Sunday Morning with Bik Van der Pol.
Drawing workshop
Sunday 7 January, 2024 10.30-12.30

In the context of their exhibition at Shimmer, we invite you to draw with BIK VAN DER POL. While you draw, the artists will tell you the story of a drawing that they have been searching for in the Boijmans van Beuningen archive with the help of the curator of the print collection. The drawing workshop will reflect on the missing. The missing of an object, the missing or loss of a museum or collection, and what such a missing or loss might mean for a shared understanding of collective histories and stories, by proposing new versions of this image through building a new memory and history around what has been lost to the flow of time. 

In our final cycle of SEQUINS, Shimmer invites artist duo Bik Van der Pol to transform Shimmer into a site of inquiry through the rhythms of remembering. Bik Van der Pol’s artworks act as a conduit and connector to other practices, politics, and generations, moving the audience to revisit forgotten moments and memories from their works. For the exhibition the artists’ have made three new works springing from their 1996 work The Bookshop Piece presented at Boijmans van Beuningen, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Thank you to Stokroos Foundation, CBK Rotterdam, Mondriaan Fonds, and Gemeente Rotterdam for their support of this exhibition.

SUNDAY MORNINGS WITH... is an event-based project that aims to tease out hidden connections, quiet conversations, and influences ordinarily kept private. Far from articulating artworks through just the verbal, the program aims to create an environment where bodies, materials, ideas, and conversations come together, as a place to seed new ideas for both artistic practices and the community that surround Shimmer.