Calendars:Fine Art Calendar/Fine Art Calendar/15-03-2013 -Event 2

Machteld Rullens - A Room of One's Own

Opening 15 March 19.00 - 22.00 16 March - 13 April 2013

Galerie Rianne Groen Berkelstraat 181 3061 JC Rotterdam

(Tram 7 stop Vlietlaan)

Galerie Rianne Groen presents the first solo exhibition of Machteld Rullens (The Hague, 1988). Rullens studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, where her work was recently shown at the GEM Museum for Contemporary Art. She is currently studying at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

In the work of Machteld Rullens, documentary strategies and fictive narratives are combined to show the everyday in a different way. Her registrations take the shape of videos, performances and installations. She makes work by observing, by wandering around the city and by speaking to different people, giving space for unexpected moments. The game between creator, actor and spectator is the material of Rullens’ work. The beauty and absurdity of the everyday are her subject matter. She magnifies the little things that many people do not see, creating an antidote to a society that seems to be more and more superficial.

Rullens’ work balances on the thin line between fact and fiction. The title of the exhibition, A Room of One’s Own, refers to this intertwining. In the essay by Virginia Woolf, the role of women as writers and characters in fiction is discussed through a fictional narrator and narrative. Woolf claims that fiction sometimes lies closer to truth than facts. In the exhibition at Galerie Rianne Groen, new works will be shown, with a focus on the city of Rotterdam and its inhabitants. A selection of older video work will also be shown, as well as a wall of photos taken all around the world.