An artist collaboration
EX-MÊKH is preparing for Platforms Project 2024. We thought about it earlier as you can see in our teaser. We will make an installation under the name on MÊKH- beach which will grow and dissolve again during the fair. This picture is from research we do on the materials we want to use.
Last friday EX-MÊKH organised it’s summer-BBQ on a beautiful summer evening. Plans for our coming exhibition at Platforms Project in Athens were elaborated and we start to realise that EX-MÊKH exists almost 20 years. We stayed out very late with a rather moderate but excellent meal and lots of wine!
For 2024 EX-MÊKH decided to also take part in Platforms Project 2024 in Athens (GR). The whole set up of this fair for independant art platforms and exhibition spaces has changed. From now on it will be multi-disciplinary including theatre, music and dance. The venue, which used to be at the Art School of Athens, has also changed to Keramikos if I understand well. This is an interesting change to us so we applied and we were accepted. The organisation asked us for a picture to put iwn the catalogue. We talked about our intentions for this occasion and we unaminously chose for an installation build by the three of us. We decided to make a work together in one of our studio’s. You can see the result underneath. It is based on the idea of idea’s, objects, text, and image washing up at a beach to inspire unexpected connections. It depicts an organic image of what EX-MÊKH is.
EX-MÊKH finished their exhibition at the Hybrid Art Fair 2024 with satisfaction. We were excited about the reception of our work and the way we presented it was very much appreciated. You can see pictures of the exhibition here! We met a lot of interesting people, some of whom were interested in presenting our work in Magazines or in galleries in Menorca or Las Palmas. We will see where that will lead us.
Our stay in Madrid was very inspiring. We visited several exhibitions: Ulla von Brandenburg in the Palacio de Vélazquez, The Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, The Prado again, Kees visited ARCO 2024 and the three of us visited the Reina Sofia Museum with a surprisingly interesting exhibition of Carlos Saura (post will soon follow in the blog). It was a very intense and awarding week!
Coming weekend EX-MÊKH will leave for Madrid to take part in the Hybrid Art Fair. Yesterday our new folders and a booklet in our growing series of EX-MÊKH printwork arrived. As usual this form of EX-MÊKH publicity has been designed by our secret EX-MÊKH participant Ben Faydherbe.
Kees Koomen is trying some more diary sound bytes on the wall for the Hybrid Art Fair 2024:
Our third member Maarten Schepers is also very busy in his studio preparing for the Hybrid Art Fair 2024. Continuïng on his research in Spain he shows the following works in progress:
Ellen Rodenberg is continuïng her research on Inner Landscapes for the Hybrid Art Fair 2024:
EX-MÊKH is preparing for the Hybrid Art Fair in Madrid and experimenting with their materials. In this second teaser some try-outs by Ellen Rodenberg , processing the ideas she developed at Arteventura during a residency in Spain:
EX-MÊKH is preparing for the Hybrid Art Fair and experimenting with their materials. Here, by means of teasers, some try-outs by Kees Koomen who is looking for a interesting way to present his series of New Encounters. This theme is part of the Malieveld project in which the artist walks from his studio to the Malieveld. On the way there he gets intrigued by people he meets. Arriving on the Malieveld he describes these people and sends the description to himself. Once home, he paints what has seen and in oilpaint on stone paper. You can follos this project on Instagram under the name Malieveld invites:
