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New: Local Authority

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]

Video coverage of Forum on Paloma Polo’s Unrest at De Ateliers

In her talk, artist Paloma Polo introduced her latest film ‘Unrest’, which addresses the struggles of indigenous people in the Philippines. With Lara Almarcegui (artist), Louie Jalandoni (National Democratic Front of the Philippines, NDFP), Coni Ledesma (women’s rights activist), Julieta de Lima (economist), Professor Jose Maria Sison (political activist, poet) [...more]

Cure Café Menu

November 27, 2015 - November 28, 2015

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]

Cure Café

November 27, 2015 - November 28, 2015

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]

A report on TAAK Summer School Marfa 2015, Third Edition

In De PUNT: THE SANDBERG SERIES #09

November 11, 2015

Paloma Polo exhibition at De Ateliers

November 27, 2015 - December 12, 2015

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]

Opening of ‘Unrest’ by Paloma Polo at De Ateliers

November 27, 2015

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]

Pilot Encounter

October 23, 2015 - October 23, 2015

Encounters is an on-going research and exchange platform concerned with institutions and their way of thinking. It is organised within the frame of the Curatorial Programme 15/16 at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam. The first Encounter is organised at De PUNT, hosted by TAAK Pilot Encounter: Institution – Between Body [...more]

TodaysArt Festival 2015

September 25, 2015 - September 26, 2015

Fenix Module: Reboot of the mythic dimension

September 19, 2015 - September 30, 2015

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]

Festival of Sports: De Friesland Editie

September 12, 2015

A one-day performance event that focuses on cross-connections between arts and sports and celebrates the potential of play, improvisation and creativity as an antidote in an efficiency-driven society. The first edition of Festival of Sports looks at the traditional Frisian sports like Kaatsen and Fierljeppen on the basis of which participating artists developed new works. In close [...more]

There is Absolutely No Cause for Alarm

September 19, 2015 - September 27, 2015

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]

August 19, 2015 - August 23, 2015

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]

Hackers & Designers Summer Talks & Summer Academy

July 29, 2015 - August 7, 2015

An international group of engineering, programming, design and art students will congregate in Amsterdam for a 10 day summer school program hosted by native Amsterdam community Hackers & Designers (H&D). The program is intensive and workshop based and will include additional public components for which also non-summer school attendees are invited to attend. About Hackers & Designers [...more]

Video of Held Aloft: Love in geometrical order

To celebrate the reopening of the Rijksmuseum a spectacular performance took place on 14 april 2013  at the Museumplein in Amsterdam. The event is based on an idea of artist Job Koelewijn and titled Held Aloft: Love in geometrical order. In a whirling choreography, designed by mass choreographer Penny Jones, over 700 children [...more]

August 19, 2015 - August 23, 2015

Sorry, this information is only available in Dutch [...more]

Konvooi, rally door Noord

June 6, 2015

Sorry, deze pagina bestaat alleen in het Nederlands [...more]

Surrounding Education

June 6, 2015 - June 7, 2015

De Appel arts centre and TAAK are pleased to present the two-day program Surrounding Education, focusing on how certain notions of education and pedagogy have been merging with the artistic and curatorial fields. During this weekend, Mônica Hoff, Yoeri Meessen, Priscila Fernandes, Erick Beltrán, Ane Hjort Guttu and Juan Canela will [...more]

Business District As Alpine Habitat

A project by Silvan Laan at the Hortus Botanicus VU The Hortus Botanicus VU, located at the Amsterdam business district the Zuidas, will be host to a knowledge- and expertise center where artists, experts and audiences meet to learn about plants, biodiversity and ecosystems. The way we relate to nature [...more]

Participants of Summer School Marfa present work in progress, inspired by Marfa

February 27, 2015

27 Februari, 20h00 – 22h00 @ De PUNT, Amsterdam From 26 May until 14 June 2014, twenty students of Dutch Art Institute and the Sandberg Instituut/Gerrit Rietveld Academie participated in Summer School Marfa, Texas (USA). Accompanied by guest lecturers, tutors and TAAK, the students explored the sociological, natural and cultural meanings [...more]

Summer School Marfa 2015

March 15, 2015 - March 29, 2015

For the third consecutive time, TAAK organises Summer School Marfa. Students from various art academies will dive in the unique artistic climate of Marfa, Texas. This year Summer School takes place twice, in March and in June-July. Conceptual artist Donald Judd made Marfa a special place in the seventies. He [...more]

February 15, 2015

Dutchie Amsterdam will present with 5 Centuries 5 Bites during Restaurant Day Amsterdam as a tribute to Amsterdam’s most charismatic corner – De PUNT. Dutchie Amsterdam is a cooking project to deliver creatively and periodically some of the best farm produce they can find in The Netherlands. For many [...more]

January 15, 2015

Het Vijfde Seizoen, TAAK and the students of the Cure Master cordially invite you to celebrate the beginning of the New Year on the 15th of January. We would like to use this opportunity to present the Cure Master (the new Master of Art at the Sandberg Instituut). Students spent [...more]

Public Talk Natalie Jeremijenko

January 20, 2015

TAAK and Cure Master have invited artist and scientist Natalie Jeremijenko for a  three-day seminar with the students. Before the start of this workshop, Jeremijenko will give a public talk in Amsterdam. On 20 January she will introduce here projects and her ideas, and answer all your questions. Natalie Jeremijenko [...more]

Presentation Cure Master in Den Dolder: Ouch!

December 16, 2014

If we want to master our own cure we have to find new ways to deal with pain. We do everything to avoid pain. This seems smart, feeling pain most of the time not experienced positively but why do we then repeat hurting ourself and others? And why is avoiding pain not always [...more]

Opening Event Summer School Marfa

June 12, 2014

TAAK presents Summer School Marfa Second Edition Opening event on 12 June TAAK Summer School Marfa 2014 finds twenty young artists (seventeen nationalities) and their instructors in Marfa for a three-week fieldtrip and fieldwork studio. These graduate students study at the Dutch Art Institute and the Sandberg [...more]

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