Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen has acquired Anne Wenzel’s immersive installation Under Construction, with generous support of the Mondrian Fund. Museum Het Valkhof is the first museum in The Netherlands to acquire a complete installation by Anne Wenzel.
Meijer follows Wenzel as she sculpts the Razzia monument (2023)
Imogen Stidworthy
We are proud to announce that Imogen Stidworthy has been shortlisted for the Freelands Award 2023.
In 2025, Chapter will present a new body of immersive, multi-channel video and sound work by Imogen Stidworthy (b. 1963, London, UK). Exploring the concept of crisis, Stidworthy will draw on dialogue with patients and therapists, as well as field and embodied research, to explore radical therapies and mental health today.
We are proud to announce that Museum Dordrecht has acquired a work on paper from the series ‘What kind of leader do we need?’ (2014) by Charlotte Schleiffert.
Furthermore, we are excited to announce that on the occasion of the travelling exhibition ‘Tolerance Test’, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, as well as the Drents Museum have acquired several monumental works on paper by Charlotte Schleiffert.
Permanent collection display including recent work by Thomas Huber
La Fondazione MASI
Museo D’Arte Della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Juul Hondius
We’re proud to announce that Juul Hondius’ film To Unveil a Star has recieved the award for the best essay at the 40th Festival Films on Art (le FIFA) in Montréal, CA.
Gluklya
We are proud to share that the book ‘Two Diaries’ by Gluklya and Murad can now be ordered (via DM or email). The book covers the period in which Gluklya & Murad Zorava met in the Bijlmerbajes, when it was used both as an artists’ incubator and an asylum centre. Gluklya (Natalia Pershin- Yakimanskaya) is a visual and performance artist living and working in Amsterdam. Murad Zorava is a Kurdish activist and poet currently living in Europe.
Published by Walther & Franz König
Editors Charles Esche & Ashley Maum
Producers Framer Framed & Van Abbemuseum
Designer Bardi Haliti
Made possible with support from Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Mondriaan Fonds, Prinsbernhars Cultuur Fonds, AFK, Blue Square Gallery and AKINCI.
Vitamin C+ will feature around 100 international artists and will include an introductory essay by Yuval Etgar, a curator and art historian who has written extensively on the history and theory of collage, authoring books including ‘John Stezaker: At the Edge of Pictures’ (2020) and ‘The Ends of Collage’ (2017).
Moyna Flannigan has been awarded the Bryan Roberston Trust Award for 2023.
Established on the instructions of the late Bryan Robertson (director of the Whitechapel Gallery 1962-69, broadcaster, critic, curator and passionate enthusiast for the visual arts and contemporary dance).
Flannigan will use the grant to develop a new body of work which explores extending collage principles into other art forms.
Edinburgh Art Festival 2024
9 August – 25 August, 2024
City Dome, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
We’re very proud to announce that Centraal Museum Utrecht has acquired the immersive work ‘Fix the Variable, Exclude the Accidental, Eliminate the Impure, Unravel the Tangled, Discover the Unknown’ (2021) by Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen. The acquisition was generously supported by the Mondriaan Fund 2020-2021 (commissioned by the museum).
The video installation TouchMETell, 2019 by melanie bonajo allows children (and adults) to think and talk about intimacy, their limits and body awareness. melanie bonajo and a group of children aged 6-8 investigate how they experience their own body and physical contact with others.
In addition to the Museum acquisition of TouchMETell, melanie bonajo realised a version with children from Korea in collaboration with SeMA: TouchMETell_02, which will be donated to the Museum in April, 2024.
We are extremely happy and proud that melanie bonajo has represented The Netherlands at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. bonajo has been working with a curatorial team consisting of Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth and Soraya Pol. The scenography is made in collaboration with Théo Demans.
When the body says Yes has and will be traveling to international museum venues. The journey started at FOMU, Antwerp and KUMU Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn. The next stop will be: IMMA – The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.