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IKOB FEMINISTISCHER KUNSTPREIS 2022

Nika Schmitt, sweet zenith, 2022 © die Künstlerin

Eine Installation der Soundkünstlerin Nika Schmitt, präsentiert von Meakusma und Rotondes. 

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Wir bieten diesen Sommer ein Ferienatelier für Kinder von 7 bis 12 Jahren an. Ausgehend von der aktuellen Ausstellung im Museum stellen wir uns die Frage, was sonst noch Kunst sein kann, oder aus was man Kunst machen kann. In den verschiedenen Ateliers können die Kinder ihrer eigenen Fantasie und Kreativität freien Lauf lassen und lernen, dass sie selbst auch Künstler oder Künstlerin sein können.

Kosten: 100€ pro Kind | Mehr Informationen und Anmeldung hier.

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Koen Kloosterhuis, Spaghetti Rain
Turning to Dust and Bones, part 2

Opening: Saturday 25 June, 20-24 hrs
26 June – 31 July 2022
Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

1.
The garden of Koen Kloosterhuis’s father is a place that no longer exists, or only in his mind’s eye, where it lives on as a fictionalised memory  as well as a place of fiction that can be altered at will. As part of the surroundings where one grows up, the garden is a world on a reduced scale and a default setting to which one relates all other things.
The garden is also a place in between the private and the public, or rather: the most private of outdoor spaces. As such it is a contradictory domain – in the case of this specific garden a domain that was inhabited by a collection of  historical, mythological and animal figures that had no apparent reason to be there other than in their capacity of a seemingly accidental assembly of garden statues. This gathering remains a mystery to which there’s no conclusive solution to be made and therefore it is also a question that, for Kloosterhuis, precedes artistic production – born from the wish to make sense out of what wasn’t evident and to (re)connect these entities with each other and their now lost context. For Kloosterhuis this is the reason takes this particular garden as a starting point for his sculptural installation at P/////AKT.

2.
Artistic production thus becomes a means to bridge unbridgeable distances and to create unity from what appears to be random. To finish this process of putting things together and to realise a finished work eventually also leads to the artist’s own eviction from the work, which remains inanimate and ‘unfulfilled’. Kloosterhuis’s attempt to piece together the remnants of the lost garden statues and to bring  the into the present as a presence (into a new  eloquent and inhabited body) has a Frankensteinian twist to it, but is also reminiscent of other creatures that exist in popular culture and mythology. The statues themselves not only come from a lost world but also from the domain of kitsch, which is in itself a hollowed out form of visual culture – a reduction of something that once was extremely meaningful to something meaningless, of something functional or ritual to decoration (in terms of Vilém Flusser a spectacle or apparatus that leads to absence and death).  In order to create a living, inhabited sculpture, the maker should therefore somehow attempt to embody it with his own living matter and get it to speak about its (changed) role and context.

Tilde ~ 1934
Polina Kanis, Pejvak (Felix Kalmenson and Rouzbeh Akhbari)

Opening: Saturday 25 June, 20-24 hrs
26 June – 31 July 2022
Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

Curator: Masha Domracheva
Production and technical support: Matteo Casarin, Brian McKenna, Alex Fischer

The exhibition explores two utopian botanical projects both initiated in 1934

The work of artistic duo Pejvak is telling the story of an expedition to Japanese-occupied Manchuria led by artist, scientist and mystic Nikolay Roerich and commissioned by the US Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace. Roerich and Wallace had a double agenda. Wallace regarded Roerich as his spiritual leader and secretly supported the painter’s mission to establish a pan-Buddhist society based on high spirituality and cooperative labor, known as the Sacred Union of the East. Roerich in turn was supposed to collect drought-resistant plants that would be able to stabilise and restore American soil.

The work of Polina Kanis explores an ideological project accidentally started by Soviet scientist Fyodor Zorin in the botanical garden of Sochi. He planted a wild lemon tree and then grafted other citrus fruits onto its crown. A tradition grew: throughout decades prominent international figures added grafts of different citrus varieties to the tree. Today there are more than 630 of these additional shoots, representing 167 different countries and a utopian vision of political and ecological symbiosis.

So, a recently developed branch of science — breeding — became extremely important for the rise of the agricultural sectors of the world economy, and two so called ‘camps’ —USA and USSR in particular. That is not a coincidence as ideas about new forms of life often appear on the ruins of societies collapsed after a recent crises, when they are about to resurrect, and the new world is to be built. But what new world were supposed to be built? What was given a start at the same time in 1934 in the world politically and socially? And what those visionary projects, explored in the exhibition, mean to us today? Can we consider them utopias today, knowing that they were echoing imperialist logic? And lastly, how shall we reconsider the concept of utopia within decolonial thinking?

The exhibition was first opened on May 13 within Amsterdam Art Week, and supposed to function until June 19, but due to unpredictable organisational issues with the space it had to be closed the day after. Soon after these events, P/////AKT team has kindly offered to reopen the show in P/////AKTPOOL.

Raphaël Langmair
Again (Monochrome)

Opening: Saturday 25 June, 20-24 hrs
26 June – 31 July 2022
Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

16,5 x 25 x 3 cm
2 burnt slices of bread, cardboard box, ink stamped text
signed, numbered, dated
edition of 5, published by the artist

P/////AKT is proud to present Again, (Monochrome) a new edition by alumn Raphaël Langmair:

He finds an object and makes a replica, although differently from its original. In the past he used ink of an octopus for making one in print of that same octopus. In another work he takes a fruit market crate and rebuilds it into a triangle shaped one. Recently one morning he burnt his toast. He took another slice of bread in order to make a toast again. While waiting he decided to burn deliberately the next one as well that brought him two burnt toasts that he turned into a piece, hence the title of this edition: Again. (Kees van Gelder)

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

Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and 

Stadsdeel Amsterdam Oost.

Vendredi 24.6.2022, 18 h 30 – 21 h 00 

Soirée spéciale avec
Fabien Giraud et Raphaël Siboni

Les artistes Fabien Giraud et Raphaël Siboni proposent une nouvelle immersion dans leur exposition, appuyée par la sortie d’une publication et la projection d’un film qui marque la clôture de The Unmanned, cycle entamé en 2012.

Le film en question, The Everted Capital (Épilogue), a été tourné au début du mois dans les espaces du Casino. Pour ce faire, le bâtiment a été percé verticalement du grenier au sous-sol afin de permettre à une caméra 360° de capter d’étage en étage, strate par strate, les différents objets entremêlés ayant servi de support aux fictions de la saison 2 de The Unmanned : minéraux, végétaux et animaux comme monnaie d’échange, sculptures de sel, rebuts. Le film comprend également la présence d’un enfant, réel, né de l’expérience du tournage d’un an dans le huis clos d’un laboratoire de « dressage des dieux ». L’ensemble d’objets et de matériaux tel que disposé au Casino constitue en partie The Form of Not, troisième et dernière saison du cycle.

Sera dévoilée par la même occasion la publication The Unmanned qui documente l’intégralité des trois saisons de ce projet évolutif au long cours, et en retrace toutes les étapes sur 10 années. S’ensuivra une discussion entre les artistes, Anne Stenne (commissaire de leur précédente exposition INFANTIA (1894-7231) à l’IAC Villeurbanne) et Goda Budvytyte (graphiste).

La soirée sera complétée par des moments de partage et une série de performances dont celles des Immortel·le·s.

18 h 30 : présentation de la publication The Unmanned suivie d’une discussion avec les artistes
19 h 00 : présentation du film The Everted Capital (Épilogue)
19 h 30 – 21 h 00 : performances, visite libre de l’exposition, échange avec le public 

Entrée gratuite

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Justine Cappelle, Over The Top (2020)
6 June – 7 July

Over The Top is a fast food style documentary about the hunt of the YOLO (‘you only live once’) generation to find meaning and fulfilment in modern life. How can you find and deserve your place in the world’s history, without killing people or, even worse, going into politics?
Perhaps by putting an artwork on top of the Giza Pyramid?

Every month,  highlights one particular work from the collection. It can be viewed online and on site on a window display at Koopliedenstraat 62 Rue des Commerçants (next to the rile* entrance).

Our Fluid Territories
18 June – 20 June

Our Fluid Territories is a three-day exhibition programme featuring the work of Dóra Benyó, Mladen Bundalo, Oleg Danilov & Mathieu Hendrickx, Nikolay Karabinovych, Naïmé Perrette, Ingel Vaikla and Jesse van Winden. The exhibition is co-curated by all artists involved and proposes overlapping film projections, installations, performances and two-dimensional works dealing with the transition from socialism to capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe – uprooting and rerouting official as well as subjective identities.

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Les Mercredis des Quais
Wednesday 29 June, 14:00 – 17:00

Community and cultural organisations of the Quartier des Quais invite the whole neighbourhood for a block party on 29 June. ⓐⓡⓖⓞⓢ is providing entertainment for all, tea, coffee, sweets and DIY polaroids portraits! Meet us from 14:00 to 17:00 at the Marguerite Duras square for an afternoon of laidback togetherness!

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Justine Cappelle, Over The Top (2020)
6 juin – 7 juillet

Le protagoniste de cette histoire nourrit de hautes ambitions : il veut être célèbre, avoir de nombreux adeptes sur les réseaux sociaux, être admiré. Et il a une idée pour que cela se produise le plus rapidement possible : laisser un message pour la postérité au sommet des pyramides de Gizeh.

Tous les mois, vous permet d’accéder gratuitement aux œuvres anciennes et nouvelles de la collection sur votre écran personnel. L’oeuvre sélectionnée est également présentée dans une vitrine au 62 rue des Commerçants. 

Our Fluid Territories
18 juin – 20 juin

L’exposition Our Fluid Territories présente le travail de Dóra Benyó, Mladen Bundalo, Oleg Danilov & Mathieu Hendrickx, Nikolay Karabinovych, Naïmé Perrette, Ingel Vaikla et Jesse van Winden. Co-organisée par tou⸱te⸱s les artistes impliqué⸱e⸱s, l’expo propose un chevauchement de formes avec des projections, des installations et des performances qui traitent de la transition du socialisme au capitalisme en Europe de l’Est et en Europe centrale. 

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Les Mercredis des Quais
Mercredi 29 juin, 14:00 – 17:00

Mercredis 29 juin, les associations du Quartier des Quais se réunissent pour offrir un moment festif à tous les habitant⸱e⸱s du quartier. ⓐⓡⓖⓞⓢ sera de la partie et prévoit des animations, du thé, du café et des portraits en polaroids pour toute la famille. Rendez-vous de 14h à 17h sur le square Marguerite Duras pour découvrir cette belle initiative conviviale !

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Justine Cappelle, Over The Top (2020)
6 juni – 7 juli

Kan je als hedendaagse kunstenaar nog je steentje bijdragen als je voorgangers piramiden maakten? Of valt dat niet meer te overtreffen en schrijven millennials voorgoed het grafschrift van de mensheid? Met scherpe kritiek, schreeuwerige vormen en veel zelfspot onderzoekt Justine Cappelle in deze licht verteerbare schijndocumentarie de zingeving en erkenning van een limietloze generatie.

Elke maand brengt oude en nieuwe werken uit de collectie naar je thuisscherm. Het werk wordt ook beschikbaar gemaakt in de vitrine van de Koopliedenstraat 62.

Our Fluid Territories
18 juni – 20 juni

Our Fluid Territories is een driedaags tentoonstellingsprogramma met het werk van Dóra Benyó, Mladen Bundalo, Oleg Danilov & Mathieu Hendrickx, Nikolay Karabinovych, Naïmé Perrette, Ingel Vaikla en Jesse van Winden. De tentoonstelling is samengesteld door alle betrokken kunstenaars en belicht de overgang van socialisme naar kapitalisme in Centraal- en Oost-Europa met filmprojecties, installaties en performances.

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Woensdagen van de Kaaien
Woensdag 29 juni, 14:00 – 17:00

Op woensdag 29 juni nodigen de verenigingen van de Kaaienwijk alle buurtbewoners uit voor een heus wijkfeest! ⓐⓡⓖⓞⓢ doet mee en voorziet activiteiten, thee, koffie, hapjes en polaroidportretten voor de hele familie. Kom van 14u tot 17u langs op het Marguerite Durasplein voor een gezellig samenzijn.

Tot dan!