In 2014 Outset Netherlands proudly supported David Jablonowski’s exhibition Prosumer in De Ateliers DEBUT SERIES at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. As part of a three-year project, the museum offered artists who have served a residency at De Ateliers – the leading institute for young artistic talent in the Netherlands – the opportunity to present their first ever solo exhibition in a Dutch museum. David Jablonowski (b. Bochum, 1982) was the first artist to be featured in the series.
David Jablonowski is acclaimed for the ingenious way in which he plays with a wide range of materials. Despite its highly contemporary appearance, his work often includes allusions to art history. Jablonowski creates exciting contrasts by locating high tech elements in a natural environment and by combining the latest communications technology, such as scanners, projection screens and printing plates, with organic elements like colourful spices and grain. He frequently misleads the viewer by using materials that look heavy but are actually light in weight, or look cold but are actually warm. Besides up-to-the-minute industrial products, his work regularly includes archaic elements such as ancient manuscripts and his way of combining and presenting materials gives even the latest technological gadgets an aura of age and sanctity.
ON VIEW: 24th August - 3rd November 2013
In his works, David Jablonowski (b. Bochum, 1982) examines the surface and the evolution of the contemporary communication technologies. In the form of sculptures, videos and installations, he focuses on the theme of the development of language as a technically reproducible code and its aesthetic development with regard to the communication of knowledge and information.
The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has long enjoyed a close relationship with the post-graduate educational institute of contemporary art De Ateliers in Amsterdam. This collaboration with the premier Dutch institute fostering young artistic talent lasted three years with the exhibition series De Atelier Debut Series. Starting in 2013, the museum offered a graduate from De Ateliers a first solo exhibition at the ‘projektenzaal’. Outset Netherlands is proud to have been a partner of De Ateliers Debut Series and to support this unique new initiative, in collaboration with the Niemeijer Fund.
De Ateliers is an independent artists’ institute. Its prestige is such that it attracts artists from all over the world to work in its 23 spacious individual studios, accommodated in a historic building in the centre of Amsterdam. De Ateliers has produced many top artists, including Urs Fischer, Joep van Lieshout, Aernout Mik and Matthew Monahan.
