Various artists
Panorama Zuidvleugel

For many centuries the Dutch landscape has inspired artists. One of these landscapes, the Zuidvleugel (located in the Randstad in between Dordrecht, The Hague, Leiden and Gouda) is made up of various villages and cities and represents a cohesive ‘network city’ spread out over the Dutch landscape. This region has always been remodeling itself, forcing the landscape to change along with it. Many examples of these changes can be found in the Dutch heritage of landscape art. Indeed the Dutch 17th Century painters were the first to use this landscape as their object and many other painters followed. Panorama Zuidvleugel will present how contemporary artists experience and visualize the present-day landscape in the Zuidvleugel. The aim is to contribute to how we experience this (urban)landscape and to offer new insight into how Zuid-Holland can be further developed.
The voyage of discovery through this region resulted in three projects: Hollandse Pracht by Philippe Terrier-Hermann, 110 36 zuidvleugel by Mateusz Herczka and Vleesreizen.nl by Hootchie Cootchie & Willem de Ridder. In addition, work by students from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague will be presented. These students collaborated alongside the other artists.
The exhibition Panorama Zuidvleugel can be visited from 21 September through 4 November 2007 in the Scheltema Complex in Leiden. During this period a number of subsidiary programs will also take place in various locations in the Zuidvleugel. Together they will offer a multifaceted image of the past, present and future of the Zuidvleugel.
Panorama Zuidvleugel was initiated by Atelier Zuidvleugel, in collaboration with Kunstgebouw and SKOR (Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte).

Mateusz Herczka
//110 36 zuidvleugelV by the Polish/Swedish artist Mateusz Herczka interprets the Zuidvleugel as a function of time. By processing video images, she created an extraordinarily wide moving image of the landscape. The footage was shot at different speeds and juxtaposed so that a fluid panorama emerges, acting as a work of monumental landscape art.
110 36 zuidvleugel will also be screened from Friday 7 through Sunday 9 September in the Netherlands Architecture Institute during the ‘De Wereld van Witte de With’ festival in Rotterdam.

Philippe Terrier-Hermann
For Hollandse Pracht Philippe Terrier-Hermann interviewed 93 people about their relationship with the Zuidvleugel. He then photographed these places, which resulted in a unique and multifaceted visual archive of the landscape. The photographs were compiled in a book and can also be viewed in their original formats during the exhibition.
The publication Hollandse Pracht was published by Veenman Publishers, price: 30 euros, ISBN 9789086901098.
The Zaterdags Bijvoegsel (the Saturday supplement) published a 3-part selection of Hollandse Pracht, which appeared on 21 July, 4 August and 18 August 2007 respectively.

Hootchie Cootchie & Willem de Ridder
Hootchie Cootchie & Willem de Ridder offer visitors to the virtual travel agency, Vleesreizen.nl, trips to the past. For example, there’s a road trip to the Zuidvleugel in its 2007 state, a time when it was decided that one of the smallest countries in the world would be transformed into one of the largest cities, i.e. Nederstad (‘Nether City’). This trip can be downloaded on www.vleesreizen.nl
A special version of the road trip can be experienced during the exhibition.

Kristinsson, Cruz, Rensman and Werlich
Students of the Royal Academy of Arts also created new landscape art. For example, Helgi Kristinsson (IJsland) transferred sound from one location in the Zuidvleugel to another, causing the area to be experienced in a new way. Melissa Cruz (Columbia) created a work with the most recycled object in the Netherlands: the plastic bag. Matthijs Rensman and Alexandra Werlich (the Netherlands) set out in search of dubious places in the Zuidvleugel, including a ‘vinex estate’ in Schiedam.

Panorama Zuidvleugel
21 September through 4 November
De Lakenhal in Scheltema, Marktsteeg 1 (corner Oude Singel), Leiden
Opening times: Tuesday through Sunday, 12.00 – 5.00 pm, free entrance
www.lakenhal.nl
www.panoramazuidvleugel.nl

Subsidiary program
Pass travel ‘Een virtuele tijdreis naar Nederstad’ (virtual time travels to Nether City)
As part of the Panorama Zuidvleugel exhibition, SKOR (Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte) is organizing an excursion to Vleesreizen.nl (the project by Hootchie Cootchie & Willem de Ridder) on 19 October 2007. Visual arts are becoming increasingly implemented in urban development projects in the Dutch landscape. The question remains: is this a good idea?
Following the trip we will visit the exhibition in De Lakenhal Scheltema in Leiden.
Friday 19 October, departure: 1.00 pm
//For more information and to view the full program, please visit://
www.skor.nl

The Dutch 17th Century painters were the first to use the Dutch landscape as their object. The Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden will present 17th Century landscapes from its own collection. Painters like Esaias van de Velde and Jan van Goyen created familiar landscapes featuring dunes and beaches, canals with windmills and estuaries with ships, villages and dykes. Although these ingredients, as depicted in the 17th Century landscape art, directly reflected reality, the compositions were scrupulously arranged. Also, the landscapes invariably give an idealized image of their residents and do not include the poverty or social injustice that marked this era. The landscapes from the Lakenhal collection compare nicely with the contemporary landscape in Panorama Zuidvleugel (located in the Scheltema next to the museum).
21 September through 4 November
Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Oude Singel 28-32, Leiden
www.lakenhal.nl

Stroom Den Haag will show two aspects of the Zuidvleugel’s ‘identity’: the Zuidvleugel as image and as product. Work by Philippe Terrier-Hermann will be presented, as well as work by students from the Art Center Los Angeles. The latter envisioned the future of the Zuidvleugel while keeping in mind that the Zuidvleugel can and must distinguish itself from other areas. To achieve this they developed products that generate, support and distribute these identities.
7 September – 7 October
Stroom The Hague, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
www.stroom.nl

The RAP Architectuurcentrum in Leiden is hosting the exhibition Tussenruimte?. This exhibition focuses on new ways of perceiving and dealing with the landscape. In order to do this the internal logic of the landscape needed to be explored in terms of ecological, economical, social, spatial and cultural factors. In addition, Tussenruimte? aims to raise communal awareness about the landscape as being a strategic treasure that represents the communal property of all of Zuidvleugel’s ‘actors’.
19 October – 1 December
RAP Architectuurcentrum, Nieuwstraat 33, Leiden
www.rapsite.nl

Miscellaneous activities
A variety of other activities will also take place during the Panorama Zuidvleugel, including guided bus trips through the Zuidvleugel, tours and workshops by Atelier Zuidvleugel.
www.atelierzuidvleugel.nl
Six tours in Scheltema and De Lakenhal
Every Sunday between 30 Sep through 4 Nov 2007 at 2.30 pm (length of tour: 1 hour)
Costs (entrance incl. a tour ): € 4.00