Sensory Spaces 2 - Sabine Hornig
Sensory Spaces is a series of commissioned solo projects presented in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery, located in the freely accessible exhibition space in the museum’s entrance hall. Artists are invited to respond to the architectural qualities of the space, emphasizing notions of transformation and surprise.
Sabine Hornig (Germany, lives in Berlin) is known for making photographs, sculptures and installations that distort or intensify our experience of space and time. At first glance, her work can appear deceptively simple, but with a longer look, it becomes evident that it is testing the viewer’s perception.
This gallery-sized installation, specially produced for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, is no exception. The work consists of an open wooden structure with transparent printed fabric stretched over it on the inside. Handmade architectural elements, including a window sill, table platform and a swinging wall, have been placed on either side of the construction.
Visitors can walk around the structure or enter it through an opening. Inside, they see that the space is not closed but transparent. The printed fabric is so sheer that the existing gallery space appears to have been overlaid with a fictive second space. This second space seems to stand at the crossroads between reality and fiction.
With works like ‘Twins’ and the installation for Sensory Spaces, Hornig makes the viewer think in an almost philosophical way about the experience of space and the passage of time. Her complex, hallucinatory installations string together different moments, locations and perspectives. Though Hornig’s work can regularly be seen in international solo and group exhibitions, this is the first time it has been shown in the Netherlands. In addition, this is the first installation she has created that consists largely of wall scale photographs printed on transparent fabric. These are good reasons to pose a few questions to the artist.
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Each year three artists will be invited to develop site-specific work for the new series ‘Sensory Spaces’ in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery. The selected artists have never or rarely shown their work in the Netherlands and each artist has their own work method, use of materials and vision.
Essay Sensory Spaces 2 - Sabine Hornig
Each exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual booklet with an essay by the curator:
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Sensory Spaces Series
Sensory Spaces is a series of commissioned solo projects presented in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery, located in the freely accessible exhibition space in the museum’s entrance hall. Artists are invited to respond to the architectural qualities of the space, emphasizing notions of transformation and surprise.
Sensory Spaces 1 - Oscar Tuazon
American artist Oscar Tuzaon has kicked off this new series. In this open space Tuazon has arranged several sculptural constructions. The artist fuses architectural and...
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Sensory Spaces 2 - Sabine Hornig
Sabine Hornig (Germany, lives in Berlin) is known for making photographs, sculptures and installations that distort or intensify our experience of space and time. At first glance, her work can appear deceptively simple, but...
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Sensory Spaces 3 - Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry focuses on the workings of the photographic image, both on a two-dimensional plane and in three-dimensional space. ‘Pictures,’ says Lassry, ‘are so very like what we see, and so very unlike what we see.’ He strips...
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Sensory Spaces 4 - Liu Wei
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen asked Liu Wei (Beijing, 1972) to make a site-specific for the forht edition of Sensory Spaces. Liu Wei’s work deals with China’s rapid modernization and urban growth. Literally using the materials a city is made of, he takes...
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Sensory Spaces 5 - Siobhán Hapaska
The fifth site-specific installation is made by Siobhán Hapaska. Siobhán Hapaska (Belfast, 1963) makes installations that speak to all the senses. She uses organic and synthetic materials and works on the border between...
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Sensory Spaces 6 - Sara VanDerBeek
For the sixth edition of the series Sensory Spaces Sara VanDerBeek (Baltimore 1976) walked around Rotterdam for several days; she photographed what she saw and built an archive of images. From this experience, she has created a modular installation...
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Sensory Spaces 7 - Aleksandra Domanovic
For the seventh edition Aleksandra Domanovic (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia 1981) has made an installation that examines themes such as reproduction and representation and man and machine. In the Willem van der Vorm Gallery a cluster of semi-transparent foils printed with images that include...
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Sensory Spaces 8 - Mike Nelson
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen invited the British artist Mike Nelson (Loughborough 1967) to produce a work for Sensory Spaces 8. Nelson presented ‘Amnesiac Shrine’, an installation made up of a set of successive artworks that combine to form an...
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Sensory Spaces 9 - Beni Bischof
Beni Bischof is the ultimate mix and matcher: in all his work he combines and adapts existing images, texts and situations. His work can be read as an ironic commentary on the banality of everyday life. And he doesn’t...
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Sensory Spaces 10 - Olaf Nicolai
For the tenth edition of the ongoing series Sensory Spaces, Nicolai presented a site-specific adaptation of the works ‘Probestück 1, 2 and 3’. Following the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis’ (1922-2001) definition of architecture as ‘petrified music’, it investigates...
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Sensory Spaces 11 - Raphael Hefti
Hefti's work is experimental, it untilizes chemical and technical processes with industrial equipment in order to discover new things. His work includes many aspects; nature and industry, abstraction and figuration. Hefti often works with engineers, scientists and even...
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Sensory Spaces 12 - Abraham Cruzvillegas
Cruzvillegas builds his sculptures from found materials, a principle he calls ‘autoconstrucción’. His work is an expression of human reality...
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Sensory Spaces 13 - Anne Hardy
For the thirteenth edition of the Sensory Spaces series the British artist Anne Hardy will present a new site-specific FIELD work. Anne Hardy makes large-scale installations in which objects, light, color and sound seem to take on a life of their own. She invites ...
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Sensory Spaces 14 - Latifa Echakhch
Latifa Echakhch presents a new installation for the fourteenth edition of Sensory Spaces in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. It is the first time this internationally-renowned artist – winner of the 2013 Marcel Duchamp...
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Sensory Spaces 15 - Sol Calero
Sol Calero has created a colourful meeting place: a patio-like setting where visitors can relax or enter into conversation with each other. Calero is known for scrutinising cultural clichés, especially those...
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