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29 Apr 2021Remember Me
Portraits make the absent present and remind us of those whom we wish to commemorate when they are no longer with us. Those have been the two main functions of portraits since classical times. This was perpetuated when portraiture entered on its first great flowering around 1500, both north and south of the Alps. Be […]
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29 Apr 2021Aimée Zito Lema: Here Is Where We Meet
In the past three years, Zito Lema has investigated two conflict situations of which the Oude Kerk forms the centre: the Beeldenstorm (roughly: ‘image storm’) of 1566 and the recent resistance to a red stained glass window. The traces left behind by both conflicts form the starting point for Zito Lema’s new work, which consists […]
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02 Mar 2021Solo exhibitions Gülsün Karamustafa & Léon Ferrari
vanabbemuseum.nl Image: Gülsün Karamustafa, Promised Paintings (Angels 2) (detail), Collection Van Abbemuseum
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02 Sep 2020Positions #6: Bodywork
vanabbemuseum.nl Zach Blass, The Doors, 2019, installation view, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany. Credits: Zach Blas en Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst
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30 Jan 2019Van Abbemuseum – Positions #4
For Positions #4 the Van Abbemuseum invited four artists; Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Jakimanskaya), Naeem Mohaiemen and the duo Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti. These artists share a link to art as activism, and all use art as a basis to talk about the pressures produced by the burdens of history, injustice and political change. They tell stories about […]
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02 May 2017Stedelijk Contemporary: Jana Euler
As part of the exhibition series Stedelijk Contemporary, the Stedelijk Museum presents Jana Euler: High in Amsterdam. The sky of Amsterdam by the German visual artist Jana Euler (1982), starting on the 20th of May. The exhibition consists of an installation in which both recent and new work is displayed, including the work entitled Amsterdam in the Sky, which was purchased by the […]
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02 May 2017Documenta 14
For the first time in the history of documenta the art manifestation is presented in two cities. From the 8th of April until the 16th of July 2017 documenta 14: Learning From Athens is being presented in Athens and starting on the 10th of June and running until the 17th of September 2017 documenta will take place in Kassel. […]
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02 May 2017Thinging part III: Francesco Pedraglio – Scripting Anticlockwise
P/////AKT present their annual exhibition programme Thinging. The programme exists of a series of solo-exhibitions with new work from talented young artists. The opening of the exhibition Scripting Anticlockwise is on the 6th of May, with work based on storytelling from the Italian artist Francesco Pedraglio (1981). Pedraglio is connected to the art institution Progetto Diogene in Turin but is currently […]
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15 Nov 2016Mark Geffriaud: tweeduizend vijftien
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art presents tweeduizend vijftien: a solo exhibition of Mark Geffriaud in the Netherlands. Tweeduizend vijftien is presented in the context of Para | Fictions which shows five solo exhibitions with new work of upcoming international talent. They are all asked to create new work, which expresses an interaction between the visual […]
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24 Oct 2016Sensory Spaces 10: Olaf Nicolai
The tenth edition of the exhibitionseries Sensory Spaces shows site specific work of Olaf Nicolai. The works ‘Probestück 1, 2 and 3’ are made to fit in the space of the Willem van der Vorm Gallerij in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Olaf Nicolai investigates how apparent contradictions can be translated with different media: what if […]
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24 Oct 2016Pense-Bête V: Ana Navas
The fifth Pense-Bête exhibition in P//////AKT brings various recent work of Ana Navas together. The exhibition Placing a mirror at the entry is a gracious way to welcome wealth in questions in what way art can be seen as merchandise. Navas’ installation deals with themes as imitation and forgery. The exhibitionseries Pense-Bête exists of six […]
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07 Oct 2016Cécile B. Evans: What the Heart Wants
De Hallen in Haarlem presents What the Heart Wants: a solo exhibition with new and renowned work of the Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans. Commisioned by the museum Evans made the video-installation What the Heart Wants, in which she presents a scenario for the future with an omnipotent system with human characteristics named HYPER. In […]
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07 Oct 2016Melanie Bonajo: Night Soil
Foam presents Night Soil, the first major museum solo exhibition of Melanie Bonajo. Melanie Bonajo (1978) lives in Amsterdam and New York, where she works on a trilogy of experimental films since 2012. In each of these three Night Soil films Bonajo explores a social-cultural phenomenon that often exist outsides the norms of the regular […]
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07 Oct 2016Celluloid
In Celluloid EYE presents work of the international group of artists Tacita Dean, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Rosa Barba, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder. The artists present different characteristics of the 16mm and 35mm-film. Among others, part of the exhibition is a eight meter high installation titled FILM (2011) made by Tacita Dean, […]
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07 Oct 2016Fiona Tan: Geography of Time
Geography of Time is the first major mid-career exhibition of the established artist Fiona Tan (Sumatra, 1966). Fiona is currently based in the Netherlands. The exhibition presents both earlier major works, such as the double projection, Rise and Fall (2009), and her most recent work. Tan is developing an installation environment that compliments the architecture […]
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07 Oct 2016Hercules Segers Wonderland
Together with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Rijksmuseum organises the exhibition Hercules Segers Wonderland. The Rijksmuseum has the largest collection of Segers work in the world. The exhibition includes these works alongside (inter)national loans from London, Dresden, Paris and Berlin, amongst others to provide an overview of Seger’s work which is […]
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07 Jul 2016Magali Reus
The solo exhibition of Magali Reus shows new sculptures created especially for this exhibition. Using new high-tech techniques and ‘clean’ materials, and for her interest in mass-produced products and everyday architecture in the world around us, Reus is one of the most notable exponents of contemporary sculpture. Although her sculptures may often appear remote and […]
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07 Jul 2016Mohamed Bourouissa: Horseday
The project Horseday shows photographs, films and some sculptures of Mohamed Bourouissa (Bilda, 1978). For this project the French-Algerian artist worked together with a local community in Philadelpia (USA). Fascinated by the roll of horsemen, stalls and horses have there in black community, Bourouissa organised a competition for the best dressed up horse. The images […]
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