100 Years after De Stijl, Leiden (I)

- By Henriëtte van ’t Hoog

De Stijl100 Years after De Stijl
Openlucht Museum De Lakenhal
Pieterskerkhof
Leiden
The Netherlands
 
June 2 – August 27, 2017
Hours: 24/7
Admission free
 
Participating artists: Linda Arts (NL), Justin Andrews (AU), Alain Biltereyst (BE), Bob Bonies (NL), Sanne Bruggink (NL), Sigrid Calon (NL), Matthew Deleget (US), Jasper van der Graaf (NL), Terry Haggerty (GB), Brent Hallard (AU), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Gilbert Hsiao (US), Gracia Khouw (NL), Zora Kreuzer (DE), Guido Nieuwendijk (NZ), Rob de Oude (NL), Jan van der Ploeg (NL), Thomas Raat (NL), Marije Vermeulen (NL), Zedz (NL).
 
This exhibition features murals created at the invitation of Museum De Lakenhal by twenty leading artists of varying national origin. The wall paintings all build on the ideas of Theo van Doesburg, who launched his De Stijl magazine in Leiden exactly a century ago. The exhibition is the work of guest curators Iemke van Dijk and Guido Winkler.

One hundred years after the birth of the De Stijl movement, Museum De Lakenhal is taking stock of what has been achieved. The murals are being exhibited in the town’s Pieterskerkhof area, while a scale model of the Maison d’Artiste can be seen on Het Gerecht. The Maison d’Artiste was designed by Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren in Paris in 1923.

FutureShock OneTwo, Berlin (I)

- By Henriëtte van ’t Hoog

Contour VI, 2011, 23x23x12 cm

Contour VI, 2011, 23x23x12 cm

FutureShock OneTwo
Internationale Neue Konkrete +
galerie dr. julius | ap
Leberstraße 60
10829 Berlin
Germany

January 27 – March 17, 2012
Hours: Thu–Sat 3–7 pm and by appointment
Opening reception: Thursday, January 26, 2012, 7 pm

 
Participating artists: John Aslanidis (AU), Wolfgang Berndt (DE), Hartmut Böhm (DE), Monika Brandmeier (DE), Matthew Deleget (US), Edgar Diehl (DE), Stephan Ehrenhofer (AT), Daniel Göttin (CH), Michael Graeve (AU), Marco Grassi (IT), Anette Haas (DE), José Heerkens (NL), Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (NL), Gilbert Hsiao (US), Pierre Juillerat (CH), Károly Keserü (HU), Siegfried Kreitner (DE), Sabine Laidig (DE), Josef Linschinger (AT), Ray Malone (GB), Riki Mijling (NL), David Rhodes (GB), Giles Ryder (AU), Tim Stapel (DE), Maik Teriete (DE), Wolfram Ullrich (DE), Carles Valverde (ES), Don Voisine (US), Jan Maarten Voskuil (NL), Burchard Vossmann (DE), Guido Winkler (NL)

Curated by Matthias Seidel

 
Henriëtte van ’t Hoog participates with Contour VI (2011).
 
For the first exhibition in 2012 dr. julius | ap will present FutureShock OneTwo, a group show featuring a selection of international artists from three continents. Participants each display a work of theirs that they feel looks ahead towards the future.

The title reflects the current uncertainty in all areas of life: it seems to be increasingly clear that things will not evolve as predictably and smoothly as they have in the past. However, this is also a great opportunity for innovation. The exhibition wants to ask what role the International New Concrete and neighboring fields of art might play in this new era.

An important goal of this exhibition is to have the artists join a general discussion on the future of non-objective art, such as its potential to influence one’s perspective on life, especially in comparison with narrative forms of art. Moreover, it is to explore the relation of art and value: in times of a fundamental crisis in the monetary system, can money really be the adequate equivalent in which to trade art? Is the work of the artist actually not more than money can ever be? Could art be an alternative system of values, mentally and materially?