About
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Biography
Delphine Bedel is a visual artist and writer, curator and book editor based in Amsterdam. Considering art a form of alternative knowledge, Delphine Bedel's process-oriented curatorial projects and artistic practice explore different formats and contexts. Her current work 'Notes on Tourism' is an ongoing artistic project that aims to produce a discursive platform through exhibitions, lectures and writings and bring into question the visual representation of leisure, architecture, and cultural artefacts. As the world largest industry, tourism influences our way of life and reflects upon changing economic and social realities. From amusement parks and monuments, to historical locations and holiday resorts, I documented architectural sites in diverse geographical and political contexts. Through photography, writings and research my recent works focuses on the relation between tourism, history and the construction of national identity.
She currently is Associated Porfessor at the MFA Dutch Art Institute and Visiting Professor at the Geneva University of Art and Design, where she is editor of two art books publishing projets. She also regularly gives lectures regarding her work and her curatorial projects.
Curatorial Projects
More recent projects include the exhibition 'Shared History / Decolonising the image' (Amsterdam, 2006), a pathfinder exhibition in the Netherlands that addressed a major issue of contemporary culture, namely the heritage of decolonisation through its images. Using the term as an operational concept, a historical reality and a contemporary situation inherited from the past, this investigation was furthered in the exhibitions 'Beyond Paradise' (SMBA, 2008, in collaboration with Ayako Yoshimura) and 'The Experience of Atopia' (Breda Photo 2008), as well as her own work, the publication 'All that is solid melts into air' (Rotterdam, 2008). Bedel has been more then 30 exhibitions, film programmes and events since 1994. She is a founding member and artistic director of various project spaces, among others Etablissement d'en Face in Brussels (1994-98)
Exhibitions
Recent solo and group exhibitions include From the Sidelines, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Reality Check, Notes on Tourism, Galerie Lumen Travo Amsterdam; Micronation, Notes on Tourism Het Torentje, Almelo; Nederland 1 MuseumGouda, Gouda; Non Places East 66, Amsterdam; Disobedience Play Gallery/Bethanien, Berlin; Playtime Cargo, Almere; Extasy Skor, Amsterdam; OK Video National Galerie, Jakarta; Das Experiment Secession, Vienna; and Scripted Space Witte de With, Rotterdam. Her current work engages different layers of representation of architecture, of leisure and cultural artifacts in the perspective of the tourist gaze, and reflect upon shifting politics of memory.
Publications
All that is solid melts into Air, Notes on Tourism episode publishers, Rotterdam (2008). Edited by Delphine Bedel. Contributions by Bruno Latour, Olivier Rolin, Rachel Esner, Thibaut De Ruyter, Francesco Bernardelli, Marco Pasi. This book, accompanied manifold events, lectures and round-tables, is conceived as a platform open out to various discursive practices.
Delphine Bedel has also been contributing to various publications: Multitudes-Icones, Paris / Documenta XII Magazine, Kassel (online project); Profeminist WHITE FLOWERS by Sands Murray-Wassink (Printed Matter, New York), Another Publication by R. Ridgway and K, Zdjelar (Revolver/Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam), 93 Hollandse Pracht by Philippe Terrier-Herman (Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam).
Education
Her education includes attending the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastiques, under the direction of Pontus Hulten. She also studied with Alejandro Jodorowsky in Paris. Bedel was an artist in residence at the Rijkakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1998-99).
Credits
Photos and videos: Delphine Bedel
Texts: Carola Platzek, Patrick Dax. Jota Castro, Olivier Rolin, Nina Folkersma, Inge de Boer, Delphine Bedel
Installation and performance photos: Ilya Rabinovich, Basak Senova, P. Hejduk, J.V. Ijzendoorn, L. Kramer, C. Linden, D. Bedel,
Website: Daniel Landau (design), Shmulik Kaufmann (code)
With the support of Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, and The Mondrian Foundation, Amsterdam.
Copyright
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