Danielle Brans
Beeldend kunstenaar
The strength and fragility of life fascinate me. I use performance and the physicality of the human body as a vehicle to explore emotions. In particular, the restrictions that life imposes on us as a result of pain or exhaustion intrigue me.
I investigate feelings by challenging my body to a point that is no longer comfortable. Sometimes, in order to confront a barrier, I blindfold myself, or impose a physical and mental constriction such as hanging myself in a harness. This limits me to move freely, for me it shows everybody has a certain background, patterns in life and physical borders, The harness represents this.
The choices I make about my clothing or the objects I use, have ceremonial references.
I research the extremities of physical and emotional duality. I take my very own strong and hard to deal with suppressed emotions and turn it into something graceful and elegant. An example of this is slowly crushing hardened charcoal with my hands, suspending myself from a beam and through the ensuing pain, creating a moving drawing with my feet.
Video’s
Role model
In peace and quiet
Past, present, future
Piñata
Stoned
Sweaterparty
Pendulum 2
Ja/Nee
Vitruvius man 1
Clean call
Shedding Skin – Instagram live
CV
Sweaterparty
performance bij evenement Bas Kosters in Amsterdam, 23 april 2017
Ja/Nee
performance met Petra de Vries tijdens de week van de autonome kunst Nijmegen, 26 maart 2017
Pendulum
performance tijdens de week van de autonome kunst in Nijmegen, 26 maart 2017
Piñata
performance bij “de Veldstraat pakt uit” bij kunstenaars initiatief whitesuit projections in Nijmegen, 18 december 2016
Vitruvius man
performance en expositie bij unexposed/exposed Weurt, 20 en 21 augustus 2016
Unexposed/exposed
Kunstroute Beuningen,17 en 18 september 2011
Kunstingang
Five Years After, Ten Kate, Ter Appelkanaal, 8 mei 2011
Museum De TwentseWelle
Enschede 12 juni 2009
Internationaal Performance Event
Wlfrt Projectspaces Rotterdam, 29 november 2008
Rijksmuseum Twente
De Nacht van Beeld en Geluid, Enschede, 3 maart 2007
Pluto
Stationsplein Oost 1, Enschede, 13 oktober-27oktober 2006
Nightsky-music
Duitsland, oktober 2006
Cultuurlint
Enschede, 17 september 2006
EMF Cultuurlint
Enschede Muziek festival, 15 juni 2006
Balenfestival
Museumnacht, Personal Media Unit, Enschede 27 mei 2006
Kunstingang 11
Ten Kate, Ter Appelkanaal, 26 februari 2006
PÄRNU LINNAGALERII
(City Gallery), Estland, 12 januari 2006
PÄRNU MUUSEUM
(Museum Storehouse), Estland, 7 januari 2006
Techno cultures in ART
2005 AIAS International Symposium, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD USA, 2-4
november 2005
Münster und Frauen
12. Kongress für Performance Kunst, Münster, Duitsland, 28 juni-7 juli 2005
DE IJSSALON
Young Exhibition Space for Artists, Enschede, 26 juni 2005
AKI academie voor beeldende kunst en vormgeving
Enschede, 20-24 juni 2005
At the Mercy of Others the politics of care
Sponsored by the Helena Rubenstein Curatorial Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City USA, 17 Mei 2005
Test 6 Performance Event
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA USA, 5 Maart 2005
Mobius Art Rages
Performance Festival, Boston MA USA, 20 november 2004
Kongsi
Kunstenaarscollectief Enschede, 2002
Kongsi
Kunstenaarscollectief Enschede, 2001
Centraal Museum Utrecht
17 april-17 juni 2001
Tweede prijs
Body Fashion Design Contest 2001, Utrecht, 20 februari 2001
Uitzending Life and cooking
RTL4 Carlo en Irene item Body Fashion, 18 februari 2001