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3 x Art_project Peru 2019

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End of July 2019

In the coming months, I will leave my studio on the Amstel to go to a studio in Peru to work on several art projects. At the invitation of X-Change Art Project in Lima, I received an artist-in-residence, which I am very excited about and would like to express my gratitude for. This opportunity gives me the possibility to focus solely on my artistic work for a while, on top of which I will being it in such a beautiful, colourful country with millennia-old culture. In my studio in Lima I will develop different designs, all revolving around my main theme of a “house”. The finished works will be presented at an exhibition early October in the artists’ quarter Barronco in Lima.

The first two weeks of August I create, together with adolescents and children from Villa El Salvador (VES), artistic designs and sketches…continue reading

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Humboldt Forum Berliner Schloss

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Kunst-am-Bau competition: The Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace.

The Humboldt Forum Berlin will open at the end of 2019. In 2018 I made a design for the Humboldt Forum together with my colleague, Wil van Blokland (nominated as the best 18 of the 135 submissions).

‘Wunschwald’

Five lime trees serve as “wish trees”. Wishes have been written onto 1443 strips of Chinese porcelain, and fastened to stainless steel cables in the crowns of the trees. The lime tree: the symbol of justice, love, peace, Heimat, a place of coming together. It is an expression of shared powers, and such, a gesture against violence and exclusion.

designed by: Wil van Blokland & Stephanie Rhode 2018
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Labyrinth_Art Installation

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Artwork for twinning anniversaries Amstelveen, Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg & Villa El Salvador. Mutual understanding can prevent mistrust and misunderstanding. Learning to understand each other is the underlying central thread of the exchange and cooperation between Amstelveen and its sister towns and will hence be the theme of the art project Labyrinth….continue reading

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