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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'.
- Museum closed due to transitions 27/05/2013 - 07/06/2013 From 28 May until 7 June the whole museum will be closed. The Museum cafe will be closed with the exception of 31 May and 6 & 7 June. Museum cafe Karel 1 will also be open during festival ‘Music at the Dommel’ which will take place on 1 & 2 June.
- Museum partly opened due to refurbishment 14/05/2013 - 26/05/2013
- Museum closed for Queen's Day 30/04/2013 Tuesday 30 April the museum is closed because of Queen's Day. We wish everybody a great time at the vrijmarkt (free market), with watching the throne change or one of the other activities organised for this last Queen's Day. Wednesday 1 May the museum will be opened and you're welcome to come visit between 11:00 and 17:00 hours.
- 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.
- YoungArtNight 13/04/2013 21:00 - 02:00 Looking for a different night out? During the YoungArtNight you can enjoy the museum during the night. It’s an evening where young artists and designers get the opportunity to show their work and where you can enjoy workshops, talks, drinks and DJs. The YoungArtNight is supported by the Friends of the Van Abbemuseum, Karel1 Museum Café and Eindhoven365. Tickets can be purchased at the museum, the YOUAREHERE concept store or online via yan.vanabbe.nl. Buy your ticket today!
- 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.
- Expats Meet & Greet 04/04/2013 18:00 - 21:00 The Van Abbemuseum is organising a Meet & Greet Eindhoven in cooperation with the Holland Expat Center South. The evenings are organised especially for expats, but also accessible for other interested parties. It is a perfect opportunity to establish new contacts in the Eindhoven region and meet with the Van Abbemuseum. Free entrance Date: April 4 2013Time: 18:00 – 21:00 h
- 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.
- Baltan sessies 2: ART, SCIENCE & EVOLUTION 20/03/2013 - 20/02/2013 16:00 - 17:45 Start: 16.00 -17.45, auditorium Van AbbemuseumEntrance: Free. Entrance via museum café. Baltan Laboratories explores the possibilities and boundaries of the merging of Art and Science with two compelling book presentations by Jalila Essaïdi and David Rothenberg. Both speakers reveal their fascination for the arts and the natural world through their unconventional research practices, which enable the ability tounderstand and manipulate the unexplored mechanisms behind nature’s genius.
- Tania Bruguera, Collecting the performative Open Public Lecture 07/03/2013 19:30 - 21:00 The interdisciplinary Cuban artist Tania Bruguera will discuss a range of questions about her work in relation to performance and activism with Annie Fletcher (Curator Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven) and Catherine Wood (Curator Contemporary Art & Performance TATE, London). Location: Van Abbemuseum, StudioEnglish spoken. FREE entrance. Please register online.
- Wintercollection Van Abbe 03/03/2013 14:00 - 17:00 In the 'Writing to Connect' master class (art) journalists look for original ways to highlight the relationship between the Van Abbemuseum and visitors/interested parties from the region.