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- Bik Van der Pol. Pay Attention Plug In #28 02/06/2007 - 01/11/2009 Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol have been working together as Bik Van der Pol since 1994. They often work on location, use, reuse and reactivate the work of others – be they from the world of art, journalism, media or history – and confront the visitor with situations for which they as artists refuse to take complete control.
- Bik van der Pol. Pay Attention: Act 1 Plug In #28.1 02/06/2007 - 23/09/2007 Liesbeth Bik (1959) and Jos van der Pol (1961) have been working together as Bik Van der Pol since 1994. The two Rotterdam citizens are not classical studio artists.
- Bik van der Pol. Pay Attention: Act 2 Plug In #28.2 15/12/2007 - 20/04/2008 Liesbeth Bik (1959) and Jos van der Pol (1961) have been working together as Bik Van der Pol since 1994. The two Rotterdam citizens are not classical studio artists.
- Bik van der Pol. Pay Attention: Act 3 Plug In #28.3 10/05/2008 - 21/09/2008 In Plug In #28.3 Bik Van der Pol, Pay Attention: Act 3, they present the work of three artists. ‘Les Grands Ensembles’, 1994-2001 by Pierre Huyghe presents a ‘conversation’ between two buildings, which are typical examples of the notorious, modernist, social housing projects, once seen as a utopian dream designed to accommodate good living.
- Black or White 08/06/2013 - 17/11/2013 Animated films, comic strips and cartoons…. these are rarely exhibited in a museum for contemporary art. However in the 'Black or White' exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum they play the main role in combination with drawings and video installations. 'Black or White flirts' with what is politically incorrect. It aims to provoke visitors to reflect upon their own behaviour and its interrelation with social conventions by exhibiting politically engaged art. The works that are exhibited are not necessarily politically correct at first glance. They attempt to test the boundaries; they are bizarre, provocative, sometimes coarse, exaggerated or ugly. In other words, in each of the works something is simply “not quite right”. This elicits a direct and sometimes even physical reaction in the viewer in the form of laughter or discomfort. The exhibition includes works by Michael J. Baers, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels, Piotr Dumała, Extrastruggle, Philippe Grammaticopoulos, Greg Irons and Tom Veitch, Phil Mulloy, Prabhakar Pachpute, Dan Perjovschi, Peter Pontiac, and Ton Smits. The installation The Refusal of Time by William Kentridge (2012), one of the favourites of the public at dOCUMENTA13 last year in Kassel, is exhibited in the Studio.
- Bram Hermens - Bactrius in Het Oog 28/07/2011 - 25/03/2012 In the context of the exhibition programme VANUIT HIER - OUT OF HERE, the Eindhoven based artist Bram Hermens is invited to develop a big, new, wall art for Het Oog (The Eye). Finisage on 28 January 2012.
- Bruce Nauman. Driven Man, Driven Snow Plug In #23 16/03/2007 - 28/05/2007 In this room, a number of cast iron blocks are spread across the floor in groups of three or four. Not everybody can instantly see whether they all have the same shape or whether they are different kinds of blocks.
- Burgi Kühnemann Library Exhibition 20/01/2009 - 13/03/2009 German artist Burgi Kühnemann uses books as ironic weapons against bourgeois values. She uses books found in second-hand bookshops, selecting them on the basis of the subject matter of their illustrations: pretty girls, brawny men and faithful dogs. Kühnemann estranges these images by adding her own painted commentary, thereby satirizing the leitmotiv, the overt subject matter of the image, and mercilessly disclosing its covert values.
- Byars & Beuys 13/02/2006 - 09/03/2007 James Lee Byars and Joseph Beuys allow both mystical and magical ritual into their work, making use of symbolic attributes.
- CCC - Made in Indonesia Te gast in het Van Abbemuseum 13/04/2013 - 27/04/2013 This exhibition of photographs made by members of a Facebook group called “Click Click Community (CCC)” features an eclectic mix of images by photographers whose only links are Facebook, Indonesia, and a shared enthusiasm for making beautiful images that capture fragments of the landscape and society that make up this archipelago of diversity.
- Certain Trees 06/11/2007 - 18/01/2008 On Sunday November 4, 2007, the Library of the Van Abbemuseum opens the exhibition Certain Trees, an anthology of artists books, poems and objects, put together by the artist and publisher of artists books Simon Cutts.
- Chagall, Delaunay, Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky Plug In #29 14/06/2007 - 09/12/2007 The Van Abbemuseum collection includes a small but high-quality ensemble of works from the beginning of the twentieth century. They were acquired in the 1950s to put the contemporary art in a historical context.
- Chto Delat - Activist Club Plug In #51 04/04/2009 - 27/11/2009 Chto Delat (What is to be done) is a collective of artists, critics, philosophers and writers from St Petersburg and Moscow formed in 2003. The group is concerned with topics in the field of tension between art, political theory and activism. This collective engages in a variety of art projects, including video works, installations, and publishing free newspapers. The Van Abbemuseum invited them to present their work in the context of the museum collection. Their proposal was to present a video programme with three of their latest films in a small cinema.
- Cityplan The most modern design for Eindhoven 29/09/2007 - 02/12/2007 On show in the Van Abbemuseum during the Dutch Design Week 2007 is the exhibition ‘Cityplan- The most modern design for Eindhoven’. It expands on the spectacular city expansion plan designed by architects Van den Broek en Bakema at the end of the sixties, giving their view on the city of Eindhoven.
- Civilian virtue, artistic sense and community spirit Living Archive 04/04/2009 - 08/11/2009 On 30 January 1933, Mayor A. Verdijk made a solemn declaration before the Eindhoven council. One of the local dignitaries, cigar manufacturer H.J. van Abbe (1880-1940), had offered to donate a museum of modern art to the city. Under the terms of the offer, Van Abbe would finance the construction of the museum as well as donate a certain amount of money for acquisitions and operation costs during the first few years of the museum’s existence.
- Collecting - Mail Art Project Library Exhibition 20/02/2011 - ongoing Thousands of people have special collections which vary from stamps, coins, wrappers of cigars to meaningful words and fond memories. Why do we collect? And how? Many contemporary artists use ‘collecting’ to visualise their artistic concept. They also have the ability to put the principles of collecting into one postcard. The third part of Play van Abbe was about collecting. This was an inspiration for the library exhibition Collecting – Mail Art Project.
- Collection Henri van Abbe Plug In #50 04/04/2009 - 15/11/2009 In this Plug In we show 26 works that are purchased in 1936, the year that the Van Abbemuseum opened its doors. This ensemble of 26 paintings is the the base of the Van Abbemuseum collection.
- Dan Perjovschi Wall drawings Perjovschi usually draws pictures and writes texts for walls, newspapers and books. He makes these drawings in an almost spontaneous manner at the time when he is asked, allowing the flow of current events to effect the final result. As an artist, he is always on the lookout, observing everyday reality for moments or actions that can be made remarkable.
- Daniel Buren. Fragmente einer Rede über die Kunst Plug In #45 20/09/2008 - 15/03/2009 In 1982, the Van Abbemuseum, with the support of the Rembrandt Association, bought ‘Fragmente einer Rede über die Kunst. 18 peintures sur toile. Tissus rayés blancs et colorés’ by the French artist Daniel Buren. To celebrate the 125th anniversary of this association, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will organise an exhibition from 3 October 2008 to 18 January 2009, in which a large selection of works will be shown, including several from the Van Abbemuseum, which were acquired by Dutch museums with the association’s help. Simultaneously, the Van Abbemuseum will be exhibiting the abovementioned work by Buren.
- 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.