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Newsletter Ludwig Forum Aachen

Ludwig Forum

Ausgabe 26.04.2023

 

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Henrike Naumann, Ruinenwert, 2019 / Einstürzende Reichsbauten, 2021, Ausstellungsansicht Illiberal Lives. Ludwig Forum Aachen, 2023, Foto: Mareike Tocha

Aktuelle Ausstellung im Ludwig Forum Aachen

Illiberal Lives (Illiberale Leben)
22.04.2023 – 27.08.2023

Mit Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak und Jordan Strafer und einer Neuhängung von Arbeiten der Sammlungen im Ludwig Forum Aachen ausgewählt durch die Künstler*innen von Vincent Desiderio, Jann Haworth, Domenico Gnoli, Renato Guttuso, Jörg Immendorff, Magdalena Jetelová, Lew Kerbel, Konrad Klapheck, Jeff Koons, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Lee Lozano, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Klaus Paier, Tönis Vint und Andy Warhol 

Der Zerfall der liberal-kapitalistischen Nachkriegsordnung, die nach 1989 durchgesetzt schien, lässt auch die Kunst dieser Gesellschaft nicht unberührt. Illiberal Lives, die aktuelle Ausstellung im Ludwig Forum Aachen setzt genau hier an. Sie fragt, wie mit dem Aufbrechen des liberalen Fortschrittsversprechens unweigerlich der unfreie, illiberale Kern moderner Freiheiten zu Tage tritt, und auch die liberale Fiktion von der Kunst als Ausdrucksraum bürgerlicher Freiheit immer mehr unter Druck gerät. Dort, wo die Kunst nicht nur Besitzstände verteidigt, oder sich der Beschwörung nationaler Gemeinschaften dienstbar macht, zeigt sie sich heute zunehmend als praktischer Austragungsort sozialer Widersprüche und Ausschlüsse. Die Arbeiten von Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak und Jordan Strafer brechen mit den Beschränkungen und Gewalten der liberalen Freiheiten und lassen stattdessen künstlerische Formen eines illiberalen Lebens an ihre Stelle treten. Die Neuhängungen von durch die Künstler*innen ausgewählten Arbeiten der Sammlungen im Ludwig Forum Aachen, die Teil von Illiberal Lives sind, fügen der Ausstellung wesentliche Zuspitzungen von Vergangenheiten und Gegenwarten aufeinander hinzu. In ihren Auseinandersetzungen mit Arbeiten von beispielsweise Renato Guttuso, Konrad Klapheck oder Jeff Koons geraten seltener gezeigte Arbeiten wie die von Vincent Desiderio oder Magdalena Jetelová in den Blick. Die eingeladenen Künstler*innen re-perspektivieren hierbei immer auch die postfaschistische Geschichte einer Institution, deren Sammlungen unlösbar verbunden sind mit der Rhetorik der Blockkonfrontation zwischen Ost und West in der Nachkriegszeit und dem liberalen Narrativ von „freier“ und „unfreier“ Kunst.

Kuratiert von Eva Birkenstock, Anselm Franke, Holger Otten und Kerstin Stakemeier. Bei Illiberal Lives handelt es sich um eine Fortsetzung der Ausstellung Illiberal Arts, die 2021 von Anselm Franke und Kerstin Stakemeier am Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin kuratiert wurde.

Die Ausstellung wird von einer Publikation begleitet, die ein Gespräch mit Lenora Hanson, Fumi Okiji, Jordy Rosenberg, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Evan Calder Williams, Bhanu Kapil und Maxi Wallenhorst enthält.

Karlspreisrahmenprogramm: “Explosions Near the Museum” – Screening und Gespräch mit Yarema Malashchuk

Explosions Near the Museum
Screening mit Yarema Malashchuk im Gespräch mit Fanny Hauser und Alexander Markschies
Do, 04. Mai 2023, 18:30 Uhr

Die in Kiew lebenden Künstler und Filmemacher Roman Khimei und Yarema Malashchuk arbeiten seit 2013 an der Schnittstelle zwischen bildender Kunst und Kino zusammen. Im Ludwig Forum Aachen präsentieren sie ihre zwei jüngsten Videoarbeiten: Explosions Near the Museum (2023) zeigt Aufnahmen aus dem 2022 durch russische Besatzungstruppen geplünderten Kunstmuseum Cherson; die Geräusche von Granaten und Raketeneinschlägen wurden während der Dreharbeiten im Museum am 12. Dezember aufgenommen. In The Wanderer (2022) arbeiten die beiden Künstler mit inszenierten Bildern, die ihre eigenen Körper in den Karpaten zeigen und auf die Körper russischer Soldaten in der Ukraine verweisen.

Khimei und Malashchuk sind Teil des Prykarpattian Theater Kunstkollektivs, das kürzlich das Projekt Theater of Hopes and Expectations zwischen Düsseldorf und Sloboda-Kukharska, Ukraine, realisierte. 2020 wurden sie mit dem Hauptpreis des PinchukArtCentre Prize ausgezeichnet.

Dem Screening folgt ein Gespräch mit beiden Filmemachern mit Prof. Alexander Markschies (RWTH Aachen) und Fanny Hauser (Ludwig Forum Aachen).

Organisiert von Ludwig Forum Aachen und Internationaler Karlspreis e.V. als Teil des diesjährigen Karlspreis-Rahmenprogramms.

Current Exhibition at the Ludwig Forum Aachen

Illiberal Lives
April 22 – August 27, 2023

With Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Jordan Strafer and, selected by the artists, a rehanging of works from the collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen of Vincent Desiderio, Jann Haworth, Domenico Gnoli, Renato Guttuso, Jörg Immendorff, Magdalena Jetelová, Lev Kerbel, Konrad Klapheck, Jeff Koons, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Lee Lozano, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Klaus Paier, Tõnis Vint, and Andy Warhol

The disintegration of the liberal-capitalist post-war order which seemed firmly established after 1989 also left its mark on the art of this society. This is precisely where Illiberal Lives, the current exhibition at the Ludwig Forum Aachen, inserts itself. It probes how, with the dissolution of the liberal promise of progress, the unfree, illiberal core of modern freedoms inevitably surfaces, and the liberal fiction of art as a space of expression for bourgeois freedom also comes under increasing pressure. Where art is not just defending these properties, or making itself subservient to the invocation of national communities, it is increasingly crystallising at present as a practical scene of social conflicts and exclusions. The works by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Jordan Strafer break with the constraints and violence of liberal freedoms and let artistic forms of an illiberal life take their place. The rehangings of the works from the collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen selected by the artists, which make up part of Illiberal Lives, add seminal intensifications of the relations pasts and presents enter into the exhibition. In their engagement with works by, for instance, Renato Guttuso, Konrad Klapheck, and Jeff Koons, works like those by Vincent Desiderio and Magdalena Jetelová that are shown more rarely also come into view. The invited artists are always also re-situating the post-fascist history of an institution whose collections are intractably associated with the rhetoric of the bloc confrontation between East and West in the post-war period, and the liberal narrative of “free” and “unfree” art.

Curated by Eva Birkenstock, Anselm Franke, Holger Otten and Kerstin Stakemeier. Illiberal Lives is a continuation of the exhibition Illiberal Arts, which was curated by Anselm Franke and Kerstin Stakemeier at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2021.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication, which will include a conversation with Lenora Hanson, Fumi Okiji, Jordy Rosenberg, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Evan Calder Williams, Bhanu Kapil, and Maxi Wallenhorst.

Karlspreis Program: “Explosions Near the Museum” – Screening and Conversation with Yarema Malashchuk

Exlosions Near the Museum
Screening with Yarema Malashchuk in conversation with Fanny Hauser and Alexander Markschies
Thu, May 4, 2023, 6.30pm

Kiev-based artists and filmmakers Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, have been collaborating at the intersection of visual art and cinema since 2013. At Ludwig Forum Aachen, they present their two most recent video works: Explosions Near the Museum (2023) features footage from the Kherson Museum of Local Lore, looted by Russian occupational forces in 2022; the sounds of shellings and missile strikes were recorded while filming inside the museum on December 12. In The Wanderer (2022), the two artists work with staged images that show their own bodies in the Carpathian Mountains and allude to the corpses of Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

Khimei and Malashchuk are part of the Prykarpattian Theater art collective, which recently realized the project Theater of Hopes and Expectations between Düsseldorf and Sloboda-Kukharska, Ukraine. In 2020 they were awarded the main prize of the PinchukArtCentre Prize.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with the filmmakers, Prof. Alexander Markschies (RWTH Aachen) and Fanny Hauser (Ludwig Forum Aachen).

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Robert Filliou, Funny Bones, exhibition view, Jan Mot, Brussels, 2023. Photo: Philippe De Gobert.

Last days — closes on 29/04:

Robert Filliou
Funny Bones
curated by François Curlet

 

On the occasion of the last week of the exhibition:

27/04, 6.30 pm
Robert Filliou: Origins and Becomings of the Poïpoï
Vincent Meessen in conversation with Antony Hudek

at Jan Mot, Brussels

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13/05 – 08/07
Trevor Yeung
Silent Floaters

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Oscillation Bulletin ::: Episode 1


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Oscillation ::: o tempo bulletin ep. 1
… a last pre-festival communiqué

Dear travellers in space and time,

Tomorrow marks the start of the fifth edition of our annual Oscillation festival, hosted by MILL (Needcompany) and HISK in Molenbeek. Disappointment awaits this year’s late deciders: all the festival days are sold out. Only for the workshops and the Charlemagne Palestine concert on Sunday evening, are some places still available. Charlemagne’s concert is moving to another church – our Sunday eve trance will now be summoned at the majestic Église du Couvent des Pères Carmes in Ixelles. Tonight, we begin the festival with a pre-program reading group with Persis Bekkering, who’ll expand our theoretical horizons in anticipation of the following days.

Festival specials

During the festival, companion pieces to this year’s themes are made available. Be sure to check them out in time, since they’re disappearing after the festival :::

Music Of The Eternal Now: Post-Husserlian Temporality, Pattern Cyclic Time-Consciousness And Computer Music, silent film by British artist Mark Fell. Shot entirely on the remote Finnish island Hailuoto, it interweaves Fell’s critical writing with the island’s frozen, inert and haunting landscapes.

The festival reader, with texts by Michel Siffre, Jürg Frey, Margaret Tait, Catherine Christer Hennix, ASUNA, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Ursula K. Le Guin, Clarice Lispector, Hildegard of Bingen and Huw Lemmey, Clara Lévy, George Woodcock, Rebecca Solnit, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Hito Steyerl and Anna Tsing.

21 Tracks for the 21st Century by Jessica Ekomane, who is playing on Friday and giving a talk on Sunday.

Food clues

Some modest suggestions for refueling before and during the festival:
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To all tomorrow’s parties,

The Oscillation Crew

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Newsletter April 2023

 

Video Salon 

Scanners(1981) | 15 April 2023 | Haus der Statistik

ABA launched a new VHS Video Salon series at Haus der Statistik.
Keep your eyes and ears open for the next salon to come.

 

 

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AIR SALON | Tuesday, 23 May 2023 & every third Tuesday monthly
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Resonant Match – Crafts and Score |  Kato Six, Inne Eysermans and Agata Jastrzabe | June (Opening times TBA)

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ABA residents

 

Nelson Beer
Residency Mar– Sep 2023

Nelson Beer is a Swiss research-artist whose work focuses on the social fabric woven through the experimental study and practice of sound. He graduated from the Center for Research Architecture in London and currently works from the Brasseries Atlas in Brussels. In June 2022, Nelson played at Belluard Bollwerk in Fribourg with YARNS, a study group whose aim is to rethink the ethics and policies of “the band”. Since 2014, Nelson is part of On Land Collective which takes care of music practitioners and publishes their work. (More info)

www.nelsonbeer.info
 

     

 

Jonas Morgenthaler
Residency Mar– Sep 2023

Jonas works across sculpture and installation. By questioning the properties and ideological economies of objects and the way we engage with such, he stresses the normative narratives of the material landscapes surrounding us and aims at eventual reconfiguration. His practice materialises in subversive assemblages consisting of a broad variety of materials – ranging from secondhand ware to objects from the street like abandoned pieces of furniture, toys or domestic devices. Through collaging and recomposing, his installations make use of the variety of expressive layers that objects consists of; relating materiality, conceptual power, as well as cultural and socioeconomic context anew. Morgenthaler’s sculptures search for deviant object relations to transpire and thereby pierce individual experience rooted in cultural history and preconception respectively. (More info)

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 AIR salon hosted by Machiel van Stokkum

 

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Call For Proposals – Critical Meme Reader III: Breaking the Meme

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We would like to invite thinkers and (meme) makers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to contribute manifestos, essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, artworks, memes and other yet-to-be-defined speculative interventions that aim to break and reassemble the ubiquitous concept of the meme. We are particularly interested in contributions from the Global South and marginalized communities and will prioritize radical perspectives. 

Reader #17, Critical Meme Reader III: Breaking the Meme, will be edited by Chloë Arkenbout and Idil Galip. Proposals/abstracts should be around 300-500 words. Please send these to Contributors are welcome to join the conference in Amsterdam in April 2024 dedicated to the launch of the publication.

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GIFTED – ZINE
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Failurists – When Things Go Awry
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DeusexMaki: A Hybrid Theater Performance
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Investigative Fiction: Evidence and its Discontents
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In-Between Media Conference – Thoughts and Impressions
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Interview with Geert Lovink for Il Manifesto 
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Breaking the Censorship Consensus-My Time in the Twitter Files
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Uitnodiging: Presentatie Spectres of Bandung

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Uitnodiging

Presentatie:
Spectres of Bandung: Een politieke verbeelding van Azië-Afrika
4 mei van 18:00 – 19:30 uur

Publiek programma:
Inas Halabi – After the Last Sky 
26 April, 12 mei, 25 mei, 1 juni, 3 juni

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Spectres of Bandung: Een politieke verbeelding van Azië-Afrika
Tentoonstellingspresentatie door Vera Mey en Philippe Pirotte 
4 mei van 18:00 tot 19:30 uur

De Appel is verheugd om Vera Mey en Philippe Pirotte voor de tweede keer dit jaar te mogen ontvangen. Hun eerste bezoek aan de Appel was om een seminar te geven aan de deelnemers van het Curatorial Programme in maart. Deze keer presenteren zij aan het publiek de tentoonstelling Spectres of Bandung, die de artistieke verbeelding belicht die werd aangewakkerd door de geest van zelfbeschikking die in de aanloop naar de Bandung-conferentie van 1955 weerklonk, en nog altijd nadreunt. Spectres of Bandung opent op 6 oktober 2023 bij Gropius-Bau in Berlijn, en is samengesteld door Zippora Elders, Philippe Pirotte en Vera Mey met Elizabeth Asafo-Adjei, Suman Gopinath, Grace Samboh en Grant Watson.

Meer informatie over de tentoonstelling
Van 17 tot 24 april 1955 kwamen afgevaardigden van in totaal 29 onafhankelijke Afrikaanse en Aziatische staten in Bandung, Indonesië, bijeen om uiting te geven aan hun wil om zich tegen imperialisme en racisme te verzetten en zich een nieuwe wereld na het kolonialisme voor te stellen. De conferentie wordt beschouwd als het moment waarop de dekolonisatie in de 20e eeuw in een stroomversnelling kwam, en wordt herinnerd als de gebeurtenis die voor deze continenten de moed genereerde “om een eigen verbeelding te produceren”.

Alle middelen werden ingezet om deze onderneming mogelijk te maken, want vanaf het begin waren de organisatoren zich bewust van het mythologiserende potentieel. Aangezien de mythe nauw verbonden is met het rijk van verhalen en beelden, is het juist dit mythische aspect wat de onderzoekers en curatoren in het bijzonder interesseert bij het maken van deze tentoonstelling.

Spectres of Bandung, dat in samenwerking is opgezet en verschillende artistieke, architecturale en performatieve interventies combineert, brengt historische en hedendaagse kunstwerken, documenten, archieven en films samen in opnieuw uitgevonden architecturale configuraties. Deze tentoonstelling wil de verbeelding van dit keerpunt, dat deel uitmaakte van een denkklimaat waarin het beeld van de wereldmacht verschoof, opnieuw vertellen en evalueren.

De tentoonstelling tracht de spectrale verbeelding en potentie te ontrafelen die door de conferentie werd opgeroepen, en waaromtrent een bepaalde vorm van esthetiek werd geproduceerd, die vandaag nog steeds aanwezig is. Terwijl de Bandung Spirit voortdurend opnieuw tot leven wordt gewekt als een uitdaging voor bestaande raciale vooroordelen en kapitalistische onrechtvaardigheden, probeert deze tentoonstelling de verhaallijnen van een ontluikende, zich vormende (geo-)politieke verbeelding over te brengen, in plaats van de Bandung Spirit te herhalen als een vergeten en unieke herinnering aan een onwaarschijnlijke politieke koppeling tussen Azië en Afrika.

Op 4 mei is iedereen van harte welkom om de presentatie van Spectres of Bandung door Vera Mey en Philippe Pirotte bij te wonen. Deze zal plaatsvinden bij de Appel. Het is niet nodig om je vooraf op te geven. Meer informatie is te vinden via de website van de Appel.

Belangrijke mededeling
Op 4 mei is de Nationale Dodenherdenking. Dit zal betekenen dat wij om 20:00 uur twee minuten stilte zullen houden om alle slachtoffers te herdenken van de Tweede Wereldoorlog en van oorlogssituaties en vredesoperaties daarna. Alle bezoekers zullen deze avond de mogelijkheid hebben om deze twee minuten stilte te houden bij de Appel.

Andere aankondigingen
Publiek programma
Inas Halabi – After the Last Sky
Tijdens het publieksprogramma van Inas Halabi’s solotentoonstelling After the Last Sky geeft Inas Halabi op 26 april om 17:00 uur een Artists’ Tour. Iedereen is van harte welkom, schrijf je graag in via: Daarnaast vindt op 12 mei om 18:00 uur een filmvertoning en gesprek plaats tussen kunstenaar Inas Halabi en artistiek leider Lara Khaldi. Inschrijven voor dit evenement is niet nodig, iedereen is welkom.

Op 25 mei vindt er een leesgroep plaats van het boek After the Last Sky van Edward Said, onder leiding van Layal Ftouni. Aanmelden voor deze leesgroep kan via

Op 1 juni geeft kunstenaar Inas Halabi een tentoonstellingstour tijdens de Amsterdam Art Week 2023 (31 mei t/m 4 juni). Iedereen is welkom om hierbij te zijn. De rondleiding begint om 11.30 uur. Aanmelden kan via de website van Amsterdam Art.

Save the date
3 juni: Finissage After the Last Sky 
Op zaterdag 3 juni zal de finissage plaatsvinden van de tentoonstelling After the Last Sky. Iedereen is van harte welkom. Meer informatie wordt spoedig gepubliceerd op de website van de Appel. 

 

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⛲ Einladung / Invitation: Vernissage “All our yesterdays” & Cristian Pineda “Experiencia Constante”

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Vernissage: Sonntag 30.04.2023, 15:00
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS: Lili Dujourie, Sophie Nys, Angyvir Padilla
& Cristian Pineda: EXPERIENCIA CONSTANTE

Lili Dujourie, Passion de l’été pour l’hiver, 1981, Copyright artist and courtesy ARGOS

Das IKOB lädt am Sonntag, den 30. April herzlich zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung ALL OUR YESTERDAYS mit Lili Dujourie, Sophie Nys, Angyvir Padilla und zur Einweihung der Arbeit EXPERIENCIA CONSTANTE von Cristian Pineda ein. Wir starten um 15:00 mit einer Begrüßung, gefolgt von Angyvir Padillas Live-Performance Virgy’s Boutique. Alle sind willkommen!

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Open Art Sunday

Am Sonntag, den 07.05.2023, sind im IKOB zur Open Art Sunday – Kunstroute im Dreiländereck die Ausstellung ALL OUR YESTERDAYS mit Lili Dujourie, Sophie Nys, Angyvir Padilla sowie die Arbeit EXPERIENCIA CONSTANTE von Cristian Pineda zu sehen. 

Das IKOB ist an diesem Tag von 13 bis 18 Uhr für Sie geöffnet. Um 15 Uhr erwartet Sie eine Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung. Zahlreiche weitere Stationen der Kunst-und Kultur im Dreiländereck öffnen zur gleichen Zeit ihre Türen. Der Eintritt ist überall kostenlos.

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Focus on Marc Camille Chaimowicz • ‘Nuit américaine’ and its related events

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Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Meet Marc Camille Chaimowicz, an understated pioneer and discreet dandy who has been sailing against the prevailing artistic wind for decades. In his work, he intertwines design, painting, installation, collage and text with his everyday life. Discover his sophisticated and playful work at WIELS.

In his exhibition Nuit américaine, the French term for filming day for night, Chaimowicz leads you through three cinematographic spaces: from a dark party room, to the half-light of a domestic interior and the filtered daylight of a reading room. In this special newsletter, find out more about these three groups of works and the related events happening soon at WIELS.

VISIT NUIT AMÉRICAINE

Celebration? Realife

In the aftermath of the student protests of May ’68, Chaimowicz created the legendary work Celebration? Realife (1972). While the installation embraces both the festive and the everyday, the artist stresses that it has always been fiction.

“As artificially gay and provocative as a bordello, yet as sombre and reverential as a church.”
– Jean Fisher

LECTURE
 
Marie Canet, author of the monograph Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display (2022), outlines developments in Chaimowicz’s practice since the 1970s. In this lecture, she focuses on Celebration? Realife.

 

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Hayes Court Sitting Room

The Hayes Court Sitting Room (1979-2023) is a new work, exhibited for the first time at WIELS. What you see is not just a backdrop, but a theatrical evocation of the room in which Chaimowicz dreamed, worked, conversed, corresponded and lived for more than four decades.

 
“It is a stunningly intimate self-portrait, without a single visual representation of Chaimowicz himself. One leaves the room feeling that one knows him, without being able to say exactly who it is one knows.”
– Joe Lloyd for Studio International

LECTURE
 
Want to find out more about this work? On Wednesday, celebrated British-American writer and art critic Kirsty Bell will discuss The Hayes Court Sitting Room, exploring issues of domesticity, fictional interiors and the transition of the house as studio to work of art. She draws on her previous writings on Chaimowicz, such as the chapter she devoted to him in her 2013 book The Artist’s House (available at WIELS Bookshop).
 
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DEAR ZOË

During the pandemic, Chaimowicz made collages at his kitchen table in his new London flat, which he sent to the curator of the exhibition, Zoë Gray, every fortnight over the course of two years.

Dear Zoë (Emma Bovary collages) is a series of 40 collages inspired by the anti-heroine Emma Bovary from Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary, a character to whom Chaimowicz has long been attracted, trapped in the narrow conventions of her time.

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GUIDED TOUR
 
Building upon her personal experience of working with Marc Camille Chaimowicz, independent curator and writer Vanessa Desclaux explores the literary elements in his practice. Speaking in the exhibition, surrounded by the suite of collages, Desclaux will connect Chaimowicz’s work to other key French literary sources.
 
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Every month we invite you to a reading and writing workshop based on Madame Bovary. On 3 May, you can choose between a French-language or English-language session, given by Giulia Loi. In this session, you will first read a chosen text individually and then discuss certain themes together.

 

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Vincent Meessen on Filliou and the Poïpoï, 27/4, 6.30pm

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27/04, 6.30pm
Robert Filliou: Origins and Becomings of the Poïpoï
Vincent Meessen in conversation with Antony Hudek
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an Mot, Brussels

Robert Filliou and Joachim Pfeufer, Poïpoïdrome à espace-temps réel, Prototype 00, 1975.
 

The “Poïpoï” is a cornerstone of Robert Filliou’s poetics, running through his entire oeuvre. The title of his first co-produced multiple (1961), structuring his first published text in 1963 (in the Belgian magazine Phantomas), and a script of an early dialogic performance, the Poïpoï resurfaces at regular intervals as a “poietic dynamic” and a foundation of his concept of permanent creation. Visited by prototypes of the Poïpoïdrome, center of permanent creation, as early as 1964 (Verviers), and again in 1975 (Brussels), Belgium was very early exposed to this life adventure begun with the architect Joachim Pfeufer in 1963.
 
Opting for an open discursive form, artist Vincent Meessen will lead a conversation with Antony Hudek about the historical and transcultural origins of Poïpoï and, in particular, its African component linked to the Dogon people.

The event coincides with the exhibition Robert Filliou: Funny Bones, curated by François Curlet at Jan Mot until April 29.

In English and French — limited capacity, no reservation.

Le « Poïpoï » est au fondement de la poétique de Robert Filliou et traverse toute son œuvre. Titre de son premier multiple co-réalisé en 1961, structurant son premier texte publié en 1963 (dans la revue belge Phantomas), et script d’une de ses premières performances dialoguées, le Poïpoï resurgit à intervalles réguliers comme « dynamique poïétique » et ciment de son concept de création permanente. Visitée par des prototypes de Poïpoïdrome, centre de création permanente, dès 1964 (Verviers), puis à nouveau en 1975 (Bruxelles), la Belgique fut très tôt exposée à cette aventure de vie entamée avec l’architecte Joachim Pfeufer en 1963.
 
Optant pour une forme dialoguée, l’artiste Vincent Meessen s’entretient à bâtons rompus avec Antony Hudek sur les origines historiques et transculturelles du Poïpoï et en particulier sur sa composante africaine liée au peuple Dogon.

Cet événement coïncide avec l’exposition Robert Filliou : Funny Bones, conçue par François Curlet à Jan Mot jusqu’au 29 avril.

En français et anglais — capacité limitée, sans réservation.

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Art Brussels 2023 et Marcos Avila Forero

 

 

La 39ème édition d’Art Brussels a démarré ce jeudi 20 jusqu’au dimanche 23 avril avec la meilleure nouvelle possible. Marcos Avila Forero (1983) a reçu le prix SOLO 2023. Sponsorisé par Hiscox, le prix SOLO encourage les galeries à présenter l’oeuvre d’un artiste pour offrir au public l’opportunité de les connaitre en profondeur.

 

Ne perdez pas l’oportunité de voir le travail qui a conquit les membres du Jury, nous vous attendons nombreuses et nombreux sur le stand n°6C-21.

 


The 39th edition of Art Brussels was set to a good start this Thursday 20th April when Marcos Avila Forero (1983) received the SOLO Prize 2023. Supported by Hiscox, the SOLO prize aims to encourage galleries to present one specific project by individual artists in order to allow visitors to discover the work of an artists in depth.

 

Do not miss the chance of seeing the work that has amazed Art Brussels and please come to visit us at the stand nr. 6C-21.

 

 

Dag Erik Elgin – Originals (Grisaille)/ Evening Drawings chez LMNO

 

Depuis le mercredi 19 avril, LMNO présente sa nouvelle collaboration avec l’artiste norvégien Dag Erik Elgin (1962). L’exposition Originals (Grisaille)/Evening Drawings crée un dialogue entre deux groupes de travail différenciés. D’une part, dans la série Originals l’artiste nous confronte à des facsimilées des oeuvres iconiques d’artistes modernistes présentées dans des cadres de style baroque. Ses “originaux” sont ainsi copiés une nouvelle fois dans la série Grisaille, comme un echo d’un echo et qui suscite un debat autour de la peinture, la canonisation de l’art et la collection.

D’autre part, Dag Erik nous présente 40 dessins figuratifs : ses Evening Drawings (1996-2023) qui comme exercise journalier nous devoilent une partie de son atmosphère domestique dans un style direct et concis.

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Since last 19th April,  LMNO presents its new collaboration with the Norwegian artist Dag Erik Elgin (1962). The exhibition Originals (Grisaille)/Evening Drawings brings two distinct groups of work by Dag Erik Elgin into dialogue. The series Originals consist of re-painted renditions of iconic modernist paintings, subsequently repeated as Grisailles, grey-tone copies of the Originals. Echoes of the echo, so to speak, that start a debate on painting, cannonization and art collection.

The Evening Drawings (1996-2023) on the other hand, are 40 sober line drawings of domestic surroundings that, unlike the Originals, were created within the artist’s own home and, as the title suggests, outside office (or studio) hours.

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Adrien Lucca – Le secret des couleurs chez BPS22

 

 

C’est avec une imense hâte que nous appréhendons la prochaine exposition personnelle d’Adrien Lucca au BPS22 du 20 mai au 27 aout et dont le commissariat est assuré par Dorothée Duvivier. “Pour sa première exposition solo dans un musée, Adrien Lucca présente, au BPS22, dans la salle Pierre Dupont, une grande installation immersive dans laquelle chaque visiteur est confronté aux limites de sa propre perception sensorielle. À l’étage, aux côtés d’œuvres sculpturales, de maquettes et d’échantillonnages basés sur ses recherches les plus récentes, l’artiste expose également des œuvres plus anciennes qui permettent de découvrir son parcours depuis 2011.”

 


It is a great pleasure to share with you the next individual exhibition of Adrien Lucca at the museum BPS22 from 20th May to 27th August curated by Dorothée Duvivier. “For his first solo exhibition in a museum, Adrien Lucca presents at the room Pierre Dupont of the BPS22 a big inmersive installation where each visitor is confronted with the limits of their own sensorial perception. On the first floor, next to the sculptures, sample models of their most recent investigations. The artist also exposes older artworks that allow us to discover his career since 2011”.

 

 

 

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Newsletter Ludwig Forum Aachen

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Ausgabe 21.04.2023

 

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Jota Mombaça, Ghost 4(b): Visa denied is a poem upside down, 2022. Detailansicht, THE SINKING SHIP/PROSPERITY, KADIST San Francisco, 2022–2023. Foto: Robert Divers Herrick

Kurzfristige Erinnerung: Eröffnungswochenende “Illiberal Lives”

Illiberal Lives (Illiberale Leben)
22.04.2023 – 27.08.2023
Eröffnung: Fr 21.04.2023, 19 Uhr
Matinée mit Ausstellungsrundgang und Gespräch: Sa 22.04.2023, 11 Uhr

Mit Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak und Jordan Strafer und einer Neuhängung von Arbeiten der Sammlungen im Ludwig Forum Aachen ausgewählt durch die Künstler*innen von Vincent Desiderio, Jann Haworth, Domenico Gnoli, Renato Guttuso, Jörg Immendorff, Magdalena Jetelová, Lew Kerbel, Konrad Klapheck, Jeff Koons, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Lee Lozano, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Klaus Paier, Tõnis Vint und Andy Warhol 

Der Zerfall der liberal-kapitalistischen Nachkriegsordnung, die nach 1989 durchgesetzt schien, lässt auch die Kunst dieser Gesellschaft nicht unberührt. Illiberal Lives, die aktuelle Ausstellung im Ludwig Forum Aachen setzt genau hier an. Sie fragt, wie mit dem Aufbrechen des liberalen Fortschrittsversprechens unweigerlich der unfreie, illiberale Kern moderner Freiheiten zu Tage tritt, und auch die liberale Fiktion von der Kunst als Ausdrucksraum bürgerlicher Freiheit immer mehr unter Druck gerät. Dort, wo die Kunst nicht nur Besitzstände verteidigt, oder sich der Beschwörung nationaler Gemeinschaften dienstbar macht, zeigt sie sich heute zunehmend als praktischer Austragungsort sozialer Widersprüche und Ausschlüsse. Die Arbeiten von Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak und Jordan Strafer brechen mit den Beschränkungen und Gewalten der liberalen Freiheiten und lassen stattdessen künstlerische Formen eines illiberalen Lebens an ihre Stelle treten. Die Neuhängungen von durch die Künstler*innen ausgewählten Arbeiten der Sammlungen im Ludwig Forum Aachen, die Teil von Illiberal Lives sind, fügen der Ausstellung wesentliche Zuspitzungen von Vergangenheiten und Gegenwarten aufeinander hinzu. In ihren Auseinandersetzungen mit Arbeiten von beispielsweise Renato Guttuso, Konrad Klapheck oder Jeff Koons geraten seltener gezeigte Arbeiten wie die von Vincent Desiderio oder Magdalena Jetelová in den Blick. Die eingeladenen Künstler*innen re-perspektivieren hierbei immer auch die postfaschistische Geschichte einer Institution, deren Sammlungen unlösbar verbunden sind mit der Rhetorik der Blockkonfrontation zwischen Ost und West in der Nachkriegszeit und dem liberalen Narrativ von „freier“ und „unfreier“ Kunst.

Kuratiert von Eva Birkenstock, Anselm Franke, Holger Otten und Kerstin Stakemeier. Bei Illiberal Lives handelt es sich um eine Fortsetzung der Ausstellung Illiberal Arts, die 2021 von Anselm Franke und Kerstin Stakemeier am Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin kuratiert wurde.

Die Ausstellung wird von einer Publikation begleitet, die ein Gespräch mit Lenora Hanson, Fumi Okiji, Jordy Rosenberg, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Evan Calder Williams, Bhanu Kapil und Maxi Wallenhorst enthält.

Das Ausstellungsprojekt entstand mit großzügiger Unterstützung des Ministeriums für Kultur
und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen sowie der Peter und Irene Ludwig
Stiftung.

Reminder: Opening Weekend “Illiberal Lives”

Illiberal Lives
April 22 – August 27, 2023
Opening: Fri April 21, 2023, 7pm
Matinée with exhibition tour and conversation: Sat April 22, 2023, 11am

With Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak and Jordan Strafer and, selected by the artists, a rehanging of works from the collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen of Vincent Desiderio, Jann Haworth, Domenico Gnoli, Renato Guttuso, Jörg Immendorff, Magdalena Jetelová, Lev Kerbel, Konrad Klapheck, Jeff Koons, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Lee Lozano, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Klaus Paier Tõnis Vint, and Andy Warhol

The disintegration of the liberal-capitalist post-war order which seemed firmly established after 1989 also left its mark on the art of this society. This is precisely where Illiberal Lives, the current exhibition at the Ludwig Forum Aachen, inserts itself. It probes how, with the dissolution of the liberal promise of progress, the unfree, illiberal core of modern freedoms inevitably surfaces, and the liberal fiction of art as a space of expression for bourgeois freedom also comes under increasing pressure. Where art is not just defending these properties, or making itself subservient to the invocation of national communities, it is increasingly crystallising at present as a practical scene of social conflicts and exclusions. The works by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Jordan Strafer break with the constraints and violence of liberal freedoms and let artistic forms of an illiberal life take their place. The rehangings of the works from the collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen selected by the artists, which make up part of Illiberal Lives, add seminal intensifications of the relations pasts and presents enter into to the exhibition. In their engagement with works by, for instance, Renato Guttuso, Konrad Klapheck, and Jeff Koons, works like those by Vincent Desiderio and Magdalena Jetelová that are shown more rarely also come into view. The invited artists are always also re-situating the post-fascist history of an institution whose collections are intractably associated with the rhetoric of the bloc confrontation between East and West in the post-war period, and the liberal narrative of “free” and “unfree” art.

Curated by Eva Birkenstock, Anselm Franke, Holger Otten and Kerstin Stakemeier. Illiberal Lives is a continuation of the exhibition Illiberal Arts, which was curated by Anselm Franke and Kerstin Stakemeier at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2021.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication, which will include a conversation with Lenora Hanson, Fumi Okiji, Jordy Rosenberg, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Evan Calder Williams, Bhanu Kapil, and Maxi Wallenhorst.

The exhibition was supported with the generous support of the Ministerium für Kultur
und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Peter und Irene Ludwig
Stiftung.

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Opening today: Andrea Büttner at Kunstmuseum Basel

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Opening 21/04, 6.30—9pm
Andrea Büttner
The Heart of Relations
Kunstmuseum Basel

22/04 until 01/10

Andrea Büttner, Erntende, 2021, woodcut on paper, 118 x 119 cm, unique. Exhibition view, Blindsight — Manon de Boer in dialogue with Latifa Laâbissi and Laszlo Umbreit, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE), 2022. Photo: Rik Vannevel.
 

Since the early 2000s, German artist Andrea Büttner has created images on such complex subjects as employment, poverty, shame, forms of coexistence, and belief systems that have had a far-reaching impact on society, both religious and secular. To “image” these subjects, the artist draws on a broad spectrum of artistic forms, from the large-scale wood engravings for which she is well known to books, glass objects, video installations, and textiles.
 
Curated by Maja Wismer, Büttner’s major solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel brings together different narrative threads, including the benevolence of monastic communal life and coercive labour in biodynamic agriculture under National Socialism. In the same vein, Büttner links the representational traditions of public shaming to traces of the daily use of smartphones, such as the fingerprints left on devices. Büttner’s spatial narratives make tangible the ambivalences embedded in established half-truths.
 
Kunstmuseum Basel conceived The Heart of Relations in cooperation with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; a publication is forthcoming. Büttner’s work has been widely exhibited, recently as solo exhibitions by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Britain, London; and MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.

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Herinnering publiek programma: Filmvertoning & discussie Sarmad Platform

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Herinnering:
Publiek programma Inas Halabi x Sarmad Platform
Filmvertoning & discussie

Zaterdag 22 april van 17:30 tot 20:30
Tickets kosten 5 euro en kunnen
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Dream of Silk kopie                             Dream of Silk, van Nahid Rezaei, 2003 (52 mins).                            


Zaterdag 22 april 
17:30 – 20:30
Filmvertoning en inleiding door leden van het Sarmad collectief 
Toegangsprijs is 5 euro, je kunt
hier een kaartje aanschaffen

Als onderdeel van de huidige solotentoonstelling van Inas Halabi bij de Appel,

After the Last Sky, presenteert Sarmad Platform een programma van drie filmvertoningen gevolgd door een discussie. Het programma is een reactie op Inas Halabi’s werk en maakt gebruik van Sarmad’s lopende onderzoek naar beeld, macht en verzet.


De drie films die worden vertoond zijn Dream of Silk (2003), Ziyarat (زیارت, The Pilgrimage) (2020) en Drowned in Neretva River (2020). Ze zijn gemaakt op twee verschillende geografische locaties, namelijk Iran en Bosnië, en onderzoeken het traumatische geweld van onderdrukking dat is ingebed in lichamen, ruimtes en landschappen. De films gebruiken verschillende technieken, van documentaire tot archiefstudies, mapping en storytelling, en maken verschillende vormen van geweld voelbaar. Meer informatie over de films en de tentoonstelling After the Last Sky is te vinden op de website van de Appel.

De collectieve discussie met het publiek zal gaan over hoe het landschap kan worden gezien als een uitdrukking van gewelddadige systemen van controle en de rol van beeld- en filmmaken in het verbeelden van dat geweld. Iedereen is van harte welkom om aanwezig te zijn. Je kunt via deze link een ticket aanschaffen. Let op: dit evenement is in het Engels.

Drowned in Neretva river

Drowned in Neretva River, van Armina Pilav, Damir Ugljen, en Matija Kralj, 2020 (24 mins).

Over Sarmad

Sarmad is een onafhankelijk, non-profit interdisciplinair platform voor onderzoek, publicatie, collectief denken en onderwijs op het gebied van kunst, architectuur en design. Gevestigd in Rotterdam, Nederland, is Sarmad in ontwikkeling sinds de oprichting in 2012. Het begon als een tijdschrift voor experimentele fotografie en ontwikkelde zich tot een platform dat werkt in verschillende disciplines, van fotografie, beeldende kunst en architectuur tot het geschreven woord, performancekunst en film.

Correctie: Artists’ Tour Inas Halabi 26 april
In een eerdere nieuwsbrief werd een Artists’ Tour met Inas Halabi aangekondigd voor 27 april. Op 27 april is de Appel i.v.m. Koningsdag gesloten. De Artists’ Tour met Inas Halabi zal plaatsvinden op 26 april van 17:00 tot 20:00 uur. 


Tijdens deze Artists’ Tour zal Inas Halabi ingaan op de gehele tentoonstelling en de tentoongestelde werken. Deze tour is gratis. Iedereen is welkom om erbij te zijn, meld je graag aan via:

 

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Art Brussels | 20 – 23 April, 2023

Art Brussels
20 ⏤ 23 April, 2023

Brussels Expo, Hall 5 & 6
Booth 5D26

discover our preview here

Edith Dekyndt, Untitled, 2020, gold and silver leaves on pleated fabric 

John Baldessari
Edith Dekyndt
Nathalie Du Pasquier
Johannes Esper
Liam Everett
Donald Judd
Jacob Kassay
 

Louise Lawler
Sol LeWitt
Robert Mangold
Jean-Luc Moulène
Anne Neukamp
Sophie Nys
Magali Reus

Richard Tuttle
Koen van den Broek
Catharina van Eetvelde
Pieter Vermeersch
Didier Vermeiren
Jeff Wall
Ian Wallace

Gallery Night Art Brussels 2023
Wednesday April 19th 

Opening hours of the gallery during Art Brussels

Wednesday April 19, from 2 pm to 9 pm
Thursday April 20 – Sunday April 23, from 2 pm to 6 pm 

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Installation view, Pieter Vermeersch, HUBBLE TROUBLE, Galerie Greta Meert, 2023

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Installation view, Johannes Esper, I picked up the pieces, Galerie Greta Meert, 2023

Oscillation ::: o tempo is looming around the temporal corner


 workspace for experimental music and sound art

Oscillation ::: o tempo
… is but a week in front of us

Excitement reigns supreme in the Q-O2 office: our annual aural banquet is looming just around the temporal corner. To set the mood right, or, to guide the stray ones through this year’s program, part of the Oscillation team recorded a mix at Kiosk Radio, which can be listened to here. Besides these glad tidings, there’s some bad news for late deciders: our festival passes sold out over a week ago, as did the saturday tickets. For the other three days and the Charlemagne Palestine concert, there are still tickets available, but, as the saying goes, don’t sleep on it! Places are also still available for most workshops.

Post-residency presentation
20 April – 18h-19h – free
Yenting Hsu – Intersection

Yenting Hsu is an artist from Taiwan. She started her residency with a research about objects, but then turned to the theme of ‘meetings’ and ‘intersections’, which reflects her fascination for the diversity of cultures in Brussels. For her presentation, Yenting will propose a listening session in which she weaves together field recordings and interviews. She will also share reflections about her exploration, how her original project concept intersects with the later idea, and how the topic dialogues with her Taiwanese experience.

Book
Elena Biserna: Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmaking

Going Out explores the relationship between walking, listening, and soundmaking in the arts – from the first soundwalks and itinerant performances in the 1960s to today’s manifold ambulatory projects. The book consists of an extensive essay by Elena Biserna followed by an anthology of 51 historical and contemporary contributions in the form of documentation, essays, interviews, manifestos, scores, narratives and reflections.

Going Out is still on tour! Be sure not to miss Elena when you are around:

April 27, 28 – Venice: Talk & workshop @ IUAV
May 11 – Berlin: Book Launch @ Errant Sound
May 13 – Berlin: workshop Walking from Scores

[read more / order the book]

Still available + new
podcasts, books, releases, videos

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Opening this week
Tuesday 18 Apr → Monday 24 Apr

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Fri 21.04 — 18:00



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Tuesday 25 Apr → Monday 01 May

Fri 28.04 — 18:00

Last chance for current exhibitions and closing event Rodrigo Hernández | Sunday 23 April, 17:00-19:00 hrs

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Sunday 23 April: Rodrigo Hernández – Closing event

Please join us to celebrate the last moments of the last exhibition of our current series Turning to Dust and Bones – also the last project in our beloved space. Daphne Huisden has written a commissioned text work for the occasion and Lisa Plaut will present a sculpture in response to the exhibition;

(…) Rodrigo’s backstory of two lovers unable to achieve a fusion and the tray where objects can slide, made me think of the flow of fluids, and the motion of fluid containers (…) The chain mail is a knit that can follow curves, together with Anouck Grenet, a maille specialist in Paris, we designed a pattern with different ring sizes that would highlight the curvy aspect of the pack, and  tightened it with a ribbon. Chain mail was used to make undergarments used by the military, the revival of the craft as a hobby today is maybe because of its slowness.

Lisa Plaut’s practice of sculpture and drawings explores how standardisation impacts the production of the self. She was a participant at the Jan van Eyck Academie, 2021 and currently works in Amsterdam and Paris.

Daphne Huisden made her debut at the end of 2010 at Prometheus Publishers with the novel Everything is always fiction, which was nominated for the Academica Literature Prize and included by Wim Brands in the anthology Dutch literature of the 21st century. In 2013, her second book This Remains Between Us was published, and nominated for the Halewijn Prize in the same year. Her third novel, Charlatans, was published in 2021. She has also published various articles and short stories, in literary magazines such as Das Magazin, Tirade, and the Rotterdam-katern of NRC Handelsblad. 

Read more here

MAIN SPACE: Rodrigo Hernández – Carrés – on view until 23 April

Rodrigo Hernández – Carrés
Turning to Dust and Bones, part 6

Rodrigo Hernández (Mexico, 1983) lives in Mexico City. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, and at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in 2013-2014. He has been a fellow of the Laurenz-Haus Stiftung in Basel (2015), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart and the Cité International des Arts in Paris (2016), Istanbul Modern (2019). 
Recent solo exhibitions include: Wattis Institute, San Francisco US (upcoming); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, D; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, MX; Swiss Institute, New York, US; Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, CO; Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki, FI; CIAJG, Guimaraes, PT; Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; Pîvo, São Paulo; Kunsthalle Winterthur, CH; Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis; SALTS, Basel; Kim?, Riga ; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg; Kurimanzutto, Mexico City; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Parallel Oaxaca, Oaxaca, MX

Carrés is a brand new project, marking the 6th and final episode of the exhibition series Turning to Dust and Bones

Special thanks to Emiel Zeno
Photograph by Charlott Markus

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P/////AKTPOOL is hosting Laurel – on view until 23 April

Laurel presents Lorena Solís Bravo – The guest, the host & the ghost

“We are not just human, we are many things”, says Lorena Solís Bravo (1991). In their work, the artist investigates what it means to be human and how we are inextricably linked to the world around us. They start from the symbiotic idea that evolution is driven by cooperation rather than by struggle. Instead of microorganisms eating each other millions of years ago, they started forming new living structures that made new forms of life possible.
Solís Bravo’s work builds on this harmonious idea by asking questions about what makes us human and what defines our identity. A recurring theme is the idea of ‘the other’: who you are is determined by how you relate to the people around you, but also by everything non-human around us, such as bacteria, living and non-living matter, and anything that deviates from the ‘norm’.
In the process of creating and filming the video work The guest, the host & the ghost, Solís Bravo left for Brazil and developed workshops and choreography for 7 performers, in collaboration with choreographer Fernanda Libman and music producer upsammy.

Read the full text by Milo Vermeire here.

About Laurel:
At the core of Laurel, there are three central yearnings: the ability to navigate care, to learn, and the possibility to connect with others. We see Laurel as both a physical and online community that offers real involvement through open collaborative projects – one that explores conversations on the meaning, reasoning and processes behind our collective core beliefs. Since Laurel finds itself in a transitory stage; a state of nomadism, we are currently occupied with appearing in other cultural spaces that are willing to host questions of (non)belonging, and to explore the capability of communities to exist in a broader spectrum. 

Installation view, The guest, the host & the ghost, 25min, 2 channel film, 2023, photograph by Lorena Solís Bravo

Join our Facebook event here.

Our events are featured on Public Data for Public Events
 

P/////AKT would like to thank:

Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and 

Stadsdeel Amsterdam Oost.

P/////AKT
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1019 AB Amsterdam

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Opening this week
Tuesday 18 Apr → Monday 24 Apr

Wed 19.04 — 17:00

Fri 21.04 — 18:00



Opening next week
Tuesday 25 Apr → Monday 01 May

Fri 28.04 — 18:00

OV33: Contemplation: Markus Döbeli >< Indian Ritual Celebration — Opening April 19

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e1f6bcc8-8c86-4ba4-b0ad-306f7706d233.jpg Contemplation: Markus Döbeli >< Indian Ritual Celebration

Opening at OV Project Wednesday April 19, from 4pm to 9pm
Exhibition on from April 20 to July 1, 2023.

A Walk, 
by Rainer Maria Rilke

My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far beyond the road I have begun,
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has an inner light, even from a distance-

and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave…
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

The first chapter of Vishnudharmottara, an ancient Indian treatise on art and aesthetics, emphasizes  the abstract elements of art—its underlying formal structures and rhythms—rather than subject matter and iconography, reveals an important Indian belief about the highest purpose of art.  Art’s purpose is not to depict stories portraying gods and their symbols, but to produce a state of mind ultimately leading to spiritual liberation. The purpose of the art object is to induce a particular state of consciousness. It does not represent or symbolize that state, but by various means, leads the viewer to it. 

Contemplation, or dhyana in Sanskrit, has a long history and deep cultural significance in Indian culture, bringing about connections with the inner self, thereby achieving spiritual growth, mental and emotional balance, as well as inner peace. 

Ritual sculptures serve as a focal point for contemplation and meditation in religious and spiritual practices. They aid in visualization and generate a feeling of connection to the deity or spirit they represent. A statue of Buddha, as an object of meditation, helps to cultivate feelings of peace, calm and enlightenment. Ritual sculptures are an important part of spiritual practice, facilitating connections with the divine, towards the achievement of a state of inner peace. 

Abstract paintings can evoke a contemplative response of the beholder by encouraging them to engage with the work emotionally and intuitively . Facilitating a more open-ended interpretation and inspires the viewer to reflect in a more personal way.  Abstraction opens itself to the viewer, who may project their own thoughts and feelings into the painting, a pathway to a deeper commitment through contemplative understanding. Within the compositional field, the eye finds itself drawn into the colors, textures and forms of the work, experiencing dhyana—absorption as the final step toward meditation.

Markus Döbeli’s paintings are hung up on the wall separately, one at a time. In his essay, written on the occasion of his exhibition at Döbeli Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2010), Dieter Schwarz writes that ‘’each painting seems to be painted for itself’’, and  ‘’each painting is a stand-alone piece, which makes his work all the more remarkable. There is no consistent formal vocabulary, no particularly memorable stylistic gestus. What his paintings all share is the natural way in which they materialize. When you look at them on the wall, they are not immediately apparent. The longer you look, the more they begin to take shape; slowly the painting begins to emerge.’’

Placing Döbeli in the romantic history of painting, Schwarz is joined by Brice Curiger. In her text ‘’Eyes, my nostrils’’’, she cites Hegel’s notion of ‘’feeling soul’’. The deepest spiritual freedom, the sensuous expression (in color or words) of this inner sense of reconciliation constitutes what Hegel refers to as the ‘’beauty of inwardness’’, or ‘’spiritual beauty’’.

New Opening Hours

Thursday from 2 to 6pm
Friday from 2 to 6pm
Saturday from 2 to 6pm
and by appointment.
 

OV Project:
Rue Van Eyck, 57
B- 1050 Brussels
@: Phone: +32 2 201 37 83

OV contemporary – office:
Rue Jean-Baptise Colyns, 72
B -1050 Brussels

Olivier Vrankenne
Cell: +32 486 43 43 44
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Elaine Hitchcock Levy
Cell: +32 484 966 647
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Opening hours :

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Images:

Detail of Markus Döbeli “Untitled”, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
141 x 107 cm

Detail of Shiva Lingam, Vietnam, Champa, 10th–12th century
70 cm  x 24 x 24 cm
Provenance: The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (The Ritman Library), Amsterdam
 

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