STUDIO ROGIER DELFOS

OBJECT!ONS: Forms of Abstraction, Vol. 1
Sven Lütticken
November 2022
Sternberg Press
16×22 cm, 432 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-530-5

Book design by Rogier Delfos

Studio Rogier Delfos

Geldersekade 74
1012BL Amsterdam
The Netherlands

info@rogierdelfos.net

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PUBLICATIONS

2022
(Upcoming) Werker 2 — A Gestural History of the Young Worker. Spector Books. Leipzig, Germany.

2022
Museums from the Inside — 60 Years of CIMAM. Hatje Cantz Verlag. Berlin, Germany.

2022
Forms of Abstraction Vol.1: Objections. Sven Lütticken. Sternberg Press. London, United Kingdom.

2019
Werker Materials 4/5/6 — Memòria Popular d’un Barri Obrer’ Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona, Werker Collective.

2017
365 Days of Invisible Work, co-published with Casco Utrecht, Spector Books Leipzig and Werker Collective Amsterdam. The Netherlands.

2017
Sobre las Pedagogias Queer, la Sospecha y el Genero, CA2M, Madrid, Spain.

2017
Schooling & Culture — The State We’re In, The Showroom, London, UK.

2016
Werker Materials — On Art Education. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2016
Werker 2 — A Spoken History of the Young Worker, Krakow, Poland / Winterthur, Switzerland.

2015
Jimmy Durham, The Same River Twice, DAZ Deutsche Architektur Zentrum, Berlin, Germany.

2015
In Some Place of Avoiding an Animal, South London Gallery, London, UK.

2014
Art in Europe After ’68. S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium.

2014
The Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook (feature). Casco. Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2014
Project 1975 (feature). SMBA. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2014
Prospects & Concepts (feature). Mondriaan Fonds. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2013
Werker 6 — Cinema Diary. San Serriffe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2013
Werker Sweatshop y Los Abecedarios del con Icto (article). A*Desk, Barcelona, Spain.

2013
Fotografía para leer (article). El Pais, Madrid, Spain.

2013
Werker Sweatshop: La vida penosa de los artistas (feature). El Pais, Madrid, Spain.

2012
Werker 7 — The Language of Revolution. l’espai cultural caja madrid, Barcelona, Spain.

2012
Our Work Is Never Over Exhibition Catalogue. Matadero Contemporary Art Center. Madrid, Spain.

2012
Werker 6 — Cinema Diary. Matadero Contemporary Art Center. Madrid, Spain.

2012
Werker 5 — Photography Lesson 01. Scapegoat, Issue 02. Toronto, Canada.

2011
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (article) The Visual Artbeat, Issue 7. Salzburg, Austria.

2011
De eindjes aan elkaar knopen (feature) Tubelight, September / October 2011. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2011
Alternatieven als antwoord op het kapitalisme (feature) Art, September 2011. Antwerpen, Belgium.

2011
Werker 4 — An Economical Portrait of the Young Artist, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. The Netherlands.

2011
1979, a Monument to Radical Moments (feature). Frieze Magazine, June 2011. London, UK.

2011
Werker 2 — A Visual History of the Young Worker. La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain.

2011
Utolab — ITS Festival 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2010
NIMBY End Exam Designlab Rietveld Academie Publication.

2010
Trajectory Studies, Esmee Geerken. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2010
For Potatoes We’ve Got Potatoes, Jort van der Laan. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2010
The Express Show with Charlotte Rooijackers, Trans-Siberia Express, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2010
Missed Opportunity, Jort van der Laan. Wyspa Art Institute, Poland.

2009
Rietveld Magazine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2009
Werker ABC — A Post-Marxist Illustrated Reader, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

EXHIBITIONS

2021
Place on Earth. Yeltsin Center Gallery. Yekaterinburg, Russia.

2020
In the Presence of Absence: Proposals for the Museum Collection. Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2019
Werker 2 — A Gestural History of the Young Worker. 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art. Yekaterinburg, Russia.

2019
Der Amateur. Vom bauhaus zu Instagram. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. Hamburg, Germany.

2019
‘Setze Barris, Mil Ciutats’ El Borsí. Barcelona, Spain.

2018
A Short Century: MACBA Collection. MACBA. Barcelona, Spain.

2018
Fanfare Inc. Manifesta 12 Parallel Events. Palermo, Italy.

2018
‘werker 10 — escola de fotografia popular’ fundació antoni tàpies. barcelona, spain.

2018
‘queer 2 peer cine club’ cca ujazdowsky castle. warsaw, poland.

2018
Preliminary Studies Towards de Nieuwe Nieuwsmarkt. 2 Unlimited. De Appel Center for Contemporary Art. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2018
365 Days of Invisible Work / The Jo Spence Memorial Archive. Tenderbooks. London, U.K.

2017
Photographs as a public space. Arts Santa Monica. Barcelona, Spain.

2017
École de photographie populaire / Werker 10 — Community Darkroom, FRAC Marseille, France.

2017
Werker Correspondent, Collectives and their quest for values. FOAM Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2017
All Heal Valerian — Rongwrong. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2016
Werker 2 — A Spoken History of The Young Worker, Fotomuseum Wintertur / Manifesta 2016 (collatoral programme). Winterthur, Switzerland.

2016
Werker Correspondent, Galeria Servando, Havana, Cuba

2016
Werker 2 — A Spoken History of The Young Worker, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland

2016
Werker 4 — An Economic Portrait of the young Artist, Visceral Blue, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain

2015
Young Worker’s Camera (Werker 10 — Community Darkroom), Motion / Labour / Machinery, TENT Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2015
Werker 10 — Community Darkroom, MAST Gallery, Bologna, Italy

2015
Werker Correspondent, Centro de Investigacion Tecnicamente Imprevisible, Sala de Arte Joven. Madrid, Spain

2015
Werker 10 — Community Darkroom, CA2M, Mostoles (Madrid), Spain

2015
Sin Oficio, ni Beneficio, Collateral show of the XII Havana Biennial 2015. Cuba

2015
J4DW Living Archive with Justice For Domestic Workers, Beyond Evidence, Derby, U.K.

2014 / 2015
Werker 7 — The Language of Revolution (Index), On the Move, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014
Puisqu’on vous dit que c’est possible. Saline Royale. Arc-et-Senans, France.

2014
Werker 7 — The Language of Revolution Index, On the Move, Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014
In No Particular Order. Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2014
Werker ABC, Soft [cover] revolution / Indisciplinadas. Madrid, Spain.

2014
Werker 10 — Community Darkroom, Communal Knowledge, The Showroom, London, U.K.

2014
Prospects & Concepts Mondriaan Fonds. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2014
Werker 4 — An Economic Portait of the Young Artist, Commonplaces, Can Felipa. Barcelona, Spain

2013
Werker 7 — the Language of Revolution, San Serriffe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2013
Werker Overview, Reading, Leo Xu Projects. Shanghai, China

2013
Werker 4 — An Economic Portait of the Young Artist , (des)okupados, Kiosko Galeria. Santa Cruz, Bolivia

2013
Werker 3 Library, Public Relations, 1st of May Public Library. Moscow, Russia

2013
Werker Sweatshop, Werker 7 — the Language of Revolution (Index), Galeria Garcia, Madrid, Spain

2013
The Grand Domestic Revolution Goes On, CCA, Derry London-Derry, Northern Ireland

2012
Composicio de lloc III, l’espai cultural caja madrid, barcelona, Spain

2012
The Grand Domestic Revolution — User’s Manual, The Showroom, London, U.K.

2012
Born in Flames — Resistance, Ellen de Bruijne Projects. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2012
Our Work Is Never Over, Matadero Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain

2011 / 2012
The Grand Domestic Revolution User’s Manual, Casco (Office for Art, Design and Theory). Utrecht, The Netherlands

2011
Informality. Art, economics, precarity, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. The Netherlands

2011
1979, A Monument to Radical Instants La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain

2010
NIMBY End exam show publication & window typography for DesignLab Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2010
Missed Opportunity with Jort van der Laan, Wyspa Art Institute in Poland

2010
Next Time I’m Here, I’ll Really Be There — Group exhibition in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

EVENTS

2022
CIMAM Annual Conference. The Attentive Museum. Permeable Practices for a Common Ground. Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Spain.

2022
The Shelf. Plattform & Festival für Künstlerisches Publizieren. Hannover, Germany.

2021
Art Worker Rights. Universidad del Pais Vasco. Bilbao, Spain.

2021
Planetary campus: Kitchen. Dutch Art Institute. Roaming Academy, Artez. Arnhem, The Netherlands.

2021
Textiles of Resistance: Growing, Weaving, Printing, Archiving‘ with Art Worker Rights, Queer Reproduction, We Sell Reality and Studio Bonbon. Rijksakdemie van Beeldende Kusten & Sonsbeek 20–24, The Netherlands.

2021
Art Practice and its Significance. Mehrdimensionale Strategien. Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany.

2021
Imaging the Sonic. Decolonial Futures Exchange Program. Sonsbeek 20–24, Sandberg Institute, Framer Framed, Amsterdam and Funda Community College, Soweto, South Africa.

2021
Communal Knowledge. MRES Art: Exhibition Studies. Central Saint-Martins. London, UK.

2021
CIMAM Annual Conference. Under Pressure. Museums in Times of Xenophobia and Climate Emergency. Museum Sztuki Lodz & Nomus New Art Museum in Gdansk, Poland.

2020–2021
Politics of Sleep with Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga. Collective Practices Research program. KKH Stockholm, Sweden.

2020
Technologies of Care. Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2020
(Un)Spoken Archives. Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Broadcasted on Radio AlHara (Palestine) and JaJaJaNeeNeeNee (The Netherlands).

2019
Werker Materials 4/5/6 — Memòria Popular d’un Barri Obrer. Sala Pepita Casanellas, Barcelona.

2019
CIMAM Annual Conference. The 21st Century Art Museum: Is Context Everything? Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Sydney, Australia.

2018
Preliminary Studies Towards de Nieuwe Nieuwsmarkt. De Appel Center for Contemporary Art. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2018
Queer 2 Peer, Militant Cinema Club. Ujazdowski Center for Contemporary Art. Warschau, Poland.

2018
365 Days of Invisibile Work. Tenderbooks, London, U.K.

2017
365 Días de Trabajo Invisible with Sindihogar, Mujeres Pa’lante, Las Libélulas and the Mujeres Migradas y Diversas collective. MACBA, Spain.

2017
365 Days of Invisibile Work. Casco Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2017
Rebel Rebel. Frac, Marseille. France.

2017
The best photography books of the year. PHotoEspaña / Biblioteca Nacional de España. Madrid, Spain.

2017
Signals from the Periphery. Tallinn Art Hall. Tallinn, Estonia.

2016
The Applicant, Salon Lisette Smits, The Dutch Embassy in Berlin, Germany.

2016
Werker 2 — Image act. As a part of SITUATIONS/Proletariats & the collatoral program of Manifesta 11, Zurich. Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.

2016
Werker 2 — Image act. Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland.

2016
Working Together, The Impact of Artists on Institutions. East Contemporary Visual Arts, Southend on Sea, U.K.

2015
12th Historical Materialism Conference SOAS, University of London, U.K.

2015
Werker Magazine & Julian Stallabras Courtauld Institute of Art. London, U.K.

2015
Werker Magazine & Jorge Ribalta University College of London, U.K.

2015
Work + work + workshop, Tetterode M4. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2015
Social Art Map, J4DW, Werker Magazine & Louise Shelley. Birkbeck University. London, U.K.

2015
Werker Magazine & Willem de Kooning, De Punt. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2015
On the move: Image-text-print-screen, Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2014
All You Can Read!, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2014
Sin Oficio, ni beneficio, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. La Habana, Cuba.

2014
New grammars of the body in protest, Kunstraum. London, U.K.

2014
Domestic Work is Work’,Tensta Konsthall. Stockholm, Sweden.

2014
Werker 10 — Community Darkroom, INBA. Tetouan, Morocco.

2014
Werker 7 — The Language of Revolution, San Serriffe. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2013
Offprint, Art publishing fair. Beaux-arts de Paris, France.

2013
Werker 9 — Radical Sports Centre, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2013
Marginal Studies, Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2013
Work Like This, Tate Modern, London, U.K.

2013
Revolution at Point Zero, with Silvia Federici. Casco. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2012
Werker Magazine Overview, La Central del Raval, Barcelona Spain.

2012
Werker goes to The NY ArtBook Fair, Casco & Witte de With. The NY ArtBook Fair, U.S.A.

2012
Access Denied. Conference on Social Protection and Migration, UvA. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2012
Born in Flames — Resistance, Ellen de Bruijne Projects. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2011
Kitchen 139— Ask! (Actie Schone Kunsten) & Werker Magazine. W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2011
See it Again, Say it Again: The Artist as Researcher’ Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2011
Town meeting September. ‘Respect and Recognition for Domestic Work’ Casco (Of ce for Art, Design and Theory) Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2011
Informality – A new collectivity. Ask! (Actie Schone Kunsten). Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2010
The Express show, shown on the Trans-Siberian Express.

2009 & 2011
Dancing, performance with Alexandra Bachzetsis, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — Kulturcentrum, Basel / Switserland.

TEACHING & WORKSHOPS

2022
Reproduction: Subtitle, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2022
Respondant, Dutch Art Institute Roaming Academy. The Netherlands.

2021
Reassessing colour from the Margins, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2021
Issue 0—kiosk. Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2020–2021
The Right to Rest with Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga. Collective practices research program. KKH Stockholm, Sweden.

2020
Technologies of Care. Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2020
(un)Spoken Archives’ Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. broadcasted on Radio Alhara (Palestine) and JA JA JA, NEE NEE NEE (The Netherlands).

2021
Respondant, Dutch Art Institute Roaming Academy. The Netherlands.

2020
Respondant, Dutch Art Institute Roaming Academy. The Netherlands.

2019
(Un)Common Views, EKA. Tallin, Estonia.

2019
The Giant Floating Eyeball KABK. Den Haag, The Netherlands.

2018
Why Work. MA Program St Lucas School of Arts. Antwerp, Belgium. (upcoming)

2017
Bilderkritik 11: Street. Casco. Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2016/2017
Graphic Design Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2016
Master of Voice Sandberg Institute. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2015
Young Worker’s Camera / Motion, Machinery and Labour, TENT Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2015
Community Darkroom, Fondazione MAST Gallery, Bologna, Italy.

2015
Community Darkroom, CA2M, Mostoles, Madrid, Spain.

2015
Young Worker’s Camera, Pablo Neruda, Mostoles, Madrid, Spain.

2015
Young Worker’s Camera, Galeria Moderna, Havana, Cuba.

2015
Bilderkritik, Critical Studies, Sandberg Institute / Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2014
Community Darkroom, CA2M, Mostoles, Madrid, Spain.

2014
Werker 11 — Class Theory, Gerrit Rietveld Academie / Graphic Design Department, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2014
Werker 9 — Sports Center,Gerrit Rietveld Academie / Graphic Design Department, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2014
Bilderkritik, Tensta Kunsthalle & The Showroom / Stockholm, Sweden.

2014
Bilderkritik, Indisciplinadas / Madrid, Spain.

2014
Bilderkritik, Commonplaces, Sindi Hogar / Barcelona, Spain.

2013
Marginal Studies, Gerrit Rietveld Academie / Graphic Design Department, Amsterdam The Netherlands.

2013
Bilderkritik, Nineto ve / San Marti Vell (Girona), Spain.

2013
Bilderkritik, City of Women / Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2013
Bilderkritik, 1st of May Library, Public Relations / Moskou, Russia.

2013
Bilderkritik, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.

2013
Bilderkritik, The Showroom, London, United Kingdom.

2012
Bilderkritik, Casco of ce for Art, Design & Theory, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

EDUCATION

2015 – 2017
Master of Fine Arts / Critical Theory, Critical Studies, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2005 – 2009
Bachelor of Design / Graphic Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

WEBSITES

2018
www.cimam.org — International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art / under construction

2017
www.werkermagazine.org — Werker 3 — Domestic Worker Photographer Network

2017
Werker Correspondent — Werker Correspondent launch page / Foam Amsterdam.

2016
www.werkermagazine.org — Werker 2 — Image Act Sound Archive.

2013
www.atelierzz.nl — a project by Architectuur Lokaal.

2013
www.cimam.org — International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art.

2012
www.werkermagazine.org — Domestic Worker Photographer Network.

2012
www.christophgielen.com.

2011
www.werkermagazine.org — Call for contribution!.

2011
www.ninetfive.es.

COLLECTIONS

2019
Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona, Spain.

2018
Camera Austria Library. Graz, Austria.

2017
Centro de Documentación Musac. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de León, Spain.

2016
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.

2016
MACBA / Yearly acquisitions programme, Werker 7 — The Language of Revolution Index. Barcelona, Spain.

2015
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Yearly acquisitions programme, Werker 7 — The Language of Revolution Index. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2013
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Yearly acquisitions programme, Werker 4 — An Economic Portrait of the Young Artist. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

GRANTS & RESIDENCY & AWARDS

2020–2021
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2018
AIR Artist in Residency. U-Jazdowski Center for Contemporary Art. Warschau, Poland.

2016
Photobook Awards 2016. Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards (finalist).

2016
Research & Exhibition grant for Werker 2 — A Spoken History of the Young Worker Mondriaan Fund, The Netherlands.

2015
Production grant Werker 3 — 365 Days of Domestic Work. Stimuleringfonds, The Netherlands.

2014
Research & Production grant Werker 10 — Community Darkroom. Fondazione MAST. Bologna, Italy.

2014
Art residency Saline Royale. Arc et Senans, France.

2013
Research grant Werker 3 – Bilderkritik. Stimuleringsfonds, The Netherlands.

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