double self portrait

For our first ever solo show as Beierle + Keijser we offered an insight into our daily art practice. Ever since we started working together, we live in a vortiginous abundance of inspiration. Our main problem has never been lack of ideas, but rather a serious lack of time. Lack of time to execute all these plans, ideas and sketches, that never stop bubbling up in our ongoing verbal and visual communications. A lack of time that forces us to choose which plans are allowed to germinate and grow, and which plans have to be shelved in the 'might be' department. These choices can be as tough as having to decide which kitten is to be drowned and which is to live, when the litter is simply too large for the nursing queen.

alasdair currie

Alasdair Currie, artist in residence

When invited by Corinne de Groot to make a show for her gallery, we decided for once not to make these choices. Instead, like little boys emptying out their pockets, we filled the walls of the gallery with the larger and smaller gems we'd amassed in the first three years of our collaboration. Boxes full of sketches, photos, short stories, ideas for film scripts, as well as lists of books we liked, snapshots of friends, colleagues and each other, newspaper clippings, fascinating found footage were framed in simple passe-partouts and spread over the walls in a dazzling celebration of the fountain of inspiration, that has sprung up between us for no reason that can be understood by any man.

foto corner teeth polaroid

secret history of bambi

The secret history of Bambi -
newspaper photo juxtaposition

On the left: Hitler feeding deer calf
On the right: Kohl feeding stag