about my work:
Oenema shows moments from ordinary every day life (actions, objects, thoughts) which she modifies just enough for them to lose their logic and normality. Her photo and video work is characterized by a dry sense of humor in which we see how individuals function within contemporary society full of unwritten and written rules, conventions, expectations and assumptions. Her work deals with the ways in which the result of this behavior, way of thinking or self expression might deviate from the social norm. It also focuses on the pressure that can be experienced because of these norms (Ways in which other people view the subject or person in question, and how the subject or this person then copes with this pressure).
With video, photography and sound, she documents the scenarios and usually performs as the main character. The work is based on her personal experience, that of people of her immediate environment, and on information gained from (scientific) research.
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Zaida Oenema (Groningen 1980) Lives and works in The Hague
Education
2007-2009 - Post St Joost, Master Photography,
Breda
2000-2004 - Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, BA-Photography
1999-2000 - Art academy Constantijn Huygens, Kampen, illustration/fine art
1997-1998 - Ålands Folkhögsskola, Åland, Finland, ‘konstlinjen’ (art & nordic crafts)
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2009 - ‘Table-top presentation’ at Stroom (centre for fine arts The Hague)
2009 - ‘Small Works XIII’, RAMfoundation in Rotterdam
2009 - ‘Fail Again Fail Better’, MK-gallery Berlin
2009 - ‘Lunch, Ha Ha and Other Works’, RAMfoundation, Rotterdam (duo)
2009 - ‘Yangzhou, a portret of a city’, traveling exhibion trough Brabant (south of Netherlands)
2008 - screening Lunch, Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam
2007 - ‘Whatever happened to...?’ Pricewinners Stroom-price for up and coming artists 2001 - 2007
2007 - ‘I.dentity’, Stichting KOP, Breda, i.c.w. Sylvia Korving
2007 - ‘TussenStaat / Phase’ - Bouw in Beeldprice, NAi Rotterdam
2005 - Seminar Continental Art Centre en the European Academy for Culture and Arts, SBI in Doorn
2004 - ‘Boer Berend’ installation during the Crossing Border festival, Royal theater of The Hague
2004 - ‘The choice of...’, Lily van Ginneken, Pricewinners Stroom-price for up and coming artists
2004 - ‘Het Grote wachten/ asielzoekers’, graduation-show, KABK, The Hague
2004 - ‘Het Grote wachten/ asielzoekers’, gradution-show, Movie theater ‘zaal 5’, The Hague
2004 - ‘Risico’, Verbond van Verzekeraars, KABK, The Hague
Nominations/Grants
2009 - Nomination after Live -pitch for ‘Call Slovakia’, artist in recidence 2010, Fonds bkvb
2009 - Material grant, Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude, The Hague
2007 - Participant Bouw in Beeldprice 2007
2004 - Stroom stimulerings price, The Hague for graduationshow 2004
2004 - Nomination 'Young Talent', Art-Olive
2003 - Nomination Fotoprice, Verbond van Verzekeraars
Publications
2009 - ‘In Beeld’, (with ‘Cake’) NRC Next, 23 juni 2009
2009 - ‘Cairo, Umm Iddunya’, (paper) AVK St. Joost Breda, p.4-5, edition 5000
2008 - ‘Yangzhou, a portret of a city’, (book) AVK St. Joost Breda, p.64-96, edition 1200
2008 - ‘Teheran’, in Next.One 003, July 2008 (magazine NRC.Next), p. 44/45 and 53
2007 - Catalogue GebouwGezichten, Bouw in Beeldprice, NAi and Ballast Nedam, edition 300
Other
2010 - Collaboration with Petar Todorov (director) for photoinstallation shown in the PI (prison) in Scheveningen (jan). Kosmopolis The Hague
2009 - Participant Dutch-Doc, for promotion Dutch photography in China - www.dutch-doc.nl, Fonds bkvb
2009 - assistant Jeroen Kooijmans for The Fish Pond Song, Hungary
2008 - assistant Jeroen Kooijmans fot The Finh Pond Song, NL
2006 - now, working on lithography projects for art-books, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag