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- Dutch Art Institute (DAI) 22/06/2013 - 14/07/2013 For the past three years the Van Abbemuseum has been giving lectures at theDutch Art Institute (DAI) in Arnhem for a master’s degree for artists who are atthe ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. Together with the students, the museum exploresrelevant and contemporary themes such as autonomy and the place of art in contemporary society
- Mark Lewis Pull Focus 15/06/2013 - 13/10/2013 The exhibition Pull Focus by Mark Lewis presents fourteen films of the artist. It is an introduction of his recent work in relation to three works that are already part of the Van Abbemuseum’s collection.
- Viva Mayakovski! 11/06/2013 - 31/07/2013 A century ago a young man came became part of our history by introducing “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”. This spring we celebrate the 120th anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s birth, the 100th anniversary of his first poetry book and the publishing of his first play. All this can be shown within the framework of the Russian avant-garde art ephemera which was recently donated to the LS collection of the museum.
- Black or White 08/06/2013 - 17/11/2013 Animated films, comic strips and cartoons…. these are rarely exhibited in a museum for contemporary art. However in the 'Black or White' exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum they play the main role in combination with drawings and video installations. 'Black or White flirts' with what is politically incorrect. It aims to provoke visitors to reflect upon their own behaviour and its interrelation with social conventions by exhibiting politically engaged art. The works that are exhibited are not necessarily politically correct at first glance. They attempt to test the boundaries; they are bizarre, provocative, sometimes coarse, exaggerated or ugly. In other words, in each of the works something is simply “not quite right”. This elicits a direct and sometimes even physical reaction in the viewer in the form of laughter or discomfort. The exhibition includes works by Michael J. Baers, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels, Piotr Dumała, Extrastruggle, Philippe Grammaticopoulos, Greg Irons and Tom Veitch, Phil Mulloy, Prabhakar Pachpute, Dan Perjovschi, Peter Pontiac, and Ton Smits. The installation The Refusal of Time by William Kentridge (2012), one of the favourites of the public at dOCUMENTA13 last year in Kassel, is exhibited in the Studio.
- Donation Maurice van Valen 08/06/2013 - 15/09/2013 A selection of works donated by the Dutch collector Maurice van Valen will be exhibited in two rooms on the ground floor of the new building of the museum. Van Valen has donated 34 works to the Van Abbemuseum. These include 25 works by Johan Lennarts (Eindhoven, 1932 – 1991), 5 works by JCJ Vanderheyden, who died last year (’s-Hertogenbosch, 1928 – 2012), and 4 works by Pieter Laurens Mol (Breda, 1946). The museum already has several works by these artists in its collection and has exhibited them in various groups and solo exhibitions since the 1960s.Several other works of these artists from the Van Abbe collection will be exhibited in this exhibition as well.
- Manon de Boer Encounters 08/06/2013 - 15/09/2013 The solo exhibition 'Manon de Boer - Encounters' shows a trilogy of cinematic portraits by the Dutch artist and filmmaker Manon de Boer (born 1966, Kodaicanal, India). The three films in the museum’s collection can now be seen together for the first time: 'Sylvia Kristel – Paris' (2003) about the actress Sylvia Kristel, 'Resonating Surfaces' (2005) about the psychoanalyst and cultural critic Suely Rolnik and 'Think About Wood, Think About Metal' (2011) about the percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky. The exhibition also shows documentary materials such as audio and video fragments, reviews, scores, posters and books.The opening will take place on Saturday 8 June from 3 to 6 p.m. at the same time as the opening of the exhibitions 'Black or White' and 'Donation Maurice van Valen'.
- Katernen Library exhibition 16/04/2013 - 31/05/2013 A number of artists from Belgium and the Netherlands have made notebooks which have been collected together in a single large artists’ book. This has become an exhibition in book form in which the differently designed notebooks provide the story lines. Artists: Ton Mars, Simon Benson, Fred Michiels, Kris van Dessel, Iris Bouwmeester, Katie Lagast, Peter Van Gheluwe, Bart Vandevijvere, Bert Frings, Luk Berghe, Janus Boudewijns, Jos van der Sommen, Bruno Sluydts.
- CCC - Made in Indonesia Te gast in het Van Abbemuseum 13/04/2013 - 27/04/2013 This exhibition of photographs made by members of a Facebook group called “Click Click Community (CCC)” features an eclectic mix of images by photographers whose only links are Facebook, Indonesia, and a shared enthusiasm for making beautiful images that capture fragments of the landscape and society that make up this archipelago of diversity.
- Erzen Shkololli Pejë, Kosovo, 1998 06/04/2013 - 23/06/2013 Erzen Shkololli created the work 'Pejë, Kosovo, 1998' when he was 22 years old during the time of the Kosovo war. Shkololli, a young artist at the time, was in hiding for three months with his family in Pejë, during the horrific period of ethnic cleansing of the war. In order to keep active, he did what he could under the circumstances with whatever was around - material from his father’s bespoke sewing shop and his mother’s home sewing machine. As a result, he made a series of colourful patchworks, one that was 22 meter long and comprised of eight banners. Now fifteen years later, the work is on public display for the second time in two years. In the intervening years, the work was kept in storage, first in Kosovo and later in Berlin.
- Uncovering Art From Afghanistan Afghanistan Research Project 29/03/2013 - ongoing A small exhibition on art in Afghanistan in the lower ground floor of the Van Abbemuseum. The gallery will be installed as an Afghan living room and will include a selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from leading and emerging practitioners in Afghanistan that were donated to the Van Abbemuseum in 2012. A series of interviews with experts on Afghan art will be shown alongside the art works. The exhibition includes work by Hamdullah Arbab, Dr. Yosef Asefi, Hamid Barakzai, Aziz Hazara, Najibullah Mosaver, Ghaus Naram, Abul Qasem Foshanji, Ahmad Wali Akbar, Abdul Hudood Shpoon, Malina Suliman and M. Tamim Sahebzada. The exhibition will have an official opening on 2 May at 18:30 hours.
- Sheela Gowda Open Eye Policy 23/02/2013 - 26/05/2013 The solo exhibition 'Open Eye Policy' by Sheela Gowda (Bhadravati 1957) presents the most comprehensive overview to date of the work of this acclaimed Indian artist. It brings together sculpture, large installations, painting and photography from the past twenty years. A first impression of these works suggests a pre-occupation with abstraction, form and material, but on closer inspection they reveal a constant engagement with politics, environment and society.The title of the exhibition speaks of the artists’ attentive approach to her contemporary surroundings as she works with materials taken from the everyday following what she calls on ‘an open eye policy’. This exhibition forms part of the series of major solo exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum in 2012-13, which has so far included René Daniëls, David Maljkovic, Yael Bartana and Piero Gilardi, programmed to highlight the artists’ voice.
- Jewyo Rhii Walls to Talk to 26/01/2013 - 05/05/2013 Jewyo Rhii's practice shows an apparently unending struggle simply to cope with the world. She is an artist who has developed a unique body of work that stems from her sensitive, personal and almost subliminal responses to her immediate environments. Born in Korea, she has displaced herself many times in the last 10 years including periods in Western Europe and the USA. These conditions of constant movement, which are shared by many artists and others of her generation, form one of the bases of her work.
- LL.M. E.L.L. de Wilde’s Wishlist Director 1946 - 1963 25/01/2013 - ongoing De Wilde’s 1949 schedule looks like a wish list, but was used as a tool to reveal the developments in modern art and in this way initiate the town council into the first starting points of his future collection. This schedule was accompanied by a now famous speech which he gave to the town council on 23 February 1949. The speech had a political aim: to convince them that the museum’s new position required a new policy and financial contributions. In the next speech in 1951 De Wilde went further and argued for the internationalisation of the collection for choosing expressionism as a specialist area. In this speech he also demonstrated this with the use of a schedule.
- 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.
- Lissitzky - Kabakov Utopia and Reality 01/12/2012 - 28/04/2013 The Van Abbemuseum asked the artists Ilya (1933) and Emilia (1945) Kabakov to organise an exhibition of their work together with that of El Lissitzky (1890-1941), as guest curators. For the 'Lissitzky – Kabakov' exhibition they made an extensive selection from their own work and that of Lissitzky. It is the first time that the oeuvres of these famous 20th-century Russian artists are being presented together. Bringing together Lissitzky and the Kabakovs completes the circle which started with the revolutions in the early years of the twentieth century and finished with the upheavals of 1989. The confrontation between early Soviet art and that of the later Soviet era presents opportunities for a better understanding of the art and culture of the intervening period.
- Hana - Mariëlle van den Bergh & Mels Dees Library Exhibition 11/11/2012 - 11/01/2013 Following a residency in Japan by the Eindhoven artist Marielle van den Bergh a precipitation of the workflow and a book are presented in the library.At the library blog of the Van Abbemuseum you can follow the expierences of Marielle van den Bergh and Mels Dees during their residency in Japan.
- DOEN | Materiaalprijs Dutch Design Week 20/10/2012 - 28/10/2012 Can you make our world a better place? And contribute to designing a sustainable future? Each year, the DOEN | Materiaalprijs challenges visual artists, designers, fashion designers and architects to develop innovative, sustainable materials and pioneering techniques for a better, more durable, society. In 2012, the Materiaalprijs enters its fourth successive year with a broad spectrum of designs where functionality, aesthetic appeal and sustainability go hand in hand. From the 77 submissions received this year, an expert committee selected eighteen design ideas. The projects go on display at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week (from 20 to 28 October). An expert jury will announce the winning designs on the opening day.
- Sarah van Sonsbeeck - Informational Weather winner Theodora Niemeijer Prize - Het Oog 13/10/2012 - 31/03/2013 These are turbulent times in the Dutch political arena with the formation of the national government and the relationships between the parties still not entirely clear. From Saturday 13 October onwards, visitors can consult the weekly “political weather” in the space of Het Oog (The Eye) in the Van Abbe Museum. For her project Informational Weather, the Dutch artist Sarah van Sonsbeeck will introduce a climate system that will reflect the political situation in the Netherlands through different types of weather. The project will be on view until April 2013 in the Van Abbemuseum.The opening of Informational Weather takes place on 13 October at 15.30.
- David Maljkovic - Sources in the Air Solo Exhibition 06/10/2012 - 27/01/2013 For Sources in the Air, David Maljkovic (Rijeka, Croatia, 1973) presents an overview of his practice from the last ten years. The spectres of modernism – its politics and aesthetics – loom over and inform this multi-faceted oeuvre consisting of sculpture, collage, painting, drawing, and architectural mises-en-scène. The exhibition focuses attention on the artist’s varied artistic strategies and experiences, as well as addressing and problematising the act of exhibition making itself. In this exhibition, we are encouraged to get lost and enjoy it! Taken as a whole this will be the artist’s most comprehensive survey to date. Trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and now living in Zagreb, Maljkovic has exhibited extensively internationally.
- 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.