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Sensory Spaces 15 - Sol Calero

In the Willem van der Vorm Gallery in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Sol Calero presents her first Dutch museum exhibition. This installation will be the concluding presentation in the ‘Sensory Spaces’ series that began in 2013.

Calero is known for scrutinising cultural clichés, especially those relating to Latin American identity. To do this, she employs a motley mix of colours, patterns and forms that are considered typical of this geographical area. The question is whether this image is complete.

Essay Sensory Spaces 15 - Sol Calero

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...

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...

Sensory Spaces 4 - Liu Wei

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen asked Liu Wei (Beijing, 1972) to make a site-specific for the forth 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...

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...

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...

Sensory Spaces 7 - Aleksandra Domanović

For the seventh edition Aleksandra Domanović (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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...