PROGRAM
EXHIBITION 14.02.24 - 13.04.25
NDSM XPO XVI IETS MET… PARADIJS
PART 2
Image Peer Reede
In our Western culture, religion has lost its original power. We also seem to have said goodbye to its associated rituals and symbols. How now to live with impermanence; where do we find our paradise?
One thing is certain, we are all going to die. How to deal with this inevitable prospect, the deterioration, the loss of loved ones? Is this the end of everything, just a new beginning, or is everything one? How malleable is living with death?
In IETS MET...PARADIJS, artists collectively sink their teeth into this elusive subject matter. Halfway through the time span of the exhibition, the work on display changes. In Part 1, dark Death has the starring role, opened with the comforting Night of the Dead. In Part 2, Life full of hope takes over from Death: an ode to mortality and thus to Life.
Part 1 can be seen through Februari 9 and part 2 opens heartwarmingly on Februari 14, Love Day in the national Euthanasia Week.
Curator Hetty van Bommel gives a guided tour every Sunday at 15:00.
The tour is also given on request.
Curator Hetty van Bommel Artists part 1 Anne Marie Hoogland, Babok, Bart Stuart, Csilla Lakatos, Danielle Kwaaitaal, Erik van Raalte, Ernst Dullemond, Geert Hautekiet, Henk Schut, Hetty van Bommel, Jeroen Bisscheroux, Jos van Wees, Kjell van Norel, Lernert & Sander/Aux Raus, Lieven Slabbink, Lucas Hardonk, Lucia Slabbink, Maasja Ooms, Martin Lewin van Vuure, Maurits de Wolff, Miriam Jager, Mirjana Smolic, Renee Marcus Janssen, Rob Vrijen, Suzannna Pezo, Thierry van Raay, Thijs Kelder, Threes Anna
Artists part 2 Babok, Bart Stuart, Behind The Lines Collective, Convoi Exceptionnel, Csilla Lakatos, Danielle Kwaaitaal, Eef van der Meer, Erik van Raalte, Ernst Dullemond, Geert Hautekiet, Hendrick Jan de Stuntman, Henk Schut, Hetty van Bommel, Jeroen Bisscheroux, Lernert & Sander/Aux Raus, Lieven Slabbinck, Lucas Hardonk, Lucia Slabbinck, Marinke Eijgenraam, Maasja Ooms, Miriam Jager, Renee Marcus Janssen, Rob Vrijen, Suzanna Pezo, Thierry van Raaij, Thijs Kelder, Vincent de Rooij
Initiator Hetty van Bommel started her career by expanding the Burial Act, the Last Rest Rocket as a means of pressure.
Also with LepeltjeLepeltje, the self-determination of living with death is the discussion she initiates.
EXHIBITION 09.02 - 23.02.25
THE HAREM CENTER OF INTEREST IN THE UNKNOWN
YASEMİN SÖZER
Image Yasemin Sözer
THE HAREM is one of Yasemin Sözer's recent series of paintings in which she explores global poignant issues such as climate, migration and war.
Hundreds of women from different countries and cultures live in harems. Some are the wife of a sultan, others are slaves. The harem is a school where life is taught with involuntary students. A golden cage where jealousy, ambition, power and intrigue rule, where struggles for existence and for power take place. Within the walls of the harem, where dramas take place, the sounds of a baby's birth and the laughter of the sultan's wives mingle with the screams of the concubines, who are thrown from the palace into the cold waters of the river for punishment and drown.
Curator Okan Akin
EXHIBITION 24.01 - 18.05.25
CONNECT THE DOTS
WUNDERKAMMMER
Image Allard Boterenbrood
In the WUNDERKAMMER, seven NDSM artists show their creative process, the path from inspiration and idea to the final artwork. Besides their own work, they exhibit work by guest artists who inspire them or are in some way relevant to their development as artists. This exhibition is about trusting that process; finding inspiration, sharing ideas with others and keep connecting.
The title, CONNECT THE DOTS, refers to the ability to see the relationship between different moments in time or pieces of information and to understand the bigger picture from these connections.
Artists Allard Boterenbrood, Rienke Enghardt, Frank Hietbrink, Nanny Kok, DH Mack, Helena Kaori Maeda, Moedt
Quest artists Guévørk Aivazian, Alina Bielun, Dmintn, Ard Doko, Melle Hammer, Joachim Hartz, Henk Hietbrink, Uma Hietbrink, Kiborz & Biskoteka, Carlijn Kingma, Ellen Klijzing, Isa van Lier, Chisayo Maeda, Malou Schalkx, Mosi Schalkx, Sick Society, Marcelle Spängberg, Milla Spängberg, Milou Veling, Gerard Vroon, Jenny Wesly
EXHIBITION 31.01 - 02.03.25
LITTERBUGS
HENK LOORBACH
SALON
Photo Henk Loorenbach
While our insect population is rapidly declining, the problem of plastic pollution is growing at an alarming rate. Both are microcosms that surround us. Both are almost invisible at first glance. But where one was often considered a pest and the other a symbol of progress and prosperity, these roles are beginning to reverse. By making insects out of stray plastic, Loorbach tries to make this problem visible and personal to the viewer.
EXPECTED AT NDSM FUSE
EXHIBITION 18.07-31.08.25
RE:FWD
BIJBELSMUSEUM, KUNSTLINIE AND NDSM FUSE
What does hope look like in a broken world? And how can art help us imagine a future that is hopeful, yet realistic? The group exhibition RE:FWD: A Reply to the Present, A Forward to Us All - on view February 7 at Kunstlinie (and July 18 at NDSM FUSE), brings together hopeful perspectives on the future from 22 young artists.
Through installations, soundscapes, paintings, textile art and sculptures, they explore and celebrate hope with a small and big H. They look critically at the past and the present and speculate about what could be. Under the motto - ‘without consciousness no foundation forms and no one can live in a castle in the sky’ - they explore what it means to shape a future from grief, resilience and possibility.
Visitors are stimulated to see hope no longer as an abstract concept, but as an active process. And if man himself turns out to be responsible for that hope, then actively contributing to the creation of a hopeful future is up to us.
Artists Ahmad Mallah, Augustina Lavickaite, Charmaine de Heij, Chongjin Chen, Clinton Kabena, Cristal de la Cruz, Daeun Lim, Davitha van de Kuilen, Elena Zecchin, Ellen Yiu, Emmy van de Grift, Hodan Omar Elmi, Karmel Sabri, Lorena Rode, Marc Paulusma, Marian Genet, Qiaochu Guo, Rebecca Lillich-Krüger, Riangelo Christie, SasaHara Ghanem-Chaney, Simon Pillaud en Yang-Ha.
RE:FWD is a co-production of Bijbels Museum, Kunstlinie and NDSM FUSE and is curated by Mees Elias van Zanten, Thierno Deme and Caithlin Courtney Chong.
RE:FWD is made possible with support from Gemeente Almere, Vermeulen Brauckman Stichting, Mondriaan Fonds, VandenEnde Foundation, Stichting Zabawas, BeamSystems, Predikfonds Haarlem, Vrijzinnige Fondsen, Stichting De Zaaier, Cultuurfonds Flevoland, Cultuurfonds Noord-Holland, Iona Stichting & Gravin van Bylandt Stichting.
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
THE ONE MINUTES
THE ONE MINUTES is a global platform for one minute videos. Every two months, THE ONE MINUTES releases a new series of one-minute films exploring our current time in moving images.
For 2023, 2024 and, 2025 THE ONE MINUTES will create a globally oriented program, focused on solidarity, collectivity and equal allocation, to make more voices heard.
For information about the latest series theoneminutes.org
Submit your videos and participate in the project theoneminutes.org/participate
CONTINUOUS VIDEO-DISPLAY 09.01- 02.03.25
WHEN ART ISN’T LIFE
THE ONE MINUTES
CURATED BY THE CRITICS
Video still 'When Art Isn't Life' The Critics, 2024
Nigerian filmmaking group The Critics have posed a thought-provoking question to our global communities: ‘Art is life. What happens when it isn’t?’ With over 65 submissions from around the world, The Critics have curated 12 One Minutes from Belgium, Iceland, Nigeria, and the United States that challenge this question both metaphorically and literally, celebrating life and creativity.
Artists The Critics, Yitao Yuan, Kári Thayer, Louis van Lamsweerde, Prime Snow, Qidubem, Victor Josiah, Moon Van den Hende, Abraham, Lieven Nollet, Emanuele Dainotti.
CADAVRE EXQUIS
CADAVRE EXQUIS is a continuous artwork by Rienke Enghardt. CADAVRE EXQUIS is based on a children’s game that has been played all over the world for centuries. At the start of the last century the surrealists recognized the game as an expression of art and gave it its illustrious name. CADAVRE EXQUIS playful drawings that since developed give an impression of the zeitgeist of the turbulent years between the two world wars.
At NDSM FUSE is a permanent CADAVRE EXQUIS table with paper and pencils. The collected drawings, made by more than a thousand artists and visitors, displayed on the wall next to the table give an impression of today’s zeitgeist.
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