Similar to cinema, where running time indicates the full length of a film, Currents #4: Running Time offered indispensable time to a generation of artists who are interested in storytelling, myth, fact and fiction.
Curators: Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx
The participating artists shared an interest in unravelling stories, whether true or fictionalised, and their work referred to narrativity, and cinematic time. The exhibition played with the cycles of knowing and becoming, and Marres Currents #4: Running Time acted as a framework for their stories to be continued.
The title ‘Running Time’ referred to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process. In current times of information overload, creative time is scarce. Yet it is this spare time in which a thought becomes a valuable idea, where a gut-feel or an afterimage triggers our attention. Running time is needed for the mind to associate freely, to let latent ideas surface.
Marres Currents #4: Running Time was a group-exhibition with artists who recently graduated in Belgium, the Ruhrgebiet in Germany, and the south of the Netherlands.
Curators
Barbara Cueto (ES) is curator of Vesselroom Project in Berlin. Before that, she worked as a curatorial fellow of Bétonsalon in Paris and guest curator at Mönchengladbach Open House. Bas Hendrikx (NL) is associate curator at P//////AKT. His forthcoming projects include The Queer Series for Framer Framed and Skulptur Bredelar (DE). He has previously worked for Galeria Plan B in Berlin, and Hotel Maria Kapel in Hoorn. Cueto and Hendrikx worked before as a team for the project Your Time Is Not My Time at De Appel arts centre Amsterdam and the Impakt Festival 2016 in Utrecht (NL).
Participating artists
Caroline Bosc (La Cambre, Brussels), Tim Bruggeman (KASK Ghent), Ralph Collier (Sint Lucas Antwerp), Nathalie De Corte (Académie des Beaux-Arts Liège), Ties van Dijk (MAFAD Maastricht), Kiki Goossen (MAD-faculty Hasselt), Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann (KHM, Cologne), Tessa Groenewoud (KASK Ghent), Romee van Oers (AKV St. Joost Breda), Camille Picquot (KASK Gent), Allan Rand (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), Miriam Sentler (MAFAD Maastricht), Puck Vonk (Sint Lucas Antwerp), Reinier Vrancken (AKV St. Joost Den Bosch) and Thomas Wachholz (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf).
Exhibition Overview
Videos participating artists
Public program
During the opening, special evenings and the finissage of the exhibition participating artists did a number of performances. The film Oceans Hill Drive by Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann was also screened. A recording was made of Puck Vonk’s performance The Neologism of the Female Voice. La Loba, a performance installation by Caroline Bosc was performed once in Marres. During the events Thomas Wachholz and Nathalie de Corte performed as well.
Press about Currents #4
Press
For press requests, imagery and interview requests, please contact Julie Cordewener: julie.cordewener@marres.org.
