Venice Biennale: Cinema Olanda - Projecting the Netherlands
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, From Left To Night, 2015. Still from the 32 minute film.
ASCA Biennale seminar: Cinema Olanda - Projecting the Netherlands
Hosted by Esther Peeren and Patricia Pisters, in close collaboration with Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Lucy Cotter.
‘Cinema Olanda’ is the title of the project by Wendelien van Oldenborgh and curator Lucy Cotter that will form the Dutch entry for the 57th edition of the Venice Biennale, taking place in 2017. Taking the Dutch national pavilion, designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1953, as a Modernist projection of the Netherlands, their exhibition will make space for lesser-known episodes in Dutch postcolonial history and explore how they resonate with current transitions in the Netherlands’ cultural and political landscape. The exhibition and live events in Venice will be accompanied by a multidisciplinary symposium entitled Cinema Olanda: Projecting the Netherlands, which will take place at various locations in the Netherlands in October 2017 in partnership with Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). This seminar series is the first manifestation of this collaboration.
The seminar will take a series of films by Wendelien van Oldenborgh (viewed during the seminar) as its departure point. Van Oldenborgh’s work is acclaimed for its use of the cinematic format as a methodology for production, with live (public) film shoots generating the collective co-production of scripts. Known for groundbreaking works set in colonial architecture and engaging with its attendant discourses, such as Maurits Script(2006), her recent work engages with Modernist architecture that paved the way for the social, economic and political realities of globalism. In her latest film, From Left to Night(2015) three sites embodying1960s idealist architecture in London form points of intersection of events, subjects and recent histories related to the London riots, music and feminism. Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Lucy Cotter will be present during the first seminar to introduce van Oldenborgh’s work and the Venice Biennale 2017 Project. Other guest speakers will be invited and announced to the seminar participants.
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Wendelien van Oldenborgh
Cinema Olanda
13 May to 26 November 2017
Dutch Pavilion
Giardini, Venice
Curated by Lucy Cotter
Commissioned by: Mondriaan Fund
A parallel program in the netherlands is organized in June and July in Amsterdam (EYE & Stedelijk Museum) and Rotterdam (Witte de With). See for more information here.