Bik Van Der Pol

Since 1995, Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol work as Bik Van der Pol. They work and live in Rotterdam (NL).

Through their practice Bik Van der Pol aim to articulate and understand how art can produce a public sphere and space for speculation and imagination. This includes forms of mediation through which publicness is not only defined but also created. Their work follows from research of how to activate situations as to create a platform for various kinds of communicative activities. Bik Van der Pol’s mode of working consists of setting up the conditions for encounter, where they develop a process of working that allows for continuous reconfigurations of places, histories and publics. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative, with dialogue as a mode of transfer; a “passing through”, understood in its etymological meaning of “a speech across or between two or more people, out of which may emerge new understandings”. In fact, they consider the element of “passing through” as vital. It is temporal, and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both instigator and result of this method.

In 1999 had a residency of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York) and in 2011 at Bard College (CCS). In 2010 Bik van der Pol were awarded te ENEL Contemporanea Award, and in 2014 the Hendrik Chabot Award for Visual Arts by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds South Holland.

Selected exhibitions and projects

2016: WERE IT AS IF, Witte de With, Centre of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; SEMA, Media City Biennale, Seoul; 11th GwangJu Biennale, GwangJu 2015: The Power Plant, Toronto (Can); PAMM (Perez Art Museum) Miami, Jakarta Biennale, Mauritius Pavillion, Venice Bienal; Future Light, MAK, Vienna; Decolonized Skies, ADNPlatform, Barcelona 2014: Public art project, Ternitz (Austria), 31st São Paulo Bienale, São Paulo; Museum of Arte Util, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; The Crime Was Almost Perfect*, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Apex Art, Decolonised Skies, NYC, CAFA Art Museum, The Missing Stories, Beijing, The Part In The Story, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Crime was almost Perfect, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Milano 2013: 25 years City Collections, Museum Boymans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Biennale of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Call of the Mall, project for Hoog Catarijne, Utrecht, CAPACETE entretenimentos ROAD/BOAT 3.1.8 at the school Xapomi, Amazon, Brazil 2012: You talking to me? 98Weeks (Beirut, Lebanon); Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Sudbury (Ca), Musagetes 2011: Living As Form, Creative Time, New York ; Accumulate, Collect, Show, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London; 2010: Are you really sure a floor can’t also be a ceiling? ENEL Award 2010, MACRO museum, Rome 2009: It isn’t what it used to be and will never be again, CCA Glasgow; Xth Lyon Bienniale, Lyon 2008/2009: Plug In 28, Pay Attention, Act 1, 2, 3, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven 2008: Becoming Dutch, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven 2007: Xth Istanbul Biennale ; Fly Me To The Moon, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2005: Secession, Vienna

Selected publications

Upcoming: School of Missing Studies, published by Sandberg Institute (expected February/March 2017) WERE IT AS IF, published by Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (expected September 2017) Published:

Curated

Deze sokken niet wit, Van Abbemuseum (2012) Too late, too little, (and how) to fail gracefully, Kunstfort Asperen, ww.kunstfortasperen.nl (2011) Neverodoreven (2009) Piet Zwart institute in Rotterdam Plug In, collection Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2007-2009) I’ve got something in my eye, collection Marie Louise Hessel Museum/CCS Bard (2008); Teasing Minds, Kunstverein Munich (2004) Married By Powers, TENT/collection Frac Nord Pas Calais, Dunkerque (2002)

Other

Bik Van der Pol directed the temporary Master program The School of Missing Studies (2013-2015 at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam). They taught at M.I.T. (spring 2016) and are advisors at the Jan van Eijck Academy in Maastricht. Liesbeth Bik was advisor at The Appel ICP (Amsterdam) until 2016; she is a core-tutor at Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam).

Bik Van der Pol are currently on a research residency at Air Berlin Alexander, Berlin (autumn/winter 2016)

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