Incidentally, Mike Rijnierse initiates exhibition projects taking the role of artist-curator. He has collaborated with cultural parties programing exhibitions, performances and festivals, such as TodaysArt, Rewire, and Golf Festival.
As a member of the artist-run space Quartair, he regularly contribute to the development and curation of exhibitions, performances, and other artistic projects.
“It is these positions between art and technology that can make ArtScience so surprising. Knowledge is limited, while imagination always goes further. Technology says something about how we understand the world, but it is also a simplification of our perception of the world. In the meantime, we are overwhelmed by all kinds of (commercial) information and we no longer see the forest through the trees as a result of which our perspective on and our actions in the world is shifting. Art, unlike technology, does not solve problems, but sometimes, like science, it can raise (fundamental) questions. It is a missed opportunity that there is so little attention for this within the culture of museums here in the Netherlands.” – Eric Vreedenburgh on ‘Locating ArtScience‘ (2017), ArchiNed
2024
In 2023 Stroom Young Talent Award, Mike Rijnierse has been invited to work with two KABK bachelors of his choice. He then selected the ArtScience Interfaculty graduates Myra-Ida van der Veen and Christian Schwarz to mentor over the course of one year (2023-2024). The Stroom Young Talent Award focuses on artistic development and on the broadening and strengthening of professional practice. Participating artists are supervised throughout the year by a established artist from The Hague and realize work plans for their professional practice in close consultation with the mentoring artist.
Myra-Ida van der Veen has developed the performance Second Breath, which was presented at Quartair during Rewire Festival, under the program Proximity Music of iii. Christian Schwartz has been exhibiting his work (inter)nationally since then.
2021 A State of Amplitude – Quartair, The Hague
An exhibition of sonic sculptures, instruments and sound transmitting vessels. This assemblage of actively sounding objects will remain open for compositional coincidences, new spatial conditions and modes of relation.
Participating artists: Natalia Domínguez Rangel (CO/NL/AT), Hans van Koolwijk (NL), Andreas Trobollowitsch (AT), Andre Bartetzki (DE), Wen Chin Fu (TW/NL), Mike Rijnierse & Rob Bothof (NL) and Louis Braddock Clarke (UK/NL).
2022 Golf Festival – 37PK, Pletterij, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
Participating artists: Deborah Mora & Virginia Vivaldi – Bond I – Mutualism, Wouter van Veldhoven – Minus, (Lea Fabrikant & Tarik Barri) – Zo, Kunrad – Streep 2, BAKÁH – Morphology of [ __ ], Anni Nöps & Wes Broersen, Gijs Levelt & Daniël Maarleveld – Spoken, Danai Belosinof & Elia Kalogianni – Lady Roach & other such stories, Rotterdam Electronic Improv Orchestra
2019 Golf Festival – 37PK, Pletterij, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
Participating artists: Carolien Teunisse & Lars Bijleveld, Hans van Koolwijk, Dewi de Vree, Arvid & Marie, Carolien Teunisse & Lars Bijleveld, TeZ & Federico Murgia, Gagi Petrovic, Yota Morimoto, Wen Chin Fu, Darien Brito, Dewi de Vree, Bas van Koolwijk & Gert-Jan Prins, Martijn van Boven & Gert-Jan Prins, Transtilla, Timo Hoogland, Jaromir Mulders
2019 Locating ArtScience – The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague
Participating artists: Zoë de Hond, Stefano Murgia, Sophia Bulgakova, Jezus Canuto Iglesias, Stefano Zucchini, Mike Rijnierse
2018 Golf Festival – 37PK, Pletterij, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
Participating artists: Rutger Zuydervelt & Joost Rekveld & Dirk Serries, Jaromir Mulders & Marlinde Vos, Oguz Büyükberber & Tobias Klein, Lucas Hoeben & Joost Nelissen, Nikki Hock, Mike Rijnierse & Rob Bothof, Sanne Huijbregts & Joost Lijbaart, Leeza Pritychenko & Fien, Gijs Gieskes, Mark IJzerman, Mariska de Groot, Vito Willems
2017 Locating ArtScience – The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague
Participating artists: Manuel Beltrán, Mischa Daams, Mike Rijnierse & Rob Bothof, Gabey Tjon a Tham, Philip Vermeulen, Bat-Erdene Batchuluun (Mongolia) and Bardo Frings
