exhibition archive

, 27 January - 3 March, , curator: Guus Beumer, Rutger Wolfson

Higher Truth No.5Photo(s): Leo van Kampen

About the parallel universe of fashion. An exhibition as the ultimate shopping experience.

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, 17 November - 7 January,

Eigen CollectiePhoto(s): Leo van Kampen

A selection of works from De Vleeshal’s own collection. A first showing of new work by Monu Hatoum. The exhibition also included a newly acquired piece by Piet Dieleman and works by Mike Kelley and Marinus Boezem.

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, 26 August - 4 November,

Photo(s): Leo van Kampen

Ana Maria Tavares’ exhibition Numinoso at the Kabinetten van De Vleeshal ran concurrently with her Middelburg Airport Lounge with Parede Niemeyer at De Vleeshal.

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, 26 August - 4 November,

Photo(s): Leo van Kampen

The first major solo showing of the Brazilian artist Ana Maria Tavares in Europe.

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, 17 June - 19 August, , curator: Rutger Wolfson

This is the FlowPhoto(s): Leo van Kampen

This is the Flow was a project highlighting the creative mentality of skateboard culture. The exhibition came about in a unique collaboration between De Vleeshal, US skateboard manufacturer The Girl Skateboard Company and young Dutch artists/skateboarders La Rivière en Rosenau.

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, 29 May - 5 August,

Photo(s): Kees Brandenburg

The river that always Flows highlighted work by artist Ben Sleeuwenhoek. Some of the water colours and ceramic works presented in the exhibition had never been shown before.

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, 25 March - 20 May,

0010

By means of computers, Lucas van der Velden – alias 0010 – creates restrained, lucid and hypnotic images to accompany music. His video works were shown in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal.

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, 25 March - 27 May,

Chris CunninghamPhoto(s): 2-5, Leo van Kampen

Chris Cunningham has made music videos for artists such as Aphex Twin, Madonna and Björk. His first work of art, flex, was shown at De Vleeshal.

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, 6 February - 18 March,

Jan Peter MuilwijkPhoto(s): Kees Brandenburg

Reizigers, meisjes en een verstrikte bok was a presentation of work by artist Janpeter Muilwijk.

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, 4 February - 11 March,

The Leisure SocietyPhoto(s): Leo van Kampen

The Leisure Society was the outcome of an exceptional collaboration between De Vleeshal and Dutch broadcasting company VPRO. The Leisure Society centred around the booming leisure industry. The Leisure Society was closely linked to the television documentary The Leisure Zone, which was broadcast on the night of the exhibition’s opening.

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, 22 December - 21 January,

In December 2000 Swiss artist Susann Walder presented her outlook on the present-day celebration of Christmas in the western world.

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, 31 October - 10 December,

In order to strengthen the ties with Middelburg, De Vleeshal invited four of its inhabitants to put together presentations of work from De Vleeshal’s own collection.

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, 29 October - 10 December,

An exhibition of 2000 water colours and paintings by Middelburg artist Marenne Welten in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal.

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, 10 September - 15 October, , curator: Edwin Carels

Featuring work by: Elke Boon; Luc Compernol; Wim Delvoye; Linda Dement; Gunther Forg; Mike Kelly; Inez van Lamsweerde; Sharon Lockhart; Martin Margiela; Claes Oldenburg; Koen Theys; Marijke van Warmerdam; Patrick van Caeckenberg; and Danny Devos.

Back from School was a thematic group exhibition about children’s experiences and how these are perceived by adults.

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, 1 August - 3 September,

On the occasion of the publication of the catalogue Krijn de Koning. Binnen Buiten/Inside Outside De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal staged a first showing of De Koning’s travel photographs. Drawings and scale models by De Koning were also on display.

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, 1 August - 3 September,

Photo(s): Leo van Kampen

In the late 1990’s VJ’s (video jockeys) began making the visually static performances by disc jockeys in clubs more attractive by projecting video images to accompany the music. One of the pioneers of VJ-ing was Geert Mul. De Vleeshal invited Mul to apply his experiences in clubs to a museum setting. The result was the installation Generating Live.

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, 29 May - 16 July,

Photo(s): Kees Brandenburg

On the occasion of the publication of the catalogue Krijn de Koning. Binnen Buiten/Inside Outside De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal staged a first showing of De Koning’s travel photographs. Drawings and scale models by De Koning were also on display.

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, 29 May - 16 July,

Photo(s): Leo van Kampen

Krijn de Koning’s Sculpture for De Vleeshal was an architectural work, created specifically for De Vleeshal.

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, 28 March - 14 May,

Karin van Dam - Floating, Collapsible City System and Rising CoilsPhoto(s): Leo van Kampen

Karin van Dam created her work Floating, Collapsible Cities and Rising Coils especially for De Vleeshal: a gigantic installation built up from materials as diverse as tents, sunscreens for car windows, drainage pipes, prefab pools and rope.

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, 26 March - 14 May,

Photo(s): Kees Brandenburg

Exclusively for De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal Folkert de Jong built the domain of The Ilemauzer: the dark, deranged world of a man whose name was borrowed from a seventeenth century document about witch hunting.

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, 25 January - 12 March,

Hellen van MeenePhoto(s): Hellen van Meene

Hellen van Meene’s exhibition at De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal was her first solo presentation in the Netherlands. In 1999 Van Meene had won the Charlotte Khler prize for young artists.

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, 25 January - 12 March, , curator: Lex ter Braak

Photo(s): Leo van Kampen

The first presentation of 2000 was Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist’s Grossmut begatte mich. A few years earlier, in 1996, De Vleeshal had been the first arts institution to acquire one of Rist’s works.

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, 19 December - 9 January,

1999’s last exhibition in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal was a presentation of work by three Zeeland artists who venture into fields normally considered to be the domain of science and politics: Hein Verwer, Marinus van Dijke and Kees de Valk.

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, 7 November - 12 December,

Photo(s): 1-4: Leo van Kampen, 5-6 Kees Brandenburg

Late 1999, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal presented work by young Swedish artist Per Wizén and Japanese artist Keiko Sato (works and lives in the Netherlands).

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, 7 November - 12 December,

Drunk was De Vleeshal’s screening of the same titled video work by renowned British artist Gillian Wearing (winner of the 1997 Turner Prize).

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