Amsterdam Light Festival | Open Call

Call for concepts 2017–2018

Deadline Round 1 (curatorial selection) :  31January  2017, 11am CET
Amsterdam Light Festival is an annual light art festival in the Netherlands that presents the rapidly developing concept of light art in all its forms. After five successful editions, the festival will return to Amsterdam’s city center for the 2017–18 edition. From artists to designers, engineers to architects, and professionals to students, the festival invites creators from around the world to submit their creative interpretations of the theme EXISTENTIAL. Amsterdam’s world-renowned canals and various waterfronts offer visitors a unique way to experience multidisciplinary light artworks.
Amsterdam Light Festival presents two exhibitions, following two routes in Amsterdam’s city center, each with its own unique interpretation of the festival’s theme.
Water Colors boat route
Amsterdam Light Festival champions artworks that connect the essential elements of light and people’s EXISTENTIAL needs and dreams, making people more aware of their existential being. For the Water Colors boat route, we are looking for monumental proposals on, above or in the water that connect with the city, its inhabitants, and its visitors.
Illuminade walking route
For the Illuminade walking route, we hope to see beautiful interpretations and installations that bring the EXISTENTIAL qualities of light back to the basics and provide a stage for natural miracles and occurrences. We are looking for artworks that you can touch, walk through, connect with and react to.
Deadlines & schedule 2017
Tuesday, January 31 (11am CET)
Deadline submission round 1—curatorial selection. Late entries are not accepted.
Friday, February 17
Notification whether the curatorial team has selected your submission for round 2 and presentation to the jury.
Friday, March 17, 2017 (11am CET)
Deadline submission round 2—jury selection.
Tuesday, April 4
Announcement of approximately 30 artists selected by the international jury members.
Tuesday, April 18–Friday, April 21
The artists who are selected by the jury visit Amsterdam for the kickoff meeting and site visit (2 days). These dates are subject to change.

Application form  on www.amsterdamlightfestival.com/cfc to request the artist briefing. 
More info >> cfc@amsterdamlightfestival.com

contacts:
Amsterdam Light Festival
Rapenburgerstraat 123
1011 VL Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Ugo Rondinone in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | Rotterdam

Ugo Rondinone in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | Rotterdam

Ugo Rondinone | Vocabulary of Solitude
February 13–May 29, 2016 
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam |The Netherlands

 

Ugo Rondinone, Vocabulary of solitude. sleep, 2014. 

Clown costume, masker, live performance. Collection of the artist. 

photocredit:  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

This spring the magical world of artist Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964, Switzerland, lives and works in New York) will be present at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, during the Art Rotterdam Week. The artist will bring together new and existing works in a large installation like a colour spectrum revealing the various facets of existence. Forty-five life-size clown sculptures will form the centrepiece of Vocabulary of Solitude, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands.

On the floor of the 1500m2 Bodon Galleries visitors will see forty-five life-size sculptures of passive and contemplative clowns, each named after an everyday activity: dream, sleep, yawn, read, cook. Together they describe by artist a person’s solitary day at home. The clown sculptures have never previously been exhibited and will be transported directly to Rotterdam from Rondinone’s studio in New York.

 

 Ugo Rondinone, vierzehnterseptemberzweitausendundfünfzehn, 2015. 

Acryl on canvas, 520 x 270 cm. Collection of the artist

 photocredit:  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Rainbows is an installation includes half mandala paintings created with an airbrush technique. The optical effect of the large rainbow bands of colour makes them dance before your eyes. The large window of the Bodon Galleries will be covered with a filter in all the colours of the rainbow, creating an intense colourful glow throughout the garden gallery. The rainbow theme continues in thousands of drawings by children: young artists who have responded to the artist’s request for help in creating a 4 x 30 metre wall of rainbow drawings.

 

 Ugo Rondinone, The Eighteenth Hour of the Poem, 2007. 

Wax and pigments, 140 x 82 x 82 cm. Artist's collection.

  photocredit:  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Ugo Rondinone -  one of the world’s leading visual artists, has an Italian origin , born in Brunnen, Switzerland in 1964, currenty based in New York since 1998. He studied at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunstin in Vienna. Earlier on in his career  Rondinone has collaborated  with Austrian performance artist Hermann Nitsch. He came to international attention during the 1990s with his installations by sculpture, painting, video, sound and photography. Rondinone represented Switzerland at the 52th Venice Biennale in 2007. He has been the curator of the exhibitions The Third Mind at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2007) and The Spirit Level at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York (2012). He had major solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the Kunsthalle Wien , Palais Tokyo, Museum Leuven in Belgium . The work of Ugo Rondinone is represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber (Zürich), Barbara Gladstone Gallery (New York – Brussels), Galerie Almine Rech (Paris – Brussels), Sadie Coles HQ (London) and Galerie Esther Schipper (Berlin).

 

 Ugo Rondinone, Still. Life, 2013. 

Bronze, and lead paint, 12.5 x 14 x 12.5 cm. Artist's collection

  photocredit:  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Ugo Rondinone : “Good art revolutionizes your whole being. It is something that stops you, or slows you down.”


practical info:
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museumpark 18-20
3015 CX Rotterdam
The Netherlands
www.boijmans.nl

NE©XT Accelerator RESIDENCY

NE©XT Accelerator RESIDENCY

Deadline for Applications: 20 January 2016
Programme Dates: 1 April – 30 June 2016

During the Netherlands Presidency of the Council of the European Union, ELIA is hosting a Residency for Emerging Artists.As part of the NE©XT Accelerator project, ELIA is looking for 5 talented emerging artists for a special residency in Amsterdam for a period of 3 months (1 April – 30 June 2016).The selected artists receive free accommodation and travel costs for the period of time indicated and will be joining the project Europe by People.
What does ELIA Offers?
 - Accommodation in Amsterdam for a period of 3 months, between 1 April and 30 June 2016;
 - Travel costs from and to any city in Europe for the 5 selected artists;
 - Access to the project Europe by People, The Future of Everyday Living will look into contemporary social issues through arts and design.
 - An international multidisciplinary platform for the artists to work with professionals, educational institutions and students;
 - Mentoring from an international group of experts in all artistic disciplines, which will support the artists in their creative and career development;
 - Freedom to develop an artistic process or project in the context offered.
The Artists’ Profile
ELIA is looking for talented emerging artists recently graduated from a higher arts institution (preferably an ELIA member institution) in any artistic discipline.
Apply
If you are interested, please send a motivation letter and a CV/Portfolio to Barbara Revelli at barbara.revelli@elia-artschools.org

Melanie Bonajo with "Night Soil / Economy of Love" @AKINCI gallery |Amsterdam

  Melanie Bonajo Night Soil / Economy of Love, 

2015, still, HD video, 36 min

photo credit : AKINCi gallery and the artists

AKINCI is proud to announce Melanie Bonajo's first solo show, Night Soil / Economy of Love, with a lush and sensuous opening on Saturday 12th of September 5 - 7 pm, followed by a psychedelic concert by Bonajo's music duo Z▲Z▲Z◎Z◎ in OT301 8 pm.

This festive opening will be accompanied by the presentation of Melanie Bonajo's newest book, 'Matrix Botanica, numero 1 - Non-Human Persons,' designed by Experimental Jetset and published by Capricious Publishing, New York.

 

The enticing title Night Soil / Economy of Love refers to Bonajo's (1978, NL) newest film in her trilogy Night Soil. Whereas the first part of the trilogy, Night Soil / Fake Paradise (2014), explores the cultural affect of hallucinogens and human connection to nature, Night Soil / Economy of Love (2015) portrays a Brooklyn-based movement of female sex workers, regarding their work as a way for women to reclaim power in a male-dominated pleasure zone; their mission being to rearrange sexual conventions and ideas about intimacy itself. Vivid imagery is accompanied by a spoken score, revealing Bonajo's vision on contemporary spirituality and expectations surrounding gender roles by playful, sensual, and feminist-driven means. In a world where a swipe to the right on a smartphone can grant access to supermarket sex, where social media tend to create an alternate form of loneliness, and where we are increasingly disconnected from the physical world, Bonajo questions the complex relationships that exist within and without the natural world, challenging the traditional notions that divide nature, people, and technology. She looks to environmental activism and, in particular, how that activism is leveraged illegally against global capitalism.

 

Besides the world premiere of Night Soil / Economy of Love, Bonajo shows an overview of her ever-growing series of photographs based on actions and performance. Some mysteriously endearing, some refreshingly provocative, these photographs depict human's attitude to nature, environmental conditions and transformative power structures. In her work, Bonajo examines the paradoxes inherent to ideas of comfort with a strong sense for community, equality, and body-politics. Through her videos, performances, photographs and installations, she studies subjects related to how technological advances and commodity-based pleasures increase feelings of alienation, removing a sense of belonging in an individual. Captivated by concepts of the divine, Bonajo explores the spiritual emptiness of her generation, examines peoples’ shifting relationship with nature and tries to understand existential questions by reflecting on our domestic situation, ideas around classification, concepts of home, gender and attitudes towards value.

  Melanie Bonajo  Dream Station Space, 2013, installtion and performance

 photo credit : AKINCi gallery and the artists

 

Bonajo's work has been exhibited and performed in international art institutions, such as De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Moscow Biennale; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, and PPOW Gallery, New York. Her films have been screened at festivals such as the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and the Berlinale. In 2012 she initiated the collective Genital International, which tackles subjects around feminism, participation, equality, our Earth, ‘Politics beyond Polarity’ and ‘Revolution through Relaxation.' Bonajo has contributed to several art magazines, was creative editor of Capricious Magazine, and curated various shows, such as the QQC Performance Festival about pop music in visual arts at the Paradiso, Amsterdam. She published several books, including: Modern Life of the Soul, I Have a Room with Everything, Spheres and Furniture Bondage. In 2013 she released an album with her band Z▲Z▲Z◎Z◎ called Inua. Bonajo studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and completed residencies at a.o. ISCP in New York (2014) and the  Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam (2009-10). She lives and works in Amsterdam and New York.
 

LIJNBAANSGRACHT 317 • NL–1017 WZ AMSTERDAM • T +31(0)20 6380480 • INFO@AKINCI.NL • WWW.AKINCI.NL

Mark Rothko @GEMEENTEMUSEUM DEN HAAG until 1st of March 2015

Mark Rothko @GEMEENTEMUSEUM DEN HAAG 

runs until 1 March 2014

From rosy pink and jubilant yellow to bright blue to sombre black – face one of the vast canvases created by Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and you feel yourself being sucked into his world. Constructed layer upon shimmering layer, his colour fields are of unparalleled intensity and communicate universal human emotions such as fear, ecstasy, grief and euphoria. Rothko was an intensely committed painter who invested his whole being in his art and, like many other great artists, led a difficult life. Deeply disillusioned by the two world wars and plagued by depression, he was a tormented soul, yet capable of producing great art with an enduring capacity to comfort and enthral. These days, exhibitions of the American artist’s work are huge crowd-pullers and his paintings fetch record sums at auction. The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is proud to present a new exhibition of Rothko’s work, opening this September, forty years after the last such show in the Netherlands. A unique chance to enjoy Rothko’s work, this exhibition will be held only in The Hague and nowhere else. 

 

 Untitled, 1970, acryllic on canvas Mark Rothko

photo credit : Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Rothko owed his worldwide fame to the ‘classic style’ painting’ he adopted in the 1950s. Interaction with the viewer was of great importance to Rothko. He felt that, for both the artist and the public, an overwhelming emotional experience was the most sublime form of inspiration, bordering on the spiritual. ‘The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.’ Rothko was not the first abstract artist to attach importance to the spiritual aspect of art; artists like Mondrian and Kandinsky had also seen their work as a spiritual exercise. But he was the first to give pride of place to emotion, at a time when abstract art was still fairly impersonal.

 

 Mark Rothko (1903-1970), Untitled / Zonder titel, 1953, gemengde techniek op doek, 195 x 172,1 cm,

 National Gallery of Art, Washington – schenking The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2014

In addition to a host of Rothko’s ‘classic style’ paintings, this exhibition will include examples of the rather less frequently exhibited early work. Recent research on Rothko’s transitional period shows that he moved towards full abstraction via a kind of Fauve-like Realism and a highly personal form of Surrealism. As home to the world’s greatest collection of work by Mondrian – an artist renowned for the unequalled lucidity of his own path towards abstraction – the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is the ideal place to show the development in Rothko’s work. Although Rothko was dismayed when one art critic called his work ‘blurry Mondrians’, he was indeed to some extent influenced by the Dutch artist. Speaking with his use of colour in mind, Rothko went so far as to say that Mondrian was the most sensual artist he knew. The exhibition will spotlight both the similarities and the differences in the artistic development of the two leading first and second generation pioneers of abstract art. It will also throw light on the differences between European and American abstract art, in particular in terms of format and composition.

 Untitled, 1968, acrylic on paper Mark Rothko,

photo credit: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Mark Rothko (born Marcus Rothkowitz) was of Russian Jewish origin but grew up in America from the age of ten. Nothing in his background or family seems to have predestined him to become an artist. Indeed, he discovered his bent for painting only relatively late and more or less accidentally. He took some courses but always regarded himself as essentially self-taught. The last years of his life were overshadowed by mental health problems. His palette became ever darker and more sombre. In 1970 he took his own life. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a lavishly illustrated catalogue containing essays by Joost Zwagerman, Franz-W. Kaiser, Harry Cooper and other writers. The book will also include an interesting interview with art historian Henk van Os, who was a regular visitor to Mark Rothko’s studio during the final months of the artist’s life.

practical info and contacts: 
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag |Stadhouderslaan 41| 2517 HV Den Haag Open today 11.00 - 17.00
http://www.gemeentemuseum.nl/en/admission-times-and-charges

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The exhibition is sponsored by the Turing Foundation.

Note to editors: Further information available from Brigitte Timmermans at the Press Office, +31 70 338 11 37 / +31 6 41 22 97 72, btimmermans@gemeentemuseum.nl

THE VALUE OF NOTHING @ TENT | ROTTERDAM

THE VALUE OF NOTHING @ TENT | ROTTERDAM
04.09.2014 - 16.11.2014


On Thursday 4 September, TENT Rotterdam opens The Value of Nothing with five newly commissioned projects, a group exhibition, Fieldwork Residencies, and an in-depth public program in which local and international artists reflect on our current economies and value systems. The Value of Nothing is curated by Jesse van Oosten (TENT) and Michel van Dartel (independent curator, V2_).

The Value of Nothing springs from long-term research initiated by TENT into shifts in thinking about value and economy, and the role that art can play therein. In the aftermath of the global economic crisis increasingly urgent questions arise that are related to neoliberal values seeping into almost every aspect of our lives. In addition to the known financial and economic criteria, can we articulate different ideas about the concept of value? What are other possible forms of economic exchange? And what do these alternatives mean for how value manifests itself?

image:Priscila Fernandes, For a Better World, 2012;

photocredit:TENT,Rotterdam

The Value of Nothing presents artists who contribute to the current debate on the commercialization of society, expose the underlying mechanisms, or propose alternative strategies. They reveal value beyond the mainstream market, like Jeanne van Heeswijk’s project in Rotterdam’s Afrikaanderwijk district, or show that trade in a global economy also means non-monetary cultural exchange, as in Meschac Gaba’s artistic currency exchange bureau. Others, such as Remco Torenbosch, immerse themselves in the beauty and philosophical idea behind the distribution of goods, or like Paolo Cirio, deliver concrete possibilities for dodging tax.

The Value of Nothing brings together artistic practices and projects that reflect our current economies and value systems, or that focus on possible alternatives. Meschac Gaba, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Jonas Lund, Helmut Smits and Remco Torenbosch present newly commissioned works. Gil & Moti, Weronika Zielinska, Roel Roscam Abbing, Kym Ward and Oblique International will each participate in a Fieldwork Residency at a Rotterdam-based company or organization. They will each develop a proposal that deals with the values held or produced by the organisation, such as its hospitality to outsiders, equality on the workfloor, or success criteria. The proposals will be presented in TENT during Fieldwork Friday, on 3 and 24 October. In addition, on 16 October and 13 November, curator and writer Nat Muller organises Breaking the Bank: a two-part event in which academics, journalists, and other practitioners explore how art, value and the global economy are interrelated. In a research project, Erasmus University College students will discuss and explore the exhibition’s topics. The Rotterdam architecture firm ZUS designed objects that serve as a stage for the public program.

Public program
Opening :Thursday 4 September, 17h

Fieldwork Friday 
Friday 3 October, 17h
Artist talks by Roel Roscam Abbing, Gil & Moti, and Kym Ward
With responses by philosopher Karim Benammar, NetExpert, and VS Schoonmaak BV

Breaking the Bank I: Art, Value and the Global Economy
Thursday 16 October, 20h
First of a two-part event led by Nat Muller in which academics, artists and journalists scrutinise the relationships between art, value, and global economy. With, amongst others, writers/artists Alana Jelinek (This is Not Art: Activism and Other 'Not-Art', 2013) and Anna Moreno.

Fieldwork Friday
Friday 24 October, 17h
Artist talks by Weronika Zielinska, Oblique International
With responses by journalist Koen Haegens, Hotel Van Walsum, and Marco Tieleman Coaching

TENT Halloween – a night to remember
Friday 31 October

Breaking the Bank II: Art, Value and the Global Economy
Thursday 13 November, 20h
Second part of the event led by Nat Muller in which academics, artists and journalists scrutinise the relationships between art, value, and global economy. With, amongst others, noted journalist Georgina Adam (Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century, 2014)

ARTISTS
MESCHAC GABA// JEANNE VAN HEESWIJK// IRATXE JAIO + KLAAS VAN GORKUM// PRISCILA FERNANDES// HELMUT SMITS// GIL & MOTI// OBLIQUE INTERNATIONAL// KYM WARD// ROEL ROSCAM ABBING// WERONIKA ZIELINSKA// ANTONIA HIRSCH// PAOLO CIRIO// JONAS STAAL// CLAIRE FONTAINE// BILL BALASKAS// REMCO TORENBOSCH// JONAS LUND// ZUS


The Value of Nothing is made possible by: Stichting DOEN, SNS REAAL Fonds, and Mondriaan Fund
Thanks to: NetExpert, Hotel Van Walsum, VS Schoonmaakbedrijf BV, Marco Tieleman Coaching

Along with the The Value of Nothing, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art concurrently opens the exhibition Dai Hanzhi: 5000 Artists. The building remains open until 23:00h.

practical info
TENT Rotterdam
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012BR Rotterdam
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11–18h
T +31104135498
www.tentrotterdam.nl

Art Rotterdam 2014

ART ROTTERDAM 2014 
5 - 9 february 2014

The 15th edition of Art Rotterdam will be celebrated at a new location: the Van Nellefabriek. In this location, all sections of the fair are under one roof: Main, New Art and Projections; the second edition of the innovative video section. Around the Van Nellefabriek there are numerous pop-up shows and artist presentations.
During Art Rotterdam the city is once again bubbling with energy, with side fairs, pop-up shows, open studios and beautiful museum exhibitions. Between the Van Nellefabriek, the Museum quarter and the Wilhelminapier will operate free shuttle buses.

image: art rotterdam 2013 :

photocredit: art rotterdam , art news bulletin

ART ROTTERDAM 2015
OPENING HOURS
Wednesday February 5, 2014 Opening (by invitation) : 18.00 - 22.00 hrs 
Thursday February 6, 2014 11.00 - 19.00 hrs
Friday February 7, 2014     12.00 - 21.00 hrs
Saterday February 8, 2014  11.00 - 19.00 hrs
Sunday February 9, 2014    11.00 - 19.00 hrs

THE GALLERIES AT ART ROTTERDAM 2014 
MAIN SECTION
acb Gallery (HU) | AD Gallery (GR) | Akinci (NL) | Paul Andriesse (NL) | Edel Assanti (UK) | Willem Baars Art Consultancy (NL) | Anita Beckers (DE) | van den Berge (NL) | Boetzelaer - Nispen (NL) | Canvas International Art (NL) | C&H art space (NL) | Kristof De Clercq gallery (BE) | Cokkie Snoei (NL) | CultClub (NL) | dépendance (BE) | Feldbuschwiesner (DE) | Flatland Gallery (NL) | Galerie Fortlaan 17 (BE) | Galerie van Gelder (NL) | Grimm (NL) | Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art (NL) | Gerhard Hofland (NL) | Horton Gallery (USA) | Juliette Jongma (NL) | Kisterem (HU) | Klemm's (DE) | Van Kranendonk (NL) | Martin Kudlek (DE) | Maurits van de Laar (NL) | Wouter van Leeuwen (NL) | Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL) | LhGWR (NL) | Lumen Travo (NL) | Lutz (NL) | Ron Mandos (NL) | Galerie Mazzoli (DE) | Kunsthandel Meijer (NL) | Kai Middendorff Galerie (DE) | Galerie van der Mieden (BE) | Mummery + Schnelle (UK) | Nouvelles Images (NL) | Onrust (NL) | Ornis A. Gallery (NL) | Parrotta Contemporary Art (DE) | La Galerie Particulière (F) | PHOEBUS Rotterdam (NL) | Jérôme Poggi (FR) | RAM (NL) | Galerie Ramakers (NL) | RR reutengalerie (NL) | Gabriel Rolt (NL) | Rotwand (CH) | Jette Rudolph Gallery (DE) | Hidde van Seggelen Gallery (UK) | Barbara Seiler (CH) | Seventeen Gallery (UK) | Slewe (NL) | Stigter van Doesburg (NL) | tegenboschvanvreden (NL) | Tenderpixel (UK) | TORCH (NL) | TRAPÉZ (HU) | Upstream (NL) | VIVID (NL) | Vous etes ici (NL) | Wagemans (NL) | Fons Welters (NL) | West (NL) | Works|Projects (UK) | Martin van Zomeren (NL) |
NEW ART SECTION
Samy Abraham (FR) | Peter Amby Gallery (DK) | Rolando Anselmi (DE) | Apice for Artists (NL) | Base-Alpha Gallery (BE) | marion de cannière (BE) | Conradi (DE) | D + T Project Gallery (BE) | Galerie Dix9 (FR) | Future Gallery (DE) | Herrmann Germann Contemporary (CH) | Grimmuseum (DE) | Galerie Rianne Groen (NL) | Gypsum Gallery (EG) | KANT (DK) | Elaine Levy Project (BE) | Meessen De Clercq (BE) | Misako & Rosen (JP) | Galerie Tatjana Pieters (BE) | Joey Ramone (NL) | Niklas Schechinger Fine Art (DE) | Schwarz Contemporary (DE) | Maria Stenfors (UK) | xpo gallery (FR) | ZERP Galerie (NL) |
PROJECTIONS
Miguel Angel Rios - Akinci (NL) | JODI - Bergarde Galleries (NL) | Erkka Nissinen - Ellen de Bruijne Projects (NL) | Mary Reid Kelley - Pilar Corrias (UK) | Nicoline Harskamp - D + T Project Gallery (BE) | HeeWon Lee - Galerie Dix9 (FR) | Danica Dakic - Gandy gallery (SK) | Ruben Bellinkx - Geukens De Vil (BE) | Jacco Olivier - Galerie Ron Mandos (NL) | Les Schliesser - Mirko Mayer / m-projects (DE) | Yuki Okimura - Misako & Rosen (JP) | Melanie Bonajo - MK Award | Margaret Salmon - Office Baroque Gallery (BE) | Priscila Fernandes - RAM (NL) | Adriana Arroyo - Galerie Gabriel Rolt (NL) | Fernando Sánchez Castillo - tegenboschvanvreden (NL) | Rehana Zaman - Tenderpixel ((UK) | Frank Ammerlaan - Upstream Gallery (NL) | Yang Ah Ham - Van Zijll Langhout (NL)

ART ROTTERDAM
Van Nellefabriek
Van Nelleweg 1
3044BC Rotterdam

www.artrotterdam.com

ART ROTTERDAM 2013

*2012 - Pieterjan Ginckels - HUMAN DISCO BONG - Photo Romy Finke
Over the past years Art Rotterdam, founded in 2000, has developed into an internationally renowned platform for contemporary art. The fair, that will present more than ninety well-known

as well as upcoming galleries from home and abroad, shows the latest developments within 

contemporary art. This edition Art Rotterdam expands with a fair for video art and film: Art 

Rotterdam Projections. In Las Palmas, directly opposite the Cruise Terminal, twenty international 

galleries present  a video or a film by a talented young or more well-known artist. The 2013 edition 

further includes, like last year, the New Art Section; fifteen exciting solo exhibitions by young 

artists that are put on the stage by the newest generation of galleries.

From Thursday 7 - Sunday 

10 February 2013 the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam is the stage of the international art scene.

Focused artist: Pieterjan Ginckels with Human Disco Bong


At Art Rotterdam Human Disco Bong by Pieterjan Ginckels is on show at the central staircase.
Human Disco Bong is an installation of hundred twenty bicycle helmets with tens of thousands of
mirror pieces sticked on and made to one large organic object. Ginckels, a young Belgian artist,
creates, with a sense of humor as well as seriousness, an intelligent oeuvre that plays with the
elements of its time: internet, spam, electronic music, fixed gear bikes and slow coffee. ‘Families’ of works, as he calls it; multi layered- installations with strong interactive aspects that function as a
generator for metaphors in sound and image. At set times Human Disco Bong comes alive. When
wearing the helmets, individual tracks of artists, gallery holders and visitors are highlighted.
'Verwoest Huis Bloemhof' by Marjan Teeuwen
Visual artist Marjan Teeuwen (1953) creates ‘destroyed houses’, architectural installations in
buildings that later are demolished. Teeuwen realized the installation ‘Verwoest Huis Bloemhof’ in
Rotterdam in five empty 4-room houses from Woonstad Rotterdam, on the Putsebocht. For a single photo or film, Teeuwen breaks, demolishes, saws and rebuilds for months on end until a whole new architectural installation is created. During Art Rotterdam ‘Verwoest Huis Bloemhof’ can be visited free of charge.
Every 30 minutes a complimentary shuttle bus is available between Art Rotterdam, RAW Art Fair and Verwoest Huis Bloemhof (Putsebocht 58-60, Rotterdam).
The documented final result is for sale at Art Rotterdam, at the booth of Galerie RAM. Fair director Fons Hof Fons Hof (1966), former gallery holder of Galerie Hof & Huyser in Amsterdam, is the director of Art Rotterdam: "The Art Rotterdam fair is a constant factor in the yearly agenda of all European collectors of young contemporary art. To further strengthen our international reputation we have introduced Art Rotterdam Projections. The first fair for film and video in the world, in an open and interactive setting. Art Rotterdam Projections will be the international meeting place for
connoisseurs, collectors and curators of film and video art".
ART ROTTERDAM 2013 GALLERIES:

MAIN SECTION
0gms (BG) | acb Gallery (HU) | Akinci (NL) | Paul Andriesse (NL) | Anyspace (BE) | Willem Baars Art Consultancy (NL) | Albert Baronian (BE) | van den Berge (NL) | Johan Berggren (SE) | Boetzelaer - Nispen (NL) | | Brand New Gallery (IT) | Cokkie Snoei (NL) | Cosar HMT (DE) | dépendance (BE) | Galerie Dix9 (FR) | De Expeditie (NL) | Flatland Gallery (NL) | Fruit and Flower Deli (SE) | Grimm (NL) | Juliette Jongma (NL) | Kisterem (HU) | van Krimpen (NL) | Wouter van Leeuwen (NL) | Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL) | Lumen Travo (NL) | Luttgenmeijer (DE) | Ron Mandos (NL) | Alessandro de March (IT) | Kunsthandel Meijer (NL) | Kai Middendorff Galerie (DE) | Meessen De Clercq (BE) | van der Mieden (BE) | MOT International (UK) | Neue Alte Brucke (DE) | Office Baroque (BE) | Onrust (NL) | P74 Gallery (SI) | Phoebus Rotterdam (NL) | RAM (NL) | Ramakers (NL) | Reuten Galerie (NL) | David Risley Gallery (DK) | Rokeby (UK) | Gabriel Rolt (NL) | Rotwand (CH) | Schau Ort (CH) | Slewe (NL) | Sommer & Kohl (DE) | sorry we're closed (BE) | Barbara Seiler (CH) | Stigter van Doesburg (NL) | tegenboschvanvreden (NL) | Tenderpixel (UK) | TORCH (NL) | Upstream (NL) | Van Zijll Langhout / Contempoary Art (NL) | Vilma Gold (UK) | VIVID (NL) | Vous etes ici (NL) | Fons Welters (NL) | West (NL) | Martin van Zomeren (NL) |
NEW ART SECTION
Samy Abraham (FR) | Rolando Anselmi (DE) | Apice for Artists (NL) | Base-Alpha Gallery (BE) | Figge von Rosen Galerie (DE) | Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art (NL) | Emmanuel Hervé (FR) | Klemm's (DE) | Martin Kudlek (DE) | Nettie Horn (UK) | Ricou Gallery (BE) | Federica Schiavo Gallery (IT) | Torri (FR) | waterside contemporary (UK) | Works|Projects (UK) 
PROJECTIONS
Jan van de Pavert - Paul Andriesse (NL) | Stefan Constantinescu - Anita Beckers (DE) | Benoit Plateus - Albert Baronian (BE) | Erkka Nissinen - Ellen de Bruijne Projects (NL) | Sam Curtis - Division of Labour (UK) | Sophia Pompéry - Galerie Dix9 (FR) | Michael Joaquin Grey - Carroll Fletcher (UK) | Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - van Gelder (NL) | Meiro Koizumi - Annet Gelink Gallery (NL) | Josephine Meckseper - Reinhard Hauff (DE) | Johanna Billing - Hollybush Gardens (UK) | Christian Friedrich - Wilfried Lentz (NL) | Hans Op de Beeck - Ron Mandos (NL) | Carlos Irijalba - Galerie Sherin Najjar (DE) | Hajnal Németh - RAM (NL) | Harm Weistra - Joey Ramone (NL) | Keren Cytter - Schau Ort (CH) | Antonio Vega Macotela - Stigter van Doesburg (NL) | Navid Nuur - Martin van Zomeren (NL) |


Art Rotterdam & Art Rotterdam Projections 2013
Cruise Terminal and Las Palmas, the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam
Thursday  7 – Sunday 10 February 2013
Opening hours: Thu 7 Feb 12.00 - 18.00 hrs., Fri 8 Feb 12.00 - 21.00 hrs.,
Sat 9 & Sun 10 Feb 11.00 - 19.00 hrs. 
www.artrotterdam.com