It all started with an email, and given the ubiquity of work that has moved online over the past year, there can’t be a more fitting closing to the Our New Normal series – a closing which is simultaneously a cautious opening up towards the online. On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 at [...more]
“The lamb is not innocent. The lamb knows how to read the motion of the air and knows the air’s stillness. [..] how to read the quivering of the lamb nearby, how to become not one lamb but many lambs in the formation of lamb-like relation, each lamb-back moderately indistinguishable [...more]
Author: Carmen Salas Edited by Joe Mortimer The Covid-19 epidemic has dealt a massive blow to every facet of the art world, from live events and exhibitions to funding and creativity. But it is also an opportunity to take stock of our current situation; a chance for institutions and creators of [...more]
Spinach is growing from seed, peas are sprouting and random veggies are pickling even if it´s not the season. But then again: what are seasons anymore at this point? Alina Lupu, 27 March 2020 During the second half of March 2020, condemned to life indoors because of a worldwide pandemic, TAAK [...more]
By Friedrich von Borries This article was translated from German to English by Jörn Nettingsmeier. What is power? The people of today would seem to be the most powerful beings that have ever existed in this world. They have supplanted the entire planet: by now, there is [...more]
Spinach is growing from seed, peas are sprouting and random veggies are pickling even if it´s not the season. But then again: what are seasons anymore at this point? Alina Lupu, 27th of March In the second half of March 2020, bound to the indoors due [...more]
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]