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Edith als muze

Een soloproject door Puck Verkade.

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 13 april t/m 14 juli

Het intrigerende Portret van Edith (1915) van Egon Schiele is het uitgangspunt van Edith als muze, een project door Puck Verkade (Den Haag, 1987). De Oostenrijkse schilder portretteerde zijn vrouw niet als standaard sensuele muze. We zien haar als een schuchter, bedachtzaam meisje gekleed in een gestreepte jurk, die zij van gordijnstof speciaal voor haar bruiloft maakte. In Edith als muze verkent Puck Verkade de grenzen tussen geschiedenis, verbeelding en werkelijkheid. Als hedendaagse personificatie van Edith neemt zij de bezoeker mee in een unieke wandeling door het museum langs verschillende installaties van documenten, video’s en objecten. Ze kruipt letterlijk in haar huid middels dit spannende ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ dat bestaat uit drie installaties, wandelingen en interactieve rondetafelgesprekken.

Egon Schiele was het ‘enfant terrible’ van de Weense avant-garde. Zijn expressionistische werk – met als thema’s ontluikende seksualiteit, dood en verval – veroorzaakte een groot schandaal in het Wenen van het begin van de 20e eeuw. Vanaf zijn huwelijk met Edith in 1915, het jaar waarin hij ook Portret van Edith schilderde, verandert zijn werk. Het verliest zijn kenmerkende grilligheid en de lijnen worden wat ronder.
De tragiek van het portret ligt in het feit dat het echtpaar drie jaar later zou overlijden aan de Spaanse griep.

In Edith als muze daagt Puck Verkade de bezoeker op verschillende manieren uit om betrokken te raken bij het schilderij. De zoektocht naar identiteit, een thema dat Egon Schiele zijn gehele carrière bezighield, staat hierbij centraal. Zo bestaat in het Gemeentemuseum de kans dat ‘Edith’ je meeneemt op een bijzondere wandeling langs verschillende installaties van documenten, video’s en objecten. Niet zoals in 1915 in een jurk van gordijnstof, maar gekleed in een hedendaagse interpretatie gemaakt door de Haagse ontwerpster Sara Vrugt. Feit en fictie lopen niet alleen tijdens de wandelingen in elkaar over, maar ook in de rondetafelgesprekken die ‘Edith’ in samenwerking met Edwin Becker (hoofd tentoonstellingen Van Gogh Museum en expert Weense kunst) organiseert. Het Weense koffiehuis was in de tijd van Schiele dé ontmoetingsplek voor musici, filosofen en kunstenaars die bij elkaar kwamen om te discussiëren. Als deelnemer aan de interactieve rondetafelgesprekken kun je deze authentieke sfeer in het museum ervaren. Schiele's tijdgenoten zijn het uitgangspunt voor een kunsthistorische schets van het toen naar het nu. Voel je één van hen en discussieer mee over het leven en de kunst! Edith als muze houdt niet op bij de museummuren, zo maakte Puck speciaal voor Edith een Facebook pagina dat een bijzonder kijkje achter de schermen geeft van het gehele project.

Puck Verkade studeerde in 2011 af aan de KABK met de video-installatie Any day now, waar ze onder meer de Stroom aanmoedigingsprijs voor kreeg en een nominatie voor de Young Blood Award. Vorig jaar werd zij runner-up in het AVRO programma ‘De Nieuwe Rembrandt’. Door middel van haar werk, dat veelal bestaat uit video installaties, performances en interactieve projecten, onderzoekt Puck Verkade sociale structuren en maatschappelijke kwesties.

Het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag heeft 2013 uitgeroepen tot het jaar van Edith Schiele. Naast het project van Puck Verkade schrijft Harriët van Reek speciaal voor de allerkleinsten een boek over Edith, waarna in juni een speciale kindertentoonstelling volgt.

De wandelingen vinden plaats op vrijdag en zaterdag van 14:00 tot 17:00 op de volgende data: 19 april, 20 april, 26 april, 27 april, 3 mei, 4 mei, 10 mei en 11 mei. Je kunt niet reserveren voor de wandelingen.
De rondetafelgesprekken vinden plaats op zaterdag van 14:00 tot 15:15 op de volgende data: 21 april, 28 april, 5 mei, 12 mei. Aanmelden voor de rondetafelgesprekken kan via edith@gemeentemuseum.nl

Bezoek Edith op haar pagina: www.facebook.com/EdithSchiele.Gemeentemuseum

Meer informatie Puck Verkade: www.puckverkade.com

Noot voor de redactie: Voor meer informatie: afdeling Voorlichting & PR, Brigitte Timmermans, 070 338 1122 btimmermans@gemeentemuseum.nl Beeldmateriaal beschikbaar via www.gemeentemuseum.nl

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Edith as Muse

A soloproject by Puck Verkade

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 13 April – 14 July

Austrian artist Egon Schiele’s intriguing Portrait of Edith (1915) is the point of departure for Edith as Muse, a project by Puck Verkade (b. The Hague, 1987). Schiele painted the portrait of his wife not as a standard muse, but as a rather timid and wary young girl, dressed in the striped frock she had made from curtain fabric to wear at her wedding. In Edith as Muse, Puck Verkade explores the dividing lines between history, imagination and truth. She herself appears as a contemporary personification of Edith to take visitors on a unique tour of various installations dotted around the museum and composed of documents, videos and objects. In this exciting ‘gesamtkunstwerk’, featuring three installations, tours and interactive round table discussions, Verkade gets right under the skin of Schiele’s young wife.

Egon Schiele was the ‘enfant terrible’ of the Viennese avant-garde. His Expressionist works on themes like budding sexuality, death and decay scandalised early 20th-century Vienna. From 1915, when he married Edith and painted this portrait of her, his work changed, losing its distinctive jaggedness of line and becoming softer and smoother. The tragedy of the portrait lies in the fact that the couple were both to die in the Spanish flu pandemic just three years later.

In Edith as Muse, Puck Verkade challenges the visitor to engage with the painting in various ways. Central to the project is the search for identity, a theme that preoccupied Egon Schiele throughout his career. ‘Edith’ herself may appear – not dressed in a frock made of curtain fabric, as in 1915, but clad in a present-day interpretation of the outfit made by Hague fashion designer Sara Vrugt – to take the visitor on a unique tour of the Gemeentemuseum, pausing to consider a number of installations composed of documents, videos and objects. Fact and fiction blend together not only during the tours, but also in the round table discussions that ‘Edith’ holds with the help of Edwin Becker (Head of Exhibitions at the Van Gogh Museum and an expert on Viennese art). In Schiele’s day, the coffee houses of Vienna were an institution: the place where the city’s musicians, philosophers and artists came together to exchange ideas.

By participating in the interactive round table discussions in the museum, you can get an authentic taste of the coffee house culture of the period. Schiele’s contemporaries are the starting point for an art-historical sketch of that world, transposed to the present. Feel like one of them as you join in the discussion about life and art! Edith as Muse is not confined within the four walls of the museum: Puck has created a Facebook page for Edith, which provides a unique glimpse behind the scenes of the entire project.

Puck Verkade graduated from The Hague’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) in 2011. Her graduation piece, the video installation Any Day Now, won her a place on the Stroom talent development programme and a nomination for the Young Blood Award. Last year she was runner-up in AVRO TV programme ‘De Nieuwe Rembrandt’. Her work consists chiefly of video installations, performances and interactive projects examining social structures and social issues.

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has proclaimed 2013 ‘Edith Schiele Year’: in addition to the Puck Verkade project, there will be a book about Edith, written by Harriët van Reek for the museum’s youngest visitors, and a special children’s exhibition in June.

The tours will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. on the following Friday and Saturday afternoons: 19, 20, 26 and 27 April, and 3, 4, 10 and 11 May. No reservations will be accepted for them.

The round table discussions are scheduled for 2 to 3.15 p.m. on the following Saturday afternoons: 21 and 28 April, and 5 and 12 May. Reservations for the round table discussions can be made via edith@gemeentemuseum.nl

Visit Edith’s Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/EdithSchiele.Gemeentemuseum

Further information from Puck Verkade at: www.puckverkade.com

Note to editors: For further information, contact Brigitte Timmermans at the Press Office, 070 338 1122 btimmermans@gemeentemuseum.nl Press materials available via www.gemeentemuseum.nl

25.01.2013 VPRO RADIO MINUTEN!

First time I made a soundpiece for the radio: http://weblogs.vpro.nl/1minuut/

12.01.2013 GEM museum of contemporary art

The GEM museum in The Hague is currently showing my video installation Any Day Now! Benno Tempel, director of the Gemeentemuseum, selected 18 young artists to show their work during the groupshow Now or Never.

Check it out. And check it out on Kunstbeeld.

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20.12.2012 Nieuwe Vide

Thursday 20th December I'll be joining an artist talk at Nieuwe Vide together with Marc van Overeem, regarding the exhibition 'Droste Effect'. My works Multiverse and 99 Selfportraits are being showed there 'till 30th December.

Radioshow De Avonden also mentioned the exhibition, check it out (Dutch).

See you Thursday 20th, 20:00 at Nieuwe Vide!

01.11.2012 NYC here I come.

Currently I'm working in New York City!

During November I'm doing a research residency at Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn.

Check out RU's website.

And check out my NYC BLOG.

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13.10.2012 Nijmeegse Kunstnacht

This weekend I'm showing a new video installation at Nijmeegse Kunstnacht. For this work I researched the nightlife of Nijmegen and produced '01:23 AM', a video installation consisting of several screens. Location: Doornroosje - Merleyn, a club! Made possible by DZIGA (www.dziga.nl)

Saturday 13th till 01:00
Merleyn, Hertogstraat 13, Nijmegen

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De Wereld Draait Door invited me to their table to celebrate and discuss the reopening of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Ten years of renovating surely paid off; you can bring a visit from Sunday 23th onwards!

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05.06.2012 NEW WORK: MULTIVERSE

A new panoramic video installation based upon my participation to a Dutch realityshow for artists.
Now exhibited at Heden Hier, Den Haag: Check out www.heden.nl for details

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Very nice interview with Frans van Hilten for the The Hague website:
http://www.denhaag.nl/home/bewoners/to/Kunstenaar-Puck-Verkade-draait-rollen-om.htm

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INVITATION

I would like to invite you all to come and visit my exhibition at Heden Hier, the final presentation of my three month residency. The exhibition will show the collection of 99 selfportraits made by others, a great result of totally different interpretations. And a new video installation based upon my participation on De Nieuwe Rembrandt, a new Dutch talentshow for artists, where I've infiltrated and documented everything from the inside out to get a grip on the illusion of the realityshow and tv.

And even more exciting: on June 8th Camiel van Winkel will give a presentation on his latest research De Hybride Kunstenaar. 08.06.2012 / 20:00 All are invited!

WHEN: OPENING 1st of JUNE 2012 (01.06.2012)
WHERE: Heden Hier, Weimarstraat 24a, Den Haag
TIME: 19:00

OPEN: Thursdays - Sundays untill 17th of June from 12:00-17:00
1-3 June
7-10 June (8 June 20:00 presentation Camiel van Winkel)
14-17 June

22.05.2012 WORK ONLINE!

Check out the new work Synthesis in the WORK section.

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17.05.2012 NEW BLOG POST ONLINE

Check my new blog post here: http://blog.puckverkade.com/?p=80
(All in Dutch, excusez-moi)

16.05.2012 NEW WORK ONLINE: Personal Matter

A ficticious theatrical home opposed to my own home. Personal Matter is a looped splitscreen video, showing two interiors parallel to each other almost as a showroom. What does the home interior portray about the owner?

Check out the new video in the WORK section.

08.05.2012 NEW WORK ONLINE: Inside Out
Check it out at the WORK section.

02.05.2012 NEW WORK ONLINE: Facing The Portrait

Check out Facing The Portrait at the WORK section.

28.04.2012 WANTED: 99 PORTRAITS

During my residency at Heden Hier I'm looking for people to paint my portrait.
My goal is to collect 99 'self' portraits made by others; professionals, amateurs, artists or non-artists.
This collection will be part of my exhibition in June in Heden Hier, as the result of an ongoing search to the meaning of artisthood today.

I still need a looooooot of portraits, and only a month still to make it. Help me out here!
Every Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon you can join the portrait sessions, where I will sit and model for 2,5 hours each.

WHEN: 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, 23 May
Wednesday evenings from 19:00-21:30
Saturday afternoons from 13:00-15:30
WHERE: Heden Hier, Weimarstraat 24a, Den Haag

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24.04.2012 De Nieuwe Rembrandt Episode #1

Part of my residency at Heden Hier is my participation in the new talentshow De Nieuwe Rembrandt, to explore on a very personal level what the contemporary status of the artist within society actually is.

A short interview with the TVGids about my participation in the Nieuwe Rembrandt show.

And the first episode:

18.04.2012 DE NIEUWE REMBRANDT

Part of my residency at Heden Hier is my participation in the new talentshow De Nieuwe Rembrandt, to explore on a very personal level what the contemporary status of the artist within society actually is. Reailtyshows are a hit nowadays, how could I pass this experience?

(And by the way: I've documented everything from the inside out to capture the notion of the realityshow from a personal level... It sounds like a new project, doesn't it? ;)

See if I even make it through the first round! The first episode will show on Tuesday 24th of April, 20:30 Ned 2 for the Dutchies. Afterwards it's shown on uitzendinggemist.nl

And check out the trailer!

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07.04.2012 CALLING ALL PAINTERS TO PAINT MY PORTRAIT!

Part of my residency at Heden Hier is the open call for painters of all sorts to come and paint my portrait.
All paintings will be part of the exhibition in June.

Every Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon I will model for a group of participants, to collect 99 portraits in total. Drawings, paintings etc. all allowed in colour!

Check out my blog #4 concerning the portrait.

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17.03.2012

You can read my essay 'Kindsterretjes vs. Kunstenaars' in the Nest publication.

A book covering four years of Nest including twelve short essays on the appreciation for Art. Sublimely designed by Nest designer Janneke Hendriks, With contributions by Joncquil, Rob Knijn, Esther Kokmeijer, André Kruysen, Eelco van der Lingen, Alexander Mayhew, Navid Nuur, Marijn Ottenhof, Rune Peitersen,Sander Uitdenbogaard Puck Verkade, Rob Voerman and Bram Vreven.

16.03.2012

Read my third blog on De Avonturen van de Alleskunner

It's all in Dutch unfortunately for non-Dutch readers, the translation will follow in the future!

This blog is part of my residency at Heden Hier in The Hague, from march-june 2012

04.03.2012

Read my second blog on De Avonturen van de Alleskunner

It's all in Dutch unfortunately for non-Dutch readers, the translation will follow in the future!

This blog is part of my residency at Heden Hier in The Hague, from march-june 2012

27.02.2012

Read my first blog on De Avonturen van de Alleskunner

It's all in Dutch unfortunately for non-Dutch readers, the translation will follow in the future!

This blog is part of my residency at Heden Hier in The Hague, from march-june 2012

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FEBRUARY + MARCH 2012

De Avonturen van de Alleskunner has begun! My residency at Heden Hier is a research on the grey area of amateurism and professionalism in relation to the contemporary artist. From now on I work several days in the week in the Heden Hier projectspace at the Weimarstraat in The Hague.

At night I'm projecting my workingprocess of the residency onto the window; this week you can see a preview of my mini-docu 'Facing the Portrait'. The video shows my visit to an amateur painting class, and while I'm being portrayed an interesting dialogue concerning the role of the artist starts to come up.

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JANUARY 2012, Residency Heden HIER Feb-May

Currently I'm preparing for my residency project at Heden HIER where I will be working from 20 Feb- 01 June.

'De Avonturen van de Alleskunner' is a multidisciplinary research on the border of amateurism and professionalism.

FUN, FUN, FUN!

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14.01.2012 Public talk at Groenlicht Expo KABK + Open Day KABK

I will be part of the Special Program night during the 'Vrijdagdedertiendetweeduizendtwaalf' exhibition at the Regentenkamer in Den Haag. Together with Timmy van Zoelen, Nare Eloyan, we will talk and discuss about the 'after-graduation' experience and self-reliance. The evening is hosted by Mariette Dolle. Everyone is welcome! (19:30 Regentenkamer Den Haag)

Also.... I will be giving a mini-lecture at the KABK Open Day, about my art academy and 'after-art academy' experience. Providing tips and tricks for new artacademy students. Fun, fun, fun!

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08.12.2011 Culturele Speeddate - Stichting KOP

GET OUT THOSE BUSINESS CARDS!

Stichting KOP invited me to participate in the Cultural Speeddate, where young artists and cultural organisations get the chance to meet very directly. In just 5 minutes per date we could meet up and talk about our work; networking galore! I got the chance to speak to Showroom Mama, de Service Garage, Mu, KOP, Onomatopee, Expodium, B32, Electron, KuS. Thanks so much.

G r e a t E x p e r i e n c e !

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06.12.2011 'A Parallel Place' exhibition State X New Forms Festival

Building up a new video installation for the groupexhibition 'A Parallel Place?!' at Hoop Den Haag. The exhibition is part of the program during State X New Forms Festival all over the citycentre.

Working with more than 10 kilos of riverclay for the installation, woohoo!

We're also working on a 'Chainlink project', where every participating artist resides for 12 hours in the special studiospace reacting on each others work, FUN! The results will be presented by curator Zoe Reddy.

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25.11.2011 Studio Visit Omar Kholeif

Curator Omar Kholeif from Liverpool, UK will come over to the DCR to pay me a studio visit!

Check out his multidisciplinary career as a writer & curator: http://www.everythingok.co.uk/

STROOM Den Haag organises these studio visits once in a while, great initiative!

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17.11.2011 Videoscreening Suikzoetfilm Festival CBK Schiedam

My video Zwei Bier Bitte will be screened at the Suikerzoet Film Festival in Schiedam.

Together with works by Sara Rajaei, Guido van der Werve, Anuska Oosterhuis, Efrat Zehavi e.a. at CBK Schiedam.

Secretly very excited about Guido's video playing next to mine (see silly picture!)

17-20 Nov 2011, CBK Schiedam

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21.10.2011 Exhibition at HEDEN with David Pedraza

Participating in the Heden exhibition together with David Pedraza!
My work Any Day Now is shown in it's original video installation in the video space at Heden, Den Haag.

Margreet Leemhuis, Ambassador Internationale Culturele Samenwerking van het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, opened the exhibition with a nice talk.

21.10.2011 - 04.12.2011 Heden, Den Haag

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22.07.2011 Eerste Pluk at Zeebelt Theatre

Preparing for 'Eerst Pluk' at Zeebelt theater, an evening at which different disciplines are combined. The programme consists of film, theatre, dance and performance. Five young artists will present themselves at Thursday the 22nd of September 2011:

Puck Verkade (Film//KABK, Den Haag)
Anne Breure (Theaterschool, Amsterdam)
Ola Maciejewska (Dance/Codarts, Rotterdam)
Erfan Abdi (Digital music performance/KABK, ArtScience, Den Haag)
Bogomir Doringer (film installation/Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie, Amsterdam)

For this show I'm interviewing my fellow participants about their work and after-graduation experience.
You can find the interviews here.

And a nice report from trendbeheer here.

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03.09.2011 Videoscreening at Museum Night in The Hague

The one screen version of Any Day Now will be screened at 'Be a collective. Change the world?!' in Nutshuis
during Museumnacht Den Haag.

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03.09.2011 Nomination Young Blood Award at Ron Mandos

I received a nomination for the Young Blood Award at the Best of Graduates show.
Congratulations to the winners Jonas Wijtenburg and Minke Nelissen!

Check out the nice article in Financieel Dagblad as well.

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23.08.2011 Workshop One Minute Sculptures

The KABK invited me to create a workshop for new students during their introduction week. The workshop started as a visit to the Erwin Wurm exhibition in the GEM, Den Haag. Inspired by the known work of Erwin Wurm's One Minute Sculptures we've tried to apply his way of thinking in doing small performances together on the streets of The Hague. By combining the concept of sculpture, performance, interaction and improvisation we've created these great pictures as a lasting result.

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13.08.2011 Best of Graduates Exhibition at Ron Mandos

Participating in the Best of Graduates exhibition at Ron Mandos with my project Any Day Now.
An exhibition with several graduates from all Dutch art academes, curated by Radek Vana.

18.08.2011 - 03.09.2011 Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam

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15.07.2011 GRADUATION!

Graduation, woohoo! I'm very very very happy with the three prices that I won with Any Day Now:
The KABK Fine Arts Prize, KABK Academy Prize and the STROOM Encouragement Award!
It's such a wonderful feeling to get this appreciation for the AnyDayNow project that's very special to me, thank you!

Check out the great spread on STROOM.

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