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Larisa Sjoerds - studio impression - Dordrecht 2020

Larisa Sjoerds is an artist, museum guide and visual arts teacher. As a visual artist her favorite medium currently is ink combined with all sorts of obvious media such as pencil, felt-tip pen, fine liners, ballpoint, acrylic paint and crayon, but also less obvious media such as silverleaf, salt and other substances which influence the ink’s consistency. Larisa’s drawings visualize abstracted human figures in a surreal world. Her drawings are literally inspired by shapes and patterns of cells in the human body and other fauna and flora, but never just a copy of those existing shapes and patterns.

Blueprints of subconsciousness, a sequel started in 2019, in shades of blue ink, are inspired by our subconsciousness. Her statement: “Our emotions and instincts can be very disturbing and intriguing. They influence and can even possess our lives. Somewhere deep down in our body a variety of processes is taking place. Such as the beating of a heart, an ovulation, impulsive thoughts to do with fear, sexual or violent actions. These mostly hidden processes, thoughts, emotions and instincts are what I want to or would like to visualize. The creative development of this visualization is partly rational and partly as organic and intuitive as the (dis)functioning of our brain and our body.

As a freelance museum guide and educational developer Larisa Sjoerds is using a variety of interactive mediating techniques for several art museums in The Netherlands. The objective is to encourage step-by-step dialogues while observing art individually or with a group and to become aware of our frames of reference. The use of language, drawing, poetry, performance and sound are part of the toolkit to exercise and expand visual literacy and the art of observation. This type of art mediation is part of an ongoing research by Sjoerds and is also on offer regularly as a training for teachers and museum guides. In her most recent educational projects for museums for secondary school students, facts and fiction around the terms value and appreciation are discussed in relation to art and visual culture in general. She also recently designed a hands-on drawing guide for (young) adult visitors of an art museum to be used self-guided or during a drawing tour.

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Larisa Sjoerds

Gravenstraat 33

3311 BC Dordrecht

the Netherlands

larisasjoerds@gmail.com

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Larisa Sjoerds Studio

Gravenstraat 33

3311 BC Dordrecht

www.larisasjoerds.org

larisasjoerds@gmail.com

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Agenda & Activities

2024

The Anatomy Lesson Revisited - 2024 - CC Beringen - Beringen - Belgium

Natural Equilibrium - 2024 - CC Beringen - Beringen - Belgium

Get Out Of Your Skull - 2024 - Dordrecht - NL

2023

The Anatomy Lesson Revisited - 2023 - Sint Amanduskapel - Ghent - Belgium

The Anatomy Lesson Revisited - 2023 - De Waag - Amsterdam - NL

Get Out Of Your Skull - 2023 - Zilverhof - Gent - België

La Providence - residency - 2023 - La Providence - Ille sur Tet - France

2022

Geuzenmaand - March 14 - April 10 Museum Vlaardingen - Vlaardingen

Geuzenmaand - April 18 - July 3 World Art Delft - Delft - NL

Geuzenmaand - July 26 - Sept 30 Gerechtsgebouw Rotterdam - NL

Geuzenmaand - Nov 13 - Dec 18 Kunstwerkt & Korenbeurs Schiedam - NL

Contemporary Revolution - 1-19-7 Campo Santo - Gent - Belgium

Oltre i Confini - 22 juli - 18 augustus Misericordia - Perugia - Italy

Saruya AIR - 12-09 till 18-10 2022 Saruya AIR - Fujiyoshida - Japan

2021

Spontaneous Combustion - Sept 11-26 Hof van Ryhove - Gent - Belgium

Get Out Of Your Skull - 15-10 - 7-11 byBranderhorst - Dordrecht - NL

Get Out Of Your Skull - 03 - 11 09 La Providence - Ille sur Tet - France

Get Out Of Your Skull - 13 - 29 08 Zilverhof - Gent - België

Reflections C19 - 22-11 - 15-01 World Art Delft - Delft - NL

2020

GAP woman – April-May 2020 - Gallerie Renee Marie - Benicia - California - USA

Spontanious Combustion - May 27 - June 15 - Hof van Ryhove - Gent - Belgium

Contemporary Collaboration 2.0 - 5-28 09 - Pulchri studio - The Hague

disConnect Solo - February 23 2020 - Psynapse gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2019

La Providence - artist in residence Ille sur Tet - Ille sur Tet - France

Pictura Salon 2019 - group show/Salon - Pictura – Dordrecht - The Netherlands

2018

Pictura - Grote Portretten Galerij - Pictura – Dordrecht - The Netherlands

2017

Pictura Salon 2018 - Pictura – Dordrecht - The Netherlands

Poligious Issues II (20-5 tm 11-6 2017) - 10dence - EAT - Antwerp - Belgium

Poligious Issues I (25-2 tm 2-4 2017) - 10dence - De Kroon Schiedam the Netherlands

2016

Art Symposium Nové Zámky (22/7 tm 2/8 2016 - Nové Zámky - Slovakia

2015

Fotofestival Schiedam - 10dence gallery – Schiedam – the Netherlands

Art symposium Jahorina 2015 (15 tm 24 july) - Jahorina - Bosnia-Herzegovina

Graduate exhibition - Willem de Kooning Academy – Rotterdam – the Netherlands

2014

Juried member presentation - Pictura – Dordrecht - The Netherlands

2009

SaMoMa solo show - RaMoMa - Museum of Modern Art – Nairobi - Kenya

2008

ISK annual group show - International School of Kenya – Nairobi - Kenya

2005