Fiona Tan — Mountains and molehills
Eye Amsterdam
Exhibition
2022
Fiona Tan — Mountains and molehills | Eye Amsterdam | Exhibition | 2022
This exhibition is a journey through a selection of works from Fiona Tan’s oeuvre, in which the passing of time and the role of the landscape as a mental space are recurring themes.
The exhibition focuses on Gray Glass (2020) and Inventory (2012), and the new work Footsteps (2022), which Fiona Tan made at the invitation of Eye. These video installations explore the connections between landscape, environment and humankind, and also the relationships between image, maker and viewer.
For Tan, time is both a medium and a vehicle. It is a material that she studies, shapes and processes into artworks – often in combination with still and moving images.
Magnetic North — Imagining Canada in painting 1910-1940
Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Exhibition
2021
Magnetic North — Imagining Canada in painting 1910-1940 | Kunsthal, Rotterdam | Exhibition | 2021
The exhibition’Magnetic North’focuses on the Canadian modernist paintings of artists around the Group of Seven, an artist’s collective that is still immensely popular in Canada. Over eighty masterful paintings and sketches show a mythical, imaginary Canada. At the heart of the exhibition, audio-visual works by artist Caroline Monnet and filmmaker Lisa Jackson, open up a critical perspective on the paintings. These films by women who are rooted in cultures of the Indigenous peoples of these territories enable us to look at the landscapes by the Group of Seven in a different way.
Woven Cosmos — Hella Jongerius
Gropiusbau, Berlin
Exhibition
2021
Woven Cosmos — Hella Jongerius | Gropiusbau, Berlin | Exhibition | 2021
Solo exhibition of Hella Jongerius’s work in GropiusBau, Berlin.
Entitled ‘Woven Cosmos’, the exhibition uses interactive elements to engage visitors in the artist’s open-ended, process-oriented techniques, encouraging a critical examination of issues around production and sustainability, present and future. Apart from Jongerius’s research into innovation and her progressive experimental practices, the exhibition highlights her ongoing enquiry into how we relate to objects. Jongeriuslab’s production will continue every day throughout the exhibition, allowing a number of works to evolve during the show.
We are animals
Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Exhibition
2021
We are animals | Kunsthal, Rotterdam | Exhibition | 2021
The exhibition ‘We Are Animals’ in the Kunsthal brings together a great variety of extraordinary animal creations by over thirty contemporary artists. Works by artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Candida Höfer, Paul McCarthy, and David Shrigley show the relationship between human beings and animals, and reveal how we, as humans, see and try to understand ourselves better through animals.
‘We are Animals’ explores different aspects of the relationship between humans and animals. The works either express edgy perspectives on how humans manipulate other animal species, or celebrate and appreciate animals for being the miraculous creatures that we can recognise so much of ourselves in.
Sculptures of feathered polar bears, installations with wild wolves, monumental paintings of cuddly cats, and poignant photographs of zoos: this provocative selection of works has resulted in an exciting exhibition that offers food for thought.