Arent Weevers

Arent Weevers
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Born	1958-04-01 Ede
🏳️ Nationality	Dutch
💼 Occupation
Known for	Media artist and minister/student pastor
Style	Vulnerability and 3D media art
🌐 Website	http://www.arentweevers.com/

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Biography

Arent Weevers, Ede, April 1, 1958

Weevers lives and works in Hengelo, the Netherlands. He makes video and multimedia installations since 2000. Weevers studied at the College for Social Work Haarlem, Theology at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Leiden. He made multicultural youth theater productions with Karim Traïdia. Weevers is curator of the international biennale for multimedia art Moving Images (since 2007) and Art Stations of the Cross (with Anikó Ouweneel-Tóth, 2020).

He is als a students pastor at the Saxion University of Applied Sciences for the Protestant Congregation in Deventer, and minister at the Protestant Congregation in Hengelo (Overijssel, The Netherlands).

Arent Weevers is specialized in the relatio between religion and visual arts, especially spirituality and media art. In his works Arent Weevers shows the paradox between vulnerability and vitality.

Works

• Traveling of the Heart, interactive multimedia installation, 5’24”, 2000
• Free Among The Dead, multimedia installation for eight monitors, 6’58”, 2003, remake 2014
• Mary!, video installation, 5’15”, 2009
• Lady Liberty, video installation, 1’10”, 2009
• Josephine's Well, 3D stereoscopic video installation, 3’37”, 2011
• Embrace Me, 3D stereoscopic video installation, 1’46”, 2012
• Ecce Homo, 3D holographic installation, 2’41”, 2015
• Well, 3D stereoscopic installation, loop, 2017
• Triptych, video installation, loop, 2019

Exhibitions

• Mary!, Museum Weert, Weert, 2022
• Vulnerable Identity (with Danya Weevers), City Theater, Hengelo, 2021
• Art Stations of the Cross, Great or Lebuinus Church Deventer, 2020
• Stations of the Cross, Singel Church Amsterdam, 2019
• LOOP Art Fair, Almanac Barcelona, 2019
• LOOP Festival – Even Outer Space, NauArt Barcelona, 2019 (solo)
• The Taste of Art, GaleriaZero New York, 2018 Liefde in de Vrijstad (Love in the Free City), Great or Barbara Church Culemborg, 2018
• BeamLab Presents!, New Dakota Amsterdam, 2018
• 3D Moving Images Festival – Space, Great or Lebuinus Church Deventer, 2017
• IJsselBiennale, Great or Lebuinus Church Deventer, 2017
• 3D Beyond Festival, ZKM (Center for Art and Media) Karlsruhe, 2016
• LOOP Festival – Faraway, So Close!, GaleriaZero Barcelona, 2016 (solo)
• Unpainted / Lab 3.0 / Mixed Munich Arts (MMA), Kesselhalle Munich, 2016
• 3D Film & Music Festival, Cines Verdi Barcelona, 2015
• 3D Beyond Festival, ZKM (Center for Art and Media) Karlsruhe, 2015
• Moving Images – on Tour / Transcendence versus Embodied Media, Martini Church Groningen, 2015 (solo)
• Self Portraits – Inner Feelings, Venice Art House Gallery Venice, 2015
• 5th Biennale Moving Images – Ecce Homo, Great or Lebuinus Church Deventer, 2015
• Future Identities – Bodies. Places. Spaces, Laura Haber Gallery Buenos Aires, 2015
• Museumnacht (Museums Night) en Allerzielen (All Souls), Old Church Amsterdam, 2014

• Moving Images – on Tour / Transcendence versus Embodied Media, Hooglandse Church Leiden, 2014 (solo)
• Moving Images – on Tour / Transcendence versus Embodied Media, Jans Church Utrecht, 2014 (solo)
• Observance of Faith, Old Church Amsterdam, 2014
• Unpainted / Lab 3.0 / Media Art Fair, Postpalast Munich, 2014
• Hidden Rooms – Identities. Cities. Memories, Palazzo Ca’Zanardi Venice, 2014
• 4th Biennale Moving Images – MediAtation, Great or Lebuinus Church Deventer, 2013
• Private view, New Dakota Amsterdam, 2013 (solo)
• GZ-Art Basel, Saalbau Rhypark am Rhein Basel, 2012
• Cinedance, Melkweg Theater Amsterdam, 2011
• 3d Biennale Moving Images – Inspired Video Art, Great or Lebuinus Church Deventer, 2011
• NewYork International Independent Film & Video Festival, Culver Plaza Theatre Los Angeles, 2010
• NewYork International Independent Film & Video Festival, Village East Cinema New York, 2010
• To be there, Gilbert Gallery, New York, 2009
• 2nd Biënnale Moving Images – Bijbels bezielde videokunst (Moving Images. Biblical Inspired Video Art), Great or Lebuinus Church Deventer, 2009
• Behind the Forms, Chelsea Gallery London, 2009
• From Different Continents, Art Gallery Indiana University Kokomo, 2009
• New York New York, Icosahedron Gallery New York, 2008
• Summer 2008, GaleriaZero Barcelona, 2008
• Art Beijing – Contemporary Art Fair, Pickled Art Centre Beijing, 2008
• Multimedia Vesper – Op de grens van donker en licht (On the Verge of Darkness and Light), Great or Lebuinus Church Deventer, 2008
• Biennale Moving Images – Geloof, hoop & liefde (Faith, Hope & Love), Great or Lebuinus Church Deventer, 2007
• Art Section Quanzhou, University Quanzhou, 2006
• Edition 2005, Sculpture Park Anningahof Zwolle, 2005
• Art Meeting, Art Gallery University Xiamen, 2005
• Zero Art Gallery Berlin, 2005
• Summer 2004, GaleriaZero Barcelona, 2004
• Phainoo, Rabo Theater Hengelo, 2003
• Oorsprong (Origins), Old Blasius Church Delden, 2003
• Next Flow, X-flow Hengelo, 2003
• Travelling of the Heart, Pompoen Theater Amsterdam, 2002
• Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival), Marres Center for the Arts Maastricht, 2001
• Travelling of the Heart, Vrijhof University Twente Enschede, 2000

Awards

‘Best Mention Award’ for Josephine’s Well – 3D Film & Music Festival Barcelona, 2015

‘Highlight of new media art’ for Embrace Me – Unpainted, media art fair München, 2014

‘Best International Video Art Short Award’ for Mary! – New York International Independent Film & Video Festival New York, 2010

Publications

• Arent Weevers, Musings. About art, body and religion. Multimedia Installations 2000 - 2021, (Originally published as Mijmeringen. Over kunst, lichaam en religie. Multimedia-installaties 2000 - 2021), Eindhoven 2022
• Arent Weevers, Spir!t, the way of inspiration (Originally published as Spir!t, de weg van bezieling), Meppel 2013
• Arent Weevers, Bewogen Beelden. Bijbels bezielde videokunst (Moving Images. Biblical Inspired Video Art), Meppel 2009
• Arent Weevers, Spiritualiteit bij Bill Viola. Inleiding mystieke invloed op zijn videokunst (Spirituality of Bill Viola. Introduction Traces of Mysticism in his Video Art), Enschede 2004

TEDX

Let the 3D video tell the story, TedX Talk Arent Weevers, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Wilmink Theater Enschede, 2015

Literature

• Walther Burgering, Lianne van Dijk, Zinzoeken en Zijn. 12 interviews over het belang van de werksoort studentenpastoraat (Looking for Meaning and Being. 12 Interviews about the importance of the Formula of the Pastoral Care for Students), Vlaardingen 2020
• Wouter Prins, ‘Voorbij het eerste treffen. Verlangen en mediakunst van Arent Weevers’ (‘Beyond the First Encounter. Longing and Media Art of Arent Weevers’), in: Hans Alma en Johan Goud (ed.), Maar zie, ik heb lief! Eros in kunst en religie (But See, I Love! Eros in Religion and the Arts), Zoetermeer 2016, p. 14-21
• Arent Weevers, René Kok, ‘Videokunst. Beweging in de kerk’ (‘Video Art. Movement in the Church’), in: Joost de Wal (ed.), Hedendaagse kunst in Nederlandse kerken 1990- 2015. Van Jan Dibbets tot Tinkebell (Contemporary Art in Dutch Churches 1990-2015. From Jan Dibbets to Tinkebell), Eindhoven / Amsterdam 2015, p. 179-185
• Sabrina Kamstra, Ad de Visser a.o., Transcendence versus Embodied Media. The MediArt of Arent Weevers, Meppel 2014
• Jeroen de Wit, ‘Over videokunst en liturgie. In gesprek met Arent Weevers’ (‘On Video Art and Liturgy. A Conversation with Arent Weevers’), in: G.D.J. Dingemans, J. Kronenburg, R. Steensma (ed.), Kaïn of Abel... Kunst in de kerkdienst: twee vijandige broeders? (Cain or Abel... Art at the Service: Two Hostile Brothers?), Zoetermeer 1999, p. 89-98

References

• Arent Weevers (Dutch Wikepedia page)
• Website of Arent Weevers

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