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Programme

1. 

   exhibition

   Lily van der Stokker and guest: HW Werther

   Plug In #38

   19/04/2008 - 31/08/2008

   Algorithm ‘AL.EX.01’ by HW Werther for organising an exhibition with all works from the Van Abbemuseum collection, less the works which the algorithm...

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2. 

   exhibition

   Lily van der Stokker and guest: Esther Tielemans

   Plug In #27

   02/06/2007 - 06/04/2008

   This room is decorated with wallpaper designed by artist Lily van der Stokker. Following a presentation of video works from the Van Abbemuseum’s...

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3. 

   exhibition

   in the middle of...

   Plug In #20

   16/12/2006 - 23/09/2007

   This Plug In has been developed as a space for ‘thinking’ about the collection and questioning its role in defining the museum. A single piece from...

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4. 

   exhibition

   Igloo Nero

   Plug In #33

   15/12/2007 - 15/11/2009

   ‘Igloo Nero’ by Italian artist Mario Merz (1925-2003) is a work full of contrasts. He made the inner igloo of black asphalt in the period between 1967...

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5. 

   exhibition

   Gays Can Shoot Straight Too!

   Plug In #25

   02/06/2007 - 21/10/2007

   “shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot I'm going to come all over you me and my fucking gun me and my fucking gun” - Nine Inch Nails, ‘Big Man With A Gun’

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6. 

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   Elly Strik. In search of the perfect [failure]

   Plug In #17

   16/12/2006 - 28/10/2007

   Artists create images but they also collect them. The collections are either in their heads or exist in reality.

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7. exhibition

   One on One. Pieter Laurens Mol. Lament Superior

   Plug In #37

   05/05/2008 - 17/08/2008

   In this room there is a single work of art and a single chair. The chair is for the visitor who wants to take the time to look at the artwork at...

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8. 

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   One on One. Ger van Elk. Push Nose Balance...

   Plug In #42

   19/08/2008 - 01/11/2009

   In this room there is a single work of art and a single chair. The chair is for the visitor who wants to take the time to look at the artwork at...

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9. 

   exhibition

   One on One. Frank Stella. Tuxedo Junction

   Plug In #32

   15/12/2007 - 30/03/2008

   Plug In #32 One on one is the first of a series of presentations centering around a single work from the museum collection. The title of this Plug In...

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10. 

    exhibition

    Collection Henri van Abbe

    Plug In #50

    04/04/2009 - 15/11/2009

    In this Plug In we show 26 works that are purchased in 1936, the year that the Van Abbemuseum opened its doors. This ensemble of 26 paintings is the...

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11. 

    exhibition

    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...

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12. 

    exhibition

    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...

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13. 

    exhibition

    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...

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14. 

    exhibition

    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...

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15. 

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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...

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16. 

    exhibition

    Bik Van der Pol. Pay Attention

    Plug In #28

    02/06/2007 - 01/11/2009

    Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol have been working together as Bik Van der Pol since 1994. They often work on location, use, reuse and reactivate the...

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17. 

    exhibition

    Starting with Kandinsky

    Plug In #34

    15/12/2007 - 15/11/2009

    Plug In #34 Starting with Kandinsky highlights the first major international acquisitions made in 1951 by then director Edy de Wilde and includes...

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18. 

    exhibition

    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...

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19. 

    exhibition

    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...

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20. 

    exhibition

    EXhibition: INterior

    Plug In #49

    14/03/2009 - 15/11/2009

    Wim van Nuenen  is a long-time volunteer of the museum who asked for the opportunity to curate a Plug In. When directed to partner with someone...

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21. 

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    Mike Kelley. Categorical Imperative and Morgue

    Plug In #13

    16/09/2006 - 04/03/2007

    ‘Categorical Imperative’ and ‘Morgue’ are two projects I produced especially for a two-person exhibition with Franz West, in Brussels, in 1999. The...

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22. 

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    Marcel Broodthaers

    Plug In #12

    16/09/2006 - 04/03/2007

    This Plug-in shows works by Marcel Broodthaers (Brussels 1924 - 1976 Cologne) from the Van Abbemuseum collection. His Oeuvre is complex and difficult...

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23. 

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    Wendelien van Oldenborgh. Maurits Script

    Plug In #39

    19/04/2008 - 01/11/2009

    This room displays the work entitled ‘Maurits Script’, which was produced in 2006 by Wendelien van Oldenborgh (Rotterdam, 1962). It is part of her...

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24. 

    exhibition

    Ian Wilson

    Plug In #47

    27/09/2008 - 08/03/2009

    Conceptual artist Ian Wilson (1940 in Durban, South Africa) has been interested in spoken language as an art form since 1968. He describes his own...

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25. 

    exhibition

    Lily van der Stokker and guest: Andrea Zittel

    Plug In #10

    02/09/2006 - 20/05/2007

    The following text is an interview with Lily van der Stokker conducted by curator Christiane Berndes on 17 August 2006.

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26. 

    exhibition

    Ian Hamilton Finlay

    Plug In #09

    26/08/2006 - 17/06/2007

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27. 

    exhibition

    Videos from the sixties and seventies. Lily van...

    Plug In #05

    08/04/2006 - 20/08/2006

    The video works is this gallery were made in the 1960s and 1970s by women artists from the United States and Europe. These were the early years of...

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28. 

    exhibition

    Suchan Kinoshita. Loudspeaker

    Plug In #04

    08/04/2006 - 20/08/2006

    Before working as a visual artist, Suchan Kinoshita studied at the Musik- und Theaterhochschule in Cologne. Traces of this past can be found in her...

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