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
Without Alternative
Just as I write these lines, the G20 summit is opened in Hamburg. The network meeting between the most important industrialized and newly industrialized countries is under a cloud. Dissents, divisions, protectionism measures and persistence in one's own position determine a conference, from which one can hardly expect any lasting results. The connection between the leading countries of this planet is becoming frayed. The term "network", so popular at the beginning of the millennium, has already been eroded. Since it is clear that more communication does not mean better communication, and that more exchanges do not necessarily lead to more empathy (this is thanks to the social networks), the obligatory networking-mania of the early 2000s has fallen into disrepute. Within a very short timeframe, we have become overwhelmed with artificial networks. But what alternative do we have? Even if the current separation tendencies in international politics are increasing, a future without collaboration is futile. Especially for cultural mediation, the idea of a splendid isolation is wrong; fantasies of exclusion such as in the Brexit or Grexit resemble a suicide. Whoever opposes the flow of ideas and communication can only be overwhelmed by the power of the current - before disappearing into insignificance. The institutional and individual connections in the cultural business are taken for granted. Here, terms such as "competition", "rivalry" or "monopoly position" are not only misplaced but grotesque. Working in this field always means being able to collaborate with partners both from one’s own and from completely different sectors. And it means more than that: not just a collaboration, but a long-term relationship.
KNRW - reflecting 21. - Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann, One Hour Real, 2016 - Installation view, 2017 (c) The artists - Photo: Pascalina Vretinari
Shortly after the founding of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ministry of culture purchased the first “art asset” in 1948, to support young artists from the region. It was decided that the works would be made available to individual ministries and public authorities to hang in their offices for representational purposes. Today the Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster not only continues that collection but also still functions as artothek of the state of North RhineWestphalia. Through encountering regional authorities and public service actors, each loaned work of art initiates a new relationship and opens new lines of thought and communication on a daily basis. The series of images in the open space of this booklet show the exhibition Reflecting 21. in the offices of the Ministry of economy in the former Mannesmann-Hochhaus in Düsseldorf. In 2018, the year of the 70th anniversary of the art collection, the Kunsthaus is planning an exhibition about this interface of visual arts and the non-visual element of daily politics and administration. As an exhibition and mediation venue for contemporary art from North Rhine-Westfalia, the Kunsthaus NRW also establishes close contact with neighboring art institutions from the Euregion. Accessing the Very Contemporary network can therefore be seen as an opportunity, as every potential opportunity increases the scope of all those involved. In spite of the geographical situation outside of the traditional cultural centers, the Kunsthaus NRW aims to be an open intersection, where artists, mediators and recipients meet and exchange. If an art collection usually acts like a monolithic and shallow-looking iceberg, the Kunsthaus wants to activate processes, dialogues and cooperation. It works on a liquefaction of the art, to accelerate the current. In this atmospheric context, the Landesbüro für Bildende Kunst NRW (LaB K) has been linked to the Kunsthaus since the beginning of 2017.
KNRW - reflecting 21. - exc, lookfrwrd, 2016 - Installation view, 2017 (c) The artists - Photo: Pascalina Vretinari
KNRW - reflecting 21. - Fabian Heitzhausen, Master Cat, 2016 - Installation view, 2017 (c) The artist Photo: Pascalina Vretinari
KNRW - reflecting 21. - Catharina Cramer, Of Princesses and Fish, 2016 - Installation view, 2017 (c) The artist - Photo: Pascalina Vretinari
KNRW - reflecting 21. - exc, lookfrwrd, 2016 - Installation view, 2017 (c) The artists - Photo: Pascalina Vretinari
The LaB K is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of NRW and is part of the program “Individual Artists Support�. Its first and foremost goal is to be the information platform on which visual artists can deal with topics that are relevant to them, such as further education, scholarships or tax questions. In addition, the LaB K is developing into a think tank that reflects current cultural policy issues. Within this framework, a series of panel discussions will take place from autumn 2017 onwards, throughout NRW. Topics such as artistic training, the protection of artistic existence or the discrepancy between cultural-political visions and their reality will be discussed. That way the LaB K and its mobile academy are designed to meet the specific needs of the visual artists. The LaB K acts as a hub: it brings together artists, art mediators, state authorities, municipal cultural administration and the civil society. It collects information and processes it before it flows back into the public. Its task is to activate the current, keep the flow moving and get blocked channels into motion. It wants to break down barriers that separate people and institutions. And: to communicate, to communicate, to communicate. Find one path with all partners to make the bond between individuals and between institutions stronger. That would be a good goal for the G20 summit.
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Bureau Europa
Bureau Europa Platform for architecture and design 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
30.08.2017 29.10.2017
THE MATERIALITY OF THE INVISIBLE The Materiality of the Invisible features works by contemporary artists and architects whose work employs archaeological methodologies. Just as contemporary culture has no common denominator, archaeology is more than simply uncovering remnants of an unknown past. Many artists probe the layers underlying our social, public, and political realities. They expose the unseen, penetrate to other times, and investigate the structural roots of our material and intangible heritage. Like archaeologists, they make the invisible visible. The Materiality of the Invisible exhibition distils the broader frameworks of both disciplines. →
Organised by the Van Eyck* in collaboration with Marres and Bureau Europa, the exhibition spreads out over the three locations and shows works of: Lida Abdul, Semâ Bekirovic, Rossella Biscotti, Marinus Boezem, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Leyla Cárdenas, Ruben Castro, Imran Channa, Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum, Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, Daniel Knorr, Jeroen Kooijmans, Irene Kopelman, Giuseppe Licari, Chaim van Luit, Mark Manders, Raewyn Martyn, Alice Miceli, RAAAF, Stéphanie Saadé, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Oscar Santillan, Daniel Silver, Studio Ossidiana, Marjan Teeuwen, Leonid Tsvetkov, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Roy Villevoye & Jan Dietvorst, Joey Bryniarska & Martin Westwood, Matthew C. Wilson *Van Eyck is a partner of the multi-annual EU project NEARCH – new scenarios for a community-involved archaeology.
Bureau Europa, platform for architecture and design, presents exhibitions, lectures, workshops and other activities in architecture, urbanism and design. We aim to advance knowledge production and talent development in design and to engage a broad audience. We articulate our aims through cultural projects at our institute and in the public domain. We focus primarily on the common social agenda of Europe and the Maas-Rhine Euroregion.
CIAP Stijn Wybouw, Als de poetsvrouw zingt zal ik poetsen, screenshot from video (2017)
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
24.09.2017 17.12.2017
MEETSYSTEEM (JACQUES LIZÈNE AND GERLACH EN KOOP) For the exhibition 'meetsysteem' upcoming Dutch curator Bas Hendrickx invited Belgian artist Jacques Lizène (Liège, 1946) and the Dutch duo gerlach en koop around the idea of peripheral thinking and acting.
24.09.2017 17.12.2017
STIJN WYBOUW - SOLO Stijn Wybouw (Leuven,1995) is a master student Visual Arts at the PXL Academy in Hasselt. In the Autumn of 2017 he will be the artist and curator of CIAP's groundflour, showing his own installations and inviting others for a collaborative game.
28.01.2018 08.04.2018
REIN DUFAIT – VAN HET REIKEN EN HET AARDEN In his artistic practice, Rein Dufait (Ostend, 1990) attempts to neutralize the distinction between nature and culture. His sculptures don’t disguise their making process. These installations feel light and fragile although often made of heavy and rigid materials. Every exhibition is accompanied with a limited artist publication ‘Tesanada’.
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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 Romain Van Wissen - Passez la porte
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
13.09.2017 19.11.2017
ROMAIN VAN WISSEN - WHO IS IN THE HOUSE The exhibition “Who is in the House” is presenting the East Belgian painter Romain Van Wissen in his first solo exhibition at a museum. From 13 September to 19 November, more than fifty of his paintings as well as three new spectacular installations will be on display at the IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen. The installation “I believe I can fly” (2017) is clearly the highlight of the exhibition; it shows the world-view of the artist in the form of a panorama. →
Van Wissen combines realism and abstraction with Pop Art elements. He has advanced to a status as one of the East Belgian / Wallonian artists most in demand. The contents of his paintings derive their strong-willed and mysterious power from sources in art history and popular culture. Moreover, Van Wissen has developed an unmistakable visual language in which he deliberately contrasts muted colours with glaring neon tones and combines realistic landscape depictions with abstract coloured surfaces.
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 KNRW - reflecting 21. - Tim Gorinski, Pretending Waves, 2015/2017 - Installation view Mannesmann-Hochhaus, Düsseldorf, 2017 (c) The artist - Photo: Pascalina Vretinari
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
22.10.2017 25.02.2018
COLLECTION WITH LOSE ENDS 03: 21. Along the themes of settings, experiments and errors, the new collection’s presentation gives an overview of 21st century motifs with acquisitions from the last ten years. With Nina Brauhauser, Lars Breuer, Eli Cortinas Hidalgo, Thea Djordjadze, Luka Fineisen, Andreas Fischer, Django Hernandez, Erika Hock, Markus Karstieß, Seb Koberstädt, Anna K. E., Agata Madejska, Martin Pfeifle, Franziska Windisch and others.
22.10.2017 28.01.2018
REFLECTING. TIME-BASED ART FROM NRW. Reflecting showcases a compilation of Media Art from NRW: Time-based works reflect this vital genre of 21st century art. The large-scaled exhibition, curated by Elke Kania and Marcel Schumacher, brings together Video Sculpture, Film, side-specific Video Installation and analogue Double Dia Projection by Marianna Christofides, Catherina Cramer, Dan Dryer, exc, Fabian Heitzhausen, Elmar Hermann, Tim Gorinski und Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann.
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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 Olivier Bovy, Pendule, 2014
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
16.09.2017 21.10.2017
9TH PRICE OF THE YOUNG SCULPTURE A double price (small and large format) and 2 exhibitions (La Châtaigneraie and Sart Tilman's Open Air Museum, Liège) with young artists of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Elodie ANTOINE - Sophie BOSMAN - Olivier BOVY - Louise DEVIN - Samuel D'IPPOLITO - Maëlle DUFOUR - Arnaud EUBELEN - Eva EVRARD - Julien HAENEN - Sofhie MAVROUDIS - Ludovic MENNESSON - Gérard MEURANT - Olivia MORTIER - Marie SAGE - Mostafa SAFI RAHMOUNI - Cléo TOTTI - Laurent TREZEGNIES - Jean TROMME - Nelly VAN OOST
13.05.2017 02.07.2017
FRANÇOISE SAFIN'S CARTE BLANCHE In collaboration with Marchin's Cultural Center. A double exhibition that will leave to Françoise Safin, former curator of the MAMAC (Liège), an opportunity to gather around her many artists that she had the chance to meet, to exhibit...throughout her beautiful career.
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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 Haegue Yang - Rue Saint Benoit (2008) Katrin Schilling
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
24.09.2017 26.11.2017
KARL FRED DAHMEN. DAS PRINZIP LANDSCHAFT Karl Fred Dahmen (b.1917, Stolberg – †1981, Preinersdorf am Chiemsee) is among the most significant figures of German informal art, who challenged and reinterpreted the idea of landscape painting throughout his life. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the Museum Küppersmühle in Duisburg (22.09 - 05.11.2017) and the Leopold-HoeschMuseum present a joint retrospective show of his works.
24.09.2017 26.11.2017
DAHLMANN PRIZE 2017: TOM FRÜCHTL. LOWFIDELITY Every two years, the “Dahlmann Preis” is awarded by the Hamburg-based medical scientist Prof. Dr. Nicolaus Dahlmann to young, promising artists. This year’s prize goes to Tom Früchtl (b. 1966, Munich, lives and works in Berlin), whose hyperreal “painting-objects” play with notions of perception and representation.
03.12.2017 11.03.2018
BEYOND THE BOX. SAMMLUNG DOHMEN This show presents contemporary artistic positions and installations from the Werner Dohmen collection in Aachen, uniting art from Mexico, Cuba, West Africa, Israel, Bulgaria, Russia, South Korea, Japan and the USA. Dr. med. Dohmen, physician and collector, has been chairman of the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein since 1988.
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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 für Internationale Kunst Aachen Adrián Fernández Milanés, Cosmonaut (In Search of Orientation), 2015, inkjet print on alu-dibond, 150 x 300 cm, courtesy Galerie Fabian & Claude Walter
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst 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
08.09.2017 18.02.2018
KUNST X KUBA. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES SINCE 1989 The exhibition will for the first time bring together the Cuban artworks from the Ludwig Collection and contemporary works from the Caribbean state, including works by Yoan Capote, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Felipe Dulzaides and Celia-Yunior.
22.10.2017 25.02.2018
NOEMI WEBER / NOBUYUKI OSAKI Main focus of both artists is working with vivid colors in very different media. The exhibition is part of the research project The Invention of the Neue Wilde.
09.11.2017 15.04.2018
DIGITAL GAMES. ART AND COMPUTER GAMES A look back at developments in the computer culture since the mid-1990s with focus on the relationship between interactive art games and artistic modes of play.
17.01.2018 18.02.2018
DIS/ORDER. RUSSIAN ART AND ACTIVISM SINCE 2000 This exhibition looks into situations and forms of the political in Russian contemporary art.
UNTIL 29.10.2017
FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER. THINKING ACTION The relationship between work of art, artist and viewer is the focus of the practice of 2016’s recipient of the Kunstpreis Aachen.
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LUFORM. THE DESIGN DEPARTMENT A seria in cooperation with FH Aachen and Designmetropole Aachen.
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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.
Marres Voyager, Oscar Santillan (2016) Courtesy of Private Collection Brussels / Munich and Copperfield, London
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
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.
14.12.2017 04.02.2018
MARRES CURRENTS #5 Marres Currents #5 is the fifth edition of Marres Currents, an annual exhibition in which young curators are invited to curate an exhibition of recently graduated artists from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. In doing so, Marres provides a platform for young artists and curators, and contributes to an international infrastructure for talent development. The exhibition is curated by Isabel Van Bos and Evelyn Simons.
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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 Agnes Denes, Tree Mountain – A Living Time Capsule, 1992
Hedendaagse Kunst De Domijnen Ligne 5 6131 MT Sittard (The Netherlands) +31 88 5995556 museum.hk@dedomijnen.nl www.dedomijnen.nl/tentoonstellingen open
Tuesday → Sunday
11:00 → 17:00
03.09.2017 07.01.2018
ECOVENTION EUROPE. ART TO TRANSFORM ECOLOGIES, 1957-2017. ‘Ecovention Europe’ presents the development and progress of the ‘ecovention’ movement between 1957 and now. Ecoventions (a contraction of ‘ecology’ and ‘inventions’) are primarily a call to reflect on how we treat our ecological systems in the world. You will see artworks and installations from more than 40 artists (such as N55, Jean-Francois Paquay and Lois Weinberger) from 16 different countries, which are brought together by curator Roel Arkesteijn and guest curator Sue Spaid.
21.01.2018 01.04.2018
THE DUTCH SAVANNAH ‘The Dutch Savannah’ explores the infrastructures that supports our online behaviours, focusing on water as a fundamental element in question. The exhibition delves into the ecological harm of the expansive data-flow of information, and raises awareness about the environmental impact of our technological consumerism while claiming sustainable alternatives. From the cloud to the deepest of seas, our landscape and ecology are in flux, and a smart use of resources and elements can provide solutions to overcome the ecological crisis we are facing.
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The museum of contemporary art De Domijnen is newly located in the Ligne complex in Sittard-Geleen. This new architectural landmark consists of two buildings which houses Zuyd HS, residents of Daelzicht ánd a library and cinema for arthouse films, which are also part of the joining forces of De Domijnen. A museum of history & archaeology, city theatre and archive are also part of De Domijnen.
NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
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
03.09.2017 15.10.2017
HIROKI TSUKUDA - HOUR OF EXCAVATION 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.
22.10.2017 03.12.2017
EMMA TALBOT – OPEN THOUGHTS In work that moves between drawing, painting and installation, British artist Emma Talbot has been searching for ways to poetically transfer inner experiential images.
09.12.2017 14.12.2017
BENEFIT AUCTION 2017 The benefit auction assembles a vast range of wellknown and newly discovered contemporary artists, whose works will be auctioned off by Prof. Henrik Hanstein of Kunsthaus Lempertz to benefit the NAK.
21.01.2018 11.03.2018
JAN HOEFT / XAVIER MARY Belgian artist Xavier Mary and German artist Jan Hoeft collaborate for the upcoming exhibition, bringing together post-industrial and underground culture in a globalized society.
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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* RAAAF - The End of Sitting
SCHUNCK* Bongerd 18 6411 JM Heerlen (The Netherlands) +31 45 5772200 info@schunck.nl www.schunck.nl open
Tuesday → Sunday
11:00 → 17:00
26.11.2017 14.01.2018
LIZA WOLTERS NOW IS A DIFFERENT BACK THEN From her current residence in Rotterdam, Liza Wolters (Landgraaf, 1992) returns to the SCHUNCK* museum to mould it playfully. Her work arises from everyday situations which seem as though directed. In this exhibition, Wolters will unite previous work with on-the-spot images.
18.08.2017 12.11.2017
FRANK HAVERMANS – KAPKAR/ ZUIDMUUR / KAPKARTOFUD# NOORDVITRINE Via his prominent installation on the south façade of the Glaspaleis, Frank Havermans (Breda 1967) refers to Heerlen’s industrial past and creates a symbiotic relation with the modernist architecture of the Glaspaleis and Heerlen’s public space. Models of all his designs are being displayed in the shop-window.
01.10.2017 18.02.2018
RAAAF - THE END OF SITTING The End of Sitting is a work of art in which you can work, read and talk together, but not sit in. RAAAF, Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances, has designed one of the most innovative concepts worldwide at the crossroads of welfare & care, work, design, architecture and visual art.
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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 Charlotte vander Borght, Charlotte aux fraises.
SPACE Collection En Féronstrée 116 & Rue Vivegnis 234 4000 Liège (Belgium) +32 486 33 93 93 info@space-collection.org www.space-collection.org open
Thursday → Saturday or by appointment
15:00 → 17:30
28.09.2017 01.10.2017
EN PISTE ! 2017 The City of Liège puts the precious work of galleries and art centers in the cultural landscape of Liège on the spot for a weekend at La Boverie. The occasion for SPACE Collection to show its concept and its contemporary art collection.
07.10.2017 18.11.2017
BEN BENAOUISSE CURATED BY JOKE LOOTENS Ben Benaouisse (°1971, lives and works in Ghent, BE) is a dancer, a perfomer and an artist. Individual and collective consciousness, but also the conception of political, religious and cultural laws play an important role in his work. This exhibition takes place in a new second adresse of SPACE Collection.
21.10.2017 25.11.2017
LES VAINCUS - CURATED BY THE ART HISTORIAN GENARO MARCOS Les vaincus puts into perspective the Russian art of the 1920s (literature, poetry, graphic design ...) with a selection of artworks of contemporary art. The exhibition also deals with the explosion of artistic movements in contemporary art and the period when Russia was the laboratory of avant-garde movements.
09.12.2017 20.01.2018
ARNAUD EUBELEN & LISA MEYER SPACE Collection makes the choice to showcase a young duo of contemporary artists from Liège to put the light on a new emerging artistic scene. Arnaud Eubelen and Lisa Meyer develop a work with photo-graphy and design, they question images and objects identities and components.
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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
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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
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 cafĂŠ-restaurant are open to everyone.
Z33 DavidMabb - AProvisionalMemorial to NuclearDisarmament - KARST - photo: David Mabb
Z33 – House for contemporary art Zuivelmarkt 33 3500 Hasselt (Belgium) +32 11 29 59 60 info@z33.be www.z33.be open
Tuesday → Friday Saturday → Sunday
10:00 → 17:00 11:00 → 18:00
17.09.2017 10.12.2017
PERPETUAL UNCERTAINTY Perpetual Uncertainty is an exploration of contemporary art in the nuclear anthropocene. The exhibition brings together international artists from across Europe, the US and Japan to investigate experiences of nuclear technology, radiation and the complex relationship between knowledge and deep time. →
A larger program on Nuclear Culture activities will accompany the exhibition, including field trips to nuclear sites with artists, and a roundtable discussion bringing together different experiences and approaches to nuclear aesthetics and politics. Participating artists: James Acord, Shuji Akagi, Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Finger Pointing Worker, Dave Griffiths, Isao Hashimoto, Erika Kobayashi, David Mabb, CĂŠcile Massart, Eva and Franco Mattes, Yelena Popova, Susan Schuppli, Shimpei Takeda, Kota Takeuchi, Thomson & Craighead, Suzanne Treister, Andy Weir, Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Wilson, and Ken + Julia Yonetani.
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 OCTOBER 2017 01.10.2017
RAAAF - THE END OF SITTING Opening
SCHUNCK*
06.10.2017
BEN BENAOUISSE - Opening
SPACE Collection
06.10.2017
WAS MÜSSEN KÜNSTLER KÖNNEN? - Talk
KNRW, Münster
19.10.2017 19:30
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI – WAS IST EIN KOPF / EIN MENSCH UNTER MENSCHEN, D, F, 2000 - Movie Night
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
20.10.2017
LES VAINCUS - Opening
SPACE Collection
21.10.2017
CONTEMPORARY-ART-BUS 2017: VISITING AACHEN
KNRW, Ludwig Forum, NAK
21.10.2017
21. - OPENING
Kunsthaus NRW
NOEMI WEBER / NOBUYUKI OSAKI Opening
Ludwig Forum Aachen
EMMA TALBOT – OPEN THOUGHTS Opening
NAK
19:00
22.10.2017
ROMAIN VAN WISSEN - Artist Talk
IKOB
JENSEITS VON GELD UND MATERIAL - Talk
KNRW, Bochum
14:00
18:30
15:00
21.10.2017 18:00
21.10.2017
17:00
27.10.2017
NOVEMBER 2017 03-05.11.17
GEOMETRY LAB - Workshop
Ludwig Forum Aachen
08.11.2017
DIGITAL GAMES - Opening
Ludwig Forum Aachen
TOM FRÜCHTL, WINNER OF THE DAHLMANN PRIZE 2017, DISCUSSES HIS WORK - Artist Talk
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
FRANÇOISE SAFIN'S CARTE BLANCHE - Opening
La Châtaigneraie
18:00
13.11.2017
BERUFUNG, BERUF, VERRUF – Talk
KNRW, Düsseldorf
16.11.2017
DIS/ORDER - Opening
Ludwig Forum Aachen
BEUYS, D, 2017 - Movie Night
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
NUCLEAR CULTURE ROUND TABLE
Z33
WHOS IS IN THE HOUSE - Director’s Tour
IKOB
25.11.2017
LIZA WOLTERS - NOW IS A DIFFERENT BACK THEN - Opening
SCHUNCK*
25.11.2017
THE POST-INDUSTRIALS: THE SUBCULTURES OF HEERLEN AND SURROUNDING AREAS - Opening
SCHUNCK*
19:00
09.11.2017 19:00
10.11.2017
19:00
16.11.2017 19:30
17.11.2017 10:30
19.11.2017 15:30
Agenda DECEMBER 2017 SAMMLUNG DOHMEN. BEYOND THE BOX / GÜNTHER UECKER – HULDIGUNG AN HAFEZ / HOESCH TALENTS 2017 / JAHRESGABEN MUSEUMSVEREIN DÜREN 2017 - Opening
Leopold-HoeschMuseum
08.12.2017
EX-ZENTRISCH - Talk
KNRW, Kleve
08.12.2017
ARNAUD EUBELEN & LISA MEYER Opening
SPACE Collection
18:30
09.12.2017
BENEFIT AUCTION 2017 - Opening
NAK
BENEFIT AUCTION 2017 - Guided tours
NAK
19:00
16.12.2017
BENEFIT AUCTION 2017 - Auction
NAK
12.01.2018
SELBSTORGANISATION WIDER DER POLIT-OHNMACHT - Talk
KNRW, Essen
20.01.2018
JAN HOEFT / XAVIER MARY - Opening
NAK
THE DUTCH SAVANNAH - Opening
De Domijnen
SOLO’S BY REIN DUFAIT AND ALICE DE MONT - Opening
CIAP
03.12.2017 12:00
19:00
11-14.12.17
19:00
JANUARY 2018
19:00
21.01.2018 13:00
27.01.2018 19:00
27.01.2018
MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARD 202017 - Opening
SCHUNCK*
27.01.2018
SCHRIT_TMACHER_BILDMACHER - GROUP EXHIBITION AROUND CHOREOGRAPHER MICHAEL CLARK - Opening
SCHUNCK*
27.01.2018
FEMMY OTTEN – MURALS - Opening
SCHUNCK*
02.02.2018
KREATION UND KREATIVITÄT - Talk
KNRW, Dortmund
23.02.2018
DIALOG DER TAUBEN - Talk
KNRW, Köln
23.02.2018
AAD DE HAAS - MATCH - Opening
SCHUNCK*
25.02.2018
NEW ARRIVALS III - Opening
SCHUNCK*
WAS ZU TUN IST - Talk
KNRW, Kornelimünster
FEBRUARY 2018
MARCH 2018 16.03.2018
Regular events WEDNESDAYS 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 ZENTIS-DAY - free admission!
Ludwig Forum Aachen
SUNDAYS Every Sunday, 15:00 → 16:00 Guided Tour – on demand in English, French or Dutch and child care with creative program
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 Guided Tour – free admission
Kunsthaus NRW
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50° nord est membre de
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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) KNRW - reflecting 21. - Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann, One Hour Real, 2016 - Installation view Mannesmann-Hochhaus, Düsseldorf, 2017 (c) The artists - Photo: Pascalina Vretinari (editing) Miriam Elebe, ikob (graphic design) Niek Kosten (project management) Marie-Claire Krell – info@verycontemporary.org
www.verycontemporary.org
october 2017 → march 2018