Bik Van der Pol

 

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Bik Van der Pol
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bibliography and artist writings

2025

What is about to happen has already begun- Growing pressure on artistic freedom

essay in Boekman Magazine 145, Liesbeth Bik

Scene of the Myth - Sarah Pierce

Bik Van der Pol, Köning Verlag, Köln

Boekman magazine

colums 2021-2025, Liesbeth Bik
2021

Mosaic issue 54.2, Special: Archival issue

Mosaic, University of Manitoba, Shep Steiner, Winnipeg
2018

My Dearest

Blessing and Transgressing: A Live Institute (2012–2017), FKAWDW/Melly, Defne Ayas, Rotterdam
2017

WERE IT AS IF, Beyond An Institution That Is

Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, editors Defne Ayas, Bik Van der Pol, Rotterdam
with texts by Defne Ayas, Bik Van der Pol, Manuel Borja-Villel, Marianna Hovhannisyan, Brian Kuan Wood, Doreen Mende, Peter Osborne, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Samuel Saelemakers, Terry Smith, Ana Teixeira Pinto

School of Missing Studies

Sandberg series No. 1, Sternberg Press/Sandberg Institute, Liz Allan, Charles Esche, E. C. Feiss, Sarah Pierce, Bik Van der Pol, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Eloise Sweetman, Paulo Tavares, Nato Thompson

Public Space? Lost and Found

ACT and MIT Press, editors Gediminas Urbonas, Ann Lui and Lucas Freeman

UNGLOSSARY, The City & the City

publication, workshop participants, , Akademie der Kunste der Welt, Cologne
insert in magazine Stadtrevue, December 2017 in the frame of “AKTION KUNST VERÖFFENTLICHEN”

WERE IT AS IF, Beyond An Institution That Is

collection research and publication, Kunstintituut Melly, formerly known as Witte de With, Rotterdam

School of Missing Studies, Sandberg Series No 1

publication, edited by Bik Van der Pol
2016

Boston

BK-info, number 5, July 2016, Bik Van der Pol

on mapping

Unicorns in a Blueprint, FKAWDW/Kunstinstitute Melly, Bik Van der Pol, Rotterdam
2015

Bik Van der Pol X Charlemagne Palestine

MetropolisM, Vol.3/2015, Bik Van der Pol
2012
2011

Work To Do

State of the Art essay, Tent, Rotterdam, Bik Van der Pol, Rotterdam

Momentarily - Learning From Mega Events

Western Front, Bik Van der Pol, Urban Subjects, and Alissa Firth Eagland, Vancouver

The Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists: Addition

JRP - Ringier, editor Krist Gruijthuijsen
2010

Public Arena

designed by David Bennewith. Nominated Best Designed Books 2009, Bik Van der Pol

Dialogue between Aspra.mente and Bik Van der Pol

Visible, a project of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna, Sternberg Press, Aspra.mente

A Guided Tour

Crack - Koen van der Broek, Valiz, Bik Van der Pol
2009

Changing the system unexpectedly

Situation, Whitechapel Gallery, Bik Van der Pol, editor Claire Doherty, London

Plug In to Play

Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven

Differentiated Neighborhoods of New Belgrade

Centre of Visual Culture, MOCAB, editor Zoran Eric, Belgrade

Public Arena

In Context 3, script by Bik Van der Pol, designer David Bennewith, Tallaght, Dublin

Cinema/Notebook, a notebook for spatial research. Case study: Leidsche Rijn

Bureau Beyond, editor Apolonija Sustersic, Utrecht
2008

Art is either plagiarism or revolution or: something is definitely going to happen here

Open 14, Art as a Public Issue, Bik Van der Pol

Three stories about building New Belgrade

Questioning History / reflect 07 - Imagining the past in contemporary art, NAI publishers, Zoran Eric

Four-leaf Clovers, Love-letters and Lollipops

Arkive City, Interface, University of Ulster, Bik Van der Pol, Belfast
2007

Oncontroleerbaar Urbanisme

Metropolis M 5/2007, Bik Van der Pol

Istanbul, 59 Locations, A Project For Nightcomers, publication

10th Istanbul Biennale 2007, Bik Van der Pol, Istanbul

The Lost Moment, publication

editors Bik Van der Pol and Fatos Ustek
2006

Fly Me To The Moon, publication

Sternberg Press, Jennifer Allen, Wouter Davidts, Frans Von der Dunk, Bik Van der Pol, Jane Rendell

Casco Issues 9: Past Imperfect, publication

CASCO and Revolver, concept and research Bik Van der Pol, with Lisette Smits and Will Holder
2005

The 'No-Seeums'

text about work of Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro and Olafur Eliasson, Bik Van der Pol

Bik Van der Pol, With Love From The Kitchen

NAI publishers, with texts by Jean Attali, Wouter Davidts, Charles Esche, Sven Lütticken, Mary Jane Jacob, Jan Verwoert, Bik Van der Pol

Black Friday, Exercises in Hermetics

Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, in collaboration with Revolver Books, Rotterdam

Model City

Artefact magazine, Issue 4, Glocalogue

Live like this

CAMERA AUSTRIA, Kunsthaus Graz, editors Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber

Basis, text for Dijkman/Osterholt

Artis, Bik Van der Pol, Den Bosch
2004

What We Need

Looking, Encountering, Staging, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, distributed by Revolver, Rotterdam

Climate Control

BK Krant Sept/0ct, Bik Van der Pol
2003

Voor de gelegenheid ben ik vandaag niet in het zwart gekomen...

text as rection to Frank Vande Veire's Pamflet over Kunst, at TENT, Rotterdam, Bik Van der Pol, Rotterdam
2001

Conceptuele Democratie. Van structuur naar communicatieve handeling: een platform voor het leven

Metropolis M, Dec. 2001, Bik Van der Pol

Artist contribution

Witte Raaf no.93, sept/oct., Bik Van der Pol
1999

The Discursive Sculpture

Collect/Recollect, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen/NAI publishers, Maria Lind, Rotterdam
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