website serves as archive - works are sorted by year - click on images to enlarge
coming up: Object Research Lab
15th of July 2010 - 15th of October at Pompgemaal, Den Helder
Short Bio:
Yvonne Droge Wendel looks for challenging ways of relating to things. She sets up experimental encounters and captures what it is that objects actually do.
Droge Wendel original focus was familiar, everyday objects, and in 1992 she married Wendel, a decorative cabinet, whose name she officially bears. Later she began to use objects that were more neutral in their significance, objects with fewer or with no readily identifiable characteristics. Active participation by the user is central to her recent work, creating objects and scenarios that await the meanings that they will acquire in the perception of the viewers. Furthermore she works on commissions for public space, and is Head of the Fine Arts department of the Amsterdam Rietveld Academy.
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Het werk van Yvonne Droge Wendel beweegt zich op de grens van sculptuur, performance en design, waarbij haar interesse uitgaat naar het tastbaar maken van hedendaags denken over mens/object verhoudingen en object/object verhoudingen in vorm van ruimtelijke opstellingen. Het publiek en de locatie zijn vaak onderdeel van het werk waarbij het publiek wordt uitgenodigd om te reageren. Gedurende de afgelopen 15 jaar ontstonden spraakmakende projecten die zowel in Nederland als ook in het buitenland veel publiciteit kregen, zoals La Benedizione Della Macchina (Prix de Rome 1994), het project Black Ball dat recent tijdens Carried Away in het MMK Arnhem te zien was en het project De Coupe, een reiservaring voor Alzheimer patienten van het verpleeghuis De Bieslandhof te Delft (www.skor.nl/artefact-3538-nl.html)
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contact:
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Lumen Travo Gallery
Lijnbaansgracht 314, NL 1017 WZ Amsterdam,tel +31(0)206270882
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Johan Deumens Gallery
Donkere Spaarne 32 ZW , NL 2011 JH Haarlem,
f: + 31 84 22 48 590
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project sites:
A two minute film made by the German TV station called ZDF Heute
can be found by googeling 'zugfahrt f�r alzheimerpatienten'.
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Projectsite of Universal Pattern -
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collaborative project on interactive working practices. You can order the publication through bookshop
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Footage on BLACK BALL: images on Istanbul can be found on videoserver of Smart Projectspace:
more footage Black ball from Rotterdam:
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the Hengelo Song commissioned by Kunststichting Diepenheim and Proeftuin Twente:
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Elfbergenpad a travel guide commissioned by GBK Gelderland:
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