Opening tomorrow! Join us for a drink

Tomorrow at LhGWR in The Hague, our Divas will be shown during the exhibition Somehow, somewhat in the middle of things.

Curated in collaboration with Hester Keijser (Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai), LhGWR presents a group exhibition with a remarkable international line-up, pairing work from both a non-Western and a Western background. At the heart of the exhibit lie a shared search for identity and the struggle for a place within society, challenging the boundaries that politics or social conventions has set. Point of departure has been the work of Mary Sibande (ZA) and Julia Gunther (DE), who both bring the role of black women in South Africa into view. Based on association, the line-up for the exhibition expanded to seven artists from a generation that has grown up to navigate with ease in a world gone global, hybrid, fragmented, and open to re-appropriation.

Participating artists: Mary Sibande, Newsha Tavakolian, Larissa Sansour, Waheeda Malullah, Pinar & Viola, Iris Vetter, Julia Gunther

Rhizome.org

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on March 23, 2012 at 1:48 pm, filed under Art, Exhibition, Pinar&Viola, Vernissage. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

My home dog fly biscuit with peach jam on da side how ya popin?

A lil sneak peak from our next capsule collection 4EVA
The perfect girlfriend n boyfriend message service

In April, during Paradiso phone expo, we’ll launch 4EVA, our next capsule collection. A boyfriend n girlfriend message service. You can read more information about the event here.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on March 22, 2012 at 5:53 pm, filed under Art, Digitalization, Ecstatic Surface Design, Exhibition, Internet, Pinar&Viola, Published, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Turkish wedding fair sensation

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:53 pm, filed under Decadence, Exhibition, Folk. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Eddie the Eagle Party/Hackathon

Last saturday, Pinar&Viola participated in Eddie the Eagle museum’s last exhibition for this year. The Eddie The Eagle Museum operates as an exhibition space, a museum with a collection (either tangible or intangible) and as an independently working artist collective.

We presented the work we made for The Importance of Being Sexy,  Sunny Bergman’s documentary on the mechanisms leading to confuse raunchiness with femininity and sexual approval with power. Some of the other exhibitors were Roos Menkman, Luna Maurer, Roel Wouters and Aukje Dekker, among other super talented people.

Here are some pics of the event. Plus a video of a small appearance by fire breathers.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on November 29, 2011 at 12:16 am, filed under Exhibition, Pinar&Viola. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Fatima Al Qadiri: Genre-Specific Xperience

And the best website award goes to Fatima Al Qadiri.

VISIT ALSO
Her DIS Magazine weekly attention-worthy music blog
Her Soundcloud

Genre-Specific Xperience
New Silent presents the launch of Fatima Al Qadiri’s new EP Genre-Specific Xperience. For this event Al Qadiri, a New York-based artist and musician, showcases five pieces of music that reinterpret five sub-genres of dance music: Juke, Hip hop, Dubstep, Electro-Tropicalia, and early-’90s Gregorian Trance. Each track will be accompanied by the premiere of a music video, created by some of the most exciting young artists working in video today: Ryan Trecartin, Rhett LaRue, Kamau Patton, Tabor Robak, Leilah Weinraub, and Sophia Al-Maria. An after-party that pays homage to the genres that inspired GSX follows. New Museum235 Bowery New York, NY 10002 212.219.1222

Album artwork by Daniel Keller and Timur Si-Qin

Born in Senegal, raised in Kuwait and now living in New York City, Fatima Al Qadiri is the producer and vocalist behind Ayshay. Fueled by her fascination with the sacred songs of Islam WARN-U is a homage and reinterpretation of the sounds that have haunted Al Qadiri since she was a child. Constructed entirely out of her own vocals, which she filtered and layered upon one another WARN-U is Al Qadiri’s attempt to reconfigure the concept of “sacred” music as inspiring divine love and divine fear. Even in her adoption of the name Ayshay, a flippant term which means “whatever” in Arabic, Fatima Al Qadiri seeks to distance the austere values inherent in worship music from her own interpretation of the latter.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on September 30, 2011 at 12:40 pm, filed under Art, Exhibition, Internet, Music, Political glam, Video. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Freudenthal/Verhagen

Freudenthal/Verhagen is a Dutch photographer/ creative team, founded by Carmen Freudenthal (photographer) and Elle Verhagen (stylist).
Their collaboration with fashion designers, performers and other artists results in a wide variety of work, which is, at the same time, always recognizable by a typical humoristic approach of daily life and an undeniable own style, using and abusing contemporary imagery and (photo)graphic techniques.
Freudenthal/Verhagen’s work always stand on the cutting edge, while having a signature which stands above all trends.
This Saturday, the opening of their new exhibition, entitled Breathonics, will be held at Van Zijll Langhout. Curated by Karen Heuter.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:52 pm, filed under Exhibition, Fashion, Friends, Other ecstatics, Photography. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Diva Opaque special edition poster

We recently finished this poster for the online design magazine Fontanel. A different edition of it will take part in Don’t Believe The Type exhibition at Ship of Fools gallery, that Fontanel will organizes together with the Graphic Design Festival Breda and design agency Trapped in Suburbia. The opening of the exhibition will be held on October 7th. Address: Korte Voorhout 20 2511 CX The Hague The Netherlands

We prepared a special edition poster that one of our 150 divas from our previous capsule collection Diva Opaque: Anonymous Guardians of Intimacy.
Size: 50x70cm. If you guys want one, just send an email to bureau@pinar-viola.com

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on September 21, 2011 at 1:14 pm, filed under Ecstatic Surface Design, Exhibition, Graphic design, Pinar&Viola, Political glam, Poster, Typography, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Political Playboys + BYOB

Political Playboys mirrors today’s aestheticized politics, which seems to lean to entertainment. Politicians, especially the charismatic ones, tend to have a driven and vain nature which seeks power and adulation. Political sex scandals are the perfect fit in our entertainment time spirit. This led the border between the exterritorial politicians and the folk to narrow.
With the social network frenzy, juicy news spread quicker and the unavoidably entertained us with their (fatal) embarrassments. 

The animation ‘Political Playboys’ uses the visual and textual language of digital folkloric web porn banners and wants to contribute to the discussion on the popularization, dramatizing, personalizing and tabloidizing of the political discourse.

Political Playboys was exhibited at the Bring Your Own Beamer show at W139 in Amsterdam. BYOB is a series of one-night-exhibitions hosting artists and their projectors, curated by Rafaël Rozendaal.

BYOB participating artists:
Aukje Dekker, Anika Schwarzlose, Champagne Valentine, Ewoudt Boonstra, Eline Mul, Elza Jo, Father Futureback, Helma van Nuenen, Jonas Lund, Katja Novitskova, Kristy Fenton/Foom, Sterling Crispin, Matthijs van Henten, Maurice Trouwborst, Melanie Bonajo, Miktor & Molf, Nicole Martens, Peter Luining, Pinar & Viola, Sasa Ostoja, Simon Wald Lasowski, Wyne Veen, Max Werner & Lucy McRae.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on September 15, 2011 at 3:48 pm, filed under Ecstatic Surface Design, Exhibition, Pinar&Viola, Political glam, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

#Curtaincall by Ron Arad

As part of Bloomberg Summer at the Roundhouse, internationally renowned artist, architect and designer, Ron Arad has invited his favourite artists, musicians and friends to create unique work for his 360° interactive installation.
Arad’s constant experimentation with materials and his radical approach to form and structure have put him at the forefront of contemporary design. For Curtain Call, he’s responded to the Roundhouse’s spectacular Main Space by creating a curtain made of 5,600 silicon rods, suspended from an 18 metre diameter ring – a canvas for films, live performance and audience interaction. #curtaincall

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:08 pm, filed under Exhibition, Video, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Sowing & Weeding – Cobra Museum

Folk Culture and Contemporary Art
18.06 – 04.09 2011

In Europe, and certainly in the Netherlands, we are experiencing a true ‘renaissance of folk culture’. This summer, the Cobra Museum presents a multilateral, international group exhibition that links today’s renewed interest in folk culture to contemporary art and cultural heritage. The exhibition takes a close look at the relationship between folk culture and art, in which the most pertinent issue is the role that folk culture plays in the continuing process of globalization.

Over twenty European artists for whom folk culture is a source of inspiration are taking part. Several of these artists have been especially invited by the Cobra Museum. to develop new work for this exhibition. Works by some of the Cobra artists are included. Cobra was the first post-war movement of avant-garde artists for whom folk art and folk culture were an essential source of information.

Participating artists:
Bureau Venhuizen (NL), CoBrA, Hadassah Emmerich (NL), Steingrimur Eyfjörd (IS), Kristof Georgen (DE), Sebastian Hammwöhner (DE), Uwe Henneken (DE), Nadine Hottenrott (DE), Britta Jonas (DE), Aurelia Mihai (RO), Mariella Mosler (DE), Monika Nuber (DE), Gabriela Oberkofler (IT), Rory Pilgrim (GB), Pinar & Viola (NL), Lisl Ponger (A), Anselm Reyle (DE), Gitte Schäfer (DE), Wiebke Siem (DE), Martin Städeli (CH), Helmut Stallaerts (BE), Derk Thijs (NL), Olga Titus (CH), Gert & Uwe Tobias (RO).

For the exhibition Pinar&Viola created a digital mural painting. Here and you can find our poster and invitation design that we did for the museum.

Plow by Anselm Reyle

Untill We Bleed – Digital print in lightbox by Pinar&Viola

Britta Jonas

Schaduwspel (detail) – Mural painting and collage by Hadassah Emmerich

Légion Troublée – Mixed media by Uwe Henneken

Han äs Herzeli wie äs Vögeli – Video projection by Olga Titus

Maria durch ein Dornwald ging – Video projection by Monika Nuber

Continuities – Parquette and picture postcards by Bureau Venhuizen

Opening Sowing & Weeding (17/07/2012)

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on August 4, 2011 at 3:03 pm, filed under Exhibition. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

SSS invitation

SSS – Sandberg Service Show
Graduation Show Sandberg Fine Arts Department

Invitation and catalogue design: Pinar&Viola

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on July 6, 2011 at 11:17 pm, filed under Ecstatic Surface Design, Exhibition, Graphic design, Pinar&Viola, Typography, Vernissage, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Ecstatic surfaces for Cobra Museum

Poster and invitation for Sowing & Weeding exhibition at Cobra Museum.

The exhibition shows examples of folk culture in contemporary art and opposes itself to the current anti cultural climate of Dutch right wing politics. The Cobra movement can be stated as an universal positive populist art which wanted to liberate the creativity of mankind. Cobra artists aimed to make art for and by everyone, irrespective of class, race, intellect and educational level.

This poster is an ecstatic surface where Cobra revives in the folk art of the contemporary: digital folklore.

The visual statement is an upgrade of the conventional understanding of the Cobra movement. On the surface, the impulsive and intuitive beauty of digital folklore is outshined and the folk art of today is flourished on the vernacular world wide web, all parading with hijacked Cobra creatures.

We’ll currently designing a gigantic digital mural painting for the entrance of the exhibition.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on June 3, 2011 at 4:55 pm, filed under Art, Ecstatic Surface Design, Exhibition, Graphic design, Pinar&Viola, Poster, Typography, Vernissage, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.