Vloedlagen in de zeereep (2024), foto Tom Haartsen:
Medusa (2024)
Zeeorganisme (2024)
TIDE - KARIN VAN DAM
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​​​​15.03.2025 - 13.04.2025​​
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OPENING 15.03.2025 4pm
​​Our House is open from 1pm, the official opening at 4pm.
When we enter Karin van Dam's installations, at no point does the thought arise that it is a metamorphosis of ready-made objects.
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Karin van Dam is always focused on searching and finding which is synonymous with discovering and collecting material. This ‘pallet of things’ contains the ingredients: material that generates meaning and exploring that stimulates thought. 'The fluffy ball, the drooping thread. Sometimes they are stored within my field of vision as possible building blocks.'
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In the sketching phase, she arrives at the image by doing. This is also where her drawings and sculptures arise, which stand-alone but may grow into room-filling installations.
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Without a predetermined plan, but through an intuitive process. ‘I do have an idea, but in the spontaneity, in the creation, in the play, in the adventure, that's where it happens’.
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Her work is in constant flux. She often returns to former artworks, to combine them, rework them, add to and expand them. Every piece is a continuation of previous works as well as a bridge to what comes next. This search and finding process never ends.
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The spaces in which she builds her installations influence and determine the direction in which the work develops. She is a connector and the search is like the never ending Tide.
Biography:
Karin van Dam (Eindhoven 1959) studied at the Royal Academy of Art and Design, 's-Hertogenbosch. From 2006-2024, she was a lecturer at ArtEZ in Arnhem and a guest lecturer at various art academies in the Netherlands.
Karin van Dam is represented by Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague.
She has exhibited her work at home and abroad, including in 2024 Powerlong art center, Xiamen(CN), De Compagnie, Veghel (2024). In 2023 Un Monde Verticale (zone de silence) Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint Ouen L'Aumônde (F) with Tanja Smeets; Drawn from Water Museum THE REACH, Abbotsford CA.
In 2022 De Onderstroom Museum Rijswijk with Robbie Cornelissen; Vloedlagen van de Zeereep IV De Vishal, Haarlem and was Church Master in the Grote Kerk, Veere (2021). In 2017 To dwell in pitch black pearls at University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Canada and Kantelpunt 1 Cacaofabriek in Helmond with Robbie Cornelissen.
Her work is included in various museum collections, including the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Tilburg Textielmuseum, Kunstmuseum The Hague, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. Works in public space include the new building of the Sint Maartens-clinic in Nijmegen, Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena and the Detention Centre of the Government Buildings Agency at Schiphol.
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