Sarie Nijboer

Berlin / Germany — Art Coordination, 2019-2020

Sarie Nijboer is a Dutch curator and art writer. She has a background in design and studied Cultures of the Curatorial in the post-graduate master program at the University of Leipzig/Germany. Her curatorial practice is connected to finding new approaches in exhibition making and art writing, in which she interrogates, among other things, the function of language, and cultural structures. In 2018, Sarie co-founded the online art magazine www.texturmag.com. The magazine is a text-based territory intended as a format that mixes different forms of art and text, comprising artistic interventions, opinions and thoughts. Sarie is currently a fellow for Art-Coordination in the field of Digital Solitude.

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Sarie Nijboer:

Exhibition documentation

Our Loves Are Not Only Human

with Johanna Bruckner, Gary Zhexi Zhang & Agnes Cameron, Umber Majeed and Tiare Ribeaux

The exhibition Our Loves Are Not Only Human shows artistic works in which the social and ethical dimensions of care between humans, non-humans, other species, and the world of things collide.

Screenshot »1001 Drone Nights« by Ronnie Karfiol

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Battle Between the Drone and the Kite

Interview with Ronnie Karfiol

In our interview with the artist we talk about gamification as a means to represent violence and how the web residency project at first appears to be an orchestrated battlefield, but actually is an invitation is to take a critical look at this »maker« battlefield.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

An Investigation on the Representation of Violence, Necropolitics, Gore Capitalism and Drug Trafficking Culture in Mexico

Interview with Leonardo Aranda

In our interview with the artist we talk about the relationship between technology, theory and art in addressing the aesthetic, ethical, and political values of image circulation of violence in our consumer media.

Miyö Van Stenis »Vigipirate Quadcopter Drone«

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

An Act of Resistance in Times of Security Systems, Information Manipulation and Control

Interview with Miyö van Stenis

How can art be used as a practical response and political statement from the exile? In the interview we talked with the artist about her Web Residency project »Vigipirate Quadcopter Drone« created for the Solitude & ZKM web residencies on the topic »Violent Consumer Media« curated by Dani Ploeger.

Ruin Is the Destination Toward Which All Men Rush, 2019, single-channel video, 1080p, 8 min 43 sec.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Paradox of the Information Age

Interview with Kosta Tonev

The artist Kosta Tonev deals with the role of media technologies in the representation of reality and the contradictions of modern consumer technologies. In our interview with the artist we talked about his work and the paradox of the information age.

Janneke van der Putten, 2019. Image credits: Sarie Nijboer

Studio Visit

On Landscape, Cycles and Voice

with Janneke van der Putten

A series of conversations with artist Janneke van der Putten about her fascination for voice, textile and nature.