 | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  |
| TOINE KLAASSEN |
| Laboratory of Contemporary Archaeology performance and installation, TENT. Rotterdam 2006 |
EDUCATION
1995-2000 Rietveld Artacademy, Amsterdam
EXHIBITIONS
2000
Degree Show, Rietveld Academy Amsterdam
100 artists at 100m2, Galerie vertrek en verblijf Pakhuis Wilhelmina Amsterdam
2001
Placebo, Theater De Vest Alkmaar (solo)
2002
Meeting, Karelse en van der Meer Architects, Rotterdam
location project “land” Amsterdam Ijburg, organized by foundation Drei birken auf der heide
Allegory IV, Nieuwe Vide Centraal, artist’s initiative Haarlem (solo)
All in the game, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (solo)
2003
Become and degenerate, atelier installation open to audience, Rotterdam (solo)
Shed, Nieuwe Vide, artist’s initiative Haarlem (solo)
Vhs festival, Het Wilde weten, artist’s initiative Rotterdam
location project Windows, Alkmaar, organized by foundation Pygmalion
location project Art in the old north, organized by center of contemporary art Rotterdam
Personal galaxy, Projectspace 5er, Rotterdam (solo)
Dinner performance, Projectspace 5er, Rotterdam
Opinionatedinteraction, Nieuwe Vide, artist’s initiative Haarlem
2004
vhs Festival, National center of contemporary art, Mexico City
Films, Projectspace 5er, Rotterdam
Dockwork, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn
One minutes festival
2005
Base, Artis projectspace, Den Bosch
The earth seen from the moon, Cesar Manzo gallery Pescara, Italy
Immortality bar, Stadsalerij Museum for contemporary art Heerlen (solo)
Salon chez route imperial Utrecht
Worldgarden Location project Rotterdam
Sequence, Rood de bioscoop, Amsterdam
Basement Screen, BasementArtProject.com
ONE MINUTES FILM FESTIVAL Amsterdam
2006
Sequence, the Space London
Basement Screen, the Residence Gallery, London
Vhs Festival, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
ONE MINUTES FILM FESTIVAL Amsterdam
FATAMORGANA Unit 1 Alkmaar, the Netherlans
www.toineklaassen.com
1995-2000 Rietveld Artacademy, Amsterdam
EXHIBITIONS
2000
Degree Show, Rietveld Academy Amsterdam
100 artists at 100m2, Galerie vertrek en verblijf Pakhuis Wilhelmina Amsterdam
2001
Placebo, Theater De Vest Alkmaar (solo)
2002
Meeting, Karelse en van der Meer Architects, Rotterdam
location project “land” Amsterdam Ijburg, organized by foundation Drei birken auf der heide
Allegory IV, Nieuwe Vide Centraal, artist’s initiative Haarlem (solo)
All in the game, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (solo)
2003
Become and degenerate, atelier installation open to audience, Rotterdam (solo)
Shed, Nieuwe Vide, artist’s initiative Haarlem (solo)
Vhs festival, Het Wilde weten, artist’s initiative Rotterdam
location project Windows, Alkmaar, organized by foundation Pygmalion
location project Art in the old north, organized by center of contemporary art Rotterdam
Personal galaxy, Projectspace 5er, Rotterdam (solo)
Dinner performance, Projectspace 5er, Rotterdam
Opinionatedinteraction, Nieuwe Vide, artist’s initiative Haarlem
2004
vhs Festival, National center of contemporary art, Mexico City
Films, Projectspace 5er, Rotterdam
Dockwork, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn
One minutes festival
2005
Base, Artis projectspace, Den Bosch
The earth seen from the moon, Cesar Manzo gallery Pescara, Italy
Immortality bar, Stadsalerij Museum for contemporary art Heerlen (solo)
Salon chez route imperial Utrecht
Worldgarden Location project Rotterdam
Sequence, Rood de bioscoop, Amsterdam
Basement Screen, BasementArtProject.com
ONE MINUTES FILM FESTIVAL Amsterdam
2006
Sequence, the Space London
Basement Screen, the Residence Gallery, London
Vhs Festival, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
ONE MINUTES FILM FESTIVAL Amsterdam
FATAMORGANA Unit 1 Alkmaar, the Netherlans
www.toineklaassen.com
Klaassen will stay in the gallery for 5 days and produce a site-specific work, Laboratory of Contemporary Archaeology. He intends to
transform the gallery space into his own lab where he will collect found objects from the Whitechapel area. Klaassen draws
attention to the poetry of the unsightly, the small, and neglected. He collects discarded objects from his surroundings with no
predetermined plan, and subsequently uses these in his work. Often the work is created in the presence of the public in a
performance setting, in which he makes no attempt to avoid the absurd. Or as Klaassen himself states: “If you catch a butterfly in
your hands the powder on its wings will brush off leaving just a tattered rag.”
transform the gallery space into his own lab where he will collect found objects from the Whitechapel area. Klaassen draws
attention to the poetry of the unsightly, the small, and neglected. He collects discarded objects from his surroundings with no
predetermined plan, and subsequently uses these in his work. Often the work is created in the presence of the public in a
performance setting, in which he makes no attempt to avoid the absurd. Or as Klaassen himself states: “If you catch a butterfly in
your hands the powder on its wings will brush off leaving just a tattered rag.”