Sonja van Kerkhoff
Disciplines: Installatiekunstenaar, Mediakunstenaar, Omgevingkunstenaar
Omschrijving werk
I often use text ambiguously as visual-tactile stimuli and conceptual element in my videos, sculpture, installations, performances, prints, paintings, drawings or interactive works. Often there is a social political personal reference that is also a play on the aesthetic and the multicultural or culture in general. In the Truisms photo-painting-prints the play between languages is not just between the New Zealand (where I was born and raised) Maori and English texts but also between the language of abstract expressionism and the conceptual, in miniature. "Bed Peace" was a performance/installation intervention surrounded by televisions showing videos also part of the Leiden Int. Short Film Festival. More > www.sonjavank.com Ik gebruik sociaal politiek of persoonlijk tekst vaak dubbelzinnig als visueel-taktiele stimuli en conceptueel element in mijn video's, skulptuur, beelden, installaties, schilderijen, grafieken, tekeningen, interventies, performances of interactieve (interactief) kunst. Ik ben in Nieuw Zeeland (Aotearoa) geboren en getuigen waar ik nog contact heb.
Werk
| Titel | Caravan to Irsina |
| Jaartal | 2017 |
| Omschrijving | Newspaper origami elephants take a walk. More: http://www.sonjavank.com/caravan-irsina.htm |
| Techniek | performance |
| Formaat | 1 hour |
| Titel | 19 Gay Men and The Throne of God |
| Jaartal | 2017 |
| Omschrijving | 19 Gay Men and The Throne of God. More: http://www.sonjavank.com/19gay-men.htm |
| Techniek | video with soundscape + music |
| Formaat | 5 min 10 sec |
| Titel | Cornerstones |
| Jaartal | 2016 |
| Omschrijving | moveable seats change the size. Made at the Whangarei Sculpture Symposium. More: http://www.sonjavank.com/cornerstones.htm |
| Techniek | upcycled wood and flax |
| Formaat | approx. 7 meter diameter x 2 metres |
| Titel | The Yellows |
| Jaartal | 2015 |
| Omschrijving | "The Yellows," like the blues, are an emotion, a state of mind or in the case of this video, a happening. More: www.sonjavank.com/yellows.htm |
| Techniek | 3 min. video with music |
| Formaat |
| Titel | Transit in a green landscape |
| Jaartal | 2013 |
| Omschrijving | An intervention at the Tahora Folk Festival. A transition of red across green incorporating five "Kaimanawa" horses. More: www.sonjavank.com/transit.htm |
| Techniek | 7 min. video with music |
| Formaat |
| Titel | Bed Peace 2013 |
| Jaartal | 2013 |
| Omschrijving | It is 2013 and the performance is both a referencing of the past and the contemporary. The bed is surrounded by televisions and computers, some old, some new. Films either by artists also in the exhibition "film + kunst" or a selection from the "Leiden International Short Film Experience" were played. The monitors placed at the end of the bed, functioned as another form of 'in between' staging. Viewers could ask themselves if the arrangement was sculpture or an assemblage, a comment on the 'frame' or a reference to the work of another pioneer of conceptual art, June Naim Paik. More: www.sonjavank.com/bedpeace.htm |
| Techniek | video installation + performance |
| Formaat |
| Titel | Kāinga - Puke Ariki | Home within |
| Jaartal | 2013 |
| Omschrijving | A site-specific installation made out of recycled wood and cardboard incorporating five videos with sounds in spiral form approximately 6 metres square. Videos have differing lengths so there is a continuously changing soundscape and imagery. More: www.sonjavank.com/kainga2013.htm |
| Techniek | 5 screen video installation |
| Formaat | 6000 x 3000 x 300 |
| Titel | Rubbish Blooms |
| Jaartal | 2013 |
| Omschrijving | Each flower is made out of plastic rubbish donated by the person or family it is named after. The names of these flowers refer not only to the idea of a new creation made out of old ingredients, but also memorialize the few days of plastic trash from that person. More: www.sonjavank.com/rubbish.htm |
| Techniek | floating sculpture |
| Formaat |
| Titel | Pop-up onna-bugeisha |
| Jaartal | 2013 |
| Omschrijving | The onna-bugeisha was a female warrior in the Japanese upper class who was a member of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honor in times of war. This 'pop-up' out of HERstory is an adaption of a 16th century illustration of Ishi-jo wielding a naginata, by Kuniyoshi Utagawa. More: www.sonjavank.com/pop-up.htm |
| Techniek | Print/object edition, laminated paper + |
| Formaat | 20 x 25 x 27 |
| Titel | A hetero sexual organ |
| Jaartal | 2013 |
| Omschrijving | "A heter sexual organ" is in a sense an offense against nature and culture, being a collage of 9 different flower parts. Flowers have been bred to 'pure' forms over the centuries. However here the aim is to create an object of beauty from the heterogeneous (the diverse types) to show that art, not nature, has the last word. The Nature-Nurture series are illusionistic works based on photographs of cultivated flowers from a New Plymouth garden in Aotearoa | New Zealand. These are real objects, as shown by the imperfections, arranged artificially and hung out from the wall so that the lighting throws an after image on the wall. This 'seeing through the work' draws attention to the medium, a suspended transparent sheet. More: www.sonjavank.com/ahetero.htm |
| Techniek | print edition on transparent sheet |
| Formaat | 21 x 28 x 4 |
Omschrijving werk
I often use text ambiguously as visual-tactile stimuli and conceptual element in my videos, sculpture, installations, performances, prints, paintings, drawings or interactive works. Often there is a social political personal reference that is also a play on the aesthetic and the multicultural or culture in general. In the Truisms photo-painting-prints the play between languages is not just between the New Zealand (where I was born and raised) Maori and English texts but also between the language of abstract expressionism and the conceptual, in miniature. "Bed Peace" was a performance/installation intervention surrounded by televisions showing videos also part of the Leiden Int. Short Film Festival. More > www.sonjavank.com Ik gebruik sociaal politiek of persoonlijk tekst vaak dubbelzinnig als visueel-taktiele stimuli en conceptueel element in mijn video's, skulptuur, beelden, installaties, schilderijen, grafieken, tekeningen, interventies, performances of interactieve (interactief) kunst. Ik ben in Nieuw Zeeland (Aotearoa) geboren en getuigen waar ik nog contact heb.
Persoonsgegevens
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| Website | www.sonjavank.com |
Opleidingsgegevens
Erkende vakopleiding
| Academie / instituut & plaats | studierichting / specialisatie | periode van / tot | diploma |
| Maastricht, Hogeschool Zuyd, Academie Beeldende Kunsten | autonoom | 1989-1993 | J |
Andere opleiding
| Instituut / docent & plaats | (studie)richting | periode van / tot |
| Otago School of Fine Arts | Diploma of Fine Arts | 1980-82 |
| Dunedin Teachers College | Diploma of Teaching (eerste grads) | 1986 |
| Leiden University | Masters in Media Technology | 2005-2008 |
Overige gegevens
| Lid van Beroeps / Kunstenaarsvereniging | nee |
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| Deelnemer van Kunstenaarsinitiatief | nee |
Curriculum vitae
Tentoonstellingen
| jaartal | naam tentoonstellingsruimte | korte omschrijving | solo / duo / groep |
| 2017 | Where Shall We Call Home, Depot Artspace, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand | 50 deelneemers, geselecteered | GROEP |
| 2016 | The Poetic Condition | De Dichterlijke Aard, The Shutter Room, Whangarei, New Zealand | heb ik dit gecoordinated. 14 deelnemers. | GROEP |
| 2015 | Calling All Dreamers The Village Arts Gallery, Kohukohu, Northland, New Zealand | 20 deelnemers | GROEP |
| 2014 | "Draw Smogasbord", De tuin van de smid, Cronesteyn Park, Leiden | aangesloten met kunst evenement door het stad. | GROEP |
| 2013 | Film + Kunst, Galerie de Pieter, Leiden | heb ik dit gecoordinated. 40 deelnemers | GROEP |
| 2012 | Land Art Maastricht, Chateau Bethelhem, Maastricht | 20 deelneemers geselecteered | GROEP |
| 2011 | Los Medanos College Art Gallery, Pittsburg, CA, U.S.A. | video in expositie over water. 20 deelnemers | GROEP |
| 2011 | ISEA 2011 ISTANBUL, UNCONTAINABLE: Second Nature, Cumhuriyet Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey | 7 deelnemers - een site specific 5screen video installatie | GROEP |
| 2011 | Yuchengco Museum + Blanc Compound, Manila, The Philippines | performance + sculptuur - 20 internationale deelnemers | GROEP |
| 2010 | Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen | 6 deelnemers, site specific 5screen video installatie | GROEP |
Projecten
| jaartal | instelling | titel & typering project |
| 2016 | Creative Northland Provincial Arts Funding | Whangarei Sculpture Symposium IV, Whangarei, New Zealand selectie van 20 voor 10 dagen om een openbaar beeld te maken |
| 2016 | Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens, Northland, New Zealand | Under Kaipara Skies, Dec 2016-Oct 2017 selectie van 20 |
| 2015 | Peen en Ui, Leids kunstenaars iniatief | Hometown, city centre art festival, Leiden, 30 August 15 kunstenaars deed mee |
| 2015 | Limburg curator: Ben van Kollenburg | Verhalen en herinneringen, Wittem monastery gardens 15 deelnemers |
| 2014 | openmakers, Leiden | Leiden kunstroute video installaties |
Internationale uitwisseling
| jaartal | instelling |
| 2017 | kunstenaars initiatief, stadje Irsina, Italie |
Aankopen / werken in collecties
| jaartal | naam collectie | plaats / land | omschrijving aankoop |
| 2017 | Depot Artspace collector | Auckland, New Zealand | print-painting, Justice is..., Truisms series |
| 2017 | Barbara Greenberg, private collector | Maastricht, NL | print-painting, Josephine's Mother |
| 2016 | Private collector | Whangarei | purchased our Whangarei Sculpture Symposium sculpture |
Publicaties
| jaartal | titel publicatie | uitgever / samensteller, plaats | typering |
| 2016 | Crossing Contexts - Sonja van Kerkhoff | zelf | monografie, 24 pagina's |
Artistieke nevenactiviteiten
| nevenactiviteit | van | tot |
| incidenteel curator exposities/projecten/manifestaties | 1996 | 2017 |