SpOp & StoryK

09/02/2023

Tomorrow 10 February at 17:00, opening at H(a)L , Rotterdam! I show some new paintings, drawings and video work. This as part of an organic 'art-relay' exhibition in which artists add and change. All managed by artist Herman Lamers / ex-Hilton Art-Lab.

07/09/2022

https://youtu.be/V8780O3lezI the Pale Drops #3 performance as wonderfully happened in April 22 at the Schouwburg Rotterdam. Filmed by Rob van Pelt 🐓🌿🌟

Dirk Bruinsma and Nina Hitz performing Pale Drops #3, seated in front of the large screen at Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg during the Culture Prize South Holl...

07/09/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScI9z29irGQ Pale Drops #2 as a performance during the award event last April as well as Pale Drops #3 , filmed by Rob van Pelt 🛹🛞🚦🌠🐰

Dirk Bruinsma and Nina Hitz performing Pale Drops #2, seated in front of the large screen at Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg during the Culture Prize South Holl...

01/06/2022

June 4, at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, a Monoták concert with pieces by the composers-members. A collective initiating events based on a role-sharing principal, in the way of playing in- and supporting each other's compositions. I am adding the visuals to Dirk Bruinsma's piece, here's a still:

30/03/2022

Announced on Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg's website ☺️🙃😊 -- on view 2-13 April!

Winnaar van de Cultuurprijs Zuid-Holland 2022

21/01/2022

Was very surprised to receive that phone-call and am very very grateful for their decision:

Beeldend kunstenaar Marit Shalem (1971) krijgt op vrijdag 1 april de Cultuurprijs Zuid-Holland 2022 van het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds uitgereikt. Shalem ontvangt deze prijs omdat zij als inspirator, innovator en verbinder een belangrijke rol speelt in d

18/12/2021

A clip based on Pale Drops from 2016 and bearing the same title, now longer and with sound by Dirk Bruinsma. Down here a fragment. These 'American Values' were part of the speech of the then to become first lady and seemed very inspiring!

11/11/2021

https://vimeo.com/644780371 We are offering our bodies and souls for a live performance of Knots, here's a demonstration, lately filmed in the studio:

What has started as a film project has been developed into a live audiovisual performance. Here are some takes that give an idea, the projection and the live music…

12/09/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ_BpM7pATc
An experimental dance film which was initiated by SpOp as a collaboration in times of Covid. The idea was communicated with drawings, pictures, text and music pieces by Dirk Bruinsma. Dealing with connectivity, entanglement and barriers.
The material was sent from Rotterdam to Belgrade. Once in Belgrade video material was shot with the choreographies and improvisation by the talented Ana Obradović, Jovana Grujić and Nemanja Bošković. The camera work by Jovana Milovanović and Marko Segedinčev was then again sent back to Rotterdam and has undergone a CGI and editing treatment which has resulted in the final Knots.

An experimental dance film which was initiated by SpOp as a collaboration in times of Covid. The idea was communicated with drawings, pictures, text and musi...

10/06/2021

Trailer for Alterations as lately filmed in Belgrade!

Alterations is was recently filmed in Belgrade, Serbia destined to soon be projected on three screens as part of an interactive installation. Camera: Branko Sujic.…

16/03/2021

First takes for Alterations in Belgrade with Arion Asllani, Neda Vukajlovic Radoicic and on camera: Marko Segedinčev --- Youssouf's song, filmed at the dva Jelena / two Deers restaurant

27/12/2020

Closed Encounters at Hilton Art Lab, Rotterdam, Hofplein till January 6. A line up of video (mostly) triptychs by Rotterdam video makers. Here Works on White #3 in collaboration with Badgewearer.

07/05/2020

🌐⚜️🌐Exhibition in Dresden at Ursula Walter gallery is wieder offen bis ende Mai http://www.galerieursulawalter.de/

08/04/2020

BG now on monitors in [UN]REAL at the Science gallery, Rotterdam. Erasmus MC hospital. Can be in the corona-meantime inspected online https://unrealexhibition.com/en/artists --- some amazing projects, glad to be part of it!