reviews 24.09.09 Tessa Verheul
New York
Whitney Museum for American Art
25/06/09 - 11/10/09
The exhibition Dan Graham: Beyond at the Whitney Museum of American Art offers an overview of the impressive oeuvre of New York based artist Dan Graham. Graham is the third artist – after Gordon Matta-Clark and Lawrence Weiner – to be honoured with such a retrospective as part of a collaboration between the Whitney Museum in New York and the MOCA in Los Angeles.
'The past does not influence me. I influence the past' An Interview with Adam Pendleton
15/06/09 Krist Gruijthuijsen
The young artist Adam Pendleton is currently making waves with performances, paintings and installations in which he critically examines our interpretation of history and culture. His work is often describe as ‘conceptual’ or even ‘complicated’, thanks to his frequent use of texts both from his own hand and derived from Afro-American literature, music and pop culture. Is Pendleton ridiculing the clichés about black culture, collecting them like a sociologist, or is he trying to initiate a more subtle way of thinking about language and identity? Time to let him speak for himself.
Read more..I let somebody get under my skin Ryan Gander
reviews 19.02.09 Annie Wu
Amsterdam
Annet Gelink Gallery
10/01/09 - 01/03/09
I let somebody get under my skin is the title of Ryan Gander’s third solo exhibition at Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam. Being a master of storytelling, Gander’s work has always delved heavily into the world of meta-narratives, resulting in a series of works about pre-existing moments in time.
Read more..Lost and Found Utopia Kriemann and Meessen at SMBA
reviews 11.02.09 Hendrik Folkerts
Amsterdam
SMBA
18/01/09 - 08/03/09
Susanne Kriemann and Vincent Meessen try to (re)capture the spectre of modernism at SMBA's latest show.
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reviews 19.01.09 Clare Butcher
Amsterdam
De Brakke Grond
02/01/09 - 25/01/09
Modes of always looking and being looked at have been inscribed in a palimpsest of 20th Century critical thought, creating an imposing framework for Belgian theatre practitioner cum artist, Ief Spincemaille'sEverything is art now, except you. You are only watching at the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam.
A Re-enactment by God Zoro Feigl
20/12/08 Paul Groot
An impressive, even threatening installation by Zoro Feigl in W139 in Amsterdam, originally intended as an homage to the Zuider Zee, inspired Paul Groot to write a reflection on the relationship between art, God and string theory.
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reviews 10.12.08 Clare Butcher
Düsseldorf
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
27/09/08 - 11/01/10
With As Far As The Eye Can See Düsseldorfs K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents retrospective journey of the oeuvre of Conceptual Art giant Lawrence Weiner. But does reading his work come as easily to contemporary audiences as it did in the seventies?
previews 10.09.08 Erik van Tuijn
Amsterdam, (& Den Bosch)
SMCS (& SM's, until november 16th)
05/09/08 - 30/09/08
Amar Kanwar is the final artist to 'dock' at the temporary Stedelijk Museum CS's Docking Station. The Torn First Pages unfolds as his personal investigation into the political situation in Burma.
previews 30.07.08 Erik van Tuijn
Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Docking Station
25/07/08 - 30/08/08
Interview with Danish Vietnamese artist Danh Vo who is quickly turning into a coveted item this summer. METROPOLIS M spoke with him at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Video Interview Wolfgang Tillmans
previews 01.07.08 Erik van Tuijn
Wolfgang Tillmans talks about his choices from the Stedelijk collection in the Presence of Mind exhibit. (video)
