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open monuments day amsterdam 2022
News from Nowhere
(Nelly&) Theo van Doesburg Foundation and private art collector Casper van der Kruk invited a group of property developers, experts, collectors and press to one day exhibition titled News from Nowhere on Saturday afternoon 10th of September 2022.
News from Nowhere is a one day group show in a private home bringing together alumni of Dutch art academies and works of the private art collection of Casper van der Kruk relating to agrarian society, biology, class mobility, liquidity and water management. News from Nowhere is the first in a series of exhibitions in private spaces curated by Jules van den Langenberg.
The series is named after a publication of the arts&crafts publication News from Nowhere (an epoch of rest). This soft science fiction points out how socialism will entail not only the abolition of private property but also of the divisions between art, life, and work. Making it a conversation piece and reference point for the exhibition series. In the novel, the narrator falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the socialist league and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. For the News from Nowhere exhibition a bespoke interior in the Byzantium building, one of Rem Koolhaas’ first realised OMA projects, sets the stage for pairings of works from the art collectors collection and emerging artists. Works are associated by topic and materiality, reimagining the interior with duo presentations inhabiting different rooms. Spread over several spaces, an utopic household is accumulated.
News from Nowhere’s internal programme aims to network the artists involved and a public programme engages invited guests to tour the exhibition and meet the artists. Amongst others works of Josefina Anjou, Sven Kroner, Machteld Rullens, Erik van Lieshout, Maaike Fransen, Folkert de Jong, Wouter Paijmans, Amie Dicke, Jing He, Job Koelewijn, Bin Koh, Florian & Michael Quistrebert, Antonin Giroud, Maria Roosen, Josse Pyl.
News from Nowhere takes place on Saturday 10 September during Open Monuments Day in The Netherlands and takes place on the top floor of the Byzantium, a building designed by Rem Koolhaas, Kees Christiaanse and Ron Steiner in the first ten years of OMA’s architectural production. "I want it urban; you want it suburban. I want a round window; you make it square Why the hell did you hire me?” screams a cartoon figure Koolhaas in the publication S, M, L, XL (1995) where Koolhaas’ son illustrates the troublesome process between property developer and architect. The Byzantium is located at a prominent spot in the city center of Amsterdam in between the central park Vondelpark and metropolitan streets, the design tries to do justice to both conditions by using the metropolitan scale to screen the idyll. The building is characterised by a gold coloured element sticking out on the top floor, somewhere in between an airport control tower and castle. For the News from Nowhere exhibition this space is programmed and shows a publication about the building process.
Interested in supporting a group show or public art work in the City of Amsterdam with the (Nelly&)Theo van Doesburg Foundation? Email info@theovandoesburgstichting.nl.