Part of the airWG Series

Open:
Saturday and Sunday 18-19 & 25-26 March, 2pm-6pm.
Monday-Friday 20-24 March, 3pm-7pm. 

WG Artist in residence Anna Kakhiani from Kyiv came to the Netherlands shortly after the beginning of the war, first living in the 'opvangcentrum' in the former townhall of Piershil, Hoekse Waard, then setting up studio in Amsterdam. Completing her 3 month residency at airWG she now presents her work in an exhibition at puntWG.

The exhibition entitled Tomorrow's Light is Falling on My Wall captures, in a non-documentary way, the changed sense of the future that has come about because of the war, as Ukrainians are forced to leave their homes and abandon their lives.  

Anna Kakhiani (1991) is a Ukrainian visual artist and curator, working with a range of media, including video, film, text, installations, as well as performance and land art. During the last decade, she has developed art projects and installations, often in collaboration with artist groups, cultural organisations and artistic initiatives. She has exhibited at a variety of venues, predominantly in Ukraine, and participated in the residency curated by Liverpool Biennale 2018. Recently, she took part in the Moon Gallery Foundation project “The Essence of Home” 2022-2023.

Anna Kakhiani can be found on Instagram: @annakakhiani and Facebook: anna.kakhiani.

Anna Kakhiani’s WG residency is supported by the Dutch Fund for Ukrainian artists,
Mondriaan Fund and airWG.

Part of the puntWG Open Call Series

Back in 1637 one could buy a canal house in Amsterdam with a tulip bulb, during the so-called tulipmania, the first economic bubble. Their function as a currency, with its value just as unreliable as crypto currency today, was short-lived. Its value changed completely again in the Dutch Famine of 1945, when people ate old dry tulip bulbs. The bulbs went from currency to emergency food. Tulip bulbs are both a symbol for the unjust wealth the Netherlands gathered from colonialism, and of the poverty caused by WW2. 

For the exhibition we produce a limited amount of ceramic coins called ‘Tulpengulden’, that can be used to purchase food and drinks. We turn the gallery into a bank, where we offer a currency exchange service. The entrance is where the actual exchange happens. The exchange rate changes throughout the show, which is displayed on a screen. 

We use the kitchen to cook on Fridays - starting ourselves with Curry Udon, a dish that combines Indian curry that travelled from the UK to Japan with Japanese noodles and fish broth, with tulip bulbs as topping. We serve cocktails based on tulipvodka and mocktails with tulipsyrup.  Next Friday's menus are by artist/chefs Müge Yilmaz and Mattia Papp. As the menu changes, so does the exchange rate for the coins.

Events:
Friday 31 March, 18h: Opening event and dinner
Friday 07 April, 18h: Dinner by Mattia Pap
Friday 14 April, 18h: Dinner by Müge Yilmaz

Generously supported by:

Eau&Gaz
https://eauetgaz.org

Stichting Stokroos
https://stokroos.nl

Dinners sponsored by:

Kesbeke
https://www.kesbeke.nl

Part of the atelierWG Series

Finissage: 12 March 16:00

At puntWG Harm van den Berg presents an innovative sound installation, entitled The Invisibility of Colour. In this work, he conducted interviews with individuals on the street to gather their perspectives on colours. These recordings are combined to create hundreds of spoken colours, which are played through 20 invisible speakers spread over the surface of a wall.

The Invisibility of Colour is part of van den Berg's research on emergent processes. Emergence means: appearing spontaneously. It is a phenomenon which occurs often in nature. For example, a flock of birds in the sky showing the most fantastic shapes, a colony of ants collectively creating the most stunning building structures, or thousands of fireflies that blink in perfect synchronisation. This is swarming behaviour which is not much different from how atoms and small particles collectively behave. Colour is also an emergent phenomenon: atoms have no colour; colour only appears when a large number of atoms are in a certain arrangement.

In addition to sound installations, van den Berg also creates drawings consisting of fine- meshed structures with emergent properties. While his drawings reflect this emergent process, The Invisibility of Colour offers an opportunity for spectators to experience themselves the emergent process of creation in real-time.

In his drawings and sound installations, Harm van den Berg (1970) investigates natural processes at the interface between nature and culture. His research focuses on phenomena such as self-organisation, complexity, and emergence. His work has been exhibited at institutions including Museum Belvédère, Museum De Paviljoens, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Galeria Klovicevi in Zagreb, Crossing Border Festival, Zoo Gallery in Nantes, W139, Arti et Amicitiae, Goethe-Institut, and AC Institute in New York City.

Supported by the Amsterdam Funds for the Arts and Mondrian Fund.

More information about the artist can be found at www.harmvandenberg.nl.

Part of the puntWG Open Call Series

Worlds in Formation was filmed over weekends spending time with a community of young amateur dancers who rehearse KPOP (Korean Pop Music) dance covers using the windows of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro Brasil, as mirrors.

It documents rehearsal, hanging out, preparation, competition, and care, acts towards building a community as a generative space of resistance through elective assembly and shared interest. Through a non-linear and rhythmically repetitive structure, the film reflects the bagginess of time that characterises youth cultures of hanging out, appropriating space without ownership.

In a political moment in Brazil which is deeply dangerous to be queer, female, black, poor, or trans, this community are consciously acting to build a space to exist in public, producing a high visibility presence for oppressed minorities.

11-17 Saturday and Sunday or by appointment. Email: info@solarcher.net

Over weekends spent with this community, recording rehearsals, performances, and moments of care, the film follows fragments from conversations about the nature of their community and their reflections on their collective creative practice as an act of resistance, and making and remaking images with bodies. Worlds in Formation documents moments of collective practice, creating spaces of care, resistance, and survival, and producing counter-publics in the city, staging rehearsal as the conjuring up of a desired world within the confines of the present.

Also available at the exhibition will be Held by Hands, a publication by Sol, featuring texts commissioned from members of the Brasilian Kpop community on the social potentials and risks of fandom and fan attachment to mass culture.

Image credit: https://vimeo.com/634523771

Part of the puntWG Open Call Series

Organised by Sol Archer, a fundraiser for earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria will take place in puntWG on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 February at 20:00.

Featuring films by Peline Esmer, Belit Sag, Cihad Caner, and more to be announced.

Please write to sol.archer@gmail.com to secure a seat, and tell us which day you will be there. 

Entrance is a suggested donation of €20, or more if you are able. 

We will have details on four suggested funds at the door, and instructions on how to donate to them. 

They are:

A Livestock Feed Fund - coordinated by Belit Sag, who is organising a shipment of emergency animal feed to communities in Samadag/Hatay, who have been cut off without provisions. Their aim is targeted on providing support and logistics to food infrastructure, to prevent secondary collapse of food production.

Mor Dayanışma - women’s support network, who are very active on the ground in Turkey with woman’s safety in groups displaced by the earthquake. 

Sard NGO - the Syrian Association for relief and Development, they have been active in Syria for ten years, dealing principally with food insecurity, shelter for internally displaced refugees, and medical/health infrastructure.

Ahbap - who work in Turkey across social aid, animal rights, humanitarian aid, natural disaster coordination and assistance, and who are very active in the earthquake disaster relief effort.