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- Supertoll! Tijs Rooijakkers 01/07/2013 - 05/01/2014 The Eindhoven artist Tijs Rooijakkers will start on his project Supertoll! in Het Oog (The Eye), a special space in the Van Abbemuseum, on 1 July. For this project he invited Fresku, a rapper who also comes from Eindhoven, to work together with him. The semi-circular wall of Het Oog is covered with wooden battens on which Fresku has written texts about his personal motivations and ambitions. Rooijakkers then steamed these wooden battens and bent them into the shape of an enormous spinning top. From Monday 15 July to Friday 19 July 2013 visitors can see Rooijakkers and Fresku working together. The motion graphic studio OddOne will make a time-lapse recording of the working process in Het Oog and this will be used in Fresku’s new video clip.
- Making Use Dutch Art Institute at the Van Abbemuseum 22/06/2013 - 11/08/2013 For the past three years the Van Abbemuseum has been giving lectures at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in Arnhem for a master’s degree for artists who are at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. Together with the students, the museum explores relevant and contemporary themes such as autonomy and the place of art in contemporary society.
- Colourful in Black and White Korein Kinderplein children present the Van Abbe collection 16/06/2013 - 01/09/2013 One of the special exhibitions which can be seen during the Summer was put together by the children of Korein Kinderplein. More than 2,000 children aged between 4 and 13 made a choice from the Van Abbemuseum collection using the special "Duik in ’t Depot" (Dive into the Depot) website. Their choice of black and white works in the collection is exhibited together with works which the children made themselves on the basis of their choices. They also helped to organise the exhibition themselves.
- Mark Lewis Pull Focus 15/06/2013 - 13/10/2013 With the solo exhibition Pull Focus the Van Abbemuseum presents fourteen films by Canadian artist Mark Lewis (1958, Hamilton, Canada). Pull Focus offers an extensive introduction to Lewis’ recent body of work in relation to three films that are already part of the Van Abbemuseum’s collection: Nathan Phillips Square, A Winters Night, Skating (2009); TD Centre, 54th Floor (2009); Forte! (2010). Referencing classic cinematic techniques Pull Focus centres our attention on the image itself. Through his chosen medium Lewis explores the process of film production, which he embeds within the traditions of both photography and art.
- Viva Mayakovski! Library Exhibition 11/06/2013 - 31/07/2013 A century ago a young man came became part of our history by introducing “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”. This spring we celebrate the 120th anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s birth, the 100th anniversary of his first poetry book and the publishing of his first play. All this can be shown within the framework of the Russian avant-garde art ephemera which was recently donated to the LS collection of the museum.
- 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.
- 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 .
- Manon de Boer Encounters 08/06/2013 - 15/09/2013 The solo exhibition 'Manon de Boer - Encounters' shows a trilogy of cinematic portraits by the Dutch artist and filmmaker Manon de Boer (born 1966, Kodaicanal, India). The three films in the museum’s collection can now be seen together for the first time: 'Sylvia Kristel – Paris' (2003) about the actress Sylvia Kristel, 'Resonating Surfaces' (2005) about the psychoanalyst and cultural critic Suely Rolnik and 'Think About Wood, Think About Metal' (2011) about the percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky. The exhibition also shows documentary materials such as audio and video fragments, reviews, scores, posters and books.The opening will take place on Saturday 8 June from 3 to 6 p.m. at the same time as the opening of the exhibitions 'Black or White' and 'Donation Maurice van Valen'.
- Katernen Library Exhibition 16/04/2013 - 26/05/2013 A number of artists from Belgium and the Netherlands have made notebooks which have been collected together in a single large artists’ book. This has become an exhibition in book form in which the differently designed notebooks provide the story lines. Artists: Ton Mars, Simon Benson, Fred Michiels, Kris van Dessel, Iris Bouwmeester, Katie Lagast, Peter Van Gheluwe, Bart Vandevijvere, Bert Frings, Luk Berghe, Janus Boudewijns, Jos van der Sommen, Bruno Sluydts.
- 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.
- 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.
- Uncovering Art From Afghanistan Afghanistan Research Project 29/03/2013 - ongoing A small exhibition on art in Afghanistan in the lower ground floor of the Van Abbemuseum. It includes a selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from leading and emerging practitioners in Afghanistan that were donated to the Van Abbemuseum in 2012. On view are works by Hamdullah Arbab, Dr. Yosef Asefi, Hamid Barakzai, Aziz Hazara, Najibullah Mosaver, Ghaus Naram, Abul Qasem Foshanji, Ahmad Wali Akbar, Abdul Hudood Shpoon, Malina Suliman and M. Tamim Sahebzada.
- Sheela Gowda Open Eye Policy 23/02/2013 - 26/05/2013 The solo exhibition 'Open Eye Policy' by Sheela Gowda (Bhadravati 1957) presents the most comprehensive overview to date of the work of this acclaimed Indian artist. It brings together sculpture, large installations, painting and photography from the past twenty years. A first impression of these works suggests a pre-occupation with abstraction, form and material, but on closer inspection they reveal a constant engagement with politics, environment and society.The title of the exhibition speaks of the artists’ attentive approach to her contemporary surroundings as she works with materials taken from the everyday following what she calls on ‘an open eye policy’. This exhibition forms part of the series of major solo exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum in 2012-13, which has so far included René Daniëls, David Maljkovic, Yael Bartana and Piero Gilardi, programmed to highlight the artists’ voice.
- Jewyo Rhii Walls to Talk to 26/01/2013 - 05/05/2013 Jewyo Rhii's practice shows an apparently unending struggle simply to cope with the world. She is an artist who has developed a unique body of work that stems from her sensitive, personal and almost subliminal responses to her immediate environments. Born in Korea, she has displaced herself many times in the last 10 years including periods in Western Europe and the USA. These conditions of constant movement, which are shared by many artists and others of her generation, form one of the bases of her work.
- LL.M. E.L.L. de Wilde’s Wishlist Director 1946 - 1963 25/01/2013 - ongoing De Wilde’s 1949 schedule looks like a wish list, but was used as a tool to reveal the developments in modern art and in this way initiate the town council into the first starting points of his future collection. This schedule was accompanied by a now famous speech which he gave to the town council on 23 February 1949. The speech had a political aim: to convince them that the museum’s new position required a new policy and financial contributions. In the next speech in 1951 De Wilde went further and argued for the internationalisation of the collection for choosing expressionism as a specialist area. In this speech he also demonstrated this with the use of a schedule.
- 12 + 12, Wine and Dreams of Art Library Exhibition 22/01/2013 - 05/04/2013 For the exhibition “Wine and Dreams of Art" 12 artists from the Netherlands and 12 artists from Russia are producing a book based on two ancient themes in the visual arts: the Apollonian and the Dionysian themes. The exhibition is part of 12 + 12, an international programme involving various different countries.
- Lissitzky - Kabakov Utopia and Reality 01/12/2012 - 28/04/2013 The Van Abbemuseum asked the artists Ilya (1933) and Emilia (1945) Kabakov to organise an exhibition of their work together with that of El Lissitzky (1890-1941), as guest curators. For the 'Lissitzky – Kabakov' exhibition they made an extensive selection from their own work and that of Lissitzky. It is the first time that the oeuvres of these famous 20th-century Russian artists are being presented together. Bringing together Lissitzky and the Kabakovs completes the circle which started with the revolutions in the early years of the twentieth century and finished with the upheavals of 1989. The confrontation between early Soviet art and that of the later Soviet era presents opportunities for a better understanding of the art and culture of the intervening period.
- Hana - Mariëlle van den Bergh & Mels Dees Library Exhibition 11/11/2012 - 11/01/2013 Following a residency in Japan by the Eindhoven artist Marielle van den Bergh a precipitation of the workflow and a book are presented in the library.At the library blog of the Van Abbemuseum you can follow the expierences of Marielle van den Bergh and Mels Dees during their residency in Japan.
- 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.
- Sarah van Sonsbeeck - Informational Weather winner Theodora Niemeijer Prize - Het Oog 13/10/2012 - 31/03/2013 These are turbulent times in the Dutch political arena with the formation of the national government and the relationships between the parties still not entirely clear. From Saturday 13 October onwards, visitors can consult the weekly “political weather” in the space of Het Oog (The Eye) in the Van Abbe Museum. For her project Informational Weather, the Dutch artist Sarah van Sonsbeeck will introduce a climate system that will reflect the political situation in the Netherlands through different types of weather. The project will be on view until April 2013 in the Van Abbemuseum.The opening of Informational Weather takes place on 13 October at 15.30.