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ues in n e v d n a s n io it Exhib in the rt A ry ra o p m te n Co hine Euregio Maas-R ‘Very Contemporary’ - that is what the exhibitions in the Euregio Maas Rhine are. All of them are listed in this new programme brochure. Along a geographical line that leads from Hasselt in the West to Aachen in the East, art spaces such as the Z33, the Bonnefantenmuseum, the Marres, the Schunck* Glaspaleis, the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein and the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst show contemporary art in unique rooms from an international perspective. The locations are only 40-70 km away from each other. An incentive to get on the road and make a tour through three countries in one day
and visit several institutions at a time. The number of programmes and possibilties is impressive. The locations each have a very individual approach and present art in the most appealing way: direct and inspirational, reflective and in a special atmosphere. An umbrella factory from the 1930s, museal architecture of the 1990s, a converted shopping mall from 1935 or the former Beguinage. Get inspired to get on the road with ‘Very Contemporary’ as your travel guide. Have fun! Dr. Brigitte Franzen, Ludwig Forum Aachen
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Z33 Z33 is a house for contemporary art. Since 2002, Z33 creates projects and exhibitions which encourage the visitor to take a different look at everyday objects. It is a unique laboratory and a meeting place for experiment and innovation that makes groundbreaking exhibitions featuring contemporary art and design. Z33 does not have Z33 its own collection, but has a permanent exhibition offer. Z33 makes exhibitions in their space at the beguinage of Hasselt (Zuivelmarkt 33, hence the name of Z33). Z33 also develops projects in public space and curates projects for external organizations.
Mind the System, Find the Gap 3 June – 30 September 2012 Z33 – Beguinage site (Zuivelmarkt 33, Hasselt) pit Z33 – art in public space Ongoing Borgloon-Heers The Machine – designing a new industrial revolution 3 June – 30 September 2012 Z33 – extra muros C-Mine design spaces, Genk produced by Design Hub Limburg
Photo: Z33 / Kristof Vrancken
Z33 – house for contemporary art Zuivelmarkt 33 Hasselt (BE) T +32 (0) 11 29 59 60 info@z33.be www.z33.be OPEN Tuesday to Saturday 11 am / 6 pm Sunday 2 pm / 5 pm
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SCHUNCK* is a new kind of multidisciplinary cultural institution that aspires to act as a dynamo for a discerning and critical artistic and cultural encounter between local districts and the world at large, within the context of the southern Dutch Euro region. SCHUNCK* assembles a museum of modern and contemporary art, a research and presentation centre for architecture and town planning, a public library and a music school. Combining forces in this way allows SCHUNCK, on the one hand, to function as a ‘site de création’, and as an educational and presentational institute concerned with architecture, visual art and film as well as, and this is a new augmentation, literature, music and dance. On the other hand, SCHUNCK is correspondingly a fully-fledged professional museum thanks to the collections. SCHUNCK* is housed in the Glaspaleis, a unique edifice built by the architect Frits Peutz in 1935 that is included in the uia index of the 1000 most significant architectural monuments of the 20th Century.
Voor eeuwig de jouwe, 17 May – 12 August 2012 An overview over the SCHUNCK* collection of modern and contemporary painting from the 1950ties up to now. Couleur radicaal In het spoor van de Heerlense avant-garde 26 May – 12 August 2012 SCHUNCK* and Marres projects explore together how the universalist principles of modernism have influenced ocal developments, using ‘Heerlen’ as case study. @ Office Villa of Timmerfabriek, Boschstraat 9, 6211 AS Maastricht Eros & Engagement; Louis Paul Boon 24 August – 7 October 2012 Symposium about Flemish journalist and novelist Akerstraat Blues. Fons Haagmans 1 September – 18 November 2012 WK Wielrennen 2012 Cycling @ SCHUNCK* 1 September – 7 October 2012 The Notorious IBE 7-9 September 2012 International breakdance event
Photo: Klaus Tummer
SCHUNCK* Bongerd 18 Heerlen (NL) T +31 (0) 45 577 22 00 info@schunck.nl www.schunck.nl OPEN Seven days a week Exhibitions: Tuesday to Sunday 11 am / 5 pm
Marres Marres initiates exhibitions, lectures, research, publications and projects, rooted in a cultural, philosophical background and a specific interest in the problem of actuality. The relation with the immediate local environment is often employed as a means to refine a more universal agenda in order to produce innovative exhibition models. Marres aims to utilize the eighteenth century aristocratic building in such a manner that the content of the programme is merged with the idea of a residence and its connected intimacy.
PROGRAMME Couleur Radicaal In het spoor van de Heerlense avant-garde 26 May – 12 August 2012 Marres Projects and SCHUNCK* explore together how the universalist principles of modernism have influenced local developments, using ‘Heerlen’ as case study. Based on a series of “memories”, the exhibition traces the trail of the avant-garde in Heerlen.
Including works by Lucebert and Bram van Velde of the CoBrA group, the Amsterdam Limburgers Ger Lataster, Lei Molin and Pieter Defesche, as well as highlights from the collection policy after 1986, including Marlene Dumas, Luc Tuymans and Marc Mulders. Location: Office Villa of the Timmerfabriek, Boschstraat 9, Maastricht. Open: Wednesday to Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. Closed on holidays. Admission: adults €5, students €3, children under 12 & MJK free admission. Also free admission with entrance ticket Marres or SCHUNCK* Sphinxpark 25 March 2012 – 1 July 2013 In collaboration with NAiM/Bureau Europa and REcentre, platform for sustainable design in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion, Marres Projects realizes a temporary park in the inner city of Maastricht. The Sphinxpark addresses various issues, including population decline, urban agriculture and social engagement. Location: Boschstraat 24, Maastricht More information and activities www.landschapinperspectief.nl www.facebook.com/sphinxpark maastricht
Photo: Tineke Kambier
Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture Capucijnenstraat 98 Maastricht (NL) T +31 (0) 43 327 02 07 info@marres.org www.marres.org OPEN Wednesday to Sunday 12 pm / 5 pm
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tenn a f e n n Bo museum ht Maastric The Bonnefantenmuseum is a museum sheltering a collection of old masters, modern and contemporary art, as well as presenting an ongoing temporary exhibitions’program. The building, designed by Italian architect Aldo Rossi, is a splendid addition to the skyline of Maastricht. Featuring the famous TreppenStraße, its undisputed highlight is the cupola; the distinctive tower on the banks of the Maas. Rossi regarded the museum as a ‘viewing factory’. On Tuesdays, you can watch live restoration of ancient art works. You can round off your day at the museum in trendy Ipanema café, enjoying a cup of coffee and a slice of traditional ‘vlaai’ from the best baker in Maastricht. Bonnefanten app Just add art! A simple and fun app where you get to play with art like you never did before. Use your imagination and creativity, take art augmented pictures and share them around. Available for free on iTunes and from the App store.
Martin Visser, collector, designer, free spirit Until 9 September 2012
Half a century of intense involvement with the avant-garde in the fields of art, furniture design and architecture. In collaboration with the Kröller-Müller Museum (NL) Different Impressions, Changing Traditions Until 26 August 2012 Modern painting from the collection of the Central Bank of Turkey. Within the framework of the celebration to mark 400 years of diplomatic relations between The Netherlands and Turkey in 2012. The exhibition aims to introduce to and share with visitors the changes and transformations in Turkish art since the end of the 18th century, and the contributions to new and contemporary art practices. Artists Commuters: Pierre Kemp, Piet Stockmans, Toon Tersas 5 June – 30 September 2012 Three established artists who are deeply rooted in the Euregional heritage of crafts and industry. This exhibition is part of the parallel program of Manifesta 9 in Genk (B).
Photo: Paul Mellaart
Bonnefantenmuseum Avenue Céramique 250 Maastricht (NL) T +31 (0) 43 32 90 190 info@bonnefanten.nl www.bonnefanten.nl OPEN Tuesday to Sunday 11 am / 5 pm
Ludwig Forum Aachen The Ludwig Forum Aachen is a multi-genre house for international contemporary art. Its basis is the art collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig that comprises key works of American Pop Art, Photo Realism and European art from the beginning 1960s to the present. This is the starting point for an attractive exhibition programme that presents both influential positions in the contemporary art scene as well as young artists and thematic exhibitions. A comprehensive educational programme and library are part of the service as well. Since 1983, the biannual Aachen Art Prize has been awarded in the Ludwig Forum. In 2012 the British artist Phyllida Barlow, whose works are characterized by a strong connection to a place, received the prize. The Ludwig Forum itself as an industrial building from 1928 in International Style is a special piece of architecture and witness of the transformation from a place of industrial production to cultural production.
PROGRAMME Phyllida Barlow, BRINK, Aachen Art Prize 2012 13 May – 2 September 2012 Etna Carrara – Villa Romana prize 2011/12 24 June – 2 September 2012 Wolfgang Breuer, Nine Budde, Thomas Kilpper, Henrik Olesen, Sophie Reinhold, Yorgos Sapountzis, Nora Schultz, Rebecca Ann Tess and Vincent Vulsma Deimantas Narkevicius Ausgeträumt 25 August – 28 October 2012 The City, that doesn’t exist – Pictures of global spaces 22 September – 20 January 2013 Tobias Zielony, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Maya Schweizer, Armin Linke, Lidwien van de Ven, Aglaia Konrad, Paolo Pellegrin a.o. Artur Zmijewski Blindly 10 November – 6 January 2012 Ongoing Terrains d’une Collection. From New York to Beijing It’s your choice. Highlights from the Collection LUFONAUTEN. An exhibition for children until April 2013
Photo: Carl Brunn
Ludwig Forum Aachen J端licher Str. 97-109 Aachen (DE) T +49 (0) 241 1807 104 info@ludwigforum.de www.ludwigforum.de OPEN Tuesday to Friday 12 pm / 6 pm Thursday 12 pm / 8 pm Saturday and Sunday 11 am / 6 pm
interests. This twofold autonomy predestines the Kunstverein to be a space for artistic experimentation, where innovative curatorial work can be accomplished without spurious consideration. for political duties or mercantile calculations. In addition, its slender organisational form allows it to react flexibly, quickly and non-bureaucratically to current artistic developments and to actively engage in these.
er u e N er n e h Aac rein e v t Kuns 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. Where the Kunstverein as an institution and its significance is based on a tradition going back more than 200 years, starting in the era of enlightenment as a legacy of the rising bourgeoisie for showing contemporary art and social exchange, NAK was founded in 1986 as a late echo of the 1964 Fluxus festival, with Joseph Beuys and Wolf Vostell as center protagonist at the local university in Aachen. The spirit of this moment has since been source of commitment to contemporary art. NAK is a core institution of the local art scene, but way beyond this, it is also internationally recognised as an innovative platform for contemporary art and its discourse. NAK has the freedom to operate relatively independent in terms of its immediate economical as well as political
PROGRAMME GOLDIN+SENNEBY: I dispense, divide, assign, keep, hold 13 May – 12 August 2012 Finissage: 12 August 2012, 4 pm Aids-3D 2 September – 14 October 2012 Opening: 1 September 2012 For further information please visit our website!
NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein PassstraĂ&#x;e 29 Aachen (DE) T +49 (0) 241 503 255 info@neueraachenerkunstverein.de www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de OPEN Tuesday to Sunday 2 pm / 6 pm
All institutions are participants of the Manifesta 9 Parallel Events program.
Graphic design: Niek Kosten
The publication is supported by the Regio Aachen and the INTERREG Program
We support the candidature of Maastricht and the Euregio to become European Capital of Culture 2018!
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