TrAIN

Guest Speaker - TrAIN Open 2009

Wendelien van Oldenborgh is an artist based in Rotterdam whose practice explores social relations through an investigation of gesture in the public sphere. Van Oldenborgh often uses the format of a public film shoot, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome.

Recent projects include Instruction, (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam 2009), No False Echoes (Van Abbemusem, Eindhoven 2008), Lecture/Audience/Camera (Muhka, Antwerp, 2008), Maurits Film, (in co-production with MAMAM, Recife and Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, 2008), Maurits Script (Casco, Utrecht, 2006), The Basis For A Song (produced for Die Regierung Witte de With, Rotterdam 2005)

Van Oldenborgh has also exhibited at São Paulo Bienale 2008, Apexart New York, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, MAMAM Recife, MAK Vienna, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. She has recently finished a new production for Contour, Mechelen (Après la reprise, la prise August 2009) and is currently participating in the Istanbul Bienale 2009. For the academic year 2008/2009 she has been guest professor for Kunst und Kommunikatieve Praxis in the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna.