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- David Claerbout 05/06/2005 - 11/09/2005 On more than one occasion in the past years, the Van Abbe Museum has focused attention on artists who - using photography and film - evoke the stillness of an often poetically-tinted world: Craigie Horsfield, Jaki Irvine, Marijke van Warmerdam, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij.
- David Maljkovic 08/05/2005 - 25/09/2005 Small-scale presentation by the Croatian artist David Maljkovic.
- David Maljkovic - Sources in the Air Solo Exhibition 06/10/2012 - 27/01/2013 For Sources in the Air, David Maljkovic (Rijeka, Croatia, 1973) presents an overview of his practice from the last ten years. The spectres of modernism – its politics and aesthetics – loom over and inform this multi-faceted oeuvre consisting of sculpture, collage, painting, drawing, and architectural mises-en-scène. The exhibition focuses attention on the artist’s varied artistic strategies and experiences, as well as addressing and problematising the act of exhibition making itself. In this exhibition, we are encouraged to get lost and enjoy it! Taken as a whole this will be the artist’s most comprehensive survey to date. Trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and now living in Zagreb, Maljkovic has exhibited extensively internationally.
- Déjà Vu Library Exhibition 09/11/2010 - 11/02/2011 Déjà Vu discusses a tendency in the history of artist books in which publications are put together with pictures of found objects. These objects often consist of postcards, posters and documentation from magazines or can be a collection of snapshots by amateur photographers, like stereotype family pictures, holiday perils or hotel room views.
- Didier Vermeiren Collection de Solides 13/09/2003 - 30/11/2003 Collection de Solides is Vermeiren’s first solo museum exhibition since 1995 (b. 1951). The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue are based around the Belgium artist’s most recent sculptures and photographic works (made between 1997-2003).
- Disturbance Plug In #41 24/05/2008 - 12/04/2009 In 1979, when I was about to present new work in the collection, I hung a painting by Georg Baselitz near a wooden sculpture made by Donald Judd. The photograph taken of that encounter serves as the starting point for my contribution to the ‘Plug In’ series.
- DOEN | Materiaalprijs Dutch Design Week 20/10/2012 - 28/10/2012 Can you make our world a better place? And contribute to designing a sustainable future? Each year, the DOEN | Materiaalprijs challenges visual artists, designers, fashion designers and architects to develop innovative, sustainable materials and pioneering techniques for a better, more durable, society. In 2012, the Materiaalprijs enters its fourth successive year with a broad spectrum of designs where functionality, aesthetic appeal and sustainability go hand in hand. From the 77 submissions received this year, an expert committee selected eighteen design ideas. The projects go on display at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week (from 20 to 28 October). An expert jury will announce the winning designs on the opening day.
- Donation Maurice van Valen 08/06/2013 - 15/09/2013 A selection of works donated by the Dutch collector Maurice van Valen will be exhibited in two rooms on the ground floor of the new building of the museum. Van Valen has donated 34 works to the Van Abbemuseum. These include 25 works by Johan Lennarts (Eindhoven, 1932 – 1991), 5 works by JCJ Vanderheyden (’s-Hertogenbosch, 1928 – 2012), and 4 works by Pieter Laurens Mol (Breda, 1946). The museum already has several works by these artists in its collection and has exhibited them in various groups and solo exhibitions since the 1960s.Several other works from the Van Abbe collection will be exhibited in this exhibition as well, both from these and from other artists (Bazaine, Broodthaers, Dine & Friedlander, Kelly, Van der Leck, Polke and Schoonhoven). In a video interview in the gallery Van Valen tells us about his donation an the presentation .
- Double Infinity Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai, China 29/04/2010 - 23/05/2010 On 29 April Double Infinity, a joint initiative by the Van Abbemuseum and Arthub Asia, will open at the Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai, parallel to the World Expo 2010. Double Infinity is a collaborative encounter between a north-western European art museum and an Asian art initiative and comprises of an exhibition, a performance series, a lecture programme and a publication. Double Infinity marks the first time that a European museum opens itself and its collection to the responses of artists living and working in China – responses that form a host of enriching, humorous and critical insights. The festive opening of the programme on 29 April 2010 will be conducted by Eric Verwaal, the Consul-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Shanghai and will feature a performance by the Chinese artist Zhou Xiaohu. On 15 and 16 May an extensive public programme with discussions and performances by Julika Rudelius and Surasi Kusolwong, and others, will be held at the theatre in the Dutch Culture Centre, Shanghai.
- Eindhoven on the map 04/09/2012 - 23/09/2012 Imagine Eindhoven to be a different place in the world. What would the city look like? A different history, a different climate, different geography, otherresidents or another culture. From 4 to 23 September you can visit the exhibition Eindhoven on the Map, the results of a design for anotherEindhoven, initiated by the Eindhoven Dagblad. The fictitious maps in A0 format, designed by a wide audience, will give you a very different view on Eindhoven and its surroundings.Access to the exhibition is free. Read more on the website of the Eindhovens Dagblad (in Dutch).
- EindhovenIstanbul 01/10/2005 - 29/01/2006 The Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven presents a selection of key artworks drawn from the famous Istanbul Biennial exhibitions of the past 18 years.
- El Lissitzky and contemporaries In the Netherlands there are two major collections with works from Russian avant-garde artists from 1920 or thereabouts: the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum’s Malevich collection and the Van Abbemuseum’s Lissitzky collection.
- El Lissitzky, Deimantas Narkevicius Plug In #06 08/04/2006 - 14/09/2008 The largest body of work by El Lissitzky (1890-1941) outside Russia is to be found in the Van Abbemuseum’s collection. Time and again Lissitzky’s work serves as a fount of inspiration in the conceptualization of exhibitions.
- Elly Strik. In search of the perfect [failure] Plug In #17 16/12/2006 - 28/10/2007 Artists create images but they also collect them. The collections are either in their heads or exist in reality.
- Erzen Shkololli Pejë, Kosovo, 1998 06/04/2013 - 23/06/2013 Erzen Shkololli created the work 'Pejë, Kosovo, 1998' when he was 22 years old during the time of the Kosovo war. Shkololli, a young artist at the time, was in hiding for three months with his family in Pejë, during the horrific period of ethnic cleansing of the war. In order to keep active, he did what he could under the circumstances with whatever was around - material from his father’s bespoke sewing shop and his mother’s home sewing machine. As a result, he made a series of colourful patchworks, one that was 22 meter long and comprised of eight banners. Now fifteen years later, the work is on public display for the second time in two years. In the intervening years, the work was kept in storage, first in Kosovo and later in Berlin.
- Exhibition DOEN | Materiaalprijs 2011 part of DDW 22/10/2011 - 30/10/2011 The DOEN | Materiaalprijs promotes the use of sustainable and innovative materials in art and design. Visual artists, designers, fashion designers and architects are challenged to come up with ways of using new, sustainable materials and pioneering techniques in their work. 2011 marks the third successive edition of the prize, and reveals that cutting-edge design and sustainability go hand in hand with aesthetic appeal and functionality. From the 70 submissions received this year, a panel of experts have selected sixteen designs. The projects will be displayed at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week (from 22 to 30 October). A specialist jury will announce the two prize-winners during the opening day of Dutch Design Week.
- EXhibition: INterior Plug In #49 14/03/2009 - 15/11/2009 Wim van Nuenen is a long-time volunteer of the museum who asked for the opportunity to curate a Plug In. When directed to partner with someone different from him in point of view and age he chose Caya, his 11 year old granddaughter.
- Flying City Plug In #07 08/04/2006 - 20/05/2007 Defying the insatiable need for building practical infrastructure in a rapidly growing city, Seoul recently went about to demolish an elevated roadway to restore a central waterway. The Cheonggyecheon stream, now slated for this beautification project, had once upon a time, been a defining landmark of Seoul, but was covered first in 1961, then with an elevated expressway in 1968 under layers of concrete-threatened to be erased from the memory of Seoul.
- Fontys FutureMediaLab Ghetto Media 03/06/2010 - 13/06/2010
- Forms of Resistance Artists and the desire for social change from 1871 to the present. 22/09/2007 - 06/01/2007 The exhibition Forms of Resistance shows that ‘art and resistance’ are both timeless and universal. Although politically engaged works often put content first, this exhibition shows that art is an outstanding method of transforming content using form.