Shift & Drift

O&O-scheme
The exhibition celebrated the fifth anniversary of the O&O scheme. In 2010, The CBK Rotterdam established this scheme for projects, residencies, publications, and research, to stimulate exceptional projects by Rotterdam artists, to enable them to deepen their professional practice, and to adopt a higher profile.

Guest curator Eelco van der Lingen (at the time director and curator of NEST in The Hague) was a 3-year member of the committee that reviewed the applications for CBK Rotterdam’s O&O grant.

17 Rotterdam-based artists
The O&O grant offered the exhibiting artists to explore new possibilities in their work. The O&O grant supported some of the artists in their ambition to do research abroad (Ine Lamers, Fatima Barznge, Lorelinde Verhees, Simon Kentgens). Efrat Zehavi works with dolls or characters. During his participation at the SEMA Nanji Residency in Seoul, Jan Adriaan worked on a film about one of the city’s many universities. “The Hongik’ rumour,” shows a fictional student musing over her own career, and the complex building pattern of the campus. Using support from the O&O grant, she went to Prague to learn classic animation skills.

The O&O grant gave many artists the opportunity to explore new techniques and principles. Jan van de Pavert made use of the O&O to enable a path of wandering, trying, and starting over again. Kiki Lamers turned her oeuvre completely upside down by taking a radical departure from painting. Wouter Venema immersed himself in a constantly evolving quest through different disciplines. Lucian Wester‘s colour photographs made ​​using an old technique, which, thanks to O&O support, he could realise himself. V&B (Ellemieke Schoenmakers and Alex Jacobs) introduced an old theme to a new era. Their monumental painting full of paintings is based on the ‘kunst kamer’ genre of the 17th century.

The Onderzoek & Ontwikkeling publication, designed Bart Oppenheimer, has 172 different projects by Rotterdam artists and will be published in March 2015.