Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Ugo Rondinone – Vocabulary of Solitude: the first, comprehensive mid-career solo exhibition of the works of Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone (1964). Rondinone had his breakthrough in the nineties with his spatial installations, in which he combined various disciplines such as light, sound and architecture. Clowns and rainbows are recurring themes in his work and also prevail in this exhibition. Ugo Rondinone – Vocabulary of Solitude consists of 45 sculptures of lifelike clowns, captured in everyday actions, which have not been exhibited before. Ammodo supports the exhibition to contribute to the exposure of Rondinone’s work in it’s entirety.

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Exhibitionoverview, Vocabulary of Solitude, 2016, photo: Stefan Altenburger

Dai Hanzhi: 5000 Artists is an exhibition of works by Chinese artists with whom Hans van Dijk (1946-2002), or Dai Hanzhi as he was known in China, worked when he was active in the ’90s in China as a curator, art historian and gallery owner. The programme includes two exhibitions in Beijing and Rotterdam, and aims to give Van Dijk’s work visibility and recognition. Ammodo supports Dai Hanzhi: 5000 Artists to contribute to the development and opening up of the contemporary art scene in China and, in particular, to honour the work of Hans van Dijk.

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Hans van Dijk in his studyroom, photo: Zhang Haier

Ed Atkins: Recent Ouija is the first major solo exhibition of British artist Ed Atkins (1982) in the Netherlands. Atkins is known for his use of the latest digital media technologies such as high definition cameras, projectors and digital editing. His work investigates the impact of a hyperreal virtual world on the viewer’s physical reality. For his presentation at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Atkins takes over the large downstairs gallery in the new building to create an environment of video images, Dolby surround sound, collages and drawings. Nine recently developed works are displayed. Ammodo supports Ed Atkins: Recently Ouija to contribute to the development of Ed Atkins and the recognition of his work.

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Ed Atkins, Recent Ouija, 2015, photo: Gert-Jan van Rooij

Since 2011 De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam presents an annual series of exhibitions with international masterpieces. Each year Masterpiece exhibits a piece of art of the highest quality in the church space. A prerequisite for selection is that the work has either never been seen in the Netherlands before, or at least not for a very long time. In addition to being of a very high quality the pieces chosen are also of a spiritual or religious nature. Ammodo supports Masterpiece to contribute to the development of exhibition concepts in De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam.

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El Greco, Pentecostés (Pinksteren), ca. 1600, Photographic Archive

Germaine Kruip presents the performance A Possibility of an Abstraction: a sixty-minute transdisciplinary, international co-production in which theater, film and visual arts are integrated. The performance is a cinematic theater experience creating the illusion of an abstract video game created on the spot by a combination of sound, light, shadow and reflection. Ammodo supports the production of A Possibility of an Abstraction to contribute to the development of contemporary performance art and the artistic development of Germaine Kruip.

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Germaine Kruip, A Possibility of an Abstraction, 2016

For over twenty years De Appel, through its Curatorial Programme, has offered six future curators from different continents the opportunity to learn the skills that are necessary to becoming a curator. For eight months the participants attend workshops and seminars with tutors and guest lecturers, research case studies, take business trips and meet art professionals. De Appel wants the programme to be closely linked to current events. Therefore, starting in 2013, a project was launched to revise and develop the Curatorial Programme during the following years. Ammodo supports this revision of the Curatorial Programme because the programme contributes to the development of young curators at an international level.

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Curatorial Programme deelnemers 2014-15, photo: Shinji Otani

The exhibition The Frick Collection. Treasures from New York is the first major exhibition to be held in the recently renovated Mauritshuis after its reopening in 2014. The exhibition consists of 36 masterpieces including paintings, drawings, sculptures and applied art from the 13th to 19th century, on loan from the Frick Collection in New York. The Frick Collection is the art collection of wealthy American steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919). It is the first time that so many works from the collection have been lent for exhibition outside of America. Ammodo supports The Frick Collection. Treasures from New York to contribute to the realization of this unique exhibition.

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Exhibition overview, The Frick Collection. Treasures from New York, 2015

The exhibition Bit Rot focuses on the influential thinker and author Douglas Coupland (1961) and reveals the mind of the artist. The exhibition combines his own work with pieces loaned from his own collection. In the Spring of 2015 Coupland was a resident artist at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris. The result of this project, The Living Internet, also forms part of the exhibition. An eponymous paperback has been published alongside the exhibition; the book includes new and existing short stories by the artist. The title Bit Rot refers to the phenomenon of spontaneous decomposition of digital data. Ammodo supports Bit Rot because through this exhibition Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art offers insight into the versatility of an influential thinker and creator.

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Exhibitionoverview, Bit Rot, 2015, photo: Cassander Eeftinck-Schattenkerk

The solo exhibition Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden provides an unique overview of the work of Marlene Dumas. Dumas’ retrospective exhibition presents around two hundred paintings and drawings dating from the late ‘70s through to today: the most extensive collection that has yet been seen in Europe. The works on display are largely drawn from international private and museum collections and include key pieces such as The Painter, Models, The White Disease, Dead Marilyn and the recent series of drawings Great Man. Ammodo supports Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden to contribute to the development and enhancement of the work of Marlene Dumas.

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Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2014, photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Moderation(s) is an exchange project between Witte de With and Spring Workshop in Hong Kong being led by the Malaysian artist and writer Heman Chong (1977). During the course of a little more than a year, exhibitions, residencies and a performance programme are being organized. Ammodo supports Moderation(s) to contribute to the development and opening up of the local Asian contemporary art scene.

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Moderation(s), by Tai Po with Ho Sin Tung, 29 January 2013

Dutch Masters from the Hermitage is a major retrospective exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam displaying work by the Dutch Masters of the 17th century which form part of the collection of the Hermitage in St Petersburg. Alongside work by Rembrandt, pieces by other Dutch masters from the Golden Age will be exhibited including Abraham Bloemaert, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen and Joachim Wtewael. Many of these works have not been seen outside St. Petersburg before: this exhibition allows them to be seen in their country of origin for the first time. Ammodo is supporting Dutch Masters from the Hermitage so that this special retrospective can be achieved in the Netherlands.

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Dutch Masters: Rembrandt, Young woman with earrings, 1657

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch in 2016, the Bosch 500 Foundation is organising an exhibitions entitled Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of a Genius in the Noordbrabants Museum. The exhibition aims to provide a complete overview of the works attributed to Hieronymus Bosch. It will bring together for the first time drawings, paintings, panels and triptychs on loan from international museums and private collections. The exhibition is accompanied by a scientific research project, the Bosch Research and Conservation Project, which amongst other things will include the restoration of certain works by Bosch. Ammodo supports Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of a genius to contribute to the realisation of this unique exhibition.

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Hieronymus Bosch, The Magician

The exhibition Your light is my life provides an overview of the works from the oeuvre of the Czech artist Kristof Kintera (1973). Kintera makes mechanical sculptures and installations which typically have a humorous and political motif. Kintera developed a box-in-box architecture especially for Kunsthal Rotterdam in which he displays many of his sculptures and installations together in one large gallery space. Ammodo supports Your light is my life as a means of contributing to the visibility and development of Kristof Kintera.

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Kristof Kintera, Demon of growth II, 2013-2014

The exhibition A year at the Stedelijk: Tino Sehgal is the first major retrospective of British/German artist Tino Sehgal (1976 ) at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. For each month of the year, one or more of Sehgal’s works or ‘situations’ will be presented at various locations in the museum. For Sehgal, an artwork consists of a live encounter between artwork and viewer. Sehgal creates ‘situations’ within the museum space, in which interpreters enact choreographed actions and occasionally converse with visitors. The exhibition will include the situations This is propaganda (2002), Kiss (2002) and This occupation (2005). Ammodo provides support to A year at the Stedelijk: Tino Sehgal in order to make this unique retrospective possible.

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A Year At The Stedelijk, 2015, photo: Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen

Not Making Sense as Something Else is an exhibition series in which P/////AKT presents six solo exhibitions by emerging artists. The series offers talented young artists the opportunity to develop new work, gain experience in organizing a solo exhibition and to engage with a relevant audience. The participating artists are Bram de Jonghe, Dan Walwin, Bas van den Hurk & Hans Delmeulenaere, Claudia Pagès & Ulijona Odišarija, Roderick Hietbrink and Kasper Bosmans. Each is invited to develop new work to exhibit in P/////AKT. By supporting this initiative, Ammodo aims to contribute to both the artistic development of the artists and to the visibility of their work.

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Bas Van Den Hurk & Hans Demeulenaere + guest artists Lorelinde Verhees & Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Politics of Installation, part 2, 2015

Global Collaborations is a three-year programme through which the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) attempts to form an approach to the developments in contemporary art from non-Western regions. The project focuses in particular on collaborations with art institutions in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, a symposium, and a series of six exhibitions with accompanying publications and an online platform. Ammodo supports Global Collaborations to contribute to a sustainable embedding of non-Western art in museum policy.

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How Far How Near, 2014, photo: Gert-Jan van Rooij

Through the international exhibition Lissitzky – Kabakov, Utopia and Reality the Van Abbemuseum brought the oeuvres of renowned Russian artists, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and El Lissitzky together for the first time. Following on from the Van Abbemuseum it could be seen in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM) in Moscow. Ammodo supports Lissitzky – Kabakov, Utopia and Reality to bring the early Soviet avant-garde art and the art that emerged at the end of the Soviet era to a larger public audience and to help stimulate new insights in the discourse concerning art history in the twenty-first century.

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El Lissitzky, Prounenraum, 1923 (reconstructie uit 1971), photo: Peter Cox

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 as complete as possible. Hercules Segers (1589/90 – 1633/38) was a celebrated printmaker, painter of landscapes, artist and artdealer. Ammodo supports Hercules Segers Wonderland to contribute to the creation of this exclusive retrospective.

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Hercules Segers, Larch, ca. 1615 – 1630

In the exhibition Close-Up, EYE Film Museum presents recent film and video works and installations by a new generation of artists working in the Netherlands. The medium of film has undergone a major development in recent years: the relatively young generation explores the boundaries between film, video and visual arts and is no longer tied to a single medium. The exhibition includes work by Melanie Bonajo (1978), Felix Burger (1982), Janis Rafa (1984) and David Verbeek (1980). Ammodo supports Close-Up to contribute to the development of contemporary artists by offering them the opportunity to demonstrate recent work within a museum context where the work can be displayed under optimal conditions at a high technical level.

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Melanie Bonajo, videostill from Night Soil – Economy of Love, Close-up, 2015

In the exhibition Late Rembrandt over 100 works produced in the last phase of Rembrandt’s life are brought together for the first time and displayed in the Philips Hall of the Rijksmuseum. The exhibition of paintings, etchings and drawings follows the life and work of Rembrandt from about 1652 until his death in 1669. It has been put together from museum and private collections throughout Europe and the United States. Highlights of the exhibition include Self-portrait with two circles (Kenwood House, London), Portrait of Jan Six (Six Collection, Amsterdam) and Jacob’s Blessing (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel). Ammodo supports Late Rembrandt to contribute to the realization of this unique exhibition.

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Exhibition overview, Late Rembrandt, 2015

In Paradocs IDFA shows experimental and artistic documentaries. In order to respond to the increase of interdisciplinary practice of visual arts and film, IDFA wants to expand and strengthen the Paradocs video art programme over the coming years. IDFA will do so partly by programming a series in collaboration with Amsterdam Art and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. This programme will present new work by Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen, Barbara Visser, Nicolas Provost and Mark Cousins, amongst others. Ammodo supports Paradocs because through this programme IDFA is offering an alternative, high-quality platform for showcasing video art.

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Roderick Hietbrink, Videostill from The Living Room, 2011