Home - Artist Brigit van der Werff lives four weeks in Pictura
About this activity.
This summer the Pictura building is the temporary home of Brigit van der Werff. It is opened up to the visitor who room for room enters the world of this in Haren based artist. In Birgits house, there is no difference between work and life. She does tours herself. The house you could call a work of art: an installation in which each element contains a story. But it is also the other way around: the art is the house in which the artist is salvaged.
It is the space in which she can breathe, where the influx of every day life comes to a hold,where she can grab her experiences, an transform them, in her own words by bringing them to life in a new found time.
Also the visitor of Pictura can feel salvaged for a while.They who open themselves up for the artworks and bring them to life again, shall see that van der Werff not only tells her own story, but also the one of the visitor. The works are divers: design, photography, paint-, drawing and textile art and even theatre forms in which the artist moves.
From room to room the visitor wanders. The artist opens her drawers and cupboards, shows her drawings and pictures, fabrics and bright colored yarns, her embroidered pillows, printed T-shirts and handmade books: generously she invites the spectator into her world.
In het studio in the attic she will spread out her drawings and paintings.
Brigit van der Werff was born in 1958 in Groningen, as the eleventh in a family with 13 children. After graduating from Academie Minerva in 1991, she won the Centraal Beheer prize for painting. Since then she works as an autonomous visual artist and as a teacher in drawing and painting. She started her company Stories Connect, in which she connects life stories from all over the world, in blouses with many colours.She cooperates with people from Groningen to Nepal for the implementation of her embroiderie, designed bags, lamps, wall paper, furniture and clothes.
Birgit takes care of the tours herself. Reservations can be done via pictura-groningen@gmail.com
Tours are at 1:30 p.m. and 3.30 p.m on:
- Sunday August 10
- Wednesday August 13
- Friday August 15
- Sunday August 17
- Wednesday August 20
- Friday August 22
- Sunday 24 August.
đ Reservations can be made via đ Reserveer voor rondleiding – Pictura
Pictura.
Het Kunstlievend Genootschap Pictura in Groningen werd opgericht in 1832 met als doel: 'de beeldende kunst en de nijverheidskunst in de ruimste zin van het woord aan te moedigen en te bevorderen.' Pictura is gehuisvest in een mooi, monumentaal pand aan het Martinikerkhof in Groningen. In de sfeervolle zalen exposeren professionele kunstenaars van uiteenlopende richtingen en disciplines, maar de hoofdmoot is figuratief.
Location.
Kunstlievend Genootschap Pictura
St Walburgstraat 1
tel 050 312 29 53
www.pictura-groningen.nl/