TOINE KLAASSEN

Laboratory of Contemporary Archaeology performance and installation, TENT. Rotterdam 2006

EDUCATION 1995-2000 Rietveld Artacademy, Amsterdam EXHIBITIONS 2000         Degree Show, Rietveld Academy Amsterdam   100 artists at 100m2, Galerie vertrek en verblijf Pakhuis Wilhelmina Amsterdam 2001         Placebo, Theater De Vest Alkmaar  (solo)   2002         Meeting, Karelse en van der Meer Architects, Rotterdam location project “land” Amsterdam Ijburg, organized by foundation Drei birken auf der heide Allegory IV, Nieuwe Vide Centraal, artist’s initiative Haarlem (solo)   All in the game, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (solo) 2003         Become and degenerate, atelier installation open to audience, Rotterdam (solo)   Shed, Nieuwe Vide, artist’s initiative Haarlem (solo)   Vhs festival, Het Wilde weten, artist’s initiative Rotterdam location project  Windows, Alkmaar, organized by foundation Pygmalion location project Art in the old north, organized by center of contemporary art Rotterdam Personal galaxy, Projectspace 5er, Rotterdam (solo)   Dinner performance, Projectspace 5er, Rotterdam Opinionatedinteraction, Nieuwe Vide, artist’s initiative Haarlem 2004         vhs Festival, National center of contemporary art, Mexico City Films, Projectspace 5er, Rotterdam Dockwork, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn One minutes festival 2005         Base, Artis projectspace, Den Bosch The earth seen from the moon, Cesar Manzo gallery Pescara, Italy Immortality bar, Stadsalerij Museum for contemporary art Heerlen (solo)    Salon chez route imperial Utrecht Worldgarden Location project Rotterdam Sequence, Rood de bioscoop, Amsterdam Basement Screen, BasementArtProject.com ONE MINUTES FILM FESTIVAL Amsterdam 2006          Sequence, the Space London Basement Screen, the Residence Gallery, London Vhs Festival, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam ONE MINUTES FILM FESTIVAL Amsterdam FATAMORGANA Unit 1 Alkmaar, the Netherlans www.toineklaassen.com

Klaassen will stay in the gallery for 5 days and produce a site-specific work, Laboratory of Contemporary Archaeology. He intends to
transform the gallery space into his own lab where he will collect found objects from the Whitechapel area. Klaassen draws
attention to the poetry of the unsightly, the small, and neglected. He collects discarded objects from his surroundings with no
predetermined plan, and subsequently uses these in his work. Often the work is created in the presence of the public in a
performance setting, in which he makes no attempt to avoid the absurd. Or as Klaassen himself states: “If you catch a butterfly in
your hands the powder on its wings will brush off leaving just a tattered rag.”