The South African James Beckett reworks historical material that appears to have been directly borrowed from the archives of some faraway city. His ‘sampling’ of objects in museum collections evokes memories of the past, without it being clear what it is all about.
Last year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art 1960-1976, an exhibition highlighting Amsterdam as an important centre of European conceptual art. The American exhibition formed a springboard for a conversation with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk about this flourishing period in Dutch art.
Deimantas Narkevičius (1964, Utena, Lithuania), last year’s winner of The Vincent Award and one of the most important artists from Eastern Europe, makes idiosyncratic comments upon the drastic changes that have overcome his country and region since the fall of the Wall. On the occasion of a big solo exhibition in the Van Abbe Museum, a talk with the man who is trained as a sculptor, but is primarily known for his video work.
