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]
WHITE CUBE / BLACK BOX: A TRIBUTE TO NANCY HOLT WHITE CUBE / BLACK BOX reconfigures the screening of Nancy Holt’s film projects as a tribute to Holt who recently passed away after a long illness, and an opportunity to celebrate the dynamic film work of this legendary artist. The [...more]
After several interventions in hidden alleys and other unused places in the city last summer, Tussen-ruimte pops up in Amsterdam again at the 12th of March. Artists Charbel-joseph H. Boutros and Amie Dicke present their vision on ‘between space’, with new work that opens in [...more]
Programme TAAK on TOUR to the Wilhelminapolder Zeeland Sunday April 27 2014 9:00 am – Departure at TAAK, Frans de Wollantstraat 82 Amsterdam. Introduction in the bus by Theo Tegelaers, curator at TAAK 11:30/ 12:00 am – Arrival at the Goese Golf, Krukweg 31 in Goes with coffee, tea and lunch. Welcome [...more]
A new two-year Temporary Master programme 2014 – 2016 at the Sandberg Institute The Cure Master programme examines the function and definition of health and disease in our society. A group of autonomous researchers will create individual and group projects towards realising Cure Park, a place to meet, [...more]
The broad landscape of Zeeland’s Wilhelminapolder is the backdrop to Europe’s largest work of landscape art. The nine concrete sculptures installed by the German artist Michael Beutler, spread over the 1700-hectare landscape, together form the iconic work Polder Peil (Polder Level). The landscape of the Wilhelmina [...more]
As part of the Life in the Woods project, Marres Projects and TAAK invited three artists to design a walk centred on the landscape in all its manifestations. Frank Koolen, Delphine Bedel and Ruchama Noorda each created their own interpretation of this commission. The results can be explored during [...more]
As part of the Life in the Woods project, Marres Projects and TAAK invited three artists to design a walk centred on the landscape in all its manifestations. Frank Koolen, Delphine Bedel and Ruchama Noorda each created their own interpretation of this commission. The results can be explored during weekends in October. Read [...more]
As part of the Life in the Woods project, Marres Projects and TAAK invited three artists to design a walk centred on the landscape in all its manifestations. Frank Koolen, Delphine Bedel and Ruchama Noorda each created their own interpretation of this commission. The results can be explored during weekends in October. Read [...more]
As part of the Life in the Woods project, Marres Projects and TAAK invited three artists to design a walk centred on the landscape in all its manifestations. Frank Koolen, Delphine Bedel and Ruchama Noorda each created their own interpretation of this commission. The results can be [...more]
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]
This summer a raft floated on the Russian river Ugra. On 30 August William Speakman and Theo Tegelaers tell about their journey. How did they experience the stories of local people and their lives along the river? The resulting video of the project will be premiering this evening. Start: [...more]
Tussen-talks is part of the public program of the Tussen-ruimte project. During these evenings one writer is invited to write and recite a new piece inspired by the phenomenon of the Tussen-ruimte. Parallel to that an expert from another field will give a related lecture on the current or historical [...more]
24th of August 10.00 – 17.00 Programme: 10.00 Urban Conciousness Playshop: ‘Discovering our urban body’ with Premala Vollebregt 12.00 Lunch Break 13.00 Short presentation by Eva Pfannes & Henriëtte Waal ‘Why are we here, Why Commoning, What has been done so far’ 13.15 Lecture Hans Widmer (aka P.M.) [...more]
A project by William Speakman and Theo Tegelaers River Scene is a three-day journey on a raft designed and built by William Speakman along the Ugra River through the Ugra National Park. The construction of the raft, the journey along the river, and the dismantling and conversion of the raft [...more]