Open: Saturdays & Sundays 12 - 6 pm / Other days 5 - 7 pm / Wednesday 11 December 4 - 6 pm

Part of the airWG series

The Wind Blows Where It Wants invites us to explore ideas of escape both as a mindset and a method, re-imagining actions and desires as acts of fugue. This is an invitation to awaken our minds and rethink reality through fresh, unexpected perspectives. A proposal by Pau Masclans, realized with the support of the participating artists and De Appel Amsterdam. 

Generously supported by Foundation R. Amigó i Cuyàs / BBAA Universitat de Barcelona and airWG Artist in Residence of Atelier Wilhelmina Gasthuis.

Exhibiton opening times: Weekends 14:00 - 18:00 and Weekdays between 13:00 - 17:00 by appointment only

Sunday 8 December: Artist talk at 16:00

Part of the atelierWG Series

Begun in 2005, Julian & Jonathan is my most extensive body of work, portraying the relationship between my father, Julian, and my half-brother, Jonathan. Jonathan is 20-years younger than me, and my childhood memories of my relationship with my father have since found echoes – to some extent – in Jonathan’s experience. I’m interested in the triangulation between us; the changing proximity and distance we share, and the peculiar feeling of looking in on a world to which I don’t fully belong. 

Over the years, the dynamic between them – and us – has ebbed and flowed. Sometimes they were close, and at other times they were further removed from one another. They have both dealt with the hardship of loss and its many painful consequences. My images of Jonathan throughout his youth, whether alone or with our father, chronicle these shifts and turns. With each photographic session, I attempt to get closer to him, to establish connection, to understand his inner world; at times, the resistance I’m met with only fuels my intrigue to know more. The project is as much about me and my family as it is about their separate universe.

Exhibition Open: 10 November - 1 December, Saturdays & Sundays 14:00 - 18:00

Part of the puntWG Open Call Series

Finissage Event: 1 December 14:00 - 18:00
Jake Caleb will give a lecture performance on his work ‘without start without end’. The
talk will guide the audience through details of the print panels, montaging references,
poetry and reflections on the work and its making process.

Merve Kılıçer presents a story telling session which takes inspiration from traditional folk
fables of Anatolia. The story will focus on Cybele, the goddess figure who was considered
the protector of mountains and wild life in Anatolia. Lili Huston-Herterich will accompany
her with interventions by conducting the analogue projector.

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'Out of sight, out of mind' goes the saying. Strip mines destroying remote rural areas, deaths in the neighbourhoods due to a novel virus. These events—both destructive to environments and the lives that live within them—are often quickly forgotten. Is this a human behaviour when dealing with loss or is this an enforced cultural amnesia with a political agenda behind it?

For the exhibition 'out of sight, out of mind' Merve Kılıçer (TR) and Jake Caleb (UK) present individual works examining these questions by reflecting on personal experience and bringing in voices of those affected. Their exhibition intends to create space for considering how such events are remembered and discussed in public life.

The work "without start without end" by Jake Caleb is a series of prints made following a visit to his family home. During his stay, he re-traced the circumstances surrounding his father's death due to Covid-19. Containing photographs and poetry made during his visit, the pieces reflect on loss, trauma and accountability.

Merve Kılıçer presents her ongoing project "When The Gods Have Been Done". The field research took place at active strip mines and archaeological sites in West Türkiye. By comparing the historical and contemporary landscape, the work examines the shift from worshipping the land to its commodification.

Jake Caleb's work has been supported by Mondriaan Fonds, CBK Rotterdam and Frans Masereel Centrum. Merve Kılıçer's work was commissioned within the scope of the SAHA Studio program and produced with the support of SAHA.

Photography by Ilya Rabinovic

Part of the atelierWG series

To me, printing is an ecstatic experience. The same goes for designing printed matter, designing typefaces included. Yet, to keep elegance and technique balanced isn't as easy as one would think. 

The history is really something. It comprised a development from organic ‘wooden types’ until a typeface containing 3,500 characters pro weight, just for a general appearance of harmony, even in case several foreign types (such as Greek types) are used next to the Latin type. 

Working with other printing techniques, notably lithography, was a recent addition, leading to over 4,000 printings for a piece of writing, De paradijsvogel. I wrote and published its basic text in 2006, but illustrated it now including an afterword as a litho. It renewed the experience that colours depend on the technique used. It turns everything upside down again. 

It's but one way to experience life. 

Loek Schönbeck. 

Opening Times
Saturday afternoon 26 October 2024 - Sunday afternoon 3 November 2024.
Wednesday - Sunday 1–6 p.m.

Exhibition Closing Event
Sunday 3 November 2024, 5 p.m.

Lecture
Sunday 3 November 2024, 8 p.m.

Exhibition opening times: 30 September - 20 October 2024, 14:00-17:00

The WG-studios celebrate their 40th Anniversary of existence in September - October with an array of celebrations. For 40 years the WG-premises has been a green oasis for the arts in the Centre of Amsterdam with studios, homes and little companies and organisations.

WG-PREMISES Anniversary Celebration Group Exhibition 

See the works of more than 80 WG-Artists, daily from 30 September - 20 October 2024, 14:00-17:00 in puntWG.

Since its founding in 1984, dozens of artists have been working on the WG site. They usually do this in the privacy of their studio, but now, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the site, the work of many of them is brought together for one time in a special exhibition in the PuntWG exhibition space. From September 28 to October 6, WG Veertig will feature work by around eighty WG artists - one work by each artist, maximum A3 format. An exhibition as one big gathering of all the energy that normally swirls around invisibly at the WG, but is now, for once, coming out in a powerful and concentrated manner.

Opening hours:
Daily from Monday 30 September - 20 October, 14:00 - 17:00 (extended)

Past Events:
Open Ateliers Weekend - 28 - 29 September 2024

More than 60 WG-artists will open their ateliers in the afternoon from 12:00- 17:00.
In the WG-Pavilions 18, 19 and in WG-Pavilions 1 and 2.

In Amsterdam Oud-West, you will find one of the most beautiful living and working areas in the Netherlands. For forty years, the former hospital buildings of the old Wilhelmina Gasthuis have formed a green oasis for the arts in the heart of Amsterdam, home to studios, residences, small businesses, civil society organizations, and associations. Pavilions 1 and 2 together make up the Housing and Work Association WG-terrein. These pavilions consist of around 80 residential and 35 work units, accommodating civil society organizations, artists, and start-up small businesses.

Pavilions 18 and 19, once the women’s clinic and ophthalmology clinic, now house 120 artists’ studios that together form AtelierWG. During the Open Studios event on the 28th and 29th of September, more than 80 artists will open their studios to the public.

Everyone is welcome to stop by! Located at WG-Plein, opposite number 80. Pick up a map to guide your visit.

Neighbours' Day - 28 September 2024

On Saturday, 28 September 2024, the pavilions at the WG-terrain will come together to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the WG-premises. A big celebration will be organized for all residents, artists, and local community members. The activities are open to the public from 12:00 to 17:00 during National Neighbors’ Day on Saturday, 28 September.

Programme:
* Open Studio Route in Pavilions 18 and 19
* Exhibition at WG Kunst (Pavilion 1): ‘MYLO’S MUSEUM – about art and color’
* Ongoing Cyanotype Workshop (blueprint) for children and adults
* Screen printing for adults and children with Zeefdrukmakers
* Children’s activities for the little ones at Nursery Willemientje
* Ongoing film screening of Human Nature Films, about the history and origins of the WG-premises
* Carpentry workshop for children (outdoors)
* A green and historical walk around the terrain
* Live music performances on the Ketelhuisplein stage
* Cake and coffee will be served.

All local residents are warmly welcome! Near WG-Pavilion 1 and 2 on the WG-PREMISES.

Two-day Film Festival - 24 and 25 september LAB 111

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Wilhelmina Gasthuis in its current form, we invite you to a two-day Film Festival on 24 and 25 September, showcasing a selection of films by artists/filmmakers/producers from atelierWG and LAB111. 

The film festival follows the theme ‘Time’, inspired by the quote of Margaret Atwood “Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.” (The Year of the Flood, 2009).

Tickets & info here.

A performance By Nicoline in IICD - 20 September

Seven Scenes for the Black Box - Nicoline van Harskamp met Ebony Wilson, Cézanne Tegelberg, Lidewij Mahler en Rosita Segers.

"If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution are happy to invite you to attend the tryout of Nicoline van Harskamp’s Seven Scenes for the Black Box. In this performance, van Harskamp speculates on the ways in which the technology of synthetic speech is rooted in the technology of acting. The short scenes in this try-out are played by four humans and one neural network named Prosodia. 

We invite audiences to attend the performance and give their feedback, supporting the artist in developing future editions of the work. You are very welcome to take part in the moderated feedback session that starts shortly after the performance." The tryout by Nicoline van Harskamp, who is our housemate within the Wilhelmina Gasthuis studio complex, coincides with the 40th anniversary of AtelierWG.
Doors open: 19.00
Tryout: 19.30-20.30
Feedback session: 20.45 – 21.30
Tickets: €7,50 & €5 (student), free for housemates of AtelierWG. Send an email to mvdb@ificantdance.org to reserve.

If I Can’t Dance is structurally supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and AFK. Seven Scenes for the Black Box is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Pauwhof Fund. 

Key Addresses:

• puntWG routemap - Entrance to the central exhibition in puntWG, WG-Plein: opposite to no. 80, 1054 DM Amsterdam, easy to reach with public transport. Parking WG-plein is near: via Overtoom, Eerste Constantijn Huygenstraat.

• WG-Pavillion 18, (WG18) Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat  1 t/m 187, 1054 RV Amsterdam

• WG-Pavillion 19, (WG19) WG-Plein 1 t/m 78, Ingang A, 1054 RA Amsterdam

• WG-Pavillion 1, Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat (MBvB-WG1)/ Pesthuislaan 1-77 e.o.

• WG-Kunst, Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 28 (MBvB-WG1), 1054 SP Amsterdam

• WG-Pavillion 2, (WG2) Pesthuislaan 2- 98 e.o. 
  
  
• Cinema LAB111, Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam (former lab of the former Wilhelmina Hospital)
  
  
• IICD, WG Plein 881.

Contacts

Contact Open Atelier Team Huurdersvereniging WG: openatelierswg@gmail.com

Contact puntWG projectteam atelierWG Series: atelierWG@puntwg.nl

Contact Filmfestival Chair Huurdersvereniging WG: voorzittervereniging@atelierwg.nl

Photo: Studio Harm van den Berg