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.