Things You Know

2014
Installation and situational choreography
Various sizes and materials
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE)

This work consists of two identical groups of objects; one positioned in an exhibition room, and the other one at a construction site nearby. If the objects obstruct their work, the construction workers can freely move the objects around within a marked space that corresponds to the size of the exhibition space. Every Saturday, the position of the objects in the exhibition is adjusted to match that of the objects at the construction site. On the handout made for the exhibition there is a small map with directions to the construction site, so the audience can view the objects in both contexts.

This work was part of Sijben Rosa’s solo exhibition, also titled Things You Know, at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 15/02/14–16/03/14.

Documentation of Things You Know is released as Jahresgaben at Kunstverein. Each edition consists of two photographs taken every week from the same perspective on both locations. Set #5 is still available here.

Review Contemporary Art Daily
Review Reinische Post
Review in Kunstforum Mai-Juni 2014

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Photos by Katja Illner.

This work consists of two identical groups of objects; one positioned in an exhibition room, and the other one at a construction site nearby. If the objects obstruct their work, the construction workers can freely move the objects around within a marked space that corresponds to the size of the exhibition space. Every Saturday, the position of the objects in the exhibition is adjusted to match that of the objects at the construction site. On the handout made for the exhibition there is a small map with directions to the construction site, so the audience can view the objects in both contexts.

This work was part of Sijben Rosa’s solo exhibition, also titled Things You Know, at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 15/02/14–16/03/14.

Documentation of Things You Know is released as Jahresgaben at Kunstverein. Each edition consists of two photographs taken every week from the same perspective on both locations. Set #5 is still available here.

Review Contemporary Art Daily
Review Reinische Post
Review in Kunstforum Mai-Juni 2014

View and/or download invitation
View and/or download English press release
View and/or download German press release

Photos by Katja Illner.

Fittest

2014
Performance
20 – 30 minutes
Museum Abteiberg, M’gladbach (DE)

Fittest as in survival of the fittest means best fitted, which is not necessarily the most fit in terms of physical health. Fittest was a performance circuit, shown repetitively over the course of a Sunday afternoon at Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany. In all four parts, titled These Beuys, Dance Hall, Roof Ropes and Polke Pilates, I worked with a mix of local semi-professional and professional practitioners in different fields of sports. I studied and reconstructed their exercise routines and selected, adjusted, and positioned the sportspeople inside and outside the museum, amongst the works of the permanent collection. Their activity began to activate the stationery works around them. 

Fittest was shown in Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach. It formed episode #6 in THINGS ARE HAPPENING, a series of performances, interventions, and situations in and around Mönchengladbach during my time as Atelier Stipendiat der Stad Mönchengladbach.

Performers These Beuys:
Nikola Arsic, Jerry Oversberg, Christos Kazaltzis, Danny Scardina, Stevica Blazeski, Dominic Schiffer, Julian Haag, Lothar Panitz.

Performers Dance Hall:
Becky Fetsch, Nuria Mages, Bibiana Leufgen.

Performers Roof Ropes:
Mario Mai, Filippo Chiaradia.

Performers Polke Pilates:
Robin Steegman, Silke Palme, Sonia Clemente Guerreiro, Ewa Riedel, Miriam Spancken, Steffi Genenger.

Director: Sijben Rosa
Assistant director: Robin Steegman
Photos: Vesko Gösel
Camera: Nikolas Steiner, Laura Maréchal
Editing: Laura Maréchal, Sijben Rosa

Reviews 1 and 2 in Reinische Post
Image rights of the works belonging to the collection of Museum Abteiberg: François Morellet, “Sphère-trame”, 1962 and Sigmar Polke, 6-piece “Biennale- Zyklus”, 1986 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014.

Fittest as in survival of the fittest means best fitted, which is not necessarily the most fit in terms of physical health. Fittest was a performance circuit, shown repetitively over the course of a Sunday afternoon at Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany. In all four parts, titled These Beuys, Dance Hall, Roof Ropes and Polke Pilates, I worked with a mix of local semi-professional and professional practitioners in different fields of sports. I studied and reconstructed their exercise routines and selected, adjusted, and positioned the sportspeople inside and outside the museum, amongst the works of the permanent collection. Their activity began to activate the stationery works around them. 

Fittest was shown in Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach. It formed episode #6 in THINGS ARE HAPPENING, a series of performances, interventions, and situations in and around Mönchengladbach during my time as Atelier Stipendiat der Stad Mönchengladbach.

Performers These Beuys:
Nikola Arsic, Jerry Oversberg, Christos Kazaltzis, Danny Scardina, Stevica Blazeski, Dominic Schiffer, Julian Haag, Lothar Panitz.

Performers Dance Hall:
Becky Fetsch, Nuria Mages, Bibiana Leufgen.

Performers Roof Ropes:
Mario Mai, Filippo Chiaradia.

Performers Polke Pilates:
Robin Steegman, Silke Palme, Sonia Clemente Guerreiro, Ewa Riedel, Miriam Spancken, Steffi Genenger.

Director: Sijben Rosa
Assistant director: Robin Steegman
Photos: Vesko Gösel
Camera: Nikolas Steiner, Laura Maréchal
Editing: Laura Maréchal, Sijben Rosa

Reviews 1 and 2 in Reinische Post
Image rights of the works belonging to the collection of Museum Abteiberg: François Morellet, “Sphère-trame”, 1962 and Sigmar Polke, 6-piece “Biennale- Zyklus”, 1986 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014.

Pocket Work

2014
Sculpture-performance
12,5 x 8 x 3 cm; 1 month; 5 editions
Wood, epoxy, wool felt
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE), All Together Now, Rotterdam (NL), Gallery Rianne Groen, Rotterdam (NL), Salt Galata, Istanbul (TR)

When this work is on show, the staff members of the exhibition venue are not just passive guards. When you ask them about Pocket Work, they will reveal it to you. For the entire duration of the exhibition, each member of staff has their own edition of the work on their person at all times. Even when at home, at a cinema, at a sports club; everywhere. The audience is informed about this via a poster in the exhibition space.

This work was first shown in the solo exhibition Things You Know at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE) in 2014, curated by Hans-Jürgen Hafner. All Together Now then showed it in Rotterdam in 2015 in a group show called To Get There. In 2017 it was shown at Gallery Rianne Groen in Rotterdam in a group show titled Chinese Whispers. Rianne also took it with her on several trips and to her show at Art Rotterdam 2017. In 2018, the work was part of Bureau of Unspecified Services at Salt Galata in Istanbul (TR), curated by Sohrab Mohebbi. 

Photo’s by Katja Illner.

When this work is on show, the staff members of the exhibition venue are not just passive guards. When you ask them about Pocket Work, they will reveal it to you. For the entire duration of the exhibition, each member of staff has their own edition of the work on their person at all times. Even when at home, at a cinema, at a sports club; everywhere. The audience is informed about this via a poster in the exhibition space.

This work was first shown in the solo exhibition Things You Know at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE) in 2014, curated by Hans-Jürgen Hafner. All Together Now then showed it in Rotterdam in 2015 in a group show called To Get There. In 2017 it was shown at Gallery Rianne Groen in Rotterdam in a group show titled Chinese Whispers. Rianne also took it with her on several trips and to her show at Art Rotterdam 2017. In 2018, the work was part of Bureau of Unspecified Services at Salt Galata in Istanbul (TR), curated by Sohrab Mohebbi. 

Photo’s by Katja Illner.