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.
Creativity and the Capitalist City
Interview with Tino Buchholz
features 17.11.11 Nicola Bozzi
In a prologue of the Blicke Film Festival (Ruhr area, Germany), the Rottstrasse Gallery in Bochum is screening Creativity and the Capitalist City, a film about the search for creativity linked to struggles for affordable housing and working space in Amsterdam.
11/11/11 Stefaan Vervoort
In his newest film, Brussels artist Sven Augustijnen uses Belgium's colonial past in Congo to demonstrate that discovering truth in an art documentary is a pointless and futile effort, albeit one well worth seeing.
reviews 01.06.11 Nguyen Vu Thuc Linh
On May 19-21 the Post/Autonomia conference took place at SMART Project Space in Amsterdam, analysing the legacy of the Italian Autonomia movement from the seventies and connecting it to the current political attitude towards contemporary art, artists and art institutions.
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.
reviews 02.03.11 Alexander Mayhew
In the performance Real Artists don’t have Teeth Dora García displays her characteristically dark humour.
reviews 09.01.11 Stefaan Vervoort
The 'things' of Valérie Mannaerts come to life in Amsterdam.
features 01.11.10 Laurie Cluitmans
November 6th, the new exhibition by American artist Lisa Oppenheim Blood of the Ghosts opens at Galerie Juliètte Jongma in Amsterdam. Oppenheim attempts to recapture the photographic images of yore in her work by considerably expanding the photographic moment, once considered so historical.
The Amsterdam Connection
In Conversation with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk
27/10/10 Nathalie Zonnenberg
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.