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Title
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My Oma
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Description
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My Oma is a curatorial project focusing on the figure of the grandmother.
The project overall explores personal and cultural legacies mobilized by affection as much as by conflict. It convenes artists and narratives, as well as artworks and theory that articulate central issues of our time: experiences of immigration, dissonant heritage, and changing gender roles.
My Oma gives special attention to embodied knowledge and micro narratives. In the light of increasing political polarization, My Oma promotes historical learning, strengthened intergenerational bonds and celebrates knowledges held among diaspora communities. The bilingual title—with the English my and the Dutch oma for grandmother—is meant to communicate this personal approach. As such, we address grandmothers as plural protagonist imbued with agency as well as being the subject of social projections. The figure of the grandmother thereby allows for various approaches to histories, traditions, and ancestry. It also welcomes the reconsideration of gendered and ageist determinations surrounding cultural and material legacy.
Organized by Kunstinstituut Melly, My Oma involves a large group exhibition of contemporary art including new commissions, existing work, performances, and events. Participating artists are: A Maior (Portugal), Funda Baysal (Turkey), Yto Barrada (France), Meriem Bennani (Morocco), Nurul Ain Binti Nor Halim (Thailand), Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev (Ukraine), Shardenia Felicia (Curaçao), Susanne Khalil Yusef (Germany), Charlie Koolhaas (The Netherlands), Liedeke Kruk (the Netherlands), Marcos Kueh (Malaysia), Berette S Macaulay (Sierra Leone), Silvia Martes (Curaçao), Hana Miletić (Croatia), Jota Mombaça (Brazil), Sheelasha Rajbhandari (Nepal), Anri Sala (Albania), Stacii Samidin (the Netherlands), Kateřina Šedá (Czech Republic), Julia Scher (United States), Buhlebezwe Siwani (South Africa), Judy Watson (Australia), and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (Shan State, Burma).
During the opening weekend, from December 8th to 10th, a number of performances and presentations will take place at Kunstinstituut Melly under the name of Show and Tell: Ola Hassanain (Sudan), Yoeri Guépin (The Netherlands), Melike Kara (Germany), Raimundas Malašauskas (Lithuania), Amanda Moström (Sweden), Maria Pask (Wales), Laure Prouvost (France), Sara Sallam (Egypt), and Asa Seresin (United Kingdom). A complete list of participants and program schedule will be published here in November. Additionally we present a new collaboration with Amarte Fund, Music for My Oma. In this program musicians and sound artists perform at Kunstinstituut Melly as part of the opening-weekend festivities: 12 Tribes of Mars (Amsterdam), Channa Boon (Amsterdam), Cosmic Bride (Rotterdam), Elsa van der Linden (Utrecht), Eveline Ypma (Amsterdam), Gabriel de Oliveira (Amsterdam), Het Duo Leve: Jesperina Verheij and Mathilde Lettinga (Den Haag), Mallet Collective (Nieuwegein/Rotterdam), Maria Magdalena Kozłowska (Amsterdam), Melvin Moti (Rotterdam), and Peter Scherrebeck / Misty Superdeluxe (Amsterdam).
My Oma is the closing exhibition and public-engagement project of Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy’s tenure as the director of Kunstinstituut Melly. It marks her six years of transformational institutional work here. The exhibition and its parallel projects result from curatorial research and public outreach conducted by her and her team—including curators Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Julija Mockutė, and Vivian Ziherl—during this span of time. Curatorial advisors to My Oma include: Diana Campbell (chief curator Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh), Edward Gillman (director Auto Italia, London, UK), Sun A Moon (director Space AfroAsia, Dongducheon, South Korea), and Manuela Moscoso (director CARA, New York, USA).
During the My Oma exhibition opening weekend, Hernández Chong Cuy will present a report of her tenure that began in 2018 and is concluding at the end of 2023. This event will be organized in the format of a Town Hall, a public forum that will welcome questions and encourage discussion. Throughout the exhibition period of My Oma special programs will also take place; please stay tuned for a calendar of events published here.
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Participants
Yto Barrada, Funda Baysal, Maria Pask, Meriem Bennani, Nurul Ain Binti Nor Halim, Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev, Shardenia Felicia, Yoeri Guépin, Ola Hassanain, Melike Kara, Susanne Khalil Yusef, Charlie Koolhaas, Liedeke Kruk, Marcos Kueh, Berette S Macaulay, Raimundas Malašauskas, Hana Miletić, Jota Mombaça, Amanda Möstrom, Anri Sala, Asa Seresin, Julia Scher, Kateřina Šedá, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Judy Watson, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Bruno Zhu, A Maior, Stacii Samidin, Sara Sallam, Silvia Martes, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Laure Prouvost
Curators
Rosa de Graaf, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Jessy Koeiman, Julija Mockute, Vivian Ziherl, Diana Campbell, Sun A Moon, Edward Gillman, Manuela Moscoso
Network
Amarte Fund
Series
My Oma
Supported By
Amarte Foundation, AMMODO, Czech Centre Rotterdam, Creative Australia, Hartwig Foundation, Fonds 21, Mondriaan Fund, SAHA Association (Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey provided support for Funda Baysal), Teiger Foundation, VriendenLoterij Fonds.
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Identifier
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KIM-EXH-7288
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23_7
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Type
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Exhibition
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Date
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2023-12-08/2024-09-01
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Temporal Coverage
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2023
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Publisher
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Kunstinstituut Melly
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Spatial Coverage
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Rotterdam
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Language
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en
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Is Part Of
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Exhibition history
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My Oma
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Rights Holder
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Kunstinstituut Melly
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Creator
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A Maior
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Amanda Möstrom
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Andrii Dostliev
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Anri Sala
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Asa Seresin
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Berette S Macaulay
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Bruno Zhu
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Buhlebezwe Siwani
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Charlie Koolhaas
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Funda Baysal
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Hana Miletić
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Jota Mombaça
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Judy Watson
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Julia Scher
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Kateřina Šedá
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Laure Prouvost
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Lia Dostlieva
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Liedeke Kruk
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Marcos Kueh
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Maria Pask
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Melike Kara
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Meriem Bennani
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Nurul Ain Binti Nor Halim
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Ola Hassanain
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Raimundas Malašauskas
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Sara Sallam
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Sawangwongse Yawnghwe
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Shardenia Felicia
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Sheelasha Rajbhandari
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Silvia Martes
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Stacii Samidin
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Susanne Khalil Yusef
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Yoeri Guépin
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Yto Barrada
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Contributor
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Diana Campbell
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Edward Gillman
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Jessy Koeiman
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Julija Mockute
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Manuela Moscoso
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Rosa de Graaf
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Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
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Sun A Moon
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Vivian Ziherl
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Relation
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Amarte Fund
My Oma — image 011 Meriem Bennani, Siham & Hafida, 2017, digital video, 30:00 min, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview, My Oma, 2023, Kunstinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem
My Oma — image 010 Judy Watson, left to right: joyce with QLD tenure map, 2021, synthetic polymer paint and graphite on canvas, courtesy of the artist, the MECCA collection and Milani gallery, bores with malu malu (fresh water mussels), 2023, indigo, graphite, and acrylic on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Milani gallery, grace, 2006, digital video, 15:57 min, courtesy of the artist and Milani gallery. Exhibition overview, My Oma, Kuntsinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
My Oma — image 009 Susanne Khalil Yusef, Uitschieters, 2023, hand hammered stainless steel, A Last Glance, 2022, tufted organic wool tapestry, both courtesy the artist; Hana Miletić, Felt workshops XII-XXII, 2022-23, hand-made felted tapestries, metal, courtesy the artist, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina and The Approach, London. Exhibition overview, My Oma, Kuntsinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
My Oma — image 008 Silvia Martes, Heru Ku Heru pt.1.(Iron With Iron pt.1.), 2023, digital video, installation, 23:50 min, courtesy the artist and Edith Russ Haus. Exhibition overview, My Oma, 2023, Kunstinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem
My Oma — image 007 Funda Baysal, Timely, on time, 2023, 3D-printed clay, hand-molded glazed porcelain, metal support, courtesy the artist; Andrii Dostliev & Lia Dostlieva, I still feel sorry when I throw away food – Grandma used to tell me stories about the Holodomor, 2018, ink and pencil on toned paper, fragments of found photographs, courtesy Warsaw Ghetto Museum; Judy Watson, from left to right: ebony with aluminium toxicity chart, 2021, volcanic soil, synthetic polymer paint, and graphite on cotton and canvas, courtesy of the artist and Milani gallery, dot with cotton tree string (kunda walkurrji), 2021, indigo, synthetic polymer paint, chinagraph pencil, and graphite on cotton, courtesy of the artist and Milani gallery, rani with freshwater mussel shells (malu malu) and hoop pine, 2021 Volcanic soil, synthetic polymer paint, graphite, pencil, and chinagraph pencil on canvas Courtesy of the artist, the MECCA collection and Milani gallery; Kateřina Šedá, A Normal Life, 2017, digital print on wallpaper, film, photograph, courtesy the artist; Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, My grandmother on Independence day, 2022, oil on linen, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview, My Oma, Kuntsinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
My Oma — image 006 Liedeke Kruk, For My Oma, 2023, pigment print on paper, courtesy the artist; Kateřina Šedá, It Doesn’t Matter, 2005–2007, 512 drawings, courtesy the artist; Buhlebezwe Siwani, Isaziso 1996, 2023, green soap, cherry wood, wood, styrofoam, polyurethane and an apricot tree, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview, My Oma, Kuntsinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
My Oma — image 005 Marcos Kueh, EXPECTING, 2023, jacquard tapestries, courtesy Galerie Ron Mandos. Exhibition overview, My Oma, 2023, Kunstinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem
My Oma — image 004 Jota Mombaça, Absence Vessel, or I had to invent a face for you, and now it is your flesh that I am, 2023, handcrafted ceramic vessels, various construction rubble, soil, polyethylene window foil, graphite drawing on canvas, sound installation, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview, My Oma, 2023, Kunstinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem
My Oma — image 003 Nurul Ain Binti Nor Halim, Retelling: I m sleepy. I’ll think some more n tell u tomorrow, 2022, ceramic, wood, string, courtesy FENIX; Kateřina Šedá, It Doesn’t Matter, 2005– 2007, 512 drawings, courtesy the artist; Shardenia Felicia, Circles, 2023, oil on canvas, yarn, various textiles, courtesy the artist; Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, My grandmother at Queen Elizabeth’s Wedding, 2023, oil and acrylic on linen, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview, My Oma, Kuntsinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
My Oma — image 002 Charlie Koolhaas, Harriët Freezerstraat, 2023, photographs, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview, My Oma, 2023, Kunstinstituut Melly. Photographer: Kristien Daem
My Oma — image 001 Third-floor entrance My Oma exhibition, with glass window design by Team Thursday.