Group exhibition with AIDS 3-D, Dario d’Aronco, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Marco Fedele di Catrano, Marc Bijl, Kimberly Clark, Koen Delaere, Piet Dieleman, Jeroen Doorenweerd, Wineke Gartz, Martijn Hendriks, Anita Hrnic, Bas van den Hurk, Sandra Kranich, Marijn van Kreij, Paul Lee, Cary Loren, Isa Melsheimer, Theo Michael, Hester Oerlemans, David Ostrowski, Benjamin Roth, Felix Schramm, Lieven Segers, Remco Torenbosch, V/Vm

The Destroyed Room I, February 26 2010, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
The Destroyed Room II, March 5 2010, Perron 58, Tilburg
Presented by Whatspace and Galerie im Regierungsviertel / Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin

Group exhibition with Lucas & Jason Ajemian, Alessandro Bosetti, Patrick Cadenhead, Keren Cytter, Caitlin Denny, Nic Djandji, Joseph Ernst, Claire L. Evans, Martijn Hendriks, Matt Lipps, Gareth Long, Rashaad Newsome, Alee Peoples, Kristine Thompson, Wu Ingrid Tsang. Curated by Jamillah James

January 29 – March 27, 2010
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland

Group exhibition with Harm van den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart, Martijn Hendriks, JODI, Oliver Laric and others. Curated by Petra Heck, Annet Dekker and Constant Dullaart.

November 28, 2009 – February 6, 2010
Opening Friday November 27, 5 pm
Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Amsterdam

Group exhibition with Dave Griffiths, Martijn Hendriks, Stuart Croft, curated by Michael Cousin.

10 October – 14 November 2009, preview Friday 9th October 6:30 – 9pm, g39, Cardiff, UK

Curated by Stoffel Debuysere and Maria Palacios Cruz, in cooperation with Courtisane. With works by Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin, Mary Helena Clark, Joseph Ernst, Simon Faithfull, Stephen Gray, Dave Griffiths, Max Hattler, Martijn Hendriks, David O’Reilly, Nicolas Provost, Michael Robinson, Stewart Smith

4 & 5 September 2009, Zuidas, Amsterdam

More on CASZUIDAS, Courtisane, Diagonal thoughts

Screening of video works by various artists curated by Pascual Sisto

July 25th, 8pm, De Soto Gallery, Los Angeles

Presentation of XXXXXXXXX in the Expanded Field and Flat Black Sculpture series in collaboration with Private Circulation and Rhizome, June 24 – 28, 2009. Opening Reception: June 23, 6-9 pm

No Soul for Sale, X-Initiative, New York

New Wave, group exhibition curated by Miltos Manetas and Jan Aman.

New Wave, Padiglione Internet, a Collateral Event of the 53rd Venice Biennale, June 3rd until 22 November 2009

Solo exhibition curated by Nicole Edwards, opening May 1 – June 20 2009. Exhibition text and interview.

MIC Toi Rerehiko, Auckland, New Zealand

Martijn Hendriks, Jason Lazarus, Harm van den Dorpel, Tracky Birthday, Chris Buck
April 30 – May 7, 2009

The Future Gallery, Berlin

Nicole Edwards: Your work is said to address ‘the conditions under which non-productive gestures become productive’. In what ways may a gesture be considered productive or unproductive in the context of your practice?

Martijn Hendriks: Much of my recent work somehow involves doing things that could be considered unproductive; for example removing, extracting or misplacing things, using cheap effects while addressing grave subjects, editing out essential information from found images or videos and redistributing them.

Full interview

Martijn Hendriks is a Dutch contemporary artist who works with found images and video. Selecting from an abundance of defaced and marginalized media he wages a low-key struggle to dissolve the misinformed haze that permeates image searches and suburban videography. By salvaging and promoting a variety of different source material, and through systematic alteration and redistribution of that material, he explores inherent paradoxes in today’s society.

Full interview

Martijn Hendriks is a Dutch artist working in a variety of media who has variously healed Britney Spears, abused Google Images and found a way to make the men in the film 12 Angry Men a little less angry. His on-going, long-term project (untitled), in which he digitally removes every bird from Hitchcock’s classic The Birds, has gotten him a whole lot of attention. If you’re asking yourself “What the fuck?”, Hendriks might respond, “Exactly.” In this interview he talks about icons, the art of uncertainty and how not being able to light fireworks one New Years in Brussels informed his work.

Interview by Paula Neudorf

José Manuel López Fernández:
When I got to your project what attracted my attention was, first, the direct intervention on the almost “sacred” images of one of Hitchcock’s most respected films and, then, the concept that lays behind the title you selected. So, just a couple of questions about these two points:

How did you get to this idea — removing the birds from The Birds? What was the conceptual or personal route — if any — that led you to it?

Full interview (English), article (pdf in Spanish)