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Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, The Sun that Never Set – Akinci
Pechakucha, Stedelijk@Trouw
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, The Sun that Never Set - Akinci

The Amsterdam Art Weekend has started. There is a lot to see, and many places to visit. For the ones who don’t know where to go, you can find a Breakfast Route, a Drinks & Bites Route and a Rijksacademie Connects Route on the website of Amsterdam Art Weekend. I did my own route.

Already on Thursday Night there was the possibility to go to the last edition of Stedelijk@Trouw. A very clever and interesting collaboration between Stedelijk Museum and Club Trouw. This night’s theme was Data and one could see the works of Elizabeth Price, Camille Henrot and Hannah Perry. The opening night started with “Pechakucha meets Amsterdam Art Weekend: The why, how and for whom of this annual art event in 20 seconds x 20 slides”. One thing gets crystal clear; collaboration is the key for everything.

Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art together with BoetzelaerINispen organise the second Petite Fair during AAW. The two galleries share their spaces with ten other galleries both national and international. All the galleries are presenting one artist. It’s a cosy and intimate fair with even a little restaurant and some nice books from the art bookstore San Serriffe. And for the ones who would like to buy something but cannot afford it, you should pay a visit to the stand of Peter Amby from Copenhagen who presents the work of Ulrik Weck. During the Petite Fair they have a so called Dutch Sale: one for twenty and three for fifty euro’s.

Ulrik Weck, Peter Amby - A Petite Fair II

At Akinci one can view new work of Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács in The Sun that Never Set. Broersen and Lukács take you on a journey to a world that’s between fiction and reality. They get inspiration from Hollywood movies, and fairy tales, even copy them and turn it somehow in beautiful pieces of art.

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, The Sun that Never Set - Akinci
Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen, Ansgar Lund - Rooms with a view
Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Painter - Rooms with a view

Every day at 13h there’s a free tour at Manifesta. Manifesta and Dutch Culture present the exhibition Rooms with a View which is curated by tegenboschvanvreden. It’s the first presentation of the new initiative Kunst Kantoor, in which an exhibition is made in the working offices of Dutch Culture and International Foundation Manifesta. Tegenboschvanvreden made a great selection of works in which the art works and the location really co-operate with each other. With works from for instance Sanna Rous, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Cristina Lucas and Chaim van Luit.

Cristina Lucas, Flying Carpet Works - tegenboschvanvreden

In the gallery of tegenboschvanvreden itself, Cristina Lucas gets her first solo-exhibition with her ‘Flying Carpet Works’. In these works she shows her interest in the concept of being able to fly, with both positive and negative results.

Fransesca Grilli, Iron - VZL / Contemporary Art

During the Pechakucha, artist Fransesca Grilli got also the opportunity to present her work in 20 slides. But instead of 20 slides, she chose to show a video fragment of the performance she will present in the Oude Kerk on Saturday as that would explain everything for itself. And it did. It’s a concert about musical censorship. She is interested in the experience of the passing of time and that what is left when everything is gone. VZL / Contemporary art presents her work with the exhibition Wormtale. In doing so VZL not only celebrate Amsterdam Art Weekend but also their 1 year Anniversary. Long live the Capital A’s!

Amsterdam Art Weekend
29, 30, 1 December

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