‘VerteerWezens (handed down, revalued)’ 2017-2023
solo exhibition in De Anningahof Zwolle
a selection of various VerteerWezens (2017-2023) and 1 VerteerWezen photo work
here, from left to right: the cut photo work ‘GreenDressFun’ 2021-2023, ‘VerteerWezen 15 (retrieved arms)’ 2020-2022, ‘VerteerWezen 16 (white shield)’ 2021-2023 and ‘VerteerWezen 1 (crouching orange)’ 2017:

also in this solo: ‘VerteerWezen 4 (lying greens)’ 2018 / ‘VerteerWezen 11 (protest&berusting)’ 2020 / ‘VerteerWezen 14 (embrace rejection)’ 1984-2021 / ‘VerteerWezen 13 (carrying sleigh)’ 2020-2023

my sculptures are never objects to me; they are intermediaries between an aspect of me and the outside world - and vice versa - and the viewer. My visual method is as i have been doing for years: i focus on the physical ‘affect-rich’ responses i have to an experience - and the concepts related to it. by materializing these, my works manifest different ‘states of self’.

‘VerteerWezens’ is a series of spatial objects, started in 2017. the title can be roughly translated as ‘digested-beings’ or ‘digesting beings’.
in each ‘VerteerWezen’, rejected objects or utensils from my home or studio are combined, with aluminium modelling mesh, cardboard and/or other materials.
this is often covered with a layer of papier maché made from shredded left-over papers, magazines, egg boxes and other waste paper. in this way, used objects, materials and older art works are “digested” by turning them into creatures/beings.
by photographing myself behind/with these sculptures, the relation between the affect-rich object and my concrete physical body becomes clear.
the series ‘VerteerWezens’ is ongoing, and so are the related photo works.

all ‘VerteerWezen’ works: ‘VerteerWezen 1 (crouching orange)’ 2017 / ‘VerteerWezen 2 (standing blue)’ 2018 / ‘VerteerWezen 3 (reclining black)’ 2017 / ‘VerteerWezen 4 (lying greens)’ 2018 / ‘VerteerWezen 5 (red arms)’ 2018 / ‘VerteerWezen 6 (cowering in suitcase)’ 2020 / ‘VerteerWezen 7 (lilac shredded)’ 2019 / ‘VerteerWezen 8 (red DenkRaum)’ 2019 > ‘DenkRaum’ 2019 (photo) / ‘VerteerWezen 9 (skins and stones)’ 2019 / ‘VerteerWezen 10 (in yellow arms)’ 2019 / ‘VerteerWezen 11 (protest&berusting)’ 2020 / ‘VerteerWezen 12 (growing teeth)’ 2020 / ‘VerteerWezen 13 (carrying sleigh)’ 2020-2023 / ‘VerteerWezen 14 (embrace rejection)’ 1984-2021 / ‘AAN-balance together’ 2021 / ‘VerteerWezen 15 (retrieved arms)’ 2020-2022 / ‘VerteerWezen 16 (white shield)’ 2021-2023 / ‘VerteerWezen 17 (open up - remade)’ 2003-2023 / ‘VerteerWezen 18 (bird cover)’ 1977- / ‘VerteerWezen 19 (old pain) 1984- / ‘VerteerWezen 20 (snowwhite revisited)’ 2022-2023 / ‘VerteerWezen 21 (cornered)’ 2023-2026 / ‘VerteerWezen 22 (dealing with discomfort/discomfort pair)’ 2024-2025 / ‘VerteerWezen 23 (porcelain arms)’ 2011-2024 / ‘VerteerWezen 24 (façade des façades)’ 2006-2016-2025 / ‘VerteerWezen 25 (reikende gekleed)’ 1991-2025 / ‘VerteerWezen 26 (old morale)’ 1976-2026 /

all ‘VerteerWezen’ photo works: ‘DenkRaum’ 2019 / ‘behind skins and stones’ 2019 / ‘behind red arms’ 2020 / ‘behind shredded lilac’ 2019 / ‘embracing rejection’ 2021 / ‘behind arms’ 2022 / ‘hiding behind witheid (whiteness)’ 2022 / ‘GreenDressFun’ 2021-2023 / ‘embracing old pain, standing’ 2024 /

other ‘VerteerWezens’ exhibitions: ‘VerteerWezens in Mirrors of Time’ in Castle d’Asprémont-Lynden Oud-Rekem Belgium, curated by Annemie van Laethem and Eric Roux with a new selection of VerteerWezens > publication / ‘VerteerWezens (handed down, revalued)’ solo exhibition in De Anningahof /

other ‘solo’ exhibitions: ‘Manifold mumbag & fragments of the white visions’ / ‘Karin Arink - States of Self’ retrospective Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 2008 / ‘Kleider machen Kunst’, duo with Reinhold Engberding, Gerhard Marcks Haus Bremen D 2011 / ‘All attitudes, all shapeliness, all belongings’ (Walt Whitman, I Sing The Body Electric) Main Room RAM gallery Rotterdam 2014 / ‘Club Solo’ 2016 / ‘but Arm in Arm with Touch’ 2021 first ever online solo on GalleryViewer via RAM Galerie (external link)/ ‘Hollow Grounds’ 2024 Museum Beelden aan Zee Scheveningen /