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- 'For Eindhoven'- The City as Muse part of VANUIT HIER - OUT OF HERE 03/09/2011 - 08/01/2012 'For Eindhoven’ – The City as Muse shows artworks made by international artists in Eindhoven and the province of Noord-Brabant during the last 30 years. The exhibition gives an overview of the works that have been initiated or commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum and sheds light on the city of Eindhoven as artistic muse which inspires artists to create unique works of art.Using the rich 75 years history, the museum creates a dialogue between international and local.
- 12 + 12, Wine and Dreams of Art library exhibition 22/01/2013 - 05/04/2013 For the exhibition “Wine and Dreams of Art" 12 artists from the Netherlands and 12 artists from Russia are producing a book based on two ancient themes in the visual arts: the Apollonian and the Dionysian themes. The exhibition is part of 12 + 12, an international programme involving various different countries.
- A Bright Glade Publications by Thomas A. Clark en Laurie Clark 20/03/2007 - 20/04/2007 The Library of the Van Abbemuseum presents the refined, poetic editions of the poet Thomas A Clark and artist Laurie Clark. Walks through the desolate landscape of the Scottish Highlands and British islands have been a source of inspiration for this artist couple.
- Academy Learning from the museum 15/09/2006 - 26/11/2006 Academy is an international series of exhibitions, projects and events initiated by Siemens Arts Program and realised in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. A continuous project that wishes to prompt reflection on the potential of the academy within society.
- Acts of Non-Aggression Plug In #46 20/09/2008 - 15/11/2009 During the preparations for the Be(com)ing Dutch exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in 2007, Canadian art historian and art theorist Shepherd Steiner held a workshop. Steiner is famed for his ‘close reading’, a method of reading an artwork by taking the object itself as starting point and guiding principle, and carrying out a meticulous visual analysis. Impressed by the results of this study method, the Van Abbemuseum invited him to make a presentation. Never having curated an exhibition before, Steiner was very interested in this experiment. ‘Plug In #46 Acts of Non-Aggression’ is the result.
- Ad Snijders A garden between woman and paint 19/06/2004 - 19/09/2004 Ad Snijders (NL, 1929) is inextricably linked with the Van Abbemuseum and Eindhoven. As well as two solo exhibitions and participation in numerous group exhibitions, he can rightly be described as a major eyewitness of the museum.
- After All Plug In #53 08/08/2009 - 08/11/2009 How do we live with history? What effect does it have on our imagination and our ways of thinking about the present? These are two key questions that the artists Anselm Kiefer and Bernd and Hilla Becher ask in their work. As Germans, they have to deal with a particularly destructive history, but their way of incorporating the past into their view of the present can be read more generally.
- Ahmet Öğüt - Black Diamond Het Oog (The Eye) 04/07/2010 - 31/12/2010 The next artist in Het Oog (The Eye) is the artist Ahmet Öğüt (1981, Diyarbakir, Turkey).
- Alexander Ugay Plug In #02 08/04/2006 - 04/03/2007 Alexander Ugay (Kyzil-Orda, Kazachstan, 1978) is a representative of the new generation of the Central Asian contemporary art. He started his artistic activity in 1998. This generation of artists prefers to work with new technology and cyber games. He uses these technological tools however in the context of his personal life and against the background of his own memory.
- Allan Kaprow Art as life 10/02/2007 - 22/04/2007 The Van Abbemuseum, in association with Haus der Kunst in Munich, is organising the first major solo display in Europe of American artist Allan Kaprow’s work, which will trace his artistic output over the past 50 years. Kaprow, father of the ‘happening’ and the most famous unknown artist died in April 2006. We are extremely grateful for the fact that the artist was still able to work intensively on the preparations for this exhibition.
- And on Sundays we celebrate Friday - solo presentation Dick Verdult part of VANUIT HIER - OUT OF HERE 03/09/2011 - 26/02/2012 And on Sundays we celebrate Friday is the first solo presentation of one of Eindhoven’s most singular artists, Dick Verdult. As a visual artist and musician in the experimental Cumbia music, he has acquired a cult status, especially in South America, Russia and Japan. He is less well known to the public in his home town. The Van Abbemuseum is (re-)introducing the audience to his rich and multidisciplinary oeuvre. And on Sundays we celebrate Friday is one of the three exhibitions which form part of VANUIT HIER - OUT OF HERE. In the context of the 75th anniversary of the Van Abbemuseum these three exhibitions focus on the direct and valuable relationship between the museum and artists, collectors, and the regional context. In addition they show how the city of Eindhoven has served as a source of inspiration for (inter)national artists for decades.
- Andre, Mondriaan, Ryman Plug In #35 15/12/2007 - 18/05/2008 In 1930, Piet Mondrian painted ‘Composition no. II’. It is an austere painting, an extreme consequence of Mondrian’s yearning for pure painting that would best express ‘universalism’.
- Antonis Pittas Het Oog (The Eye) 02/03/2010 - 25/06/2010 Until 25 June 2010 Antonis Pittas (athens, 1973) will occupy as second artist in the series of Het Oog.
- Art magazines: an alternative platform for art library exhibition 04/09/2012 - 02/11/2012 Entitled "An alternative platform for art", the library presents a selection of magazines made by artists. Just as art books, these magazines are often used as an alternative platform for the art.
- Art, Property of Politics IV: Freethinkers' Space Continued Project by Jonas Staal, a concept by Jesse Klaver (GroenLinks) & Rogier Verkroost (D66) 15/09/2012 - 28/10/2012 In the exhibition "Art, Property of Politics IV: Freethinkers' Space Continued", we will show, next to Art, Property of Politics II: Freethinkers’ Space (2010) by artist Jonas Staal, two new spaces curated by politicians Jesse Klaver (GroenLinks) and Rogier Verkroost (D66). In these two new Freethinkers’ Spaces, the politicians attempt to show why issues concerning art, censorship and freedom of expression are as urgent today as they were in 2008 when the first Freethinkers’ Space was opened.
- Artur Żmijewski Plug In #24 31/03/2007 - 03/08/2008 Artur Żmijewski is a provocateur. Sentimentality and political correctness are unknown to him, and nor can he be reproached for facile sensationalism.
- Autonomy Project Summer School 2010 28/06/2010 - 02/07/2010 11:00 - 17:00 From the 28 June to 2 July, 2010 'The Autonomy Project' has taken place in relation to the Summer School.
- “Wo stehst Du mit deiner Kunst, Kollege?” Living Archive 27/02/2007 - 02/09/2007 What course of action does a museum director take in order to have a municipal council change its mind? How does an artist question the direction taken by a director or museum?
- Bartana, Perjovschi, Sasnal Three artists, three different ways of looking at our world. 18/02/2006 - 30/04/2006 These exhibitions feature three artistic positions shown alongside each other in the Oudbouw. All three certainly work within a realist tradition but we want to leave it to our visitors to draw their own conclusions about the possible connections and contrasts between them.
- Be[com]ing Dutch The Exhibition 24/05/2008 - 14/09/2008 The exhibition Be(com)ing Dutch is part of a large scale project that has been in progress for two years. During that time, the museum has focused on what have become sensitive issues for the Netherlands, such as identity, nationality, citizenship and social cohesion. In those two years artists, intellectuals, politicians and the people of Eindhoven were invited to find possible answers to awkward questions. What does ‘Being Dutch' or ‘Becoming Dutch’ mean in the 21st Century? Who are ‘the Dutch’ anyway and how do we want to be seen by ourselves and others? The outcome of this whole process is being shown in an exhibition of artists’ works in the museum and throughout the city of Eindhoven.