Kategorie: Ausstellung

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

curated by Stephan Klee

Vernissage
Saturday, 11 October, 5 pm
Duration
12 October–7 December 2025
Tuesday–Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

The Brussels-based Dutch artist concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.
Through spatially accessible arrangements, sculptural objects, photographs and film contributions, the artist succeeds in an inimitable way in making the dynamic upheavals of the regions in question tangible for the audience, thus exemplifying the acute changes taking place on Earth. Or, as she herself says: “I am a research-based and multidisciplinary artist who uses film, photography, sculpture and installation. My work focuses on the intersections between culture and other fields of research. The works themselves are speculative, based in part on facts and research, but often shifted into the realm of imagination. I work on multi-year, process-based research projects that culminate in various works, discursive events, exhibitions and publications.” Multidisciplinary collaboration with other people is important here. In many of these long-term research projects, works are created through close collective creation with other people working on the same topics.
With a scientific foundation and inspiration in uncovering complex interrelationships, Marjolijn Dijkman succeeds in precisely transforming the materials and substances of global processes into concise forms and testimonies. These groups of works embody global eco-geographical changes and make them accessible to visitors on a rational, intuitive and emotional level. Through the artistic manifestations of the changing realities ‘out there,’ a new understanding of the world emerges ‘here with us.’ This finale, in particular, creatively sums up the concept of Active Terrain like no other exhibition in the series.

PROGRAMME
Sat 11 Oct at 5 pm
Vernissage
Welcome speech by Helmut Wenzel,
introduction to the exhibition by the curator Stephan  Klee,
and presentation of the Edition of the Show
open till 7 pm

Sun 19 Oct / Sun 2 Nov
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 6 Dec 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art

3 pm
Exhibition Tour
with Stephan Klee
4 pm
Presentation & Sound Performance
by the artist Nele Möller
5:30 pm
Roundtable Discussion
with Marjolijn Dijkman, Nele Möller
and Stephan Klee

Sun 7 Dec 5 pm
Finissage
Comprehensive presentation of the
Edition of the Show
and all editions of the year
3 pm
Guided tour and conversation – “Walk and Talk”
through the exhibition with the artist Marjokijn Dijkman
and the curator Stephan Klee in English and German
4 pm
Conclusion
open till 5 pm

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

event image: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

THE EDITION FOR THE EXHIBITION

Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

VITA Marjolijn Dijkman
Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more information >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

We would like to thank our sponsors:  Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Between the Lines

curated by Stephan Klee

Vernissage
Saturday, 11 October, 5 pm
Duration
12 October–7 December 2025
Tuesday–Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

The Brussels-based Dutch artist concludes our exhibition series TERRA DIASPORA – AKTIVE TERRAINS in 2025 with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements. For example, a tonally animated forest area transfers the former front lines of Verdun with original trees and shrapnel into the exhibition rooms, artificially produced fulgurites of rare earths from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium define silicon sand areas, and microorganisms multiply in glass-filled water samples from the Göttingen region in a room-filling metal framework.
Through spatially accessible arrangements, sculptural objects, photographs and film contributions, the artist succeeds in an inimitable way in making the dynamic upheavals of the regions in question tangible for the audience, thus exemplifying the acute changes taking place on Earth. Or, as she herself says: “I am a research-based and multidisciplinary artist who uses film, photography, sculpture and installation. My work focuses on the intersections between culture and other fields of research. The works themselves are speculative, based in part on facts and research, but often shifted into the realm of imagination. I work on multi-year, process-based research projects that culminate in various works, discursive events, exhibitions and publications.” Multidisciplinary collaboration with other people is important here. In many of these long-term research projects, works are created through close collective creation with other people working on the same topics.
With a scientific foundation and inspiration in uncovering complex interrelationships, Marjolijn Dijkman succeeds in precisely transforming the materials and substances of global processes into concise forms and testimonies. These groups of works embody global eco-geographical changes and make them accessible to visitors on a rational, intuitive and emotional level. Through the artistic manifestations of the changing realities ‘out there,’ a new understanding of the world emerges ‘here with us.’ This finale, in particular, creatively sums up the concept of Active Terrain like no other exhibition in the series.

PROGRAMME
Sat 11 Oct at 5 pm
Vernissage
Welcome speech by Helmut Wenzel,
introduction to the exhibition by the curator Stephan  Klee,
and presentation of the Edition of the Show
open till 7 pm

Sun 19 Oct / Sun 2 Nov
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler

Sat 6 Dec 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art

3 pm
Exhibition Tour
with Stephan Klee
4 pm
Presentation & Sound Performance
by the artist Nele Möller
5:30 pm
Roundtable Discussion
with Marjolijn Dijkman, Nele Möller
and Stephan Klee

Sun 7 Dec 5 pm
Finissage
Comprehensive presentation of the
Edition of the Show
and all editions of the year
3 pm
Guided tour and conversation – “Walk and Talk”
through the exhibition with the artist Marjokijn Dijkman
and the curator Stephan Klee in English and German
4 pm
Conclusion
open till 5 pm

>> To help us plan better, we would be grateful if you could make reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de, respectively by telephone under +49 (0) 551-44899

event image: Marjolijn Dijkman Earthing Discharge (crop out), courtesy the artist and NOME Berlin,
Photo and all rights by Marjolijn Dijkman, published without fee with the friendly agreement of the artist

THE EDITION FOR THE EXHIBITION

Marjolijn Dijkman
Earthing Discharge
Edition for the Kunstverein Göttingen, 2025

Edition size 12 + 5 AP, H 29.7 cm x W 42 cm (A 3), archival inkjet pigment print (Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG, velvety–matt, natural white, acid-free, 100% cellulose, 308 g/sqm

Courtesy of the artist
Price: €320 / €240 for members of KV Göttingen

The artificially generated ‘earthing discharge’ of hard coal creates unique structures of electrical sparks and transports viewers into a precisely captured world of formerly natural energy flows. However, it is precisely this combination that also symbolises two of the most important industrial revolutions: the comprehensive use of hard coal and electricity in production processes. These ‘releases’ of human resource exploitation and their effects on organically animated terrestrial zones are exemplary of the themes in Marjolijn Dijkman’s work and our 2025 annual programme.

VITA Marjolijn Dijkman
Marjolijn Dijkman (1978, NL) is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space. She lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Lahaymeix (FR).
 
She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001 and at the MFA Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003, and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2006 to 2007.

She is currently part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts Brussels / University of Leuven, supervised by Wendy Morris and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (2023-2027).

In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Enough Room for Space is an interdependent art organisation that initiates experimental collaborative research projects. We tend to operate as freely as possible and to transcend the boundaries between disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

more information >>www.marjolijndijkman.com

The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.

We would like to thank our sponsors:  Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen und Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our essential supporters from the Netherlands: Mondriaan Fund and from Belgium: the Flanders Culture Fund.