The Guiding Thread
11 January - 8 March 2025To commemorate the second anniversary of Suzanne Tarasieve's death, the gallery is presenting the very special exhibition The Guiding Thread, wherein each of the gallery's artists has invited an artist they admire to exhibit their work.
Suzanne Tarasieve was a veteran Parisian gallerist, known for her championship of avant-garde artists and her distinctive style. When she passed away, she left her legacy, the gallery, to her chosen family in art: her four assistants. From January 2023, these four are running the gallery, not only to keep Suzanne's spirit alive, but also to push it into the future.
This exhibition is not only a way to celebrate Suzanne's joie de vivre, her imagination, her inexhaustible energy and her infectious love of art, but also to transmit it by giving space and trust to the artists.
For this exhibition, Anne Wenzel has invited Nicky Assmann, whose immersive kinetic installations and films use light, colour and sound in a bold yet poetic way.
Her work has a high degree of abstraction, but never loses touch with reality. She creates worlds using scientific knowledge. But although science is essential, her work can be experienced through the senses.
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Paris
https://www.suzanne-tarasieve.com Anne Wenzel in ArtpressPamela Sticht wrote a large portret with the title Anne Wenzel: History, yesterday and Today for the French art magazine artpress. Sticht looks back at Wenzel's uncompromising work, in which bodies and faces are inseparable from history and its traumas. She places Wenzel's recent project Carte Blanche (Fuck the Dictator) in the context of her long engagement in arts. and writes about the problems as well as the advantages to work as a German artist in The Netherlands on a monument for the victims of the Second World War.
Pamela Sticht is art historian, curator and head of scientific programming at the Musée national d' art moderne - Centre Pompidou.
Artpress
December 2024
https://www.artpress.com PAXXH - Fondation Francès
24 October 2024 - 18 January 2025Fondation Francès celebrates its 15th anniversary this year with the programme XXH in which they explore the eXtra-eXtra-human.
PAXXH is an exhibition that explores vulnerability and strength, but above all the potential for transformation and sublimation. The works by Roy Adzak, Mari Katayama, Marta Spagnoli, Joana Vasconcelos and Anne Wenzel from the Francès collection cultivate paradoxes, nuances and versatility between presence and absence, human and animal, cruelty and delicacy. They respond to the urgent need to provide time for contemplation and reflection on our relationship with the world, with otherness, with our environment and with our memory.
Fondation Francès
Senlis
Frankrijk
https://www.fondationfrances.com Documentary Wenzel fights selected for Dutch Filmfestival!We are extremely proud that the documentary Wenzel vecht (Wenzel fights) by filmmaker Charlotte Meijer has been selected for the Nederlands Film Festival!
In this documentary, filmmaker Charlotte Meijer follows Wenzel in an extremely tense period of her artistic career, when she starts sculpting the Razzia Monument and works on her Carte Blanche in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. During eighteen months, Meijer regularly films the artist, so not only do we witness the creation of the artwork, but we also get to know the artist’s motivations. The fact that, being German, she constantly lives with a latent feeling of guilt, hones her struggle and lends her work a deeper meaning.
On 22 September, the film will be screened in the Tuinzaal of the Centraal Museum Utrecht. Afterwards, Anne Wenzel and Charlotte Meijer will get into discussion with moderator Jörgen Tjon a Fong.
Nederlands Filmfestival
Centraal Museum
Utrecht
https://www.filmfestival.nl Installation Bird of Freedom in HemiksemThe last months, Anne Wenzel worked on the more than 5-metre-high sculpture of a bird commissioned by the Municipality of Hemiksem. On Monday 19 August, it was placed on the recently redesigned Municipal Square in Hemiksem. The large bird symbolises the beauty and power of life. As the sculpture is made of ceramics, it establishes a link with the brickworks of the Rupel region and Gilliot's world-famous building ceramics in Hemiksem.
This sculpture holds particular significance for Anne Wenzel, as it is her final collaboration after 20 years with Luigi Zuliani. Luigi Zuliani is the only craftsmen in The Netherlands who knows how to make ceramics solid and resistant by using concrete.
This year, he is going to retire.
Anne Wenzel is committed to preserve this craft, Zuliani's heritage, and to make this knowledge accessible to future generations.
To this end, Nurzehra Ulukaya, artist herself and Wenzel’s assistant, worked alongside Zuliani - learning through hands on experience. Thanks to the support of CBK Rotterdam, the entire process could been documented on film. The European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC) will keep this knowledge open-source.
Gemeenteplaats
Hemiksem
België
Face(s) à face(s): Le buste sculpté en liberté!
17 May 2024 - 12 January 2025The Musée Labenche's collection consists of busts from the Middle Ages, to Renaissance, with an emphasis on the 19th century. Most of the busts in the exhibition are permanently shown in the display. Other sculptures were restored on the occasion of this presentation. The exhibition places these busts from the Musée Labenche collection in dialogue with busts by contemporary artists.
Musée Labenche
Brive-la-Gaillarde
http://www.museelabenche.fr/expositions/musee-labenche Wild Summer of Art
12 July - 25 August 2024Brutus Space presents the 2nd edition of a Wild Summer of Art featuring work by 50 Rotterdam-based contemporary artists and a dynamic public program of events, screenings and performances. This year's edition is guest-curated by Amira Gad in collaboration with Sophie de Vos.
Anne Wenzel presents the site-specific installation Under Construction (Brutus). The installation consists of painted banners, female busts and stacked architectural elements. Reminiscent of street barricades, Wenzel’s work appropriates the formal language of protest and stages a state of temporary occupation while alluding to the dethroning of an established order for the sake of a new one.
Wenzel has conceived Under Construction (Brutus) with the wish to question the possibility of a female stance on political power and hierarchy as a counter response to male-dominated power.
Brutus
Rotterdam
https://brutus.nl/ Fuga's en Pimpelmezen
8 June - 29 September 2024Contemporary art is presented in the intimacy of the Museum House and enters into dialogue with the place and the oeuvre of Lucien De Gheus and his passion for music, dance and movement.
Curator Els Vermeersch presents selected works by Guillaume Bijl, Caroline Coolen, Johan Creten, Laura Prouvost, Johan Tahon, Tamara van San, Anne Wenzel and more.
Museumhuis Lucien De Gheus
Poperinge
Belgium
https://www.luciendegheus.be/ Anne Wenzel in Podcast
Kunst is LangDuring one hour host Luuk Heezen talked with artist Anne Wenzel about House of Fools, her series of sculptures, which were on display last year in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. Half-destroyed statues of former 'heroes, such as J.P. Coen or Witte de With. The installation was part of her Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator) project, which Wenzel received after winning a boxing match against the former director.
In addition they talked about the Razziamonument which Wenzel accomplished last year. The two statues of a man and a woman at the Maas in Rotterdam form the monument for the raid in November 1944, where 52.000 men were taken from their homes and were forced to labour in Germany.
Kunst is Lang
(Dutch only)
https://www.mistermotley.nl/kunst-is-lang-anne-wenzel/ House of Fools (Witte) is purchased by Museum Boijmans van Beuningen!The sculpture of the naval officer Witte Corneliszoon de With belongs to the series House of Fools. In response to the contemporary iconoclasm that has taken place in recent years where statues were thrown from their pedestals, damaged or defaced, Anne Wenzel created the series House of Fools. The artist faced an ambiguous debate: the fact that these days works made by colleague sculptors from the past are being destroyed and the necessity of political protest.
Wenzel felt that some nuance was missing. Without searching for an answer to the question of who is / was 'good' or 'bad', Wenzel created the space-filling installation House of Fools, featuring busts of controversial figures from history.
Witte de With is not only known for his heroic exploits at sea, but also for the brutal oppression and colonial violence that earned him this title. The City of Rotterdam is home to a famous street named after him, as well as the Grote Kerk (St. Lawrence Church), where his body was buried.
Given this context, we are very proud that curator Saskia van Kampen-Prein has acquired Anne Wenzel’s work House of Fools (Witte) for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's modern and contemporary art collection.
https://www.boijmans.nl Faire Corps
19 May - 3 November 2024FAIRE CORPS explores visions of the “body” through the works of 60 established and emerging artists, both French and international.
Since the 19th century, and in keeping with profound mutations in society, representations of the "classical" body and the "ideal" nude have been increasingly called into question. FAIRE CORPS explore the body as an object of concern for racialized, feminist, and gendered representations.
With works by, among others, Alexandra Bircken, Louise Bourgois, Stephan Balkenhol, Johan Creten, Dewar & Gicquel, Silvy Fleury, Meschac Gaba, Ana Mendieta, Annette Messager, Hans op de Beeck, Tony Oursler, Recycle Group, Elsa Sahal, Kiki Smith and Anne Wenzel.
Villa Datris
L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
France
https://fondationvilladatris.fr/ Art Brussels
24 - 28 April 2024Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presents at Art Brussels by Anne Wenzel works from the series reality Check, as well as the recent sculpture House of Fools (Leopold II). This work is based op te recently removed statue of Leopold II in Antwerp. It represents the waning glory and power of this controversial Belgian king.
Art Brussels
Brussels Expo
https://www.artbrussels.com/ Art Paris
3 - 7 April 2024Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presents at Art Paris works by Anne Wenzel from her recent series House of Fools.
Art Paris
Grand Palais Éphémère
Paris
https://www.artparis.com Documentary Wenzel Vecht on
Open Rotterdam!Wenzel Vecht by director Charlotte Meijer can now be seen at Open Rotterdam. This documentary powerfully portrays the motivations of the Rotterdam artist Anne Wenzel. Meijer meets the artist when she starts sculpting the Razzia Monument (2023) and becomes intrigued. We first see Wenzel throwing the clay on the floor of her studio, the starting of a sculpture that will be at least four meters high, which grows slowly under the hands of Wenzel and her team.
Wenzel Vecht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zmrN2AX4Cs Art Rotterdam
1 - 4 February 2024Akinci presents, next to others, new works by Anne Wenzel, such as Reality Check (East Germany), among others at Art Rotterdam. Reliefs, which are positioned between sculpture and painting and are part of a tradition of a visual language used to tell heroic stories. Reliefs are usually located on the wall, but Wenzel places them in space, close to the ground, based on the idea that this is where the uprising arises. The representations that can be seen on the reliefs in combination with the thick, shiny, colorful glaze make it seem as if the statues are in full motion.
Art Rotterdam
Van Nellefabriek
Rotterdam
https://www.artrotterdam.com Anne Wenzel - House of Fools
20 January - 2 March 2024In the solo exhibition 'House of Fools' by Anne Wenzel, AKINCI presents a major part of the series of sculptures that Wenzel made for her solo exhibition Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator) in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
In response to the contemporary iconoclasm that has happened in recent years where statues were thrown from their pedestals, damaged or defaced, Anne Wenzel created the new series House of Fools. Busts of politically controversial figures from history, which Wenzel allows to tower above the people. Partly destroyed, the sculptures give the impression that they have been attacked by termites and are rotting from the inside.
As an opposite to the representation of political power, Wenzel developed the series Reality Check, in which ceramic half-reliefs show scenes of collective uprising and archetypes of protests: the power of people.
The resistance from the past that resonates in the works of Anne Wenzel in the House of Fools exhibition is reflected in the present. Without searching for the answer to the question of who was right, Wenzel broadens the perspective by subtly drawing attention to the other side of the heroic stories.
AKINCI
Amsterdam
https://akinci.nl Finissage & Public evaluation
Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator)
13 + 14 January 2024In Carte Blanche (Fuck the Dictator) Anne Wenzel gives central importance to the art, the artist's vision – not to the institution and its interests. What happens when political agendas and external interests no longer influence the display – and therefore the perception - of art?
This Carte Blanche goes beyond being an exhibition. It poses questions about the role and meaning of art, but also about the way in which the museum presents art to the public, by means of gallery texts, education and marketing. Where Carte Blanche crosses these boundaries is where things get tricky. For that means daring to take risks, especially when the outcome isn't yet clear beforehand. Artists are used to taking risks. But to what degree are institutions prepared to do so?
To organize groundbreaking projects, one needs to be capable of thinking and working innovatively. Also in terms of budgeting. To what extent does the museum system allow that?
January 13 and 14 is the last weekend of Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator). Time for a festive finissage and a public evaluation of this special project.
14:00 - 16:00
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
https://stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/tentoonstelling/carte-blanche-fuck-the-dictator/ Pebbles – reflecting to navigate
24 November 2023 - 13 January 2024In the popular story of the Grimm Brothers, the two main characters Hans and Gretel leave a trail of pebbles as they walk. Later, when night has fallen and the moonlight reflects on these pebbles, they hope to find their way back home.
As we approach the end of the year in their final exhibition in 2023, AKINCI shines a light on the past to explore paths that have brought them to where they are today.
With works by Stephan Balkenhol, melanie bonajo, Kirsten Geisler, Gluklya, Inge Meijer, Marie-claire
Messouma Manlanbien, Ana Mendieta, Ulf Puder, Miguel Angel Rios, Pipilotti Rist,
Andrei Roiter, Stéphanie Saadé, Anne Wenzel & Edwin Zwakman
AKINCI
Amsterdam
https://akinci.nl Inauguration Razziamonument Rotterdam 10 November 2023On Friday, November 10, the Razzia monument was unveiled by Mayor Aboutaleb at the Parkkade in Rotterdam. Visual artist Anne Wenzel designed the monument, which focuses on unity and division. The statue consists of a man and a woman placed at a distance from each other. The figures were once one whole, but were separated by the raid.
During her opening speech, Anne Wenzel said:
"Where the two human figures once touched each other, two large wounds became visible. It is good that these wounds are now finally visible - even though it hurts. You have to be able to see wounds in order to heal them.
You cannot see these wounds always. Sometimes you have to change your position. Just step aside. But once you have seen them, you will never forget them."
"This man and this woman give a face to all the victims of the raid. Behind the anonymous numbers of victims are people. Individuals. People who had to learn to live with their wounds after the war. Wounds that do not simply disappear. Wounds that are often even passed on from generation to generation. Political circumstances that affect the personal determines, makes and breaks people's lives.
War has no winners,
War has only losers.
Especially at a time like this, where war is coming so close to us again, we must never forget that war starts with polarization, with language, with the exclusion of 'the other'. This monument does the opposite. It brings people together. It makes an immense, forgotten chapter visible – and places it at the center of the lives of the people of Rotterdam.
Read Anne Wenzel's entire opening speech here (Dutch only):
https://www.bkor.nl/documentatie/onthullingsspeech-razziamonument Installation Razziamonument
3 November 2023Over the past two years, Anne Wenzel and her team worked on the Razziamonument. After an intense time of work, the Razziamonument was finally installed at the Parkkade in Rotterdam.
On 10 and 11 November 1944, the Nazis, meticulously prepared and unexpectedly, deported 52.000 men between the ages of 17 and 40 from Rotterdam and Schiedam. Most of them were taken to Germany as forced laborers. They had to leave their loved ones behind in fear and uncertainty for months. More than 500 men did not survive.
With the Razziamonument, Rotterdam will have a permanent place where there is room for commemoration and gathering. The location on the Parkkade is central to the places where te men were brought together for transport, mainly to Germany.
Anne Wenzel got the commission by Stichting Razzia Monument Rotterdam. the proces was supervised by BKOR, CBK Rotterdam.
Razziamonument
Parkkade
Rotterdam
https://razziamonument.nl Anne Wenzel - Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator) - the Publication arrived!Anne Wenzel - Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator) is a manifesto about the autonomy of art, as well as a reflection on the positions of art and artists within the current institutionalized art world. Over 136 pages the entire proces of Carte Blanche is richly illustrated and documented. With a dialogue of Deirdre Carasso, Anne Wenzel and curator Selen Ansen about the reason to step into the boxing ring. Texts by director Anne de Haij and Anne Wenzel about their perspectives on Carte Blanche and an essay by Selen Ansen.
The publication is bi-lingual (ENG/ NL). Designed by 75B and published by Nai010 Publishers.
The publication costs € 29,95.
For orders send an email with or name and address to info@annewenzel.nl
The book presentation will take place:
November 3 from 4:00 PM at Boksschool de Jong, Singel 8 in Schiedam.
Be welcome!
Crowdfunding Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator) -The Publication started!Under the slogan “Fuck The Dictator,” Anne Wenzel stepped into the boxing ring in 2019 at the invitation of the director of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. For her as an artist, this was an unique opportunity to finally stand on equal footing with a director. In the boxing ring, she fought for nothing less than the autonomy of art versus the power of cultural institutions.
After three rounds, Anne Wenzel won Carte Blanche at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. To reveal the entire underlying process of Carte Blanche, it is necessary to guard them in this publication.
You can support this publication here:
https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/16088-carte-blanche-fuck-the-dictator-1 Fuck The Dictator - Calendar 2024!For Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator) at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Nada van Dalen designed a special collection based on the sculptures of Anne Wenzel.The boxers of Boksschool de Jong were wearing the collection, standing in between the - partly unfinished - sculptures in the studio of Anne Wenzel. The collection was photographed by Aad Hoogendoorn.
The Fuck The Dictator - Calendar 2024 was launched Saturday 28 October 2023 during the no-ko matches at Boksschool de Jong in Schiedam.
The calendar is available at Boksschool de Jong and in the museum shop of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam!
The profit will go for 100% to the boxing school for an AED device.
http://oldschoolboxing.nl The Future is Present - The Present is the Past
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
2 September - 14 October 2023In her solo-exhibition at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Anne Wenzel will present sculptures uit her recent series House of Fools and Reality Check. House of Fools consists of ceramic male busts in dark and golden hues placed on plinths and construction elements of the same colours and material. Faces are undone, forms are dissolving as if subjected to gravity; glory is in ruins. As contrapost, the ceramic reliefs of the series Reality Check depict scenes of state violence, riots and street demonstrations by means of abstraction. Drawing from images of protests browsed on the internet or sourced in books and newspapers, Wenzel provides various historical upheavals with a timeless and universal character.
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Paris
https://www.suzanne-tarasieve.com Marie-Louise is baptized
8 July 2023In the context of Carte Blanche, Wenzel has produced a ceramic sculpture that features a female bust wearing boxing gloves and a boxing robe with a hood that is reminiscent of a veil. This boxing Madonna, which the artist has donated to the boxing school in appreciation of their contribution to the project, reinterprets the sculptures of saints endowed with a protective function in the Catholic tradition. Resonating with Hans de Jong’s wish to create a school where all are welcome, Wenzel’s female patron will take care of the place and its users on literal and metaphorical levels. On 21st May 2023, the boxing Madonna found a permanent home above the school’s boxing ring where, not so long ago, a museum director and an artist fought against each other. The sculpture that became part of a site-specific installation was baptized by Hans de Jong and Anne Wenzel on the openings day, when the territory of Carte Blanche starts welcoming the public.
Open for public during the exhibition Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator)
Each Saturday from 11:00 - 17:00
Free entrance
Boksschool de Jong
Singel 8
Schiedam
http://oldschoolboxing.nl Anne Wenzel - Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator)
8 July 2023 - 14 January 2024In February 2019, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam’s former director Deirdre Carasso invited Anne Wenzel to step in a boxing ring with her. Wenzel never had boxed before, but accepted the challenge on the condition that the museum gives “carte blanche” to her if she wins the fight. Both trained intensively during several months at Boxingschool de Jong with trainers Hans de Jong and Bob van der Vlist. On 14th September 2019, the match took place in front of an audience on a boxing ring installed for the occasion in the museum’s chapel. Designed by Nada van Dalen, Anne Wenzel's boxing outfit featured an emblem representing her sculpting tools and the slogan “FUCK THE DICTATOR”. After three round Wenzel won the fight. Shortly after, Wenzel invited Selen Ansen,
curator at Arter in Istanbul, Turkey, to join in the Carte Blanche
(Fuck The Dictator) - project and collaborate with her.
For Anne Wenzel, the boxing fight is a metaphor for the combat between two positions on the place of art in society and the role of art institutions. She was fighting for the autonomy of art against its cultural and social instrumentalisation. Carte Blanche (Fuck the Dictator) is both an outcome and an extension of this fight. As an act of repair, it intends to put the art centre stage and bring the artworks into the place where, in her view, they should be welcomed and public in their own right.
Carte Blanche will combine several new immersive installations with existing works, in and outside the museum, as well as in the Boxingschool de Jong. But Carte Blanche does not stop there. It disturbs the entire communication around the project: the texts, the visual communication, marketing, education and more.
Carte Blanche reminds us that the boundaries between to fight against and to fight for
are tenuous; that beauty may arise from violence and disorder; that values,
ideologies or systems once praised may collapse and perish like anything else.
The results of his project will be brought together in a publication end of the year.
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
& Boksschool de Jong
Schiedam
https://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl Toucher Terre - La sculpture céramique
14 April - 17 december 2023In an exhibition space committed to contemporary sculpture and through the artworks of the Villa Datris Foundation, Toucher Terre brings together more than 50 ceramic artworks by French and international artists on the theme of Earth.
The discovery of the material plunges us into a primitive forest sheltering various animal and plant
species—creatures inspired by nature, mythology and folktales.
From the bowels of the Earth as archaeological witness of our civilization, to the intimacy of the workshop where accident/control, chance/luck reign, ceramics reveals its strengths and weaknesses.
Fondation Villa Datris
Espace Monte-Cristo
Paris
https://fondationvilladatris.fr ART PARIS
30 March - 2 April 2023
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presents on the 25ste edition of ART PARIS works by Romain Bernini, Alin Bozbiciu, Eva Jospin, Boris Mikhaïlov, Recycle Group and Anne Wenzel.
Anne Wenzel presents for the first time her new monumental, ceramic sculpture Still Life (after a study by Peter Paul Rubens).
ART PARIS
Grand Palais Éphémère
Paris
https://www.artparis.com/ ARCO Madrid
22 - 26 February 2023
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve will present this year at the ARCO in Madrid among others the recent work Still Life/Metamorphosis by Anne Wenzel.
ARCO
Mardid
https://www.ifema.es/en/arco/madrid Art Rotterdam
9 - 12 February 2023AKINCI Amsterdam presents work by Andrei Roiter, Molly Palmer, Ruby Swinney, Stephan Balkenhol and Anne Wenzel.
Art Rotterdam
Main Section
Van Nellefabriek
Rotterdam
https://www.artrotterdam.com Anne Wenzel started with the production of the Monument for Raid in RotterdamAnne Wenzel has started with the production of the two meter-high figures, a man and a woman. More than 8,000 kilograms of clay will be needed. Building and breaking up go hand in hand, beauty and destruction meet. These qualities are important for a monument that wants to commemorate an almost forgotten and repressed traumatic event.
The draft by Anne Wenzel was unanimously chosen from a long list. During the annual commemoration of the raid in 2021, the initiators presented the draft, which was unveiled by Mayor Aboutaleb. Anne Wenzel works in close contact with the initiators Stichting Razzia Monument Rotterdam, Bkor and the municipality on the realization of the monument, which will be placed on the Parkkade in Rotterdam in November 2023.
https://razziamonument.nl DIRTY WORK
25 August - 9 October 2022DIRTY WORK is an exhibition of contemporary ceramic practice co-curated by William Cobbing and The Art Station.
DIRTY WORK presents a diverse range of ceramic works from sculpture to video, which push the boundaries of the medium in a subversive way. The visceral characteristics of the clay catch the work in a state of flux, or in a state of shed or metamorphosis. The ambiguous nature of the work allows the viewer to decipher forms that seem part alien, animal or vegetable. The artists play with the base materiality of clay in a direct, sensual and often humorous way.
DIRTY WORK will include artworks by Clare Twomey, Nicholas Pope, Anne Wenzel, Ryan Gander and Linda Sormin, Markus Karstieß and more as well as performances by William Cobbing.
The Art Station
Saxmundham
UK
https://theartstation.uk/exhibition/dirty-work/ Toucher Terre
L'art de la sculpture céramique
27 May - 1 November 2022The exhibition Toucher Terre at Foundation Villa Datris explores the influence of ceramics on contemporary sculpture. More than with other materials, the direct and tactile contact with the hand of the artists plays an important role. It is a sensual way of working, wherein art becomes material - with a seemingness unlimited plasticity.
With works by Miquel Barçelo, Johan Creten, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Cicquel, Clémentine Dupré, Lucio Fontana, Michel Gouéry, Cameron Jamie, Laure Prouvost, Elsa Sahal, Clémence van Lunen, Tamara van San, Anne Wenzel and more.
Fondation Villa Datris
L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
https://fondationvilladatris.fr Against Nature
21 May - 4 September 2022Against Nature is an exhibition inhabited by insolent, hybrid shapes made of clay and enamel, such grotesque creatures compose a luxuriant, original, mysterious, troubling, or even hallucinatory world.
Nature is artifice, and artifice becomes nature in order to decategorize scales and values, as well as to reverse commonplaces regarding sculpture and the ceramic tradition. The works gathered concern ceramics less as folklore than as modeling and alchemy, technique, and magic. Water, earth, and fire are the essential, unrivaled components of these new worlds: « What we call against nature is in fact against custom. » (Montaigne)
With works by Salvatore Arancio, Johan Creten, Roberto Cuoghi, Michel Gouéry, Takuro Kuwata, Claire Lindner, Sterling Ruby, Elsa Sahal, Katrina Schneider, Elmar Trenkwalder, Tamara Van San and many more.
Anne Wenzel will present het immersive installation Silent Landscape. This will be the first time that this installation will be on display in France.
A catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition.
MO.CO.
Montpellier
https://www.moco.art Art Rotterdam
19 - 22 May 2022AKINCI presents on Art Rotterdam works by Ruby Swinney, melanie bonajo, Andrei Roiter, Charlotte Schleiffert, Inge Meijer, Jaap van den Ende and Anne Wenzel.
Art Rotterdam
Van Nelle Fabriek
Rotterdam
https://www.artrotterdam.com From primeval beast to smoking croissant - Acquisitions and old acquaintances
May 14 - June 26 2022The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam reopens the doors after a fundamental renovation with a collectionpresentation where recent acquisitions are combined with works which are already for a long time in the collection. Since the Fifty's the museum focuses on living artists in The Netherlands, which was in former times a courageous choice. Especially as the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam gives at the same time space and opportunities to younger artists which are not established yet.
The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam presents now the acquisitions from the last three years in dialogue with works which are already part of the collection since the beginning like works by Schoonhoven and Karel Appel.
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Schiedam
https://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl Art Brussels
28 April - 1 May 2022Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presents at Art Brussels selected works by Romain Bernini, Jörg Immendorff, Eva Jospin, Youcef Korichi, Markus Lüpertz, Lucien Murat, Anne Wenzel and more.
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Booth A.07
Art Brussels
https://www.artbrussels.com From The Bacon Project
6 January - 12 February 2022
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presents for the first time a selection from the series The Bacon Project by Anne Wenzel in France. The sculptures are the results of a researchproject wherein Anne Wenzel translated paintings by Francis Bacon into small ceramic installations. The results of this project are brought together in the self published book The Bacon Project, which will be included in the show too.
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Paris
https://www.suzanne-tarasieve.com Museum Het Valkhof acquires installation Under ConstructionTwo monumental female busts, several ceramic cubes and a mural by Anne Wenzel will become part of the collection of Museum Het Valkhof. The museum is the first museum which acquires an installation of Anne Wenzel.
The ceramic female busts of the installation Under Construction are tortured and covered with a layer of paint. But if you take a closer look, you will recognize the scratched slogans 'I Am My Own Prophet" and 'Don't Fear Freedom'. They are an ode to the woman fighting for her rights in a fight which is still 'under construction'.
The works are on display in Museum Het Valkhof.
Museum Het Valkhof
Nijmegen
https://www.museumhetvalkhof.nl Art Cologne
17 - 21 November 2021AKINCI present during Art Cologne besides work by Melanin Bonajo, Stephan Balkenhol and Gluklya also works form the Bacon series by Anne Wenzel.
Art Cologne
Cologne
Germany
https://www.artcologne.com Anne Wenzel in Art Press
October 2021The French curator and art critic Richard Leydier wrote in Art Press about The Bacon Project by Anne Wenzel. About the background of her project and the things she discovered during this slightly absurd project.
Art Press, Nr 493
https://www.artpress.com The Roaring Twenties
17 October 2021 - 3 April 2022In the exhibition The Roaring Twenties, guest curators Colin Huizing, Liesbeth in 't Hout and Wieki Somers (Studio Wieki Somers) look back and ahead at the twenties through art, fashion and design. What do the artists hope for, at that time, and nowadays? Are there parallels? How do they represent the spirit of the times? The exhibition allows us to look through the eyes of some 60 leading contemporary and historical artists, designers and fashion designers at a world that is changing rapidly under the influence of technological progress, social engagement and a new view of gender.
With works by Tjebbe Beekman, Esiri Erheriene-Essi,Raquel van Haver, Erik van Lieshout, Charley Toorop, Helen Verhoeven, Anne Wenzel and more.
Museum Kranenburgh
Bergen
https://www.kranenburgh.nl GOTH - Designing Darkness
16 October 2021 - 18 April 2022Goth is the world’s biggest subculture. A lifestyle steeped in an undefined yearning for the dark side of life. The exhibition GOTH – Designing Darkness looks for the wellspring of the Goth scene to present two centuries of a cultural history packed with dramatic imaginings, ominous design and melancholic art.
The work Bright solitude (Chandelier) of Anne Wenzel from the collection of the museum will be included in the show as well as a rich survey of objects and art from collections including those of the Kröller-Müller Museum, the Musée d’Orsay, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Design Museum>br>
Den Bosch
https://designmuseum.nl/ Artist Talk - Anne Wenzel
10 October 2021
Anne Wenzel will talk about her work in general, the developing of her oeuvre as well as the technical aspects she has to deal with. She will talk about her series Damaged Goods, the large, dark male busts she presents at Art Zuid. And she will question if woman would be better if the would rule the world. A subject which was the starting point for her series Under Construction, he monumental females busts.
16:00
Art Zuid
Amsterdam
https://artzuid.nl/ Collection Tanguy en Bieke van Quickenborne - Blauw
24 September - 24 October 2021
Blauw present works from the collection Tanguy and Bieke van Quickenborne. the writer Saskia De Coster choses as starting point for this presentation the work heaven #02 by Anne Wenzel. De Coster combines works from the collection in an unexpected way and gives a fresh view on the collection.
Platform 6a
by Deweer
Otegem
België
https://www.platform6a.art/ Art Paris
9 - 12 September 2021
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presents during Art Paris new sculptures by Anne Wenzel next to works by Eva Jospin, Romain Bernini, Markus Lüpertz, Recycle Group and more.
Art Paris
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Stand C08
Paris
https://www.artparis.com Art Zuid
Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial
1 July - 17 October 2021Under the supervision of curator Ralph Keuning, 50 artists have been invited who work from the basis of engagement. They question the current state of the world and take us along to their ideal. The artists want to awaken something in the visitors, to think about a better world and to set personal goals. What do you want to do to leave the world better for future generations, our children and their children?
Art Zuid presents works by Atelier van Lieshout, David Bade, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Raquel van Haver, Leiko Ikemur, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Meese, Anne Wenzel and many more.
Art Zuid
Amsterdam
https://artzuid.nl Anne Wenzel - The Bacon Project
New book out now!During the first lockdown, when everything became silent, Anne Wenzel took the decision to consider this extra time as present and to use this time for something she had already for a long time in her mind: she wanted to do studie after the work of Francis Bacon.
These results are published now in this artist book. For the main text, art critic and writer Sacha Bronwasser talked with Anne Wenzel in her studio about the proces of making and thinking. All twelve sculptures are included in the book too, as well as the original paintings by Francis Bacons. The introduction is written by the French editor and curator Richard Leydier.
Anne Wenzel - The Bacon Project
80 pages, full color, hardcover
21 x 15,5 cm
ENGL, NL, FR
The book costs 25 euro including VAT and excluding shipping costs.
For orders send an email to: office@annewenzel.nl
Anne Wenzel in the Volkskrant
1 July 2021
Stefan Kuiper talked with Anne Wenzel about her Bacon Project on the occasion of her exhibition at AKINCI in Amsterdam.
During the first lockdown, Anne Wenzel started to re-build paintings by Francis Bacon accurately. In the beginning she just used clay, but soon more technical solutions had to be found. She learned how to enamel, how to weld. She tried to drip silk in silicone. She did for weeks research to find the right colors in glaze which would match with the paintings of Bacon and she fought against gravity.
At the end she made twelve little, ceramic installations. But the most important result was the research itself. The lessons she learned, taught by the paintings of Francis Bacon.
Art Rotterdam
1 - 4 July 2021
AKINCIwill present during Art Rotterdam fresh work by Sarag Naqvi, Jaap van den Ende, Ruby Swinney, Andrei Roiter, Lungiswa Gqunta and Anne Wenzel. By Anne Wenzel will be works on display from her recent series The Bacon Project.
Art Rotterdam
Van Nelle fabriek
Rotterdam
https://artrotterdam.com Shifting reality
Anne Wenzel & Moyna Flannigan
12 June - 17 July 2021
Anne Wenzel & Moyna Flannigan will present at AKINCI their most recent works from the last months. Anne Wenzel will present her series The Bacon Project. A series of twelve little, ceramic installations, she worked on the last months during the lockdown. The works are based on the paintings of Francis Bacon, which she reconstructed carefully with her own material: clay. In the beginning she focussed on he human body. Later she tried to translate more and more entire spaces.
At AKINCI all the twelve works will be presented now for the first time to the public. At the same time the self published book 'Anne Wenzel - The Bacon Project' will be launched..
AKINCI
Amsterdam
https://akinci.nl/ Meet & Greet
20 May 2021
Thursday 20 of May, Anne Wenzel will give a digital tour though her studio in the South of Rotterdam. Anne de Haaij, the new director of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam will walk with Anne Wenzel through her studio and talk with her about recent developments in her work. Like The Bacon Project, a series of sculptures wherein she is doing research based on the paintings of Francis Bacon. Of course they also will talk about the practical part of the ceramic process like firing and glazing.
This digital studio visit is part of the Carte Blanche Anne Wenzel won in 2019 when she won the boxing fight against Deirdre Carasso, the former director. The Carte Blanche will happen in 2022. As part of the Carte Blanche Anne Wenzel will present a new installation, where she already will present the first steps during this studio visit.
You can follow the digital studio visit for free by Zoom.
Send an email to rsvp@stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl
The studio visit will be in Dutch.
https://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/ Anne Wenzel in NRC Handelsblad
1 April 2021Thomas van Huut talked with Anne Wenzel in her studio about her Bacon project. Since the first lockdown she started to translate the paintings of Francis Bacon into small ceramic sculptures. It is a research project which aim to push her own boundaries. She was already for years intrigued y the work of Francis Bacon. Now, during the first lockdown, she finally found time to start with it.
Thomas van Huut visited her for NRC newspaper while she was in the middle of the process. Many questions were still unanswered. Plenty of choices still had to been taken. And than there was also the massive problem of gravity...
Official launch Kunstambassade!During the last months Anne Wenzel worked with a group of Rotterdam artist on the Kunstambassade. The Kunstambassade is a digital platform, an art-embassy which aims to give acces for art-lovers to artists studios - especially in times of Corona.
The website is an ongoing growing digital building, where you can discover artists and their work. Through the Kunstambassade you can contact the artist and purchase their works. 20% of this amount will go to the solidarity fund, which will be evenly distributed to all participating artists.
The Kunstambassade works open source. In future, artists in other cities will be able to use the tools too, to build up their own Kunstambassade.
https://kunstambassade.nl Petitie: Open the museum and artistic institutions!The long closure of museums is an unacceptable situation, therefor art-critic Lucette ter Borg and Anne Wenzel took the initiatief to write a petition. The even longer closure will irreparably damage the art-sector. The closure of exhibition spaces means destruction of resources, both in a material and immaterial sense.
Artists are losing their market, art professionals are losing their work, the art public (young and old) is losing sight of a different perspective.
Through time slots, regulating visitor flows and ventilating the halls, museums can open safely according to the rules of the RIVM (National Institute for Health and Environment).
Therefor museums and institutes need to reopen their doors to the public as soon as possible. This allows artists and art professionals to finally do their work again and art to be seen by everyone.
Sign the petition and share it!
https://museaweeropen.petities.nl Room of treasures
7 December 2020 - 14 November 2021
The Room of Treasures presents the development of landscape and nature in art through the centuries. The museum has a rich collection of paintings landscape from the 16th century on, as well as video installations and contemporary sculptures. Highlights from the collection are the two impressionistic landscapes by the French painters Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. From now on, next to them will be presented three sculptures from the series Chasing Silence by Anne Wenzel. The tortured ceramic birds are a contemporary contrapunction with the historic paintings.
Especially for this occasion are two of the works on loan by Museum Het Princessehof.
Rijksmuseum Twenthe
Enschede
https://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl Inauguration
Monument for Freedom
10 July 2020
Commissioned by the City of 's-Hertogenbosch Anne Wenzel worked for the last six years on the Monument for Freedom situated on the Anne Frankplein. The main question for her was: what does freedom mean? Not just for Anne Frank, but also for us today.
Right in the middle of the square Anne Wenzel made a high pillar with a large, majestueuze bird on top. It is made of ceramics, glazed with bright colors. Besides this sculpture, Anne Wenzel designed for the first time the whole square. She created benches and a wall for commemoration with on top tiles referring to the diary of Anne Frank. The Anne Frankplein became a place not just for commemoration, but also a place where people can meet.
The commission was generously supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and the Buurtcultuurfonds Provincie Noord-Brabant.
Under Construction
Soloexhibition Anne Wenzel
Extended until 07 December 2020
In her soloexhibition, Anne Wenzel presents for the first time the whole series Under Construction in The Netherlands. Busts, representing beautiful and strong woman, tortured by fragments of texts she carved in the fresh clay. These works will be presented as one whole installation with more abstract ceramic elements, beautifully glazed. Cubes, refering to the architectural use of concrete. For this occasion, Anne Wenzel will make a mural with water ballons and Super Soakers filled with paint. An installation in-between de-construction and confirmation.
Museum het Valkhof
Nijmegen
https://www.museumhetvalkhof.nl Street Trash
Sculpture as special effect
17 June - 25 October 2020
The exhibition is inspired by the splatter movie Street Trash by Jim Muro (1987). A search of the approach of grotesque and post-apocalyptic esthetics in contemporary sculpture. About 40 art works from contemporary sculptors will by presented in a dark and disturbing setting.
With works by Sylvie Auvray, Johan Creten, Mimosa Echard, Michel Gouery, Amandine Guruceaga, Agata Ingarden, John Isaacs, Anita Molinero, Elsa Sahal, Maxime Sanchez, Ugo Schiavi, Jim Shaw, Anne Wenzel and many more.
Friche La Belle de Mai
Marseille
http://www.lafriche.org Installation Kingfishers in Almelo
26 May 2020
After more than one year of work, the three monumental sculptures by Anne Wenzel are installed right in the heart of the city of Almelo. The three massive ceramic public sculptures represent three kingfishers. They are positioned in and around the water of the new harbor in the city.
Due to Corona an official inauguration cannot be held right now.
Centrumplein
Almelo
The Netherlands
Anne Wenzel, 2000 kilos of clay
Quarantaine Podcast Sessions
Anne Wenzel talks in the Quarantaine Podcast Session organized by AKINCI over the impact of Corona on artists. About the importance of imagination and the possibilities hidden in 2000 kilos of clay. But also about silence in empty musea and the sadness of artworks who cannot be seen in times like this.
https://soundcloud.com/user-371298409/anne-wenzel-2000-kilos-of-clay Les Pays-Bas, l'autre pays de Beaux-Arts
11 April - 28 June 2020Due to the government-imposed measures to prevent for Corona is this exhibition cancelled.
Owing to the weight of this past, along with the effects of European integration and The Netherland’s position as a crossroads in the economic heartland of Europe, the contemporary Dutch artistic scene gets lost in a larger picture that blurs its contours for those outside of artworld circles. But while artistic creation in The Netherlands is in tune with European trends that transcend national borders, we can still discern singular features, in the treatment of space and light, or the persistence of historical themes or forms.
The exhibition will offer a selective panorama of contemporary creation in The Netherlands through the works of some thirty visual artists, including a site-specific intervention by Krijn de Koning.
With works by Elspeth Diederix, Rineke Dijkstra, Marcel van Eeden, David Jablonowski, Folkert de Jong, Natasja Kensmil,Krijn de Koning, Katinka Lampe, Mark Manders, Lily van der Stokker, Marijke van Warmerdam, Anne Wenzel, Guido van der Werve, Robert Zandvliet, Edwin Zwakman and many more.
Centre d'art contemporain
Abbay Saint André
Meymac
https://www.cacmeymac.fr Art Rotterdam
6 - 9 February 2020Anne Wenzel will present during Art Rotterdam for the first time her recent works in the booth of AKINCI: Sculptures inspired by the ambiguous vision of the men, representing the national proud and history like for example Willem van Orange in The Netherlands. Sculptures which confirm and question the heroism at the same time.
Art Rotterdam
Van Nelle Fabriek
Rotterdam
https://artrotterdam.com Under Construction
Soloexhibition Anne WenzelDue to the government-imposed measures to prevent for Corona the museum is temporary closed.
In her soloexhibition, Anne Wenzel presents for the first time the whole series Under Construction in The Netherlands. Busts, representing beautiful and strong woman, tortured by fragments of texts she carved in the fresh clay. These works will be presented as one whole installation with more abstract ceramic elements, beautifully glazed. Cubes, refering to the architectural use of concrete. For this occasion, Anne Wenzel will make a mural with water ballons and Super Soakers filled with paint. An installation in-between de-construction and confirmation.
Museum het Valkhof
Nijmegen
https://www.museumhetvalkhof.nl Guerre(s)
18 December 20190 - 01 February 2020From time immemorial, meaning since cave art, the blood of fighters have flown with paint. We are not talking about the Massacre of the Innocents in which one side does not fight back and just plays the victim; but real fight, soldiers and armies against each other. Battlefields. We are talking about War; that which used to have the face of a man, often a very young man, as if to sing the glory of armies, make up gods to tame people’s reluctance to do what leaders told them to: take up arms. For centuries, artists have served wars waged in the name of God, kings, cities, castles or their own tribe, often with little attention paid to casualties, blood and death. But only to represent war for itself, rage and brutality, the carnage behind the faces of the innocent armored young men scattered across the history of painting.
With works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alkis Boutlis, Robert Capa, Otto Dix, ORLAN, Ronald Ophuis, Anne Wenzel and many more.
Curated by Philippe Bouchet
Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière
Paris
https://www.ceyssonbenetiere.com Heroines Now
2 November - 21 December 2019With ‘Heroines Now’, AKINCI launches this year the second edition of a thematic exhibition. The first show was in 2005 and involved ‘Heroines’, innovative women artists of the 60ies and 70ies as Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann and Valie Export.
Now, more than ever, a feminine approach to the world’s needs and visionary concepts are relevant. ‘Heroines Now’ will reveal how vivid and urgent topics seen from the point of view of women artists from different continents and countries are now, with new insight, different visual tools, with humour and seriousness.
With works by Melanie Bonajo, Anne Wenzel, Gluklya, Sarah Naqvi and Lungiswa Gqunta.
AKINCI
Amsterdam
https://akinci.nl Woods
12th October - 30th November 2019Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presents during the Fiac works by Romain Bernini, Eva Jospin, Youcef Korichi, Kriki, Markus Lüpertz, Shanthamani. M, A.R. Penck and Anne Wenzel.
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Paris
https://suzanne-tarasieve.com Anne Wenzel beats director
Deirdre Carasso
14th September 2019In February 2019 Deirdre Carasso, director of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam asked Anne Wenzel if she want to fight against her a proper boxing fight right in the middle of the museum. Wenzel loved to watch boxing but never ever practiced it by herself. Besides that she believes that a museum should not ask an artist to fight in a boxing match, but should invite her for an exhibition. She accepted - under the condition that she gets Carte Blanche in case she will win. After months of intens training in the Boxingschool de Haan in Schiedam, the two woman faced each other in the ring.
Wenzel won.
The rest is history.
http://boksverenigingdehaan.nl Words Are Very Unnecessary
13 September 2019 - 8 March 2020
Arter opens his new museum with seven exhibition including the exhibition Words are Very Unnecessary with works from the collection curated by Selen Ansen. Revolving around the themes of gesture, remains and trace, this exhibition brings together process-based and performance-related works from the Arter Collection, featuring artists from Turkey and other countries worldwide.
Words Are Very Unnecessary is concerned with the ordinary and everyday sides of life. It is also concerned with the ephemeral emotions, relations and processes that cannot fit in a museum storage or be installed in an exhibition hall. As such, it proposes to look anew at things overlooked and familiar situations, in order to reveal their creative potentials.
With works by Francis Alÿs, Joseph Beys, Greta Brätescu, Stanley Brown, Sophie Calle, Leyla Gediz, Rebecca Horn, Allan Kaprow, Ali Kazma, Alicia Kwade, Sigmar Polke, Karin Sander, Roman Signer, Anne Wenzel and more.
Arter
Istanbul
http://www.arter.org.tr Stadsfestival Damme
13 September - 8 december 2019
Why and how do we remember things? is there a maximum capacity to remember? Can we hack our own brein and optimize it? What is the relationship in-between facts, truth, memory and imagination? Along these questions the Stadsfestival Damme presents sculptures, paintings and installations in the city of Damme.
With works by Tjebbe Beekman, Johan de Wilde, Berlinde de Bruyckere, On Kawara, Femmy Otten, Ronny Delrue, Hans op de Beeck, Stief DeSmet, Anne Wenzel and more.
Stadsfestival Damme
Intendant Jan Moeyaert
vzw Kunst/ Stichting ijsberg
Damme
http://www.stichtingijsberg.be/nl/doede-schole Body and Sculpture
22 June - 22 September 2019
This exhibition combines and confronts a selection of key works of George Grard with works and installations by seven contemporary artists. With works by Laure Foret, Susanna Inglada, Athar Jaber, Enrique Marty, Stefan Papco, Peter Rogiers and Anne Wenzel.
Curator: Els Wuyts
Kunstencentrum Ten Bogaerde
Koksijde
Belgium
https://www.koksijde.be/kunstencentrumtenbogaerde Sculptures 2019
22 May - 27 October 2019
Landgoed Anningahof opens the doors again and presents sculptures by Marie de Bruyn,Tom Claassen, Karin van Dam, Jonathan van Doornum, Adriaan Rees, Cornelius Rogge, Maria Roosen, Tanja Smeets, Elisabeth Stienstra, Levi van Veluw, Henk Visch, Rob Voerman, André Volten and more.
Anne Wenzel presents her monumental female busts Under Construction (Fuck Your Morals) and Under Construction (Burn The Dictator).
Landgoed Anningahof
Zwolle
http://www.anningahof.nl Art Brussels 2019
25 - 28 April 2019Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presents fresh work by Romain Bernini, Jörg Immendorff, Youcef Korichi, Ed Paschke, A.R. Penck, Recycle Group, Antoine Roegiers and Anne Wenzel.
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Art Brussels
https://www.artbrussels.com/ Art Cologne 2019
11 - 14 April 2019
AKINCI will present this year besides others the monumental female busts from the series Under Construction of Anne Wenzel.
With works by Stéphanie Saadé, Edwin Zwakman, Gluklya, Stephan Balkenhol. Andrei Roiter and Anne Wenzel
AKINCI
Art Cologne
http://www.artcologne.de Lubricated Language
23 March - 27 April 2019AKINCI presents in the exhibition Lubricated Language works by Ali Kazma, Anne Wenzel, Mire Lee, Petra Morenzi and Miguel Angel Rios. Anne Wenzel will present works from the series Nightfall, large glittering squid, made of glass. This series is the first time Anne Wenzel uses this material.
AKINCI
Amsterdam
https://akinci.nl From CoBrA to drilling oil
16 March - 6 October 2019
From CoBrA to drilling oil presents contemporary artworks from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, like Anne Wenzel and Charlotte Schleiffert. In a special room an installation of Robbie Cornelissen will be on display where the visitor will almost enter a 3-dimensional drawing. This room was purchased last year for the NOG Collection which is part of the museum. Now this room will be for the first time open for public.
Other works on display are by Karel Appel, Gijs Assmann, Tjebbe Beekman, Robbie Cornelissen, Corneille, Daan van Golden, Heringa/Van Kalsbeek, Peter Struycken, Charlotte Schleiffert, Jan Schoonhoven, herman de vries, Henk Visch, Anne Wenzel.
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
https://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl Rotterdam Late Night #56
7 March 2019
Each first Thursday of the month it is time at WORM for rte Rotterdam Late Night Show. A talkshow where art, politics and dreams of the Rotterdam will pass by. Host and writer Ernest van der Kwast will talk to guests, there is live music, a mini lecture and an ode which will be dedicated this time to Anne Wenzel.
21:30 - 22:45 hr
WORM
Rotterdam
Now/Forever
6 February - 10 February 2019Now/Forever will be for the first time this year at Art Rotterdam. Hester Alberdingk Thijm curated this exhibition together with the worldwide renown architect Tom Postma. The selected works will be shown right in the middle of the Art Fair. A place where art works from different galleries will be presented next to each other, in dialogue with each other as well as the visitors.
With works by Anne Wenzel, Klaas Klosterboer, Johan Grimonaprez, Bas de Wit, Esther Tielemans, Lucas Lenglet, Paul Kooiker, Jan Robert Leegte a.o..
http://www.artrotterdam.com Art Rotterdam
6 February - 10 February 2019AKINCI will present at Art Rotterdam works by Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Inge Meijer, Andrei Roiter, Stéphanie Saadé
and Anne Wenzel.
http://www.artrotterdam.com/ The Naked Truth
26 January - 16 June 2019The exhibition The Naked Truth tells the history of the western representation of the human being for the Renaissance until the 21st century. An exhibition about the development of mankind, in search of knowledge and self-confidence, learning to accept insecurity and doubt. Learning to deal with freedom and the consequences. How will the human being react towards the technical inventions? And how to deal with ecological changes? How can people live together even though they don't care the same ideologies?
With works by Berlinde de Bruyckere, herman de vries, Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo, Atelier van Lieshout, Jake & Dino Chapman, Marina Abramovic and many others. Anne Wenzel will present the work Der Tod und das Mädchen which is in the collection of De Nederlandsche Bank.
A catalogue will be published on the occasion fo the exhibition.
https://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl Out of Office
11 December 2018 - 7 April 2019The Singer Museum Laren wil present more than 150 artworks from corporate collections in The Netherlands. Normally these works are in offices and companies. For once they will be on display in the museum, which gives the public the unique possibility to see these normally hidden treasures.
With works by artists like Karel Appel, Marlene Dumas, Jan Schoonhoven and Folkert de Jong the exhibition will give an intriguing overview of the developments in art history in The Netherlands for the last 75 years.
Anne Wenzel will present her work 'heaven #01' which is in the collection of Ahold.
Singer Museum
Laren
https://www.singerlaren.nl Official inauguration of the public sculpture for Groningen
6 November 2018
Commissioned by the CBK Groningen, Anne Wenzel worked on a new statue for the Vishoek, the former Red Light District in Groningen. She choose for a historic subject in sculpture. A female bust positioned on top of a high column. A tribute to the woman who played such an important role in the history of the Vishoek - even though now one will remember their names. For these woman Anne Wenzel want to put up a monument.
Vishoek
Groningen
I can't believe I still have to protest this shit - Soloexhibition
8 September - 27 October 2018
In her recent soloexhibition, Anne Wenzel presents her recent sculptures from the series Under Construction. Busts, representing beautiful and strong woman, tortured by fragments of texts she carved in the fresh clay. These works will be presented as one whole installation with more abstract ceramic elements, beautifully glazed. Cubes, refering to the architectural use of concrete. For this occasion, Anne Wenzel will make a mural with water ballons and Super Soakers filled with paint. An installation in-between de-construction and confirmation.
Opening Saturday 8 September, 5 - 7pm
AKINCI
Amsterdam
http://akinci.nl Chambre(s) d' Amour
Biennale d' Art Contemporain
24 June - 4 November 2018
Richard Leydier, curator of the Biennale d' Art Contemporain d' Anglet invited 11 international artist to give their view on the subject of 'love' in an an infinite number of very different realities, from a teenage idyll on a summer beach to the most vibrant, tragic passion. The works will be installed at the rough coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
Anne Wenzel will build up right on the rocks at the beach a more than monumental pieta. Anne Wenzel reinterprets the pieta in raw clay, but rather than giving us to see an afflicted mother's sorrow for her son, her emphasis is on the universal power of compassion, more specifically our capacity for empathy in front of a drama unfolding before our eyes as this fragile sculpture gradually disintegrates, a metaphor for our contemporary world and its growing emotional deficit.
La Littorale #7
Anglet
http://www.lalittorale.anglet.fr Ceramics Now
60th Faenza Price - Special edition
29 Juni - 7 October 2018In 2018 the prize celebrates 80 years and the 60th edition the historic International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Faenza Prize, is the long-lasting and remarkable recognition in the world of ceramic art.
From 30th June to 7th October 2018 Faenza will house the most significant ceramic art researches created both by international masters and young talents.17 curators have selected 55 famous artists from all over the world in order to have a wide and complete vision of the ceramic art situation today. Not only sculptures but also installations and performances will characterize this exhibition.
A catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition.
MIC
Faenza
http://www.micfaenza.org Vers les nouvelles aventures
23 June - 27 JulyGalerie Suzanne Tarasieve will present in her summer exhibition work by Romain Bernini, Daniel Horowitz, Youcef Karachi, Mihael Milunovic, Lucien Murat, Antoine Roegiers, Julie Salaud, Milen Till and Anne Wenzel.
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Paris
http://suzanne-tarasieve.com Inauguration
Monument for 'd Artagnan
Saturday 23 June 2018Anne Wenzel worked the last year on a commission by the City of Maastricht on a monument of 'd Artagnan. The monument represents the coat and hat of 'd Artagnan who died exactly 345 years ago in Maastricht when he got a bullet in his shoulder.
A contemporary memento more which will be inaugurated Saturday 23 June.
Waldeckpark
Maastricht
Ars longa, vita brevis
From 23 June 2018The museum has invited nine artists to each set up a room, in which the artist will use the museum collection in relation to a new, or already existing, work of the artist. In this way nine successive cabinets will arise with installations, in which the artist will tell the story of 'la condition humaine', the human condition in the 21st century.
The nine artists that will participate in this project are: Bart Hess, L.A. Raeven, Berend Strik, Philip Vermeulen, Anne Wenzel, Peter Zegveld, Karin Arink, Armando and Silvia B. Their installations will follw different phases of human life, starting with Desire in the first and ending with 'Memento Mori'in the last cabinet. Or to put it shortly, human life in nine episodes.
Anne Wenzel will present her sculpture of a female busts Under Construction (Equality) in dialogue with the field of lavender 108 pond lavendel by herman de vries.
A catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Rijksmuseum Twenthe
Enschede
https://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl A monument for Willem van Oranje
23 May - 23 September 2018Four artists, Pieter Laurens Mol, Arie Schippers, Johan Tahon and Anne Wenzel, got the commission to work on a draft for a monument for Willem van Oranje. The final sculpture will be placed in Dordrecht in front of the house of the Berckepoort, one of the oldest houses in the Netherlands where the prince stayed several time over night. The final choice which of the drafts will be realized will be done by a professional jury. But also the public can vote. Visitors of the museum can give their vote until 1st of July to their favorite sculpture.
Het Hof Van Nederland
Dordrecht
https://www.hethofvannederland.nl/ 12 May 2018
Presentation catalogue Anne Wenzel
On the occasion of the soloexhibtion 'History repeating' galerie Suzanne Tarasieve will publish a monograph of the work of Anne Wenzel. The book represents an overview of recent sculptures as well as her large scale installations.
The book is available at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve.
The book launch is Saturday 12 of May from 5 - 8 pm
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Paris
http://suzanne-tarasieve.com 12 May - 21 October 2018
Beelden 2018
In May wil open the new exhibition at the Anningahof. Each year the park presents a selection of Dutch sculptors, established artist as well as young and upcoming.
With works by Armando, Gijs Assmann,Tim Breukers, Sjoerd Buisman, Claassen, Karin van Dam, Jonathan van
Doornum, Folkert de Jong, Maartje Korstanje, Bastienne Kramer, Marianne Lammersen, Paul de Reus, Cornelius Rogge, Tanja Smeets, Anne-Marie van Sprang, Elisabeth Stienstra, Henk Visch, Rob Voerman, Auke de Vries, Anne Wenzel and many more.
Landgoed Anningahof
Zwolle
http://www.anningahof.nl 7 April - 12 May 2018
History RepeatingThe Solo-exhibition at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve will present recent works from the series Under Construction and Chasing Silence. Chasing Silence is a series of large raku-fired birds. Dark, but at the same time with a rich range of colors like phenix from the ashes.
Under Construction, the large female busts, will be presented as an installation in the front space together with a mural made with water bombs and super soakers full of paint.
A catalogue will be published as part of the exhibition.
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Paris
http://suzanne-tarasieve.com 4 April - 17 June 2018
glorious (?)FAILURE The Triennale glorious (?) FAILURE researches the subject of failure in the specific context of the psychiatric centre of Duffel. Failure itself is an important part of social behavior and has an evident influence on contemporary art.
Problems in society have been for a long time a source of inspiration for artists. Artists are questioning the failing society. With their critical and independent position they create artworks within the hope to redefine the balance.
With works of Abramovic & Ulay, Francis Alÿs, Dirk Braeckman, Marcel Broodthaers, Johan de Wilde, Johan de Wit, Nick Ervinck, Gao Brothers, Mark Manders, Gustav Mesmer, Bruce Nauman, Panamarenko/ Jef Cornelis, Thom Puckey, Qui Zhijie, Meggy Rustamova, Lisa Spillaert, Lotte van Den Audenaeren, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Frederik Van Simaey, Anne Wenzel ao.
Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis
Duffel
Belgium
http://www.triennalepzduffel.be 10 February - 10 June 2018
Clay!
With the exhibition CLAY! Museum Jorn proudly presents 8 internationally renowned artists who all work experimentally and innovatively with clay as a material. They work with raw, unfired clay in large installations and physically challenging performances. They create monumental installations with sculptures in raw or glazed clay, and they give the audience a chance to become part of their projects. Anne Wenzel will present her new monumental installation Under Construction which will be for the first time on display at Museum Jorn.
The participating artists are: Miquel Barceló (E), William Cobbing (UK), Alexandra Engelfriet (NL), Lawrence Epps (UK), Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (DK), Marien Schouten (NL), Clare Twomey (UK), and Anne Wenzel (NL).
Museum Jorn
Silkeborg
Denemarken
http://www.museumjorn.dk 18 November - 10 December 2017
Clay MattersClay Matters is an exhibition aimed at discussing the common ground between ceramics and contemporary art, the fruitful relation between the ceramicist and the other visual artists, as well as the role and relevance of clay in contemporary art and culture.
With works of Caroline Coolen, Johan Creten, Alexandra Engelfriet, Mark Manders, Nadia Naveau, Thomas Schütte, Anne Wenzel and more.
Herkenrode kazerne
Hasselt
Belgium
9 July - 24 September 2017
Cities of Glass
International artists and designers collaborate with leading glassmakers in Leerdam
The top of the international glassmakers from Glass Novy Bor (Czech Republic) and Venice will come ogether in Leerdam. At De Glasblazerij, De Oude Horn and Royal Leerdam Crystal they will come together with artists and designers to create new work. Participants are, among others, Berend Strik, Zoro Feigl, Scholtens & Baijings and Anne Wenzel. Like 30 years ago, the work period results in a exhibition at KunstFort Asperen.
Anne Wenzel developed together with the glassmakers uit the Czech Republic and Venice the installation Nightfall, large squids, placed on metal tables.
Glasmuseum Leerdam &
Kunstfort Asperen
Acquoy
https://www.citiesofglass.nl 1 July - 1 October 2017
Face to Face
The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam presents a choice of their collection which was purchased during the years. The museum knows a long tradition of collecting supported by the city as well as private collection.
In this exhibition the visitor gets the possibility to enter the installation and to experience the works - face to face.
Stedelijk Museum
Schiedam
http://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl 17 June - 24 February 2018
C'est le Bouquet!The Fondation Bernardaud is presenting seventeen international artists, inspired by the floral theme, that have elected to work in ceramics, most of whom have never exhibited in France. In all cultures, flowers are present in the transactions between the living and the dead, between humans and divinities, and many different meanings are assigned to them. For the artist, the floral theme offers an inexhaustible repertory to address topical issues, whether defending endangered biodiversity or denouncing forms of domination.
The broad spectrum of ideas expressed in this exhibition demonstrates that this ancient, timeless theme has an amazing ability to regenerate itself.
Foundation Bernardaud
Limoges
https://www.bernardaud.com/en-gb/gb/the-foundation 12 - 17 June 2017
Volta Basel
AKINCI Amsterdam presents new works by Anne Wenzel,
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács and
Andrei Roiter.
Markthalle
Basel
http://www.voltashow.com Documentary 'Re-defining Balance (as a matter of fact)' on ArttubeThe last nine years, Anne Wenzel was working on the eight meter high fountain for the courthouse in Zwolle. The sculpture is not only unique in scale, but also in terms of its nature as well as in the use of the materials concrete and ceramics. For more than four years, film maker Marieke van der Lippe follows the develop-ment of the sculpture meticulously. The coming about of such a large and monumental sculpture requires an enormous commit-ment of everybody involved; not only in terms of know-how, but also in terms of perseverance and patience. The film shows the battle with the material and the victory thereon.
http://www.arttube.nl/en/videos/re-defining-balance-as-a-matter-of-fact 26 - 29 April 2017
Art Cologne
Galerie AKINCI will present during Art Cologne recent work of Stephan Balkenhol,
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács,
Jaap van den Ende,
Axel Hütte,
Ali Kazma,
Zbigniew Rogalski and
Anne Wenzel
http://www.artcologne.de 22 April - 28 May 2017
9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale
Under the theme of , the GICB 2017 illuminates ceramic works from around the world that tell stories about our lives, be that through society and culture at large as well as the lives of individuals and groups. This biennale will serve as a forum to restore the relationship between people and ceramics, and establish the values of ceramic culture anew by exploring peoples lives in every respect, including everyday living, dreams, history, culture, and politics through works of ceramic art.
Anne Wenzel will present the installation 'Heaven' as well as the serie 'Requiem of Heroism (monuments)'
KOCEF
Gyeonggi-do
Korea
https://www.kocef.org/eng/ 19 - 25 April 2017
Bruxelles Les rendez-Vous de la Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
During Art Brussels Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve will present work from Jean Bedez, Romain Bernini, Alkis Boutlis, Champion Métadier, Jörg Immendorff, Eva Jospin, Boris Mikha¸lov, A.R. Penck,Julien Salaud, Pierre Schwerzmann, Juergen Teller and Anne Wenzel
OPEN SPACE H37
37, place du Chatelein
Brussel
1 April - 8 October 2017
Soloexhibition Chasing Silence
Chasing Silence is based on the vanitas paintings. A subject with a long tradition in art history. Anne Wenzel presents in this exhibition her recent series of birds on a large almost scenically dark table. The birds are dark but at the same time colorful. To achieve this, Wenzel fired the sculptures with raku. The red-hot sculptures were smothered with wood chips. The white clay turned black At the same time the glaze becomes a rich and colorful lustered surface. The birds are rising up like phenixes from the ashes.
Princessehof
Leeuwarden
http://www.princessehof.nl 9 - 12 February 2017
Art Rotterdam
AKINCI Amsterdam will present a new work of Anne Wenzel at Art Rotterdam.
Chasing Silence (Golden Eagle) will be shown for the first time to public.
Art Rotterdam
http://www.artrotterdam.com 16 October 2016
Luster Live
On two Sundays in October there will be public talks in Museum De Pont with artists participating at the exhibition Luster in Park De Oude Warande in Tilburg.
Sunday 16th of October will art historica Rebecca Nelemans talk with Anne Wenzel about her work in general and more specific about the sculptures she made for the exhibition Luster.
Luster Live starts at 13:30 and will take one hour.
The admission is free for visitors of the museum.
Museum De Pont
Tilburg
http://www.depont.nl/te-doen/programma/programma-detail/auditorium/559/ 17 September - 30 October
Luster - Clay in Sculpture TodayThe amount of exhibition dedicated to the use of ceramic in the contemporary art had been increasing the last years. Where does this interest come from?
The Fundament Foundation tries to give an answer in the exhibition Luster in the park De Oude Warande
With works from Dewar & Gicquel, Alexandra Engelfried, Cameron Jamie, Markus Karstieß, Marien Schouten, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Anne Wenzel and more
Fundament Foundation
Park De Oude Warande
Tilburg
Netherlands
http://www.fundamentfoundation.nl 10 September 2016
Inauguration of Re-defining Balance (as a matter of fact)
During the last nine years Anne Wenzel worked on the eight meter high fountain for te court in Zwolle. The sculpture was commissioned by the Rijksvastgoedbedrijf. Wenzel made the fountain for the atrium in the heart of the building designed by architect Rob Hootsmans. With its scale and the use of ceramics and concrete, a sculpture like that is quite unique.
The official inauguration will be held by the Commissioner of the King at 10:00 am
Rechtbank Overijssel
Location Zwolle
Schuurmanstraat 1
Zwolle
The Netherlands
Attempted decadence (Blossoms) part of Vehbi Koç Foundation's Contemporary Art Collection
We are proud to announce that the installation Attempted decadence (Blossoms) will be part of the Vehbi Koç Foundation's Contemporary Art Collection. The acquisition contains the sculptures Attempted decadence (Blossoms, large, blue), Attempted decadence (Blossoms, red flamingo) and Attempted decadence (Blossoms, hilde).
All the works are on display at ARTER Istanbul until September 18th as part of the show Not All That Falls has Wings curated by Selen Ansen.
18 June 2016
Installation fountain in ZwolleSaturday 18th of June, the eight meter high fountain made the last years by Anne Wenzel, was installed at the court in Zwolle.
The sculpture with a weight of 38.000 kg was placed in six large parts in the centre of the building where it will function as a fountain the next years.
The official opening will be in september 10th, but the sculpture can be visited already during opening time of the court.
Rechtbank Overijssel
Schuurmanstraat 2
Zwolle
Netherlands
8 June - 18 September 2016
Not All That Falls Has Wings
Devised around notions of "gravity" and "gravitas", this exhibition will bring together works that disturb perceptual habits, cultural and social edifices and comfort zones of knowledge. Taking inspiration from post-mythical falls and downfalls, the show will focus on concepts such as "Sublime" and "Failure" to explore our contemporary ways of seeking grandeur and address the possibility for novel fields of experience.
With Bas Jan Ader, Phyllida Barlow, Cyprien Gaillard, Ryan Gander, Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, Void and Anne Wenzel
Curator: Selen Ansen
ARTER
Istanbul
http://www.arter.org.tr 25 - 29 May 2016
Amsterdam Art FairAKINCI Amsterdam presents works from Charlotte Schleiffert, Melanie Bonajo, Andrei Roiter, Juul Hondius and Anne Wenzel
Amsterdam Art Fair
http://www.amsterdamartfair.nl 19 - 24 April 2016
Bruxelles - Les Rendez-Vous De La Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presents during Art Brussels works from Romain Bernini, Alkis Boutlis, Eva Jospin, Markus Lüpertz, Champion Métadier, Boris Mikha¸lov , A.R. Penck, Recycle Group, Julien Salaud, Terry Taylor, Juergen Teller and Anne Wenzel
Hangar H18
Ixelles
http://suzanne-tarasieve.com 13 - 17 April 2016
Art Cologne
AKINCI, Amsterdam will represent recent works of Stephan Balkenhol. Gluklya, Andrea Roiter, Stéphanie Saadé, Edwin Zwakman and Anne Wenzel.
http://www.artcologne.de 9 March - 12 Juni 2016
CERAMIX, From Rodin to Sch�tteAfter the successful exhibition CERAMIX at the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, the exhibition will travel to the Cité de la céramique Sèvres and la Maison Rouge in Paris. Through more than 200 artworks, Ceramix tells the story of ceramic art from the beginning of last century to the present, with a strong focus on the post-war production of artistic ceramics and the contemporary art of Europe, North America and Asia.
Anne Wenzel will present the monumental sculpture Attempted decadence (blossoms, blood red) at the Cité de la céramique Sèvres.
Maison Rouge, Paris
Cité de la céramique Sèvres
http://www.sevresciteceramique.fr 27 February - 22 May 2016
The ABC of the Collection, Schiedam collecting Contemporary ArtThe exhibition gives an overview about the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. Part of the exhibition will be Anne Wenzels monumental sculpture Splendid Surrender which will be shown for the first time in the museum.
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Schiedam
http://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl 20 February - 16 April 2016
Night Falls, Day Breaks
SoloexhibitionDeparting from the historical iconography of commemoration and of the memorial, Wenzel interrogates art historical and political themes through her unorthodox use of that most primal and traditional of materials - clay. Deeply interested in the language of 'heroism' these artworks question the manipulative narrative of nationalist architecture and sculpture. Wenzel simultaneously appropriates and re-interprets the value of the symbolic in new forms which are resonant with contemporary political and civic challenges.
The exhibition has a certain critical and thematic resonance with other cultural and civic activities which will take place this year in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland. Specifically, events which are part of what has been termed the 'Decade of Centenaries' that begins with the centenaries of the Easter Rising in Dublin
Curator: Mhairi Sutherland
Void Contemporary Gallery
Derry
Northern Ireland
http://www.derryvoid.com 30 January - 26 March 2016
A quoi tient la beaut� des �treintesThe focus of the exhibition are the works which where purchased in between 2013 and 2015. The presentation shows the works in the context of the collection as well as the recent developments in contemporary art.
Anne Wenzel will show the work Requiem of Heroism (Wreath, ribbons) which was purchased by the museum in 2014.
FRAC Auvergne
Clermont-Ferrand
http://www.frac-auvergne.fr 23 January 2016
Launch of the film portrait Hollandse Meesters/ Dutch MastersThe regisseur Marc Schmidt worked the last month on a short dilm portrait about Anne Wenzel. The film will be part of the serie Hollandse Meesters/ Dutch masters of the 21st century.
Premiere will be 23 January at EYE in Amsterdam.
The serie Hollandse Meetsres in the 21st century gives an overview of the most important artist in The Netherlands. The portraits are made by renowned filmmakers and show the the artists way of working and thinking, their artistic approach as well as their vision about art in general.
http://www.hollandsemeesters.info 23 January - 27 February 2016
Beyond Context
Charlotte Schleiffert & Anne WenzelIn the duo show Beyond Context, AKINCI unites two artists who's work cannot be taken lightly. A certain violence applies to both, each drawn to the subject in her own distinct manner. Where Anne Wenzel (1972, Schlüttorf, DE) fearlessly diverts the tradition of ceramics into remarkable sculptures with a brutal sense of decay, Charlotte Schleiffert (1967, Tilburg, NL) addresses crude social themes with a discomforting elegance in a range of mixed media on canvas. Rather than a dialogue, their individual voices clash and confront one another, challenging the viewer to rethink their spectacle and, instead, become sensible to the pressing subjects that linger beyond.
Galerie AKINCI
Amsterdam
http://www.akinci.nl 26 October 2015 - 22 February 2016
Contemporary ceramic works from Fontana to UeckerThe exhibition shows ceramic works from the 20th en 21st century. The works will be integrated in the context of the permanent collection of the Hetjens Museum and will give an overview of the recent developments in the international contemporary ceramic art.
Hetjens Museum
Düsseldorf
October 2015
Sculpture for the court in Zwolle finally finished!After 4 yours of production finally the public sculpture for the court in Zwolle is finished!
It is an 8 meter high fountain made of concrete and ceramics commissioned by the Dutch Government.
The next weeks we will work very hard to place this extraordinary public sculpture in the new building of the court in Zwolle.
16 October 2015 - 5 February 2016
CERAMIXUnder the title CERAMIX, the Bonnefantenmuseum (Maastricht - NL), Cité de la céramique (Sèvres - F) and la Maison Rouge (Paris - F) are presenting a mega exhibition about the use of ceramics by artists of the 20th and 21st century. The Bonnefantenmuseum will show a selection of over 200 top pieces from international museums and private collections (including Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Museo Internazionale della ceramica in Faenza, Petit Palais in Paris, Marck Larock-Granoff, Isabelle Maeght, Alain Tarica and Luciano Benetton).
The premiere of this exhibition will take place in Maastricht, after which it will travel on to Paris and Sèvres in the spring of 2016.
Bonnefantenmuseum
Maastricht
http://www.bonnefanten.nl 13 September 2015 - 10 January 2016
ParadiseWith works of Elspeth Diederix, Heringa/ Van Kalsbeek, Erk Odijk, Hans de Wit, Anne Wenzel ao.
Curator: Tanya Rumpff
The exhibition will be opened by Ludo van Halem, curator Twentieth Century Art at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Buitenplaats Beeckestijn
Velsen-Zuid
5 September 2015 - 3 January 2016
Danger and Beauty
William Turner and the tradition of the sublime
The Rijksmuseum Twenthe and the Fundatie in Zwolle in collaboration with the Tate Britain the exhibition 'Danger and Beauty - William Turner and the tradition of the Sublime. The exhibition in Enschede and Zwolle shows more than 50 watercolors and paintings from Turner in the context of the European art history from the late medieval until now, with works from Aelbert Cuyp, Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Gustave Courbet, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, gerhard Richter, Anne Wenzel and others.
On the occasion of the exhibition Wanders Publishers presents the catalogue 'Danger and Beauty - Turner and the tradition of the Sublime'
Rijksmuseum Twenthe
Enschede
https://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl 9 July - 20 September 2015
De Burgemeester van Veurne
On the occasion of the Dutch translation of the book le Bourgmestre de Furnes, written by Georges Simenon and translated by Rokus Hofstede, Emergent invited two guest curators. Anne-Françiose Lesuisse from Luik (city of Simenon) and Nina Folkersma from Amsterdam curated an exhibition based on their personal visions, interpretations and perspectives.
With works of Eylem Aladogan, Dirk Braeckman, Paul Kooiker, Lucas Lenglet, Arjan van Helmond en Anne Wenzel and others
EMERGENT
Veurne
Belgium
http://emergent.be Damaged Goods in the Salon from Mister MotleyMister Motley invited Anne Wenzel to set up an online exhibition in their Salon inspired by Getrude Stein. She shows in her Salon background information, inspiration and the making of of her series Damaged Goods.
http://www.mistermotley.nl/salon/anne-wenzel-damaged-goods 19 October 2014 - 29 March 2015
Anne Wenzel - Aesthetic RevoltIn her soloexhibition Anne Wenzel reflects on the work of Alexander Roslin (1718-1793) which will be on display in the museum at the same time.
Roslin was the chronicler of the decadence of the late 18th century. Right before the French Revolution started.
Wenzel puts the work of Roslin in perspective with a well-orchestrated installation.
Rijksmuseum Twenthe
Enschede
http://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl/ 18 September 2014 - 18 January 2015
Realms of MemoryThe exhibition shows works of Anne Wenzel, Raquel Maulwurf and Dieuwke Spaans with subject as war as well as remembrance.
Museum Arnhem
Arnhem
http://www.museumarnhem.nl Anne Wenzel wins the European Ceramic Context 2014!ECC2014 aim to show an overview of European contemporary ceramics in two large scale exhibitions which includes the work of 120 artists from 30 countries. Anne Wenzel wins the prize as outstanding artist in the category Ceramic Art.
http://www.europeanceramiccontext.com 13 September - 23 November
European Ceramic Context 2014
ECC 2014 will present the best of european contemporary ceramics in two large exhibitions with 60 artists from 30 countries. Participating from the Netherlands are Anton Reijnders and Anne Wenzel.
Bornholm Art Museum
Gudjhem, Bornholm
http://www.bornholms-kunstmuseum.dk Monography
Anne Wenzel - Prospects of PerceptionThe new monography of Anne Wenzel will be published on the occasion of the soloexhibtion at Tent. The catalogue includes texts from Daria de Beauvais, Mariette Dölle, Sjarel Ex as well as an interview with Anne Wenzel and Philippe van Cauteren. Graphic design by 75B, published by Lecturis
http://www.lecturis.com 6 February - 5 May 2014
The Opaque Palace - SoloexhibitionThe Opaque Palace transforms the exhibition spaces of Tent into one large installation where the monumental sculptures with subjects like power, destruction, heroism and history are placed into one context, The exhibition is curated by Daria de Beauvais, curator Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
http://www.tentrotterdam.nl Anne Wenzel - Des colosses aux pieds d'argile
Review artpressInterview with Richard Leydier about working with ceramics, the war and the making of the fountain for the courtyard in Zwolle
artpress 2 / Nov /Dec 2013
12 October - 16 November 2013
Damaged GoodsSolopresentation
Akinci
Lijnbaansgracht 317
NL-Amsterdam
http://www.akinci.nl Museum Boijmans van Beuningen purchase the sculpture N.T. (Black Girl)Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam purchased the sculpture N.T.(Black Girl) from Anne Wenzel. This sculpture was the first large scale ceramic sculpture in black she made. And is perhaps the most exhibited and published work.
http://www.boijmans.nl 21 September 2013 - 6 September 2015
Ik hou van Holland.
Dutch art after 1945Large-scale overview of post-war Dutch art
provides insight into the development of Dutch art from 1945 until the present day. The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam selected more than a hundred artworks that are representative of the art of this period. The exhibition also displays the social context of these works, so that the indicative and reflective function of art becomes visible.
With works of Jan Schoonhoven, Wim T. Schippers, Marlene Dumas, Rob Scholte, Rineke Dijkstra, Atelier van Lieshout, Maria Roosen, Anne Wenzel and many more.
NL- Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
http://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl 8th june - 1st september 2013
25 Years Rotterdam City Collection - The City, the Artists and the MuseumThis summer, the largest exhibition rooms in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be dedicated to internationally renowned contemporary artists who have had Rotterdam as the cradle for their artistic career. The exhibition includes more than 30 monumental installations, two-dimensional works, videos and films by, among others, Atelier Van Lieshout, Daan van Golden, Erik van Lieshout and Anne Wenzel and offers a retrospective of the policy followed by the Rotterdam City Collection over the last 25 years. To coincide with the exhibition, a comprehensive book will be published with various essays and a summary of the around 800 works that have been collected in the past 25 years.
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
NL-Rotterdam
http://www.boijmans.nl 24th May 2013
Official opening of the new Municipal Museum 's HertogenboschThe sculpture Bright solitude (chandelier), which was purchased by the Municipal Museum 's Hertogenbosch, will be presented semi-permanent in the entrance of the new museum.
Stedelijk Museum
NL-'s Hertogenbosch
http://www.sm-s.nl 11th may - 16th june 2013
The Glorious Rise and Fall...With works of Jeroen Eisinga, Charlotte Schleiffert,Dieuwke Spaans, Anne Wenzel, Gijs Assmann, Ronald Ophuis, Folkert de Jong, Martha Colburn, Margit Lucas en Persijn Broersen, Sven Kroner, Pieter Hugo, Bas Princen, Yael Bartana, Jasper de Beijer, Gert-Jan Kocken, Kim van Norren, Rob Voerman, Lotte Geeven, Marc Bijl and more
curator: Marjan Teeuwen.
A catalogue will be published.
KW14
NL-'s Hertogenbosch
http://www.kw14.nl 1st may - 2nd june 2013
La joie de se perdeWith works of Anne Wenzel, Dirk Braeckman, Jasper Rigole, Peter de Koninck, Piki en Liesbet Verschuren, Reniere&Depla, Yves Velter, Renato Nicolodi ea.
Curator: Els Wuyts
Villa De Olmen
B-Wieze
http://www.villadeolmen.be 18th - 21st april 2013
Art BrusselsTatjana Pieters will show new sculptures of Anne Wenzel at Art Brussels.
http://www.artbrussels.be Municipal Museum Schiedam purchased 'Splendid Surrender'At the ARCO Madrid Municipal Museum Schiedam purchased the monumental sculpture 'Splendid Surrender'.
The museum presented the work of Anne Wenzel several times in their museum. And purchased two smaller works before.
http://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/ 17th January - 28th April 2013
Sign of the Timesworks by: Stéphane Pencréac'h, Michel Gouéry, John Isaacs, Léopold Rabus, Thomas Helbig, Ronald Ophuis and
Anne Wenzel.
Curated by: Richard Leydier
A catalogue will be published.
Le Carré Sainte Anne
Montpellier (FR)
6th October 2012
NRCIn the NRC of 6 October 2012 is a picture of the living room of Otto Schaapp containing the image Blood & Honour # 03 by Anne Wenzel.
Schaap says: "Shepherd Dogs were the favorite animals of Adolf Hitler. This image represents waning power. It looks like the dog picture is melting. So the middle of the room was the only place for this. There is still enough space for power over to run. "
7th September - 7th October 2012
Het Gebouwworks by: Armando, Aaron van Erp, Amie Dicke, Anne Wenzel, Anya Gallaccio, Couzijn van Leeuwen, Frank Halmans, Jan Koen Lomans, Jasper Hagenaar, Karin van Dam, Rutger Zuydervelt, Tanja Smeets and Thijs Ebbe Fokkens.
Museum Oud Amelisweerd
http://www.moa.nl 20th July - 25th November 2012
Figuurlijk'De menselijke figuur in de beeldende kunst'
works by: Amie Dicke, Iris van Dongen, Marlene Dumas, Guido Geelen, Claire Harvey, Folkert de Jong, Juul Kraijer, Katinka Lampe, Matthew Monahan, Ronald Ophuis, Micha Patiniott, Thom Puckey, Karen Sargsyan, Dieuwke Spaans, Elisabet Stienstra, Berend Strik, and Anne Wenzel.
Curated by: Imke Ruigrok and Nathanja van Dijk.
Museum Hilversum
Hilversum (NL)
http://www.museumhilversum.nl 1st - 15th July 2012
Summer Showworks by: Parsijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Hansjoerg Dobliar and Anne Wenzel.
Gallery Akinci
Amsterdam (NL)
http://www.akinci.nl 2nd June - 29 July 2012
Sint Janworks by: Ann Veronica Janssens, Anne Wenzel, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Bruce Nauman, Damien Hirst, David Claerbout,
Dirk Braeckman, Gregor Schneider, Marlene Dumas, Maurizio Cattelan, Michaël Borremans, Navid Nuur, On Kawara...
Curated by: Jan Hoet & Hans Martens
The catalogue 'Sint Jan' is published by
Borgerhoff & Lamberigts.
Sint-Baafskathedraal
Gent (BE)
Start execution culpture for new court in ZwolleAnne Wenzel started working on the 8 meter high fountain for the new court in Zwolle (NL)
The sculpture will be finished at the end of 2013.
Sculpture for new court in Zwolle, (NL)
http://annewenzel.nl/sculpture/en/public-space.php Het Elastisch Perspectief
(Publication)The public sculpture 'Vrouwe Carnisse' of Anne Wenzel is published in the book 'Het Elastisch Perpectief'. This book shows the results of fifteen years public sculpture in Carnisselande, the new district of Barendrecht.
Published by Barendrecht and De Zwaluw Publishers
ISBN 978-90-77794-10-4
19th February - 25th March 2012
Reiz des BösenNatasja van Kampen, Ed Pien, Justin Wijers, Anne Wenzel
Maurits van de Laar Gallery
Den Haag (NL)
http://www.mauritsvandelaar.nl 25th January - 24th March 2012
Into The WoodsCurator: Daria de Beauvais
La Galerie des Galeries
Paris (FR)
2nd October 2011 - 5th February 2012
Mit Feuer und FlammeKeramik in der Gegenwartskunst with Richard Deacon, Anke Ellergerhard, Leiko Ikemura, Uwe Karlsen, Markus Karstieß, Ai Weiwei, Bodo Korsig, Otto Piene, Edith PLattner, Norbert Prangenberg, Thomas Schütte, Anne Wenzel
A catalogue will be published with this exhibition.
Museum Villa Rot
Burgrieden-Rot (DE)
http://www.villa-rot.de 1st October - 30th October 2011
From the HeartExhibition due to "de Gulden Adelaar" award won by Arno Kramer. Arno Kramer was a former teacher of Anne Wenzel, as well as the other artists included in the show.
Bergkerk
Deventer (NL)
24th September 2011 - 8th January 2012, MärklinWorldA model of the world by 40 Artists met oa.: Michael Borremans (BE), Krijn de Koning (NL), Martin Luijendijk (NL), Hans op de Beeck (BE), Frank van der Salm (NL), Miyuki Okuyama (JP), Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger (CH), Thomas Struth (D), Rob Voerman (NL), Anne Wenzel (NL), Hans Wilschut (NL), Edwin Zwakman (NL)
Bij de expositie verschijnt een catalogus.
Kunsthal KAdE
Amersfoort
http://www.kunsthalkade.nl |
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