artcraftlove
Paula Biemans and Klaas Kloosterhuis
We are together for more than 25 years and working together as a couple in art since summer 2022. The children flew the coop. Now what?
In our collaboration we reflect on our relationship. For years we were a group: us as parents and our 3 children. Now it is the two of us again in a big hollow house.
We are considering birth - growth - regeneration - the search for continuation - our bodies getting older - our minds getting richer. We are in search for ourselves and each other in art. For that is the only way.
We are in our midlives, mirrored from two sides: the older generation of our parents and the younger generation of our children. We recognize both and we are in the middle. Very aware of this unique situation and time in our lives we wish to connect to each other, all generations, to time and the spaces we are in.
Waiting for the tide
this relation is under construction
Innertube
artcraftlove
Letters to the Baltic Sea
Tug of war - photographic work
february 23 - march 13 2024
Razklon Gallery
Tsarino foundation Bulgaria
Helix - video work
march 21 - march 28 2024
Knowing me Knowing you
Academie Minerva Groningen
Time under construction
april 28 - may 26 2024
Pictura Groningen
video installation - performances - talk with
Douwe Draaisma
what's new
what's happened
Dihan
Wachten op het tij
video and talk about creative pressure and exhaustion
december 2023
Tug of war (rain edition)
Suikerunieterrein Groningen
november 2023
Wachten op het tij
video triptych
Nevengeul IJsselbiënnale
Turnhal Ellecom 17 juni - 17 september 2023
performance Tug of war
Nevengeul IJsselbiënnale
Turnhal Ellecom 19 - 20 augustus 2023
assignment to design
valuation award for gemeente Eemsdelta
july 2023 (not selected)
one week residency Farmart
april 30 - may 5 2023
where we were beings, together
walked talked
and played as if we were wind mills
and swam in the Lethewater
Letters to the Baltic Sea
for Struggling Art Space/
Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm
april 2023
a performative and interactive action
letters on water soluble paper
and photographs
on which we write each other
Dihan
performance
Innertube
standing together in a empty inner tube we blow in separate valves in a composition of breathing till the tube is full and our bodies squeezed together.
december 2022
Dihan
performance
ArtCraftLove
on pieces of paper we try to hold on to our own projected images getting smaller walking towards to horizon
november 2022
contact: paulabiemansklaaskloosterhuis@outlook.com
paulabiemans_klaaskloosterhuis
Tug of war
Time Under Construction in Pictura Groningen
A first major exhibition, after we started working together in art. No clarity, but questions. In order to collaborate, we research our ideas. We try to lower shields, carefully and lovingly, new patterns are recognized. We give, loosen and pull. We approach each other and move away. We create and recreate. In a momentum, temporary. If this doesn't work. What then? There is so much to say, so much to discuss now that we have started our collaboration.
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