Helena Susanna SandersSelected Artwork & Projects
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Duo exhibition
Helena Sanders (US/NL) & Michael Petri (AT)
PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL
2024
Kobold on the Unemployment Line

An exhibition and accompanying public program initiated by Helena Sanders’ investigations into the folkloric figure of the Kobold; a geologic witness and caretaker of mines, and the color cobalt which bares its name. In this collaboration with artist and filmmaker Michael Petri, the two built an installation of new sculptural pieces, video, sound works and lighting program, to reckon with what comes up out of the ground and our sense of time on earth. 

Links to the full audio of both sound works available on request.

- Kobold on the Unemployment Line soundtrack (00:20:01)
- Kobold Talk
(00:13:12)

Public Program:
 
Liquid Dreams guest artist presentation by Annika Kappner 
A journey through the shared history of human and mineral intelligence, and guided meditation presenting critical and poetic perspectives on our relationship with machine intelligence and its connection to the mineral kingdom

Kobold Listening Party at murmur, Amsterdam
Contributors and friends play music selections in response to the themes of the exhibition 
with Nicole Martens, Gregory Markus, Caspar Stalenhoef, and Katrina Niebergal  

Exhibition produced with generous support from AFK

And with endless thanks for help and support to Ticho Brouwers, Nicole Martens, Katrina Niebergal, Martin Poisel, Glenn Ryszko, Anami Schrijvers, Danielle Vorthuys, Luc van Weelden, Marcus Zilz, Stencilzolder, PuntWG team and many more.

    
Graphic design : Nicole Martens
Cadence of Blacktop (clip); film by Michael Petri, soundtrack by Michael Petri and Helena Sanders
additional accordion performed by Helena and recorded by Danielle Vorthuys 
Filmed in Los Angeles (US) and Maastricht (NL) by Michael Petri
Our Dumb Tools; tryptic paper on acrylic sheets, cobalt, charcoal, ink, graphite (Sanders)
Untitled; Ironwood, plexiglass, cast head, var. objects
(Petri)
Scaled; 3 ceramics w. cobalt oxide glaze, acrylic and palet wood table, work lamp, hammer (Sanders)
installation detail, clay 
installation detail, lamp
installation detail, split palm branch 
Ironwood sculpture with tin-cast head
detail of Ironwood sculpture; plumb bob tool, scale tree fossil, acrylic boxes  
installation view of Cadence of Blacktop

© CargoHelena Susanna Sanders 2026