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To celebrate the publication of the collected essays Now is the Time: Art & Theory in the 21st Century, the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam will host a booklaunch on Tuesday, December 1. During the event Eelco van Welie, director NAi Publishers and Gijs van Tuyl, director Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, will present first copies of both the Dutch and English edition of the publication to Lex ter Braak, director of the the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), and to Gitta Luiten, director of the Mondriaan Foundation who supported the publications financially.
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The lecture will be on Wednesday November 18th from 8.00 to 9.30 p.m. at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Rozenstraat 59, Amsterdam, T +31 20 4220471 | www.smba.nl
Please let us know if you will be attending and if you are interested in bringing others along.You can contact Haco de Ridder at h.deridder@mondriaanfoundation.nl
In November Jimmy Ogonga, Program Director of the Nairobi Arts Trust – Centre for Contemporary Art of East Africa (CCAEA) and himself an artist, will be a guest of the Mondriaan Foundation with their international visitor’s program. On Wednesday 18th November he will give a lecture on the work they are doing at CCAEA, followed by an interview with Jelle Bouwhuis of Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. We cordially invite you to attend.
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In October 2009, some public events take place within the framework of Africa Reflected, a research project initiated by SMBA. Read more...
Monday, October 12, 1 - 6 p.m.
VIEWS ON AFRICA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION
A semi-public seminar with Kobena Mercer
Location: Maison Descartes, Vijzelgracht 2A, Amsterdam
Monday, October 12, 8 – 10 p. m.
AFRICA REFLECTED ON VIDEO
A collaboratively organised video screening
Participating artists: Jude Anogwih, Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo, Achilleka Komguem, Vincent Meesen, Emeka Ogboh, Mark Aerial Waller and others.
Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam
Wednesday, October 14, 8 – 10 p.m.
TIMES OF CONFUSION
A public lecture by Simon Njami
Location: Maison Descartes, Vijzelgracht 2A, Amsterdam
25-27 September 2009
Participating artists: Laurence Aëgerter, Mounira Al Solh, Alexis Blake, Egle Budvytyte, Francesca Grilli, Achim Lengerer, Ahmet Ögüt, Niels Vis
Curated by Angela Serino
A Second Exchange is the three-day public presentation that concludes RED A.i.R.|Redlight Art Amsterdam, an artists-in-residence program in former brothels in the centre of Amsterdam. The presentation brings together the works developed by the eight resident artists over the past months and at the same time – via the two public discussions on 26 and 27 September - offers the opportunity for reflection on the role of Art in processes of urban transformation.
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