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Supermarket- Here we come

Day 1

Today we started riding in direction of Supermarket, crossing the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and stopped for one night in Malmö at Skanes Kunstförening!
Happily we didn’t get any problems (toi toi toi), but could enjoy big sausages in Germany, the first snow and a lot of cars and landscape.

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DZR @ Supermarket Art Fair 2011

The goal of SUPERMARKET, the international artist-run art fair, is to provide a showcase for artist initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish as well as the international art scene.

De Zwarte Ruyter was invited to be a part of this renowned art fair, so we planned a small Rotterdam invasion, for the staff and the artists will travel by plane and by car to get to Stockholm.

For SUPERMARKET 2011 we will build up De Zwarte Ruyter – Souvenir Shop. Here you will find an unlimited edition of all kinds of souvenirs.

In our DZR Souvenir Shop we will have a so called ‘kodak moment’ with a collection of different drop backgrounds. You can choose one of those backgrounds and we will take a picture of you while standing in front of it.
The backgrounds are made by and will represent the artists we worked with so far in a more serious and ironic way.

Participating Artists

Erik Alkema
Marijke Appelman
Tijs Bakker
Bonno van Doorn
Lisa Gliederpuppe
Annika Hauke
Heleen van der Hoogt
Daan den Houter
Geirmundur Klein
Olaf Mooij
Gyz la Rivière
Eric Roelen
Sandro Setola
Melle Smets
Judith Vogt
Hans Wilschut

At the moment Eric Roelen is working hard on ‘Dipped in Rotterdam’, the DZR souvenir stand which he designed especially for Supermarket. It consists of green dipped wooden sticks, which refer to the Rotterdam flag, that are used in a simple but ingenious construction. The batons are formal doped/ baptized in Rotterdam.

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hälsningar från De Zwarte Ruyter!

DZR @ Supermarket Art Fair 2011

The goal of SUPERMARKET, the international artist-run art fair, is to provide a showcase for artist initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish as well as the international art scene.

SUPERMARKET has been arranged since 2007 by a small group most of whom are artists themselves. Supermarket is a development of Minimarket, which was held at Konstnärshuset in February 2006 in reaction to the new commercial art fair Market.

Initiated and organised by artists, this project has rapidly evolved from a modest group of local initiatives to a full-fledged international art exposition that has made its mark and helped firmly establish Stockholm on the art world map.

SUPERMARKET started in small scale as MINIMARKET in 2006 in an art nouveau palace, the following year it became SUPERMARKET, with international presence in the same site, 2008 it moved to a run-down industrial space, then to a newly built designer first-class hotel (Clarion Hotel Stockholm) and 2010 to the very heart of Stockholm – Kulturhuset (House of Culture).

For SUPERMARKET 2011 we will build up De Zwarte Ruyter – Souvenir Shop. Here you will find an unlimited edition of all kinds of souvenirs.

In our DZR Souvenir Shop we will have a so called ‘kodak moment’ with a collection of different drop backgrounds, who men can choose out of to be photographed on. The backgrounds are made by and will represent the artists we worked with so far in a more serious and ironic way. Within the different backdrops we will invite the public to choose one for their picture, some attributes to hold and take their picture. They are free to take one picture as a memory, the whole collection of the portraits of the visitors we will print and publish during SUPERMARKET 2011 in a Zine.

By building up a souvenir shop we want to outline and question the borders of an artist initiative like we are; using the fact that most people have a prejudice on how those are working and should be presented. The same as tourists have a restricted view of the countries they are visiting.

To play with a commercial joke and disrupt the visitors by confusing impressions is our aim. At the same time it can be seen as a metaphor for the upset balance within the (underground) art scene, their commercial non-value and artistic value and between those artist -initiative -‘galleries‘ in opposite to the commercial ones. At least it is to be seen in the Netherlands even more with the raising of a strongly right wing government.

We want to enlist in the supermarket art fair 2011 by creating a similar space, an atmosphere, of what we are doing in Rotterdam: obtaining the facilities, people and dialogue required and start working.

BookCase @ RAiR #3 Guest House @ ART Rotterdam

RAiR#3 Guest House
An exciting selection out of a decade of work from international guest artists.
Curator: Leo Delfgaauw

RAiR (Rotterdam Artists in Residence – Duende, foundation B.a.d., Het Wilde Weten, Kaus Australis and Kunst & Complex) will present a special show close to the main location of Art Rotterdam. Over the past years hundreds of artists stayed for a longer or shorter period in Rotterdam. They joined the local art scene and with their presence enriched cultural life in the city. RAiR#3 hosts a surprising selection of the many talented guests. Invited are;

Brandon Jan Blommaert, Roxane Borujerdi, Diego Bruno, Amy Cheung, Erin Dunn, Hadassah Emmerich, Friederike Feldmann, Olivier Gourvil, Annika Hauke Michiel Huijben, Aleksander Komarov, Susanne Kriemann, Maider Lopez, Tiina Mielonen Ekaterina Mitichkina, Noriko Mitsuhashi, Shaun O’Connor, Nathan Redwood, Christine Rusche, Marco Schuler, Marit Shalem, Iwan van ʻt Spijker, Andrew Sroka, Soizic Stokvis, Nicola Unger.

RAiR#3 looks back with a historical overview, but also anticipates on all that lies ahead. During RAiR#3 an open forum with invitees will discuss the topic of the Rotterdam international residency policy.

Be welcome to the Instructables Restaurant!
Hospitality, connection and interaction play an important role for RAiR. To make your stay in our ‘Guest House’ as pleasant as possible, Arne Hendriks and Waag Society will install an Instructables Restaurant in our exhibition space. Instructables Restaurant is the first open source restaurant in the world. Everything you see, use and eat is downloaded from instructables.com. An experiment in ‘digesting free internet culture’!
BookCase (part of De Zwarte Ruyter) will present a selection of Artists’ Books and zines and on Saturday 11th Tosti Treffer presents a special evening with food & music. A side event of Artist initiative ADA; Area for Debate and Art, will be anounced on the website of RAiR. Special thanks go to gemeente Rotterdam, dienst Kunst en Cultuur and Vestia Rotterdam Feijenoord.

De Zwarte Ruyter wishes you a pleased as punch 2011

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

  • December 2010 — Closed until the 4th of January
  • January 2011
    1. 05 – Khatchapuri Kino Club #4,
    2. 14 – Opening, Erik Alkema: Neverland #4 – Zweet des Aanschijns (Sweat of Brow)
  • February 2011
  1. 05 – Khatchapuri Kino Club #5,
  2. 11 – BookCase @ Art Rotterdam,
  3. 18 – DZR @ Supermarket 2011 – Stockholm
  • March 2011
    1. 05 – Khatchapuri Kino Club #6
    2. Xx – Naomi Harris (more info soon)

Neverland #4 – Zweet des Aanschijns (Sweat of Brow)

Erik Alkema

Opening on Friday January 14th, 8 pm
Exhibition runs from January 14th to February 26th 2011

De Zwarte Ruyter will be the stage of the fourth chapter of Erik Alkema’s project Neverland (Het Land Van Nooit). A visual and narrative investigation in which he sketches a multi-headed portrait, in different media and from various perspectives, of the Netherlands.

Based on research what it means to be Dutch he will create a sculptural parody on where he himself feels most Dutch.

An installation about labour, guilt and Senseo-culture.