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Karin Arink
(Delft, 1967)
lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands

published work & work published
2025 ‘Reciprocal dialogue’ text work written in dialogue on invitation by - and in collaboration with - Alicia Kemp

2025 ‘dear fellow artists’ artist text for publication ‘10 Years Borgerstraat - to share the experience of inclusivity in showing art’ published by Borgerstraat Studios, celebrating their OPEN studios - in which I took place in 202 with the project ‘AAN’ in collaboration with Julie Muller

2025 image of ‘push up pull down - Daphne after the hunt’ 1996 (bronze) published and weork described in ‘Apollo and Daphne: Luciano Fabro and the Feminine’ by Sharon Hecker, Artusa Press 2025

2024 ‘Everything all together in one space at the same time’ After a unique series of solo exhibitions, the Breda-based artist-run space Club Solo concluded its programme in 2024. This publication is a three-part summary of the past ten years. The first part comprises an overview of ten years Club Solo, along with two personal essays in which artist and writer Frits Dijcks takes a closer look at this period. Following his essays is a programme timeline, and a visual collage of events that have been held at Club Solo. This part comes with two randomly picked publications from artists whose work has been shown at Club Solo. Publisher Jap Sam Books. ISBN 9789493329195. 128 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, Dutch/English
i was one of the artists selected for a solo in Club Solo 2016.

2024 ‘The Idea of Success / Het idee van Succes’, column for Museum Beelden aan Zee Magazine (voorjaar 2024, jaargang 16, editie 38, pag 32) (Nederlands)

2024 in memoriam for Lizan Freijsen 2024 (Nederlands)

2024 ‘Gronden’ 2023-2024 accompanying my solo ‘Hollow Grounds’ in Museum Beelden aan Zee Scheveningen

2018 text on my collaboration with Renée Kool for room 10. ‘Controle en Loslaten’ in ‘ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS’, Rijksmuseum Twenthe 2018-2024

2016 ‘WeAreFree’ text-as-work here in solo in Club Solo 2016

2014 EssayField for my MEiA at Piet Zwart institute, Trimester 1. Reading Writing Research seminar by Clare Butcher, I wrote this essay-as-spreadsheet

2012
my artist novel ‘S. The Bearer of STATE’ becomes part of the collection of M hka Antwerpen B via the BookLovers project

2011 my work in ‘SHE/ME’ glossy accompanying the group show in Museum Zwolle of the same title

2010 ‘JJ - Inside Job’ review of the solo of Jeroen Jongeleen in galerie 182a, Rotterdam, for The Week-And, magazine of greater Charlois

2010 ‘MOA-STAR’ text (English) for the Club Donny #5 - magazine for the personal experience of nature in urban environment

2009 I was co-writer of this application for funding&support for the process of BTTF: saving the building for Foundation B.a.d: ‘De Kracht van B.a.d’ 2009

2009 petitie (in Dutch) samen met Harmen Verbrugge en Karin de Jong voor de wethouder en raadscommissie Cultuur in het kader van de lobby van Platform Kunstenaars
en Platform Zonder Kunstenaars Geen Kunst Rotterdam - met als resultaat unaniem besluit door de Raad om subsidie O&O opnieuw in te stellen

2009 ‘Geen geld, geen kunst’ (Nederlands) text on the role-model of the artist as entrepeneur, published January 2009 in the Fucking Good Art #21 > external link

2008 image of and text on ‘Party Animal’ 2006 in ‘Oog in oog met kunst en geschiedenis’ nr 3.
2008, during my solo Karin Arink - States of Self’ 2008 in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

2008 introduction & editing of texts for monograph ‘Karin Arink - States of Self’, available through me (see contact), Motta Eindhoven, and the museumshops in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Museum Beelden aan Zee and Rijksmuseum Twenthe

2007 brief (in Dutch) voor ‘Eenenveertig brieven aan de jonge kunstenaar’ / letter for ‘Forty-one letters for the young artist’
a collective publication from the management teams of Master programs of visual arts and design academies Artez, Willem de Kooning Academie / Piet Zwart Institute, Post St. Joost, Sandberg Institute > re-published in Mister Motley, external link

2006 NL column ‘Oasism’ in BK-informatie 2006.8 (december) on my experiences in CCA Kitakyushu Japan and as host in Foundation B.a.d; ‘Oasism’ as complementation of Nomadism

2005 as member of Foundation B.a.d: NL text for folder ‘B.a.d To The Future!’

2004/2005 NL text for Sculptuur Studies (a publication by Sculptuur Instituut/Beelden aan Zee Scheveningen, ISBN 90-400-9120-X)
positioning my work in relation to contemporary sculpture > external link to English translation on Academia

2002 ‘Grenzen’ in folder accompanying the exhibition ‘GRENZEN’: textwork in collaboration with the gyneacologist/curator Kees Maas > cv

2002 ‘jij en ik (duet for you and me)’, in ‘Talking to you(th)’, Boijmans van Beuningen: NL textwork and photo > commissions

2000 Kastalia nr. 3, artist’s pages + " ik besta daar waar jij mij aanraakt": NL text on my work

2000 design frontpage of Opmaat dd 6 January 2000, (cultural agenda of De Volkskrant), based on my stay in Japan 1998-99, reproduced in the book ‘41 x OPMAAT’, published by De Volkskrant > commissions

1999 DECORUM, tijdschrift voor kunst en cultuur, no 2. Transit (artists on the move), “Ijs met de smaak van groene thee, een verslag van een Nederlandse kunstenaar in Japan” : NL text reflecting on my one-year stay in Japan

1999 artists’ pages in catalogue CCA Kitakyushu

1997 artists’ pages in catalogue accompaying the exhibtion Het Eigen Gezicht, published by Rijksakademie Amsterdam

1997 ‘Inlet - such stuff as thoughts are made of’ artist book / source book compiled by me, with my introduction positioning my work, published by Artimo Amsterdam

1997 poems published in Surplus

1997 ‘pose position’ on cover of ‘Hoe zij zoekt’, poetry by Lidy van Marrissing, publishers Van Gennep Amsterdam

1995 design cover folder Kennedy van der Laan: drawing

1995 ‘MensBeeld’ artist page for catalogue accompanying the group show ‘De betekenis van het tekenen’ organised by Rijksakademie Amsterdam in Museum Beelden aan Zee 1995

1995 small publication accompanying my solo at the Helmonds Gemeentemuseum NL: photos and text work ‘verstrengelden’ (NL)

1994 contribution for the magazine accompanying the exhibition ‘Ik en de Ander’: text/drawing

1994 * ‘hier lig ik’, in cat. ‘Six Projects’, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven: text

1993 ‘Plaats, a desire for a Powerful Perception of Presence’, Hooghuis: text on place; “de eerste plaats is op de huid…”

1993 catalogue with the group show ‘Nove giovani scultori d’Amsterdam’, San Giovanni Valdarno, I

1992 ‘Rome Tutti Quanti’, publication of stay in Rome, Rijksakademie (met E. Baerveldt, L. King, M. van der Heiden en P. Ticheler), ‘Rome notities’ : series of Rome drawings

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