Channa Boon

Selected solo exhibitions:

1998:                 The Nighttrain,  Beit Ha’am gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.

1998:                 Filmblut, LUXUS, The Hague.

2004:                 Man in the City (To shi In), Chang dong National Art gallery, Seoul, South - Korea.

2006:                 The Month of April, Canary gallery, Auckland, New Zeeland.

Selected group exhibitions:

2008:              Todays Art Festival, The Hague, Holland.

Independant Drawing Gig, Seoul, South Korea

CAC Vilnius, Lithuania

...from their planet...HattyuHaz Art Hall, Pécs, Hungary.

...from their planet..Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland

Intermediations – Poznan Biennial, Poland

‘Het Oog’, contribution for the online section in the Volkskrant daily newspaper.

2007:              ...from their planet...Kunstfabrik Am Flutgraben, Berlin, a videotryptic curated by Harm Lux, in collaboration with A. Kurzen and S. Rajaei.

DIN 1164, General Public, in collaboration with Remco Schuurbiers and Sven Garies, Berlin.

Fas3, ‘Contemporaine’, Den Haag, Cleaning the Salar.

Tekeningen VII: ’t Dwaze Licht, Quartair initiative, The Hague,

                        Holland.

Nutrisi, Filmfestival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Painters +, HattyuHaz Art Hall, Pécs, Hungary

l’Heure du Passage, International Film Festival Rotterdam

The Fifth Passenger, Tambo Museum of Contemporary Art, La Paz, Bolivia, curator: Harm Lux.

2006:              Cineboards, Den Haag 2006

Emergency Room, Olaf Stüber gallery, Berlin.

                        Neo beginners | Open Rotterdam, TENT Rotterdam, i.c.w. BMB con.

Ground Zero, de Vliegtoren, Den Haag.

Streaming Festival, The Hague.

The Figure 8, het atelier als supermedium, The Hague.

Mini Works ‘06, Dep_art_ment, Auckland, New Zealand.

2005:                 Korte Digitale Video Festival, de Vliegtoren, The Hague

                           Pek, Film - en Videofestival by Filmstad, Filmhuis The Hague

                           OpTV, Mobiel projectbureau OpTrek, Transvaal, The Hague

                           Shoot-Me, Filmfestival, The Hague.

                           Unlike you and me, Sioux Art Center, U.S, i.c.w. Julian

                           Dashper.

2004:              The Project standing by 000, galerie Loop, Seoul, South - Korea, curators: Suh Jinsuk and Heechae Moon.

                        Images, Mxo, The Hague.

Man in the city, Chang dong National gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2003:                Video Poetry, Total Museum of Contemporary Art,

                        Seoul, South - Korea, curator: Yunah Jung.

Flora & Fauna 2003, Galerie Quartair, The Hague.

                        Plein Open, music and performance Festival The Hague.

Park 4D tv in Amsterdam, New York, Berlin, artists

broadcasting videoart.

2002:                De Stand van Zaken, Stroom H.C.B.K, The Hague.

                         Contex # 2, Corso theater The Hague.

                         Parking Den Haag, Artotheek en Stroom H.C.B.K, The Hague.

                         Channa Boon &The Reincarnations, LUXUS, The Hague.

                         Video en Filmfestival Den Haag, Filmhuis The Hague.

2001:                 De  visite is er, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam                          

                          Flora en Fauna 2001, Het Archief, The Hague.

                          Quartair broedplaatsenprojekt, The Hague.

Linked activities:

1995 - 1999: co - initiator and organisor of LUXUS, artist’s run space,

                        The Hague.

1998:              release Luxus label Den Haag.

                        Residency Osim t’Silum, Tel Aviv, Israel.

1999:              Residency Niagara Artist’s Company, St. Catharine’s, Canada.

2000:              performances with ‘Grand Mal’, (Justin Bennet, Anne Wellmer in DOClands), Amsterdam, an experimental music – and sound collective.

2001:              Essay for Kastalia, artist’s magasin  founded by Jurriaan Benschop, Amsterdam: ‘Aardverschuivingen – gedachten over een middeleeuwse kunstenaar’ . #4, april 2001.

2001 – 2:        ‘White Space, White Noice: Matineés Improvisations, Casuaristraat, Den Haag: improvisation concerts by varying performers (sound and visual artist’s).

2001:              concert ‘Kraakgeluiden’, electronic/acoustic improvisation concert, with Matthew Ostrowski, Anne Wellmer, Justin Bennet e.o, entrepotdok, Amsterdam.

2002              founder and producer of ‘The Reincarnations’, a three- women experimental music performance group, The Hague. Throughout my career I keep on making improvised music with various artist’s and composers, this is an important point of input and – reflection for me.

2003:              Presentaton performances ‘Stand van zaken’, Voorheen het Archief, The Hague.

2004:              Artist’s residency during 3 months in the Chang dong National Art Studio’s, Seoul, Korea. (part of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.)

                        Workshop for Korean artstudents i.c.w. Alternative Space Loop, MIZY center, de city of Seoul and UNESCO, Korea.

2005:              Lecture about artist’s residency in Korea at Stroom, Beeldende Kunst t/m Architectuur, The Hague.

2007:             International artproject and residency ‘El Quinto Pasajero’(the Fifth Passenger), La Paz, Bolivia, curated by Harm Lux and Valeria Paz.

                        Post 42; a two week residency in Pécs Bagotá, with Elisabeth de Vaal, Hungary.

...from their planet...-  a videotryptic curated by Harm Lux in cooperation with S. Rajaei and A. Kurzen. For this work I filmed during 2 weeks at the Salar the Uyuni, a 4000 mtrs high saltlake in Bolivia.

Bibliografy  

Stroomjournaal nr. 12 mei 1998: foto’s video installatie met tekst 

Ha’aretz Tel Aviv juni 1998  ‘De Viegende Hollander’ door Avivith Roeach

Haagse Courant juni 1998   ‘Het hier en nu is er even niet’ door Roos van Put

            “           “     mei 1998 ‘Dood, tijd en onthechting’  door Roos van Put

‘Nico’, catalogus bij tentoonstelling Beeldende Kunst in de binnenstad van Den Haag, 1998.

‘The Nighttrain’, reisverslag tentoonstelling Tel Aviv door Channa Boon, juni 1998..

VPRO Middag editie met Hanneke Groenteman, nov. 1998.

‘Matter in motion: Channa Boon & Petra Halkes ’Lightship’ door Chris Byford 1999.

Border Crossings: ‘Seeing isn’t believing’ door Carol Podedworny feb, 1999.

Catalogus tentoonstelling ‘Salva Mea’, aug. 1999.

NRC Handelsblad: ‘Er zit leven in Den Haag’ door Janneke Wesseling, 2002

Kunstbeeld ‘Peter Cleutjens Award voor Quartair’, door Robbert Roos, 2002.

‘The Project Standing by 000’: text: Suh Jinsuk en Chun Sungmin, augustus 2004.

‘Het Ondergewone’ – 55 kunstenaars uit Den Haag, door Stroom, beeldende kunst t/m architectuur, 2005

`Midwestern Unlike You and Me: New Zealand's Julian Dashper'. Publicatie van Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, V.S, 2005.

‘PEK’, catalogue Film festival, door Filmstad Den Haag, 2005.

`Flat' by David Raskin, 2006.

‘Een feestje voor insiders’ door Babette Knol, Den Haag Centraal newspaper, may 2007.

IFFR Catalogue january 2007.

Catalogue ‘El Quinto Pasajero’, La Paz, Berlin, july 2007.