In the summer of 2017 Cure Park took place in Amsterdam. This art manifestation, organised bij TAAK, brought together over 30 artists, creatives and thinkers with audiences and care professionals in a multidimensional program: comprising installations, experiments, interventions, workshops, exercises, lectures, performances and films. For six weeks, The Future and PUB, students’ initiative [...more]
Nils van Beek (curator at TAAK) contributed the essay ‘Legitimisation, please!’ to a new book featuring European perspectives on commissioning public art. Research for the essays began at the Commissions+International Symposium on Public Art organised by Fingal County Council. Original participants at the symposium, Cécile Bourne-Farrell, Nils van Beek and [...more]
In Lunar Landscapes: Maasvlakte 2 photographer Marie-José Jongerius documents the Port of Rotterdam’s expansion project in an intriguing way. The Port of Rotterdam is the largest in Europe, and after Shanghai and Singapore, the largest in the world. With 2,000 hectares of new land to be reclaimed from the sea, the construction of Maasvlakte 2 is one of the largest infrastructure projects in recent years. Through Jongerius’s eyes, however, it is above all an alien landscape and a world of amazement and expectation. Nederlands Fotomuseum Wilhelminakade 332 3072 AR Rotterdam The Netherlands Opening times: Tuesday until Friday 10.00-17.00 Saturday & Sunday 11.00-17.00 [...more]