gerlach en koop
02 Nov - 21 Dec 2013
gerlach en koop
Varying Degrees of Ajarness
2 November - 21 December 2013
Oh please, don’t say this will continue like it does. These things I see around me. Every day, again and again. Some people remark how remarkable it is to find everything in exactly the same place when they wake up. I just feel repugnance. Seriously, it won’t stay like this forever will it? Resistance wells up. We can’t give up on the idea of progress, can we? The upward movement inside is contrary to the downward movement I get from these objects. They’ve given in to gravity. They show me nothing but their appalling weight.
True, both movements balance each other. That’s an equilibrium I suppose.
We’re not moving.
Being inconsistent and divided by nature gerlach en koop present an art of individuals. Varying Degrees of Ajarness is their second solo-exhibition in the gallery. When erring themselves they try to do so with precision and charm. They are compressing to allow for expansion.
gerlach en koop, two artists from the Netherlands living and working in The Hague and Brussels, gave up the habit of writing their proper name with a capital letter in order to merge into one collective artist.
Solo exhibitions include Kunstboeken (naast de kunst), the library of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven NL (2004); ruim schrijven, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo NL (2008); En gerlach en koop,1646, The Hague NL (2010); Niet niet precies. Not not precise. Pas pas précis. Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL (2010) and Others’ Structures, New Existentialism part 6, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Altefabrik, Rapperswil-Jona CH (2012). The next solo exhibition will be at De Vleeshal, Middelburg NL.
They have participated in group exhibitions such as ‘Lost Tongues Rediscovered’, Stroom Den Haag (2007), The Hague NL; ‘Radical Autonomy’, at Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, FR (2009) and at Netwerk, Aalst, BE (2011); ‘Faux Jumeaux’, S.M.A.K., Gent, BE (2009); ‘For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there’ at de Appel, Amsterdam NL (2010); ‘Keep floors and passages clear’ at White Columns, New York US (2011); ‘Found in Translation, Chapter L’, at Casino Luxembourg, L (2011); ‘Autumn of Modernism’, De Vleeshal, Middelburg NL and Temporary Gallery, Cologne, D (2012); ‘United We’, Stroom Den Haag (2013) and ‘MOREpublishers present’, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, BE (2013). The next groupshow will be ‘Over Psychedelia & Conceptualism’ at de Appel, Amsterdam NL (2014)
Varying Degrees of Ajarness
2 November - 21 December 2013
Oh please, don’t say this will continue like it does. These things I see around me. Every day, again and again. Some people remark how remarkable it is to find everything in exactly the same place when they wake up. I just feel repugnance. Seriously, it won’t stay like this forever will it? Resistance wells up. We can’t give up on the idea of progress, can we? The upward movement inside is contrary to the downward movement I get from these objects. They’ve given in to gravity. They show me nothing but their appalling weight.
True, both movements balance each other. That’s an equilibrium I suppose.
We’re not moving.
Being inconsistent and divided by nature gerlach en koop present an art of individuals. Varying Degrees of Ajarness is their second solo-exhibition in the gallery. When erring themselves they try to do so with precision and charm. They are compressing to allow for expansion.
gerlach en koop, two artists from the Netherlands living and working in The Hague and Brussels, gave up the habit of writing their proper name with a capital letter in order to merge into one collective artist.
Solo exhibitions include Kunstboeken (naast de kunst), the library of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven NL (2004); ruim schrijven, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo NL (2008); En gerlach en koop,1646, The Hague NL (2010); Niet niet precies. Not not precise. Pas pas précis. Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL (2010) and Others’ Structures, New Existentialism part 6, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Altefabrik, Rapperswil-Jona CH (2012). The next solo exhibition will be at De Vleeshal, Middelburg NL.
They have participated in group exhibitions such as ‘Lost Tongues Rediscovered’, Stroom Den Haag (2007), The Hague NL; ‘Radical Autonomy’, at Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, FR (2009) and at Netwerk, Aalst, BE (2011); ‘Faux Jumeaux’, S.M.A.K., Gent, BE (2009); ‘For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there’ at de Appel, Amsterdam NL (2010); ‘Keep floors and passages clear’ at White Columns, New York US (2011); ‘Found in Translation, Chapter L’, at Casino Luxembourg, L (2011); ‘Autumn of Modernism’, De Vleeshal, Middelburg NL and Temporary Gallery, Cologne, D (2012); ‘United We’, Stroom Den Haag (2013) and ‘MOREpublishers present’, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, BE (2013). The next groupshow will be ‘Over Psychedelia & Conceptualism’ at de Appel, Amsterdam NL (2014)