11.2019 A GLITCH Library | Photo Vogue Festival 2019
To honor and enhance the fundamental role of photobooks in the dissemination and development of the photographic language, Photo Vogue Festival is introducing a new section dedicated to this unique form of artistic expression. In line with the theme of the 2019 edition ‘A Glitch in the System, deconstructing stereotypes’, 28 photobooks have been selected by the Vogue Italia team and will be exhibited at Base Milano from 14th to 17th November 2019.
COMMON SENSE IS A HUNGRY BITCH is one of the selected photobooks.
09.2019 ASAMA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL 2019 | PHOTO MIYOTA + PHOTO KITAKARUIZAWA | Japan
September 14 – November 11 2019
09.2019 NEW | giclee prints on archival paper
2 collages from the book YOU RUN AROUND TOWN LIKE A FOOL AND YOU THINK THAT IT’S GROOVY – available soon! edition of 5 (+ 2 AP) more info
08.2019 Séances Matérialistes Marseille ✨ 29.8 – 1.9.2019 ✨ Séances Matérialistes gathers publishers, artists, researchers, students and the public to celebrate art books and discuss positions, strategies and concepts for living on earth and in space. FOR THIS EVENT I MADE 3 NEW PILLOWS WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE EPHEMERAL BOOKSHOP.
07.2019 The wonderful EDITION TAUBE invited me to design a picnic blanket for the
The EDIT10N TAUBE PICNIC WORLD TOUR comes to Rotterdam! Armed with a dedicated picnic blanket we have gone on tour to organise casual, open air events with publishers and artists around the world, celebrating our 10 year anniversary. Now we are coming to Rotterdam to hang out with the PrintRoom team, Fucking Good Art (Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma) and Chantal Rens who has created a special artists’ edition picnic blanket!
On this occasion Edition Taube and PrintRoom will launch Hoe je boeken steelt, the latest, revised version of David Horvitz’s How to Shoplift Books. This practical, inventive and funny guide for the aspiring bibliophile-kleptomaniac was originally published in 2013.
For Hoe je boeken steelt, we’ve adapted the original to the Dutch context and added some extra techniques for robbing, stealing and looting printed matter. It’s probably the last book you’ll buy. The book will be available during the picnic (price: €9,99, a steal in itself).
05.2019 BLAST! Photo Festival, West Bromwich / Sandwell, UK.
A selection of my collages are displayed in unexpected places on the streets of West Bromwich and in the foyer of Premier Inn Central.
The line up: Anand Chhabra, Andrea Fernandes, Andrew Jackson, Annegien van Doorn, Bethany Kane, Billy Dosanjh, Brendan Barry, Brian Homer, Chantal Rens, Czesław Siegieda, David Attie, Dawinder Bansal, Derek Bishton, Emma Purshouse, Erik Kessels, Faye Claridge, Inka & Niclas Lindergård, Jan McCullough, Janine Wiedel, Jaskirt Boora, Jennifer Pattison, Jocelyn Allen, Jon Tonks, John Myers, John Reardon, Kate Jackson, Laura Pannack, Liz Hingley, Mahtab Hussain, Mark Murphy, Martin Parr, Niall McDiarmid, Nilupa Yasmin, Robert Clayton, Rob Hewitt, Sound Kitchen, Stephen Burke, The Caravan Gallery, Trevor Pitt, Vicky Roden, Volker Gerling and Uzma Mohsin.
More info / full programme: www.blastphotofestival.com
06.2019 Fresh Art Publications from Europe Presented by edcat.net | for this years abC Beijing Art Book Fair Jan Steinbach from edcat.net selected fresh and popular artist-run publishing houses in Europe. 謝謝 Jan thank you for putting some PANTOFLE BOOKS in the spotlights! 创办人Jan Steinbach从其丰富的出版资源中为此次abC北京艺术书展精选了欧洲最新鲜热门的小型出版社与艺术家运营的个人出版单位，将百余本优秀出版物带到书展现场，不要错过饱览一众欧洲艺术独立出版物并了解前沿业态的绝佳机会！
Photo credits: edcat.net
– Publisher 77 Publish House / After8 Books / Amsel Verlag / Archipelago Projects / Cneai= / cpress / Edition Patrick Frey / everyedition / Hamman von Mier / Heavy Books / Innen / Jean Boîte Editions/ KesselsKramer Publishing / Mark Pezinger / Montez Press / Onomatopee / Pantofle Books / PrintRoom / Rollo Press / Sternberg Press / Yellow Pages
– Artist Chantal Rens / Eline Mugaas / Erik Kessels / Erik Steinbrecher / Irena Haiduk / Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson / Thomas Geiger
05.2019 Ghent Art Book Fair GABF18 | May 11-12 | Kunsthal Gent | PANTOFLE BOOKS will be present.
04.2019 COMMON SENSE IS A HUNGRY BITCH is now part of the Self Publish, Be Happy library
21.03.2019 ‘Van Hieruit’ gered door Chantal Rens | recensie door Gerrit van den Hoven, Brabants Dagblad
20.03 FOTO WIEN | PHOTO BOOK EXHIBITION AND AWARD
COMMON SENSE IS A HUNGRY BITCH and Various Animals have been selected for this year’s PHOTO BOOK EXHIBITION of FOTO WIEN and will be displayed at the festival centre, the Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, from March 20th until April 6th, 2019.
17.03.2019 VAN HIERUIT | Groepstentoonstelling in PARK (Platform for Visual Arts), Tilburg, opening zaterdag 16 maart om 16:00 uur.
2019
05.02.2019 Alex de Vries schreef over mijn werk op Mister Motley ATELIERBEZOEK: CHANTAL RENS, KONINGIN VAN DE COLLAGE
02.2019 Art Tattoo Shop | IMAGERY CREATION WORKSHOP & ART PERFORMANCE by Erik Kessels and me. Part of FRUIT EXHIBITION, 1-2-3 February 2019 Palazzo Isolani, Bologna.
Also that day:
ART IS NOT A SERIOUS STUFF. ERIK KESSELS IN CONVERSATION WITH CHANTAL RENS
FRUIT EXHIBITION is the annual Independent Art Book Fair and festival of Bologna. Open to the public, Fruit Exhibition is the only event in Italy featuring traditional and digital publishing, including artists’ books, catalogs, graphic design projects, periodicals, stationary and zines.
01.2019 citybooks project | Review Leeuwarden now online
2018
12.2018 new | Cats and Dogs in the Window #6 | XMAS special
12.2018 List 84 | Various Animals now in stock at Boekie Woekie, Berenstraat 16, Amsterdam. Open everyday, 12pm – 6pm
Photographs of various animals on glossy, thick paper (the type that is often used in books for very young children), the photos have been edited so the animals have been given a new eye or set of eyes, a small change that gives the pictures a whole new touch, the regular animals become different characters.
— Jan Voss, Boekie Woekie, List 84
12.2018 IMAGRAPHY | featured artist of the month December on IMA ONLINE with new collage works The road ahead is closed. シャンタル・レンズ 注目作家の作品を平日毎日配信!
11.2018 expositie Citybooks Leeuwarden | Review Leeuwarden | OBE, Leeuwarden
Op uitnodiging van citybooks / deBuren verbleef ik afgelopen zomer 2 weken in Leeuwarden. Het resultaat is Review Leeuwarden: een mix van analoge collages, snapshots, readymades en knipsels uit Huis-aan-Huis Leeuwarden en de Leeuwarder Courant. Uit de snapshots is o.a. een memory spel ontstaan.
Ook te zien; op Leeuwarden geïnspireerde beelden gemaakt door Anne Margot Stapert en te horen; verhalen van Irakese filmmaker en schrijver Hassan Blasim, de Vlaamse schrijver Erik Vlaminck, de New Yorkse Latasha N. Nevada Diggs en Leeuwarder schrijver Arjan Hut.
OBE | Lân fan taal, Heer Ivostraatje 1, Leeuwarden. Meer info….
Citybooks Leeuwarden is een samenwerking van Explore the North, Lân fan taal, Vlaams-Nederlands huis deBuren en Leeuwarden-Fryslân Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa 2018.
10.2018 ARTisBOOK | Week van het KunstenaarsBoek (WKB18) van 13 t/m 20 oktober in Groningen. Bij Galerie Noord is van 13 t/m 25 oktober de tentoonstelling ONE TWO THREE te zien met werk van Bas Fontein, Meme Bartels en Chantal Rens.
10.2018 ‘Join the Reunion’ | finissage Sunday 14 October from 15.00-18.00 at Kunstpodium T, Noordstraat 105, Tilburg
(…) Et comment résister aux désopilants collages de la Néerlandaise Chantal Rens ? Un homme qui fourre son nez dans le pelage d’un chat (photo ci-dessus), un enfant qui percute des saucisses ou un baigneur qui sert de perchoir à un perroquet sont les protagonistes de sa sarabande visuelle. Elle vient d’autopublier un recueil de collages intitulé Common Sense Is a Hungry Bitch. On pourrait traduire par «le bon sens est une chienne affamée». Ou se garder de le faire.
(…) And how to resist the hilarious collages of the Dutch Chantal Rens? A man who puts his nose in the coat of a cat (photo above), a child who hits sausages or a bather who serves as a perch for a parrot are the protagonists of his visual saraband. She has just self-published a collection of collages called Common Sense Is a Hungry Bitch. (…)
© Clémentine Mercier / Libération, 21 September 2018
09.2018 RE-PLAY Photography | exhibition at La Frontiera, Paris
9.2018 NEW book | Various Animals available at PANTOFLE BOOKS
This board book introduces a collection of 12 full-page collaged photographs of weird and wonderful animals. For every age.
09.2018 XS BOOK FAIR presented by UTRECHT and Seikosha
XS BOOK FAIR is a book fair gathering small zines and books in A6 size (148x105mm) or smaller. My book Various Animals (made for this occasion) is a part of this fair.
UTRECHT : September 11-26, 2018
Seikosha : October 16 -30, 2018
The books will also be presented at UTRECHT booth at the following art book fairs: NY ART BOOK FAIR 2018 (New York) and Unlimited Edition 10 (Seoul).
Participating Artists: Kazunari Hattori / Ken Kagami / Mame Ikeda / Futoshi Miyagi / Yosuke Wainai / guse ars / Akira Mzumoto / Masanao Hirayama / Chantal Rens / 100%ORANGE / Ai Akiyama / Takashi Homma / Teppei Nomoto / Lee Kan Kyo / STOMACHACHE. / Takahiro Iikawa / Shimon Minamikawa / Stefan Marx / IN/SECTS ZINE / All you can eat press / Ayako Nagaoka / Benjamin Sommerhalder (Nieves) / fumiko imano / Mina Tabei / Kentaro Nakamura / Arisa Nakakiya and Yuki Yamagami / Philippe Weisbecker.
08.2018 Various Animals at the printers
07.2018 COMMON SENSE IS A HUNGRY BITCH – now in store at Printed Matter
Printed Matter, Inc., 231 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10001. Open daily from 11 am.
“Common Sense is a Hungry Bitch collects an array of collage work by Chantal Rens, striking and uncanny interventions that challenge what you’re seeing. The warm and weathered quality of the images from mid-century vernacular source material lull the viewer into a certain comfort, the nostalgic tint of Life magazine or a family photo album torn and pasted into jarring contortions of people, animals, and scenery that are swapped amongst themselves, irrevocably mixed-up. Surrounding the collage images are carefully juxtaposed spot colors that enhance this familiar yet uncomfortable tone and bring you deeper into spreads where each image begs a double-take.”
— Printed Matter, Inc.
Chantal Rens’ Common Sense is a Hungry Bitch is a hardbound book of Rens’ subtly surreal collages. Set against bright, glossy pages, most the collages do not try and camouflage themselves—they are obvious cuts and pastes that destabilize scenes of domesticity. The photos Rens uses feel like part of a time capsule, a family photo album of relatives and pets and food uncovered and manipulated by an exacting hand. Unsettling and sometimes nearly undetectable, Rens’ collages make Common Sense the record of an alternate, beautiful, and disjointed reality.
— Printed Matter, Inc.
02.07.2018 citybooks | TWO-WEEK RESIDENCY LEEUWARDEN
citybooks invited me to make a visual portrait of the city
26.06.2018 COMMON SENSE IS A HUNGRY BITCH – the book – now in store at the wonderfull Boekie Woekie, books by artists ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Berenstraat 16, Amsterdam. Open daily from 12-6.
Many different images have been combined to create new, unusual and often hilarious scenes in this collection of collaged photographs, reproduced in full colour, offset printed, hard cover with dust jacket, 98 not numbered pages, 21,5 x 15 cm, numbered/500, monogrammed, (Tilburg) 2018. — Boekie Woekie
25.05.2018 COMMON SENSE IS A HUNGRY BITCH – the book + special edition now available online at PANTOFLE BOOKS
📖 new book in the making >>> COMMON SENSE IS A HUNGRY BITCH coming out end of May 2018 (PANTOFLE BOOKS)
05.2018 Zine Happening IV | May 5-6th small press market, workshops, exhibitions etc. | organized by Les Voizines at museum MIAT, Minnemeers 10, Gent Belgium. Pantofle Books are present at the book market.
05.2018 finally, print it is! today at Drukkerij Tielen 
💗 offset printing my new book COMMON SENSE IS A HUNGRY BITCH. Now off to the binder. (02.05.2018)
03.2018 eGGspositie | een groepsexpositie in het teken van het ei | samengesteld door Josine Beugels aka year.of.the.egg. WALLSTREET EINDHOVEN
11.2017 The Bathroom Chronicles 100 women, 100 pictures, 100 stories | happy to be in this beautiful book by Friederike Schilbach | ISBN: 978-3-518-46823-4
edcat great place to browse and share books > more info <
09.2017 kunst van de dag (29.09.2017) galeries.nl | gekozen door Alex de Vries
Chantal Rens is in de traditie van de ‘boekkunst’ aan het uitgroeien tot een begrip. Het traditionele medium van het boek als beeldend kunstwerk heeft in de jaren zestig en zeventig van de vorige eeuw een bloeiperiode gekend. Gelukkig is er een aantal kunstenaars dat het boek als een persoonlijk beeld blijft hanteren. In Nederland is Chantal Rens wat dat betreft een fenomeen. Haar werk kan worden bekeken in de traditie die is begonnen met boeken als ‘Twentysix Gasoline Stations’ (1962) en ‘Various Small Fires and Milk’ (1964) van Edward Ruscha (1937) die later in zijn loopbaan furore maakte met monumentale woordschilderijen in het zelf ontworpen lettertype Boy Scout Utility Modern.
De boeken en andere werken in gedrukte vorm die Chantal Rens maakt, bestaan meestal uit series van samenhangende beelden die ze bewerkt tot reeksen collages. Ze maakt uitsnedes in gevonden (foto)grafisch materiaal, en vult die op met verwante beelddetails uit andere vondsten uit tijdschriften, albums, massadrukwerk et cetera. Door regelmatig zwart-wit materiaal te combineren met fragmenten in kleur, bereikt ze een tijdloze sfeer waarin de kwetsbare verhouding mens – dier – landschap centraal staat.
Sinds 2015 onderhoudt Chantal Rens de Facebookpagina ‘Cats and Dogs in the Window’, waarop ze dagelijks een foto plaatst van een kat of een hond die achter een raam, meestal op de vensterbank van een huis, naar buiten kijkt. Chantal Rens maakt die foto’s vaak zelf waarbij het haar niet gaat om de fotografische kwaliteit van het beeld, maar om het fenomeen als zodanig. Dat neemt niet weg dat door de letterlijke voorbijgaande aard van de fotografische beelden deze een bepaalde visuele kwaliteit verwerven. Door de toenemende hoeveelheid ontstaat een iconografie waardoor de symbolische betekenis van iedere afzonderlijke foto meer en meer aan uiteenlopende interpretaties bloot komt te staan. De foto’s zijn ontroerend, aandoenlijk, grappig, bizar, gewoon, liefdevol, vanzelfsprekend, onverwacht enzovoort. Bij tijd en wijle verzamelt Chantal Rens een reeks van deze foto’s in een publicatie waarvan inmiddels vier delen zijn verschenen.
© Copyright 2018: Alex de Vries.
2017
26.08.2017 ART SALE #4 | Margootje Vintage, Zwaanshals 276b Rotterdam
‘Cats and Dogs in the Window’ project | Refrigerator Magnets, various buttons & publications 🐈🐕🐩 see also Cats and Dogs in the Window on instagram
07.07.2017 During Hoogtij SUE_ DAS LAB is organizing the Carousel Slidehow fest.
Showing carousels of found footage and edited slide treasures, bringing together a diverse group of artists with their own ideas and perspectives. Participating artists: Matthias Grothus, Rick Hekman, Tessa van Helden, Annemieke Louwerens, Farah Rahman and myself. A project by Nena Milinkovic and Rick Hekman.
06.2017 publication ‘Het bord van’ – Het Nieuwsblad Magazine (BE)
Pastry chef Erik Vernieuwe and photographer Kris De Smedt made a recepy and photo based on my favorite food. Check also: www.burpburp.be & @burpfoodphoto on instagram.
04.2017 Henk Woudsma schreef over mijn werk op zijn weblog Nederlandse kunstenaarsboeken deel 2 (jaren ’90 t/m heden)
03.2017 Duo-expositie ‘Gevonden voorwerpen’ bkkc + Bibliotheek Tilburg Centrum met werk van Paul Bogaers, Robin Gerris, Tessa van Helden en Chantal Rens | meer info
03.2017 My book ‘YOU RUN AROUND TOWN LIKE A FOOL AND YOU THINK THAT IT’S GROOVY’ featured in the latest issue of IMA magazine, cheers!
http://imaonline.jp/imamagazine/vol19.html
17.02.2017 Fotoboek! Nutshuis, Den Haag
2016
09.2016 YOU RUN AROUND TOWN LIKE A FOOL AND YOU THINK THAT IT’S GROOVY spotted at the New York Art Book Fair (Printed Matter booth)
05.2016 YOU RUN AROUND TOWN LIKE A FOOL AND YOU THINK THAT IT’S GROOVY now available at Printed Matter, New York.
Recent arrival with very long title: You Run Around Town Like a Fool and You Think That It’s Groovy by Chantal Rens presents collages of wild and domesticated animals with beverages balanced on their backsides. Published by @pantoflebooks in Tilburg. Edition of 500. $30 
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10.2015 EASY LIVING SUCKS COCK IN HELL t-shirts now in store at KKOutlet, London.
05.2015 Offprint London, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London.
05.2015 Sequence 1 – Nederlandse kunstenaarsboeken in internationaal perspectief
01.2015 NEW EDITION ‘Moppie’
postcard with glued on googly eyes, 12 x 17 cm, edition of 25, signed.
