Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien

Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien

La Biennale di Venezia | 60th international art exhibition

Presenting Ivory Coast with the exhibition The Blue Note

Curated by Simon Njami

20 April – 24 November, 2024

Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice, Italy

Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana

8 September – 24 November, 2024

Barcelona, Spain

Future Generation Art Prize
Shortlisted and part of the group exhibition

August, 2024 (exhibition) & October, 2024 (award ceremony)

PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine

Memoria: Accounts of Another History

4 April, 2024 – 28 February, 2025

Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Odonchimeg Davaadorj

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

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

The Last Place They Thought Of

Curated by Sorana Munsya

13 December, 2024 – 2 March, 2025

Kunsthal Mechelen, Belgium

Sala

Curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg

15 December, 2023 – 12 April, 2026

Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa

Molly Palmer

Molly Palmer

Amulet

Mondriaan Film commission, curated by Maia Kenney and Berber Meindertsma for The Couch ‘s online chapter Mystics of the Chthulucene at Het Hem, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amulet is available to watch on request via a private link

Ruby Swinney

Ruby Swinney

Handle With Care

18 March – 31 December, 2024

Espacio SOLO, Madrid, Spain

Inge Meijer

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).  

 

EARTH – A collective landscape

From 18 September onwards

AkzoNobel Art Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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

Cevdet Erek

Museum in Motion: A Collection for the 21st Century

From 6 September, 2024 (until further notice)

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

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

Anne Wenzel

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. 

Face(s) à face(s) : le buste sculpté en liberté !

17 May, 2024 – 12 January, 2025

Labenche Museum of Art and History, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France

PAXXH

25 October, 2024 – 18 January, 2025

Fondation Francès, Senlis, France

Imogen Stidworthy

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.

Voicing on the borders of language

doctoral studies and research

PhD finished on 25 September 2020

Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts

Lund University, Sweden

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

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

Stéphanie Saadé

Présence

Residency and exhibition in the permanent collection

from 14 November 2023 onwards

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Prix Carta Bianca

Ongoing project

Unveiling on 10 October, 2024

Intimate Garden Scene (in Beirut)

Organized by Ashkal Alwan in the context of Home Works 9

30 November, 2023 – November, 2024

Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon

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

Juul Hondius

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

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.

 

No Future but Poems

13 October – 30 November, 2024

Galeria SKALA,  Poznań, Poland

Jaap van den Ende

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

Roger Cremers

Roger Cremers

MAY WE EVOLVE

Curated by Natascha Hagenbeek

Opening 23 October, 2024

KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam

Secrets of Making #4

8 June – 15 June, 2025

Textielmuseum Tilburg, Netherlands

Moyna Flannigan

Moyna Flannigan

Moyna Flannigan has been selected among the 100 aritists for their important contribution to the medium of Collage within the past 5 years.

 

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 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

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

Feel the Space of the Forest

Curated by Anne Berk

5 October, 2024 – 12 January, 2025

Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark

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

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.

Radicaal – Vrouwelijke kunstenaars en modernisme 1910-1950

7 September, 2024 – 5 January, 2025

Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands

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