MAUREEN BACHAUS
Geboren in Maastricht, Niederlande. Studium an der Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht und Conceptual Post-graduate Academy in Amsterdam. ......scroll down for English version......
Die menschliche Psyche und die Frage nach Identität sind die Hauptthemen im Oeuvre von Maureen Bachaus. Sie sammelt Gedanken von Menschen unterschiedlicher Kultur und Herkunft und übersetzt diese in ihren fotografischen Assemblagen, Video- und Performanceprojekten, Installationen und Skulpturen. Sie kombiniert ihre Fotografien mit Seil, Nähgarn, Zeichnung oder Fundstücken und erzählt damit unterschwellig die Geschichte ihrer Protagonisten. Gestickte Texte scheinen wie Gedankenfragmente, mit verknoteten Seilen umwickelte Fotografien drücken Freiheit und Unfreiheit unserer Gefühle und Gedanken aus. Born in Maastricht, Netherlands. Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht Netherlands and Conceptual Post-graduate Academy, Amsterdam Netherlands. As a concept developer, Maureen Bachaus is the creative mind behind cultural, curatorial and conceptual art projects throughout Europe. She works as cultural policy advisor for the municipality Eijsden-Margraten (NL) and is co-founder of the international art collective >BAUM<, that focuses on cultural projects with social relevance. Human psyche and the question of identity are a focal point in Maureen Bachaus' oeuvre. She collects thoughts of people from different culture and origin and translates them into photographic assemblages, video- and performanceprojects, installations and sculptures. The assembled elements (ropes, drawings, objects or lines of texts) suggest a part of the underlying story and are in fact fragments of the people’s thoughts revealing the essence of the mind at the time. A frequently used material is rope, sometimes pierced rawly through the image. This rope, sometimes in a knot, sometimes with hanging parts, symbolizes the limitation or even captivity but also the freedom experienced by certain thoughts and feelings. Collaborative projects 2016 Landbouwbelang Maastricht, interactive presentation with our art collective BAUM 2015 Mala Stanica, multi media center of the National Gallery of Macedonia, ‘Utopia project’ with our artcollective BAUM 2015 Dokufest international film- and documentary festival. Selected video’s for collaborative project ‘Unerasable, Prizren, Kosovo 2014 BIO50 24th Biennale / Mao - Museum Ljubljana, curated by Jan Boelen, interactive video project ‘Borders/Boundaries’, in cooperation with Jeton Muja. BIO50 24th Biennale (BIO50}hotel project, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2014 Flux Factory New York, the ‘Utopia Project’, interactive video project, in cooperation with art-collective ‘Either/or..or..or’. Works in Public Space Cloud of Thoughts, roundabout-sculpture for the city Roermond, Netherlands Tree Installations, temporary installations in Parc de Woluwé Brussels, Belgium AKTUELL | ON VIEW 27.09.-01.11.2019, Galerie Kunstkomplex | Wuppertal, Germany 21.02.-28.03.2020 Kunstkomplex+Mennuni | Basel, Switzerland DOWNLOAD Katalog | e-catalogue |
Ausstellungen | Auswahl Einzelausstellungen | Soloshows 2019 RHYTHM OF FORGOTTEN JOY, Galerie Kunstkomplex Wuppertal (Germany) 2018 LOVE?, Galerie Kunstkomplex Wuppertal (Germany) 2014 solo exhibition with new work & video-art, Exit11 Contemporary Art, Belgium 2014 MYSTERY MINING, Art Gallery O-68 Velp (Netherlands) 2013 TELL ME WHO I AM, Lieux Communs, Namur, Belgium 2013 SECRET PROPERTIES, Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent, Belgium 2013 Varg e Vi, Center for contemporary art, Gjilan Kosovo 2013 Art at the Warehouse Rotterdam, solo presentation, Eduard Planting Gallery 2012 TELL ME, performance, Chelsea Art Tower, 21th floor Gallery, New York 2011 IDENTIFICATION, Galerie Wansink 2011 HERE I AM, Vishal Haarlem 2010 ALL THOSE PEOPLE, De Nederlandsche Cacao Fabriek 2009 TRANSFORMATIONS, Galerie Wansink 2007 ASSEMBLAGES, Galerie Wansink Gruppenausstellungen | Groupshows 2019 ART WEEK BASEL, Kunstkomplex+Mennuni, Basel (Switzerland) 2019 INTRODUCTION, Kunstkomplex+Mennuni, Basel (Switzerland) 2019 NEW&COMING, Galerie Kunstkomplex Wuppertal (Germany) 2019 NEW&COMING, Galerie Kunstkomplex Wuppertal (Germany) 2019 FAST FORWARD, Galerie Bardohl&Scheel, Berlin (Germany) 2018 SCOPE BASEL, Basel (Switzerland) 2018 KO-OP:KUNST HILFT, Galerie Kunstkomplex Wuppertal (Germany) 2017 CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR, Essen (Germany) 2017 FIRST LOOK, Galerie Bardohl&Scheel, Berlin (Germany) 2017 RESUMÉ, Galerie Kunstkomplex, Wuppertal (Germany) 2017 ART PAMPELONNE, Ramatuelle (France) 2017 SCOPE BASEL, Basel (Switzerland) 2016 Visions 2016, selected performance, Nunnery Gallery London, curated by Cinzia Cremona 2016 Biennale of Jodoigne (Geldenaken) Belgium, selected performance 2016 Unnoticed Art Festival, performance festival, curated by Frans van Lent, Netherlands 2016 EXIT11 Contemporary Art, Belgium, group exhibition 2016 Rotterdam Contemporary (with Gallery O-68) 2015 Gallery De Buck Gent Belgium, group exhibition 2015 National Gallery of Macedonia, Spacial Extension of Art, Galichnik, Skopje 2015 International video festival ‘artvideoKOELN, ‘audiovisual experiences 01’ 2014 CC De Ververij / MOW Belgium, ‘Cradle to Cradle’, 2014 CologneOFF IX International Videoart Festival 2014 ScenesConnected Maastricht, interactive artproject 2014 Exit11 Contemporary Art, Belgium 2014 PARCours / PARKunst, Parc de Woluwé, Brussels, via Lieux-Communs platform for contemporary art: Open air exhibition with a new installation 2014 Galerie Wansink, duo exhibition with recent work 2014 Galerie S&H De Buck, group exhibition 2013 Liquid Borders Art Festival (photography, video-art), Bari, Italy 2013 Museum Elburg, group exhibition ’in conversation’ 2012 Art Gent, group exhibition via Galerie S&H De Buck 2012 Galerie S&H De Buck (Gent), group exhibition ‘The paradise’ 2012 Galerie Wansink, group exhibition ‘Not for your eyes only’ 2012 Galerie Daniel Tanner, Zürich, group exhibition ‘A little bit nasty’ 2012 UNIT24 Gallery Londen, group exhibition ‘Passion for Freedom’ 2012 Galerie Smarius, group exhibition 2012 Amsterdam Book night, presentation via magazine ‘De God van Nederland’, Amsterdam 2012 Rabobank, Series of commissioned photoprints 2011 Galerie Wansink, group exhibition ‘Confrontations’ 2010 FLUXmuseum, Museum for Contemporary Fluxus Art, USA, 2009 Galerie Wansink, group exhibition ‘Assemblages and collages’ 2008 Galerie Wansink, group exhibition ‘ Stock and new work’ 2007 Art Amsterdam, duo exhibition with Christina de Vos, (with Galerie Wansink) 2006 Museum ‘Villa Zebra’, Rotterdam, Stipendien & Auszeichnungen | Grants & Awards 2014 Art Colony Galichnik, Macedonia, international multimedia residency 2013 Art Colony Galichnik, Macedonia, international multimedia residency 2013 Varg e Vi, Center for contemporary art, Gjilan Kosovo, residency prior to solo exhibition Publikationen | Publications 2017 Public art billboard and interview in newspaper about the sculpture ‘Cloud of Thoughts’, ‘Art in the Street - project’, Netherlands, 2016 ‘The Unnoticed Art Festival’, exhibition catalogue 2015 ‘Unerasable’, Hardcover exhibition catalogue 2015 ‘No Utopia / Good Utopia’, exhibition catalogue 2014 ‘The vulnerability project’, Hardcover project booklet on occasion of solo exhibition at EXIT11 2013 Catalog ‘Secret Properties’, on occasion of solo exhibition at Gallery S&H De Buck 2013 Catalog ‘Maureen Bachaus’, on occasion of solo exhibition at Varg e Vi, Center for contemporary art 2011-2015 De God van Nederland, literary and cultural quarterly - publication in each issue 2011 Catalog ‘Identification’ - on occasion of solo exhibition at Galerie Wansink 2009 Catalog ‘Transformations’ - on occasion of solo exhibition at Galerie Wansink 2007 Catalog ‘Maureen Bachaus, assemblages’ - on occasion of solo exhibition at Galerie Wansink MEDIA TV-interview about the Video and Filmfestival ‘Endless’, Netherlands, 2016 TV-interview for Dokufest international film- and documentary festival, about the selected video’s, Prizren, Kosovo, August 2015 Online Interview for the VIP-VideoChannel Interview Project, by artvideoKOELN / CologneOFF International Videoart Festival, 2015 L1 Cultuurcafé, live radio-interview about Utopia project, 2014 L1 Newsflash: Cloud of Thoughts, 2013 RTK Television Kosovo, documentary about solo exhibition in Varg e Vi, Center for contemporary art, Gjilan Kosovo, 2013 L1 Cultuurcafé, live radio-interview about Identification project, 2011 ‘All those people’, short documentary about solo exhibition - 2010 TV Maastricht - ‘Kijk Kim’, short documentary - 2009 VPRO Schepperdeschep (tv-program national dutch television) - 2006 |