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Eternal Return at the End (and Beginning) of an Art Venue

by Nicola Bozzi
Bojan Šarčević, Thomas Bakker, PEDRO BARATEIRO, Melanie Bonajo, Mariana Castillo Deball, Heman Chong, Jonas Dahlberg, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Thea Djordjadze, Zoro Feigl, Hella Jongerius, Surasi Kusolwong, Runo Lagomarsino, Joris Lindhout, Goshka Macuga, Raimundas Malašauskas, Jankovics Marcell, Girolamo Marri, Onco Tattje, Bik van der Pol, Barbara Visser, Freek Wambacq at SMART Project Space November 3rd, 2012 - December 30th, 2012
Posted 11/5/12

As a project space, SMART's goal has always been to involve artists at a deeper level than regular institutions. In the past couple of years, the Statements series has been bringing to Amsterdam internationally renowned artists like the Russian collective Chto Delat or Nathaniel Mellors, putting them in a curatorial position rather than merely presenting a retrospective of their work. From time to time, different guests have reached out for the participation of the audience, external actors, or othe... [more]

2011 in The Rest of the World

by Robin Peckham
Olga Chernysheva, Heman Chong, Federico Herrero, John Smith at Para/Site Art Space December 17th, 2011 - March 4th, 2012
Posted 12/25/11

Cosmin Costinas, incoming curator of Hong Kong’s only serious alternative space, Para/Site, attempts to shape his upcoming exhibition program with a project seeking to explore the ramifications of the past year—a period of time during much of which, not entirely coincidentally, the art space has been left rudderless and without direction. Drawing on a political moment that has emerged as a fundamentally hopeful crisis in the workings of both the global neoliberal economy and the theoretically democrat... [more]

The Future is in Present Tense

by Natalie Hegert
r a d i o q ua l i a, Neïl Beloufa, Pesijn Broersen, Heman Chong, Graham Ellard, Johannes Heldén, Stephen Johnstone, Ann Lislegaard, Margit Lukács, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Semiconductor, Mark Aerial Waller at Netherlands Media Art Institute - Montevideo/Time Based Arts February 14th, 2009 - April 25th, 2009
Posted 4/5/09

When you're in Amsterdam make sure to stop by the Netherlands Institute for Media Art--it's free with your museum card and during the Stedelijk hiatus provides the one of the only contemporary counterpoints to the works of the Dutch Masters which you probably would have exhausted yourself with. The current exhibition there, Into the Unknown, is a hyper-contemporary look at the translation of science through art and science-fiction. Give yourself plenty of time to have a seat and watch t... [more]