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Bik Van der Pol
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activities

Ongoing

Advisor, Jan van Eijck Academy

Liesbeth Bik, Maastricht

Mentor, Mondriaan Foundation and Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur

Core Tutor, Piet Zwart Institute, MFA

Willem de Kooning Academy/Rotterdam University, Rotterdam
2026

jury Collaborative Artistic Practices

Gemeentelijke Kunstaankopen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Bik Van der Pol

co-organzier Café Clima, from 2024 onwards

European Alliance of Academies , Liesbeth Bik
2025

jury selection director Van Abbemuseum

Liesbeth Bik, Eindhoven
2024

Advisor, Jan van Eijck Academy

2011-2024, Jos van der Pol
2023

jury, monument Peter R. de Vries

Liesbeth Bik , Amsterdam
2022

The school to be done

Round table intensive seminar, CASTRO in collaboration with MACRO, Bik Van Der Pol, Piero Golia, Cesare Pietroiusti and the participants in the seminar, Rome

The Living Newspaper

5-day workshop, Werkplaats Typography, Het Hem, Amsterdam

Wild Summer of Art 1 and 2, curatorial project

group show, curated by Piet de Jonge, Jessy Koeiman and Liesbeth Bik, Rotterdam
2021

Time travel: re-imagining the past in place. Talk/Seminar

Creative Futures Academy, NCAD and IMMA, Dublin
2019

Naturaleza/s. Symposium

Eremuak sessions, Bilbao

Through the looking glass. Workshop

UNIDEE-Citta del Arte, Biella

The Point: Stories that must be told. Workshop

Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy

Public talk, Jan van Eyck Academy

Maastricht

Whole Life Academy. Workshop

Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Archiv der Avantgarden (AdA), Dresden
2018

What's the offer? Exhibitioning is a verb! (thinking, making, reading: what do exhibitions do?), Seminar project

Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam

How on earth? - Replicating nature. Field trip

Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin
2017

Kunstkracht (on the public domain). lecture

Spui25, Liesbeth Bik, Mia You and Frans Willem Korsten, Amsterdam
2016

Experimental Publishing and Archival Research. Visiting Lecturers

ACT (department of Art, Culture and Technology), M.I.T., Boston

Visiting Lecturers, ACT (department of Art, Culture and Technology), M.I.T.

Studio Seminar in Art and Public Sphere, with Gediminas Urbonas, Boston

Visiting Lecturers, ACT (department of Art, Culture and Technology), M.I.T.

DON'T ERASE TILL MONDAY Projects Experimental Publication, CRC/Bookshop, Carpenter Center, with Experimental Publishing students of ACT-M.I.T., Cambridge

Academie van Kunsten (KNAW), Lecture on practice

Liesbeth Bik , Amsterdam
2015

Advisor, De Appel Curatorial Program, 2010-2015

Liesbeth Bik , Amsterdam
2013

School of Missing Studies, Initiators and Program Leaders

Temporary Master Program, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam

Collecting the Performative: Performance and Activism. Seminar

Van Abbe Museum, in collaboration with TATE Modern, Eindhoven and London

Scratching the Museumwalls. Seminar project

Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
2012

And And And, Documenta 13, workshop

Kassel

Everyone for themselves: the ethics and economics of art. Symposium, workshop and screenings

De Unie and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, with Jan van de Pavert, Rotterdam
part of And, And, And, Documenta 13
2011
2010

Other Forms of Life. Workshop

Islington Mill Art Academy, Salford

Actors, Agents and Attendants. Expertmeetings, project, symposium

SKOR, Amsterdam

Talk, Autonomy Project, summerschool, YourSpace

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Eindhoven

Musagetes Foundation. Talk

Sudbury, CA

Not Our Cup of Tea

Capacete, 29th Bienal de São Paulo, Teatro Arena, Raimundas Malasauskas and Gabriel Lester, Sao Paulo

DARE 5, Doing Dissemination. Talk

MAHKU, Utrecht

Learning From Vancouver. Symposium

Western Front, Vancouver

Coming Soon, Public Symposium

Audain Gallery at SFU Woodward's, Vancouver
2009

Perspectives: what isn't art. Symposium, talk

Glucksman Gallery, Cork

neveroddoreven. Curators graduation show

Piet Zwart Institute, MFA, TENT, Rotterdam

The Artists. Symposium

Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

One day Sculpture. Symposium

Wellington, New Zealand

Monument for Free Speech. Workshop

Elam University, Auckland

Talks

Western Front, University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

1440 Minutes towards the development of a site. Workshop on free speech,

ELAM University, International artist-in-residence-program, with students of Elam University, Auckland, New Zealand
2008

Talk, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)

San Francisco

Insert. Publication

Open magazine, published by SKOR

I've got something in my eye. Curatorial project

Marie Louise Hessel Museum/CCS Bard College, by Bik Van der Pol, selection from the Marie Luise Hessel Collection, Bard CCS archive, and Van Abbe Museum, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY

PLUG-IN 28, Pay Attention, part 1, 2, 3. Curatorial project

Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
2007

des/IRE. Symposium

on urban developments, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland

Lindestede

Landscape project, Bik Van der Pol with Tijs van Hees landcape architect, Wolvega

Selection of films from the collection

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Be(com)ing Dutch. Symposium

van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven

Connecting Art and Anthropology (CAA). Workshop

Manchester Metropolitan University, Amanda Ravetz, Manchester
2006

Jump into cold water. Summer academy

Shedhalle, Zurich

Archiving disappearance. Symposium

Nr.1: The introduction, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art, with Krist Gruijthuijsen, Brian Holmes, Alexander Koch, Anders Kreuger, Raimundas Malasauskas, Bob Nicka, Bik Van der Pols, Seth Siegelaub, Istanbul

Hospitality, Space, Travel, Translation. Symposium

Olivetti Foundation, Rome
2005

Artist as contemporary witness and the limits of sociological vision. Panel discussion

IKT congress, with Bik Van der Pol, Irit Rogoff, Roger Burgel, Adam Szymczyk and Anselm Franke, Cracow, Poland

Nederland niet Nederland. Symposium

Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
2004

Cordially Invited, exhibition, discussions, screenings, and performances

BAK basis voor actuele kunst, organized by Bik Van der Pol and with Solvej Helweg Ovesen for Nomads & Residents
works by: Pablo Helguera, Lisl Ponger, Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Vangelis Vlahos, Grenzeloos Kijken (a project by Stichting Kunst en Cultuur Zuid-Holland with Arno Coenen, Julika Rudelius, Jasmina Fekovic, Geert Mul, Nicolas Provost, Klaas van Gorkum, Stella van Voorst van Beest, Peter Bogers, Marten Winters, and Marjoleine Boonstra), and an archive of magazines and books about and from Central and Eastern Europe. Talks by Babak Afrassiabi, Ruxandra Balaci, Kees Bleichrodt, Brett Bloom, Mariana Celac, Calin Dan, Charles Esche, Pablo Helguera, Vesna Madzoski, Raimundas Malasauskas, Geert Mul, Dan and Lia Perjovschi, Lisl Ponger, Marko Raat, Julika Rudelius, Nasrin Tabatabai, Jelena Vesic, and Monika Wucher.
Program with IDFA, International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam: Europe.doc, IDFA’s gaze on the EU with documentary films by Marjoleine Boonstra, Joost Conijn, Leszek Dawid, Joakim Denner, Raymond Depardon, Paul Devlin, Marcel Lozinski, Angus Macqueen, Jos de Putter, Ulrich Seidl, and Sarah Vos.

Twist to Wild Life TWL. Workshop

for SMS (School of Missing Studies), Halle School of Common Properties, Werkleitzbiennale, Halle, Germany

Para Education Department, Tracer

TENT, Rotterdam

Teasing Minds

Project for SMS (School of Missing Studies), Kunstverein München, with Maria Lind and Stealth Group, München

SMS, School of Missing Studies

with Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Sabine von Fischer, Rotterdam, Munich, New York, Belgrade

Clear the line, I'm sending myself right now. Curated project,

Pictura, Dordrecht

Platforms + Presentation: art as discussion piece, Piet Zwart Institute

Rotterdam
2003

Traveling Magazine Table, Nomads & Residents

CAC, Art In General, M.I.T., IASPIS, Kuturzone06/Schirn Kunsthalle, INSA Art Space, Design Academy, Your Space, Van Abbe Museum, Vilnius, New York, Boston, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Seoul, Eindhoven

School of Missing Studies

Initiated project, with Sabine Von Fischer, Srdjan Janovic Weiss

Hypnose. Filmprogram

Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, with Jan Kopp, Paris

Rooseum Universal Studios, Part 1. Filmprogram

Rooseum, Malmö

Datacloud 2.5. Development

V2_Organisation, Bik Van der Pol with Stealth Group, Rotterdam
2002

sputniks, fellow travellers

Kunstverein Munchen, Munich

Interactive Normalisation. co-organized event

Normal Group of Architects, Belgrade
2000

Nomads & Residents. Initiated program of meetings

with artists, curators, critics, New York
1995

REST. Initiated project

guests: Arno van Roosmalen, Bartomeu Mari, Thijs Goldschmidt, Anna Harding, with Jeanne van Heeswijk and Hans Snoek, , Rotterdam
1984

Duende. Founding members and actively involved

Artist run space, Rotterdam
Duende was an independent self-organized artist-cooperative located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In forty-two studios housed in a former school, independent artists carried out their practice on a professional basis. Besides the permanent studios, Duende organised many exhibitions and events. Duende also offered an intense residency program, providing three large studios, living accommodation and an exhibition, available for international and Dutch artists for a period of three months.
Duende existed form 1984 until 2013.
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