Stijn Elshuis

About

Artworks

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About

We live in a period of rapid transition, in a time where people are seriously thinking about living on mars, in a computer game, or in a matrix, and in which we can give a computer a burn-out by means of artificial intelligence. As an artist working with 3d sculptures and photography i try to translate these developments in works that deal with this theme and underlying questions.

I wonder what role nature will play and what changes can, and will, take place within nature and what forms this nature might take on. Nature seems to be opposite of technology, the rapidly changing technology versus the slowly evolving nature. Nature that plays an important role in our shared history through the great stories and fairy tales, through our dependence and our struggle to control it.

But could we really go to mars or live in a game, where no trees or bushes grow, and no birds fly, where the evidence of a river of centuries old must be read from lines on a picture, but where no water actually flows. Will we not long for the image of trees, animals and plants? Just like the city people in the city’s longs for a park and trees in the street. This nature is not necessary for survival but is necessary for a livable environment. And how will we then shape this 'artificial' nature?

Artworks

Curriculum Vitae

Stijn Elshuis (1991)

Education

2013-2016 Art, Sint Lucas, Antwerpen (Graduated)

2012-2013 Painting, Koninklijke Academie voor schone kunsten, Antwerpen

2011-2012 Product design, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Utrecht

Shows:

2021-This Artfair, kromhouthal, Amsterdam

2020-fresh eyes photo fair (Vriend van Bavink), Amsterdam

2019- Two Thousand and Twenty-Four, Vensterbank, Leiden

2019- Wonderland, Kasteeltuin Assumburg, Heemskerk

-with: Laurence Aërgerter, Danielle van Ark, Sêma Bekirovic, Wout Berger, Noor Damen, Desirée Dolron, Driessens & Verstappen, Carla Ellens, , Eva-Fiore Kovakovsky, Andre van Noord, Eric Tourneret, Marisca Voskamp, Daimon Xanthopoulos.

2019-Galerie Vriend van Bavink, Men zegt dat de zon een ster is, Amsterdam (Solo)

2018-This artfair, beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam

2018-Opening, ATTIC 61, Amsterdam

– with: Wouter Paijmans, Evi Vingerling, Folke Janssen, Rutger de Vries

2017-The Isle of Data, Museum Belfort, Sluis (SOLO)

2017-(Re)inventing Nature (FOTODOK), Casco, Utrecht

– with: Leo Erken & Frieda Gustavs (NL), Yves Gellie (FR), Stijn Elshuis (NL), Floris Kaayk (NL), Sjoerd Knibbeler (NL), Diana Scherer (NL), Drew Nikonowicz (VS), Reiner Riedler (AT), Daniel Stier (DE), Mark Tribe (VS) en Universal Assembly Unit (UK).

2017-MAAKBAAR, SBK galerie 48, Breda (DUO)

2016-This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam

2016-Braakland, FotoMuseum (FOMU), Antwerpen

2016-FlashBack (graduation show), Campus Congres, Antwerpen

2016-DRIFT, Felix Meritus, Amsterdam

2016-Eerste Persing, oude Beurs, Antwerpen

2015-Bridging the Island, Showroom. Antwerpen

2015-Atelier 46, Atelier 46, Antwerpen

Public Art

Project Forest (two installations)-City of Amsterdam

Company Collections:

Akzo Nobel

Nationale Nederlanden

Delta Lloyd

Publications/interviews:

2019-Palet Magazine (aug-sep), Het grote onbekende

2018- Mister Motley, Men zegt dat de zon een ster is (Salon),http:// www.mistermotley.nl/salon/stijn-elshuis- men-zegt-dat-de-zon-een-ster 2018-AmsterdamKrant

2017-PF Magazine nr. 4, Leven in een kunstmatige wereld

2017-De Stem Breda

2016-website FoMu, Braakland, http://braakland-fomu.be/PORTFOLIODAYS/ artists/stijnelshuis.php?lang=nl

2016 MisterMotley, (art and everyday life) http://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/stijn-elshuis-sint-lucas-academie-antwerpen