KALEB DE GROOT

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Meanwhile in rural Ethiopia, the house De Groot designed to become a residency for the Dutch Mondrian Foundation, is slowly being built in ‘stampleem’. Read more at the blog.

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Currently residing at the Instituto Bueno Bista in Curaçao, from May 1st, till the end of August, 2015. The Instituto Buena Bista, Curacao Center for Contemporary Art (also known as IBB), started in 2006 as an artists initiative with the goal to create a solid platform for art and art education on the tropical island. De Groot also teaches at the institute. 

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Souffler exhibition with Daniel Hofstede, Kaleb de Groot, Benjamin Roth. VZL/Contemporary Art, Oostelijke Handelskade, Amsterdam.  Read review here: http://metropolism.com/reviews/souffler/

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Opening coming up for the trio show SOUFFLER:  Daniel Hofstede, Kaleb de Groot, Benjamin Roth. VZL/Contemporary Art, Oostelijke Handelskade, Amsterdam Silkscreen © Michiel Schuurman

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In July 2014, Kaleb de Groot is going back to Ethiopia again to continue with the artist-in-residency he is building. Follow the blog at kalebdegroot.wordpress.com

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THE RECEPTOR, 2009-2013

Multi-media installation in former watchtower of the Soesterberg Airbase in collaboration with Roosje Klap Sound, video, ceramics, furniture, newspapers, window sticker, photography and more. On commission by SKOR/CBKU Utrecht, Vrede Van Utrecht Part of 'Collectie De Basis', 2013 Photos by Roel Backaert

website review MetropolisM Rosa te Velde

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HOLIDAY, 2013 Sculpture

Melted asphalt on wooden forms 'On Fresh Soil', W139, Amsterdam Curated by Susan Kooi, Zoro Feigl, Sajoscha Talirz and Kaleb de Groot. For six weeks, W139 had been a workplace for ten artists who used the old asphalt floor of the project space as construction material for new artworks. 30,000 tons of asphalt was transformed into an exhibition that explored the potentials of the material in all kinds of ways.

With Andreas R Andersson, Jabu Arnell, André Avelãs, Elke Baggen, Dovilė Bernadišiūtė, Kaleb de Groot, Benjamin Roth, Anami Schrijvers, Daniel Caleb Thomson, Merce Wouthuysen

Photos by Henni van Beek

website review MetropolisM Michael Tedja review MoMA Alison Burstein

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SHOTGUN MARRIAGE
, 2012 Social sculpture Ceramics, wood, epoxy and glass

KAAP, Fort Ruigenhoek

The northwest point of the island of Fort Ruigenhoek is the location of these four sculptures. Here they have found sheltered surroundings in a structure looking like a pavilion. Shotgun Marriage is a work conceived from a viewpoint unrelated to the designing of a space. This suggested pavilion does not offer real protection like the bunkers used to do. Yet the location, the bunkers and the greenery go together.

The four sculptures are grouped around the outside of the pavilion. They have an important part to play in a guided tour of the work. But is their role explained clearly? Ask the guide at the start of the guided tour, which takes 20 minutes.

Photos by Annalien Nijland and Ilya Rabinovich website review Tubelight Marjolein Geraedts

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BOUSTROPHODONICAL-II, 2012 Installation

Exhibition 'Gold', W139, Amsterdam curated by Maaike Gouwenberg  hardwood, trees, wooden pillars, bolts, lacquer and paint.

With Anja Carr, Eddy, Kaleb de Groot, HGich.T, Miktor & Molf, Mom & Jerry, Maria & The Mirrors

Photos by Johannes Schwartz website review MetropolisM Leen Bedaux

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NAi PAVILION BOUSTROPHODONICAL-I, 2010 Pavillion (not realised)


Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 
Temporary pavilion (160m2) 
in collaboration with Nezu Aymo
 Architects

The Dutch Institute of Architecture (NAi) is closed for renovation, lectures and other social activities were going to take place in a temporary pavilion placed next to the NAi-building. 

The pavilion was going to be constructed entirely out of re-used materials left over from the renovation of the main building, all initially registered and categorized. 

 For a while, the materials of the NAi are reconfigured into a different shape. Its formal language and position in the distant sharp point of the adjoining strip of grass makes the pavilion look like a small mutated clone of the NAi- building which has disengaged from its origin and begins to live its own life. 

The realization of this pavilion was canceled a month prior to the opening.


website

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REVISIT EXQUISIT, 2010 in collaboration with Roosje Klap Installation 26 art works
 26 silkscreens 
(silkscreened by Kees Maas, edition 10)

Amsterdam based artist initiative De Service Garage showed 1.500m2 
solo installation of artist Kaleb de Groot and designer Roosje Klap.

Revisit Exquisit is the closing exhibition of De Service Garage at the current location. De Groot and Klap took this as the starting point
to rigorously cut open part of the roof to let the daylight inside the exhibition area, a reference to the cities' recently demolished, 
hated and loved 'New Wing' of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Revisit Exquisit are inflatables, fireworks, wood, concrete scupltures and silkscreens. The constructions, wood sculptures and reused artworks form the cyclic process towards an abstract dynamic installation. By integrating architectonical elements, such as the yellow presentation bases, De Groot and Klap question essential questions about the presentation of art itself.

At the finissage, de Groot made a white suit performance 
with fireworks and paper pulp throughout the exhibition.

This exhibition was, in part, made possible by The Mondrian Foundation 
and the Netherlands Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (BKVB). review NRC Ine Poppe

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EXQUISITE GUNPOWDER CITY 16 SHOT, 2008 in collaboration with Roosje Klap

Intervention in public space, exhibition and artist book 14 inflatables, 7 exploded small 
sculptures (various materials)
, 4 bamboo ladders and an artist book

Artists Kaleb de Groot and designer Roosje Klap 
lived and worked in China during a residency 
at the Chinese European Art Centre (CEAC) 
for four months in 2008.


The project 'Exquisite gunpowder City 16 Shot' focused on implosion and explosion, producing broadband ways to freeze-frame explosions in the most physical of forms. This resulted in interventions in the public space, the presentation of an artist-book and a site-specific installation at the Chinese European Art Centre in Xiamen.

They were both struck by the rigurous ways of the cities’ new floor plan, demolishing beautiful authentic city along its’ hungry way. 
Klap and De Groot researched ways to make fast-growing mixtures and inflatables that literally blow up or down in size, resulting in spatial studies. 

The title 'Exquisite Gunpowder 16 City Shot' refers to the fantastic names of fireworks and its’ awkward Chinese translations, as well as the 
amount of weeks they have stayed in China. The artist book focused on the kaleidoscopic translation of the general concept of ‘EGC16S’. 
The book holds two especially designed pop-ups: explosions in paper. Furthermore, photoseries of their Xiamenese site-related outside event 
‘Blowing up in Public’ is featured as well as drawings and other photographs. 


This exhibition was, in part, made possible by The Mondrian Foundation and the Netherlands Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (BKVB).

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SCULPTURE OF SHEBANG, 2009 Installation in public space

CEC Building, Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL

As a commission for the center for contemporary art in Amsterdam Zuidoost and the CEC building, de Groot produced this elevated mental space consisting of several parts. The inflatable, made of african waxprint, inside the core of the object suggests that it breaks out of the classic architectural form. By means of a timer, the blower which provides the air for the inflatable is turned on and off by doing so the inflatable functions as a loung. The second part of this 'mental space' is a 5/3 mtr vinyl print based on a villa design which was supposed to have been built in the vicinity of the CEC building. In front of the vinyl print a neon is hung. The neon's form is a copy of a corner in de Groot's house where the old design of the neighborhood (de Bijlmer) meets the new. The corner is a bricolage of material and sizes made by an anonymous carpenter. By copying the mistake into neon de Groot puts a spotlight on the individual strength within such a big thing as cityplanning. 

Both the classical and modern form refer to architecture in general. An ongoing part of the artwork is a reoccuring workshop during the period of half a year on new dutch language. Within the building a big group of people from all etnicities and nationalities study dutch, voluntarily and forced.

Underneath the elevated object stickers are being pasted with new dutch words and sentences. At the end of this exhibition there will be a large collection of new language to enrich the national language with international words.

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FATFORM, 2010-2012

in collaboration with Daniela Bershan and Jonas Ohlsson

FATFORM was an art project (2010-2012), initiated by Daniela Bershan, Kaleb de Groot and Jonas Ohlsson, that challenged the idea of a traditional platform and its basic functionality. Local and international artists met, exchanged, exhibited and performed together until the apocalypse in 2012 at one of the best underground locations in Amsterdam: the rooftop parking garage Klieverink in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. With an experimental cross-programming, different audiences were attracted from various fields such as contemporary art, biology, hip hop, new media, philosophy, performance and reggae and are encouraged (or basically forced) to at least have a peek at the other.

This project was an experiment to find a form that is open enough to have space for diverse and often non-compatible networks. By not trying to minimize these incompatibilities but rather to propose a form that is FAT enough to contain all radicals.

FATFORM produced three big exhibitions: Fatform (2010), The Island (curated by Irene de Craen and Jonas Ohlsson, 2012) and Present Forever (curated by Daniela Bershan, Ad de Jong and Manuel Klappe, 2012). See The Island and Present Forever elsewhere on this site. Find out more on FATFORM at www.fatform.com

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COUNTER MEMORY 004, 2011 in collaboration Iben Trino-Molenkamp 

Installation with ceramics, photography and wood, video and reader

Exhibition in Galerie 37 and 37PK, Haarlem in collaboration with Iben Trino Molenkamp 

With 'Counter Memory 004' artist Kaleb de Groot and historian and filmmaker Iben Trino Molenkamp researched the collective memory: who has entrance to Dutch cultural heritage, and who can deliver a contribution for the collective memory? 

This exhibition was, in part, made possible by The Mondrian Foundation and the Netherlands Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (BKVB). 

With many thanks to authors Merel Boers, Paulus Bijl, Benjamin Foley and designer Melle Hammer, for contributing to the reader 'Counter Memory 004'.

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presentation FLACC, Genk (B)

On Sunday the 8th of December, 2013 Kaleb de Groot presents his installation Barricade, Demo at FLACC, Genk (B).  The scenography can be visited throughout the day, starting at 12 a.m.. The discussion moment will be held from 1 to 6 p.m., the official language is English. Reservation is requested; please make reservations through [email protected]. Address: FLACC, Andre Dumontlaan 2, 3600 Genk.

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Follow Kaleb de Groot in Ethiopia. Give and take: an artist-in-residence in rural Ethiopia

There are currently more than one thousand artist-in-residence programmes worldwide, most of which saw the light of day during the last twenty years or so.[1] The timing of this growth roughly goes...