Cow and Landscape Activities (2023-2024)
Activities List
2023
▸ June 25 – Diepenheim Drawing Garden, plein-air cow drawing in the meadow.
▸ August 22 – Cow drawing on the salt marshes of Schiermonnikoog.
▸ September 8-10 – Opening weekend of Who Owns the Countryside at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, featuring lectures, guided tours, and press interviews.
▸ Sept 2023 to Jan 2024 - Cow and Landscape project is part of Terra Libera/ Who owns the Countryside? group exhibition at Rijksmuseum Twenthe.
▸ September 13 – Exploration of the polder landscape around Leiden with Fernand de Willigen (farmer) and Meta Knol (art historian and farmer's wife) from the Lakenvelder farm in Warmond. Visit to the Polderlab in Oud-Ade with Maarten Schrama, meeting with Land van Ons members, Hansje Huson (Garden of Holland), and polder ecologist Arjan van Duijvenboden. Visits to Boterhuys farm, Sophiahoeve farm, and De Eenzaamheid farm, accompanied by Marianne Maasland (art historian and researcher) and Wapke Feenstra.
▸ September 24 – Cow drawing at Genneper Hoeve – Steenakker and Kalverweide.
▸ September 30 – Cow drawing at Genneper Hoeve – Steenakker.
▸ October 8 – Cow drawing session at Genneper Hoeve with the women's club, NGO Soroptimisten Eindhoven.
▸ October 11 – Cow drawing at Genneper Hoeve – Steenakker.
▸ October 25 – Drawing at Genneper Hoeve. Due to wheelchairs, mud, and rain, the drawing session was moved to the greenhouse.
▸ November 9 – Meadow plant workshop with Women of Today (Rural Women-Overijssel) at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, featuring Inez Dekker and Annejet Brandsma (media artist).
2024
▸ January 10 – Design sessions for the layout of Cow Sheets, textile collages of cow drawings made in plein airs, in Rotterdam with Studio Bureau (designers). Frans van Ditzhuijzen (designer), Wapke Feenstra, Bertwin Wenink (ICT), and Inge Borsje (producer, Van Abbemuseum) – online.
▸January 26 – Rijksmuseum Twenthe – Meeting with 11 members of the CropMix research team from WUR (soil experts, ecologists, biologists, and sociologists). Guided tour of the exhibition Terra Libera – Who Owns the Countryside? (which included Koe en Landschap) and a closed Q&A with curator Josien Beltman and producer Julia Wolters. Closed workshop with an introductory lecture by Inez Dekker, concluded with a Q&A with Wapke Feenstra.
▸ March 8 – International Women's Day organized by Women and Food 2024 at the Provincial House in Utrecht. Over 150 women attended, including PR employees from Jumbo Supermarket, policy officers from the Ministry of Agriculture, professors from WUR, as well as potato farmers and Rabobank employees. Event details here
▸ March 22 – Lunch, reflection, and explanation about the purchase installation with Wapke Feenstra, Josien Beltman, Heleen Lansink (farmer), and Rick and Arjuna In't Veld (farmers). Josien Beltman explained how a national collection works and how various works are conserved.
▸ March 22 - Cow drawing at GenneperHoeve farm with the friends of the Van Abbemuseum in the cowshed with the calves.
▸ April 3 - Cow drawing at GenneperHoeve farm – with a youth center from Eindhoven, their brothers and sisters on the yard and in the meadow.
▸ April 11 – Swylje at Myvillages studio – start of a series of private dinners at various locations organized by Meta Knol (Curator and farmer) and Wapke Feenstra – the aim is to get to know each other and talk about the future of farm life. The start was with Inez Dekker, Indra Gleizde , Tânia A. Cardoso (Urbanist and illustrator PhD ASCA).
▸ April 17 – lecture & dinner with the NGO Soroptimisten Eindhoven, a women's organization that asked for a talk on Cow and Landscape. Q&A with Wapke Feenstra.
▸ May 15 – Swylje in the Boterhuispolder, with Meta Knol and Wapke Feenstra. Guests: Liesbeth Bik (artist & chair of the Academy of Arts/KNAW), Jan Willem Erisman (scientist & chair of the Scientific Climate Council), Nicole Roepers (art historian & curator of contemporary art at Museum De Lakenhal), Clemens Driessen (scientist & philosopher WUR), Danielle de Nie (physical geographer, founder Wij.Land). The chef is Fernand van Willigen.
▸ June 15 and 16 – opening weekend SOILS Van Abbemuseum – Talks, guided tours and workshops.
▸ June 2024 to November 2024 – Cow and Landscape project is part of the group exhibition SOILS, Van Abbemuseum.