Sonja van Kerkhoff

A meditation on green that works like a trailer (for more to come) More: www.sonjavank.com/last_callhtm

My interpretation on Europe or being European, today. The ending credits name the country and year same sex marriage was legalized ending with 2019, the year this video was made. The music arranged, performed and produced by Semay Wu (U.K.) , a graduate of the Hague conservatory, is an adaption of the "Unfinished Symphony" by Franz Schubert, was chosen to stress the idea that being Europe is a never ending symphony of change. http://www.sonjavank.com/an-unfinished.htm

more: sonjavank.com/childs_play.htm

Each triptych in this series references and rebels against the abstract. Abstract expressionism although the result of a highly individualistic process - the lone artist struggling with the canvas - was championed as a higher truth or universal based on the idea of a common psychology. However the canvases were of a certain size (large) and usually flat and rectangular. I took off cuts of wood and attached them to hinges to free them from the wall and so that each composition can be continuously adjusted. Each portrait also has two or more points it can be hung from. I have entitled each as a portrait to emphasize the subjectivity and particularity as opposed to utopian universality. For this reason, I used wood with a history. There is no blank canvas. more: www.sonjavank.com/coloured-p_feminist.htm

Newspaper origami elephants take a walk. More: http://www.sonjavank.com/caravan-irsina.htm

19 Gay Men and The Throne of God. More: http://www.sonjavank.com/19gay-men.htm

Made entirely out of NASA International Space Station footage this video connects visions of our planet from space with our inner cosmos.

moveable seats change the size. Made at the Whangarei Sculpture Symposium. More: http://www.sonjavank.com/cornerstones.htm

It is 2013 and the performance is both a referencing of the past and the contemporary. The bed is surrounded by televisions and computers, some old, some new. Films either by artists also in the exhibition "film + kunst" or a selection from the "Leiden International Short Film Experience" were played. The monitors placed at the end of the bed, functioned as another form of 'in between' staging. Viewers could ask themselves if the arrangement was sculpture or an assemblage, a comment on the 'frame' or a reference to the work of another pioneer of conceptual art, June Naim Paik. More: www.sonjavank.com/bedpeace.htm

Each flower is made out of plastic rubbish donated by the person or family it is named after. The names of these flowers refer not only to the idea of a new creation made out of old ingredients, but also memorialize the few days of plastic trash from that person. More: www.sonjavank.com/rubbish.htm