Is a space for artistic research, experimentation and imagination. Set up by Bartels in an attempt to articulate and enclose the fringes in the scope of her artistic practice. To explore the absurd, bizarre, boring and (un)usual fascinations at a certain point in time. To dive into the potential of fragmentary bits an pieces, creating analogies between
concepts, questions and ideas. Blurring fiction and reality, where nothing is what it seems and vice versa.
Serious play or playful seriousness.
Schmilblique derived from Schmilblick
The Schmilblick is an imaginary object created by the French humorist Pierre Dac during the 1950s. It is absolutely useless, and can therefore be used for anything, being rigorously entire. Pierre Dac himself credits the brothers Jules and Raphaël Fauderche with its invention.
The word quickly became very popular in French language and was sometimes used as a synonym for thing or stuff, or something designating a strange or unknown object. Nowadays, this word is frequently used to refer to some limited help provided by someone to solve a difficult problem. The idiom is actually 'Faire avancer le schmilblick' (To make the schmilblick move/get ahead, literally). Also, advancing a subject.
Ouvroir | Faire avancer le schmilblick
is a space for artistic research, experimentation and imagination. To explore the absurd, bizarre, boring, the (un)usual. To dive into the potential of fragmentary bits an pieces, creating analogies between concepts, questions and ideas. Blurring fiction and reality, where nothing is what it seems and vice versa. Serious play or playful seriousness.
Set up by Karin Bartels in an attempt to articulate and enclose the fringes in the scope of her artistic practice.
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Karin Bartels • Artist & Educator • based in Maastricht (NL)
Education
2020 • 2022 Bachelor of Education (BEd), Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)
Fine Art and Design in Education
2014 • 2017 IHEAP Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques/ENDA Ecole nationale d’art, Paris (FR)
Session X : « Soustraire »
2008 • 2013 Bachelor of Design (BDes), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2010 • 2013 Jewellery | 2011 • 2013 Live Works | 2009 • 2010 Fashion | 2008 • 2009 Fine Art
2004 • 2008 MBO diploma Graphic Design, De Eindhovenseschool, Eindhoven (NL)
(Senior Secondary Vocational Education)
2002 • 2004 MBO certificate Social Cultural Work (SCW) ROC, Eindhoven (NL)
(Senior Secondary Vocational Education)
Exhibitions • Projects
2023 • present
in development - Unlocking Potentiality, project, Fondation des États-Unis, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, Paris (FR)
2022
Ouvroir | Faire Avancer Le Schmilblique, (artistic) research - education project - installation, The Beginning exhibition, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)
A Trip To The Moon A Moon To The Trip, artistic research - video, The Beginning exhibition, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)
Ouvroir | Faire Avancer Le Schmilblique, (artistic) research - education project, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2021
Intuitive border Atlas Ballungsraum Venlo, (artistic) research/education project, in collaboration with Fontys Lectoraat Cross-border Business Development, Provincie Limburg, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Valuascollege, Venlo Partners and Europaschule Rheinberg, Venlo - Euregion (NL/DE)
A Trip to the Moon A Moon to the Trip, artistic research - video, Research studio [art]ificial intelligence, iArts, research centre of Technology Driven Art, research centre for Arts Autonomy and the Public Sphere, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)
Black Box Testing A Tomato that tastes like a melon/lemon and sounds like an apple, artistic research, Research studio [art]ificial intelligence, iArts, research centre of Technology Driven Art, research centre for Arts Autonomy and the Public Sphere, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)
OVERLOAD..., video, Research studio [art]ificial intelligence, iArts, research centre of Technology Driven Art, research centre for Arts Autonomy and the Public Sphere, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2020
Intuitive border Atlas Ballungsraum Venlo, research and education project, with Fontys Lectoraat Cross-border Business Development, Provincie Limburg, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Valuascollege, Venlo Partners and Europaschule Rheinberg, Venlo - Euregion (NL/DE)
ATLAS/ARCHIVE | Reflecting on humans in choreographed and bordered spaces through (art)historic images in times of a pandemic. [in attempt to reimagine the future], Zeen (NL)
Aansporing 8, onderdeel 3 • Oproep voor deelname aan een Bloembardement, piece, collaboration with writer Wim Moorman, Cultura Venray, Venray (NL)
2019
Bedevaart naar de vindplaats van verloren voorwerpen, performative walk, Once upon a town, Bureau Europa, Maastricht (NL)
Artikel 9 • Raam- en vensterbankdecoratie, piece, collaboration with writer Wim Moorman, Cultura Venray, Venray (NL)
Zelfde dag • Zelfde tijd • Zelfde bankje, piece, collaboration with writer Wim Moorman, Cultura Venray, Venray (NL)
Venray • Donderdag 17 oktober 2019 •14.44 u, piece, collaboration with writer Wim Moorman, Cultura Venray, Venray (NL)
Confetto | trouvé • joué • assemblé, group exhibition Amuse, Venlo (NL)
2018
Intuïtieve Atlas van Venlo, periscope & postcard vending machine, exhibition public space, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Huiskamer Bios, collaboration with Museum van Bommel van Dam, filmtheatre de Nieuwe Scene, director Tanja Nabben, Vastenavondkamp & Genooi, Venlo (NL)
Vastenavond Bankjes Festival, in collaboration with Museum van Bommel van Dam, Vastenavondkamp, Venlo (NL)
Intuïtieve Atlas van Venlo, project, Circular Art Lab Limburg - CALL#2 Gezonde Woningmarkt, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
ODD route, Vastenavondkamp, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
2017
Tapisserie d’Entre Nous / Als alle vrijwilligers een dag zouden staken..., exhibition, Frederiksoord (NL)
Bijoux Bijoue Bijeux, intervention in public space / le service des objets trouvés, Paris (FR)
Jardessin Du Luxe, édition expérimentale, public space, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris (FR)
2016
Punctum de Vue, exhibition, collective «SOUSTRAIRE» 15 propositions chorales, Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne - Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine (FR)
Punctum de Vue, artistic research part of the collective «SOUSTRAIRE», Centre de documentation, Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne - Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine (FR)
Sur ton répondeur, video, Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB), Jan van Eyck Academie, Museumnacht Maastricht, Maastricht (NL)
2015
Pelouse interdite, Solo exhibition, Harriet Hale Woolley Gallery, Paris (FR)
Radicalité, Manipulation et Hering im Pelzmantel, collective «SOUSTRAIRE», Atelier Nº 20, Paris (FR)
Voices from within, video, collaboration with saxophonist Jacob Kopcienski, Spectacle, Grand Salon, Fondation des États-Unis, CIUP, Paris (FR)
Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Décor., Chantiers D’europe, Transhumances Lab, Atelier 505, Fondation des États-Unis, CIUP, Paris (FR)
Pelouse interdite, exhibition, Fête De La Cité, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, FEU, Paris (FR)
2014
À la recherche du broche perdu, project, public space, Paris, (FR)
Gipsverband in Kant, artist talk at VieCuri Matinee, Museum van Bommel van Dam and VieCuri, Venlo (NL)
Gipsverband in Kant, project, Museum in bedrijf, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
2013
Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Décor., artist talk, (S)elected - Gerrit Rietveld Awards Show, Sunday Salon, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam (NL)
Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Décor., exhibition, (S)elected - Gerrit Rietveld Awards Show, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam (NL)
Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Décor., Rietveld Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2011
Lost & Found, jewellery performance, SIERAAD International Jewellery Art Fair, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam (NL),
Lost & Found, jewellery performance, B-side Down Town Art Jewellery Festival, Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam (NL)
Lost & Found, jewellery performance, Rietveld Uncut - “The Living Object”, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
2010
Looks from the collection NO, Róisín and Vive la fille, Rietveld Fashion Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2009.
Sweatshop, fashion performance, Rietveld Uncut, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
Residencies
2018 Intuïtieve Atlas van Venlo, CALL#2 Museum van Bommel van Dam, Vastenavondkamp/ Op de Heide/ Genooi, Venlo (NL)
2017 Basiskamp Entre-Nous, Een humanitaire missie in eigen land, Frederiksoord (NL)
2014 • 2017 Fondation des États-Unis, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, Paris (FR
2012 • 2013 Heesterveld Creative Community - HCC, Amsterdam-Zuidoost, (NL)
Grants • Nominee
2022 Nominee Henriette Hustinx prize, Ouvroir | Faire Avancer Le Schmilblique, (artistic) research - education - installation, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2014 • 2016 Fellow Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
2014 • 2016 Fellow VSBfonds
2013 GRA Awards, Thesis Nominee, “Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Décor.”, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
Lecture • Presentation • Teaching
2022 • present
Teaching, Art in Context in collaboration with Chrisje Sieben, Fine Art and Design in Education, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL
Teaching, Art history, Valuascollege, Venlo (NL)
2021
Teaching, Art, Crafts and Design, Valuascollege, Venlo (NL)
Presentation, Intuitive border Atlas Ballungsraum Venlo, research/education project, in collaboration with Fontys Lectoraat Cross-border Business Development, Provincie Limburg, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Valuascollege, Venlo Partners and Europaschule Rheinberg, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Guest teacher, Intuitive border Atlas Ballungsraum Venlo, Fontys International Business School, Valuascollege, Europaschule Rheinberg, Venlo - Euregion (NL/DE)
Guest teacher, workshops, Cleverland.eu, Euregion (NL/DE)
Guest teacher, preparatory course Art Academy, Kunstencentrum, Venlo (NL)
Guest teacher, workshop Gif! • Play! videovormgeving, Valuascollege, Venlo (NL)
2020
Guest teacher, Intuitive border Atlas Ballungsraum Venlo, Fontys International Business School, Valuascollege, Europaschule Rheinberg, Venlo - Euregion (NL/DE)
2019
Presentation, Lokaal C & Fontys Pabo, public space, Venlo (NL)
Presentation, Kunstenaarsplatform Zeen, Horst (NL)
Presentation, Intuïtieve Atlas van Venlo, Antares , Venlo (NL)
Guest teacher, paperworks, Valuascollege, Venlo (NL)
Guest teacher, contemporary jewellery, Topklas Kunst Valuascollege, Venlo (NL)
Lecture, VenloLezing Inspirerend Betoog, City hall, Venlo (NL) www.venlolezing.nl
Presentation, Intuïtieve Atlas van Venlo, Antares Academy, Venlo (NL)
Guest teacher, preparatory course Art Academy, Kunstencentrum, Venlo (NL)
2018
Presentation & panel member, Intuïtieve Atlas, Symposium Circular Art Lab Limburg (CALL), Domani, Venlo (NL)
Lecture, Intuïtieve Atlas, Museum van Bommel van Dam & Destination Unknown, Venlo (NL)
Guest teacher, Valuascollege, Venlo (NL)
Guest teacher, de Poëzie van Ruimte workshop series, Topklas Kunst Valuascollege, Venlo (NL)
Other professional activities
2022 • present After school (art) activities, BSO de Boomhut, Maastricht (NL)
2021 • present Museum Guide, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
2019 • 2020 Curator Visual Language & Video art, Limburg Film Festival, Venlo (NL)
2019 Museum Guide, Guided tours focussed on the art historical context of a temporary exhibition, Limburgs Museum Venlo (NL)
2015 • 2016 Embassy of the Netherlands, department of culture and communication, based at Atelier Néerlandais, Paris (FR)
Atelier Néerlandais is a platform of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Paris for art, design and creative industries.
2012 Intern, artist and designer Maria Blaisse, Amsterdam (NL)
Internships • Volunteer activities
2021 • 2022 Gardening (urban agriculture • community garden), Stadstuinderij, Venlo (NL)
2017 • 2022 Visual Language & Video art, project group, Limburg Film Festival & filmtheater de Nieuwe Scene, Venlo (NL)
2014 Young Ambassador, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
2012 Intern at artist and designer Maria Blaisse, Amsterdam (NL)
Publications • Media
2022
Video, Karin Bartels, Maastricht Institute of Arts 2022
2021
2020
Publication MegaZeen, ATLAS/ARCHIVE | Reflecting on humans in choreographed and bordered spaces through (art)historic images in times of a pandemic. [in attempt to reimagine the future], Zeen (NL)
2019
Publication, GNKK 2020, Periscope, Trichis (NL)
Program, Bedevaart naar de vindplaats van verloren voorwerpen, Once Upon a town Storytelling Festival, Maastricht (NL)
Article, Beste Venlonaren, gedraag u vaker als tuimelkruid, Dagblad de Limburger (NL)
Article, Intuïtieve Atlas van Venlo reist door, Venlo Nieuws (NL)
Article, Intuïtieve Atlas van Venlo met periscoop te bekijken, Dagblad de Limburger (NL)
Clippings, Venlolezing, Various media (NL)
Event, Kunstenares Karin Bartels geeft Venlolezing 2019, Omroep Venlo (NL)
Article, Kunstenaar Karin Bartels geeft Venlolezing, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
2018
Event, Lezing Museum tijdens Destination Unknown, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Interview, CALL #2: Terugblik Op de Heide, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Interview, CALL #2: Terugblik Vastenavondkamp, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Event, Huiskamerbios, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Article, Kunstenares woont in drie wijken voor kunstwerk, Omroep Venlo (NL)
Video, Opera en wijkkunstenaar in UIT! Omroep Venlo (NL)
Text, Kunstenaars denken na over problemen in de stad, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Article, Subjectieve Atlas Venlo in de maak, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Clippings, CALL#2 Intuitive Atlas van Venlo, Various media (NL)
2017
Tekst, Geselecteerde CALL#2 bekend, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Blog, Service Telegram 03 And 04 - The Soldier As An Artist, The Artist As A Soldier by Richtje Reinsma, Mister Motley (NL)
2016
2015
Publication, Museum in Bedrijf; Interview and documentation of the project Gipsverband in Kant, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Article, Solo exhibition Pelouse interdite, Harriet Hale Woolley Gallery, Paris (FR)
Dossier pédagogique, Pelouse interdite by Léa Giacomelli, Harriet Hale Woolley Gallery, Paris (FR)
2014
Article, Gipsverband in kant “Plaster cast in lace”, Museum van Bommel van Dam (NL)
Article, Maakt kunst beter? Kunstenaar Karin Bartels op de gipspoli, Museum van Bommel van Dam (NL)
2013
Publication, (S)elected Catalog 2013 - Gerrit Rietveld Awards Show, p.4 (Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Decor.)
Documentation, Selected Sunday Salon Gerrit Rietveld Awards Show, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam (NL)
Documentation, GRA Awards 2013, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
Lecture, The Lasting Lure of New Strategies in Jewelery by Art historian Liesbeth den Besten, discussing the project Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Decor. Seminar Mapping Contemporary Craft Theories, HDK, Gothenburg (SE)
Lecture, Dissolve and Disseminate! A discussion on contemporary jewelry that walks, talks and pickets by Art historian Liesbeth den Besten, discussing the project
Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Decor. , Contemporary Jewelery in Perspective, CCA California College of Arts, Oakland (USA)
Lecture, Le Bijou Contemporain, Cul-de-Sac or Mer à Boire? by Art historian Liesbeth den Besten, discussing the project Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Decor. Circuits Bijoux, Ateliers d’Art de France, Galerie Collection, Paris (FR)
For a comprehensive CV please mail to karinbartels@gmail.com