Part of the Open Call Series.
Swan, Nina and Rick invite you to Play Home, the inaugural issue in PuntWG's exhibition series of uncustomary matchmaking.
Part of the Open Call Series.
Swan, Nina and Rick invite you to move into their WG. According to the landlord (who will live with you) it’s a room (8m2) like any other. It’s just that the light switch is in the kitchen. There’s no threshold separating the noisy floor boards in the kitchen from what used to be the dining room (now your room). When someone is peering into the fridge late at night it sounds like they’re standing next to your bed. With the scratching coming from behind the painting you never feel alone. However, the landlord tells you, your room has one big advantage: One of the long walls is completely window, from left to right, top to bottom. It's beautiful, isn’t it?
Play Home is the inaugural issue in PuntWG's exhibition series of uncustomary matchmaking. The cohabitation of works is structured like a spatial montage of fragments of domesticity and communal living. Homemaking is always a work in progress, it’s making it work. Living together inevitably breeds issues of excess and (over)proximity. Each brings their own projections, blurry edges bleeding together in uncanny and unpredictable ways. Memories, torn from their original time and reconstituted alongside each other, furnish the space.
And then that window: supposedly a clear demarcation between inside and outside, looking through a matter of sending and receiving. But when all is too much, everything too close, its structural function sheds this illusory simplicity. Suddenly you find it looking back at you and yourself part of the scene you’re looking at, part of the house. Our new roommate.
We invite you to the Valentines Show The Patron Saint of Beekeepers in PuntWG, a large group show that consists of postcards, love letters and valentine's day cards sent from artists near and far, opening on 14 february at 17:00
Opening times: 15, 16 + 22, 23 February
I promise to devote my heart to you and my art, for both are my life’s passion. In each stroke of my brush, you shall find me. - Artemisia Gentileschi
Dear artists, lovers, and significant others
We are excited to invite you to the Valentines Show The Patron Saint of Beekeepers in PuntWG opening on14 february at 17:00
puntWG is an independent, artist-run space for experimental exhibitions and artistic exchange in Amsterdam West. Since last year, we have a new volunteer team overseeing its organisation and programming.
To introduce ourselves and share our new way of working for the coming year, we are organising a large group show that consists of postcards, love letters, and valentine's day cards sent from artists near and far.
Expect lots of letters, cocktails and feelings.
Fare thee well, my love...
Yours forevermore,
The puntWG team:
Nina Harra, Julia Dahee Hong, Susan Kooi, Lily Lanfermeijer, and Smári Róbertsson
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.
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.
Photography by Ilya Rabinovic.
Part of the atelierWG Series
Julian & Jonathan is a project portraying my father and half brother over a period of 20 years.
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.
Part of the puntWG Open Call Series
'Out of sight, out of mind' is a duo exhibition by Merve Kılıçer and Jake Caleb that questions the relationship between human behaviour and political agenda when dealing with loss.
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