OPENING SOON in Brussels:
Eva Gold & Elisabeth Molin
Greylight Projects Brussels
presents:
Eva Gold & Elisabeth Molin
Curated by: Brenda Guesnet
In collaboration with Lock Up International
Open by appointment from [removed] – [removed]
Location: 1180 Brussels, exact location communicated upon booking
ONGOING:
‘A defense’ an exhibition by Emile Hermans
Greylight Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Emile Hermans titled A Defense. Early 2021, during a sars-cov-2 lockdown, the artist conducted a two-month residency at Greylight Projects and the results of this residency forms the exhibition A Defense.
A Defense is Emile Hermans´ response to the pandemic and how we had to adapt to the world-wide implemented restrictions: lockdowns, face masks, social distancing, etc. The artist says: ¨It made me rethink isolation and its impact on the mind – something I have always been interested in and somehow idealized.¨
The artist has a fascination for bastioned fortifications; beyond their once – assumed – power to protect, their geometry has an aesthetic quality that still endures – especially seen from above, away from the hustle bustle on the ground – despite the ravages of time. These once mighty forts have turned into ruins, remnants have become buried deep into the fabric of a 21st century settlement (Maastricht, for example).
Can we have an aesthetic experience of what’s left of these forts – their abstract geometry – now their original function has been lost to a past? Moreover, can an aesthetic experience of abstract geometry – idealized as symmetry and harmony – offer consolation in times of social isolation and the violation of bodily integrity?
Emile Hermans (1988; [removed]) is a Maastricht-based artist. He has a BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht (2015) and a MFA from LUCA School of Arts Brussels (2017). He is a member of the collectives Nowhere Collective and Center for Artistic Sensibilities.
opening: Friday [removed] , 17:00-21:00
date: [removed] – [removed] opening hours: Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun , 13:00-17:00 & open by appointment (email to location: Schaesbergerweg 58, 6415 AJ, Heerlen
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The gardener’s function is regeneration by Darcy Neven
The gardener’s function is regeneration is a project and presentation by Darcy Neven in Greylight Projects’ garden. Neven shows an overview of her practice with her mobile greenhouse Het Huis ([removed] The House) as the centerpiece. The title of the project is a reference to Clarissa Pinkola Estés´ Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.
Darcy Neven has been working on this project since 2012. She walked with her mobile greenhouse from Maastricht to Heerlen where it was shown in Schunck Museum as part of the exhibition ‘in search of Sharawadgi’ around the works of Piet Outdolf.
The mobility of the greenhouse makes it a center to gather stories; Neven´s and other people´s stories. For the artist and eco-feminist, gardening is political as it is a form of radical healing by grounding us in an active life of connecting to and learning from the world at large.
Adjacent to Greylight Projects´ garden, in the canteen, the artist will show documentation of her projects and her ceramics. Darcy Neven will be able to sow seeds to have conversations. For the artist, starting these conversations are ways to inspire people to rethink the food industry.
The presentation is the starting point of her artist-in-residency; during her residency she will work in the garden (a former schoolyard) and in the canteen, where she will turn documentation of her projects and stories into a narrative. The residency will run till the end of the gardening season ([removed] autumn).
The presentation The gardener’s function is regeneration by Darcy Neven is part of the STADEXPO in Heerlen organized by ‘PAND.
Darcy Neven (1991) is a visual artist, writer, gardener, and educator of art and ecology.
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opening: Friday [removed] , 17:00-21:00
date: [removed] – [removed] & open by appointment (email to opening hours: Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun , 13:00-17:00
location: Limaweg 3, 6415 XD Heerlen and / or Schaesbergerweg 58, 6415 AJ Heerlen
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Where are we now?
new artist in resident: Luca Soudant
Greylight Projects is pleased to announce that artist Luca Soudant has been selected for the Very Contemporary residency and artist project. Luca was selected by a jury consisting of former guest artist Arthur Cordier (former guest artist 2021) Brenda Guesnet (IKOB – Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst) and Roy Voragen (Greylight Projects).
We are looking forward to welcoming Luca Soudant to Greylight Projects and seeing their project develop in the coming months. You can follow our website or social channels for further updates on their work!
For more information about the works of Luca Soudant you can take a look at their website.
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Where are we now?
artist in residence: Claude Horstmann
As second artist in residence we welcome Claude Horstmann for her three-month artist-in-residency at Greylight Projects in Heerlen, the Netherlands. Horstmann (
[removed]) lives and works in Stuttgart and Marseille. She studied art history at the University of Osnabrueck ([removed]) and Fine arts at the Stuttgart State Academy of Arts. Claude Horstmann has been awarded various grants and residencies in Germany and abroad, including by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg, Ville de Marseille and Ville de Strasbourg. Her last solo exhibitions took place at Laura Mars Gallery (Berlin), Goethe-Institut Lyon, Centre International de Poésie (Marseille) She participated among others in group shows in Stuttgart, Berlin, Saint-Étienne and Marseille.
Last year Claude Horstmann was already present in Heerlen with her works. She participated in the projects What the Flag?! in the centre of Heerlen and the billboard series ‘All of them have a promisse‘.
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Greylight Projects is supported by the
Mondriaan Fonds for the general program
for the years 2021 & 2022 with a ‘Podium Start’ grant .
Greylight Projects is supported by the
gemeente Heerlen for the #TOKTOK platform.
Greylight Projects is part of
#TOKTOK,platform for cultural initatives in Heerlen.
Greylight Projects is a member of Very Contemporary,
the network of contemporary art venues in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion.