upstream gallery » 2004

31 October - 19 December 2009

Pepo Salazar
‘Forgotten children conform a new faith’

8 March - 3 May

Jen Liu
‘Insurrection for a million or one’

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8-12 February 2007

ART ROTTERDAM
Groupshow with Marc Bijl, Katrina Daschner, Dennis Rudolph, Pepo Salazar and Rob Voerman

15 December 2006 - 22 January 2007

Dirk van Lieshout
Models, drawings and video

detail of a maquette ‘Untitled’ 2006.

December 2006

NADA Art Fair
Grouppresentation with Cristian Andersen, Marc Bijl, Dennis Rudolph, Pepo Salazar, Lucy Wood

21 October - 25 November

Katrina Daschner
‘nature, nature I’m your bride,
take me as I am’

October 2006

Art Forum Berlin
Solo-presentation with Marc Bijl
Presentations with Jeroen Jongeleen and Jen Liu in the curated groupshow Big City Lab

Marc Bijl ‘A search into the Nature of Society’ 2005/06.

Artnews Projects
Artnews Projects is the experimental space of Artnews.info. In October 2006 Artnews Projects presented its first exhibition with Cristian Andersen, Marc Bijl, David Haines and Lucy Wood, curated by Nieck de Bruijn, Upstream Gallery Amsterdam.

Upstream-show at Artnews Projects, Brunnenstrasse 190, Berlin

2 September - 14 October 2006

Dennis Rudolph
New paintings and drawings

‘Blut und Boden’ 2006. Oil on canvas, 220×200 cm

June 2006

LISTE ART FAIR 06, Basel
Grouppresentation with Cristian Andersen, Marc Bijl, David Haines, Jeroen Jongeleen and Lucy Wood

22 April - 30 June

David Haines
Drawings, Songs and Video

Capture of Venus
Almost everyone longs for meaningful contact, whether it is through involvement in a public event or a private interaction. In fact, even seemingly aggressive acts can reveal vulnerability in this regard, which attests to the truly complex nature of human relations.

British artist, David Haines, creates contemplative and obsessive drawings, songs, and videos to connect with the unfamiliar — he offers personal representations of the anonymous figures central to his voyeuristic pursuits, he locates poetic contexts in ambiguous texts drawn from online forums and, through his observations, seemingly banal scenarios prove to be extraordinarily multifaceted. Haines knows there is always more than meets the eye, and he invites audiences to join him the search for that which lies beneath the surface.

May 2006

ART AMSTERDAM
Grouppresentation with Katrina Daschner, Dirk van Lieshout, Dennis Rudolph, Rob Voerman, Lucy Wood

11 March - 15 April 2006

Pepo Salazar
‘Rich bitch with stinking slit /
sits on slim kid’s stiff dick /
Drink and lick / Think a hit.’

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Since 1990 Salazar has been working on videoperformance, video, sound, drawing, installation and photography.

In his work Salazar spectacularly twists and manipulates concepts from their etymological base. Concepts that historically had a utopic and subversive connotation are metamorphosed completely through the language of the media and what possibilities of persuasion these new meanings have. The result of this mutations is a collection of depoliticised images, words and strategies adapted to neoliberal ideology and marketing.
The work of Pepo Salazar tries to show and criticise these aspects and includes elements that belong to the artistic sphere, to subversive positions found on the fringe of politics, to the operative capacity of cultural projects in a society which definitely does not understand complex political language.

21 January - 4 March 2006

Jeroen Jongeleen

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Jeroen Jongeleen’s sticker and graffiti actions counter the standardized
and commercialized inner-city spaces with subtle interventions. Under the
label ‘Influenza’ - referring to its potential effect as uninvited
distorted of the common, creating an alias for the maker at the same time
- Jongeleen continuously develops new signs, figures and texts. He often
makes direct reference to the hegemony of architectural structures and
public advertising displays, shifts or supplements their visual codes.
Jeroen Jongeleen grasps his work not only as an activist strategy, but
also as an examination of the possibilities of artistic expression in
public space.

8 dec 2005 - 15 januari 2006

Laura Parnes
Blood and Guts in High School
8 dec - 15 januari

Upstream Gallery will show a series of video’s titled ‘Blood and Guts in High School’ by Laura Parnes. A series of video installations that re-imagine punk-feminist icon Kathy Acker’s book of the same title. The book was written from 1978-1982 during the rise of Reagan republicanism and the emergence of punk rock. In Parnes’ interpretation, each video-chapter presents a typical scene in the life of Janie bracketed by US news events from the time period in which the book was written. These events saturate the character’s daily experience, informing her adolescent, nihilistic worldview and her desire for rebellion. As the viewer looks back at pivotal historical events (Jonestown Massacre, Moral Majority, Three Mile Island etc.) connections are drawn in relation to our current political situation. From the fashions to the oil crises to the religious fanaticism, the times seem interchangeable.

December 2005

NADA ART FAIR, MIAMI
Groeppresentation with Cristian Andersen, Marc Bijl, Jeroen Jongeleen, Jen Liu, Pepo Salazar, Lucy Wood

15 October - 19 November 2005

Jen Liu
‘The Last Four Seasons’ / solo-exhibition

October 2005

ART FORUM BERLIN
Grouppresentation with Cristian Andersen, Marc Bijl, David Haines, Pepo Salazar, Rob Voerman, Lucy Wood

3 September - 8 October 2005

Cristian Andersen
‘A Chair Afraid of the Mouse’ / solo-exhibition

June 2005

LISTE ART FAIR 05, Basel
Grouppresentation with Cristian Andersen, Marc Bijl, Folkert de Jong

June / July 2005

Daniela Wolfer & Pepo Salazar

May 2005

ART AMSTERDAM
Solo-presentation with Folkert de Jong in the ART Amsterdam Prize 2004 booth
Grouppresentation with Cristian Andersen, Marc Bijl, Folkert de Jong, Jan Kempenaers