This could be Rotterdam or anywhere

This weekend in Charlois Rotterdam

More than 100 artists from inside and outside Rotterdam show their work in performances and exhibitions. In special locations in the harbor area of Charlois Rotterdam. LINK kunstweekendcharlois (site in Dutch)

The Red Tulip Film Festival

The Red Tulip Film Festival is organized to attract the attention to the cultural profoundness and to the modern face of Turkey via professional cultural discipline and to strengthen the relationship between the two countries via cinema in the international film festival center of the Netherlands, Rotterdam. Rode Tulp Film Festival (RTFF), 

Hollanda’nın uluslararası sinema festivalleri merkezi Rotterdam’da, Türkiye’nin çağdaş yüzüne, kültürel birikimine, profesyonel bir kültür disipliniyle dikkat çekmek, iki ülke arasındaki kültürel bağları sinema aracılığıyla güçlendirmek ve sürdürülebilir olmasını sağlamak amacıyla tasarlanmıştır. RTFF, Hollanda’da 400 bini aşkın nüfusuyla Türkiyelilerin kendi aralarındaki bağı da güçlendiren “kültürel bir randevu” olurken, Türk sinemasının sesini dünyaya Rotterdam’dan duyuracak özel bir etkinlik olmayı hedeflemiştir. 
LINK rtff  LINK lantarenvenster

Exiting Production

Book 

Art: Fabienne van Maanen 
Organisation: Alicyn Henning 
Design and Binding: Dolf Pauw

Limitid edition

Joachim Koester

The Place of Dead Roads

23 May - 17 August 2014


@ Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève

The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève presents The Place of Dead Roads, a solo exhibition by Joachim Koester featuring a new video installation, coproduced by the Centre, and an extensive collection of photographic works undertaken between 2003 and 2012.
 Using video, 16mm film, installation and photography, Koester's work explores those troubled interzones between conscious and unconscious, the occult and the rational. The body and the notion of performance are recurring themes in his work. Koester is a conceptual, experimental artist who dramatizes the human body and creates a language of movement and gestures that evoke questions of trance and possession. 
Joachim Koester's exhibition at the Centre will feature a new video, surrounded by a huge installation in the form of tunnels and rooms made out of fragments of wood and occupying one whole floor of the building. Shot inside the installation, the film uses codes borrowed from the Western and presents four characters whose expressions and gestures suggest a ritualized duel…  Joachim Koester is an artist born in 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Curator: Andrea Bellini, director of the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. LINK centre

Exiting

Design dolf pauw

Coming soon a project from Alicyn Henning and Dolf Pauw

Sareri Hovin Mermen

Armenian Music 
Zulal A Cappella
LINK

Do you remember (1) ?

Europe The Final countdown

"The Final Countdown" is a song by the Swedish band Europe, released in 1986. Written by Joey Tempest, it was the first single from the band's third studio album which was also named The Final Countdown. The song reached No. 1 in 25 countries including the United Kingdom, and was certified gold in the United Kingdom in 1986. In the United States the song peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 18 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. The song was based on a keyboard riff that Joey Tempest had written as early as 1981 - 82. on a Korg Polysix keyboard he borrowed from keyboardist Mic Michaeli. In 1985, bassist John Levén suggested that Tempest should write a song based on that riff. Tempest recorded a demo version of the song and played it for the other band members. At first the members expressed mixed reactions to it. "When I first heard the synth intro to 'The Final Countdown', my reaction was: 'No, this is nuts. We just can't use this,'" guitarist John Norum said, "Thank God they didn't listen to me." "Some of the guys in the band thought it was too different for a rock band, "Tempest said, "But in the end I fought hard to make sure it got used." The song's lyrics were inspired by David Bowie's song "Space Oddity". The sound of the keyboard riff used in the recording was achieved by using a Yamaha TX-816 rack unit and a Roland JX-8P synthesizer. "I made a brassy sound from the JX-8P and used a factory sound from the Yamaha, and just layered them together," Michaeli said. When it was time to choose the first single from the album The Final Countdown, Tempest suggested the song "The Final Countdown". Originally the band had never planned to release the song as a single, and some members wanted "Rock the Night" to be the first single. "The Final Countdown" was written to be an opening song for concerts, and they never thought it would be a hit. But when their record company Epic Records suggested that it should be the first single, the band decided to release it. LINK Youtube

Cedric Price

Cedric Price (1934 - 2003) was one of the most influential and visionary architects of the late-twentieth century, focusing on time-based urban interventions and flexible or adaptable projects that invited the user’s participation. His implicit criticism of contemporary notions of architecture earned Price heroic status among fellow architects such as Will Alsop, Archigram, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas, and Bernard Tschumi. Fun Palace is Cedric Price’s most celebrated work. Whether characterised as a giant toy or as a building-sized transformable machine, the project’s interest resides in its radical reliance on structure and technology, its exemplification of notions of time-based and anticipatory architecture. With Fun Palace, Price addressed social and political issues that go far beyond the typical bounds of architecture. LINK designmuseum

Adriaen Coorte

Dutch still-life painter, active around Middelburg. Nothing is known of his life, and his work was completely forgotten for more than two centuries after his death. Only a handful of paintings by him survive, but they show him to have been one of the most individual still-life painters of his time. They are the complete opposite of the lavish pieces by such celebrated contemporaries as Jan van Huysum and Rachel Ruysch, for they are small in scale and depict a few humble objects, characteristically placed on a bare ledge. The intensity of his scrutiny is such, however, that they take on something of the mystical quality of the still lifes of Sánchez Cotán or Zurbarán, and the hovering butterfly that Coorte sometimes incorporates in his work may have allegorical significance. One of his favourite subjects was a bundle of asparagus (examples in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Fitzwilliam Mus., Cambridge; and the Ashmolean Mus., Oxford). 
LINK Rijksmuseum AMS

Nice Decor and Song

The Common Linnets

Congratulations LINK eurovision.tv

Joris van der Ploeg

@ LOADED in Loods 6 and SBK 
may 30 - june 3   2014

Joris van der Ploeg (1989) discovered his passion for photography at the Photoacademy in Amsterdam. He is fascinated by girls in their development towards womanhood. He photographs them when they are younger because they are more innocent, naïve, complex and unfathomable during this time. He sees it as something beautiful, exciting, exceptional, and vulnerable and therefor treats it with a certain amount of passion, love, care, attention and concentration. His photo's are very pure, mystical, unrefined and seemingly natural, 
The emphasis is on the natural beauty of the models and having them completely surrender into the moment, thus making them unreachable. LINK loaded LINK jorisvanderploeg

Here Africa / Ici l'afrique

Here Africa / Ici l'afrique assembles, for the first time in Switzerland, contemporary African art with more than 70 works by 24 artists from 17 African countries. The exhibition is hosted in the premises of the Château de Penthes, Geneva-Pregny, located in the area of United Nations and the international organizations. Originally from Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa, some residing in Africa while others in the diasporas and coming from different generations, the participating artists and filmmakers are interesting for their great contribution to the aesthetic and cultural development of their continent, as well as for their involvement in key questions regarding African people.

The participating artists and filmmakers* are: Omar Ba (Senegal), Faouzi Bensaïdi* (Morocco), Filipe Branquinho (Mozambique), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), Edson Chagas (Angola), Romuald Hazoumè (Benin), Pieter Hugo (South Africa), Adelita Husni-Bey (Libya), Nadia Kaabi-Linke (Tunisia), Gonçalo Mabunda (Mozambique), Mustafa Maluka (South Africa), Abu Bakarr Mansaray (Sierra Leone), J.D.'Okhai Ojeikere (Nigeria), Joshua Okoromodeke (Nigeria), Richard Onyango (Kenya), Idrissa Ouédraogo* (Burkina Faso), Chéri Samba (Congo), Sarkis & Guem & Perdrix (France-Benin), Zineb Sedira (Algeria), Yinka Shonibare MBE (UK/Nigeria), Malick Sidibé (Mali), Abderrahmane Sissako* (Mauritania), Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroon), and Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon). LINK hereafrica

Philip Akkerman

for sale @ catawiki (sold)

Beautiful screen print by 
Philip Akkerman 

Signed 
Edition 29/50, 
40 x 34 cm.
LINK catawiki

THE NEW COLLECTION BUILDING and The Friends of the Park

The development of an open depot building for Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in the centre of Rotterdam is a great chance to intensify the experience of the city. Additionally it offers the museum an extra chance to raise its international profile. But how will the design open itself towards the city? How can the building participate in the cultural life of the city? The Collection Building can be seen as an art warehouse. By designing the building in a round volume the façade surface is optimised. The compact floors are crossed by a route, the Zigzag, which accesses the depots and makes them visible. The Zigzag leads ultimately to the roof terrace where the trees from the current ‘front garden’ of Museum Park will stand. The roof terraces becomes a lifted park. By cladding the building in reflective material the surrounding and the park are mirrored. The park becomes bigger; the building seems to be absorbed by the surroundings like a contemporary ‘fata morgana’. At the locations of the windows the reflective surface is erased so to speak. Here the building shows its collection as a present to the city. LINK dezeen

The Friends of the Park grants Boijmans depot. The Museum Park is in our view, not the appropriate location. On several occasions we have actions publicized through public flyers. Is your opposition also visible? LINK vriendenvanhetpark (in Dutch)

Russian Roulette

During the good times on Ukraine television Russian Roulette (Cover by Anna Khokhlova, The X Factor Ukraine) LINK Ukraine television

Rosas

@ Rotterdamse 
Schouwburg may 10

It was 25 years ago that Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, who was still very young then, created Rosas danst Rosas. It became a classic and has been learned over and over by new groups of dancers. LINK rosas

Ederlezi

Song in Kurdish language

Ederlezi (song) is a popular traditional folk song of the Roma minority in the Balkans.

The song got its name after Ederlezi which is a Spring festival, especially celebrated by Roma people in the Balkans (and elsewhere around the world). This holiday celebrates the return of springtime. Ederlezi is the Romani name for the Bulgarian and Serbian Feast of Saint George. It's celebrated on 6 May [O.S. 23 April]. The various Balkan spellings (Herdeljez, Erdelezi) are variants of the Turkish Hıdırellez, a holiday signaling the beginning of spring, occurring approximately 40 days after the spring equinox. Goran Bregović's version (titled "Ederlezi (Scena Djurdjevdana Na Rijeci)"), which actually made the song famous. LINK youtube

Leica T

Leica Camera AG presents a new camera system that combines the fine art of engineering and hand-crafted excellence with design and handling in an entirely new and innovative concept. From the initial idea through to the development process and in its final assembly, the focus of all disciplines involved was on one single thing - perfection. The outcome was the creation of the Leica T-System, a camera with an exquisite finish ‘made in Germany’ that, together with a portfolio of precise, high-performance lenses, offers exceptional versatility and particularly intuitive handling. Unique in design and pared down to the essential functions, the new Leica T-System offers everything anyone could ever need for pure, creative photography and the best image quality. In collaboration with AUDI Design, the typical design language of Leica cameras was revisited and reinterpreted. With its timeless and sleek design, the Leica T picks up the unmistakeable attributes of Leica product design and develops them systematically - with clean lines, smooth surfaces and formal minimalism. One of the camera’s outstanding features is its compact and solid body. 
This is manufactured with innovative precision techniques from a single block of aluminium at the Leica factory. The use of premium materials and their processing in an elaborate manufacturing process are unique in the history of camera construction and lend the Leica T an unmistakeable look, feel and solidity. Its substantial weight and a newly developed operating concept underline its user-friendly handling and, together, these features ensure an incomparable photographic experience. LINK leica

Modekern

Piet Paris

Modekern collects, provides access to, studies and exhibits the archives of internationally significant Dutch fashion designers in order to broaden and deepen understanding of modern Dutch fashion history. Modekern is an initiative of Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion; ArtEZ Institute of the Arts; the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem; and the Gelders Archief. It avails itself of existing infrastructure based on each organisation’s strengths and expertise. The Gelders Archief handles archiving activities. The Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA) is responsible for exhibitions and education. ArtEZ Institute of the Arts conducts research. HNI provides support for Modekern and serves as a liaison with the National Design Archive (NOA). LINK modekern

bitforms

Daniel Canogar


Small Data 
March 27–Apri 26, 2014 

bitforms gallery nyc

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Small Data, a second solo exhibition in New York with Daniel Canogar. Featuring the premiere of a new series, the exhibit includes nine video projection-mapped objects that are intimate in scale.

Based in Spain, Canogar is renowned internationally for his use of discarded electronic materials in his photography, video, sculpture and installations. Finding inspiration in the archeology of new media, he brings the dead back to life. Secrets contained beyond an object's surface are revealed, as he constructs portraits of a society and an age. Canogar is also the creator of numerous public art installations, many of them engaging the participation of local communities, such as Waves in Houston, the world's largest arabesque LED video sculpture; Constelaciones in Madrid at MRío Park, the largest photo mosaic in Europe; and Travesías in Brussels, a commission for the atrium of the European Union Council in 2010. LINK bitforms

Ko Aarts

@ Rento Brattinga galerie 

LINK Ko Aarts

Puzzle

via Jeannette v/d Does

Design Dolf Pauw 1975 LINK KABK 1981

Heman Chong

@ FOST Gallery, Singapore 
March 8 May 4, 2014

With his latest deliberation on narrative, text, and the future, Heman Chong offers a handsome presentation of paintings, text pieces, and a found book in his new solo exhibition "Of Indeterminate Time Or Occurrence" at Singapore's FOST Gallery. Heman Chong is an artist, curator and writer whose conceptually charged investigations into how individuals and communities imagine the future generates a multiplicity of objects, images, installations, situations and texts. In 2006, he produced a writing workshop with Leif Magne Tangen at Project Arts Center in Dublin where they co-authored PHILIP, a science fiction novel, with Mark Aerial Waller, Cosmin Costinas, Rosemary Heather, Francis McKee, David Reinfurt and Steve Rushton. Chong is currently directing ‘Moderation(s)’, an ongoing project occurring between Witte de With in Rotterdam and Spring Workshop in Hong Kong, which will engender a conference, three exhibitions, three residencies, and a book of short stories. LINK heman chong

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom.” Affectionately known as “Gabo” to millions of readers, he first won international fame with his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a defining classic of twentieth century literature. Whether writing short stories, epic novels, or nonfiction, Gabo is above all a brilliant storyteller, and his writing is a tribute to both the power of the imagination and the mysteries of the human heart. In Gabo’s world, where flowers rain from the sky and dictators sell the very ocean, reality is subject to emotional truths as well as physical boundaries. It is a world of great beauty and great cruelty; a world where love brings both redemption and enslavement; and a world where the lines between objective reality and dreams are hopelessly blurred. It is a world very much like our own. LINK

RKD

The RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie / Netherlands Institute for Art History) is one of the most important art-historical information centres in the world, administering a unique collection of documentary, library and archive material on Western art from the late Middle Ages to the present. Documentation about Dutch art forms the nucleus of the collections. The RKD has an active collecting policy covering painting, drawing and sculpture as well as monumental art, media art, and design. You can consult our collections of visual, technical and press documentation as well as the library and archival collections in our study areas. Parts of the collections can also be accessed via online databases; if you are planning a visit to the RKD, you may find it useful to consult these first. 
For more information about the collection please consult the menu item Collections. LINK rkd LINK rkd tour

Jeff Wall

tableaux pictures photographs 1996 - 2013 
1 Mar - 3 Aug 2014 
@ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 

Boxing, 2011, courtesy of the artist

Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs, 1996 - 2013 presents recent work in color and black and white, and features the new, previously unseen diptych Summer Afternoons (2013). Since the 1980s, Wall has produced critically acclaimed work in the form of color transparencies backlit by fluorescent light strips and presented in lightboxes. He was one of the first artists to make photographs on a large scale. The standard lightbox was created for the primary purpose of outdoor advertising. In Wall’s work, this medium became a platform for his figurative tableaux, street scenes and interiors, landscapes and cityscapes. LINK stedelijk

Christian Boltanski

The historical events that have accompanied Christian Boltanski's life - such as the end of the Great War and the liberation of Paris - mark all of his work. As a fourteen-year old, he devoted himself to painting. At 27, he gained recognition for exhibitions at Sonnabend Gallery in 1971 and Documenta in Kassel in 1972, and continued to distinguish himself in the international scene with a series of exhibitions in the United States that began in 1987, travelling to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and then, in the 1990s, to numerous European museums. In the early 2000s, Boltanski turns to large-scale installations and participates in sound installations. It is also in this period that he begins his Heart Archives project (Archives Du Coeur). His installations become more complex with the use of sound as movement. Boltanski's works are an affirmation of total artwork, l'Art Total. During much of his life, he devoted himself to teaching and he produced more than 100 books of various artists. Christian Boltanski lives and works in Malakoff, outside Paris, but spends most of his time travelling to create new projects around the world. LINK christian-boltanski

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