Running In Circles [Corona II]
Movement And Politics In The Streets Of My City, 2020-2021
03.03.2021 - 16.04.2021
Jeroen Jongeleen,Leaking Sea and the Land as Industry, 2020 (video still)
“Like a 21st century Richard Long on steroids.”
Edo Dijksterhuis (2020)
Upstream Gallery proudly presents Running In Circles [Corona II] / Movement And Politics In The Streets Of My City, 2020-2021, the fourth solo exhibition of Jeroen Jongeleen with the gallery. Jeroen Jongeleen’s work generally evolves in public space. He leaves traces in the urban landscape which he subsequently documents with photographs and films. With his interventions he promotes the free use of urban public space and questions the way corporate influence, advertising, architecture and regulations limit and direct a citizens’ behavior. Jongeleen describes his motivation to create art as not about 'decoration or making people happy, but about free speech and movement, about opposition as the essence of a truly vibrant democratic society'. His politically motivated work therefore sets out to illustrate the power and the dynamics of the street, while offering an utopian vision for the raw future.
The exhibition runs from March 3rd through April 16th and is open Wednesdays - Saturdays between 1 and 6 PM. If you would like to visit the exhibition, please reserve a timeslot here:
