The Community Centre: Forms of Fellowship
Wendelien van Oldenborgh
Wendelien van Oldenborgh develops works, whereby the cinematic format is used as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce the script. Recent solo presentations include: work, work, work (work) at Museum Sztuki in Lodz 2021; tono lengua boca at Fabra i Coats, Barcelona 2020 and CA2M Madrid 2019-20; Cinema Olanda, at the Dutch Pavilion in the 57th Venice Biennial 2017. Van Oldenborgh has exhibited widely including the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019, bauhaus imaginista, HKW Berlin 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2020 and Sonsbeek20->24, Arnhem 2021. Van Oldenborgh is a member of the (Dutch) Society for Arts and a recipient of the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art (2014). A monographic publication, Amateur, was published by Sternberg Press, Berlin; If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam and The Showroom, London in 2016.
Uta Eisenreich
Uta Eisenreich is an artist and visual researcher who incorporates a photographic practice with performative strategies. She is best known for her photographic still lives that trigger viewers to discern underlying patterns, and that refer to scientific experiments, spiritual arrangements, psychological assessment tests. She has published two artist books, A not B (2010, Roma Publications) and As If (2021, Roma Publications) on issues of analogy and representation and has exhibited related works in solo shows at Ellen de Bruijne Projects (AS IF, 2021), Unseen (2021), Kunstmuseum The Hague (This, That and Other, 2017). Another branch of her work focuses on social interaction, conditions and underlying structures of living together. For the exhibition Designing the Social, at Het Nieuwe Instituut, she researched the community centres of Frank van Klingeren and contributed a video installation for Het Buurthuis developed in collaboration with Johanna Himmelsbach. Other works in this line of research were presented at GfzK Leipzig (Gaudiopolis 2018), Centre Pompidou, Paris (Networks 2022).
Piet Vollaard
Piet Vollaard (1955) is educated at TU Delft (Faculty of Architecture, 1984) and works as an architect, architecture critic, urban activist and a promotor/project initiator of nature-inclusive design and urban nature. He was co-founder/director of ArchiNed, the architecture website of the Netherlands (1996-2013). He is currently active in and co-founder of The Natural City (urban nature projects, 2012-present) and City in the Making (co-housing and alternative, unconventional programming of vacant urban property, 2012-present). His publications include: Herman Haan, architect (1995), Hinder en Ontklontering, Architectuur en Maatschappij in het werk van Frank van Klingeren (with Marina van den Bergen, 2003), Stadsnatuur Maken / Making Urban Nature (with Jacques Vink and Niels de Zwarte, 2017) and several architecture guides from 1987 onwards.