Bik Van der Pol — Selected exhibitions and projects
2024 Schirn Kunsthalle, groupshow, Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt The One Straw Revolution, groupshow, Framer Framed, Amsterdam. Curated by iLiana Fokianaki The Casablanca Art School, Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde, groupshow, Shardjah Art Foundation School of Casablanca, IFA, Berlin, groupshow To Gather on a Mountain , screening Bergen Kunsthalle
2023 Shimmer, Sequens, cycle 4, Bik Van der Pol, with drawing workshop and conversation with Bik Van der Pol, Mariana Françozo and Merijn de Waal, and insert in MetropolisM January/February 2024 School of Casablanca, groupshow at different spaces, Casablanca Dolf Henkes prize (nominated), TENT, Rotterdam, groupshow Mosaic issue 54.2 special: Archive Issue, with introduction about our work and collaboration with Mosaic, by Shepherd Steiner and Karalyn Dokurno To Gather on a Mountain ¿ A public workshop, a walk, and a collective performance, VOLT, Bergen At the Edges of Sleep - Moving Images And Somnolent Spectators by Jean Ma

Shimmer Sequins Cycle 4

2022 Don't Fence Me In, 2020-2022, research project around the reconstruction and dismantling of De Nederlandse Bank headquarters (development of film, script and public program; not realized) Mosaic issue 54.2, special archival issue, part 1 of collaborative project between Bik Van der Pol, Shep Steiner, and Mosaic, University of Manitoba School of Casablanca, A DÉRIVE THROUGH CASABLANCA, HISTORY AND MINDS, Walking Series by Bik Van der Pol, Casablanca Little Liars in: Wild Summer of Art Part 1, Brutus, Rotterdam Wild Summer of Art Part 1 Wild Summer of Art Part 2, a group show in two parts of 180 Rotterdam based artists, curated by Piet de Jonge, Jessy Koeiman and Liesbeth Bik Levend Landschap/Living Landscape, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam What is this world? Park, Tilburg Relative Time/Little Time Speaker Series, developed in collaboration with Shep Steiner, Mosaic, University of Manitoba
2021 Now What: A Living Newspaper FIELDWORK International Summer School organised with Bik Van der Pol, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland Garden State, curated by Curated by Fadwa Naama Study Group , Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland Dissolving matter and value, Lothringer13, Munich School of Casablanca, research residency, public programme, Casablanca
2020 Don't Fence Me In, artistic research project in collaboration with TAAK, Amsterdam (2020-2021) Now What?, Fieldwork International Summerschool, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland Take Part. Final stage bringing model together as performative participatory project, was cancelled due to coronacrisis. Stories from the model city 2019 Czigane – Not the whole story, Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter Whole Life Academy, HKW/Archive der Avantgarde, Dresden Far Too Many Stories to Fit Into so Small a Box, CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, research and exhibition Take Part, project for Public Knowledge, with SFMOMA and Public Libraries network, San Francisco (January-April 2019)
2018 Mama, was ist eigentlich Natur? Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld Headlands, research residency (fall 2018) Take Part, project for Public Knowledge, with SFMOMA and Public Libraries network, San Francisco (fall 2018) Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald - Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest, Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen, Halle Dismantling the Scaffold, curated by Christina Li, Tai Kwun Contemporary, JC Contemporary, Hong Kong Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald - Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest, Tieranatomische Teater, Berlin Syndrome of the Present, research project initiated by Galit Eilat. First seminar, Yeni Camii, Thessaloniki
2017 Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald - Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest, Zoological Museum of CeNak, University of Hamburg, Hamburg Offshore: artists explore the sea, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Greater Together Greater Together, ACCA, Melbourne Youth Academy THE CITY & THE CITY, Academie der Kunste der Welt, Cologne (seminar and workshop) Future Climates, Athens (workshop) UNGLOSSARY, publication in cooperation with Stadtrevue, CologneTHE CITY & THE CITY, Academie der Kunste der Welt: Youth Academy, Cologne WERE IT AS IF, Beyond An Institution That Is, published by Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands School of Missing Studies, Sandberg series No. 1, published by Sternberg Press/Sandberg Institute Public Space? Lost and Found, produced by ACT and distributed by MIT Press.
2016 WERE IT AS IF, Witte de With, Center of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (research, exhibition, publication) SEMA MediaCity Biennale, Seoul The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?) 11thGwangJu Biennale, GwangJu (S. Korea) Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, Berlin
2015 Decolonized Skies, ADNPlatform, Barcelona Eminent Domain, The Power Plant, Toronto (Can) Pavilion of Mauritius, 56th Venice Biennale, May 9 - November 22, 2015 Future Light, Vienna Biennale, MAK, Vienna Speechless, Pérez Art Museum Miami, August 13, 2015 – February 21, 2016 Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia Lodgers 4, School of Missing Studies at MUHKA and AIR, November 1, 2015 -January 17, 2016 Are you talking to me? Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
2014 How to (…) things that don’t exist, 31st Biennale Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show, A nomadic exhibition across Auckland (NZ) Moderations, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. Curated by Heman Chong Rotterdam Cultural Histories 2, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art and TENT, Rotterdam Sounds for Silence, Ternitz, Austria The Missing Stories, CAFAM Biennial 2014: Invisible Hand, Curating as gesture, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Museum of Arte Util, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de Wth, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. Curated by Cristina Ricupero
2013 The Possibility of an Island at Import Projects, Berlin. Imaginary Friends, organized by independent curator Chelsea Haines. Interstate Projects, Brooklyn NY ROAD/BOAT 3.1.8 with Cristoph Keller, Bik van der Pol, Helmut Batista, Amilcar Packer by invitation of Anne Ballester Soares and the school Xapomi, Amazonas (Br). Organised by CAPACETE The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show, Biennale Venice Critical mass, TOK, St. Petersburg Open City Fort Vijfhuizen Biennale of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Call of the Mall, project for Hoog Catarijne, Utrecht http://gabriellester.com/exhibitions/the-future-that-was/ [i]The Future That Was, group show curated by Gabriel Lester, NASA - New Art Space Amsterdam
2012 You talking to me? a workshop in collaboration with 98weeks project space (Beirut, Lebanon). Insert in Volume Magazine no. 34 appeared in December 2012, designed by Alexander Shoukas. The Future that Was - curated by Gabriel Lester. NASA, Amsterdam Desertmed - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin Neon. La Materia luminosa dellarte - MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?, Exhibitaly, Red October (Krasnyi Oktiabr) Moscow Between the Map and the Territory, Tent., Rotterdam Between a Rock and a Hard Place, project for Sudbury (Ca), Musagetes Foundation, Canada. Facebook and Pinterest[/bl] Deze Sokken Niet Wit (These Socks Not White), Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven Last Day, curated by Paul O'Neill. Cartel, London Art Histories, CAC VOX, Montreal Graphic Design: Now In Production, Govenors Island, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York Who Decides? Stadtgalerie Mannheim
2011 Frieze Projects, solo project for Frieze Art Fair, London (october 2011) Living As Form, solo project, Creative Time, New York (september 2011) A Future Pump House : Ideas, Thoughts and Plans, Pumphouse gallery, London We Are Grammar, Pratt Institute, New York CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard College, NY Too late, too little, (and how) to fail gracefully, KunstFort Asperen (NL), curatorial project
2010 Charming the Snake of Reason, ENJOY, Wellington, curated by Marnie Slater The Crude and The Rare, Cooper Union, New York Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceilingENEL award 2010, MACRO Museum, Rome (solo) Making Ships in Bottles, CGP London Vivid Gallery Design Miami / Basel Communication Networks-Art institutions and New Publics, Mestna Gallerija, Ljubljana Mataro Chauffeur Service in No soul for sale, A festival for Independents, Tate Modern, London Speculation, Commonlands, Oslo. Curated by Karolin Tampere and Ase Lovgren Manufacturing Today, Trondheim. Curated by Cristina Ricupero Artefacts III: Artists making Furniture / Designers making Art, Vivid, Rotterdam The secret life of objects, Glucksman gallery, Cork Portscapes, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Curated by Latitudes, Barcelona Learning from Vancouver, Bik van der Pol In Dialogue with Urban Subjects, Western Front, Vancouver Actors, Agents and Attendants: Speculations on the Cultural Organisation of Civility, SKOR, Amsterdam
2009 It isn't what it used to be and will never be again, CCA-Centre for contemporary art, Glasgow (solo) Xth Biennale de Lyon Generosity is the new political, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge Public Arena, InContext3, Tallaght, Dublin One Day Sculpture, Auckland, New Zealand Artistas de Vangardia (Graciela Carnevale archive) and Bik Van der Pol, Pumphouse gallery, London Blind Chance & Possible Futures, Haarlem
2008 I've got something in my eye, Marie Louise Hessel Museum/CCS Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY (curatorial project) PLUG-IN 28, Pay Attention, Act2 and Act 3, van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven Questioning History, NFI/Nederlands Foto Museum, Rotterdam, curated by Frank van der Stok Now Jump, Nam Jun Paik Art Center, GyeongGi, South Korea Platform 21, Zuidas, Amsterdam Letters From A Front, Action Field Kodra, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece Spaport, Banja Luka Beyond Paradise, SMBA, Amsterdam U-Turn, Copenhagen For Reasons of State, ISP Whitney, New York Becoming Dutch, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven Utopia Transfer, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest (curated by Barnabas Bencsik) Unfair Art Fair, Rome
2007 PLUG-IN 28, Pay Attention, Act 1, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL) Temporary Measures, Associates, London Differentiated Neighborhoods, Centre for Visual Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, curated by Eric Zoran 25 year later. Welcome To Art In General, Art In General at UBS, New York 10th International Istanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, IstanbulIstanbul, 59 Locations, A Format for Nightcomers Sunset Cinema, a project with Apolonija Sustersics, Trans(cient) City, Luxemburg 2007, curated by Hou Hanru Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Volksgarten-The Politics of Belonging, curated by Adam Budak Trajectories, LCCA, Riga, curated by Maria Lind Models for Tomorrow, Europeische Kunsthalle, Cologne, curated by Nicolaus Schaffhausen Monuments of our Discontent: Expiration of Place, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Curator: Lolita Jablonskiene
2006 Issue Fighters: Thought is made in the mouth, Insa Art Space, Seoul (exhibition, workshop and publication +82) Context 3, research grant and project, Dublin (continued 2008) Fly Me To The Moon, project for the New Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Past Imperfect, Casco Issues 9, concept by Bik Van der Pol, compiled and edited with Lisette Smits, designed by Will Holder, published by Casco, Utrecht, distributed by Revolver, Frankfurt More Stories on Absence, Antwerpen The Domain of the Great Bear: Dystopische Landschaft Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich Naked Life, Museum of Contemporary Arts Taipei (MOCA Taipei), curated by Manray Hsu & Maren Richter On Mobility, CAC, Vilnius I Confess That I was There, Interface, Belfast Dormir, rêver et autres nuits, CAPC, Bordeaux
How to Do Things? - In the Middle of (No)Where..., Kiev. Uqbar, Gesellschaft für Representations-forschung, Berlin Strategies of learning , Periferic 7, Biennale Iasi, Rumania 2005 Rec., Esther Schipper gallery (annex), Berlin Ford Boxes, Cork Caucus, Cork, Ireland Secession, Vienna Exposorium, Free University, Amsterdam On Mobility, Buro Friedrich, Berlin, On Mobility, De Appel, Amsterdam Rotterdam Project, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Magazijn van de Verbeelding, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen Life, once more, Forms of Reenactment in Contemporary ArtWitte de With, Rotterdam
2004 K: Mobile Home, mobile research center and exhibition space (with Korteknie and Stuhlmacher architects), Virtueel Museum, Amsterdam Social Affairs!, project and film program for Ministry of Social Affairs, The Hague, Teasing Minds, Kunstverein München, München (a project for SMS (School of Missing Studies), with Stealth Group Open Process, Terrassa, Hangar, Barcelona PR 04. tribute to the messenger, Puerto Rico, organized by M&M proyectos
2003 Casco projects, Utrecht Beyond, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, Nomads in Residence, mobile workspace for artists (with Korteknie and Stuhlmacher architects) Cargo, Almere, Andare A Zonzo, a walk through Almere as preparation for a film Rooseum, Malmö, Universal Studios Part 1, Sleep With Me galerie Maisonneuve, Paris, Time-warp CAC, Vilnius, Lituania 24/7 Puddles, Jusshi School, Tokyo Until We Meet Again, Strip, Vlaardingen Cargo, Almere Witte de With, Rotterdam, Social Actors in Transformation, Parallel Practices, in collaboration with Stealth Group Ludwig Museum, Budapest, gravitation, (Untitled (after Miklos Erdely): a project for Moskva Ter) Affinity Archive, curated by Sarah Pierce, Dublin, Ireland
2002 TENT., Rotterdam, Married by Powers, a selection from the collection Frac Nord-Pas de Calais by Bik Van der Pol Office of the Foundation of Young Artists, Budapest, Lobby/Office Piece, permanent installation Marres, Maastricht, Stadsoase/City Oasis Catching Some Air, library drawings, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque Ministry of OCW, The Hague, Camera Obscura, proposal for Hoftoren (not realized) Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Strike, curated by Gavin Wade TENT., Rotterdam, Foreign Affairs: Budapest Exchange & Transform (Arbeitstitel), Kunstverein Munchen, Munich Fonds BKVB, Las Palmas, Rotterdam, Commitment, curated by Edwin Janssen Marres, Maastricht, Hortus III
2001 White Box, New York, Loompanics Buro Friedrich, Berlin, Insert, with works of Lee Lozano de Paviljoens, Almere, Love and Happiness Exedra, Hilversum Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York, Lost In Space, curated by Raul Zamudio Kunsthalle Tirol, Halle, Exits 2000 Moderna Museet Projekt, Stockholm, Absolut Stockholm, label or life city on a platform Kentler Art Space, New York, Catching Some Air Public Art Fund, New York: GOOD: Improper Property (proposal, not realized) ArtShelter, Textielmuseum, Tilburg, with Sue Williamson (SA) Frere, Independent Art Fair, Chelsea Inn Hotel, New York Territory, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo Clocktower Gallery, International Studio Program PS1, New York, Clockwork 2000 Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, Trailer
1999 Surge Gallery/ICAEE, Tokyo, Studio Piece MK Gallery, Rotterdam Until We Meet Again, Vlaardingen, information kiosk (not realized) de Gele Rijder, Arnhem, Proposition for Reclaiming a Space Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde KENT Gallery, New York, Department for Public Appearances MK Gallery, Berlin Art Fair, Berlin Niggendijker, Groningen, P001a/P003b, Rooseum, Malmo, On The Sublime 1998 Greene Naftali Gallery, New York TXtShift, Utrecht Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, New Text Based Work galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde, Contribution for Henk Peeters W139, Amsterdam, Plaats The Powder Room, Rotterdam 1997 Vaalserberg, Rotterdam, To Be Me, contribution for Giorgio Sedotti Duende, Rotterdam, Perish East International, Norwich
1996 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Bookshop Piece, with Peter Fillingham Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Lisbon, Live/Life Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Peiling 5, with Peter Fillingham Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Peiling 5, with Peter Fillingham 1995 Duende, Rotterdam, The Shower Piece, for REST, with Peter Fillingham Cubitt Gallery, Londen The Kitchen Piece, living space of Jos van der Pol, Duende, Rotterdam, with Peter Fillingham