- Name
Hester van Spijk
- Info
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Born in 1980, Works and lives in Rotterdam. Completed mixed media art studies at the academy of Art in Enschede in 2003. After that she finished fine art at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Currently she is working on different ongoing projects like the BART Store.
At the same time she creates independent video works. “I characterize my recent work as short observations, of myself as well as others. To invigorate and magnify ‘TheUnwrittenRules’ of public space, I provide uneasy situations with humor and irony and use repeating as dramatizing element.“
- Name
Nina Boas
- Web
- http://ninaboas.com/
- Info
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Nina, born in 1980, studied art at the AKI in Enschede (NL), graduated in 2004 and went on to study to become an art teacher at Willem de Kooning in Rotterdam.
She does performance art, creating her own wonderland, which sometimes is completely out of proportion. She also produces deceivingly simple line-drawings and creates video-art.
“One of the reasons that I moved to Rotterdam was because it’s easier to find a space and initiate art projects. Inspired by Berlin we decided to create the BART Store. Beside my art practice I create and design clothes, products and accessories. We had the idea that a lot of artists seem to make art products next to their practice. We thought it would be nice to create a shop for this. That’s how the BART Store started and became a venue for artist to sell their side line products. A place where artists can introduce others to their high art via low art.“
- Name
Florian Schroiff
- Web
- http://fernstrg.com/
- Info
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Florian, born in 1978, graduated from the AKI in Enschede in 2005. He’s been working as an artist and freelance webdesigner since. You could say that webdesign is his B-art.
He’s been living in Rotterdam since september 2007 and has a studio in the same street the BART store is on. He’s also involved with Wolfart Projectspaces as secretary of the association. Wolfart Projectspaces is a showroom for the artist community living in and around the Wolphaertstraat.
Florian built the BART Store website and helped filling it with content, writing texts and uploading images.
BART
Nina Boas & Hester van Spijk
Wolphaertstraat 23C
3082 BJ Rotterdam