Edwin Stolk
Education:
2009 – now Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, MFA
2002 – 2007 Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands, BA
I am a radical phenomenologist, a subjective terrorist.
As a radical phenomenologist, a subjective terrorist, I am studying structures of consciousness. My body is the receiver, my instrument of understanding. I believe that life and existence is subjective and existential in it`s most natural form, so I have my doubts by 21st century objectivism. By the word objectivism I mean making objects out of living or non living ‘things’ by getting knowledge about those ‘things’ and separate these things from others by this knowledge.
Philosopher Merleau-Ponty said, we are not in or on the world, but we are available at the world, which means that we are a creating connection, this world we call our world is only an interpretation visualized by human words. Words which we also invented ourselves, so how true is this daily reality described by our words?
Creation starts for me from a pre- scientific point of view. Without certain knowledge that separates one aspect from the other. There is no in between ‘things’, “Each object is a “mirror of all others.” The product of creation is a temporary, site specific, ambiguous connection from a subjective order. I prefer to work with materials available at the spot and combine these with materials from earlier works to eliminate the object.
My environments can be seen as philosophical interventions, a new generation material actionism.
(text by Edwin Stolk)
Upcoming Exhibitions
12 February 2010, 20.00 hrs till 23.00 hrs, lThelNextlLevell by Edwin Stolk @ NIMK , Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Exhibitions/Screenings
29 augustus – 17 oktober 2009| installation: Identity 2.0 as a neologism (the next generation of Identity) by Edwin Stolk| People You May Know | PYMK | GROEDE | NETHERLANDS
16th of May till 16th of June 2009,
Installation: War of Currents at UNfair Project, i.s.m. Parachutartist Foundation at The Service Garage, part of Temporary Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
www.tijdelijkmuseumamsterdam.nl
www.parachutartists.com
4th of April untill 27th of June 2009, Installation Persuasion at BuroDijkstra ArtGallery, Rotterdam,The Netherlands.
www.edwinstolk.nl
www.burodijkstra.com
5 – 9 November ( FIMAC ) Northern Film Festival 2008, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Video performance Investigating Spaces by Edwin Stolk is nominated for the FIMAA 2008
20 – 21 June 2008
Video Performance Investigating spaces is nominated for the Partouche Award At:
Prix Partouche du Court Metrage Experimental / Experimental Short Film Festival – Biennale Arts Le Havre 2008 – France
http://www.artslehavre.com/
21 June – 13 July 2008
Exhibition: Jong Land/ Young Land – Annapaulowna – Netherlands
http://www.annapaulowna.nl/jongland
Exhibitions
10 – 18 may 2008
Kunstvlaai 2008 – presented by PLANETART
http://www.kunstvlaai.nl/2008/
http://www.planetart.nl/
december 2007 (group)
Drive-by, Look-in, See-through Galery (Stichting Stoemp)
Part of Hoogtij # 10
Installation:
‘Its You we want – unknown source’
Stationsweg 142, 144, 152, 162, The Hague
www.stichtingstoemp.nl
www.hoogtij.net
september 2007 (group)
Media Art Festival 2007
Installation:
‘Denial’
11e editie Tentoonstelling: Jong Talent
locatie: Het Amicitia, Nieuweweg 1a. Leeuwarden
www.mediaartfriesland.nl
september 2007 (solo)
Installation:
‘Let’s feed ice-cream to the rats’
Museum De Telefooncel “Voor de Kunst” Oude Delft 140, 2611 CG Delft
Conservator Els Cornelis
www.uitdekunstdelft.nl
9 september 2007 (solo)
Ground Two Festival:
Installation:
Chatbox
Locatie: Galerie King Kong, prinsegracht 8, Den Haag
www.hetdepartement.net
july 2007 (group)
KABK eindexamenexpositie 2007
Installation:
‘Not 4 U’
Prinsessegracht 4, 2514 AN Den Haag
www.kabk.nl
june 2006 (group)
‘Fast Forward’
Installation:
‘No I do Not have a Gun’
‘volksbuurt museum’, Hobbemastraat 120, Den Haag
http://www.dusdus.nl/ontwerperscafe/archief/mensbeelden.html
Januari/februari 2005 (solo)
‘Karakter’
GaleriAle, Raadhuisstraat 17, Oosthuizen
Januari/februari 2004 (group)
‘Outsider Art Show’
Galerie Herenplaats, Schiedamse Vest 56, Rotterdam
www.herenplaats.nl
Oktober/november 2002 (solo)
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
Overzichtsexpositie.
Mercatorpad 1, Nijmegen
www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2002/10/01/M009.htm
