Visitor, 2025, wall drawing, pencil, 65 x 120 cm
Visitor, 2025, detail
Wall drawing at:
STOKKER JAEGER
Underground
THE BASEMENT SHOW ContinuesLomanstraat 112, Amsterdam
Open Friday–Saturday, 1–6 PM
16 May – 19 July 2025Artists:
B. Wurtz (USA)
Eleye Boerenkamps (NL)
Lucky DeBellevue (USA)
Guy de Cointet (FR)
Femke Dekkers (NL)
Sander van Deurzen (NL)
Kimball Holth (AUS)
Judith Hopf (DE)
Marijn van Kreij (NL)
Wjm Kok (NL)
Gerlach en Koop (NL)
Matthew McCaslin (USA)
Emmeline de Mooij (NL)
Helma Pantus (NL)
Rob Pruitt (USA)
Steel Stillman (USA)
Esther Tielemans (NL)
HW Werther (NL)
Voebe de Gruyter (NL/BE)
Harm van den Berg (NL)
Paul Drissen (NL)
Brieke Drost (NL)
Maria Roosen (NL)Music: Alan Licht – A New York Minute
This all-friends exhibition and first show curated at project space STOKKER JAEGER features small works, some specifically prepared for this jam-packed exhibition.
photo: Lily van der Stokker
Crawl, 2025, pencil on wall, puntWG, WG Tennants
Group show with artists from the community
detail
Threshold of Complexity at Kunsthal KAdE, 2024, black paint on Dibond panels, 2,5 x 7,1 m
Detail of panel V
Overview installation Threshold of Complexity, 2024, at Kunsthal KAdE, seven panels, 2,5 x 7m.
Threshold of Complexity
For the exhibition Sleep! at Kunsthal KAdE, Harm van den Berg created a large drawing installation: an elongated network drawn on panels with a total length of seven meters. For this work, he used a special technique called sgraffito, in which he meticulously removes black paint from the surface with a fine needle, revealing a delicate white web.
The title of the work, Threshold of Complexity, refers to the point at which components in a network reach a certain level of organization, resulting in the spontaneous emergence of new properties. This phenomenon can be observed in ants, which, as a colony, create a form of collective intelligence, or in birds that form unique shapes in the air as a flock. It may also occur in the human brain, where consciousness and emotions arise from the highly complex neural network.
Van den Berg's intricate, network-like drawings are created in a similar manner. During the drawing process, new forms spontaneously emerge through the repeated application of minute graphic marks. For the artist, this is a way to visualize the dynamics of complex organizational processes that often lie hidden beneath the surface of reality.Click on thumbnails and (double) click on picture to zoom:
Detail of panel V
Detail of panel IV
Detail of panel III
Special edition of small original study drawings, available for purchase at the museum shop at Kunsthal KAdE. Each drawing comes in a small box with a hand-signed certificate of authenticity. These works are available in a limited quantity.
sTOC #19, 2024, 12x10cm, black paint on Dibond, partly removed with a fine needle.
Private collection
sTOC #32, 2024, 40x30cm, black paint on Dibond, partly removed with a fine needle.
Private collection
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Digital inversion of Untitled, 2017, 77 x 53,5 cm, piezo Print on Hahnemuhle Ultra Matt paper, 2021
A digital inverted version of drawing Untitled (2017) features now on the cover of Eric Schliesser's new book Newton's Metaphysics: Essays (2021), published by Oxford University Press.
C_tvN01, 2021, pencil on paper (detail)
TL_01, 2019, 35x25cm, aluminium frame with non-reflective museum glass.
Installation view The Invisibility of Colour, 2023 at galerie SANAA, Utrecht, NL
C_tvL02, 2021, Potlood op papier, 63x47cm
C_tvL02 (detail)
Drawings at Art Noord IV, Museum Belvédère (06.10.22 - 09.10.22)
Cvl_02, 2022, pencil on paper, 63x47cm
Drawings at Punt WG, Amsterdam (21.12.21 - 09.01.22)
group show with Marieke Zwart, Jasper Coppes, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Publication Emerge
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Geestdrift festival, Pieterskerk, Utrecht
Installation view of new drawings at Kunstrai 2021
Installation view Drie Musketiers at Galerie Sanaa, 2020, with Roland Sohier and Uli Kürner
Installation view Emerge at Galerie Getekend, 2019
Publication Emerge 2019/2020
Tekst van Len Borgdorff in het literaire tijdschrift LITER
Drawings at Liter magazine
