Susan Kooi (NL)
Grip
4 - 27/9 2020

Curator: Sofia Wickman (SE)


Galleri CC is proud to present the exhibition Grip, by Dutch artist Susan Kooi. In her artistic practice, she works with installations, combining tactile objects that she produces in ceramics, textile and plastics with their specific narratives in video, text and performance. The starting point of Kooi’s work is often finding local narratives connected to the location she works in. Incorporating them in the research and the artistic work, creating stories which are somewhere between actual happenings and fiction.

For this exhibition, at Galleri CC, Kooi has undertaken research about the mythological beast from Malmö’s coat of arms: the griffin. The mythological creature with a lion’s body and wings and the head of an eagle, which might be a protoceratops, and first appeared on a cosmetic palette in ancient Egypt and found its way to medieval Malmö.

This is Kooi’s very first solo exhibition in Sweden (or even in Scandinavia for that matter) and we are very excited to have her here. We, att Galleri CC, wish you a hearty welcome to the opening of Grip!

Susan Kooi (Leeuwarden, 1988) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2012, with an exchange at Emily Carr University for Art and Design in Vancouver. She exhibited solo in Sorbus gallery Helsinki, showroom MAMA in Rotterdam, Apice for Artists in Amsterdam and Spring in California, and has been part of duo- and group shows in Yotsuya Unconfirmed Studio in Tokyo, HAUNT in Yogyakarta and Fons Welters in Amsterdam. Kooi was in artist residencies in Portugal, Italy, Finland, Japan and the Netherlands. In 2014 she received the young talent stipend and in 2018 the proven talent stipend from the Mondriaan Fund. Next to her individual practice Kooi is part of the collective Samet Yilmaz, who have exhibited a.o. in Lodos Contemporáneo in Mexico-City, Konsthall in Stockholm and Trampoline Gallery in Antwerp. She is also half of music duo echo+seashell, who performed at the Banff Centre in Canada, Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, PLX festival in Tjärö and Paradiso in Amsterdam.
http://www.susankooi.com


Sofia Wickman (Malmö 1978) has an artist background in multi-disciplinary audiovisual and art history. In 2012, Wickman received a BA from the Audio Visual Department at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice focus mainly on photography, video and installation. In her curatorial practice Wickman’s interest lies in creating meeting point generating new insights and perspectives in the world of art. Between 2014 and 2015, Wickman, managed the visionary art and music project Future Legends. Today she works as a producer at Dansstationen, curator at Galleri CC and as independent curator.
https://www.sofiawickman.com