Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Future Generation Art Prize
Shortlisted and part of the group exhibition
August, 2024 (exhibition) & October, 2024 (award ceremony)
PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Odonchimeg Davaadorj
Sogni
Curated by Andrea Busto
12 September – 15 December, 2024
Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
Kin(d) Relations II
Curated by Julie Crenn and Diane Pigeau
25 October – 19 December, 2024
Antre Peaux, Bourges, France
Curitiba Biennial
Curated by Marc Pottier
22 November, 2024 – 25 May, 2025
MON Museum, Curitiba, Brasil
Lungiswa Gqunta
Black Ancient Futures
Curated by Camila Maissune and João Pinharanda
18 September 2024 – 17 March, 2025
MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
Sala
Curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg
15 December, 2023 – 12 April, 2026
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
How to dream?
Curated by Stefanie Böttcher and Sabine Rusterholz Petko
7 March – 22 June, 2025
Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Inge Meijer
We are very proud to announce the publication of Inge Meijer’s book The MoMA Plant Collection. It includes 340 photographs and drawings of exhibitions at the New York institution, in which plants feature among the works. Inge Meijer wants to render museum plants visible once again, to make us aware of their real as well as metaphrical importance.
The book is now available for purchase at the gallery.
112 pages
ISBN 9789464460537
Price €32
renan@akinci.nl (for orders)
We are proud to announce that the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden has acquired multiple works by Inge Meijer, a.o. the film Car Garden (2021).
Boekenlunch
Presenting The Plant Collection (2019, Roma Publications) & The MoMA Plant Collection (2024, Roma Publications)
Thursday 12 December, 12 – 1 pm
Huis van het Boek, Den Haag, Netherlands
Cevdet Erek
Sea and Fog
Curated by Çağla Ilk, Misal Adnan Yildiz & Sandeep Sodhi
8 November, 2024 – 26 January, 2025
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
BEDROCK
Liverpool Biennial 2025
Curated by Marie-Anne McQuay
7 June – 14 September, 2025
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Theo Jansen
The ArtParade
18 October, 2024 – 5 January, 2025
Museum Prinsenhof, Delft, Netherlands
Anne Wenzel
We are very proud that curator Saskia van Kampen-Prein has acquired Anne Wenzel’s work House of Fools (Witte), 2024 for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s Modern and Contemporary Art Collection.
In 2021 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.
PAXXH
25 October, 2024 – 18 January, 2025
Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
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.
Radical Therapy
Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship
June 2023 – June 2024
Gray Centre for Arts and Enquiry
University of Chicago, United States
Charlotte Schleiffert
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.
POP LIFE
Curated by Euan Gray and Witte Wartena
2 November, 2024 – 9 March, 2025
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Stéphanie Saadé
Présence
Residency and exhibition in the permanent collection
from 14 November 2023 onwards
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
RugLife
Curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox of c2-curatorsquared.
14 December, 2024 – 20 April, 2025
Museum of Crafts and Design, San Francisco, United States
Andrei Roiter
Objects
Curated by Gianluca Ranzi
19 October – 30 November, 2024
ArteA Gallery, Milan, Italy
Axel Hütte
Chronostasis
18 October – 1 December, 2024
Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza, Italy
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.
Pages 240
ISBN 9783753302867
Price €25
renan@akinci.nl (for orders)
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.
Jaap van den Ende
We are very proud to announce the publication of Jaap van den Ende’s book tegenstelling en samenhang (contradiction and coherence). This monumental monograph is dedicated to Dutch painter Jaap van den Ende (Delft, 1944). In richly illustrated chapters, four authors illuminate the development of a multiform oeuvre spanning almost six decades.
The book is now available for purchase at the gallery.
tegenstelling en samenhang
Waanders Uitgevers
Pages 312
ISBN 9789462625822
Price €40
tessa@akinci.nl (for orders)
The ArtParade
18 October, 2024 – 5 January, 2025
Museum Prinsenhof, Delft, Netherlands
Moyna Flannigan
Moyna Flannigan has been awarded the Bryan Robertson 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.
Space Shuffle: Exhibition Catalogue, 2024
Published by Artists’ Collective Gallery, Edinburgh on the occasion of the exhibition: Moyna Flannigan, Space Shuffle, 28 June – 15 September 2024
ISBN 978 1 873653 29 6
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
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).
Tomorrow is a Different Day
Collection exhibition from 1980 – now
Presenting Prime Time Paradise
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
Two Songs
Dutch Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale
Curated by Sanneke Huisman and Theus Zwakhals.
7 September – 1 December, 2024
Gwangju, South-Korea
Denn in den Wäldern sind Dinge
Curated by Simone Kobler& Gaillard Céline
24 November, 2024- 2 February, 2025
Stiftung Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
melanie bonajo
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 been representing The Netherlands at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. bonajo worked with a curatorial team consisting of Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth and Soraya Pol. The scenography is made in collaboration with Théo Demans.
Recent museum acquisitions are:
Matrix Botanica, Biosphere Above Nations, 2013 to Institut d’art Contemporain Rhône, Villeurbanne and the video installation TouchMETell, 2019 to SeMA, Republic of Korea. In addition to the Museum acquisition, melanie bonajo realised a version with children from Korea in collaboration with SeMA: TouchMETell_02, as a donated to the Museum.
When the body says Yes has and will be traveling to (international) museum venues. The journey started at FOMU, Antwerp and went further to KUMU Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; IMMA – The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. In 2025 When the body says Yes will be shown at Lahti Museum of Visual Arts, Marva, Finland and NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, DE.
melanie bonajo. Schule der Liebenden
Curated by Amely Deiss, commisioned by Kunstpalais Erlangen
31 March – 31 June, 2025
Kunstpalais, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst Erlangen, Germany
melanie bonajo: Night Soil Trilogy
Curated by Anni Venäläinen
26 September, 2025 – 1 March, 2026
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
When the body says Yes
Curator by Ilari Laamanen
8 May – 2 November ,2025
Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lathi, Finland
