Very Contemporary
Network of Contemporary Art venues in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion
Bureau Europa, CIAP, IKOB, Kunsthaus NRW, La Châtaigneraie, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Leopold-HoeschMuseum, Marres, Museum De Domijnen, NAK, SCHUNCK*, SPACE Collection, Van Eyck & Z33 are part of Very Contemporary www.verycontemporary.org
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On the Social Impact of the Loner The loner is a figure in European cultural history who, according to the Duden dictionary, “is separate, handles his affairs by himself and in his own way and seems to others to have a peculiar behaviour.” This evaluation was not always so unambiguously negative: in the 16th and 17th centuries, the loner (“Eigenbrötler” in German) was a patient in a hospital who looked after himself, was proverbially “the baker of his own bread” (the literal meaning of the German term) and mostly kept a distance from the other patients. In short: He lived self-sufficiently as someone who was better-off, and he expressed that elevated position by keeping his distance and cultivating alternative patterns of behaviour. His social status and financial power were still inseparably linked during that era. This changed at the latest with Romanticism, the heyday of the loner, when a new type of artist developed: the outsider characterized by renunciation and poverty who, all the way down to today, has had to serve as the blueprint for many long-outdated but still influential concepts of how artists are and are supposed to be.
MA PATRIE MON AMOUR MA VIE. THE PATRIOT 2, 2016, Performance for Video, © Jerry Frantz
MA PATRIE MON AMOUR MA VIE. THE PATRIOT 2, 2016, Performance for Video, © Jerry Frantz
For their exhibition “Museum of Vanities,” which will be presented from 17 May to 20 August at the IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Jerry Frantz as the notorious inventor of scurrilous persons and projects and Sali Muller as a sensitive analyst of habits of vision and perception have created a series of works of art that focus on the image of the loner and his social function. In his creative output, the loner is an obsessive individual who retreats to his cellar either to build bombs or simply to polish them. Is he a terrorist? Does he seek to kill innocent persons in order to attain a political goal? When and where will he attack? Grippingly resonant questions like these make it clear that in recent decades, terrorists and loners have been linked by the media in an unproductive connection that cannot be easily unravelled.
I See You Looking Back at Me, 2016, © Sali Muller
I See You Looking Back at Me, 2016, © Sali Muller
It seems to us that the question as to how society should handle the threat of “international terrorism” is less important than candid reflection as to how we handle the oddball, the outsider, the eccentric, the weirdo. How can we transform the paranoia with which we encounter the loner into a benevolent suspicion? Is there any possibility of avoiding being sucked into the whirlpool of tangled argumentation purveyed by the “war on terrorism” and not automatically regarding everything that occurs within concealment as being suspicious, even downright evil? With her dysfunctional mirror works, Sali Muller directs our attention to the possibility of getting to the bottom of our visual culture. She does this by treating with skepticism and irony the contemporary obsession with the transparency of all private processes – one need think only of the folly of self-revelation that runs rampant on Facebook and other Internet platforms. When Jerry Frantz polishes grenades until they sparkle and shine, this is more than a performative act – it mirrors our own obsessions. It shows the loner as a labourer laying his hands on what we have repressed as a society and causes us to pause and think for a brief moment. Looking directly and enduring the frustration that what we see is not what we expected: this is the lesson we can learn from the works of these two artists. In this way, the Museum of Vanities becomes a museum of our own vain conviction that our gaze is in fact unprejudiced. Sali Muller and Jerry Frantz make it all too clear to us that in this regard, we often overestimate ourselves.
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HEERLEN
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AACHEN 20 min
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DÜREN
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KORNELIMÜNSTER
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Bureau Europa OpenSurgery installation shot: OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Center for Contemporary Art, Linz / AT, 2016. Photo: Otto Saxinger
Bureau Europa Timmerfabriek Boschstraat 9 6211 AS Maastricht (The Netherlands) +31 43 3503020 info@bureau-europa.nl www.bureau-europa.nl open
Wednesday → Sunday
11:00 → 17:00
06.04.2017 25.06.2017
INTENSIVE CARE: ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN IN HEALTHCARE Intensive Care: Architecture and Design in Healthcare, an exhibition about care, spatial design, and design explores the healthcare challenges of the 21st century from different perspectives and design disciplines. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, architects and urban designers played an influential role in the fight against dangerous infectious diseases, such as cholera and tuberculosis. They contributed to a 'hygiene wave' through their designs for the construction of water supply and sewage systems, better buildings, and plenty of inner city green spaces. Healthcare innovations and the spatial translation thereof can be historically traced one-on-one. What challenges await us in the 21st century? These could be prosperity diseases, associated psychological social issues such as loneliness, and ethical social issues such as prioritising life quality over life duration. We examine the impact of technological acceleration on new organisational forms, from prevention in health care to privatisation in the pharmaceutical industry. →
Bureau Europa, platform for architecture and design is a cultural institute, that presents exhibitions, lectures, workshops and other activities in architecture, urbanism and design. We aim to advance knowledge production and talent development in design and architecture while also engaging with a broad audience on the subject of understanding of their designed environment. We articulate these ambitions through cultural projects at our institute and in public domain. We focus primarily on a contemporary and social agenda of the Maas-Rhine Euroregion and Europe as a whole.
CIAP Gerard Herman, meisjesnaam (2016), courtesy of trampoline and M HKA
CIAP Lombaardstraat 23 3500 Hasselt (Belgium) +32 11 22 53 21 info@ciap.be www.ciap.be open
Wednesday → Friday Saturday → Sunday
11:00 → 18:00 13:00 → 17:00
08.03.2017 14.05.2017
ONDER ONS Onder ons is a group show investigating how cultural values are produced and sustained by specific interiors in the past, present and future. Artists: Billie Zangewa, Atelier Van Lieshout, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Marina Pinsky, Wermke & Leinkauf, Jef Geys, Lara Ögel, Apparatus 22, Kasia Fudakowski, Martijn Hendriks, Oliver Laric, Mika Rottenberg, Raffaella Crispino, Henrique Nascimento, Olivier Goethals, The Army of Love & Casco, Gerard Herman and Monica Bonvicini.
08.03.2017 14.05.2017
TOM VOLKAERT – CART WHEELS & ACCESSORIES HET KABINET gives emerging artists the opportunity to present their work in the architectural historical context of the former provincial council hall of Limburg. In Cart Wheels and Accessories Tom Volkaert (Antwerp, 1989) combines 19th century tools with elements from contemporary advertisement, entertainment and the skate scene.
07.06.2017 03.09.2017
ALINE BOUVY - SOLOSHOW Following her interest in the figure of Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal and his Theatre of the Oppressed, Aline Bouvy (Brussels, 1974) has been part of a research workshop at the Parisian headquarters of the organisation. The theatrical act, experienced as a way of fighting back against any form of oppression, is the departure point for her exhibition at CIAP. Through a diverse range of mediums, she will present an immersive process-oriented installation, the remains of an intense art and therapy session gone wild.
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CIAP is an independent association for contemporary art. CIAP was founded in 1976 and its operating methods are very comparable to the German model of the Kunstverein, a model that is not well known in Flanders. CIAP aims to respond to the local art scene in a 2-way direction, on the one hand by presenting form within the local context towards a larger (eu)regional public and on the other hand by boosting the local artists, art-professionals and public by showing innovative international artistic developments.
IKOB Tout le monde court trop après le temps, 2015, © Romain van Wissen_
IKOB Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Rotenberg 12 B 4700 Eupen (Belgium) +32 87 56 01 10 info@ikob.be www.ikob.be open
Wednesday → Sunday
13:00 → 18:00
17.05.2017 20.08.2017
JERRY FRANTZ AND SALI MULLER MUSEUM OF VANITIES With the exhibition Museum of Vanities, the two Luxembourg artists Jerry Frantz and Sali Muller will present their latest works on the subject of vanity in a setting that is both specially developed for the museum’s architecture and aimed to dare the viewer. Topics addressed are art as a fetish, transience, eccentricity, and terrorism – all in connection with the museum’s theme of 2017, resentment.
17.05.2017 20.08.2017
HORST KEINING At the same time we are showing works of the German painter Horst Keining, witch are part of the IKOB collection.
13.09.2017 19.11.2017
ROMAIN VAN WISSEN Romain van Wissen, currently appointed as Artist of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, is having his first museum solo show at the IKOB this fall. Through his postmodern paintings which draw on sources from the history of art as well as from pop culture he has become quite well known in the entire Meuse-Rhine Euregion. Towards the end of the exhibition, on November 11th, the successor of van Wissen will be presented to the public within an event at the museum.
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The IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen is located in the German-speaking part of Belgium, close to the German and the Dutch border. Its program focuses on emerging and leading contemporary art through the constitution of a significant collection (in progress) and temporary exhibitions (in dialogue). Functioning as a discursive platform for contemporary art with its multidisciplinary and thematic exhibition program and concerned with critical and socio-political issues, the IKOB attempts to reflect the matter of the frontier.
Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster Installationsansicht Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster (c) Foto Carl Brunn.jpg
Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster Abteigarten 6 52076 Aachen (Germany) +49 2408 6492 info@kunsthaus.nrw.de www.kunsthaus.nrw.de open
Thursday → Saturday Sunday & Public Holidays
14:00 → 18:00 12:00 → 18:00
11.01.2017 23.04.2017
NEW TALENTS – DESTINATION KUNSTHAUS NRW A distinct format of artist support is visiting the Kunsthaus: ten selected artists of 'new talents – biennale cologne'. These young artistic positions range from classical paintings over video- and soundworks to site-specific installations, developed for the baroque furnishings of the venue.
13.05.2017 24.09.2017
AGAINST REPRESENTATION – INTERVENTIONS ABOUT ARCHITECTURE Architecture can be overpowering, as it is often a representation of power. Even modern architecture focusing on the functional form, still transports messages. The building of the former abbey, in which the Kunsthaus is located, shows the power of a few over lots of people. Even today, the old dynamics of representation are still in power. Clemens Botho Goldbach, Frauke Dannert, Christian Odzuck and Adrien Tirtiaux will research and deconstruct these dynamics.
08.10.2016 24.09.2017
COLLECTION WITH LOOSE ENDS 02 - IDENTITIES The presentation of the collection picks up one of the collection’s loose ends and is dedicated to deliberate about its identity: “How did »art from NRW« come into being and what has shaped it since?
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The exhibition program of the Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster offers an insight into North Rhine-Westphalia’s current and future art scene. Since 1948, North Rhine-Westphalia has been purchasing works by young artists to support them. Today, the collection numbers 4000 works, documenting the history of North Rhine-Westphalia’s art to the immediate present day. The collection is hosted in the baroque palace building of the old Abbey of Kornelimünster.
La Châtaigneraie alain bornain
Centre wallon d’art contemporain La Châtaigneraie Chaussée de Ramioul 19 4400 Flémalle (Belgium) +32 4 275 33 30 chataigneraie@cwac.be www.cwac.be open
Tuesday Wednesday Friday → Sunday
14:00 → 17:00 14:00 → 18:00 14:00 → 18:00
UNTIL 20.04.2017
LE DOMAINE DE LA LICE For 35 years, the ‘Domaine de la lice’ has shown that the art of tapestry is a full way of expression. Far from the conventional picture of its traditional form, the principle of interlace being kept, contemporary tapestry becomes sculpture. Nowadays it uses rubber, epoxy resins, plastics, etc and explores all the fields of contemporary art.
13.05.2017 02.07.2017
CHAMPS DE LUTTE If there is one subject that particularly links Charleroi to Liège, it is industry and social struggle. Be it the paintings of Pierre Paulus of those of Thomas Mazzarella, from the sides of the river Sambre to the sides of the river Meuse, the history is the same: struggle and labour. Works selection in the Hainaut collection.
16.09.2017 21.10.2017
PRIX DE LA JEUNE SCULPTURE 9ème Prix de la jeune sculpture Exhibition and prizes intended to young visual artists below 40 years of the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles. Organized in collaboration with the ‘Musée en Plein Air du Sart Timan’
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Set up in 1979, La Châtaigneraie occupies a small manor house (1830-1840) bordered by age-old chestnut trees. Exhibitions range from a retrospective of a historical nature to the most contemporary expression, passing through all the techniques. In this way, La Châtaigneraie confirms its vocation as a place for promoting artists as well as the wish to create a place for meetings and awareness. The Centre publishes historical works and monographs.
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren Niki de Saint Phalle, Nana rouge jambes en l’air, 1968 © Niki Charitable Art Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo: Peter Hinschläger
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren Hoeschplatz 1 52349 Düren (Germany) +49 2421 252561 museum@dueren.de www.leopoldhoeschmuseum.de open
Tuesday → Sunday Thursday
10:00 → 17:00 10:00 → 19:00
02.04.2017 02.07.2017
NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE UND DAS THEATER – AT LAST I FOUND THE TREASURE This exhibition demonstrates Niki de Saint Phalle’s fascination with the world of theatre and what this meant for her own work, shedding new light on her overall oeuvre, with particular focus on her development of the theme of love. In cooperation with the Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen and the Kunstsammlung Jena.
16.07.2017 10.09.2017
HEIJO HANGEN. MALEREI / EGON KARL NICOLAUS Heijo Hangen is one of the most significant artists of German and European Constructivism. The retrospective exhibition in Duren coincides with his 90th birthyear. Through a donation to the Hubertus Schoeller Foundation, the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum holds Hangen’s complete works on paper. Egon Karl Nicolaus’s early experiments with Constructivism in the 1950s are later marked by his contact with Tachism and Informalism in Paris. The show is in collaboration with the Egon Karl Nicolaus Foundation, Cologne.
30.09.2017 29.10.2017
SIMONSKALL, EIFEL „INSPIRATION NATUR. KÜNSTLERISCHE VIELFALT IM KALLTAL“ Located in the scenic valley of the river Kall in the Eifel region, the 17th century “Junkerhaus” served as a meeting point for regional artists and intellectuals in the early 1920s. In collaboration with the HöhenArt Hürtgenwald Foundation, the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum will present works by Ernst Ohst, Armin Renker and Hans Salentin in the Junkerhaus. The show is curated by Dr. Reinhard Schilf.
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Founded in 1905, the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum and its new extension, completed in 2010 by the architect Peter Kulka, features collections of modern works, including examples of ZERO and Concrete Art from the Hubertus Schoeller Foundation and contemporary positions from the Günter Peill Foundation. United under a dual museum concept, the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum and the Papiermuseum Düren have formed a globally-oriented platform for showcasing contemporary art in the 21st century and the cultural history of paper in form of interdisciplinary exhibitions.
Ludwig Forum Aachen Armin Linke, Ezeiza Penitentiary, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999 – © Armin Linke, Foto: Courtesy der Künstler
Ludwig Forum Aachen Jülicher Str. 97-109 52070 Aachen (Germany) +49 241 1807 104 info@ludwigforum.de www.ludwigforum.de open
Tuesday → Sunday 10:00 → 17:00 Thursday 10:00 → 20:00 Thursday ZENTIS-Day admission free
10.03.2017 ONGOING
LUFORM. THE DESIGN DEPARTMENT A new seria in Cooperation with FH Aachen and Designmetropole Aachen.
24.03.2017 18.06.2017
ARMIN LINKE – THE APPEARANCE OF THAT WHICH CANNOT BE SEEN Armin Linkes’ work draws attention to the impact of globalization, the effects of a changing infrastructure and the increasing interconnectedness of our post-industrial society in the age of information and communication technology.
29.05.2017 24.09.2017
ERIK LEVINE – AS A MATTER OF FACT What makes a man a ‘real man’? In his video works Erik Levine (born 1960 in Los Angeles), investigates how our society dictates and stages norms, rituals and male stereotypes.
01.06.2017 20.11.2017
AACHEN ART PRIZE 2016 FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER The relationship between work of art, artist and viewer is the focus of the practice of 2016’s recipient of the Kunstpreis Aachen.
14.07.2017 15.11.2017
KUBA O.K. - NEW ART FROM CUBA 1990 – 2017 Against the backdrop of the recent political and cultural opening of Cuba, the exhibition looks back at an unique point within the history of the Ludwig Collection, its longstanding ties to Cuban art and the Ludwigs' acquisition strategies.
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The Ludwig Forum Aachen is a multi-genre house for international contemporary art. It bases on the art collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig that comprises key works of Pop Art, Photo Realism and European art from the beginning 1960s to the present. This is the starting point for an attractive exhibition program. Art education offers many activities and guided tours for all ages and types of groups, available in Dutch, French and English. Contact Karl-Heinz Jeiter +49 241 1807 115, Email Karl-Heinz. Jeiter@mail.aachen.de
Marres
Marres House for Contemporary Culture Capucijnenstraat 98 6211 RT Maastricht (The Netherlands) +31 43 327 0207 info@marres.org www.marres.org open
Tuesday → Sunday
11:00 → 17:00
10.03.2017 13.08.2017
THE PAINTED BIRD In the spring of 2017, Marres will present a spectacular mural about Europe. To create this mural, sixteen national and international artists will paint all galleries and corridors, the stairwell, floors and ceilings of the Marres House. Having a surface area of over 750 m2, the painting depicts a series of beautiful and frightening environments: visitors will walk through a high-tech ethnic supermarket to the last surviving piece of primeval forest, from a virtual detention room to a new life festival in the year 2050. The painting encompasses recognizable landscapes, portraits, historic events and fearful dreams. The painting will be directed by muralist Gijs Frieling. Participating artists: Marie Aly, Cian Yu Bai, Bonno van Doorn, Gijs Frieling, Natasja Kensmil, Klaas Kloosterboer,Mirthe Klück, Frank Koolen, Jan van de Pavert, Tanja Ritterbex, Sam Samiee, Charlotte Schleiffert, Derk Thijs, Sarah Verbeek, Helen Verhoeven, Evi Vingerling and Job Wouters
25.08.2017 26.11.2017
THE MATERIALITY OF THE INVISIBLE An exhibition on art and archaeology, organized by the Van Eyck in collaboration with Bureau Europa and Marres. Each in their own ways, these three art institutes in Maastricht will explore the common grounds of archaeology and contemporary art.
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Marres is a house for contemporary culture in Maastricht. Marres initiates and shows a variety of contemporary artistic practices with a strong emphasis on the senses. It works with visual artists, perfume makers, composers, herbalists, memory experts and cooks. In Marres, artists sing the landscape, draw taste, let us feel music, and touch our minds. In addition to exhibition spaces, Marres offers its visitors also a restaurant (Marres Kitchen) and a beautiful garden.
Museum De Domijnen Jaap de Ruig-The Source-One Day in a Roma Settlement in Romania- video 2009 - videostill 01
Hedendaagse Kunst De Domijnen Ligne 2 6131 MT Sittard (The Netherlands) +31 46 4513460 balie.museum@dedomijnen.nl www.dedomijnen.nl open
Tuesday → Sunday
11:00 → 17:00
05.03.2017 28.05.2017
ACROSS THE BORDER In 'Across the border' guest curator Anne Berkers takes us on a journey on the basis of the work of four very different artists all with a the same starting point. Precisely at a time when walls are built and differences are tightened, it is important to continue to look around, literally, across borders. Something that artists have always done and continue to do. We will see works from Brele Scholz, Jaap de Ruig, Roy Villevoye & Jan Dietvorst.
03.09.2017 27.01.2018
ECO-VENTION In Eco-vention, a contraction of Eco (logical art) and Intervention, subtitled: Art to transform ecologies, we see the development and progress of this art movement between 1962 and now. Guest curator Sue Spaid together with curator Roel Arkesteijn bring together a large number of artworks from across Europe together for this 'state of mind' exhibition. More than 40 artists are on display from 16 different countries. The artworks are primarily a call to reflect on how we treat our ecological systems in the world. We will see artworks and installations among others from Georg Dietzler, AnneMarie Maes, Joseph Beuys, Cecylia Malik, Lara Almercegui and Lois Weinberger.
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The museum contemporary (modern) art of De Domijnen is as off 4th September located in the new complex Ligne in Sittard-Geleen. This new architectural landmark consists of two buildings which houses Zuyd HS, residents of Daelzicht, the new library of De Domijnen in a joint venture with Zuyd HS, a cinema for art house films and the new museum. There are also offices, apartments and shops for various retail concepts. See for further information: www.ligne-sittard.nl
NAK Plamen Dejanoff, Plamen 116, 2016 Poster, digital print © Galerie Emanuel Layr
NAK. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein Passstrasse 29 52070 Aachen (Germany) +49 241 503255 info@neueraachenerkunstverein.de www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de open
Tuesday → Sunday
14:00 → 18:00
09.04.2017 21.05.2017
PLAMEN DEJANOFF Plamen Dejanoff's project concerns the relationships between the artist's self and his art and the labile periphery of homage and appropriation. The exhibition examines the idea of a self-fashioned identity versus that of a historical contingency.
02.06.2017 10.06.2017
BUNT IST MEINE LIEBLINGSFARBE. ARCHITEKTUR IM FOTO In cooperation with the RWTH Aachen the NAK initializes a photo exhibition by students of the faculty of architecture in the spirit of Bauhaus photography.
18.06.2017 30.07.2017
BEING CLOSE / NATURE CANIBALIA With Being Close the artist collective TRIPOT will realize a room installation, exploring nature in an artistic way. A second exhibition called Nature Canibalia curated by Estelle Nabeyrat offers a selection of artists dealing with the subject of cannibalism as a socio-cultural idea of the other.
03.09.2017 15.10.2017
HIROKI TSUKUDA Japanese artist Hiroki Tsukuda explores imaginary cityscapes via drawings. Constructing geometric shapes and reconstructing a modern world, Tsukuda understands his visions as a view into a parallel world composed of the past, present and future.
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NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein is one of the youngest institutions of its kind in Germany; a private non-profit association for contemporary art in the tradition of the German Kunstverein model. NAK was founded in 1986 as a late echo of the 1964 Fluxus festival, with Joseph Beuys and Wolf Vostell as centre protagonists at the local university in Aachen. The spirit of this moment has since been source of commitment to contemporary art.
SCHUNCK* Keetje Mans, In Midswig, 2016
SCHUNCK* Bongerd 18 6411 JM Heerlen (The Netherlands) +31 45 5772200 info@schunck.nl www.schunck.nl open
Tuesday → Sunday
11:00 → 17:00
04.03.2017 06.08.2017
FASHION VS ART The multidisciplinary FASHION VS. ART exhibition put together by FASHION CLASH displays a selection of work by fashion designers who in their own practice question and challenge the boundaries of fashion as a form of art. With their playful and innovative approach to fashion they stimulate our imaginary world and question our perception.
02.04.2017 06.08.2017
PAINT IT SOFT PAINT IT SOFT presents the ‘renaissance’ of contemporary textile art. Based on the art collection of SCHUNCK*, the term ‘textile art’ is interpreted in all its facets: from both the materiality and the conceptual characteristics of textile. PAINT IT SOFT builds on the artistic research and presentation policy around avant-garde trends from the 50s and the social urgency to engage the public interactively through art.
09.06.2017 01.10.2017
AAD DE HAAS - HEIMWEE In 1944, Aad de Haas fled Rotterdam for the village of Ingber in South Limburg during the war. Rotterdam always held a special place in his heart, but many attempts to return were all in vain. The selected works portrays De Haas’ memories of Rotterdam: important people, places and things.
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SCHUNCK*, situated in Heerlen at the heart of the Euregion, is a multidisciplinary institute devoted to contemporary visual art, architecture, music, literature and film - and all imaginable crossovers between the disciplines – manifested by means of presentations, collections and educational projects. A modern public library and music school also rank amongst the amenities at SCHUNCK*, both working in modern-day fashion to promote reading enjoyment and musical learning. SCHUNCK* is housed in the historic Glaspaleis, the “glass palace” built by architect Frits Peutz in 1935.
SPACE Collection lara gasparotto
SPACE Collection En Féronstrée 116 4000 Liège (Belgium) +32 486 33 93 93 info@space-collection.org www.space-collection.org open
Wednesday → Saturday or by appointment
15:00 → 17:30
31.03.2017 15.04.2017
OPENING/RELEASE Les Filles d'Hirohito visits La Space Collection for a « little wild commissariat », echoes and plastic rumors of their last two albums SINGLE (Célibataire) and (Hors-jeu) LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (January 2016).
29.04.2017 27.05.2017
LARA GASPAROTTO - NEW IMAGES Lara Gasparotto (Liège, 1989) is one of today’s most fascinating photographers. Her work has already been shown at La Space Collection, during La Biennale de la Photographie de Liège 2012. After her noticed solo show at The Hague Museum of Photography, December 2016, she comes back to La Space Collection to present her photo-series Ask the Dusk (an intimate journal somewhere between dream and reality) and her latest photographs. At first glance, Lara Gasparotto’s work may seem to be documentary but her aim is something more than just reportage. Together, these fragments of her life form a new story.
17.06.2017 22.07.2017
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MAZATEQUES Guillaume Baronnet, Chris Lecler, Jonas Locht
Launched in 2002 by artist Alain De Clerck, SPACE Collection is building a network of European cities linked by a transborder collection of contemporary art. The works are acquired thanks to interactive sculptures. In Liege and Maastricht, the two first culture machines already allowed to buy 90 works. Situated in the historical center, the exhibition space takes place in an old apartment recognized as a place to experiment. The art center welcomes regularly events, lectures and shows.
Van Eyck
Van Eyck Multiform Institute for fine art, design and reflection Academieplein 1 6211 KM Maastricht (The Netherlands) +31 43 3503737 info@janvaneyck.nl www.janvaneyck.nl open
Monday → Friday
09:00 → 18:00
07.04.2017
THINGS THAT GO BUMP During Museum Night Maastricht, the Van Eyck will be immersed for a whole evening in noises, voices, musical instruments, images, and poetry. Artists and musicians, professionals and students alike, will give full rein to their talents on the open stage. Visitors to our museum night are invited to make their own contributions to an impromptu sonic and visual landscape. Things That Go Bump will be an evening full of art/music performances and jam sessions, in a programme hosted by the artist Rod Summers.
29.08.2017 26.11.2017
THE MATERIALITY OF THE INVISIBLE An exhibition on art and archaeology, organized by the Van Eyck in collaboration with Bureau Europa and Marres. Each in their own ways, these three art institutes in Maastricht will explore the common grounds of archaeology and contemporary art.
ALL YEAR
→ The Van Eyck organizes throughout the year several exhibitions, connected to the programme of the academy and its (former) participants. During the Wednesday night presentations, participants present themselves and their work. The Van Eyck regularly invites guests (artists, museum directors, curators, designers, writers, poets) for a talk about their work and practice and organizes master classes, meetings and conferences. Follow the Van Eyck progamme on janvaneyck.nl, facebook.com/janvaneyckacademie, twitter.com/jve_academie
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The Van Eyck is a multiform institute for fine art, design and reflection. International artists, designers, curators, photographers, architects, landscape architects, critics and writers stay for one year at the academy to work on their projects. The Van Eyck also offers a public programme of exhibitions, presentations and lectures. The wellequipped labs (wood, metal, printing, photography/new media and a library) and the café-restaurant are open to everyone.
Z33
Z33 – House for contemporary art Zuivelmarkt 33 3500 Hasselt (Belgium) +32 11 29 59 60 info@z33.be www.z33.be open
Tuesday → Sunday & Public Holidays
10:00 → 17:00
Z33 IN TRANSITION In 2017, work will start on the construction of an extension on the site next to the current exhibition building Vleugel ’58. Both the new extension and the renovated Vleugel '58 will make one new house for contemporary art. A welcoming home with a new front door to the city. The Italian architect Francesca Torzo designed a sober and intimate building with great respect towards the unique heritage of the beguinage and to the city center of Hasselt. The construction and renovation will be finished in 2018. In the meantime, Z33 will present nomadic projects and exhibitions on various locations. For more information, and program, visit www.z33.be →
Z33 is a house for contemporary art. Z33 creates projects and exhibitions which encourage the visitor to take a different look at everyday life. It is a unique laboratory and a meeting space for experiments and innovation that makes ground breaking exhibitions featuring contemporary art and design. Z33 also develops collaborative projects and art in public space. You can visit Z33 at the beguinage of Hasselt. Z33 is heading for exciting times with the start of renovation and construction work to enlarge the House for contemporary art. The main building, Vleugel '58 (Wing '58), will be closed, but exhibitions continue to place at the beguinage site. Z33 will also continue to work on projects outside its own walls.
Agenda APRIL 2017 PICASSO - Lecture
SCHUNCK*
NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE UND DAS THEATER – AT LAST I FOUND THE TREASURE - Opening
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
TOURING STUDIO 02 – CHRISTIAN ODZUCK - Artist talk
EU Representation of NRW, Brussels
THINGS THAT GO BUMP Night of the Museum Maastricht
Van Eyck
19:00
KLAUS PAIER - THE AACHEN MURALIST - Opening
Ludwig Forum Aachen
08.04.2017
PLAMEN DEJANOFF - Opening
NAK
IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER
IKOB
IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER
IKOB
ROLAND SCHIMMEL - Artist talk
SCHUNCK*
01.04.2017 17:00
02.04.2017 12:00
06.04.2017 19:00
07.04.2017 20:00
08.04.2017
19:00
22.04.2017 19:00
23.04.2017 17:00
25.04.2017
MAY 2017
19:00
NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE - Talk with Dr. Beate Kemfert, Director Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
13.05.2017
AGAINST REPRESENTATION - Opening
Kunsthaus NRW
MUSEUM OF VANITIES & HORST KEINING - Opening
IKOB
15:00
18.05.2017
ERIK LEVINE - Opening
Ludwig Forum Aachen
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMS DAY
All houses
BUNT IST MEINE LIEBLINGSFARBE. ARCHITEKTUR IM FOTO - Opening
NAK
19:00
01.06.2017
FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER - Opening
Ludwig Forum Aachen
SOLO BY ALINE BOUVY - Opening
CIAP
BEING CLOSE / NATURE CANIBALIA Opening
NAK
19:00
22.06.2017
POETRY SLAM
Ludwig Forum Aachen
04.05.2017
16:00
14.05.2017
19:00
21.05.2017 JUNE 2017 01.06.2017
19:00
03.06.2017 19:00
17.06.2017
19:00
Agenda CHILDREN'S PROMOTION AWARD
Ludwig Forum Aachen
KUBA O.K. - NEW ART FROM CUBA 1990 – 2017 - Opening
Ludwig Forum Aachen
HEIJO HANGEN. MALEREI / EGON KARL NICOLAUS - Opening
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
04.08.2017
TOUR D’ART BY BUS SOUTH LIMBURG - Guided tour
SCHUNCK*
17.08.2017
FRANK HAVERMANS – KAPKAR
SCHUNCK*
THE MATERIALITY OF THE INVISIBLE Opening
Van Eyck (in collaboration with Bureau Europa and Marres)
25.06.2017 12:00
JULY 2017 13.07.2017 19:00
16.07.2017 12:00
AUGUST 2017
17:00
29.08.2017
SEPTEMBER 2017 02.09.2017
HIROKI TSUKUDA - Opening
NAK
INSPIRATION NATUR. KÜNSTLERISCHE VIELFALT IM KALLTAL - Opening
Junkerhaus, Simonskall
19:00
30.09.2017 16:00
photo: kristof vrancken
Regular events WEDNESDAYS Every Wednesday, 15:30 → 17:30 Lufonauten – for kids
Ludwig Forum Aachen
Every Wednesday, 17:30 Presentations by Van Eyck participants
Van Eyck
Every first Wednesday of the month, 18:00 Public Guided Tour – free admission
IKOB
Every last Wednesday of the month, 15:00 GOLDEN CLUB – Seniors get together to talk about art over coffee and cake.
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
THURSDAYS Every Thursday, 15:30 → 17:30 Lufonauten – for kids
Ludwig Forum Aachen
Every Thursday ZENTIS-DAY - free admission!
Ludwig Forum Aachen
Every first Thursday of the month, 18:30 HET KABINET - opening hosted by the CIAP Young Art Club (CYAC)
CIAP
Every 3rd Thursday of the month, 19:30 Movie Night
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
SATURDAYS Every last Saturday of the month, 14:00 → 15:30 Comiciade Workshop - open workshop with comic artist – free admission
Ludwig Forum Aachen
SUNDAYS Every Sunday, 15:00 Guided Tour – on demand in English or Dutch
Ludwig Forum Aachen
Every Sunday, 15:00 → 16:00 Child Care – open creative program for children and teens
Ludwig Forum Aachen
Every first Sunday of the month, 15:00 → 16:00 Guided Tour – on demand in English
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
Every last Sunday of the month, 13:00 Guided Tour – free admission
SCHUNCK*
Every last Sunday of the month, 15:00 Director's Tour
IKOB
Every last Sunday of the month, 15:00 Guided Tour – on demand in English, French or Dutch
Kunsthaus NRW
art
does not need a common language,
it is international
in itself.
The association of fourteen institutions in the Meuse-Rhine Region is as contemporary as the art they present. Within a radius of 100 km, the border region of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands offers a wide variety of exhibitions and events, many of which can be visited in one day. The venues each have a highly individual approach and present art in the most appealing way: direct and inspirational, reflective and atmospheric. This brochure wants to increase the awareness of what this region has to offer in terms of visual arts. It is published twice a year and gives an overview of exhibitions and events.
Get a regular update on exhibition openings, lectures and guided tours on: www.verycontemporary.org www.facebook.com/verycontemporaryart We are looking forward to hearing from you under: info@verycontemporary.org
supported by the ministry of north rhine-westphalia – printed by kliemo (cover photo) MA PATRIE MON AMOUR MA VIE. THE PATRIOT 2_Performance for Video, Jerry Frantz, 2016 (editing) Miriam Elebe, ikob (graphic design) Niek Kosten (project management) Marie-Claire Krell – info@verycontemporary.org
www.verycontemporary.org
april 2017 → september 2017