Gerbrand Burger

STUDIO

Heining 3NL–1047 AZ Amsterdammail@gerbrandburger.nl www.gerbrandburger.nl

CURRENT:

ResidencySundaymorning@ekwc 13 February - 6 May 2020, Oisterwijk, Netherlands

Gerbrand Burger is a visual artist from the Netherlands. He works with drawing, sculpture, installation, printmaking and film. Architecture and literature are the main domains that inform his work across various media. Literature was his first encounter with art, and has had a major impact on his work.

While reading is the basis for constructing or deducing content, looking at architecture provides cues to possible forms. More often than not these forms are collected by noting them down as drawing first. Forms and narratives are taken apart and rearranged, to make up an intricate and personal visual language.

A generous selection of Gerbrand Burger's drawing archive has been published in his artist book Part of something, co-edited by Marc Nagtzaam and Stephan Keppel.

Unhide All

Rainbow backing #1 Poplar plywood, HPL 1030x730x252cm

Photographs Unhide All: Rik Klein Gotink

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UNHIDE ALL (2019)

The title is taken from digital sketching software in which the command unhide all shows the structures and constructions behind the digital simulations. Design software, the malleable surface and the artificiality of objects are some of the many sources of inspiration the artist draws on. The exchange between Sein und Schein, between optical illusion and tangible reality are also visible in his threedimensional assemblages. For the occasion of this exhibition the remarkable architecture of the Kunstvereniging serves as inspiration for the work. With two monumental interventions Burger bends the building to his will and offers the visitor unexpected points of view. Part of this installation are also several sculptures that were especially made for this exhibition.

Curator: Alexandra Landré

Rainbow backing #1 Poplar plywood and HPL 1030x730x252cm

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Rainbow backing #2 Poplar plywood, HPL, wood 960x550x63cm

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Echoes and remains pour-ing out of our technical equipment (after Vileém Flusser) Birch plywood, HPL, PMMA, MDF, Trespa, paint, aluminium, steel196x140x75cm

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Kiwi grün stone form Poplar plywood, HPL, stone veneer, vinyl, MDF, paint196x140x75cm

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Layer cake utopia

LAYER CAKE UTOPIA (2019)

Comissioned by K-G-B artist intiative in Amsterdam, to be part of the exhibtion Benedenland. How do urban planning and aesthetic norms impact human behavior, interaction, perception and imagination? And how do these social and mental structures in turn affect the artificial environments of the city?

These questions run like a backbone through the evolving exhibition project Benedenland, that has now reached its third and final stage. In the three separate but gradually interwoven parts, Karl Georg Staffan Björk has investigated the radical transformation of Het Breed – a modernist housing complex in Buikslotermeer in Amsterdam Noord. Looking at the time before, during and after the area’s modernization process, the artist has set out to trace and interpret visual manifestations revealing relationships between aesthetics, behavior and ideology. Stretching over more than four years, the project has explored notions like decay, artificiality, isolation and belonging by merging stylistic references to the modernist architecture (light, space and repetition), with how it is filtered through the bodies, minds and habit patterns of its residents.

Layer cake utopia 70x90x150 cm

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Attempt to sketch out a map

ATTEMPT TO SKETCH OUT A MAP (2018)

This sculptural work is made for the occasion of an exhibtion in the abandoned building of the Amsterdam Bijlmer prison.

'Het allerbest op zijn plek is het sculptuur Attempt to sketch out a map van Gerbrand Burger. Platen multiplex in grillige vormen zijn achter elkaar geplaatst, als schetsen voor een vluchtroute of de plattegrond voor een gedroomde toekomst. Het werk staat precies onder een stel daklichten, daar gloort de vrijheid. Maar op de achterwand zijn twee enorme surveillancespiegels gemonteerd. Geen ontkomen aan.' Parool, De bajes als ideale galerie, 11-10-2018

Attempt to sketch out a map310x300x360 cm

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Push pull

PUSH PULL (2018)

The joy of pulling a flat surface into a spatial object in 3d modelling software is the starting point of this sculpture. That instant pleasure is slowed down somewhat by careful handywork, to craft the hollow volumes that describe the space in between the two ends.

Push pull199x70x50 cm

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Moodboard

MoodboardWood, HPL, glue, 126x75x41 cm

Photograph: Sara Bjarland

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MOODBOARD (2018)

This sculpture originates from the realm of digital moodboards for interior design materials. It's inter-esting that the busineses that supply the tangible materials for construction of homes and offices rely on digital collage and illustration, and the creation of atmospheres. This work feeds part of that atmospheric impression back into the physical world.

Bankruptcy assemblage #1

BANKRUPTCY ASSEMBLAGE #1 (2017)

As part of the site-specific exhibition Krust Gorilla this large wall mounted assemblage fits right in with the messy contents of the exhibition location: the storage space of Butcher's Tears Brewery in Amsterdam. The materials for this work are sourced from an auction of the inventory of a large interior construction company that went bankrupt. The exhibtion deals with architectural environment and surface in the city, and the aesthetic value of our crusty and crappy everyday urban surroundings.

Bankruptcy assemblage #1Perforated metal, corru gated metal, EPS, HPL, Corian, Trespa, plywood, Artoleum, birch plywood mounted HPL and aluminium 450x300x30 cm

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Part of something

PART OF SOMETHING (2016)

Artist book with a selection of 200 drawings on A4 and American letter format, from an ever growing archive of drawings, dating back to 2003. Artists Stephan Keppel and Marc Nagtzaam co-edited the selection and designers Kai Bernau and Susana Carvalho of Open Work took care of the design.

Print run: 500 copies.

Made possible with generous support by Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Fonds Kwadraat and Stokroos Foundation.

Distribution:

Idea Books Nieuwe Herengracht 111011 RK AmsterdamThe Netherlands+31 206226154

Part of something24x33x3 cm

Mockup of a thought process

Mockup of a thought processHigh pressure laminate, plywood, stone veneer, stainless steel mirrors, PU foam, 350x170x230 cm

Photographs: Sara Bjarland

INSTALLATION VIEWS

MOCKUP OF A THOUGHT PROCESS (2016)

The installation is part of the solo exhibtion Objects from the outside at C&H Gallery in Amsterdam.

Untitled (colorply zebrano)

UNTITLED (COLORPLY ZEBRANO) (2016)

Untitled (colorply zebrano) was made for the exhibtion Objects from the outside in 2016.

The title refers to the materials that are used: Colorply is the commercial name for the blue birch plywood and Zebrano is the type of wood that is used for the print on the HPL.

Untitled (colorply zebrano)Birch plywood, HPL, un-derlayment, 170x130 cm

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Untitled (model #1)

Untitled (model #1)Stone veneer, glue 55x34x14 cm

Photograph: Daniëlle van Ark

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UNTITLED (MODEL #1) (2016)

Untitled (model #1) was shown as part of the exhibition Coup de Foudre at Maison van Doesburg in Meudon, in 2017.

Organized by Thomas Raat and Daniëlle van Ark, works of very differrent artists were placed in the ex-isting interior of Maison van Doesburg. The exhibition included works by Karina Bisch, Martin Boyce, Valentin Carron, Anna Ostoya, Ola Vasiljeva, Wim T. Schippers, Alan Reid, and others.

Untitled objects

Untitled objectsWood, stone veneer, HPL, glue, 220x120x120 cm and 125x125x130 cm

Photographs: Peter Cox

UNTITLED OBJECTS (2016)

These two sculptures were made for the exhibition Ge-stalt, a group show on the estate of castle Nederhorst, south of Amsterdam.

The exhibition also featured works by Maartje Folke-ringa, Paulien Föllings and Hanae Wilke. Curated by Marjoca de Greef of Suns and Stars.

From the curator: 'The perception of oneness from many is the basis of Gestalt; the whole has a reality of its own. In psychology, Gestalt is about connecting. It puts emphasis on gaining awareness of the present moment. The sculptures in this show are open for com-munication and the historic garden of kasteel Neder-horst offers peace and quiet, an essential condition for an actual connection.'

Construct #14Chine collé and etching on paper, 65x50,5 cm

Construct #2Chine collé and etching on paper, 76x56 cm

Seven Madmen

SEVEN MADMEN (2016)

Seven Madmen is a series of seven unique works on paper, made with etching and the chine collé collage technique. The title refers to 'The seven madmen' and 'The flamethrowers', a novel in two parts, written in 1929 by Argentinian writer Roberto Arlt.

The 'objects' depicted may have been bizarre inven-tions by the novel's main character, the gloomy and fatalist inventor Erdosain. The remarkably accurate vision of dark events of the 20th century that Arlt shows in his writing, infuses these mental and physical constructions on paper.

Elements taken from modernist architecture in Argentina are combined with inventions from the drawing archive that Gerbrand Burger has been working on since 2003, forming an idiosyncratic series of emblems.

Seven Madmen #5Chine collé and etching on paper, 105x75 cm

Seven Madmen #4Chine collé and etching

on paper, 105x75 cm

Seven Madmen #1Chine collé and etching

on paper, 105x75 cm

Seven Madmen #6Chine collé and etching

on paper, 105x75 cm

Seven Madmen #3Chine collé and etching

on paper, 105x75 cm

Rihla

RIHLA (2009)

This kaleidoscopic travelogue looks at one man's journey from east to west, measuring contemporary European society through centuries of oriental expe-rience, recorded in the writing of Arab travelers.

The voice-over is made as the inner monologue of a fictional character. This character is pieced together from numerous fragments of stories about Arabs traveling to the West. The journey ends in the somewhat claustrophobic streets of Amsterdam.

RIHLAVideo projection (color, Video, 10'00" color, soundMusic: Benedict DrewVoice: Johan Leysen

VIDEO STILLS

RIHLA

VIDEO STILLS

Morel's Museum

Morel's MuseumVideo projection (color, sound), wood, PU foam, paint, steel cables, dim-mable fluorescent lights 430x370x350 cmActor: Marien Jongewaard Voice: Hugo Copes

Photograph: Gert-Jan van Rooij

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MOREL'S MUSEUM (2008)

Morel's Museum is an installation that shows a30 minute projected video loop, shot in the Dutch polder landscape to the north from Amsterdam.

Morel's Museum brings together the highly planned and efficient polder landscape and the elusive world of The Invention of Morel, a magical-realist, fantastical science fiction novella by Argentinian writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. In the story a man, washed up on the shore of an island, discovers—and falls in love with—holograms of people, produced by a mysterious machine in a white building.

Through a voice over, in Argentinian Spanish, we share the thoughts of a man wandering around the island, doubting his own sanity while slowly unraveling the wondrous fenomena he's confronted with.

The video screen is mounted inside a model of a pumping station in a scale of 1:20. The actual pumping station, built in 1929, is situated in the town of Medem-blik, one of the shooting locations for the video.

Morel's MuseumVideo projection (color, sound), wood, PU foam, paint, steel cables, dim-mable fluorescent lights 430x370x350 cmActor: Marien Jongewaard Voice: Hugo Copes

Photgraph: Gert-Jan van Rooij

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MOREL'S MUSEUM (2008)

The back of the model building is opened up, so the model functions as a frame around the screen, thus mediating between the video and the exhibition space.

By merging Bioy Casares' story, as a voice-over in Ar-gentinian Spanish, with the polder landscape of Noord Holland and the pumping station that was named after engineer Cornelis Lely, the practical and mundane re-ality of the Dutch polders becomes infused with the tri-umph of imagination over reality of Argentinian fiction.

Morel's Museum

VIDEO STILLS

Curriculum Vitae

— The Drive of Drawing, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2015)

— Summer Show, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (2015)— Residu III, Kunstal 45, Den Helder (2015)— Print Art Fair, Frans Masereel Centrum,

Kasterlee, Belgium (2014)— My love which is a building, 37pk, Haarlem (2013)— Urban Outsiders, Huize Frankendael,

Amsterdam (2012)— Aanwinstententoonstelling, CBK Zuidoost,

Amsterdam (2012)— Liquid Nails, Pompgemaal Studio, Den Helder (2011)— Planes and lines seem to glide past one another,

Kunz, Vis, Gonzalez, Chicago, US (2011)— The Sample Session, The Sessions@Kulter,

September, Amsterdam (2011)— Omote Ura, CCA Kitakyushu open studio show,

Ogura Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan (2010)— Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2008)— Taming the Untamable, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem (2009)— Mayday! Mayday!, Plan B, Amsterdam (2009)— Goddamn Contemporain, Plan B, Amsterdam (2007)— Max Beckmann in Amsterdam 1937-1947,

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (2007)— Slumberjack Flash revisited, Plan B, Amsterdam (2007)

SCREENINGS (SELECTION)

— Korte film poule, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam (2015)

— Turtle Salon, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden (2015)

— Turtle Salon in the Forest/The Artist Colony, Duved, Jämtland, Sweden (2014)

— Museumnacht Black Cube prgramma, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (2012)

— 25fps Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb, Croatia (2011)

— 28th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Kassel, Germany (2011)

— ALÉM DAS FRONTEIRAS/BEYOND BORDERS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011)

Gerbrand Burger (1976, The Netherlands)

EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES

— EKWC, Oisterwijk, (2020)— Masterclass drawing The Drive of Drawing,

Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2015)— Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium (2014)— Pompgemaal Studio Mondriaanfonds,

Den Helder (2012)— BijlmAIR, SMBA/CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam (2011)— Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey (2010)— Research Program CCA Kitakyushu, Japan (2009)— De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2006-2008)— Cooper Union for the Advancement

of Science and Art, New York, US (2004)— Digital Media and Sculpture, School

of Visual Arts, New York, US (2003)— BA (Fine Arts) Gerrit Rietveld Academie,

Amsterdam (2001-2005)— Language and Culture of Latin America,

Universiteit Leiden (1998-2001)— Political Science, Universiteit Leiden (1997-2001)

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) — Unhide All, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (2019)— Benedenland, K-G-B, Amsterdam (2019)— Big Art, Amsterdam, 2018— Coup de Foudre, Maison van Doesburg, Meudon,

France (2017)— Krust Gorilla, Butcher's Tears, Amsterdam (2017)— Lick it, stick it, rock it & roll it, Sugar Pop Institute, Haarlem (2017)— Short Stay, K-G-B Gallery, Amsterdam (2017)— Objects from the outside, C&H Gallery (2016)— Gestalt, Suns and Stars@Kasteel Nederhorst,

Nederhorst den Berg (2016)— Adaptation, Transition Gallery, London, UK (2016)— Drawing Front/Tekenkabinet, Nieuw Dakota,

Amsterdam (2016)

SCENOGRAPHY

— Calypso, Lizzy Timmers & Productiehuis Rotterdam, (2012)

— Detroit Dealers, i.c.w. AG Wunderbaum (2012)— Dallas, Nieuw West/Marien Jongewaard (2010/2011)— Vincent van Gogh, leven en werk, Gasthuis Theater/

Joachim Robbrecht (2006)— Jackpot Motel: a home in the neon, with Walter Bart,

Maartje Remmers, Bo Koek (2005)

GRANTS AND STIPENDS — Modriaanfonds, Project investment grant (2016)— Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst,

development grant (2015)— Mondriaanfonds, ondersteuning

bewezen talent (2014)— Materiaalfonds, artist book loan (2014)— Stichting Stokroos, artist book grant (2014)— Mondriaanfonds, studio grant (2012)— Fonds BKVB, bijdrage werkbudget (2011)— Fonds BKVB, Platform Garanti,

foreign studio grant (2010)— CCA research grant (2009)— Fonds BKVB, startstipendium (2009)— Nederlands Fonds voor de Film,

production grant (2009)— Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst,

production grant (2009)— Nederlands Fonds voor de Film,

script development grant (2008)— Nederlands Fonds voor de Film,

post production grant (2007)— De Ateliers, Ateliers Support Fund stipend

(2006/2007)— Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst,

production grant (2006)— Cooper Union tuition grant (200)4— School of Visual Arts International

Student Scholarship (2003)

— Blind Spot Skopje/Cameracartell, CK Cultural Center of Skopje, Macedonia (2011)

— International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen (2011)— Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival,

Jihlava, Czech Republic (2010)— Dutch Punch, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (2010)— 4 Tuned Cities Festival, Pristina/Amsterdam/

Sarajevo/Skopje (2010)— Ourense International Film Festival,

Ourense, Spain (2010)— I’ve Seen Films International Film Festival,

Milan, Italy (2010)— Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia (2010)— Era New Horizons International Film Festival,

Warsaw, Poland (2010)— Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada (2010)— International Short Film Festival Detmold,

Detmold, Germany (2010)— Amsterdam Film Biënnale, FILM3 [kyü-bik film],

Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam (2010)— Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, US (2010)— International Film Festival Breda, Breda (2010)— Map the Mind, Filmbanktour #26,

Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (2010) — International Film Festival Rotterdam,

Rotterdam (2010)— Said the projector to the screen, Gallery Soap,

Kitakyushu, Japan (2010)— PROJECTOR, FOUR Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2009)— Independent Art Festival/Dutch Punch,

Cinema Zhovten, Kiev, Ukraine (2009)— Milano Film Festival, Milan, Italy (2008)— The International Experimental Cinema Experience,

Paonia, Colorado, US (2008)— New York Underground Film Festival,

New York, US (2008)— Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2008)— International Film Festival Rotterdam,

Rotterdam (2008)— Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht (2008)— Edinburgh International Film Festival,

Edinburgh, UK (2008)

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