‘wild care, tame neglect’ is a two-year experimental collaboration between artist Edward Clydesdale Thomson (United Kingdom, 1982) and Huize Frankendael. Since 2016, the artist has embedded his artistic practice in the last remaining 17th-century country house in Amsterdam researching the paradoxes of nature that abound in this cultural heritage. Beginning [...more]
An exhibition of Jasmijn Visser At the Allard Pierson Museum With books and maps from the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam 27 January 2017 – 7 May 2017 Address: Oude Turfmarkt 127, Amsterdam Opening and book launch: January 26 at 16.30-18.30 hrs; please RSVP here. Although the [...more]
These projects are on the Cure Café menu (27 & 28 November 2015): Vera Hofmann the nutritionist– a short but comprehensive overview on the current food discourse and nutrition recommendations In this rather dry keynote lecture nutritionist Vera Hofmann takes you on a ride along the gastrointestinal tract, past dairy and gluten, [...more]
Today food is no longer expected to only facilitate the necessity of survival, but instead fulfill any number of human expectations –our immediate impulses, our emotional desires, our personal fetishes and a hopeful antidote to our stressful, unhealthy ‘lifestyles’. Through a series of workshops with SulSolSal (NL/BR/ZA) and William [...more]
Coinciding with the Amsterdam Art Weekend, De Ateliers in collaboration TAAK proudly presents: the first exhibition of Paloma Polo in the Netherlands. Under the title ‘Unrest’, Paloma Polo presents a body of works resulting from a two-year research undertaking in the Philippines, which reflected on themes of social change [...more]
You are cordially invited to the festive opening of the exhibition Paloma Polo ‘Unrest’ at De Ateliers, on Friday, November 27th 2015, 5-8pm Paloma Polo (1983, Madrid), former participant of De Ateliers, has emerged as one of the most prominent Spanish artists of her generation. This exhibition, curated by Theo Tegelaers [...more]
Shamanism and other magical practices, it seems almost like they’re disappeared from Georgia. Certainly when seen from the perspective of modern science and history. But artists Jasper Griepink and William Speakman think that many of those charming forces still exist. For Fest I Nova 2015; Art Villa Garikula [...more]
There is Absolutely No Cause for Alarm is a visual collection of thoughts on the suppression of human freedoms expressed by emerging international artists Jan Adriaans, Ella de Burca, Aljaž Celarc, Ehsan Ul Haq, Phelim Hoey, Marge Monko, Joyce Overheul, Irina Popova, Dorian de Rijk, and Victoria Ushkanova. The exhibition [...more]
On August 10, 2015 Sunde stood a whole tidal cycle (thirteen hours) in the sea at Katwijk; the water rose up to her neck and receded to her ankles. Over 40 members of the public joined her, sometimes for hours. Jonas de Witte filmed the entire performance and [...more]
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The River Scene project will be presented during the Moscow Biennale (19 September 2013 – 20 October 2013) in the Zil Cultural Centre in Moscow. The theatre will be re-assembled here and the video documenting the journey will be displayed. River Scene was created in July 2013 during a three-day trip on the Ugra River through the [...more]
To celebrate the opening of the new cultural season, TAAK has invited Irina Birger to make an artwork for the project wall. Connectedness Irina Birger has made a line drawing of 3.5 to 2 meters on the project wall at the TAAK-space. With thread she connects all Aquarius constellation [...more]
A number of the pieces made for Portscapes 2 and the images project are on display from 29 June until 10 October 2013 at FutureLand, the Maasvlakte 2 information centre. Fritz Haeg’s work premieres on 29 June. The work of Tomas Saraceno follows in August. More information about the expo [...more]
What if a building was so light that on a windy day it could take off and elevate in the air? This is the question that Tomás Saraceno asked himself when developing Solar Bell, the final project in the series of artworks created to accompany the expansion of the port of [...more]
TAAK and Marres explore the nearby landscape and the wanderer in his or her various guises such as the tourist, pilgrim, travelling salesmen, vagrant or soldier. The Project This exhibition provides insights into the cultural and historical background of the phenomenon ‘wandering’. From 22 September to 4 November a number [...more]