Nadine Gouders
Nadine Gouders is an ideals-led cultural worker supporting artists, designers and cultural institutions in the realization of projects. She’s worked for several Dutch museums as a curator, project manager and registrar, shaping her as a researcher and ally in the production of artistic work and exhibitions. Her practice is connected by projects with a sensibility for social-political developments and impacts felt by the humans and non-humans she works and co-exists with.
The exhibition ‘Onder de wol’ invited visitors to discover the stories behind wool, the Dutch wool surplus and new uses for the material. Christien Meindertsma’s research on and experimentation with wool has led to the invention of the FLOCKS Wobot. The Wobot is a new and independently developed cobot, especially made for working with local European wools that would be otherwise disposed of. It is a collaborative robot that makes it possible to build three-dimensional structures with wool industrially for the first time, without adding any material or using water in the felting process. The three-dimensional wool structures that it creates are strong and soft at the same time. In the exhition, visitors could see a history of Meindertsma’s projects involving wool, leading up to the engineering of the Wobot and the first structures that it built. One of the first two Wobots was on display, along with a newly developed film by Roel van Tour.
This project was initiated by guest curator Noëlle Kemmerling and developed together with Christien Meindertsma and Cuypershuis curator Nadine Gouders.
19.10.2023 - 12.05.2024
Cuypershuis, Roermond