OPENING EXHIBITION PROGRAM 2020

SENTINELS

5 Day exhibition and events series by Sissel Marie Tonn and Helena Sanders
Feb 28 - Mar 3 2020

"An earthly shudder only perceivable by animals. Foreboding dreams, bodily sensations and weather phenomena. Unease at a glimmer of movement at the edge of the forest, hackles raised in response to what can only be perceived at the periphery. Sentinels is a 5-day exhibition of work by the two artists, each dealing with subliminal sensations of environments undergoing change." See Lab is excited to invite you to a 5 day exhibition and events series in the Project Space by artists Helena Sanders and Sissel Marie Tonn.

We will open the doors to SENTINELS with a performance program, drinks in the newly renovated See Lab Cafe, and music/fresh dancing beats by Tweeny! Performance program: A performance by Margarita Osipian and Helena Sanders A musical intervention by Jonathan Reus A reading of “An Education of Attention” essay by Sissel Marie Tonn.

The exhibition will also host two events, in which invited artists engages with and respond to it's theme.

PERFORMANCE NIGHT

Margarita Osipian and Helena Sanders,
Jonathan Reus and Sissel Marie Tonn

OPENING: Friday, February 28th, 20:00h
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM: 20:00 - 23:00 h
EXHIBITION: 29th of February - 3rd of March
TIME: 17:00 - 19.30 h

Description: In this exhibition Sissel Marie Tonn and Helena will show new iterations of existing/ever-evolving work. Sissel will show a new iteration of her work “An Education of Attention”, which explores sensory perception, attention and embodied memory related to living in an earthquake zone. Based on personal accounts of people living in Istanbul the work traces the different modes of attention enlisted in the sense of ecological awareness that comes with living on a fault line. This weaves together inexplicable bodily sensations, attention to strange animal behavior, dreams, and foreboding weather phenomena preceding an earthquake, mixed with an awareness of domestic space becoming a potential threat, and the increasing encroachment of urban development on public spaces.

Helena Sanders presents new and recent work using natural and synthetic pigments, residues, and folktale as an entry point into uneasy kinships with un-namable or invisible bodies / phenomenon. She has been exploring the potentialities of color to register fleeting effects and intercept barely-audible missives.
In this instance, she looks to the Mine as the folkloric site where the business of extraction is enmeshed with superstition and the language of magic. The Miner tries to coax a temporary geological peace through inefficient ritual and naive offerings at odds with the rhythm of Capital. The Mine speaks back in gold, coal, cobalt, cave-in, noxious gas, fires, and in the thawed glowing pink biological pigments of vanished oceans squashed into shale, or in black and red cannibal pigmented microbes and fungi, eating in the boundaries of prehistoric cave paintings, refreshing these images in perpetuity.

The exhibition will run from the 29th of February - 3rd of March.

//OPENING PERFORMANCE NIGHT//

28-02-20:

20h:
We will open the doors to SENTINELS with a performance program, drinks in the newly renovated See Lab Cafe, and music/fresh dancing beats by Tweeny!

21h-23h:
Performance program:
A performance by Margarita Osipian and Helena Sanders
A musical intervention by Jonathan Reus
A reading of “An Education of Attention” essay by Sissel Marie Tonn.

29-02-20:
Exhibition open from 13h-17hpm.

01-03-20:
Exhibition open from 13h-17h.

01-03-20:
17h - 19h: The Reading Room #34 - The Art of Noticing, Collective reading of a chapter from Anna Tsing’s: “The mushroom at the end of the world”, with guest artist Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou. Read more here.

 02-03-2020 - 03-03-2020:
Exhibition open by appointment.

OPEN ATELIERS 2019

On the 26th and 27th of October, all 22 studios of Scheveningen’s cultural incubator See Lab were open to the public. Artists, inventors, musicians, as well as other creative entrepreneurs were present to show you around and talk about their work.
The weekend was a unique occasion to get to know the artists who use metal, paint, foam, musical scores, and other media to shape their ideas. You were invited to meet the artists who teach lessons from their studios throughout the year, and visit the seven attic studios which host graduates fresh from art school.

The 19th century building at Duinstraat 55 is a former school building though with a little imagination it could easily have been an old monastery, or even the seaside palace of the Oranjes.

In the former chapel/gym, now See Lab’s very own exhibition space, Annabelle Schatteman showed her latest work The Desired State. The installation is the first stopover on her imaginary journey which began with her previous work heading for the purple planet

photography: Anke van den Berg

THE DESIRED STATE

Solo exhibition by Annabelle Schatteman
mixed media installation with sound
19-27 October 2019
13.00 - 17.00 h

“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, like a house in a whirlwind.  It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”

Margaret Atwood

The desired state is the first destination of an imaginary journey that started two years ago with an installation of mainly female sculptures, heading for the purple planet, in search of an utopian world where life can be continued
only,

sometimes the world you find is not the one you imagined…

Video impression of The Desired State
video: Mathieu Rynwalt
sound: Yun Ingrid Lee

photos: Anke van den Berg

MUSEUMNACHT - ZEEVONK

Group Exhibition ” Zeevonk” during Museumnacht
artists: Awinash Panchu, Sissel Marie Tonn, Oddkin & Jonathan Reus

On warm summer nights in Scheveningen, you can experience the magical event of swimming with Zeevonk - the algae that turns your movements in the water into fluorescent sparkles of light. For this year’s museum nacht See Lab has created an artistic program, that takes inspiration from the magic sensation of experiencing Zeevonk, which almost gives you an experience of Synesthesia . We invite you to touch sound, taste color and dip into the artistic zeevonk. The night will begin with a screening of See Lab produced video work, that each deal with time in different ways. Later on, the audience will be invited to perform with each other in two fun, interactive sound installations, and we end with a party, where you can create your own Zeevonk cocktail in our cocktail workshop, and dance to groovy tunes.

photos: Anke van den Berg, Helena Sanders & Marie-Charlotte Spruijt.

More info: Museumnacht

GET ``THINGS`` OFF OUR CHEST

Group exhibition Get “Things” Off Our Chests | 3rd of May from 18:00 at the See Lab’s project space.
curated by Margarita Leonenko
artists: Annabelle Schatteman, Cathleen Owens, Katerina Sidorova, Lili Berger and Yun Teng Seet

To get (something) off one's chest is an act of sharing, confessing or relieving one's mind. It is an opportunity to talk about something worrying, to let go of neglect. It is an invitation to discuss something private, to pay attention to a character or an unknown nature.

As a response to creative dialogue about art practices, the framework of the exhibition takes the studio as a subject for exploring the key roles and methods of working, and positions the artist’s body as an important element of its operations and creative labor. This group show introduces studio space as a site not only for producing, making and showing an artwork, but examines what is personally significant to a maker, an art worker, a creator, a female artist.

photos: Mathieu Rynwalt & Lili Berger
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2308809542691978/