's Gravenhaarlem

'S GRAVENHAARLEM (PART 1: DE BESTURING)

Over the last few years Nieuwe Vide has exhibited works from artists based in The Hague remarkably often. With ‘s Gravenhaarlem (part 1: De Besturing) Nieuwe Vide wants to emphasize this collaboration even further. For this show nine artists were invited, all of whom are based in the studio complex De Besturing in The Hague. De Besturing houses a group of 28 creative professionals representing different disciplines, ranging from carpentry and metalworking to design, photography, architecture, interventions in public space and autonomous art.

Not unlike Nieuwe Vide, which besides several studios also houses an exhibition space, De Besturing is accompanied by an enormous industrial hangar that provides a location for special cultural events and is rented out to other artists for the production of large-scale works. ‘s Gravenhaarlem spotlights visual artists who work in De Besturing and who haven’t exhibited together before. Although their works are very diverse in nature Nieuwe Vide, being a relative outsider, thinks there are some similarities and common grounds to be pointed out in this exhibition.

’s Gravenhaarlem (part 1: De Besturing) is sponsored by Stroom Den Haag and the first part of a diptych that focuses on the connection between The Hague and Haarlem as an ‘axis of contemporary art’. The second part will show works of artists based in Nieuwe Vide’s own studio complex. ’s Gravenhaarlem (part 2: Nieuwe Vide) opens on 10 January 2014 and will be the last exhibition curated by departing director Jaring Dürst Britt.

Pictures courtesy Maarten Noordijk

24 November 2013 - 05 January 2014
Nieuwe Vide Haarlem (NL)

Nieuwe Vide