Kim Engelen

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About Kim Engelen
Kim Engelen is an international artist, art teacher, and former TEDx speaker. She has lived and worked as a contemporary artist in 6 countries. Her art has been shown in 25 countries, magazines, and on television.
Engelen participated in the Podcast Series: Art Uncovered, New York, USA (2020). She was on stage at TEDx China (2019). And was interviewed by Contemporary Art Review and Shanghai Daily (2019).
Engelen published amongst others: 6 Private Mini Exhibitions (2020), Advanced Health Attack - Belgrade Bridge Stories (2020), The New Score - Collective Creation for Visual Artists (2019), The Little Bridge (2018). Empathetic Walking Panel (2018).
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Omschrijf een Kunstenaar (Dutch Edition)
Aug 11, 2021
by
Kim Engelen
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OMSCHRIJF EEN KUNSTENAAR
KIM ENGELEN
Door heel Nederland heb ik wildvreemde mensen dezelfde vraag gesteld: OMSCHRIJF EEN KUNSTENAAR.
INTRO
Als mensen mij vroegen welke studie ik volgde en ik vertelde dat ik op de Kunstacademie zat, dan werd er meestal gereageerd met ‘Ohja, dat had ik niet van jou verwacht.’ Dat irriteerde me behoorlijk en ik vroeg me af hoe een kunstenaar er in hun verbeelding uitziet.
Ik denk dat het beeld dat bij de mensen heerst een nogal vastgeroest en bevooroordeeld beeld is. Maar waarom houdt dit beeld dan nog steeds stand? Mijn antwoord is dat ik denk dat de kunstenaars en de docenten op de kunstacademie dit beeld zelf in leven houden.
In mijn tijd op kunstacademie zag ik dat er mensen waren die zich in het propedeuse jaar regulier gedroegen en er normaal uitzagen totaal veranderden. Ze wilden zich qua uiterlijk schijnbaar aanpassen aan de meerderheidsgroep. En eenmaal behorende tot die ‘elite’ groep vertoonden ze snobisme. Ontwikkelden attitude problemen. Of werden plots chagrijnig als je ze bijvoorbeeld goedemorgen wenste.
En dan de docenten die jou moeten opleiden tot een zelfstandig functionerend kunstenaar. Deed ik uit fatsoen mijn stofjas uit bij een bespreking van mijn werk, dan vroegen ze mij of ik me er soms voor schaamde.
En steken onder water geven als bleek dat jouw muziekkeuze geheel afweek van de rest. Of dat ze in het laatste jaar, het examenjaar, tussen de drukte door in een cursus van zes bijeenkomsten je wilden leren hoe je ondernemend kunstenaar moet zijn. Er bleek sowieso een soort van onuitgesproken regel te zijn dat er niet over geld gesproken mag worden.
Het beste voorbeeld nog is dat een docente (zelf kunstenares), tijdens een beoordeling van mijn werk mij verweet geen kunstenaarsmentaliteit te bezitten.
Wat is een kunstenaarsmentaliteit eigenlijk? Deze mevrouw heeft daar dus een duidelijk eenduidig beeld van, waar niet van afgeweken mag worden.
Jammer toch dat juist net de enige groep mensen die dit beeld zou kunnen veranderen en waarvan je eigenlijk zou verwachten dat ze openstaan voor alles wat nieuw en anders is en die zich willen afzetten tegen de foute dingen in de maatschappij, dat juist deze mensen last hebben van xenofobie en het liever allemaal zo laten.
En dat ze dus helemaal niet zo zelfstandig en autonoom de dingen benaderen als wel in een groep. En dus zo weer een bepaald soort mensen worden en zo op z’n beurt zo weer voor zichzelf een hokje creëren waar dan alle kunstenaars in horen te passen. En het oude vastgeroeste beeld van een omschrijving van een kunstenaar in stand blijft.
Vandaar dat ik wel eens wilde zien wat er in Nederland onder een kunstenaar wordt verstaan en of het allemaal wel zo dramatisch is als ik het mij voorstelde.
In alle provincies van Nederland heb ik één willekeurig persoon gevraagd om deze vraag te beantwoorden. Dat ene antwoord heb ik gebruikt voor dit boekje. Dus ondanks wat het antwoord was, heb ik niet nog een ander persoon in die desbetreffende stad gevraagd.
Kim Engelen, december 1998
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Describe an Artist
Aug 10, 2021
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Kim Engelen
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DESCRIBE AN ARTIST
KIM ENGELEN
Throughout the Netherlands, I have asked strangers the same question: DESCRIBE AN ARTIST.
INTRODUCTION
When people asked me what study I was doing, and I told them I was studying at the Art Academy, they usually responded with, Oh, I didn’t expect that from you. That really annoyed me, and I wondered how an artist in their imagination looked.
I think that the image that prevails is a rather entrenched and prejudiced one. But why does this image still stand? My answer is that perhaps the artists and the teachers at the academies keep this image alive themselves.
During my time at the art academy, I saw people who behaved ordinary and looked normal during the propaedeutic year completely changed. It seemed that they wanted to adapt to the majority group. And once belonging to that elite group, they showed snobbery and developed attitude problems. For example, when I wished them a good morning, they suddenly raised their eyebrows and thought this was weird.
And then the teachers who have to train you to become an independently functioning artist. When I took off my dustcoat out of respect when discussing my work, they asked me if I was ashamed of it. And the jabs underwater when it turned out that one’s choice of music is different from the rest.
In between the hustle and bustle of our final year, our exam year, in a six meetings course, they offered to teach us how to be an enterprising artist. But long before this, there was some sort of unspoken rule not to talk about money in the context of art.—As if it could hurt your art. The best example is that one teacher (herself an artist) accused me of not possessing an artist’s mentality during an assessment of the artwork.
What exactly is an artist mentality? This lady apparently had a clear, unambiguous picture of which one was not allowed to deviate.
I feel it is a pity that the group of people who from the core could change this long-established image, and of whom one expects to be open-minded, who I thought opposed the wrongs in society, that precisely this group of people showed xenophobia and preferred to leave things as they were.
That unfortunately they do not approach things independently and autonomously, as they do in a status quo-like group, and consequently again becomes a certain kind of group of people. And this way creating a box for themselves and in which then all artists should fit in, with the consequence that the inveterated idea of who or what an artist is, remains.
That is why I wanted to hear from people in the Netherlands what their idea of an artist is. And whether it was all as dramatic as I experienced it.
In all provinces of the Netherlands, I asked a random person to answer this question. I used that one answer for this booklet, so despite what the answer was, I didn’t ask another person in that particular city.
Kim Engelen, December 1998
KIM ENGELEN
Throughout the Netherlands, I have asked strangers the same question: DESCRIBE AN ARTIST.
INTRODUCTION
When people asked me what study I was doing, and I told them I was studying at the Art Academy, they usually responded with, Oh, I didn’t expect that from you. That really annoyed me, and I wondered how an artist in their imagination looked.
I think that the image that prevails is a rather entrenched and prejudiced one. But why does this image still stand? My answer is that perhaps the artists and the teachers at the academies keep this image alive themselves.
During my time at the art academy, I saw people who behaved ordinary and looked normal during the propaedeutic year completely changed. It seemed that they wanted to adapt to the majority group. And once belonging to that elite group, they showed snobbery and developed attitude problems. For example, when I wished them a good morning, they suddenly raised their eyebrows and thought this was weird.
And then the teachers who have to train you to become an independently functioning artist. When I took off my dustcoat out of respect when discussing my work, they asked me if I was ashamed of it. And the jabs underwater when it turned out that one’s choice of music is different from the rest.
In between the hustle and bustle of our final year, our exam year, in a six meetings course, they offered to teach us how to be an enterprising artist. But long before this, there was some sort of unspoken rule not to talk about money in the context of art.—As if it could hurt your art. The best example is that one teacher (herself an artist) accused me of not possessing an artist’s mentality during an assessment of the artwork.
What exactly is an artist mentality? This lady apparently had a clear, unambiguous picture of which one was not allowed to deviate.
I feel it is a pity that the group of people who from the core could change this long-established image, and of whom one expects to be open-minded, who I thought opposed the wrongs in society, that precisely this group of people showed xenophobia and preferred to leave things as they were.
That unfortunately they do not approach things independently and autonomously, as they do in a status quo-like group, and consequently again becomes a certain kind of group of people. And this way creating a box for themselves and in which then all artists should fit in, with the consequence that the inveterated idea of who or what an artist is, remains.
That is why I wanted to hear from people in the Netherlands what their idea of an artist is. And whether it was all as dramatic as I experienced it.
In all provinces of the Netherlands, I asked a random person to answer this question. I used that one answer for this booklet, so despite what the answer was, I didn’t ask another person in that particular city.
Kim Engelen, December 1998
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5 Artists Interviews: #2 The Open Call
Mar 8, 2021
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Kim Engelen
$3.00
5 Artists Interviews
#2 The Open Call
The Open Call is the 2nd book of the 5 Artists Interviews series. Contemporary artist Kim Engelen (Netherlands) interviewed five artists: Guilherme Bergamini (Brazil), Patricia Borges (Brazil), Toine Horvers (Netherlands), Jieyuan Huang (China), and Ioana Niculescu-Aron (Romania).
5 Artists Interviews is a five-year book-project by Kim Engelen. Each book in the series holds interviews with five contemporary artists. The interview itself contains five questions.
#2 The Open Call
The Open Call is the 2nd book of the 5 Artists Interviews series. Contemporary artist Kim Engelen (Netherlands) interviewed five artists: Guilherme Bergamini (Brazil), Patricia Borges (Brazil), Toine Horvers (Netherlands), Jieyuan Huang (China), and Ioana Niculescu-Aron (Romania).
5 Artists Interviews is a five-year book-project by Kim Engelen. Each book in the series holds interviews with five contemporary artists. The interview itself contains five questions.
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Quarantine: 40 Days of Isolation : Sun-Penetrations
Aug 28, 2020
by
Kim Engelen
$4.99
Quaranta Giorni (forty days) is an Italian medical term derived from the plague epidemic in the fourteenth century. During this time, all ships had to remain in port for forty days and the crew was not allowed to leave the ship. This was done to reduce the spread of infection.
For forty days, I sent daily a photograph of my ongoing series: Sun-Penetrations to fellow humans in lockdown. With the sun as the bringer of life. And a light in a moment of darkness. I started my art project on March 23, 2020, and I distributed the last photo online on May 1, 2020.
For forty days, I sent daily a photograph of my ongoing series: Sun-Penetrations to fellow humans in lockdown. With the sun as the bringer of life. And a light in a moment of darkness. I started my art project on March 23, 2020, and I distributed the last photo online on May 1, 2020.
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6 Private Mini-Exhibitions
Aug 7, 2020
by
Kim Engelen
$4.69
Around the world, I am enacting Bridge-Performances. These performances are documented by photographs taken of me by randomly chosen people who happened to be on the bridges. I coined these temporary encounters of co-creating the Bridge-Performances. From January to July 2017, always on the first day of a month, I opened a total of six mini-exhibitions in my apartment in Berlin. By opening up my private space to the public I continued to initiate a setting for a temporary intimacy, similar to the Bridge-Performances. Every month, for six months, I created new works based on my Bridge-Performances. By curating six mini-exhibitions, I was able to play with certain ideas, such as the bridge as a metaphor symbolizing connection, movement, and transition. Other ideas were tourism versus immigration, power positions, communication, authorship, and personal development.These new and experimental works were then exhibited at my home in Berlin for 21 days. They were created as Pièce Unique (in one edition only).
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5 Artists-Interviews (5 Artists Interviews)
Jun 29, 2020
by
Kim Engelen
$3.00
Contemporary artist Kim Engelen (Netherlands) interviewed five of her artists-friends: Federica Buonsante (Italy), Đejmi Hadrović (Slovenia), Frans Huisman (Netherlands), Lynn Marie Kirby (USA), and Libby Page (UK). Each interview holds five questions about the interviewed artist’s work. This book is the first one in a series of five books. This book-project will be ideally realized in five years.
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Kim Engelen
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“The New Score - Collective Creation for Visual Artists” is a proposal for noncompetitive playfully yet seriously working together as (student) artists in a time where free accessible exhibition spaces seem to be decreasing while the number of artists and curators are increasing. “The New Score” can be used in educational settings, such as art schools, academies and universities, where (student) artists come together in order to learn. It could also be used by visual artists who welcome the idea of creating one great art piece together.“The New Score” offers a construed and structured plan of exercises with the goal to guide visual (student) artists to freely yet actively learn from and with each other while creating one great art piece together.
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Kim Engelen
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During the Bridge-Performance “Empathetic Walking Panel” Kim Engelen asked 3 questions about the expat community living in Hangzhou, China. The transcript of this conversation between 3 expats living in China (at that time) is presented in this ebook.
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