Buitenplaats Doornburgh / Chae Eun Rhee

Sasha Dees

TRENDBEHEER

15 August 2022

https://www.trendbeheer.com/2022/08/15/buitenplaats-doornburgh-chae-eun-rhee/

Buitenplaats Doornburgh / Chae Eun Rhee (Google translated)

Corona may have become endemic, but who wants to queue for hours at Schiphol (if you're lucky and you don't miss your flight) to a destination where the sun shines while it also shines here?

Not me. I train and continue to explore my own country. This time on to Buitenplaats Doornburgh, a country estate for art and science in Maarssen. Joanna van Dorp has held sway here as director since 2018. Joanna and I met in 2003 when she started working as a programmer at Made in da Shade (later MC Theater) on the Westergasfabriek site. In 2012, she became account manager Westergasfabriek employed by Tom and Maya Meijer (Meijer/Bergman Erfgoed Groep) who cleaned up the entire site, laid out the current park and renovated the buildings where small cultural organizations had been affordably accommodated since 1992 (gentrification, some returned others not, MC Theater came back). At the end of 2018, MeijerBergman sold the site to Duncan and Lisca Stutterheim known from ID&T and bought a new project to develop: Buitenplaats Doornburgh,

Chae Eun Rhee – on display in Doornburgh

Estate and Monastery

Joanna van Dorp in the former living room

Exhibition Jan de Jong – architecture former monastery

Exhibition about De Cloese – the training for medical secretary

Exhibition collection of church/monastic objects

Vorm aan de Vecht (Shape at the Vecht)

Buitenplaats Doornburgh is a summer residence, built in 1937 by Joan Huydecoper. Huydecoper came from a merchant family, he was a project developer and financial specialist, and in that position one of the first investors and director of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Joanna explains that it is clear from archives that many investors in the VOC in the 17th century bought a noble title with those profits, including Huydecoper who became Lord Huydecoper van Maarssenveen and saw himself elevated to the nobility. So “new money” became “new nobility”. As an art collector, he is known as the first person in Amsterdam to buy a painting by Rembrandt. Huydecoper is a symbol of the extreme riches that the Netherlands amassed in colonized countries in the 17th century. Amsterdam thus acquired a cultural elitist status in Europe that in retrospect contradicts the other extreme, the brutal, completely uncivilized behavior outside Europe with which they bought that elitist status at home. Joanna indicates that it is being examined how this history of the origin of the site, viewed from the current perspective, can be made open to discussion for the public in a permanent display. The summer residence still has to be renovated, currently there are families who have fled from Ukraine.

Buitenplaats Doornburgh was family owned until 1912 and was then sold to the church. In 1957, the monastic order Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulcher (founded after the capture of Jerusalem in 1114) moved into the estate. In 1964 the sisters had an ambitious new monastery designed and built by architect Jan de Jong in the style of the Bossche School. He also designed the decor and furniture. The sisters had a girls' school there for a medical secretary. In 2017, the order sold the estate to MeijerBergman, there were still 4 sisters living there, of which only 1 sister is left who lives nearby and regularly visits by bike. Now that I walk through it, I am surprised how the sober architecture, interior and furniture are also so contemporary in 2022 in terms of color palette and use of materials. I like that sobriety,

Exhibitions are now located in the rooms that previously housed the church and general living quarters. There is a permanent display with the objects of the church and monastic order (a large part of the collection was donated to the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht after the sale). Over de Cloese (medical secretary training), an exhibition on architecture and history. Plus a changing program with currently 'Form aan de Vecht' by curator Nicole Uniquole. The program also includes lectures, presentations and meetings in the field of art and science, as well as poetry evenings and readings. Due to covid it started a bit slowly but the agenda already shows a lot of activities.

The buildings are located in the middle of a 9 hectare park that has been open to the public since 2018, who, I see when I take a short walk through the area, also like to come. The weather is also perfect for a cooling walk among the old trees. A start has been made with outdoor sculptures, Joanna says that in the coming years they also want artists in residence to make sculptures for them that will then be given a permanent place.

The nuns' rooms on the top floor have been converted into residence spaces with a small kitchen and library where artists can stay for 1 to 3 months at most. Because of covid this came to a halt, Joanna asked the last resident Johanna Franco Zapata (Colombia, 1985) to stay until September 2022 and in consultation with the Centraal Museum, Chae Eun Rhea (Korea), who came to the Netherlands in 2020 for the Rijksakademie, invited to be a resident until the end of this year to make commissioned works for the Centraal Museum there. An unexpected coincidence, for Rotterdam Art I made a who's who article and randomly asked people if I could take a picture of them. So I also asked a couple, no idea who they were.

I met Joanna at the open studios of the Rijksakademie where she invited me to visit Doornburgh and told about her new artist in residence and that she would like to introduce her to me.

A month later I order a drink at the bar at WH22/Documents and when I turn around I see a couple queuing for drinks and think where do I know them from and see them thinking the same thing. Oooooh yes we think at the same time, the photo! We had a lot of laughs, the woman says that she is an artist and is in residence near Utrecht, but I was called away before I could ask for their name.

In 2021 I saw photos of works by Chae Eun Rhee at the Fundatie in Zwolle on Facebook. The paintings kept haunting my head and I started following her on Facebook. When a photo of Doornburg came up in her posts on facebook I realized that Chae Eun Rhee is the artist I had photographed in Art Rotterdam, and that it is she who is in residence with Joanna and who she thinks is her. must meet. This is how all the coincidences suddenly came together.

I email her that I am coming to Doornburgh to see Joanna, for a tour of the estate and to see her work. She is working on 1 large painting for the Centraal Museum. Her work reminds me of my residency at the Spinnerei in Leipzig, of Neo Rauch and his work. It's just as inexplicable, but just as intriguing and fascinating. She also seems just as disciplined and careful as Rauch.

Her references are also her context, Rauch relates to East Germany, Rhee relates to the current bombardment of information and images that we are confronted with on a daily basis. Rhee brings together different cultures, the past and the present in an organic but well-thought-out way. After her residency at the Rijksakademie she stayed in the Netherlands. First for the assignment at the Fundatie, at Eenwerk in Amsterdam and Art Rotterdam, soon at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and next year at the new Wim Pijpens museum in Rotterdam. Her works are stories that require too many words, but the images give you a completely logical experience when you open up to them. The Dutch art community has certainly become a lot richer by embracing this artist! Now all she has to do is find a home…

All that walking around and later talking about art in Rhee's studio makes you hungry, so time for lunch in the restaurant where you can sit inside, but also in the courtyard garden that was recently laid out by Karin Blom van Assendelft.

Siba Sahabi, Monax, 2020

The residence library (yes, yes with Entangled Species)

Chae Eun Rhee, 2021, De Fundatie, Zwolle

Chae Eun Rhee, 2022, EENWERK (Amsterdam and Art Rotterdam)

The guest studio

Lunch in the courtyard

Wake up in the kitchen

The vegetable garden

Since this spring, next to the monastery, there is also a huge vegetable garden that supplies the restaurant with ingredients. I see a field with huge zucchini and for lunch we eat a delicious zucchini soup that you can't get much fresher than this one, yummmm recommended. In the kitchen I also see all kinds of experiments with herbs, everything is traditionally canned and fermented, the chef really loves his job, that's clear!

Our estate, yep now yours too, is welcome! No longer only accessible by boat, you can just take the public transport bicycle from Utrecht, the car, or the train and then bus or a 25-minute walk from Maarssen station!

Buitenplaats Doornburgh

Diependaalsedijk 17

3601 GH Maarssen

Website: https://www.buitenplaatsdoornburgh.nl/

Chae Eun Rhee

https://www.chaeeunrhee.com/

Johanna Franco Zapata

https://curacao-art.com/2018/04/18/johanna-franco-zapata-ropa-sucia/


Buitenplaats Doornburgh / Chae Eun Rhee (Google translated)

Corona may have become endemic, but who wants to queue for hours at Schiphol (if you're lucky and you don't miss your flight) to a destination where the sun shines while it also shines here?

Not me. I train and continue to explore my own country. This time on to Buitenplaats Doornburgh, a country estate for art and science in Maarssen. Joanna van Dorp has held sway here as director since 2018. Joanna and I met in 2003 when she started working as a programmer at Made in da Shade (later MC Theater) on the Westergasfabriek site. In 2012, she became account manager Westergasfabriek employed by Tom and Maya Meijer (Meijer/Bergman Erfgoed Groep) who cleaned up the entire site, laid out the current park and renovated the buildings where small cultural organizations had been affordably accommodated since 1992 (gentrification, some returned others not, MC Theater came back). At the end of 2018, MeijerBergman sold the site to Duncan and Lisca Stutterheim known from ID&T and bought a new project to develop: Buitenplaats Doornburgh,

Buitenplaats Doornburgh is a summer residence, built in 1937 by Joan Huydecoper. Huydecoper came from a merchant family, he was a project developer and financial specialist, and in that position one of the first investors and director of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Joanna explains that it is clear from archives that many investors in the VOC in the 17th century bought a noble title with those profits, including Huydecoper who became Lord Huydecoper van Maarssenveen and saw himself elevated to the nobility. So “new money” became “new nobility”. As an art collector, he is known as the first person in Amsterdam to buy a painting by Rembrandt. Huydecoper is a symbol of the extreme riches that the Netherlands amassed in colonized countries in the 17th century. Amsterdam thus acquired a cultural elitist status in Europe that in retrospect contradicts the other extreme, the brutal, completely uncivilized behavior outside Europe with which they bought that elitist status at home. Joanna indicates that it is being examined how this history of the origin of the site, viewed from the current perspective, can be made open to discussion for the public in a permanent display. The summer residence still has to be renovated, currently there are families who have fled from Ukraine.

Buitenplaats Doornburgh was family owned until 1912 and was then sold to the church. In 1957, the monastic order Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulcher (founded after the capture of Jerusalem in 1114) moved into the estate. In 1964 the sisters had an ambitious new monastery designed and built by architect Jan de Jong in the style of the Bossche School. He also designed the decor and furniture. The sisters had a girls' school there for a medical secretary. In 2017, the order sold the estate to MeijerBergman, there were still 4 sisters living there, of which only 1 sister is left who lives nearby and regularly visits by bike. Now that I walk through it, I am surprised how the sober architecture, interior and furniture are also so contemporary in 2022 in terms of color palette and use of materials. I like that sobriety,

Exhibitions are now located in the rooms that previously housed the church and general living quarters. There is a permanent display with the objects of the church and monastic order (a large part of the collection was donated to the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht after the sale). Over de Cloese (medical secretary training), an exhibition on architecture and history. Plus a changing program with currently 'Form aan de Vecht' by curator Nicole Uniquole. The program also includes lectures, presentations and meetings in the field of art and science, as well as poetry evenings and readings. Due to covid it started a bit slowly but the agenda already shows a lot of activities.

The buildings are located in the middle of a 9 hectare park that has been open to the public since 2018, who, I see when I take a short walk through the area, also like to come. The weather is also perfect for a cooling walk among the old trees. A start has been made with outdoor sculptures, Joanna says that in the coming years they also want artists in residence to make sculptures for them that will then be given a permanent place.

The nuns' rooms on the top floor have been converted into residence spaces with a small kitchen and library where artists can stay for 1 to 3 months at most. Because of covid this came to a halt, Joanna asked the last resident Johanna Franco Zapata (Colombia, 1985) to stay until September 2022 and in consultation with the Centraal Museum, Chae Eun Rhea (Korea), who came to the Netherlands in 2020 for the Rijksakademie, invited to be a resident until the end of this year to make commissioned works for the Centraal Museum there. An unexpected coincidence, for Rotterdam Art I made a who's who article and randomly asked people if I could take a picture of them. So I also asked a couple, no idea who they were.

I met Joanna at the open studios of the Rijksakademie where she invited me to visit Doornburgh and told about her new artist in residence and that she would like to introduce her to me.

A month later I order a drink at the bar at WH22/Documents and when I turn around I see a couple queuing for drinks and think where do I know them from and see them thinking the same thing. Oooooh yes we think at the same time, the photo! We had a lot of laughs, the woman says that she is an artist and is in residence near Utrecht, but I was called away before I could ask for their name.

In 2021 I saw photos of works by Chae Eun Rhee at the Fundatie in Zwolle on Facebook. The paintings kept haunting my head and I started following her on Facebook. When a photo of Doornburg came up in her posts on facebook I realized that Chae Eun Rhee is the artist I had photographed in Art Rotterdam, and that it is she who is in residence with Joanna and who she thinks is her. must meet. This is how all the coincidences suddenly came together.

I email her that I am coming to Doornburgh to see Joanna, for a tour of the estate and to see her work. She is working on 1 large painting for the Centraal Museum. Her work reminds me of my residency at the Spinnerei in Leipzig, of Neo Rauch and his work. It's just as inexplicable, but just as intriguing and fascinating. She also seems just as disciplined and careful as Rauch.

Her references are also her context, Rauch relates to East Germany, Rhee relates to the current bombardment of information and images that we are confronted with on a daily basis. Rhee brings together different cultures, the past and the present in an organic but well-thought-out way. After her residency at the Rijksakademie she stayed in the Netherlands. First for the assignment at the Fundatie, at Eenwerk in Amsterdam and Art Rotterdam, soon at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and next year at the new Wim Pijpens museum in Rotterdam. Her works are stories that require too many words, but the images give you a completely logical experience when you open up to them. The Dutch art community has certainly become a lot richer by embracing this artist! Now all she has to do is find a home…

All that walking around and later talking about art in Rhee's studio makes you hungry, so time for lunch in the restaurant where you can sit inside, but also in the courtyard garden that was recently laid out by Karin Blom van Assendelft.

Since this spring, next to the monastery, there is also a huge vegetable garden that supplies the restaurant with ingredients. I see a field with huge zucchini and for lunch we eat a delicious zucchini soup that you can't get much fresher than this one, yummmm recommended. In the kitchen I also see all kinds of experiments with herbs, everything is traditionally canned and fermented, the chef really loves his job, that's clear!

Our estate, yep now yours too, is welcome! No longer only accessible by boat, you can just take the public transport bicycle from Utrecht, the car, or the train and then bus or a 25-minute walk from Maarssen station!

Buitenplaats Doornburgh

Diependaalsedijk 17

3601 GH Maarssen

Website: https://www.buitenplaatsdoornburgh.nl/

Chae Eun Rhee

https://www.chaeeunrhee.com/

Johanna Franco Zapata

https://curacao-art.com/2018/04/18/johanna-franco-zapata-ropa-sucia/