Olga Balema and Anne De Vries at Michael Thibault

Artist: Olga Balema and Anne De Vries

Exhibition title: Listening

Venue: Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, US

Date: March 8 – April 19, 2015

Photography: Courtesy of the artists and Michael Thibault, Los Angeles

Listening is a two person exhibition of hybrid sculptures by Berlinbased artists Olga Balema and Anne de Vries. Created during the last two months in Los Angeles by Balema and de Vries, Listening draws from Southern California’s cultural, industrial, and geographical landscape to produce two discrete series of artworks that commonly represent the interior and exterior human form. While production techniques and formal qualities vary considerably between Balema and de Vries, the locus of Listening is a shared interest in the conceptual investigation of the human body.

Olga Balema (b. 1984) received her M.F.A. in New Genres from the University of Los Angeles in 2009, and has participated in residencies at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, NL in 2011/2012, as well as at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2010. Solo exhibitions include a forthcoming 2015 show at Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Her Curves@ High Art, Paris (2014), Body of Work@ Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL (2013), What Enters@ 1646, Den Haag, NL (2013), and Positive thinking: Actions speak louder than words@ The Vanity, Los Angeles (2011). Her work can also currently be seen in the 2015 New Museum Triennial entitled Surround Audience, in New York City.

Anne de Vries (b. 1977) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, and participated in a residency at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, NL in 2011/2012. Forthcoming exhibitions include Long Distance Reality Flags curated by Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach @ Haus de Kulture der Welt, Berlin, Deep Screen curated by Camille Le Houezec & Joey Villemont @ Museum Parc Saint Léger, Pouguesles Eaux, France, HPSCHD 1969 > 2015 curated by Daniele Gasparinetti & Enrico Boccioletti @ MAMbo Museum, Italy, and a solo exhibition at Foam Museum, Amsterdam.