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Programme

1. 

   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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2. 

   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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3. 

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   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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4. 

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   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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5. 

   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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6. 

   exhibition

   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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7. 

   exhibition

   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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8. 

   exhibition

   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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9. 

   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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10. 

    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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11. 

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    Ian Hamilton Finlay

    Plug In #09

    26/08/2006 - 17/06/2007

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12. 

    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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13. 

    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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14. 

    exhibition

    The Undeclared Crowd

    Plug In #03

    08/04/2006 - 11/03/2007

    This presentation is the ?rst result of the Van Abbemuseum’s new research and guest curator programme. Under this initiative, younger international...

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15. 

    exhibition

    The Castle

    Plug In #01

    08/04/2006 - 20/08/2006

    During the ?rst half of the 20th century immense social and technological changes took place. Moreover, Europe found itself engaged in two world...

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16. 

    exhibition

    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...

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17. 

    exhibition

    Take on me (take me on)

    An alternative production factory

    17/10/2009 - 08/11/2009

    During the Dutch Design Week 2009, from 17 to 25 October, the Van Abbemuseum presents Take on me (take me on), a live-exhibition project curated by...

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18. exhibition

    JCJ Vanderheyden

    01/12/2003 - 31/05/2004

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19. 

    exhibition

    Toine Horvers. Written books

    Bibliotheektentoonstelling

    08/09/2009 - 16/10/2009

    Handwritten texts are a constant factor in the artistic oeuvre of the artist Toine Horvers (Loon op Zand, 1947). With a pencil he builds a sort of...

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20. 

    event

    guided tour Toine Horvers

    15/10/2009

    Tour by Toine Horvers through the exhibition Toine Horvers. Written books on Thursday evening 15 October from 19:00 until 21:00. Horvers will be...

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21. 

    Heartland

    04/10/2008 - 25/01/2009

    From 4 October 2008 until 25 January 2009, the interdisciplinary project Heartland will take place in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Heartland focuses on...

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22. event

    Extended opening hours

    during the Dutch Design Week

    17/10/2009 - 25/10/2009

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23. exhibition

    El Lissitzky and contemporaries

    19/01/2003 - 30/08/2009

    In the Netherlands there are two major collections with works from Russian avant-garde artists from 1920 or thereabouts: the Amsterdam Stedelijk...

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24. exhibition

    Wim Crouwel 80

    Library Exhibition

    18/11/2008 - 09/01/2009

    On the occasion of the 80 birthday of Wim Crouwel the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, in collaboration with Municipal Museum Amsterdam, looks back on the...

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25. 

    exhibition

    Paul Heimbach

    Library Exhibition

    24/03/2009 - 15/05/2009

    The German artist Paul Heimbach (born, Euskirchen 1946) makes fragile artistbooks and introspective works on paper in which he examines the nature of...

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    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...

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27. 

    event

    Cultural Night Eindhoven 2008

    Program at the Van Abbemuseum

    08/11/2008

    TEXT IN DUTCH ONLY De Culturele Nacht Eindhoven is een nacht vol cultureel vermaak. Je kunt van alles verwachten: film, theater, muziek, optredens,...

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28. exhibition

    Forms of Resistance

    Artists and the desire for social change from 1871 to the present.

    22/09/2007 - 06/01/2007

    The exhibition Forms of Resistance shows that ‘art and resistance’ are both timeless and universal. Although politically engaged works often put...

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