Nieuw Amsterdams Peil - Where Do We Go From Here?
Group exhibition in the Jordaan, Amsterdam

14-01 till 25-02, 2017

My work is on view at Annet Gelink Gallery and Ellen de Bruijne Gallery

Open Tuesday to Saturday 10 - 6 pm.

“Careless speech has rarely had such disturbing consequences. The recent US Presidential election, the British Brexit vote, the upcoming Dutch national elections - what better time to question the role of speech, Who speaks, Who acts? There is a significant sense that we simply don’t understand the direction of travel currently being followed. Now, at the beginning of 2017, there are many rallying cries to make this year different to the last. Where do we go from here? starts with this question” (Vincentelli).

Participating artists among others: Maria Barnas (NLD), Yael Bartana (ISR), Otto Berchem (COL/USA), Dora García (ESP), Sigurdur Gudmundsson (ISR), Alexandra Leykauf (DEU), Cristina Lucas (ESP), David Maljkovic (HRV), Navid Nuur (NLD), Paulien Oltheten (NLD), Anna Ostoya (USA),  Amalia Pica (ARG), Falke Pisano (NLD), Sue Tompkins (GBR).

Contribution to exhibition catalogue

The catalogue is available online, in the museum shop and in selected bookshops.

288 pages | design: Mevis & Van Deursen | Dutch museum edition softcover € 29,95, hardcover € 39,95, Publisher Hannibal | English edition hardcover, Prestel Publishing, € 39,95 | French edition hardcover, Éditions Xavier Barral, € 39,95.

The Stedelijk Museum exhibition is accompanied by an exhaustive publication that examines the life and work of Ed van der Elsken. The volume features essays by Hripsimé Visser, David Campany, Colin van Heezik and Susan Aasman together with a unique collection of his most celebrated works in black and white, and color – images that, today, are among the most iconic of Dutch photographic history. The publication also includes written odes to Ed van der Elsken by artists Nan Goldin, Paulien Oltheten and Valerie Jouve, each of whom is inspired and influenced by his work.

Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA: Familiar Strangers

26 November 2016

14:00, EYE Cinema 2

Compilation of video art in collaboration with Amsterdam Art Weekend: Jokes, Kapitalism, The New Dress, Selfies aan Zee, Mothership Goes to Brazil, 120'

Amsterdam Art Weekend teams up with IDFA to screen a number of films by artists represented by Amsterdam art galleries, as well as residents of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and De Ateliers. The program is curated by Joost Daamen (Programmer IDFA) and Bart Rutten (Head of Collections at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam).

The Measure of our Traveling Feet

25.9—27.11.2016

The exhibition The Measure of our Traveling Feet focuses on the social and cultural significance of migration. What does the world beyond the border have to offer? In which ways does travel change the past and alter identities? Paulien Oltheten has documented her journey on current and historical routes from eastern and central Europe to the west. Shilpa Gupta

Performance Sifting and Sorting / Centrifugal Thoughts

As part of Photography Performing Humor Conference & Exhibition in Brussels, 24-25 November 2015

When: November 25th, 2015

Time: 20:00 - 21:30

Where: deBuren, Leopoldstraat 6, 1000 Brussel

Humour has always been a part of the art of taking photographs, whether it concerns popular tower of Pisa images or more subtle comic images in art photography. Visual artist Paulien Oltheten (NL) and film historian and photographer Hilde D’haeyere (BE; KASK School of Arts) present their work around photography and humour and discuss it with each other. Liesbeth Decan (LUCA School of Arts) and Mieke Bleyen (KU Leuven) introduce and moderate the evening.

A sort of lecture, a performance by Paulien Oltheten

When: Saturday November 28th
Time: 5.30 - 6.30 pm

Where: The Folio CLub
It is located on the industrial neighbourhood of Poblenou (Barcelona)
at Roc Boronat, 37 (Metro Llacuna, Line 4), Barcelona

Right after the performance, at 7.00 pm till 8.00 pm, I take part in a conversation about performance, film, and the pleasure of holding a book between Sébastien Planas (FILAF Festival director), Paulien Oltheten (visual artist), Miguel Ángel Tornero (visual artist).

The Performative Minute

SIFTING AND SORTING / CENTRIFUGAL THOUGHTS

Thursday, October 1st
19 h

KW_Studiolo
Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

Fee: 3 €, in English

In her series SIFTING AND SORTING / CENTRIFUGAL THOUGHTS, Paulien Oltheten engages with the way she orders, classifies and assigns meaning to her photographs, texts, and videos. By narrating her view on specific visual and behavioral patterns in public space, she aims to implicate the viewer in a contagious sense of curisity.

Galerie Fons Welters is pleased to invite you to Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam

18 - 20 Sep 2015

( Opening September 17th at 6pm )

In stand no. 23 we will present new works by:

Claire Harvey
Gabriel Lester
Paulien Oltheten
Berend Strik

Addition: Gift Pieter and Marieke Sanders

18 Sept 2015 - 03 Jan 2016

Stedelijk Museum
Museumplein 10
1071 DJ Amsterdam

A selection of works from the gift of Pieter and Marieke Sanders presented in dialog with the collection of the Stedelijk. "..." The collection presentation focuses on works that transform the commonplace into the extraordinary. It also reveals how art makes the transition from a private, informal context to the public realm of the museum space.

The exhibition features work by artists including Jan Andriesse, Marinus Boezem, Alicia Framis, Ryan Gander, David Jablonowski, Job Koelewijn, Navid Nuur, Paulien Oltheten, Amalia Pica, Stephen Waddell, Marijke van Warmerdam and Wassink/Lundgren.

Something Thrown in The Way of the Observer

28 juni – 31 augustus 2015

Museum Van Loon 
Keizersgracht 672 
1017 ET Amsterdam

Something Thrown in the Way of the Observer is a group exhibition at Museum van Loon. Amidst tables and cupboards from which visitors keep a respectful distance, six artists examine how things move us.

With: Batia Suter/ Richtje Reinsma/ Luuk Schröder/ Paulien Oltheten/ Rosa Sijben/ Uta Eisenreich & curated by Bernke Klein Zandvoort

http://www.objectobserver.org/I/expositie.html
www.museumvanloon.nl

I will take part in the CSAV 2015 – Artists Research Laboratory

Invited artist: Yvonne Rainer

6-31 July 2015

Fondatione Antonio Ratti

Villa Sucota
Via per Cernobbio, 19
22100 Como - Italy

“Using body, voice, objects, we shall attempt to extrapolate and combine performative fragments from theoretical and literary texts, videos, autobiography, environmental observations, news reports, and from interactions between and among participants in the workshop itself.”( Yvonne Rainer)

Participants: Harold Batista (USA), Alexis Blake (USA), Barbara Boiocchi (Italia), Mikaela Boxström (Finlandia), Eduardo Cachucho (Sud Africa/Portogallo), Giovanni Paolo Fedele (Italia), Cassandra Guan (Cina), Clara J:son Borg (Svezia), Przemek Kaminski (Polonia), Devos Klaas (Belgio), Emma La Morte (Canada), Luzie Meyer (Germania), Paulien Oltheten (Olanda), Luna Paese (Italia), Amol Patil (India), Eshan Rafi (Canada/Pakistan)

New Media Program NCCA
Performance, discussion

24th April, 2015
7.30 pm

Entrance fee 150 rub.
Reduce - 75 rub.
Students of art schools - free

In this performance Oltheten offers a staged rendition of the way she handles her visual archive when at work in her studio, in a sense performing her own behavior as an artist. Sorting through a selection of print and moving images, which are simultaneously projected as a slide show, Oltheten elaborates on her methods for mapping particular aspects of human behavior. Oltheten orders a seemingly random selection of images into clusters, based on recurrent patterns. This live presentation is at once a performance, an anthropological investigation, an auto-contextualization of Oltheten’s own work, and an instructive viewing exercise: by letting the audience in on her own ways of seeing and sorting, as well as by sharing the stories behind images, she allows others to draw their own connections within this selection from her archive.

Performance supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

THU 26. Feb at 6.30 pm

For the occasion of the exhibition «hiStories – Geschichte in Geschichten» at Helmhaus Zürich, artist duo Gian-Reto Gredig and Goran Galić set up an evening with performances by Ohad Ben Shimon (IL/FR), Paulien Oltheten (NL) and Ryan Rivadeneyra (US).

The artist speaks

( as part of Capital A weekend)

When: Sat 29th and Sun 30th Nov 2014

Time: 13:30-17.20

My performance starts both days at 4.15pm!

Where: Oude Kerk, Oudekerksplein 23, 1012 GX Amsterdam

With: Hedwig Houben, Melanie Bonajo, Frank Koolen en Paulien Oltheten.

About my performance: Oltheten uses public space as her field of operation, taking humans in relation to their surroundings as her main subject. In photography and video she selects particular kinds of postures, patterns and behaviours. In her pseudo-lectures the artist weaves various works into a narrative structure, stacking them both formally and in time. This new lecture, too, results in a piece that may be positioned between performative archive, anthropological study and documentary.

Absent-minded young typist

Opening nov 22th 6-9 pm

Rongwrong

Binnen Bantammerstraat n.2

1011 CK,  Amsterdam

Works by: Sadie Benning, Xavier Boussiron, Karl Holmqvist, Brendan Anton Jaks, Valéry Larbaud,
Guillaume Maraud and a.o., Paulien Oltheten, Contingenza Veti.

Many years before he was affected by a stroke, which left him with a severe aphasia, French poet and translator Valéry Larbaud wrote Rldasedlrad les dlcmhypbdf

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA

Screening 28th November at 6pm

Eye Cinema 2 

Address: IJpromenade 1, 1031KT Amsterdam

Chair Man is a live edit of video footage shot by Paulien Oltheten in Nicaragua. It shows her repeatedly following a man who carries a plastic chair on his head while riding a bicycle to and from work. Fascinated by this phenomenon – his balancing act – Oltheten continues to film him. Her presence begins to exert an influence on his daily routine...

Local Library Window

INVENTING
EVERYDAY LIFE
PART III: STREET

4.09 — 25.09 2014

Vernissage: 4.09 17:00-20.00

Artist's Talk: 18:00

Between July and October, ‘Local Library Window’ hosts a series of exhibitions entitled ‘Inventing Everyday Life’, which has been included in the parallel program of the European biennale for Contemporary Art ‘Manifesta 10’.

‘Local Library Window: contemporary art about everyone for everyone’ is a project in a remote residential area, in which an outdoor library window is used as the exhibition space. This curatorial intervention aims to move contemporary art practices beyond the museum-gallery system toward a wider audience and to examine the different manifestations of everyday life in a place of its most apparent concentration.

Paulien Oltheten / A moment of slowing down

8th August - 5th October 2014

Mit dem Verhalten von Passanten, Körperskulpturen des Zufalls und Situationskomik erkunden die Fotografien Paulien Olthetens das Genre des Schnappschusses. Oltheten lotet dabei bewusst die Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Ephemeren aus, in vielen ihrer Aufnahmen kann vom Betrachter nicht nachvollzogen werden, ob es sich um eine tatsächliche Momentaufnahme handelt oder ob er unfreiwillig Zeuge einer Inszenierung der kleinen Gesten geworden ist.

Superposition

June 5, 2014 , 20:00-22:00

Tickets: euro 7
Doors open at 7.30pm

With lectures and performance by: Austin Houldsworth, Naro Snackey, Paulien Oltheten and Ruth Legg.

How does the artwork relate to a world in flux? To what extent do context, perception and interpretation change the value, meaning, essence of an artwork?

Staged City

may 24th - june 22th 2014
opening: Vrijdag 23 mei 20 uur

with: Jan Adriaans, Maria Barnas, Robbie Cornelissen, Pawel Jaszczuk, Lucas Lenglet, Petra Noordkamp, Paulien Oltheten, Pablo Pijnappel, Diana Scherer, Arjan van Helmond, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Batia Suter, Rogier Taminiau and Elisabeth Tonnard.

Chair man

14th May 2014 at 9pm

Entrance KASK (School of Arts) via: Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Gent. 

Met veel plezier nodigt vzw Punctum u uit voor een performance van een van onze favoriete fotograferende noorderburen. Met eigenzinnige observaties bewijst Paulien Oltheten dat ze regels en conventies van de documentaire fotografie virtuoos naar haar hand kan zetten.

11th may - 8th june

Crox 463

Aukje Koks & Paulien Oltheten

Saturday 13th april 8:40pm on CANVAS

Duration: 30 min

"Soms heb ik het idee dat ik gelijk heb als ik iets zie." De Nederlandse Paulien Oltheten (31) maakt foto's en video's van mensen, houdingen en bewegingen die ze opmerkt in de publieke ruimte. In het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam stelt ze haar particuliere interpretatie van straatfotografie tentoon. De Canvasconnectie treft haar in haar studio in Amsterdam tussen bergen nieuw materiaal op de grond en aan de muren na een jaar rondkijken in de straten van New York. Met plezier verdwaalt Paulien Oltheten in ons album op zoek naar beelden en kunstenaars die haar inspireren.

Paulien Oltheten & Anouk Kruithof

14th march - 8 june 2014

In their work, young artists Paulien Oltheten and Anouk Kruithof present a fresh, unexpected interpretation of street photography. A fascination for people on the street can be seen in the work of Oltheten in a personal archive that comprises photos, videos and text.

Performance and Discussion

Wed 6 nov 2013 6.30PM-8.00PM

Free admission

The New School, Theresa Lang Community & Student Center 
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York City

Dutch artist Paulien Oltheten explores the vagaries of human relations in public space. In an ongoing process that oscillates between video, photography, and drawings, the artist records, tracks, and assembles visual and conceptual patterns in the encounter of people and things, revealing the shifts and ruptures between them. For this event, Oltheten performs one of her "Sort of Lectures" in which she interweaves different works in a narrative structure

Espace In/Civils

PARALLEL PROGRAM OF THE 13th ISTANBUL BIENNIAL

11 - 20 september 2013

With: Lida Abdul, Vahram Aghasyan, Allora & Calzadilla, Fikret Atay, The Atlas Group, Ursula Biemann, Dara Birnbaum, Denicolai & Provoost, Sebastian Diaz-Morales, Peter Downsbrough, Simonetta Fadda, Group REP, Clarisse Hahn, Jean Charles Hue, Bouchra Khalili, Thomas Koner, Ugo La Pietra, Fabrice Lauterjung, Maha Maamoun, Dimitri Makhomet, François Nouguiès, Paulien Oltheten, Javier Tellez, Jack Beng Thi, Salla Tykka, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Gillian Wearing, Artur Zmijewski

Of Walking

Oct 19 — Dec 22, 2013

Walking is one of humankind's most basic acts. As Rebecca Solnit has written, "the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. And so one aspect of the history of walking is the history of thinking made concrete-for the motions of the mind cannot be traced, but those of the feet can." The exhibition Of Walking  will explore the concept of thinking (while walking) made concrete via the camera's lens and other means. 

26 -29 september 2013

Represented by Gallery Fons Welters

Modern Families: Relatives and Relationships in Art

25 July - 3 November 2013

Artists: Nevin AladaÄŸ, Gerard Byrne, Chosil Kil, Clemens Krauss, Marko Mäetamm, Trish Morrissey, Isabel Nolan, Mark O’Kelly, Paulien Oltheten, Reto Pulfer, Audrey Reynolds, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, Eulalia Valldosera, and Yang Fudong

Curated by Chris Clarke and Matt Packer

In recent times, the traditional nuclear family has expanded to incorporate a range of relationships. Including a vast and fluid network of in-laws, half-siblings, acquaintances and partners, the idea of the ‘family’ is also found across numerous disciplines, from scientific systems of classification to the genealogies of language and culture.

Seeing and seeing again: a unique view of humanity

written by Paul Laster

A remarkable chronicler of everyday life, Paulien Oltheten makes photographs, videos, and drawings that celebrate both the common and quirky sides of human behaviour. Traveling around the world with a camera in hand for the past decade, the talented young artist has accumulated a personal archive of thousands of images of people crossing streets, taking public transportation, gathering for events, and caught in a variety of moments of movement and repose.

28 May to 7 June 2013

Between 8 - 10 AM, 1 - 2 PM and 8 - 10 PM each day

Location: Riva Ca’ di Dio (near the Arsenale boat stop)

With Kim Boske, Paulien Oltheten, Sarah Carlier, Koen Hauser, Misha de Ridder, Jacobine van Hellemond, and Pierre Derks. 

Unseen will bridge the gap between national and international and between the undiscovered and one of the most famous contemporary art exhibitions in the world. In collaboration with dropstuff.nl, the Urban Screen Network for the Digital and Interactive Arts, Unseen will travel to Venice to present the work of seven young Dutch talents on a platform with no boundaries, in an open-air museum with no walls.

Guest Artist/Advisor

20th may 2013 - 10th june 2013
Marfa, Texas

Check the blog for daily updates !

Partners:TAAK, Dutch Art Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, California College of Arts
Curator: Theo Tegelaers

Summer School Marfa is a three week fieldtrip and student fieldwork studio from May 20 to June 10 2013 in Marfa, Texas for students from the Dutch Art Institute, Sandberg Instituut / Gerrit Rietveld Academie en California College of Arts (CCA)  and organized by TAAK. The aim is to expand contemporary discourses, social practices and politics in art to create a unique experience and opportunity for students and to gain an understanding of the dynamics and social impact of art in public spaces. By examining the transformation of Marfa, students engage in a critical analysis of the value and use of public art using fieldwork methods. 

APRIL 26, 2013 - APRIL 28, 2013

opening reception
friday, april 26th, 6-9pm

hours: saturday - sunday
april 27-28th, 1 - 7pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Spring Open Studios is a three-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 28 artists and curators from 20 countries currently in residence present work in their studios. The studio is a generative space – part production site, office, laboratory and situation – and it can be argued that it is more significant today for artistic process than ever before. Open Studios invites the public to 28 “studio visits” to experience art in its place of origin and to share conversations with artists and curators from all over the world. 

APRIL 16, 2013 6:30PM at ISCP Brooklyn

Announced by the Observer

Seating is limited so please arrive early. 

Brooklyn Commons, a discussion series this spring at ISCP, presents intellectual and artistic pairings between the established Brooklyn-based artist community and ISCP residents. This series puts artists in conversation who have not shared a dialogue in the past and focuses on the vibrant and diverse cultural practitioners living and working in Brooklyn, both long- and short-term.

On April 16^th, Jonas Mekas and Paulien Oltheten will reflect on the spontaneous chronicling of life and human behavior.

Longlist Prix de Rome 2013 bekend

Het Mondriaan Fonds heeft de namen bekend gemaakt van 50 beeldend kunstenaars die zijn voorgedragen voor de Prix de Rome 2013. De kunstenaars werden voorgedragen door een groep van 35 scouts (onder meer kunstenaars, critici, curatoren).

Residency

01 january - 31 december 2013
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is a leading nonprofit, residency-based contemporary art institution for emerging to mid-career artists and curators from around the world. Founded in 1994, ISCP has hosted over 1,300 artists and curators from more than 55 countries, including the United States.

Group exhibition
Desire Lines 

15 december 2012 - 3 march 2013

Exhibiting Artists:

Francis Alÿs, Samuel Beckett, Pierre Bismuth, Marcel Broodthaers, Mircea Cantor, A K Dolven, Jacqueline Donachie, Willie Doherty, Tacita Dean, Rodney Graham, Joan Jonas, Leopold Kessler, Eva Koch, Jochen Kuhn, Rachel Lowe, Richard Long, David Link, Todd McMillan, Bruce Nauman, Mel O’Callaghan, Paulien Oltheten, Yvonne Rainer, Dan Shipsides, Shipsides and Beggs Projects, Charlie Sofo, Grant Stevens, Stephen Sutcliffe, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, Catherine Yass, and Akram Zaatari.

Solo exhibition
It's my imagination you know 

08 september - 27 october 2012
In Paulien Oltheten’s third solo exhibition at Galerie Fons Welters, observation and imagination cross paths. The exhibition ‘It’s my imagination, you know’ is composed of a selection of photographs and videos made during the artist’s travels in Burma, Israel and Russia over the last few years.

Group exhibition
Alumni of the Rijksakademie
RE-SEARCH

31 August - 14 October 2012 

With Gwenneth Boelens, Lotte Geeven & Semâ Bekirovic, Zachary Formwalt, Gert Jan Kocken, Alexandra Leykauf, Paulien Oltheten and Fiona Tan.

Spelen, een lezing van Tijs Goldschmidt

27 april 2012

Tijdens de manifestatie gaf Tijs Goldschmidt een lezing over de ernst van het spel waarin hij sprak over de biologische betekenis van spelen bij verschillende diersoorten, inclusief de mens. Een selectie video's over spelen van Paulien Oltheten ondersteunde zijn lezing

available march 2012

Design: Studio Joost Grootens, Illustrated (colour), Hardback, 240 pages, 24 x 28 cm
English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-846-8, € 59.50

Editors: Frits Gierstberg, Rik Suermondt
Authors: Wim van Sinderen, Claudia Kussel, Patricia Börger, Pim Milo, Flip Bool, Karen Duking, Max van Rooij, Tamara Berghmans, Mirelle Thijsen, Bart Sorgedrager, Mireille de Putter, Pieter van Leeuwen, Karin Krijgsman
Photography: Hans Bol

Solo exhibition
Kitbag questions 

30 June - 10 September 2011

Dvir Gallery is happy to invite you to the opening of the exhibition: "Kitbag questions  (work from archive 2006-2011)"

Opening: June 30th, 2011, 8 pm (performance by the artist at 9 pm) 

De Dutch Doc Award 2012 voor documentaire fotografie is toegekend aan Paulien Oltheten (1982) voor haar project Photos from Japan and my archive. PvdA-kamerlid Ronald Plasterk, die de prijs woensdag in Amsterdam uitreikte, noemde Oltheten een ‘geboren observator en intelligent verteller’.