previews 02.03.12
No Chinese artist is more famous than Ai Weiwei. Tomorrow his solo show opens at The Pont in Tilburg. On display will be his Sunflower Seeds, large sculptures, his Duchampian conceptual works, and (new) documentary films showing how the artist works as an activist.
previews 14.12.11 Jolien Verlaek
The second evening of the lecture series Facing Forward: Art & Theory from a future perspective is centred around the question: What is the future of the image in the visual arts? Meet the speakers: art historian and art critic James Elkins and thinker Jalal Toufic.
previews 09.09.11 METROPOLIS M
The Dutch new gallery season has arrived. Take a look at the calender of the shows and have your pick.
previews 10.05.11 Domeniek Ruyters
Amsterdam
De Brakke Grond
10/05/11 - 10/05/11
Organizers Delphine Bedel and Yannick Bouillis talk about the first Amsterdam Art Book Fair, to be opened at de Brakke Grond in Amsterdam on the 14 & 15th of May.
Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz
AA Bronson on General Idea
03/02/11 Snowden Snowden
Parijs
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC
11/02/11 - 30/04/11
The Canadian art collective General Idea were masters of irony – until the AIDS epidemic overtook them and their work unmistakeably changed in tone. Of the original three, only AA Bronson survived. On the occasion of a large retrospective in the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, he speaks about their 25 year long collective art production.
Art and TV
13/10/10 Kathy Noble
Wenen
MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst
05/03/10 - 06/06/10
Two exhibitions about television, in Vienna and Barcelona, demonstrate art’s continuing fascination with this mass medium – and prove how difficult it is to make a good presentation of it.
previews 26.11.09 Erik van Tuijn
Amsterdam
Rijksakademie
27/11/09 - 29/11/09
...and six other reasons to visit RijksakademieOPEN 2009 this weekend
The Next Generation; sociologist Willem Schinkel; teen movies in the USA; new idealism in art; Isa Genzken; Alex Farquharson on the octopus; Belgian artists Vaast Colson & Dennis Tyfus; animal activism according to Charlotte Dumas, Scouting 2009, and more...
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.
previews 10.09.08 Erik van Tuijn
Amsterdam, (& Den Bosch)
SMCS (& SM's, until november 16th)
05/09/08 - 30/09/08
Amar Kanwar is the final artist to 'dock' at the temporary Stedelijk Museum CS's Docking Station. The Torn First Pages unfolds as his personal investigation into the political situation in Burma.