1. The prologue for Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s new commission is titled Supposing I love you. And you also love me. It will be presented in the exhibition Speech Matters in the Danish Pavilion of the Venice Biennial 2011. Collaborating with a group of young students coming from different backgrounds and with Tariq Ramadan a script is developed which elaborates to expose the mechanisms which makes the silencing of some voices in the current Dutch society into an effective action. Concentrating on performance and presentation by non-professional actors, who are implicated in the issues addressed, the work continues after this prologue with a further exploration of the way certain totally different voices have come up as resistant and political but subsequently have lost their solid ground.

      Wendelien van Oldenborgh is an artist based in Rotterdam whose practice explores social relations through an investigation of gesture in the public sphere. Van Oldenborgh often uses the format of a public film shoot, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome, which can be film, or other forms of projection. Recent works include: Pertinho de Alphaville (co-produced by 29e Bienal de Sao Paulo) Lina Bo Bardi: The Didactic Room (Van Abbemusem, Eindhoven 2010), Après la reprise, la prise (Contour Mechelen 2009), Instruction, 2009, Lecture/Audience/Camera, 2008, No False Echoes, 2008, Maurits Script, 2006.

      Her work has been exhibited in the last years a.o. at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, M HKA Antwerp, A-Space Gallery Toronto, Art Sheffield, ICA London, in the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the 29th São Paulo Biennial 2010, and at the Istanbul Biennial 2009. For the academic year 2009/2010 she has been guest professor for Kunst und Kommunikatieve Praxis in the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna and currently she is lecturer at the master Artistic Research at the KABK in The Hague.

    1. Wendelien van Oldenborgh is one of five artists commissioned by If I Can’t Dance to make a new work as part of Edition IV – Affect (2010–2012).

      A prologue to the new work, Supposing I love you. And you also love me, will be presented at the 54th Venice Biennale in the exhibition Speech Matters of the Danish Pavilion. This work is co-commissioned by If I Can’t Dance. As part of the research for the new commission, Wendelien van Oldenborgh curated Cinema – this, Television – that in collaboration with If I Can’t Dance, on 29 March 2011 at the Rietveld Academie.

      Van Oldenborgh’s new work will be further developing themes she explored in the recent works Après La Reprise, la Prise (2009) and Pertinho de Alphaville (2010). Her research is guided by the current changes in feelings of collective strength, the loss and gain of a public voice, as well as the role of cultural production in relation to this.

      1. BOOK LAUNCH, PREMIERE AND LECTURE

        3 April 2016, 3pm

        Launch of Wendelien van Oldenborgh's monograph, with Netherlands premiere of From Left to Night and screening of Bete & Deise, and lecture by David Dibosa

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh, David Dibosa
        Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Teijin Auditorium
      2. PRESENTATION

        12 October 2015, 7pm

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh: The Work We Do

        Frédérique Bergholtz and Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        KNAW, Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam
      3. SCREENING

        5 August – 30 September 2015

        Bete & Deise – Brazilian tour

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Casa do Povo, São Paulo; Fundaj – Arte Contemporânea, Recife; Capacete, Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
      4. FILM

        10 December 2014

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        The Cross Art Projects, Sydney
      5. FILM

        15 July 2014

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Irish Film Institute, Dublin
      6. symposium

        21 March 2014, 12:30 - 7pm

        Resonance and Transmission: from one voice to another

        Federica Bueti, Sharon Hayes, Alex Martinis Roe, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Francesco Ventrella, Camilla Wills
        De Brakke Grond, Nes 45, Amsterdam
      7. film

        29 September 2013 – 8 December 2013

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Calvert 22, London
      8. FILM PROGRAMME

        14 May 2013

        Instruction (2009), Supposing I Love You. And You also Love Me (2011), and Bete & Deise (2012)

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        mumok, Vienna
      9. FILM

        26 January – 14 April 2013

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        De Vleeshal, Middelburg
      10. Film

        29 November 2012 – 24 February 2013

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Museum of Contemporary Art Metalkova, Ljubljana
      11. FILM

        8, 9 and 11 November 2012

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Playground Festival; Film in M Forum, Leuven
      12. FILM

        26 October 2012, 9pm

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        South London Gallery, London
      13. Film

        22 August 2012

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Tranzitdisplay, Prague
      14. FILM

        16 August 2012

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin
      15. film

        26 May 2012

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        SCREEN Festival, Barcelona
      16. film

        27 January 2012

        Bete & Deise (world premiere)

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        WORM, International Film Festival Rotterdam
      17. reading group

        24 October 2011

        Reading Group in Toronto Affect #2

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh & Brian Massumi
        Art Metropole, Toronto
      18. presentation

        10 June 2011

        If I Can’t Dance presents artists Edition IV

        Sung Hwan Kim, Hito Steyerl, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Jeremiah Day, Emily Wardill
        Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk
      19. commission

        3 June – 27 November 2011

        Supposing I love you. And you also love me

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Presented at 'Speech Matters' - Danish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
      20. symposium

        29 March 2011

        Cinema - this, Television - that

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh in collaboration with If I Can't Dance
        Studium Generale programme, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
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