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- Bik van der Pol. Pay Attention: Act 1 Plug In #28.1 02/06/2007 - 23/09/2007 Liesbeth Bik (1959) and Jos van der Pol (1961) have been working together as Bik Van der Pol since 1994. The two Rotterdam citizens are not classical studio artists.
- Bik van der Pol. Pay Attention: Act 2 Plug In #28.2 15/12/2007 - 20/04/2008 Liesbeth Bik (1959) and Jos van der Pol (1961) have been working together as Bik Van der Pol since 1994. The two Rotterdam citizens are not classical studio artists.
- Bik van der Pol. Pay Attention: Act 3 Plug In #28.3 10/05/2008 - 21/09/2008 In Plug In #28.3 Bik Van der Pol, Pay Attention: Act 3, they present the work of three artists. ‘Les Grands Ensembles’, 1994-2001 by Pierre Huyghe presents a ‘conversation’ between two buildings, which are typical examples of the notorious, modernist, social housing projects, once seen as a utopian dream designed to accommodate good living.
- 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.
- Book launch & discussion: 'Rondom' by Jack Segbars Art vs. Art discourse 07/03/2010 14:00 - 17:00 In this publication, Jack Segbars investigates the relationship between the work of art as exhibited visual image and the discourse that surrounds it, as well as the role of the artist in relation to the curator, the institution and art criticism that make up that discourse.
- Borough(ed) Stories - Buurtverhalen your-space 21/05/2009 - 22/05/2009 Silvia Russel & T+HUIS Thursday, May 2116:30Van Abbemuseum (Auditorium) Cheeful presentation of the Borough(ed) Stories publication with drawings by Silvia Russel. Borough(ed) Stories are inspired by the life of the inhabitants from neighbourhoods in New York (Bed-Stuy), Berlijn (Steglitz), Eindhoven (Strijp-S) and Amsterdam (Noord). Texts: Mitchell Marco (art critic, New York) and Louky Keijsers (LMAKprojects, New York)Photography: Anouk Kruithof Drawings made by children from the Eindhoven block Woensel will be displayed. These drawings are based on there experiences in collaboration with Silvia, previously this year. Rap music: Colombo en Jazzy Fingahs uit Woensel. We would like to extend you a very warm welcome. Borough(ed) Stories is possible thanks to: Stadsdeel Amsterdam-Noord (Wij Amsterdammers), Fonds BKVB, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Consulate General of The Netherlands, New York, Stichting Zamenhofstraat, T+Huis, your-space.<//span>
- Bram Hermens - Bactrius in Het Oog 28/07/2011 - 25/03/2012 In the context of the exhibition programme VANUIT HIER - OUT OF HERE, the Eindhoven based artist Bram Hermens is invited to develop a big, new, wall art for Het Oog (The Eye). Finisage on 28 January 2012.
- Brian Holmes Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society This publication contains a selection of texts and essays by the writer Brian Holmes hat engage with the possibilities and problematics of geopolitics and geopoetics. Holmes is a crucial contemporary writer and thinker whose insight into current social and political developments and how they relate to artistic processes opens up a new field of “geocritique”.
- Brian Holmes symposium "The Artistic Device" 26/11/2010 - 27/11/2010 On 26 and 27 November 2010 the Van Abbemuseum organises a two-day symposium with culture critic and activist Brian Holmes, under the title The Artistic Device. On Sunday 28 November there is a master class for artists by Brian Holmes and Angela Melitopolous. Following the Holmes publication of Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society, the symposium explores the possibilities that “extradisciplinarity” can have in the tense political climate of today. How can art, theory and activism come together in a progressive artistic practice? A question that is also included in a performance by the Greek-German artist Angela Melitopoulos, in collaboration with Brian Holmes. Other participants are Armin Medosch, Willem van Weelden and Merijn Oudenampsen.
- Bruce Nauman. Driven Man, Driven Snow Plug In #23 16/03/2007 - 28/05/2007 In this room, a number of cast iron blocks are spread across the floor in groups of three or four. Not everybody can instantly see whether they all have the same shape or whether they are different kinds of blocks.
- Burgi Kühnemann Library Exhibition 20/01/2009 - 13/03/2009 German artist Burgi Kühnemann uses books as ironic weapons against bourgeois values. She uses books found in second-hand bookshops, selecting them on the basis of the subject matter of their illustrations: pretty girls, brawny men and faithful dogs. Kühnemann estranges these images by adding her own painted commentary, thereby satirizing the leitmotiv, the overt subject matter of the image, and mercilessly disclosing its covert values.
- Byars & Beuys 13/02/2006 - 09/03/2007 James Lee Byars and Joseph Beuys allow both mystical and magical ritual into their work, making use of symbolic attributes.
- BYTS in Your-space The Bosch Young Talent Show 22/07/2010 15:00 - 20:00 On Thursday 22 July, 2010 Your-space will host a visiting group from the BYTS Summer School. What is BYTS exactly?
- CANCELLED: Uncovering Art from Afghanistan Symposium with Wali Akbar, director National Gallery, Kabul 05/07/2012 18:30 DUE TO UNFORESEEN EVENTS, THIS SYMPOSIUM IS CANCELLED.
- 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.
- Certain Trees 06/11/2007 - 18/01/2008 On Sunday November 4, 2007, the Library of the Van Abbemuseum opens the exhibition Certain Trees, an anthology of artists books, poems and objects, put together by the artist and publisher of artists books Simon Cutts.
- Chagall, Delaunay, Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky Plug In #29 14/06/2007 - 09/12/2007 The Van Abbemuseum collection includes a small but high-quality ensemble of works from the beginning of the twentieth century. They were acquired in the 1950s to put the contemporary art in a historical context.
- Christina Viola Oorebeek: Streamlines Concert in collaboration with axesjazzpower 18/12/2011 14:00 In recent years Axesjazzpower has organized a number of portraits of composers, programmes in which the spotlight focused on a single composer. This time Christina Viola Oorebeek has put together the programme “Streamlines” at our request, incorporating some of her new and older works.
- Chto Delat - Activist Club Plug In #51 04/04/2009 - 27/11/2009 Chto Delat (What is to be done) is a collective of artists, critics, philosophers and writers from St Petersburg and Moscow formed in 2003. The group is concerned with topics in the field of tension between art, political theory and activism. This collective engages in a variety of art projects, including video works, installations, and publishing free newspapers. The Van Abbemuseum invited them to present their work in the context of the museum collection. Their proposal was to present a video programme with three of their latest films in a small cinema.
- Cityplan The most modern design for Eindhoven 29/09/2007 - 02/12/2007 On show in the Van Abbemuseum during the Dutch Design Week 2007 is the exhibition ‘Cityplan- The most modern design for Eindhoven’. It expands on the spectacular city expansion plan designed by architects Van den Broek en Bakema at the end of the sixties, giving their view on the city of Eindhoven.