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Installation at Art Rotterdam in the Group show "Prospects&Concepts"
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Installation at Art Rotterdam in the Group show "Prospects&Concepts"
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Big Banal is an anticipated group show of five The Hague based artists comprising of Eden Latham, Aura Rendón Benger, Steef Crombach, Bob Demper and Leslie Nagel. Importantly, fitting with the concept, the artists brought no work to Austin, but created work the week before and during the exhibition from exclusively local materials and objects. The works were inspired by their presumptions of the visual landscape of America, formed by a life time of force fed images of the country through advertising, film and media. Banal objects and cultural artefacts were transformed into a group curated Gesamtkunstwerk situated in a 50’s house in Austin, Texas.
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Group show with Yasser Ballemans, Tim Breukers, Esther de Graaf, Charlotte Koenen, Leslie Nagel & Aura Rendón Benger, Pádraic E. Moore, Suzie van Staaveren The Width of a Circle is a project founded upon strategies conceived to reveal the possibilities inherent within imposed constraints. Participants -all of whose practice is predominantly sculptural- were invited to take the five archetypal forms known as the Platonic Solids as a point of departure in developing new work.
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Group show with Yasser Ballemans, Tim Breukers, Esther de Graaf, Charlotte Koenen, Leslie Nagel & Aura Rendón Benger, Pádraic E. Moore, Suzie van Staaveren The Width of a Circle is a project founded upon strategies conceived to reveal the possibilities inherent within imposed constraints. Participants -all of whose practice is predominantly sculptural- were invited to take the five archetypal forms known as the Platonic Solids as a point of departure in developing new work.
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Installation, Museum Beelden aan Zee “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” ― Sarah Kay The creative process is a mystical one. The initial spark of this work was the space itself, the particular exhibition space of Museum Beelden aan Zee. A room that has no direct windows yet faces the sea, the beach and the high grass of the dunes. A room built in ancient style, church-like with a nave and two aisles, once only the carrier and cellar of the villa above. Today the space is at the heart of the Museum’s modern, concrete structure. This very unique condition of this space had spurred in me all kind of association and thoughts, stimulating the creative process and the development of my work. The high-contrast complexity of the space and its surrounding have been incorporated into my installation. The elements of nature are so present in the museum, yet they remain outside. It is my ambition to invite them in through my installation. Although not directly in the elements of water, earth or fire but in a sublimated form. The element of air is present within each form of my installation. The material of the installation distinctly absorbs the atmosphere of its surrounding in aspects of colors were as the textile imitates the talent of the sea and sky to reflect. The installation is the reflection of my sea – my „inner sea“. In this way the installation is also an invitation to you, as an observer, to meet your „inner sea“, to form your own experience. My sculptures may invite you to sense beyond what can be visually observed. It is this place, so close to the sea, which demanded me to face my own „inner sea“, to observe and recognize this force of nature, this immense strength and sometimes frightening motion. What is your „inner sea“? Mine is a place of movement and rhythm, of peace and stillness; a carrier for overwhelming emotions: joy, fear, pleasure, doubt, happiness and melancholia. And yet its changeability contains an infinite consistency. Rendez-vous à la mer – an invitation to meet at the sea! An invitation to meet with your inner waves of experience and emotions, to encounter the forms, texture and movements of my installation.
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Collective work installation with Leslie Nagel, in PIP, Den Haag
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Installation, Museum Beelden aan Zee “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” ― Sarah Kay The creative process is a mystical one. The initial spark of this work was the space itself, the particular exhibition space of Museum Beelden aan Zee. A room that has no direct windows yet faces the sea, the beach and the high grass of the dunes. A room built in ancient style, church-like with a nave and two aisles, once only the carrier and cellar of the villa above. Today the space is at the heart of the Museum’s modern, concrete structure. This very unique condition of this space had spurred in me all kind of association and thoughts, stimulating the creative process and the development of my work. The high-contrast complexity of the space and its surrounding have been incorporated into my installation. The elements of nature are so present in the museum, yet they remain outside. It is my ambition to invite them in through my installation. Although not directly in the elements of water, earth or fire but in a sublimated form. The element of air is present within each form of my installation. The material of the installation distinctly absorbs the atmosphere of its surrounding in aspects of colors were as the textile imitates the talent of the sea and sky to reflect. The installation is the reflection of my sea – my „inner sea“. In this way the installation is also an invitation to you, as an observer, to meet your „inner sea“, to form your own experience. My sculptures may invite you to sense beyond what can be visually observed. It is this place, so close to the sea, which demanded me to face my own „inner sea“, to observe and recognize this force of nature, this immense strength and sometimes frightening motion. What is your „inner sea“? Mine is a place of movement and rhythm, of peace and stillness; a carrier for overwhelming emotions: joy, fear, pleasure, doubt, happiness and melancholia. And yet its changeability contains an infinite consistency. Rendez-vous à la mer – an invitation to meet at the sea! An invitation to meet with your inner waves of experience and emotions, to encounter the forms, texture and movements of my installation.
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Installation Codex Festival, Noto Sicily, in cooperation with Leslie Nagel
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Installation in Kunsthal Light #12, Rotterdam ‘Everything depends on whether there is a vibrating wire between us and the world’ For installation and performance artist Aura Rendón Benger (1989, Karlsruhe), this quote by German sociologist Hartmut Rosa perfectly summarises the intention behind her work. With her interactive installations, Rendón Benger deliberately causes tension between her work, the public and herself as a performer. Through direct and short-lived confrontations, and the interaction between distance and proximity, she creates feelings of comfort and disquiet. Rendon Benger’s work is based on personal experiences, gender and the fact that she is a woman thus play an important role. For her, being female is sometimes synonymous with vulnerability. By translating her thoughts into art, she provides the public with an opportunity to immerse themselves in her interpretations of those experiences. When Aura Rendón Benger (1989) graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2014, her final project consisted of large, air-filled objects made from kite fabric. These cumbersome yet light ‘beings’ are positioned, squeezed and hung up to fully occupy the space they are in. She has adapted the work specifically to fit the space in the Kunsthal’s window display. As well as being an exhibition space, this narrow area also serves as an area of transition; visitors have to walk down the slope from ‘Keith Haring. The Political Line’ in hall 2 to reach the exhibition ‘Red Prosperity’. Soviet Design 1950-1980’ in hall 1. The display window is therefore an ideal location for the recurring themes in Rendón Benger’s work, such as distance, proximity, intimacy and the role of the general public. Rendón Benger appeals to the public’s perception, feelings and limits. At work in the window, she plays with the childlike joy and the almost physical experiences of visitors who become immersed in the process as they wind their way through the area. This interaction generates questions and uncertainty about how to deal with proximity, distance and contact with the unknown. Not only does the unavoidable, physical proximity create an intimacy between the work and the viewer, but the personal experiences and the interaction between the participants and the work is also exhibited to a ‘second’ audience outside. It is the ‘voyeur’ himself that becomes the object of interest.
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Installation in Kunsthal Light #12, Rotterdam ‘Everything depends on whether there is a vibrating wire between us and the world’ For installation and performance artist Aura Rendón Benger (1989, Karlsruhe), this quote by German sociologist Hartmut Rosa perfectly summarises the intention behind her work. With her interactive installations, Rendón Benger deliberately causes tension between her work, the public and herself as a performer. Through direct and short-lived confrontations, and the interaction between distance and proximity, she creates feelings of comfort and disquiet. Rendon Benger’s work is based on personal experiences, gender and the fact that she is a woman thus play an important role. For her, being female is sometimes synonymous with vulnerability. By translating her thoughts into art, she provides the public with an opportunity to immerse themselves in her interpretations of those experiences. When Aura Rendón Benger (1989) graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2014, her final project consisted of large, air-filled objects made from kite fabric. These cumbersome yet light ‘beings’ are positioned, squeezed and hung up to fully occupy the space they are in. She has adapted the work specifically to fit the space in the Kunsthal’s window display. As well as being an exhibition space, this narrow area also serves as an area of transition; visitors have to walk down the slope from ‘Keith Haring. The Political Line’ in hall 2 to reach the exhibition ‘Red Prosperity’. Soviet Design 1950-1980’ in hall 1. The display window is therefore an ideal location for the recurring themes in Rendón Benger’s work, such as distance, proximity, intimacy and the role of the general public. Rendón Benger appeals to the public’s perception, feelings and limits. At work in the window, she plays with the childlike joy and the almost physical experiences of visitors who become immersed in the process as they wind their way through the area. This interaction generates questions and uncertainty about how to deal with proximity, distance and contact with the unknown. Not only does the unavoidable, physical proximity create an intimacy between the work and the viewer, but the personal experiences and the interaction between the participants and the work is also exhibited to a ‘second’ audience outside. It is the ‘voyeur’ himself that becomes the object of interest.
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Performance in GEM "Now or Never#3", Museum voor actuele kunst Den Haag
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Background of this work is an installation from 2013, based on a quite personal story. In the work “Das Gewicht der Wörter – Version 2“ I took over the concept of the physical experience of words, sentences and emotions. In context with the yearly congress of the DGsP (Deutschen Gesellschaft für systemische Pädagogik), I invited the participants to sit down at the table or to walk around it – to think and intuitively pick a word or a sentence that then could be written down on one of the dif ferent wooden blocks. During the time of the congress emerged a sort of relief of very personal, associated feelings and thoughts. Through the act of writing down and sharing those words they became physically experienceable. The words became part of a larger whole, a sculpture that emerged from many small ones. By sublimating the words and thoughts a great collaborative work has been created, which should continue to invite people to participate, as an active designer or even just as a viewer.
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Performance By entering a small room the audience steps under my skirt, which spans the entire ceiling. I am standing on stilts and make only small movements. This performance lasts until the people leave again. All kinds of feelings arise from this experience, from infantile awareness to sensual impressions.
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2010 - 2014Fine Arts Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
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2007 - 2007Grafik -Design – „spielend gestalten“ – creative drawing Volkshochschule Karlsruhe e.V.
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2006 - 2006Earth and Sky – Elements of Landscape (painting) Volkshochschule Karlsruhe e.V.
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2005 - 2005The Rhythm of Human Bodies – figure drawing Volkshochschule Karlsruhe e.V.
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2019Prospects&Concepts Art Rotterdam Rotterdam, Nederland Moving Installation From 7 until 10 February 2019 the Mondriaan Fund organizes the seventh edition of the annual exhibition Prospects & Concepts during the international art fair Art Rotterdam at the Van Nelle Fabriek. The exhibition presents work by 67 visual artists who received a Stipendium for Emerging Artists in 2017 in order to start their careers. For this edition, the Mondriaan Fund invited Macha Roesink to curate the exhibition. www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/activity/prospects-concepts/ Groep
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2018The Width of a Circle W139 Amsterdam, Nederland 2 Installations with several sculptures. The Width of a Circle is a project founded upon strategies conceived to reveal the possibilities inherent within imposed constraints. Participants -all of whose practice is predominantly sculptural- were invited to take the five archetypal forms known as the Platonic Solids as a point of departure in developing new work. w139.nl/en/event/the-width-of-a-circle-2/ Groep
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2018Big Banal Big Medium’s West Austin Studio Tour Austin, TX, Verenigde Staten Sculpture Groep
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2017Rendez-vous à la mer Museum Beelden aan Zee Den Haag, Nederland Installtion www.beeldenaanzee.nl/nl/aura-rendon-benger Solo
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2016Codex Festival Noto, Sicily, Italië Collective work installation – Leslie Nagel and Aura Rendón Benger 2016, at Codex Festival, Noto Sicily www.codexfestival.eu Duo
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2015Now or never #3 - Performance "Paradox of intimacy GEM - Museum voor actuele Kunst Den Haag, Nederland Performance with Installation www.gem-online.nl/organisatie/nieuws/gem-launch-party-2 Groep
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2015“The Cliffhanger Show” – Inyourlivingroom #31 MaakHaven Den Haag, Nederland Installation www.inyourlivingroom.nl/go/?p=91 Groep
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2015Encounter Kunsthal Light #12 Rotterdam, Nederland Installation www.kunsthal.nl/nl/plan-je-bezoek/tentoonstellingen/encounter-installation-2015/ Solo
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201435 Titels - pre-endexam exhibition KABK De VROM Den Haag, Nederland Performance www.35titles.nl Groep
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2014Graduation Festival KABK, endexam exhibition KABK - Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag, Nederland Installation www.graduationfestival.kabk.nl Groep
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2014
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2012"In your living room #4" Den Haag, Nederland Installation with Performance www.inyourlivingroom.nl Groep
Internationale uitwisselingen / Artist-in-residencies
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2012Universitat de Barcelona - Erasmus Exchange Barcelona, Spanje
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2014Systemische Pädagogik, Heft 4 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Systemische Pädagogik e.V./ Siedelsbrunn, Germany Association magazine
Prijzen en stipendia
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2016Stipendium for Emerging Artists Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam