Guido van der Werve (born 1977) is a Dutch
filmmaker and
visual artist.
Personal details
Van der Werve was born in
Papendrecht, the
Netherlands and currently lives and works in Finland and
Berlin. He pursued studies in industrial design, archaeology, music composition, and Russian language and literature at several universities in the Netherlands before beginning to create his first video documented performances at the
Gerrit Rietveld Academy around 2000. Van der Werve initially started out doing performances but because he disliked the live aspect, he started to film them with simple video cameras. The registrations became gradually more cinematic and professional over the years. Having a background in music Van der Werve tries to create visual art, which communicates as direct as music. In 2006 Van der Werve did a residency at the
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) was founded in 1870 in Amsterdam. It is a classical academy, a place where philosophers, academics and artists meet to test and exchange ideas and knowledge. The school supports ...
in Amsterdam. In 2008 he moved to New York. From 2010 on Van der Werve has been living in the Finnish countryside and Berlin. Van der Werve is an avid runner and triathlete. He's a black T-shirt finisher in the 2012 Anniversary race of the
Norseman triathlon. His PB in the Marathon is currently 2.57.06 ran in the
Berlin Marathon in 2013. He also finished all of the six
World Marathon Majors in under 3:15 minutes, including the terror attacked
Boston Marathon
The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897, the event was i ...
of 2013. In 2011 he summited
Aconcagua in Argentina, with a height of 6972 meters. He broke a Guinness world recor
Fastest marathon dressed as a nun fastest costumed nun in the Amsterdam marathon in 2015
Works
Van der Werve has created a variety of works, including a series of film and videos and a musical composition titled by number in chronological order from two to seventeen. Number ten and number fifteen being monographs each about the five years of works prior to the book.
Works include:
Nummer twee, Just because I’m standing here doesn’t mean I want to.
03’08”, 35mm, Papendrecht NL, 2003
Nummer drie, Take step fall
10’38”, 35mm, Amsterdam NL, 2004
Nummer vier, I don’t want to get involved in this. I don’t want to be part of this. Talk me out of it.
11’49”, 35mm, Zandvoort, Siitama & Enschede NL 2005
Nummer zes, Steinway grand piano, Wake me up to go to sleep, and all the colors of the rainbow.
17’09”, 35mm, Amsterdam NL, 2006
Nummer zeven, The clouds are more beautiful from above
8’48”, HD video, Amsterdam NL, 2006
Nummer acht, everything is going to be alright
10’10”, 16 mm film to HD, Golf of Bothnia FI, 2007
Nummer negen, The day I didn’t turn with the world
8’40”, time-lapse photography to HD video, Geographic Northpole, 2007
Nummer twaalf, variations on a theme
40’00”, 4k video. Marshall Chess Club, Mt St Helens & San Andreas Fault USA, 2009
Nummer dertien, effugio c, you’re always only half a day away
12 hours, HD video, Hassi Finland, 2011
Nummer veertien, home
54’00”, 4k video, Poland, Holland, Germany, France, Egypt, India and Greece, 2012
Nummer zestien, The present moment, Three-channel HD video installation with player piano, Amsterdam, 2016
Nummer zeventien killing time - attempt one: from the deepest ocean to the highest mountain, 2015
Besides his films, Guido van der Werve did several live performances of the music of his films accompanied by an orchestra.
In 2011, Van der Werve performed at the grand opening program for the
St. Louis location of the
World Chess Hall of Fame. He performed his piece, "Number Twelve : Chess Piano Concert in Three Movements" which combined the mechanics of a piano with the layout of a traditional chess board.
In 2008 he created "Nummer acht :, everything is going to be alright" where he is seen walking in front of an icebreaker.
For his film "Number Nine : the day I didn't turn with the world", he went to the geographical North Pole where he turned with the sun for 24 hours, thus not turning with the world for one day. This marked the start of a series of endurance based works:
In 2009 he started the annual Running for Rachmaninoff run, running from his gallery, Luhring Augustine, to the grave of composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...
in
Valhalla in Upstate NY, a 55 km run. The first year only Guido completed the run, in 2011 he finished with 2 people and in 2012 three persons managed to complete the run. Participants have to carry with them a booklet of Chamomile flowers to be placed on the grave. The 2015-2016 Running for Rachmanninoff run was ran by the artist alone back to back on December 31 of 2015 and January 1 of 2016
A documentation of this run (on slides) is the first part of "Nummer dertien", the first performance through which he started incorporating sports in his art. Other parts of "Nummer dertien" feature Van der Werve in a 12-hour video work in which the artist is running around his house in Finland for 12 hours and climbing to the summit of
Aconcagua and "Nummer veertien" where he completed a 1600 km triathlon (7x the ironman distance) from Warshaw to Paris.
[Jerry Saltz]
'nymag'', Oct7 2012,
Music often plays a key role in van der Werve's work, being trained as a classical musician he seeks for a similar directness to his art as music has.
Works by Guido van der Werve are a.o. in the collections of The
Museum of Modern Art in New York,
Stedelijk Museum
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.,
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and
Museum Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Reviews and articles
Live on Dutch tv
DWDD
Louisiana Chanel as part of a show
Guido van der Werve: Simplicity of the Sublime
On Nummer Veertien: Tineke Reijnders in Ons Erfdeel
Jerry Saltz in ''
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
'' magazine
Christopher Knight in the ''
Los Angeles Times''
Roberta Smith in the ''
New York Times''
''On Nummer acht and Nummer negen'' Jessica Dawson in the ''
Washington Post''
Raul Martinez in ''
Art in America
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''
Awards and prizes
2013
*
Gouden Kalf for best short film at the
Dutch Film Festival
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During the ten-day festival, Dutch film productions and co-productions are exhibited. ...
in Utrecht, NL for Nummer veertien, home
* Nominated for the Tiger Award for short films at the
International Film Festival Rotterdam
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for Nummer veertien, home
2012
* Charlotte Köhlerprijs
2011
* Prix de Rome, nomination,
SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
2010
* Prix International d’Art Contemporain.
Foundation PrincePierre de Monaco, MC
* Future Generation Art Prize. nomination, PinchukArtCentre, UA
* Number one artist at
Elsevier top 100 Dutch Artists
2009
* Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists Award, NY, USA
2008
* Nominated for; Gouden Kalf for Best Short Film, Dutch Film Festival Utrecht, NL
2007
* Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs, NL
* Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Price, Pinchuk Foundation Kyiv, Ukraine
* Peter Paul Peterich fonds,
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. NL
2006
* Best Experimental Film,
Kerry Film Festival. IE
2005
* Nominated for; Prix de Rome, NL
2004
* Nominated for; de NPS Prijs voor de Korte Film, NL
* Diamond Award, Zebra film poetry award festival, Berlin, DE
2003
* One minute award (tommy), Audience choice of best of five years one minutes, NL
* René Coelho award, the
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam, NL
Galleries
Guido van der Werve is represented by:
* Monitor gallery,
Rome
* Grimm gallery, Amsterdam
*
Luhring Augustine, New York City
* Marc Foxx is Closed
References
External links
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Dutch performance artists
Dutch video artists
1970 births
Living people
Golden Calf winners
People from Papendrecht
20th-century Dutch artists
21st-century Dutch artists