Puerto Rico / San Juan, Puerto Rico

Art First / Quartiere Fieristico di Bologna, Italy

2006 Pulse Art Fair Miami / Miami, USA

Artissima 13 / Torino, Italy

China International Gallery Exposition / Beijing Expo-China World Trade Centre

PUBLICATIONS

2009 Wai Kit Lam 2009; Hong Kong, 40 pages

2003 Wai Kit Lam 2003; Hong Kong, 64 pages

2000 A Creative Challenge: Mixed Media; published by Hong Kong Arts Centre. 18

pages (pp3 – 20)

2000 The Secret Gardens -- works by LAM Wai Kit; Hong Kong, 58 pages

1997 LAM Wai Kit - Beyond Colours; Hong Kong, 20 pages


AWARDS

2009 Selected Entries: Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, HK

2003 Selected Entries: The 8th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards

(IFVA); Hong Kong

1998 Selected Entries: Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 1998, HK

1992 Distinction: Philippe Charriol Foundation Modern Arts Competition; Hong Kong

ARTIST RESIDENCY

2012 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway (up-coming)

2012 Casa Monsaraz, Monsaraz, Portugal

2011 Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Spain

2009 Takt Kunstprojektraum Artist Residency, Berlin

2005 FUSE :: fusion: encoding future; Videotage, Hong Kong

GRANT

2011 Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Spain

2009 Artist-in-Residence Subsidy Scheme, Hong Kong Arts Development Council

2002 Research Grant, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

CURATORSHIP

2005 Recalling the Present; White Tube Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

COLLECTIONS

2007, 2005, 2002 Hong Kong Heritage Museum

1993 Earthling Studio

Private collections in Hong Kong, Italy, United Kingdom, USA, Canada and Australia.


Wai-Yi, Lai (Monti) 黎慧儀

Born in 1977, Hong Kong

[email protected]

http://waiyilai.blogspot.com.es/

ARTIST BIO

Wai-Yi Lai is a visual artist who was born in Hong

Kong in 1977. After she graduated in Fine Arts by the

Royal Melbourne Institute of technology, she moved

to He ls inky (F i land) to obte in her MA in

Environmental Art in Aalto Universtiy.

Her work is about the relationship between the

environment and people. She does not understand

Environmental Arts as nature or lanscape, her work goes

further on, it is about the correlation between humans and

the entities embracing us. In Destination Berlin she

shows us a tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Gu . . . and all who

have lost their home in China.

黎慧儀

黎慧儀居於香港，從事藝術創作和教育。作品涵蓋裝置藝術、繪畫及綜合媒體創作，藉作品透視觀

照四周環境的方法。除個人觀察外，還反映藝術和環境的特殊關係。取得皇家墨爾本大學藝術學士

學位後，2011完成芬蘭阿爾託大學藝術及設計碩士課程主修環境藝術。曾於香港及芬蘭舉辦個人展

覽，並於香港、北京、台灣、愛沙尼亞，芬蘭及德國參與多個聯展。






ARTIST STATMENT

This is a documentation of my visit at Bei Gao in the eastern part of Beijing near the

Fifth Ring Road in 2010.

That was the first time I spent more than half a year in Mainland China alone. As a

“foreigner in my home country”, I have a strong craving and eagerness to get closer to the

real life of China. A decision was made quickly when my friend told me there is a village

nearby to be demolished soon. I visited the village the next day with my camera. Without any

obvious purpose, a map or a route, I walked in the village, wandering around. Listening,

observing and reading the changes happening on the village and on the people. The villagers

perhaps found me suspicious while having a camera on my neck, especially the officials.

Unexpectedly, I was invited by a middle age woman (Mrs. GU) to shot her house before it will

be demolished the next day. I am absolutely not a photographer, yet I agreed to help when I

knew that she did not know how to function the digital camera given by her daughter. After an

hour of shooting every corner of the house, Mr. and Mrs. GU offered me tea and apple as

refreshment. Then we started talking. From the time when the house was built to the future of

their daughter, they told me her daughter worries them as she is not as social as me and not

sure if she can find a job with good prospect. Also shared their plan after moving and

complained about the small amount of compensation they received from the government. They

care about me being an artist, single, still at this age as well. Somehow I feel like we have had

known each other for years. And I was sad to leave them when I know it is perhaps the last

time ever to talk to them.

This is a tribute to Mr. and Mrs. GU…and all who have lost their home in China.


Home: Lesson Two. 2012

Mixed media

Room 3.


EDUCATION

2008 – 2011 MA in Environmental Art, Aalto University (former University of Art and Design

Helsinki)

2010 spring Exchange program in Experimental Art, China Central Academy of Fine Art

2001- 2004 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Royal Melbourne Institute of technology (RMIT)

University co-presented with Hong Kong Art School

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 The Colour that Remains, A Residency Project at Lingnan University, The Artist

Studio, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

2009 The End is The Beginning - Installations by Wai-Yi Lai, The Atski Gallery. Helsinki

2008 Out There – Works and Documentations by Monti Lai Wai Yi, The White Tube, HK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (a selection)

2011 MAD @ West Kowloon, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade. Hong Kong

Placemarks, Lingnan University, Fong Sum Wood Library. Hong Kong

Women 211, Sin Sin Gallery. Hong Kong

2010 AHNE Festival, Suvilahti. Helsinki

Real Estate, Hua Jia Di Nan St. Beijing

2009 46, Kornhäuschen, Aschaffenburg, Germany

Growing Seasons, Kumpula Botanic Garden. Helsinki

Preliminary Investigation, Culture Park Patarei, Tallinn, Estonia

Shaft, Gallery Laituri. Helsinki

Nuukuusviikon Exhibition, Cabel Factory. Helsinki

Nexus, Vuotalo. Helsinki

2008 Beware of Art, Too Art Gallery, Hong Kong

Art Donation Box Exhibition, M63, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong

Inside/out Art Exhibition, Flammer Gallery, Hong Kong

2007 10 years of images-a gift to Hong Kong, Too Art, Hong Kong Art Centre


Till the End of The World, 1a Space, Hong Kong

The Document Exhibition of The Between Obstruction and Crossover

International Windbreak Forest Environment Art, Tainan Municipal Cultural

Center, Taiwan

2006 Artiple – An Artist Products Project, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong

Between Obstruction and Crossover, 2006 International Windbreak Forest

Environment Arts Exhibition, Anping, Taiwan

LEAP – Local East-Kowloon Art in Progress, Shing Win Industrial Building, HK

2005 Art Fair 05’, Hong Kong Art Centre

2004 Garden Whisper, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden, Hong Kong

Art Fair 04’, The Hong Kong Art Centre

4th Dimension, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) Graduation Show, The Pao Gallery,

Hong Kong Arts Centre

2003 Art Fair 03’, The Art School Learning Centre Galleries, Hong Kong

Art and Environment Exhibition – Dream Garden, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic

Garden and Experimental Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre

8 Stretching Memories –Multimedia Visual Art Exhibition, Shanghai Street

Artspace, Hong Kong

The Re-appearance of “Tsang Tsou Choi”, The Art School Learning Centre

Galleries, Hong Kong

Inseparable - An Exhibition On Small Works, The Art School Learning Centre


2002 Art Fair 02’, The Art School Learning Centre Galleries, Hong Kong

In-side-out, The Art School Learning Centre Galleries, Hong Kong

More More Cha Cha - Exhibition of Paintings, The Art School Learning Centre



ARTIST RESIDENCIES/ INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

2010 Artist in Residency, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Artist in Residency, Creative Learning Program, C.C.C. Chuen Yuen Second

Primary School

2009 Artist Assistant, for visual artist, Wai Kit Lam. Berlin

Artist in Residency, Ptarmigan, Helsinki

Internship Programme (Art), Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden, Hong Kong

ART-IN-COMMUNITY WORK and EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM (selection)

2011 Art Care Art Program, KFBG

Program Artist, Art Workshop for the Waste Management Project for Promoting

Green Leaders in Tuen Mun, Lingnan University

2010 Artist, Studio Practice Course, Lingnan University

2009 Project Artist, Wild Classroom Environmental Art Workshop, Taoist Ching Chung

Primary School

2008 Artist, Art Donation Box, Art Care

Set Designer, School Play 2008, C.C.C. Chuen Yuen Second Primary School

2007/08 Project Manager, The Art Container Project, MIA (Mere Independent Artists)

2007 Program Artist, CYS Pioneer Art Program, C.C.C. Chuen Yuen Second Primary

School

2006 Artist, Art Mentoring Program, Mere Independent Artists’ Studio, Shing Win

Industrial Building, Hong Kong

2005 Urban Jungle, Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival Arts Aid-Stitch In: A Fundraising

Auction for the Asian Tsunami Victims

2003 Art And Environment Workshop, Sheung Kwai Chung Secondary School


ORGANIZATION

2005 Founding member of MIA (Mere Independent Artists)

AWARDS/GRANTS

2009 IAC Scholarship, University of Art and Design Helsinki

2008 Emerging Artists Grant, Hong Kong Arts Development Council


The end.


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berlin wall

hong kongdestination

adestination berlin

wai yi lai

search of identity

wai kit lam wai yi monti

collective identity