Benjamin Schoones (M, He/Him, Boxtel 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist, mainly focusing on sculpture, installation, and painting.
"Kick Kick, take a dip!" At first, I was afraid, but now excited, to think twice as much, to make everything fit.
Sometimes, it is not necessarily about what can ultimately be seen, but also about the previous actions and methods that have been needed to get where we are. How do objects and materials appear in a certain way to make structures visible? Questioning and uncovering these existing structures and making connections in the multitude of things, in such a way that we can outline and emphasize them in a visual character.
In a constant interaction of rearrangement, juxtaposing, revising, and repeating certain actions, it raises questions and materialistic interactions that may cause a little tension before we get along. The objects and material sometimes need rearrangement or repetitive handling for new interactions, a place to be archived, concealed, and conserved, but it also needs a moment of space so new objects can take their role into the interplay. This questions the constant changing hierarchies and interactions within these materials and if the executive person of the handling cannot be seen as a material or object too, alongside all other current factors happening at that certain moment?
Exhibitions
2024: Elastic Saliva
Landshut, DE
Duo exhibition with Mike Anna at Neue Galerie Landschut
2024: Room to Bloom
Rotterdam, NL
Duo performance at Roodkapje in collaboration with Natalija Gucheva
2024: Yellow Cube; Soundcheck
Breda, NL
Duo exhibition/installation with Fenna Koot at IDFX
2024: In Every Cacophony There is Harmony
Rotterdam, NL
Group exhibition & open studios MFA Piet Zwart Institute
2024; In short, my arms are sore. annex; yet, I'm laying folded.
's-hertogenbosch, NL
Solo exhibition at HKK
2024; one day takeover Carte Blanche
Schiedam, NL
Guerrilla group show in closing for Anne Wenzel's exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2023: Cosmovisions
Brussels, BE
Duo Performance at Medusa Offspace in collaboration with Natalija Gucheva
2023: May I Ask For Your Assistance
Rotterdam, NL
Group exhibition at Neck of the Woods III
2023: Part of an Ensemble XLI carriers
Berlin, DE
Group exhibition at gallery Klemm's
2023: Bossche Bol Bol
's-Hertogenbosch, NL
Group exhibition
2023: ART MATTERS
Finalist - Online group exhibition by Galerie Biesenbach
2023: A/M #4
Tilburg, NL
Group exhibition at Kunstpodium-T
2023: Destillaat #24
Nijmegen, NL
Group exhibition at extrapool
2022: It is part XXXII of an ensemble, and this ensemble is no longer necessarily ceremonial (like ducks in a pond, breaking bad, naipatta)
Tilburg, NL
Networked Collective at Museum De pont
2022: It is part XXX of an ensemble, and this ensemble is no longer necessarily ceremonial
Sint-Martens-Latem, BE
Networked Collective at Museum Dhondt Dhaenens
2022: Dimensions of Settlement,
Art Week Rotterdam, NL.
Group exhibition at Neck of the Woods III
2022: Recipes for Disaster,
Cultuurnacht
Breda, NL
Group exhibition at IDFX
2022: Lutherse Kerk,
Cultuurnacht.
Breda, NL
Group exhibition
2022: Wegens Omstandigheden is er Momenteel Geen Titel.
Eindhoven, NL
Group exhibition at De Fabriek
2022: You Me, You,
Rotterdam, NL
Group exhibition at Neck of the Woods III
2022: Place to Be!
Naarden, NL
Group exhibition at Galerie Pouloeuff
2021: Envision this is part XXXVII of an ensemble that is no longer necessarily ceremonial,
The Hague, NL
Networked Collective; Jam session at Dürst Britt & Mayhew
2021: BUT Film Festival
Breda, NL
Performance in collaboration with Mike Anna & Savannah Bredow
2021: Combinatietonen
Breda, NL
Exhibition, film & performance in collaboration with Mike Anna at IDFX
Sometimes, something that is a carrier needs to be carried as well.
Sculptural, painted, and found elements can be brought together in different and changing formations. A formal-informal fluid process with elements in constant motion sometimes solidifies in temporary structures and temporal installations. Where objects can either show changing tendencies to be either supportive or restraining. This way of working allows me to have opportunities for rest, reflection, and contingent benefits that continue to move the practice forward.
Benjamin Schoones (Boxtel, 1993) living & working in Breda, The Netherlands
2023 - 2025 Master of Fine Arts, Piet Zwart Institue, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 - 2022 Bachelor of Arts, St.Joost Breda, The Netherlands (graduated, with honours)
2020 - 2021 Minor Arts & Humanity St.Joost Breda, The Netherlands (hons)
2012 – 2017 Media Design, Sint Lucas, Boxtel, The Netherlands
2021: It is part XXI of an ensemble, and this ensemble is no longer necessarily ceremonial.
Bas van den Hurk & Jochem van Laarhoven Bo Stokkermans, Urs Moore, Thom van Rijckevorsel, Joachim Harten, Benjamin Schoones, Palko Peeters, Matea Bakula, Arash Fakhim, Rob van Kranenburg, Suze Milius, Marisa Goedhart, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Stefan Jakiela, Milou van Duijnhoven, Mike Anna, Sofie Hollander, Kelly Christogiannis, Samieh Shahcheraghi, Piet Dirkx, Felix Kindermann, Marijn van Kreij, Liza Wolters, Paul Braspenning, Marinke Marcelis, Jeroen Geurts
Breda, NL
Networked Collective
2020: Art Rendez Vouz weekend
Breda, NL
Solo performance at IDFX
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Fenna Koot, Tosja van Lieshout, Mike Anna, Emmie Liebregts, Ramon de Gier,
Roeland Rooijakkers, Mathilde Nobel, Abel Schaminee, Benjamin Schoones
Breda, NL
Daily rotating exhibition due to the closure of our collective space.
2020: BUT Film Festival,
Breda, NL
Performance in collaboration with Savannah Bredow & Mike Anna.
Education
2022: 6-week workshop at ArtEZ Arnhem.
Latent Commons, Collective Making module.
Networked Collective
Experience
2022 - 2023 Ceramic assistant for Anne Wenzel. Projects; Carte Blanche Stedelijk Museum Schiedam & Razzia Monument Rotterdam
2021 – current; It's a Part of (FKA networked Collective)
2021 – current: Slub Colo at Club Solo
student events; Exhibitions & Performances.
Producer teaser videos for solo Exhibtions.
Assignments
2022 – Draaimolen festival
Tilburg, NL
Co-audio mixing & mastering
Performance installation ‘’Transcending Bodies’’
2021 – International Vocalist Concours
‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
Sculpture concept chosen & realized.
Shown at Het Noord-Brabants Museum & Verkadefabriek
Internships
2021 - Witte Rook, Breda
2018 - Make, Eindhoven
Grants
2021 Opencall International Vocalis Concours 's-Hertogenbosch
PRESS
Metropolis M ; St.Joost Breda, Graduation Show
IVC gaat samenwerking aan met AVK | St. Joost in ’s-Hertogenbosch
IVC bundelt de krachten met AVK | St. Joost in Den Bosch
Benjamin Schoones krijgt eerste opdracht tot vervaardigen kunstwerk LiedDuo