Opening of the exhibition by Salome Lamas, Edwin Stolk, Marjolijn Zwakman,
Riet Wijnen and Arnar Ásgeirsson.

Saturday 19.03.2011Ad de Jong, artist and co-founder W139, will have an artist talk with five
Sandberg students.

Opening of the exhibition by Jin Jing, Dirk Comello, Kirsten Wilmink,
Suzanne Ophof and Jouke Anema. Alex de Vries, Writer, critic and head of the
Fine art department at the Sandberg will interviewthe curators, Christina Li
(BAK) and Yael Messer (SKOR) about the realization and thedevelopment of the
“We will never know for sure” exhibition.

Friday 25.03.2011

Opening of the exhibition by Tom Milnes, Sil Krol, Tamara van der Leek and
Manon van Trier. Xander Karskens, curator of museum De Hallen, Haarlem and
main tutor at the Sandberg Institute, will have an artist talk with five
Sandberg students.

Tueday 29.03.2011

Jonas Staal, visual artist and writer of Post-Propaganda, will debat with
Raymond van den Boogaard, chief art by NRC Handelsblad, about the “Angry”
boycott at the Photo museum Den Haag.

Opening of the exhibition by Laurens Karsten, Nicole O’Niel, Ina Marie
Schmidt, Jetske Verhoeven and Sander van Wettum. Lucette ter Borg will give a
lecture about performance art. Afterwards two performances, Marjolijn
Zwakman – “Perception” and Pieter van den Bosch – ” Minimal damage”.
Followed by a short interview by Lucette ter Borg.

LOCATION:

W139
Warmoesstraat 139
Amsterdam

Manon van Trier

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JANUARY 8th, 2011

THIS ROOM
In the first week of the new year we introduce you This Room, a unique collaboration between the band Autumsun and ten fine artists. The project will be a travelling exhibition with music and art combined.
The idea for This Room comes from the singer-songwriter Martijn Kuijten. He was curious about the images his music could bring into the heads of his fellow artistic friends. That’s why he ask ten artists to create an artwork, each artist got one song of the soon coming LP This Room & The Grey Streets.
Martijn asked me to react on one of the songs, My Friend the Storm. Along with the process, the endresult is an looped animation.
Upcoming weeks the artworks shall travel among the band Autumsun, and will be shown at all the locations the band will play;

CANCELED January 8th:  Eindhoven, Artspace Flipside, 21:00 22:00
CANCELED January 13th: Den Bosch, Taet, 20:00 – 21:00
January 29th: Elicom (Belgium), Livingroom of Egi & Ria, 16:00 – 20:30
February 6th: Rotterdam, Unit 20, 14:00 – 16:00
February 10th: ’s Hertogenbosch, Tæt, 20:00
February 13th: Breda, Kop, 14:00 – 16:00
February 20th: Eindhoven, Livingroom of Jak Peters, 14:00 – 16:00
February 27th: Meerle (Belgium), De Laro , 14:00 – 14:30
March 12th: Tilburg, Argument, 19:30 – 20:30
March 20th: Westelbeers, De cultuurboerderij, 13:30 – 15:00
March 25th: Gemert, Cadans, 20:00 – 20:30

For more information, go to Autumsun

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JANUARY 14th, 2011

SANDBERG INSTITUTE at NIMk #3
On January 14 2011 the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) will host a night profiling the work of Sandberg Institute students from all departments. Theus Zwakhals of NIMk and Emile Zile (ex-SI Fine Arts) are producing the event. The last two editions have hosted installations, performances and a screening program to a broad public audience.
Y, one of my latest video’s will be shown there.
Be welcome!

Then: 14th of January
From:  8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
At:  Keizergracht 264, Amsterdam
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JANUARY 1th, 2011

NEW YEAR
Too all the creatures around the universe a fresh new year!

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NOVEMBER 5th, 2010

UTRECHTS BUTTON FEEST
There was going to be a very nice button-fest, where you could send in your own button design.
The plan was that on the night of the fest everybody who participated got to have five random buttons
of the designs that were send in, and you could swop.
The jury (Klaas Gubbels en Ruben L. Oppenheimer) were going to choose the 50 nicest button designs.
Unfortunately the fest had to be canceled because of not enough designs.
You can still visit their website to view the button designs.  (my design you can find under button nr. 96)
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OCTOBER 2nd AND 3th, 2010

24 HOUR COMIC DAY @ LAMBIEK
The 24 Hour Comics Day is a challenge and opportunity for comic artists to draw a 24-page comic within 24 hours. The annual event takes place in many locations around the world in early October.
This year’s 24 Hour Comics Day event at Lambiek in Amsterdam begins on Saturday morning, 2 October 2010 at 11:00 AM, until Sunday morning at 11:00.

Participants;
Aimee de Jongh
Bas Kohler
Boris Peeters
Els Steegmans
Emma Ringelding
Frederic Dupont
G Wasco
Gerrie Hondius
Hallie Lama
Jeroen Funke
Johan de Rooij
Larie Cook
Louise Koornneef
Maarten Janssens
Manon van Trier
Margreet de Heer
Marianne Elsendoorn
Marissa Delbressine
Mattt Baay
Menno Kooistra
Pepijn Pepino
Piers Goffart
Rik Wielheesen
Sam Peeters
Sandra Kleine Staarman
Suzan Bongers
Thijs Bouman
Victor Venema
Yannick Schueler
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SEPTEMBER 11th, 2010

ANALOG FEST
A-GEAKE, the Analog VJ-team is crafting up the audience with their warm baked visuals, handmade, all live.
“Analog fest is an ode to the analog techniques! Throw your PC out of the window, dust off your crayons, pencils and paper, dig into the paint and go all the way analogwise.”

AnalogFest 2010 / www.analogfest.com
Nick Jacobs (NL) / www.nickjacobs.nl
Walewijn den Boer (NL) / www.walewijndenboer.nl
Manon van Trier (NL) / www.manonvantrier.nl
Jonathan Looman (NL) / www.hellowman.nl
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SEPTEMBER 12th, 2010

NIEUWE GARDE PRESENTS: CONTAMINATION
Everyone that is active in the creative world has been there before; if you think you have a great new idea, it turns out that someone else already been there, done that. Aware and unaware we’ve all been guilty of plagiary. But to what extent can you blame the creative one? Is it just a sickness of this time? And to what extent do authenticity and creativity still exist? As an creative one, in which way are we still contaminated on a professional level?

With these questions in mind, we have asked the artists, whom all work among different disciplines, to send in some of their own works. The visitor of this exhibition is going to play an active role throughout leaving his or her findings and associations behind. The exhibition will be build up from these findings. It is not intended to block the artist in any way. This act can help the participants understand their works better and maybe even place them in a clearer art-historic context. That’s why for them and the participants it promises to be a interesting and surprising exhibition.

Exhibition: 12 t/m 18 September (daily opened from 13:00 t/m 21:00)
Opening: 12 September 14:00
Place: Kunstpodium T, Noordstraat 105, Tilburg

On the 16th of September there will be a Petozzie Networking-night at 20:00
With music of Dtone and visuals from Red Sun Visuals.

Finissage at the 18th of September

Participants: Tim Breukens / Vincent Dams / Manon van Trier / Willem van Wanrooij / Thijs Persijn / Paul Geelen / Tijl Orlando Frijns / Marcel Dingemanse / Merijn Denkers / Jean Paul Jennen / Ties van de Ven
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SEPTEMBER 1th, 2010

UPDATE WEBSITE
A couple of new works online, go to Recent Works.
Video’s following soon!
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JULY 16th, 2010

WORD ART GROUP EXPO
In the computer-program Word man can create most horrified images, but among that it is also a great opportunity to make the most simple and sublime things.
Come and watch some works from people all across the world, such as; Jan Doms, Kevin Janssen, Bas van den Hurk, Laetitia Moon and Manon van Trier.
16th and 17th of July at ShellVPower, 20:00
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JUNE 19th, 2010

DEAR HUNTER
Solo show at Moira, Utrecht.
20th of June till 11th of Juli
Opening Saturday 19th of June, 17.00
Performance, Video and Drawings.
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MAY 15th, 2010

ARTPIE

Collaboration with Tom Milnes at the Art Fair Art Pie at Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam.
15th of May till 23th of May
Opening 15th of May
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APRIL 10th, 2010

PUBLISHED KAUWBOY

Zone 5300 spring issue arrived and Kauwboy got published!
Zone 5300 is a magazine for comics, culture and bric-à-brac.
Available in several Dutch and Belgium bookstores.
Get one before it’s too late!
For more information, go to Zone 5300
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JANUARY 1th, 2010

YEAR

A Fresh New Year to you all
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DECEMBER 23th, 2009

KILL YOUR DARLINGS æ THE SMILE OF ART

Manon and Renée van Trier will work on new experiments during their working period in Tæt from the 16th till the 23th of December. They are sisters and also related to their father, but not to the movie-director.
Manon van Trier is a multi disciplinary artist. She uses a wide arsenal of visual means to escape the absurdity of the world that surrounds us. The impossibility of escape leads to tragic comic images that really don’t want to be tragic or comic.
Renee van Trier is an artist who observes sharply. She plays with different media, like video, photography, performance, and music. Her work exists of intuitive reactions on the imagery of the world. The sculptural form of the body is an important subject in her work.
Opening Wednesday 23th at 19:00
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DECEMBER 1th, 2009

OVERNAME

The StadsGalerij Breda shall be taken over by young artists, designers, photographers and illustrators from the 1th till the 8th of December 2009. One whole week they will be exhibit their works in the StadsGalerij Breda. Opening 1th of December at 20:00, drinks and music will be there.
Participating artists: Lobke van Aar, Miriam Caspers, Maarten Donders, Sven Fritz, Paul Geelen, Ineke Goes, Hedof, Siri Hol, Holy Grey, Roel van de Laar, Michelle van Mil, Machteld Solinger, Manon van Trier, Sander Veill, Maaike Verwijs en Julie van Zessen.
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NOVEMBER 20th, 2009

POST PUNK PROGRESSION

The graphic designers from ATTAK (Peter Corsman en Casper Herselman) harass the world with their Powergestaltung for 5 years long. This fancifull term is a collective noun for their unique portrets, provocative slogans and other dauntless images. With grotesque gestures but without to many details they give their visual opinion. The raw and essential imagery has a lot of interfaces with punk, which also appear to be their favorite music genre.
This 5 year anniversary of ATTAK was the motive for the exhibition A+ earlier this year in the CBK Den Bosch. Post Punk Progression is a follow-up of this exhibition, where all the artists have a similar powerful and head to toe stripped imagery to complete the works of ATTAK. The work does not involve the ideology of punk, but the artists do have a punk attitude in which the DIY (Do It Yourself) process is extremely important.
What the four artists bind is a whole self imagery, which in they react on the world and at the same time create their own world. ATTAK is going crazy on the walls in the central space of KOP. They make graphic illustrations with an edge. The Swedish Photographer Charlott Markus reacts on the works from ATTAK with a monumental installation. There where ATTAK only uses the walls, the photo’s and the bright colored carpets from Charlott are spread over the whole space. In the side-space there is work shown of Yasser Ballemans e Manon van Trier. Manon creates absurd drawings that form a dialog with the ceramic works of Yasser. There arises a alienated world where the visitor could participate in.
ATTAK
Graphic Design Studio ATTAK creates images (since their establishment at 2004) that balance between graphic design, illustration and fine arts. They will describe this combination of styles in their own terms as Powergestaltung; images with an edge. ATTAK had an aversion from mediocrity and stands for independent and creative input. They strive to 100% pleasure and willfulness.
Charlot Markus
The Swedish Charlott Markus is invited to show the other side of ATTAK. With the help of photography she exposes their icons and inspiration. With bright colored carpets in the shape of an inferno, she leads the public trough an organized chaos.
Yasser Ballemans
The ’sculptures’ of Yasser Ballemans are made at the European Ceramic Work Center in Den Bosch. These sculptures are the have and hold between of art, object, design and game. The works plays with the apparent opposition between progressive and conservative, stagnation and agitation.
The qualification art sounds too formal, the qualification object too normal, the qualification design too incomplete and the qualification game too popular. In short, Yasser creates confusion. A quality on his own. Yasser was one of the co-founders of KOP.
Manon van Trier
Manon van Trier graduated at the department Fine Arts of the AKV St. Joost in Breda in 2009. She got inspired of the  sculptures of Yasser during a work period of two weeks at KOP.
Within she uses a wide arsenal of visual means to escape the absurdity of the world that surrounds us. The impossibility of escape leads to tragic comic images that really don’t want to be tragic or comic.
For more information, go to KOP.

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FEBRUARY 12th, 2009

CONCRETE DISK 2

My band Rik & Manon played a couple of songs at the wonderful WEI, together with all these other great artists! All artists where performing during the project Concrete Disk, shows that took place on the 12th of December and the 22th of May 2009 at WEI, Eindhoven. The shows where played by: The Romartuz Syndrome, The Pulse Projects, elChi, Autumnsun, Rik & Manon en Modder.
And now the first publication from the past Concrete Disk shows is out on CD! And tonight from 20:00 – 01:00 there’s a presentation of this lovely musical collaboration. Enjoy!
For more information, go to WEI.
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