Sharon Houkema (b. 1975) is an Amsterdam based artist. She was awarded multiple grants and invited to research residencies such as the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and El Eco Museo Experimental in Mexico City. Her artworks have been much praised by Dutch press and public. In 2010 she was awarded De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Publieksprijs. Recently her work has been shown in VIRViaFarini Milano, Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam and White Box in New York.
 
Houkema: "You can explore a landscape from a vantage point – p.e. as seen from an aeroplane, you can also be right in the middle of it." In the works of Sharon Houkema both ways of exploration are joined. Oscillating between the simple and the complex, the consistent and the diverse, the ordinary and the sublime, the works casually reveal the patterns that are deeply woven into the fabric of reality, urging you to always take that second look.
 
Next to showing a large drawing and an installation in Studio 1, Sharon Houkema will make a work on site in the Bethanien's Fontane Pharmacy. Objects found in the pharmacy will be used to support drawings in an installation. The drawings overlap each other placed at different heights. From certain perspectives this will create the impression of an ongoing swarm of lines, whereas from other perspectives the flow may seem discontinous. The drawings have no fixed order and each version of the installation is different. After the show the objects return to their normal function within the institution and the drawings await their next move.
 
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