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> Event: 'Europe 2006-2014', FeliXart Museum, Drogenbos, BE
Opening: 09/05/2012 - Europe Day
Open: summer - autumn 2012
Location: Kuikenstraat 6 - 1620 Drogenbos
On the 9th of May, the official Europe Day, five new flags will be flown in front of the FeliXart Museum. It is the start of several artistic interventions taking place around the museum in the course of the summer and autumn of 2012.
> Exhibition: 'Lost & Found', ERROR ONE, Antwerp, BE
Opening: 25/05/2012 at 7:30 pm
Open: 26/05 - 24/06/2012
Location: De Studio, Maarschalk Gérardstraat 4, 2000 Antwerpen
> Exhibition: 'KAAP2012', Groenekan (Utrecht), NL
Opening: 27/05/2012
Open: 27-28/05, 2-3-9-10-16-17-23-24-30/06, 1-7-8/07/2012
Location: Fort Ruigenhoek, Groenekan (Utrecht)
With: Uta Eisenreich, Zoro Feigl, Maze de Boer, Min Oh, John Bock, Jaap Kroneman, Andreas Arndt, Alexander Nowak, Wim T. Schippers, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys.
> Exhibition: Manifesta9, Genk, BE
Press preview: 31/05/2012
Opening: 01/06/2012
Open: 02/06 - 30/09/2012
Location: former Waterschei mine, André Dumontlaan, 3600 Genk, Belgium
For the first time in the history of Manifesta, the biennial will not only present an international, industry-leading selection of contemporary art. The exhibition will also consist of an impressive collection of historical works and will display the rich mining heritage in a surprising and innovative way to both local and international audiences.
Curator Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico City) developed the concept for Manifesta 9, addressing the social and societal impact of the recent past in Limburg. The exhibition The Deep of the Modern will be presented as a triptych. For the first section, 35 international contemporary artists are invited to create new work, paying heed to regional context, linking the local theme with global issues. The art historical section provides an overview of works of art from the 19th and 20th Centuries, with the impact of the coal industry as their subject. The third section focuses on the extensive legacy that the Limburg mining industry has left behind.
> Exhibition: 'The Museum of Forgotten History XXX, M HKA, Antwerp, BE
Opening: 28/06/2012
Open: 29/06 - 16/09/2012
Location: M HKA, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen
Curated by Nav Haq.
Maarten Vanden Eynde’s The Museum of Forgotten History houses the remnants of a possible future past. The artefacts that together form the collection for this semi-fictional institution are the pieces of a puzzle being used here for providing interpretations of the period we know as late capitalism. Viewed from the perspective of civilization at an ambiguous point in the future, The Museum of Forgotten History aspires to fill the missing links that occur due to the constant evolution of history.
Since 2003, Vanden Eynde has been developing an invented field of research called Genetology – the science of first things – as a personal counter-perspective to the existing science of Eschatology – the science of last things. Touching on numerous subjects of social and political relevance such as post-industrialism, capitalism and ecology, the exhibits in this exhibition will offer a perspective on the condition of society at the beginning of the 21st Century. Presenting these unusual objects, all constructed from a variety of natural and artificial materials, Vanden Eynde continues to build up a body of material research through the methodology of looking back towards the modern origins of “progress”.
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