Publication exhibition Soils

Soils focuses on the human relationship with soils. This relationship is often complicated, as the nation-states of Australia, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico and the Netherlands show. For the artists, however, these names are less important. They prefer to focus on connections and local knowledge, as experienced on Wurundjeri land, the Chundwa (Heart of the World) protected by the Iku peoples, the Rangan Paser Adat areas, Sinanché in Mayan Yucatán and Eindhoven in North Brabant. How do we reconnect with our soil and with each other? This is what international, national and local artists, designers, farmers and activists answer in the exhibition Soils.

Publication Soils

In the eponymous publication Soils, we take you through the different phases of the no less than five-year realisation. It is a richly illustrated reflection, with photos of the construction process, texts by the curators and artists designed by David Bennewith and Sandra Kassenaar, who also designed the exhibition in the museum.

The publication is available in both Dutch and English via the Van Abbemuseum webshop and the fysical museum shop.