In-between Things
12 June - 8 August
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Papa Adama, Huma Bhabha, Jimmie Durham, George Osodi, Daniel Spoerri, Clemens von Wedemeyer
Opening: Saturday June 12, 5 - 7 p.m.
This summer Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents the group exhibition ‘In-between Things’. The exhibition title refers to some of the characteristics shared by the works on display, mostly sculptures, which combine various materials and practices. Moreover, these works share an interest in intercultural relations and their political imprints. Broadly speaking, ‘In-between Things’ addresses the theme of globalization and its relation to contemporary art.
Although economic aspects of globalization in relation to contemporary art have recently been much discussed (and criticized), they are not central to ‘In-between Things’. Rather, this exhibition focuses on the effects of globalization on contemporary artistic practices and their theoretical frameworks. The mixing of different cultures is often linked to the term hybridity. In general, the term hybridity describes the mixing of heterogeneous materials, organisms and practices. Since the emergence of post-colonial discourse, however, the term hybridity has lost its political innocence.
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BijlmAIR - Leo Asemota: The Handmaiden, Amsterdam S.E.
1 month ago - 04/06/2010
Opening: Friday 4 June at 5 p.m.
Since 2005 Leo Asemota has been working on ‘The Ens Project’. During his stay in Amsterdam Southeast from March until June, as part of the BijlmAIR artist-in-residence, he has been refining the central being in this project called ‘The Handmaiden’.
At CBK Zuidoost Asemota presents an installation of four glass cases.
BijlmAIR is the residency program of CBK Zuidoost, SMBA and Stichting FLAT. CBK Zuidoost moved to its new location Anton de Komplein 120. Click here for the site from CBK Zuidoost
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My Space Is Yours at Nieuw Dakota
3 months ago - 01/05/2010
1 May - 20 June
At the 'growing' exhibition Common Ground, wherein several art institutions from Amsterdam participate, Jelle Bouwhuis, curator Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, has created a small intimate exhibition My space is Yours. The artworks he has put together have at least one thing in common: they have all been in the unofficial spaces of Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam for a longer or shorter period of time. With work from Jill Magid, Roma Pas, DJ Lonely alias Jonas Ohlsson, Jakob Kolding and an anonymous sculpture.
Nieuw Dakota is a new, international space for contemporary art in Amsterdam-North, on the NDSM-wharf.
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Jakob Kolding
4 months ago - 18/03/2010
This exhibition is extended until 30 May!
28 March - 30 May 2010
The exhibition ‘Stakes is High’ by Jakob Kolding is in part the result of a residency by the Danish artist in Amsterdam's Zuidas quarter, the new financial center of the Netherlands. He is the third artist in this residency project, which has been organised by the SMBA for the past three years in cooperation with the Research Group of Art & Public Space at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Virtual Museum Zuidas.
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Elkoussy en Abraaj Prize
4 months ago - 17/03/2010
Jelle Bouwhuis, curator Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, en kunstenares Hala Elkoussy reizen opnieuw af naar Dubai. Vorig jaar won het tweetal op basis van een projectvoorstel de prestigieuze Abraaj Capital Art Prize, ter waarde van $200.000. Het voorstel is inmiddels gerealiseerd en wordt vanaf 17 maart 2010 onder de naam Myths and Legends Room: The Mural op de kunstbeurs Art Dubai getoond.
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