Six fragments of the live show video artist Chris Cunningham performed at the STRP festival in Eindhoven on November 18th, 2010. Cunningham recently premiered his first video in four years at the MoMA in New York and is now working on his first audiovisual album.
'Rabih! Rabih!'
Rabih Mroué in BAK
reviews 22.07.10 Nat Muller
Utrecht
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
21/05/10 - 01/08/10
Witness, narrator, chronicler, participant and agent. In I, the Undersigned, Rabih Mroué's first solo-exhibition as a visual artist, he questions the role of the artist in the charged context of post-war Lebanon, focusing on the political and historical amnesia.
Preview: Garrett Phelan in SMART Project Space
previews 20.03.10 Jolien Verlaek
Amsterdam
SMART Project Space
20/03/10 - 02/05/10
Today (March 20th) sees the opening of Between two ITs, an exhibition by Garrett Phelan (Dublin, 1965) in SMART Project Space, which explores ‘the space between believing in and not believing’ (Phelan), using diverse media such as radio broadcasts, video, photography and sculpture.
reviews 24.09.09 Tessa Verheul
New York
Whitney Museum for American Art
25/06/09 - 11/10/09
The exhibition Dan Graham: Beyond at the Whitney Museum of American Art offers an overview of the impressive oeuvre of New York based artist Dan Graham. Graham is the third artist – after Gordon Matta-Clark and Lawrence Weiner – to be honoured with such a retrospective as part of a collaboration between the Whitney Museum in New York and the MOCA in Los Angeles.
Dutch pavilion: Fiona Tan
13/07/09 Erik van Tuijn
Fiona Tan’s international career took off when Okwui Enwezor presented her at Documenta 11 as an artist capable of handling identity and background in a form that is both political and poetic. This summer, her exhibition at the Dutch pavilion in Venice, entitled Disorient, may well prove Enwezor right.
A Look at the Lives of the Puppets
Videos by Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys
08/06/09 Christophe Van Eecke
The video Het Fregat (The Frigate) was one of the big hits of the recent Berlin Biennial and the Un-scene exhibition at Wiels, in Brussels. This bizarre spectacle in which actors act out different tableaux vivants around a small replica of a frigate in each scene is typical of the irony in which Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys comment on human social exchange. For the Belgian artist team, humankind is a display dummy, a marionette in a banal and mundane drama that keeps repeating itself.
I let somebody get under my skin
Ryan Gander
reviews 19.02.09 Annie Wu
Amsterdam
Annet Gelink Gallery
10/01/09 - 01/03/09
I let somebody get under my skin is the title of Ryan Gander’s third solo exhibition at Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam. Being a master of storytelling, Gander’s work has always delved heavily into the world of meta-narratives, resulting in a series of works about pre-existing moments in time.
Lost and Found Utopia
Kriemann and Meessen at SMBA
reviews 11.02.09 Hendrik Folkerts
Amsterdam
SMBA
18/01/09 - 08/03/09
Susanne Kriemann and Vincent Meessen try to (re)capture the spectre of modernism at SMBA's latest show.
reviews 24.11.08 Erik van Tuijn
Den Bosch
Artis
13/11/08 - 07/12/08
Video interview with sound artist Aileen Campbell on the occasion of her performance Unthemed Oratorio for many voices and optional soloist(s) at Artis Den Bosch (NL).