(nelly&) Theo van Doesburg foundation and private art collectors Annelies van der Pauw and Martin de Koning invited a handful of carefully selected Amsterdam-based opinion makers, property developers from Sluisbuurt and Zuidas, press and other stakeholders of our foundation to a one-day exhibition and salon conversation called news from nowhere. The activity programme takes place during the open monuments days in Amsterdam.
From historic townhouse to construction site, news from nowhere is a one-day group show in a private home bringing together alumni of dutch art academies and works of private art collections as it relates to agrarian society, biology, class mobility, liquidity and water management. The series is named after a publication of the arts & crafts movement; news from nowhere (an epoch of rest). this soft science fiction shows how socialism not only leads to the abolition of private property but also take away the divisions between art, life, and work thus 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.
News from nowhere 2024 is the third in a series of exhibitions in private spaces curated by Jules van den Langenberg. previous editions included collectors Philippa van Loon, Casper van der Kruk and amongst other artists Josse Pyl, Wouter Paijmans, Carly Rose bedford, Bin Koh, Maria Roosen, Vanessa Beecroft, Barbara Visser and Job Koelewijn. For the news from nowhere exhibition a private home sets the stage for pairings of works from the art collectors’ collection and emerging artists. (nelly&)theo van doesburg foundation looks forward to working with these artists in public spaces.
The selected works in the exhibition are grouped by topic and materiality, reimagining the interior with duo presentations spread over different rooms creating an utopic household. After a viewing of the art works in the historic Amsterdam townhouse we will sit down for a concentrated group talk on the development of yet to be realized public art works by upcoming artists and the foundation. Participating artists include Annee Grøtte Viken, Kitty Maria and Elise Ehry, Ryo Kinoshita, Maurice van Tellingen, Gijs Frieling, Niek Hendrix, Claudia Martínez Garay.
To get an even better idea of what the foundation strive for, have a read in the article on the 2024 edition of news from nowhere by writer and curator Laurens Otto.
Images credits: photo by Sander van Wettum, 2024
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