Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
The Shroom Project comes from my fascination for mushrooms and more precisely for the psilocybin mushroom – the so-called magic mushroom – with regard to its hallucinogenic property.
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exhibitions
now on show
Koenraad Dedobbeleer (b. 1975, Brussels) presents his first Dutch solo show, with new work at De Vleeshal.
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exhibitions
upcoming
Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
Collectie 07
Collection 07
The Middelburg Foundation for Visual Arts (SBKM)/De Vleeshal is in charge of Middelburg’s municipal art collection, which is stored at the Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp. Parts of the collection are periodically on show in a series of exhibitions at De Vleeshal and De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal. In 2011, after a number of retrospective exhibitions, Pipilotti Rist’s work Grossmut begatte mich was on display. In 2012 it was the turn of the recently purchased L’isola by Rossella Biscotti, to be followed later in the year by Nedko Solakov’s A Quiz (again). This year the spotlight is on Jimmie Durham’s 1995 work The center of the world.
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exhibition archive
Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, Arnoud Holleman, Hedwig Houben, Gert Jan Kocken, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Willem Oorebeek and Vincent Vulsma & Elisa van Joolen.
Exhibition from 26 January to 15 April 2013
Opens: Friday 25 January at 5 p.m.
De Vleeshal and De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
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Open Video Projects is a short exhibition at the start of the new year. The exhibition consists of a videoscreening with a number of short films. The selection is made by Sarra Brill from the Open Video Projects initiative.
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
Three artists, all born and bred in the Dutch province of Zeeland, have drawn inspiration from their origins and surroundings in their own individual ways. Their explorations of what makes Zeeland unique have evoked a range of creative responses to its spirit of place, its ‘Genius Loci’.
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From 15 September to 28 October the Middelburg Foundation for Visual Arts (SBKM) will present Yona Friedman and Jean-Baptiste Decavèle’s exhibition Architecture without building at De Vleeshal in Middelburg.
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
Collection 05
There will not be an official opening, but a prize will be awarded at 5 p.m. on Wednesday 29 August.
The Middelburg Foundation for Visual Arts (SBKM)/De Vleeshal is in charge of Middelburg’s municipal art collection, which is stored at the Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp. Parts of the collection are periodically on show in a series of exhibitions at De Vleeshal and De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal. Last year, after a number of retrospective exhibitions, Pipilotti Rist’s work Grossmut begatte mich was on display. This year it is the turn of the recently purchased L’isola by Rossella Biscotti, to be followed later in the year by Jimmie Durham’s 1995 work The centre of the world. This summer the spotlight is on Nedko Solakov’s A Quiz (again).
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From 1 July to 28 October the Middelburg Foundation for Visual Arts (SBKM/De Vleeshal), in collaboration with the regional newspaper Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant (PZC) and bookshop De Drvkkery, will present The Art of Choice, an exhibition of works from its own collection, at De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal.
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
Rossella Biscotti’s project is informed by research into the state of detention. Focusing on a prisoner’s general conditions she analyzes the psychological effects caused by isolation, the aim of which is to destroy physical and intellectual abilities. The project is developed inside the first prison built for life imprisonment, which opened its doors in 1793 on the island of Santo Stefano, 50 km from the Italian coastline. The prison is a Panopticon resembling the San Carlo Opera Theatre in Naples. The panoptic structure, developed by Jeremy Bentham, expresses the desire of institutional powers to punish the prisoner and annul his identity, through the constant sensation of being controlled. The Santo Stefano structure was in function until 1965. It had also been used for political captivity.
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Landscape on the Move is a touring exhibition that brings together elements and testimony from various places, linking the metaphor of travel to that of art. This project, which began with several events in 2010 and 2011, involves a series of contributions by artists who focus on the relationship between artworks and place and treat the exhibition space as a container of ideas in motion. Devised by the RadioArteMobile (RAM) organisation in Rome, the project includes an exhibition, the D/A/C project and the SoundArtMuseum.
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
From 1 April to 20 May the Middelburg Foundation for Visual Arts will present Falke Pisano’s exhibition The Body in Crisis at De Vleeshal. The exhibition will open at 5 p.m. on Saturday 31 March. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at an art institution in the Netherlands.
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From 14 January through to 18 March, the the Foundation for Visual Arts Middelburg (Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg) will present the group exhibition Autumn of modernism in De Vleeshal & De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal.
De Vleeshal en in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal
Opens Saturday, 14 January, 5 p.m.
Gwenneth Boelens, Piet Dieleman, gerlach en koop, Sara van der Heide, Martijn Hendriks, Bas van den Hurk, Rob Johannesma, Katja Mater, Marc Nagtzaam, Falke Pisano, Roma Publications, Petra Stavast, Batia Suter, Remco Torenbosch, Martijn in ‘t Veld
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
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This autumn Visual Arts Foundation presents the exhibition A walk, a hundred years, a reconstruction by Marinus van Dijke in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal.
Opens
Saturday, October 22, 4 p.m.
De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Zusterstraat 7
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
From 22 October through to 11 December, the the Foundation for Visual Arts Middelburg (Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg) will present the group exhibition Beyond the Fragile Geometry of Sculpture in De Vleeshal.
With: Tolia Astali/Dylan Peirce, Eva Berendes, Michael Dean, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, David Jablonowski, Guillaume Leblon, Italo Zuffi
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
Production, presentation and distribution
From 8 to 16 October, the Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg will present the group exhibition I Can’t, I Can, I Care, a unique artistic laboratory in De Vleeshal.
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
Collection SBKM / De Vleeshal
From 17 September through to 2 October 2011 the Foundation for Visual Arts Middelburg (Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg) will present Grossmut begatte Mich by Piilotti Rist at the Vleeshal.
In 1996, De Vleeshal had been the first arts institution to acquire one of Rist’s works: Grossmut begatte Mich was presented in De Vleeshal, in 2000.
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
The Foundation for Visual Arts Middelburg (Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg) presents the exhibition In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Zusterstraat 7, Middelburg. It opens on saturday 10 september at 4 p.m. As part of the exhibition a publication will be presented.
At 5 p.m. there will be a symposium in De Vleeshal, with curators Susan Hapgood and Cornelia Lauf and with special guests Seth Siegelaub and Daniel McClean.
Free Admission
‘Certificates of authenticity are a critical aspect of art works today’
Certificates of authenticity are a critical aspect of art works today. They often even embody the artwork itself, while referring to it, serving as its deed, legal statement, and fiscal invoice. Certificates by artists validate the authorship and originality of the work and they allow the work of art to be positioned in the
marketplace as a branded product-no matter how immaterial or transient that product may be. Whereas the inherent importance of any given work of art should be self-evident to the connoisseur’s eye, certificates point the focus elsewhere, and
prove that material or aesthetic qualities in an object sometimes do not suffice in constituting the work of art. In our globalized, capitalist present, the certificate and its implications about artistic thinking have become an instrument of business nterprise, as well as a philosophical statement about the nature of an artwork.
Certificates have legal and ontological implications that make them fascinating documents of changing attitudes toward art and the role of artists.
Providing examples of artists’ certificates from the past fifty years, this exhibition will reveal how roles have shifted and developed, as well as how the materials and content of art have changed too. Concise didactic texts will assist the viewer in contextualizing each inclusion in the presentation. Ranging from the most official looking printed documents, with their imprimatur of institutionalization, to dashed-off notations that perform the same definitive function in constituting and defining the parameters of a given art work, this exhibition will interest a broad swath of audiences, ranging from art aficionados to lawyers, students to aesthetes.
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
In her work Kelly Schacht goes in search of a very specific moment in time by reconstructing emotional situations and memories. She explores the act of exhibiting and the material space in which this act takes place by evoking new atmospheres and situations. In that dialogue between space and matter, Schacht brings into focus the conflict between illusion and reality, the imaginary and the concrete. The exhibition takes shape through the evocation of sensations and visions expressed as perpetual movements. The space is a dynamic element because its perception is bound up with the experience of the person who inhabits it.
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Photo(s): Johan Nieuwenhuize, Esther Kokmeijer
The Exhibithion On Time, In Place is a dialoque between Johan Nieuwenhuize and Esther Kokmeijer. The work they present at ‘De Kabinetten’ is a gathering of specific places at specific times.
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
After Roma Publications and Castillo Corrales, the third exhibition in the “Published by” series is organised by the London-based collective Åbäke. Under the title Published by De Vleeshal, Åbäke creates a dialogue between various locations of books in the town of Middelburg. Apart from De Vleeshal itself, the exhibition sites are the Province of Zeeland library, the bookshop De Drvkkery and the second-hand bookshop De Boekenbeurs. Åbäke investigates the social dynamics of books – the places where they can be borrowed, purchased, repurchased or looked at, as well as the stories contained in them and the links they create between people. The aim is to discover the collective dimension of books, at the threshold between the private and public spheres. In The Sign of the Vandal, for instance, Åbäke borrows books from the library and arranges for their authors to autograph them. Thus personalised by their authors, the books are then returned to the library shelves. Books are a means of exchanging ideas, creating new perspectives and new spaces, constructing means of communication and moments of reflection. They are not just objects, but vehicles for creating new spaces.
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Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
The English word “plot” means not only a conspiracy and a story, but also a piece of land, an ambiguity of meanings that is played upon in Mandla Reuter’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. A Plot (2011) is an installation made of dirt and a corner post that has been brought into the exhibition space of De Vleeshal. The materials are coming from a piece of land that the artist purchased in Los Angeles, a city whose image is particularly formed by the local movie industry. This synthesis of reality and fiction is the theme the German artist sets out to define. In many ways A Plot (2011) can be seen as a diptych, one part becoming an artefact and cultural object, which is transformed and contextualized by the different venues it is traveling to. The other part, as a section on the map by definition immovable, becomes a monument of its own offering possibilities for things to come.
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For his first solo exhibition in The Netherlands the French artist Benoît Maire will present, under the title The Object of Criticism the second part of his philosophical investigation project Aesthetics of the Differends. In the exhibition five artworks are trying to find a solution to the question: what is the Object of philosophy? The artist understands philosophy as a critic (analytical critic) and the object of criticism can be understood as the object of philosophy.
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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of SBKM (1991-2011) a panoramic view of the foundation’s past activities will be presented in the spaces of De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal. Entitled Unfolding the exhibition wishes to enter the archive, detailing the material published over the years: publications, invites, posters, documents and numerous images that have characterized the gothic space of De Vleeshal and De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal with the most experimental contemporary art.
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