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Carrie Mae Weems: Painting the Town

I co-curated the exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: Painting the Town at the Rijksmuseum, the first show of the artist in the Netherlands. The show runs until June 9. On May 31, Carrie Mae Weems is at the Rijksmuseum for a talk (sold out).

Carrie Mae Weems, Painting the Town #3, 2021 and an installation pic.

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Madelon Vriesendorp

The Rijksmuseum has acquired a set of drawings from the 1970's by the fabulous artist Madelon Vriesendorp. I was lucky enough to visit her wonderful studio in London and I wrote about the work for the Art of information blog and for the Rijksmuseum Bulletin.

Images: Madelon Vriesendorp's Après l' Amour, 1975, and two snap shots I took at her studio.

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Janis Rafa at Eye

The exhibition Feed me. Cheat me. Eat me. by Janis Rafa is on show at Eye until January 7. Go go go see it :) We curated a very rich public program with guests including Filipa Ramos, Lisanne Wepler and Maarten Reesink. For tickets and more info, please see:

Animality and Revenge Taste the Whip Electric Mother

Still from Janis Rafa, The Space Between Your Tongue and Teeth (still), 2023.

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New job

I am currently working as the curator of 20th and 21st century prints & drawings at the Rijksmuseum. Come by to say hi!

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Feed me. Cheat me. Eat me.

This fall the exibition Feed me. Cheat me. Eat me. by fabulous artist and filmmaker Janis Rafa will open at Eye. Expect tail wagging and seductive gloominess. I am co-curating the show and curating the public program. You are cordially invited to the opening on October 14! 🐾

→ Janis Rafa – Feed me. Cheat me. Eat me.

Janis Rafa, Lacerate (2020), still.

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Writing fiction 👽

Together with artist Noor Nuyten, I am exploring the possibilities of writing about her work by means of short fictional stories. I have already written one involving an erased eraser, a tired curator & a conceptual art thief. Many thanks to Mondriaan Fonds for believing in and supporting the project! The book will appear mid 2024 :)

Noor Nuyten in colleboration with Sjoerd van Leeuwen, Waving the Future, 2021.

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New Harvest 2023

We are organizing another edition of New Harvest for the 2023 edition of Amsterdam Art: a selection of the best new video art that the city has to offer. With works by Jen Liu ☆ Elise Strinna ☆ Zauri Matikashvili ☆ Zijlmans/Jongenelis ☆ Yun Choi ☆ Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi ☆ Peng Zuqiang ☆ Claudia Martínez Garay ☆ Vibeke Mascini ☆ Hu Liwei

→ New Harvest I → New Harvest II

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18,000 Worlds

Go see Saodat Ismailova's exhibition 18,000 Worlds at Eye ♥

I curated the public program. Click here and scroll down to Films, talks & events for details. I also contributed to the exhibition catalogue.

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Artists & Collections

On November 8, I will screen a selection of video art about museums & collections at Eye Filmmuseum. Sea urchins, skeletons, artifacts, tiny toys, Freud's sofa and the top of Mont Blanc: where does our urge come from to collect and keep stuff? Very much looking forward to this!

This evening is part of the public program of Fiona Tan - Mountains and Molehills. With works by Fiona Tan ☆ Ben Rivers ☆ Camille Henrot ☆ Tacita Dean ☆ Amie Siegel ☆ Nashashibi/Skaer and Mels van Zuthpen. → Kunstenaars filmen collecties

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Mountains and Molehills

Now open at Eye: Fiona Tan - Mountains and Molehills. I did reseach, wrote the gallery texts, co-edited the publication and curated the public program. On view until January 8 2023!

→ Fiona Tan - Mountains and Molehills

→ Get the publication

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Workshop: writing for artists (sold out)

Some people don't like writing about art but I love it - and I can help! I have given writing workshops before at Reinwardt Academie, Academie Minerva and Drawing Centre Diepenheim. There is another one coming up, especially for artists, at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. Follow the link for more info!

→ Masterclass schrijven over kunst *

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Eye Prize

The exhibition Meriem Bennani, Kahlil Joseph, Karrabing Film Collective - Eye Art & Film Prize is on view at Eye until September 18. Don't miss it - it is a beautiful, funny, important and thought-provoking show. I wrote the gallery texts and worked together with the artists on a public program of screenings & talks.

→ Meriem Bennani, Kahlil Joseph, Karrabing Film Collective - Eye Art & Film Prize

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Cool programs at Eye

This spring, I’m curating a few super nice programs at Eye. Tickets are going fast, so be quick ☺ !

On April 26, Laure Prouvost will come to show her work, talk with Martha Kirszenbaum, and take a dive in Eye’s collection. Magic guaranteed - with old clips from Venice, a Surreal trip to the Palais Idéale, some octopuses, mysterious vegetables faling from the sky and live music by Thijs Havens.

→ Laure Prouvost: Deep Sea Blue

On May 3, I will spreak about Kara Walker’s brilliant films with choreographer Monique Duurvoort, Eye’s silent film curator Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, and Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen, who organized her show at De Pont. The screening also includes films by Lotte Reiniger and Ngozi Onwurah.

→ Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies

On May 14, Julia Stoschek Collection comes to Eye, screening works by Arthur Jafa ☆ Terence Koh ☆ Mark Leckey ☆ Carsten Nicolai ☆ Hannah Perry ☆ Pippilotti Rist ☆Jacolby Satterwhite and Steina Vasulka. Inc. afterparty!

→ Julia Stoschek Collection at Eye

And last but not least on May 15 we organize New Harvest: a selection of the best new video art that Amsterdam has to offer. I had the honor to be on the selection committee and we will show works by Charlotte Dumas ☆ Hamza Halloubi ☆ Isaac Julien ☆ Gabriel Lester ☆ Thania Petersen ☆ PolakVanBekkum ☆ Marijke De Roover ☆ Buhlebezwe Siwani ☆ Ghita Skali ☆ Emma Talbot ☆ Joppe Venema ☆ Patricia Werneck Ribas and Rogier van der Zwaag.

→ New Harvest I → New Harvest II

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Palpable Futility

Now on view at Eye Filmmuseum: Guido van der Werve – Palpabe Futility. I wrote the exhibition texts and contributed to the catalogue. I also wrote an essay for Eye Magazine.

→ Palpable Futility → An ode to outsiders

→ Publication

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All about...

For the exhibition Ivo van Hove en Jan Versweyveld: All About Theatre About Film at Eye Filmmuseum, I wrote the exhibition texts (a well as a bunch of other things).

→ All About Theatre About Film

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Reading a Wave

Artist Noor Nuyten invited me to write a text on the occasion of the exhibition Reading a Wave: Noor Nuyten & Marinus Boezem at Upstream Gallery. I wrote an essay about the fantastic playfulness in the work of both artists, connecting this to Italo Calvino’s fabulous Cosmicomics.

→  Lof der Speelsheid

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Current Mirror

In the midst of the early 2021 lockdown, artist Wyne Veen invited me for a studio visit. Our conversation briefly touched upon NFTs. Tossed back and forth between excitement and suspicion, we continued the conversation over the following months: reading, minting, listening, discovering, writing, creating, thinking and questioning. In the summer we shared out thoughts with the world during a studio exhibition in Amsterdam. Wyne showed her new works alongside two digital paintings by artist Sara Ludy.

→ Current Mirror

Wyne Veen, Wave, 2020.

(exhibition snap shots)