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Bik van der Pol
Bik van der Pol is the artists duo Liesbeth Bik[1] and Jos van der Pol,[2] who work together since 1994 as conceptual artists and installation artists.[3]
The artists started in 1994-95 in Rotterdam, where they worked ever since. In 1999 they were residences of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and in 2011 in residence at the Bard College. In 2014 Bik Van der Pol was awarded the Hendrik Chabot Award for Visual Arts by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds South Holland.[3]
Selected exhibitions and projects
[edit]- 1996. Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam.[4]
- 2005: Secession, Vienna
- 2007: Xth Istanbul Biennale; Fly Me To The Moon, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- 2008: Becoming Dutch, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
- 2008/2009: Plug In 28, Pay Attention, Act 1, 2, 3, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
- 2009: It isn't what it used to be and will never be again, CCA Glasgow; Xth Lyon Bienniale, Lyon
- 2010: Are you really sure a floor can't also be a ceiling? ENEL Award 2010, Macro museum, Rome
- 2011: Living As Form, Creative Time, New York; Accumulate, Collect, Show, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London;
- 2012: You talking to me? 98Weeks (Beirut, Lebanon); Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Sudbury (Ca), Musagetes
- 2013: 25 yea
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Catching Some Air
Catching Some Air is based on the investigation of archived and collected information (art history, history, journals, magazines, etc), thus creating a laboratory and reconstruction, and from this, an archive of a referential mix of material based on our own ideas, thoughts, knowledge of history, and the things that interest us today.
The (endless) collection of images, events and works form a solid basis for our work. The reproducing or copying is based on choices, which are closely intertwined with our art practice. Selections of material are collected and generally reproduced or copied by hand, all in the same format in order to achieve the highest neutrality possible while the drawings also allow clear differences in handwriting.
Copying is ambiguous: at the one hand it is very numbing and automatic work, on the other hand it needs quite some concentration while doing it, and to think about what one is doing, what the material is about. In other words, the almost meditative action of copying generates imagination and ideas and improves, knowledge and perhaps an understanding of others and other things through informally -because while doing the job- communicating the storiesbehind the material. The ima