Leopold Emmen / |
is a collaboration between filmmaker Nanouk Leopold Contact : info@leopoldemmen.nl |
Re-construct: From where she lies she sees Venus rise
Het Archief, Rotterdam / 24.01.2023 - 12.03.2023
Installation view (work in progress) & model
Re-construct is a sculptural installation consisting of an unfinished inner space, containing apparently carelessly abandoned materials and rubble. In this room, two videos are projected and you hear a soundscape with a voice-over. In the outer space personal artifacts are carefully positioned. A plant, a broken bowl and tea towel on a box, photos, bones and two wrapped small paintings. The changing perspective in the narrated story fragments interferes with the videos and objects and suggests an event that repeats itself endlessly with subtle variations. Duration: HD video 12"40' and 4"28, soundscape 36"00 in a random loop. Credits The sculpture was created with the cooperation of Arlène Hoornweg and Herman Lamers. The texts Cascando, A radio piece for music and Ill seen III said, both by Samuel Beckett and an excerpt from Life and times of Michael K by J.M.Coutzee are read by Steffan, an artificial voice of Natural Reader (naturalreaders.com).The music is by Marc Ribot Natalia in E flat major and Corkscrew by Oren Ambarchi. Photography (c) Leopold Emmen |
Another Woman
Oval Office, Bochum DE / 29.04.2022 (Premiere 18.00) - 05.06.2022
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Another Woman, installation view
Another Woman is a film installation that tells a story about a woman who is leaving her partner to go live with another woman. Two women and a man, a universal theme - the end of an old relationship and the start of a new one.The installation explores the possibilities of a cinematographic and spatially designed narrative. Manifest on multiple screens it places the actions of the protagonists in a physical space. An invitation to the visitor to imagine those lives and to take part. Another Woman is made in collaboration with the actor and singer Sandra Hüller, the choreographer Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods and actor Gillis Biesheuvel. Multiple Channel video installation, HD video, sound, mixed media. Opening Hours & location 29.04. – 05.06.2022, Di – So, 16:00 – 21:00 Oval Office, Schauspielhaus Bochum
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Credits An installation by Nanouk Leopold and Daan Emmen Perfomance: Sandra Hüller, Meg Stuart, Gillis Biesheuvel en Mijnheer Kien Director of Photography: Frank van den Eeden Film Production: Leopold Emmen and Manon Bovenkerk, Near by Film Production Bochum Schauspielhaus Bochum, Oval Office, Johan Simons, intendant Schauspielhaus Bochum, Nadja Eller, production, Oliver Kroll, head ateliers, Wolfgang Macher and Nils Jaeger, video and lighting and Henry Skowronek, sound Special thanks: Harry de Wit, Elsje de Bruijn, Wibinne Kien, Manon Blom, Photography (c) Leopold Emmen |
M.L. january 2021
Open Studios Borgerstraat, ART Rotterdam, 2022 / 19.05.2022 - 22.05.2022
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M.L. january 2021, installation view
Multiple Channel video installation, HD video, sound. Borgerstraat Basement is a presentation of 3 installations with image and video by visual artists Leopold Emmen, Herman Lamers en Yvo van der Vat. On show on may 19, 20 and 21, Borgerstraat 24, Rotterdam during the Art Rotterdam Week. Photography installation (c) Ernst Moritz |
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Der Zwerg, Zemlinsky
The National Opera, Amsterdam / 04.09.2021(premiere) - 18.09.2021
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Der zwerg: scenography and video design
Musical direction: Lorenzo Viotti, Stage Direction: Nanouk Leopold. Donna Clara: Lenneke Ruiten A tragic fairy tale set to music in one act. Der Zwerg, composed in 1922, is perhaps Zemlinsky’s best-known and most powerful opera. The story is an adaptation of a tale by Oscar Wilde and takes place at the birthday party of the Spanish crown princess, who receives a very special present: a little person, who is intended to cheer her up. To the guests’ surprise and amusement, the little man is completely unaware of his small stature; he also possesses a beautiful singing voice, which moves everyone who hears it. It is clear that there is the potential for feelings to develop between the princess and the little man, but what chance do these two have in a world where appearance is everything? Source: Dutch national Opera / De Nationale Opera Photography (c) Marco Borggreve |
Filmwork for Eye: 5 Scenes at a Walking Pace
EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam / 09.06.2021 — 05.09.2021
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A filmwork for Eye: 5 Scenes at a Walking Pace, installation view
Mixed media installation, Theatre lighting and audio, variable dimensions. Total duration 18m43s. Photography installation (c) Studio Hans Wilschut |
What have you done with the Scissors?
Borgerstraat Open Studios, Rotterdam Art Week, 2020
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What have you done with the Scissors?, installation view
Single Channel video installation LED 150 x150 , two channel audio installation (6 100V mono speakers), mixed media (Flag 450 x350), variable dimensions. Presentation P.T.I (Prefab Traffic Installation), 3 Moblle installations by Leopold Emmen in a collaboration with visual Artists Herman Lamers en Yvo van der Vat. On show on February 7, 8 / 11.00 - 19.00, Borgerstraat 24, Rotterdam, Art Rotterdam Week.Photography installation (c) Ernst Moritz |
The Homecoming, a play by Nanouk Leopold
International Theater Amsterdam, 2019
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The homecoming, stage, video stills and design
Staging Nanouk Leopold, Actors (ensemble) Achraf Koutet, Aus Greidanus jr., Fred Goessens, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Majd Mardo and Maria Kraakman. Author Harold Pinter, Video design Leopold Emmen, Scenography Elsje de Bruijn, Light design Mark Van Denesse, Sound design Roeland Fernhout. Photography (c) Dim Balsem (top, topright). Photos video still, stage and stage design (c) Leopold Emmen, Elsje de Bruijn / https://ita.nl/nl/voorstellingen/de-thuiskomst/313/ |
From the Life of the Marionettes, a play by Nanouk Leopold
ITA, Amsterdam 2017
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From the Life of the Marionettes, on stage & stage design
From the Life of the marionettes by Ingmar Bergman, duration 1:45, première nov 5, 2017. Director Nanouk Leopold, scenography, Elsje de Bruijn, light design, James Farncombe, sound design, Donato Wharton, editor, Katharina Wartena. Photos left & top (c) Henri Verhoef, stage design (c) Leopold Emmen & Elsje de Bruijn / https://tga.nl/voorstellingen/uit-het-leven-van-marionetten |
Sandra Hüller - The One (Official Video)
Directed by Leopold Emmen (Nanouk Leopold and Daan Emmen), cinematography Frank van den Eeden, production design: Elsje de Bruijn, costume design: Manon Blom. |
Study of a Portrait, an installation by Meg Stuart and Leopold Emmen
Rotterdam Art Week 2016, SlaakHuys, Rotterdam
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Study of a portrait, video still, installation view
Five channel video installation, HD video, 14’23’’, 6’18’’, 6'05'’, 4'55'', 3'35'', audio, loop, mixed media, variable dimensions. Spaces of memory are the starting point for a video installation of which, after working for one week, a first version was presented on the 13th and 14the of February during Art Rotterdam. Location: Slaakhuys, Slaak 34, Rotterdam. Installation Photography( c) Ernst Moritz. Videostills (c) Leopold Emmen / Damaged Goods |
BildRausch Leader
Bildrausch Filmfestival, Basel, 2015-2017
Bildrausch Leader, long version, 38 seconds
Official leader BildRausch Filmfestival, 2K video, audio,duration 23s/38s, dimensions projection variable Modelling and editing: Leopold Emmen |
Surrounded By Sagacity
Teekengenootschap Pictura, Dordrecht, 2015
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Surrounded By Sagacity is a group exhibition curated by guest curators Herman Lamers and Maaike Kerman. A collaboration of Teekengenootschap PicturawithEightfold. Leopold Emmen presents a two channel video installation (HD video, audio, loop, Participating artists: Barbara Helmer, Josje Peters, Martijn Grooten, Laurien Dumbar, Steye Felix, Folke Janssen, Anita Hrnic, Just Quist, Daan Emmen and Nanouk Leopold. |
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Leeuwendalerweg 623 - 667, 3 scenes
OASE #91, tijdschrift voor architectuur, 2013
Leeuwendalerweg 623 - 667, 9 videostills
A contribution to OASE #91, tijdschrift voor architectuur magazine for architecture. A photo montage of 27 video stills and an online video presentation. The recordings were made in the stairwell/entrance hall of an apartment complex at Leeuwendalerweg 623 - 667, designed by Korth Tielens architects. |
Freetown / Reconstruction
Teekengenootschap Pictura, Dordrecht 2012
Freetown / Reconstructie, installation view
Three-channel video installation, HD video, 18'00'', 36'00'', 108', audio, continuous, Mixed media, variable dimensions. Freetown / Reconstruction, Saturday 28 April to Saturday 26 May, in the Teekengenootschap Pictura in Dordrecht, 2012. Leopold Emmen in collaboration with DOOD PAARD / Photography: Ernst Moritz. |
Freetown / Reconstructie
W139 Space for contemporary art, Amsterdam, 2012
Freetown / Reconstruction, installation view
Four-channel video installation, HD video, audio, duration (loop) and size variable. Freetown / Reconstructie, 4 t/m 7 oktober in W139, Space for contemporary art, Amsterdam, 2012 Leopold Emmen in collaboration with DOOD PAARD / Foto: Ernst Moritz |
Freetown / Reconstruction. A montage in three parts: a video wall as an autonomous image, the integral piece in an abstract studio setting and a stilled and enlarged close-up. Leopold Emmen adapted the play 'Freetown' into a video installation for this exhibition. The play was written by Rob de Graaf in collaboration with the actresses Manja Topper, Lies Pauwels and Ellen Goemans for theater company Dood Paard. Freetown is about social and sexual emancipation, about power differences against the background of a society that mainly knows oppression and hopelessness. Three women meet at a resort in Africa, which offers the opportunity to meet young men who, for a fee, do everything that is asked of them. Manja Topper, Lies Pauwels and Ellen Goemans: game Made possible with a contribution from the R&D budget of CBK Rotterdam. |
In the Company of Bears
The roaming exhibition, Rotterdam, 2011
In the Company of Bears, fragment
In the Company of Bears, Videostill
In the Company of Bears, installation view
Three channel video installation, HD video, 3 x 19:24, continuous, audio, Mixed media, size 550x295x900 A man, a pregnant woman and two bears, at different times in the same room, alone or in each other's company Herman Helle, Paulien Kalker, Arlene Hoornweg and Herman Lamers: game n the company of bears was part of the 16e zwervende tentoonstelling, a group exhibition curated by Maartje Berendsen and Tamar de Kemp on view during Art Rotterdam 2011 in the Stadslaboratorium Schieblock, Rotterdam. Participating artists: Kiki Lamers, Bert Jan Pot and Tonio de Roover Leopold Emmen in collaboration with theater group HOTEL MODERN. |
Sandra / Charlotte
The roaming exhibition, Rotterdam, 2009
Sandra / Charlotte, Video still
Sandra / Charlotte, installation view
Single channel video installation, HD, 15:42 minutes, no audio, continuous, mixed media, (HD video, wood, plasterboard, stucco), projection size 4.50x275 Sandra Höller: performance The work was part of Monologue Intérieur the 14e zwervende tentoonstelling , a group exhibition curated by Maartje Berendsen and Tamar de Kemp, on location at Westzeedijk, Rotterdam. Participating artists: Merijn Bolink, Geerten Ten Bosch, Pietertje van Splunter & Zeger Reijers, Lisa Couwenbergh, Jan van de Pavert, Vanessa Jane Phaff, Berend Strik, Anne Wenzel, Milou van Ham & Jan Adriaans, Rince de Jong, Bouke Verwijs, Eveline Visser and Leopold Emmen. |
He Who Travels / TRAVERSE [part 1]
Tentoonstellingsruimte Gemak, Den Haag, 2011
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He Who Travels / TRAVERSE [part 1], installation view
Four-channel video installation, HD video, show duration 55:00, no audio, mixed media, variable dimensions Performers ranging in age from 11 to 85 years dance in a space that is determined by the work of Karin Arink and Leopold Emmen and the vocals of Maartje de Lint accompanied by guitarist Martin Kaaij. A performance about the transfer of different generations through each other. And what is decisive in these encounters. Like a journey, where the last visited place determines the direction. Artistic concept en choreography: Piet Rogie The performance 'He Who Travels [part 1]' was shown on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 August intentoonstellingsruimte Het Gemak in Den Haag. |
Emoticon
10de museumnacht, Rotterdam, 2011
Emoticon, Video 4 van 20
Smartphone video installation A series of twenty short videos with a close-up of a face. In which the facial expressions have come about in a strictly directed game with the possibilities and limitations of the facial muscles. Part of the installation was a poster campaign: 20 different QR codes on posters were distributed throughout the city in an edition of 400 pieces. By scanning the QR codes with a mobile phone, you could watch the videos on your smartphone on location during the museum night. Acting: William Veerbeek, Lenno Heighten and Herman Lamers Emoticon was commisioned by the museumnacht Rotterdam and was shown at various locations in the city during the10de museumnacht. |
Prefab, model II
Studiopresentatie, Rotterdam,
2009
Mixed-media (gipsplaat, foamboard), afmeting 60x120x27
Prefab
Noordkaap projectruimte, Dordrecht, 2009
Prefab, installation view
Two-channel video installation, SD video, 2 x 6'00", no audio, continuous, mixed media, variable dimensions. A contribution to Kboek-Round Production, a conceptual artist book & group exhibition. K-boek is an open artwork without an imposed activist, moralistic or academic claim. A'conglomeration' of ideas on show in the Noordkaap Artspace in Dordrecht. Participating artists Hillegon Brunt, Dalit Sharon, Leopold Emmen, Lukas Simonis, Lenno Hoogte, Marit Shalem, Anneke Coppoolse, William Bottin and Joe Cillen. Curator & initiator: Marit Shalem, Spop |
Prefab, model I
Studio presentation Rotterdam 2009
Mixed media (gipsplaat, foamboard), dimensions 60x120x27
Close-up
International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2009
Close-up, installation view
A six hour film work (from dusk to dawn), HD video, no audio, dimensions 30 x 17 meters, A moving image high above the city. A presence in the form of a huge close-up that stares straight at us. An exceptionally powerful tool that is rarely used in the mise-en-scene of film because it crosses the line between the viewer and the film reality. Who's looking at whom? A film image that changes only slowly. Time stretched, and the accidental spectators passing by, extras in the nightlife surronding a busy traffic interchange in the city. William Veerbeek, Lenno Verhoog en Herman Lamers: spel De installatie is onderdeel van het programma Size matters, gemaakt in opdracht van het International Film Festival Rotterdam. |
Huis Clos
De 12e zwervende tenstoonstelling 'In The Dark', Rotterdam, 2008
Huis Clos, installation view
Single channel video installation, SD video, 14'22'', audio, continuous, mixed media, variable size. performers: William Veerbeek, Lenno Hoog and Herman Lamers. Huis Clos was part of IN HET DUISTER (in the Dark), the 12th zwervende tentoonstelling, a group exhibition curated by Maartje Berendsen and Tamar de Kemp, on location in Rotterdam. Participating artists: Tiong Ang, Cindy Jansen, MVRDV, Ine Lamers, Gabriel Lester, Erik van Lieshout, Marieke van der Lippe, Leopold Emmen, Pipilotti Rist, Femke Schaap, Raymond Taudin Chabot and Lidwien van de Ven. |
The Studio
'Maak ons land' in het NAI, Rotterdam, 2008
Het Atelier, installation view
Het Atelier, installation view
Multi channel video installation, SD video, audio, mixed media, variable dimensions. The space as director, the editing a parallel projection of series of short and longer sequences. A spatial reconstruction of the cinematic experience in which the mental space coincides with the physical space. A continuous action and reaction in a studio that behaves like a film set: it is the vehicle of a reality yet to be filmed. To generate an image, concrete spaces (models/cabins) are used in which the viewer's gaze is isolated. The lighting with film lamps and the spatial arrangement create a compelling viewing direction. A manipulated framework. Spatial constructions with varying frames manipulate the viewer's perspective. A space in which the visitor will contribute to the work (un)solicited: either as an extra, or as an actor or actress. An autonomous contribution to Maak ons land in het Nederlands ArchitectuurIinsituut. |
Leopold Emmen is a collaboration between filmmaker Nanouk Leopold Contact : info@leopoldemmen.nl |