
| After Neurath: A Safe Place - International System of Disaster Pictograms
The number of victims of extreme weather and terrorrist attacks is growing at an alarming pace. Everyday we see images of refugees trying to escape the violence of war or the helpless victims of floods and earthquakes. Aid organizations must act fast to help these people, to supply them with food and water, to direct them to a safe place. Giving people in disaster areas good and... |
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| Snap Judgments - New positions in Contemporary African Photography
This summer the Stedelijk Museum CS is presenting Snap Judgments, an exhibition of work by 35 contemporary African artists and photographers with unique perspectives on their own continent. The exhibition reveals how artists are using photography to respond artistically to the enormous changes currently taking place in African economic, social and cultural life. The artists also break... |
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| Tegenwoordigheid van Geest: Presence of Mind
A choice from the collection by Wolfgang Tillmans including new acquisition: STEDELIJK ROOM
The Stedelijk Museum regularly invites artists to present a choice of works from the collection, coloured by their own artistic vision. The presentation is invariably linked to a new acquisition. In this exhibition, German artist Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968) expresses his personal view of the... |
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| jaraart-art works by becky cleaves
This exhibition shows acrylic works by English artist Becky Cleaves whom has been working in Amsterdam for the past 11 years. The show is divided into two parts: One wall explores the Celtic 'Wheel of the Year' calendar, marking eight festivals celebrating Mother Natures continuous cycle through the year.
The second wall holds a collection of work from 2002-2008, often geometrical,... |
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| Summer in the Church 2008
Activities, exhibitions and concerts from 9 May to 29 June 2008
The Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam is one of the best known buildings in the Netherlands. An imposing monument with a splendid interior, it is located on a nationally renowned square. In the months May to June of 2008 the church will be on show in all its glory: the monumental tombs, the dazzling choir screen, the... |
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| Saâdane Afif
Witte de With is presenting a solo exhibition by Saâdane Afif. The exhibition consists of new sculptures and installations, each of which is an adaptation by Afif of one of his previous works. The exhibition’s title sets the parameters for this transformation: each new work uses as a starting point the technical specifications of the original.
Visitors to Witte de With will also... |
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| Pia Rönicke and Zeynel Abidin Kızılyaprak: Travel Stories
Travel Stories is a collaborative project produced for Casco by Danish artist Pia Rönicke, Kurdish writer Zeynel Abidin Kizilyaprak, which thinks about the nature of how stories are shared, heard and retold. The exhibition is centered around the film Facing, which the artist and writer co-directed in Istanbul in January 2008.
Rönicke met Kizilyaprak at the Villa Aurora in Los... |
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| The artist is a mysterious entertainer
Curator: Vanessa Desclaux (UK)
Exhibition and Performance Programme
artists: Guy de Cointet (FR/US), Mario Garcia Torres (MX/US), Benoit Maire (FR), Matt Mullican (US), Trisha Donnelly (US) and Allen Ruppersberg (US).
“The artist is a mysterious entertainer” takes as its starting point the permanent piece by Allen Ruppersberg located on the top floor of de Appel’s building.... |
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| Douglas White: Hartrot
Galerie Gabriel Rolt is presenting Hartrot, the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of installations by Douglas White (Guildford, UK, 1977), from May 17 to June 21.
Douglas White takes decaying objects, discarded waste and generally that which we have cast aside as useless or irrelevant and breathes new life into it. Found objects such as rotten trees, lightning struck pine,... |
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| Agata Siwek
Drawings and Fired Clay
The exhibition consists of a series larger and smaller drawings in brush and acrylic paint with this time a lot of cats. Besides that men on horseback, scenes of human life and horses made of fired clay. It is the third time that Agata Siwek exhibits with Gallery Josine Bokhoven.
Agata Siwek is a comprehensive artist. She is attracted by the most... |
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| Roderick Hietbrink: ECOTONES
RONMANDOS Rotterdam is presenting ‘ECOTONES’*, a solo exposition by the thought-provoking and intuitive Dutch artist Roderick Hietbrink.
In the work of Roderick Hietbrink (1975) physical and mental borders play an important role. Within this, it is the relationship between the city environment and the – often cultivated – nature that takes a central role.
For this solo... |
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| Melissa Gordon: War of the Ghosts
Galerie Juliette Jongma is presenting the second solo exhibition by the American artist Melissa Gordon (1981, lives and works in Berlin).
'War of The Ghosts' explores the collapse of democratic systems of governance. Paintings utilizing images appropriated from newspapers and depictions of pre-Modernist architects and social planners are presented on structures that reference... |
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| Settlement regarding the Malevich collection
Longstanding dispute between the City of Amsterdam and the Heirs of Malevich concerning the Malevich collection that has been in the Stedelijk Museum since 1958 has been finally resolved.
When the Stedelijk Museum exhibited fourteen works of Malevich in the United States of America in 2003-2004, the Heirs of Malevich claimed ownership of them before a United States Court. The... |
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| Jill Magid: Article 12
Realization in cooperation with Huib Haye van der Werf (advisor Atelier Rijksbouwmeester)
This April the AIVD (Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst) took up residence in its newly renovated building in Zoetermeer. The organization is using this opportunity to present itself to the outside world in an innovative way. The American artist Jill Magid was given access into... |
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| The Breakers - De Branding
an exhibition of work by Zoro Feigl and Natasha Rosling
in collaboration with the Zuiderzeemuseum.
The industrial revolution gradually stripped human labour of its craft. It also disrupted the progressive evolution from tool to utensil to work of art. A blacksmith crafted his own hammers and tongs and because he wrought decorate fencing, and the weapons he made also possessed a... |
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