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唯物思维

MATERIAL THINKING

第二届国际当代材料艺术双年展

2nd International Contemporary Material Art Biennale

The Church sounds

See, hear, feel: in search of the soul of the Bergkerk.

Visual artist Sibyl Heijnen places the beautiful Bergkerk (Deventer NL) in a new context. Applying reused materials in her art creates a surprising dialogue about sustainability. Reuse has a double message and function: it shows the beauty of the material and emphasizes the eternal cycle of matter.

Experience and influence the dynamic space by walking across and along the path of tin, artificial grass, branching and greenery and become aware of man's impact on nature.

Besides regular opening hours, various events are organized in the setting of the art installation. Walk through the church together with Sibyl Heijnen and listen together to the sounds composed by Nicholas Robert Thayer. Or stay overnight and experience the change in light and sound at sunset and sunrise.

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Fundatie Collectie: REMIX - with Kent Chan, Sibyl Heijnen, Richard Hutten, Aram Lee, Michael Tedja

In Fundatie Collection - REMIX, five artists (Kent Chan, Sibyl Heijnen, Richard Hutten, Aram Lee and Michael Tedja) have been invited to explore, investigate and complement the Fundatie Collection with challenging new work. This Remix brings new stories, connections and perspectives.

Remix is the first exhibition of a series of exhibitions around the thematic focus for 2024: Collection Building. These exhibitions create new perspectives, looking at the Fundation Collection from different angles that are relevant today.

Old or new, close to home or from afar, works from the collection tell new stories. Links between seemingly contradictory works are exposed by making historical and geographical distinctions disappear.

The gaze of Chan, Heijnen, Hutten, Lee and Tedja leads to new focal points, putting both forgotten and well-known collection pieces in a new light.

More info Museum de Fundatie Zwolle Remix or scroll down to the videos below

See, hear, feel: in search of the soul of the Bergkerk An interdisciplinary collaboration with visual artist Sibyl Heijnen and composer Nicholas Robert Thayer, in which the various art forms form a sensory, total experience. Looking and listening continuously surprise. Through the diversity of materials used such as parchment, artificial grass, rubber and gold leaf. And by the music that is permanently audible, via sensors that respond to the incidence and intensity of light.

SEE, hear, feel: search for the soul of the Bergkerk Location: Bergkerk, (Bergkerkplein 1), Deventer Dates: 15 April to 30 June 2023

During the exhibition period, there were regularly special events in the Bergkerk from sunrise to sunset and vice versa

Sibyl Heijnen was born in Kerkrade, The Netherlands. She went to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and applied herself to monumental textile design and painting. She took also all the opportunities to qualify in a great number of other disciplines.

The passion for her work brought her quick success. As a young artist she won the Jugend Gestaltet price in Munich, Germany and in Japan she received the prestigious Excellent Award at the International Textile Competition in Kyoto.

Now after almost 40 years of working in over 20 countries Sibyl is still eager to find out new ways of expressing herself and finding the right techniques to do so.

Sibyl Heijnen had studios in Tilburg, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Venlo before she settled in Almelo. There she converted a former factory building into an efficient and inspiring working place for her monumental art.

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