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November 1, 2022

Koraaldrift Haarlemse Hout Beeldengalerij 2022

Koraaldrift (2022) – Margot Berkman

Coral Fury 2022 -Margot Berkman

Koraaldrift is an artcommission from Beeldengalerij Foundation for public area of Harlem.

(translation will follow soon ….)

Filosoof en tentoonstellingscurator Katja Rodenburg schrijft:

 

In de beeld-installatie Koraaldrift wijst Margot Berkman je op een andere, langzamere wereld. Zijn we boven of onder water? Bijzondere vormen komen bij haar onderzoek naar de vele soorten hersenkoraal naar boven. De koralen voeren onder water de strijd om hun bestaan. Ze laten zien, gekleurd en minder gekleurd, of hun levenskracht afneemt of juist groter wordt. Boven water zijn ze onder de boom in het groene gras neergestreken. Samen vormen de beeldelementen een bijzonder tussenlandschap. Ze nodigen je uit om daar even bij stil te staan, en na te denken: tussen hier en daar.

 

Location: Dreef/ Haarlemse Hout, Haarlem Nederland

Measurements:  6 x 6 x 3,5 meter

 

Material:  Quartzsand, plasterdispersion , LED lights

March 19, 2021

Cobra Museum Wave of Breath 2020

In the beginning there is the sea.
One day there is a first wave that sets everything in motion.
The algae take shape and wave with the water.
At times they oppose the waves.

From one form comes a new form, and another.
A diversity of forms emerges.
The sea begins to breathe for us and we breathe with the sea.

This is the world that inspires and nurtures Margot Berkman.
In Wave she takes us underwater, to a world both familiar and strange.
Like the sea her work displays reflection upon reflection: in sculptures, in drawings, in ink, paint, bronze and fabric.
For the wave brings deeper layers to the surface. Layers that can be only briefly exposed to sunlight and can only be held fast in another form.
And then the wave plunges down, and the making begins again.

                                                                                                                Katja Rodenburg – Curator

 

 

Wave of Breath

11 March 2011 – Fukushima Japan

August 2020 – Whispering Seaweed Amstelveen

We owe our existence to the breathing waves; we have to take good care of what gave us life.

With the sculpture group Whispering Seaweed, Margot Berkman takes us below the surface, to a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar. Like the sea, her work shows one reflection after another: in sculptures, in drawings, in ink, paint, bronze and textiles.

This film marks the unveiling of the sculpture group Whispering Seaweed in public space and the opening of the exhibition Wave of Breath in the Cobra Museum, in which curator Katja Rodenburg presents a selection of the artist’s versatile work.

March 18, 2021

Film Whispering Seaweed 2020

Wave of Breath

11 March 2011 – Fukushima Japan

August 2020 – Whispering Seaweed Amstelveen

We owe our existence to the breathing waves; we have to take good care of what gave us life.

With the sculpture group Whispering Seaweed, Margot Berkman takes us below the surface, to a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar. Like the sea, her work shows one reflection after another: in sculptures, in drawings, in ink, paint, bronze and textiles.

This film marks the unveiling of the sculpture group Whispering Seaweed in public space and the opening of the exhibition Wave of Breath in the Cobra Museum, in which curator Katja Rodenburg presents a selection of the artist’s versatile work.

A soundscape is specially made by Will Calhoun (grammy award winning drummer Living Color, New York)

April 29, 2020

Whispering Seaweed Landart Amstelveen 2020

Landart  Whispering Seaweed

With exhibiton ‘Waves of Breath’ by curator Katja Rodenburg in the Cobra museum in Amstelveen and a soundscape specially created by Will Calhoun (grammy award winning drummer Living Color, New York)

 

February 5, 2019

One Thousand and one Nights ©Berkman en Janssens Amsterdam 2005

Measurements:  the entire interior

 

Scheherezade in the Kring

 

For the Lustrum of the Thousand and One Night, the artists’ society De Kring in Amsterdam was completely transformed by Berkman en Janssens into a magical and exotic environment. All performances and parties took place in the structure of Arabian Nights. The light design was specially manufactured by DreLight (eg from Peter Greenaway)

 

There was an exhibition in the restaurant with collages and mobiles of shoes.

 

 

January 17, 2019

Exhibition Gravenzaal Haarlem 2017

‘Sealung’ 2017       

Measurements: 10 m x 10 m

Material: algues, led, wool, copper

 

Eurydice 2017

Measurements: 4,5 m x 1,5 m x 1,5 m

Material: Bronze

 

What floats under the surface of the sea, becomes visible. Seaweed and Algues.

The most important element to stay alive comes from the underwater world.

 

 

November 22, 2018

Elisabeth van Thüringen Fund Exhibition 2018

measurements: 3 m x 3 m x 3 m

 

 

Breathe with the Ocean

 

A nature of form that takes you to different thoughts

I wanted to create a contemplative world in the 20 meter high church.

A world in which your eyes feel the warmth of the wool on your skin.

The lines of the branches play in the church-light.

Your hands can change the color of the light, to reinforce the image you want to see

In your favorite color

Algae and seaweeds give the world oxygen, much more than the rainforests.

Do you know someone to whom I can add oxygen?

 

Exhibition ‘Art from Care’ about healing art in Dutch hospitals

 

 

 

 

September 21, 2018

The Ocean Breathes The Mermaids Foam 2018

Measurements: 2,5 m x 1,5 m (ensemble of 10 m x 10 m)

 

Feel the foam of the mermaid

 

‘The Mermaids Foam’ consists of a varying number of objects.

 

Foam of floating algue is the source of inspiration. The ocean breathes.

 

 

 

 

September 18, 2018

Exhibition Hospital Amsterdam Medical Centre 2018

A deep sea experience of algues made out of wool and silver, drawings and bronze objects. 

 

With this exhibition in AMC, Margot shows large and small sculptures. Some of them are made out of more than thousand pieces of wool that are spun with algues. Her inspiration comes from the sea and the oxygen that seaweed and algues provide for the world. They are the lungs of the sea.

 

Margot Berkman creates awareness for a healthy ocean. Since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima on the 11th of March 2011, there are no seaweeds left around this place.

March 12, 2017

Exhibition Lungs of the Sea Vishal 2016

LUNGS OF THE SEA   OMNIS VITAE EX MARE      What gives air and what takes your breath away?

 

Because seaweed and algues provide more than half of the oxygen in the world, they are essential for our excistense. That knowledge gives Margot Berkman inspiration for her artworks. Seaweed is also the source of inspiration for the ‘Sealung’- mobiles that she made for this exhibition. Soft-sculptures that breath freely in the space. 

 

The fascination for the sea and oxygen are also the base of the artworks that surrounded the ‘Sealung’-mobiles.

 

In the work ‘Icarus’ by Stefano Baroni fragile bodies that are based on the mythological images from for example Pompei dissolving in the sea. Marina Visic showed with ‘Magla’ thousands of colored threads an unlikely soft landscape where air and space have a leading role. You were free to listen to ‘Zomersprookjes’ by Bruno Doedens/SLeM in the middle of the exhibition.

 

Thanks to: Kees van Twist, Annelien Kers, John Petri, het Spaarne Gasthuis, Anja Frenkel, Fine Arts Magazine Tableau, Agnes van Dijk, Hortimare, Ronald Brakel en Sylvia Dornseiffer.