De Appel

De Appel brings together people, objects and ideas to explore the yet unknown. With an experimental, open-minded and inclusive focus, the program serves the intellectually and emotionally curious, (non-) specialized art enthusiast. De Appel partners with various organisations in the Netherlands and abroad.

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A SCI FI SYMPOSIUM What is the political, social or ideological potential of a society after its collapse?

Organized in the context of the Tamás Kaszás’ exhibition SCI FI AGIT PROP, De Appel in Amsterdam and Netwerk Aalst present a symposium in two parts, taking place in the Netherlands and in Belgium. The symposium brings together presentations, lectures and discussions by artists, graphic designers and theorists who will be asked to imagine new ways of living in a post-digital, post-market, post-industrial urban environment.

30 March 2018 at Netwerk Aalst 31 March 2018 at De Appel

http://deappel.nl/nl/events/a-sci-fi-symposium

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I Am was an art event that took place in Remont Gallery in Warschau, Poland. ‘International Artists Meeting-Workshops Remont ’78’ was initiated by Henryk Gajewski. There is one folder with a loose-leaf programme  and one loose-leaf catalogue in the De Appel Archive. The last page of the latter has this picture of Henryk Gajewski.

FOOTNOTES#3 takes a new look at the 1979 international art manifestation Works and Words, gradually opening it up via De Appel website. Various ephemera relating to this groundbreaking project will be re-contextualized online alongside the current exhibition by Tamás Kaszás. This Footnotes presentation is a research trajectory through De Appel Archive and reflects on the possibilities and limitations of transcultural exchange.

http://deappel.nl/en/events/footnotes-3

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With his emblematic woodcut print, We Are All from Pangaea, 2011, Hungarian artist Tamás Kaszás takes us 200 million years back in time. A time with only one continent, surrounded by a single ocean, with plentiful life on earth. For Kaszás, the imagined return to this supercontinent (called Pangaea, as it was coined by the German geophysicist Alfred Wegener) marks the potential of a restart; a hypothetical ground zero.

This traveling back in time to imagine an alternative future is central to Tamás Kaszás’ elaborate artistic practice. Asking us to think through future scenarios in the wake of a political, economic, or technological collapse, the artist, quite provocatively, states that we shouldn’t be waiting for these breakdowns to take place as they are already happening around us on a daily basis. Tackling this urgent issue, Kaszás finds inspiration in the peripheral yet rich artistic legacy of the historical avant-garde of Eastern Europe. More precisely, the artist dissects the innovative ways in which the avant-garde applied strategies of advertisement and display to blur the lines between autonomy and functionality.

SCI FI AGIT PROP is an exhibition set in an imagined future, in which Tamás Kaszás imagines DIY-techniques for imminent survival. Sculptures that could be recognized as functional objects, together with installations of graphic materials containing posters and flyers, speculate on questions of collective and solidarity-driven survival techniques for the future. The exhibition imagines these new ways of living within a post-digital, post-market, post-industrial urban context, through what the artist calls “the science fiction of agitative propaganda.”

SCI FI AGIT PROP simultaneously takes place at De Appel in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Netwerk Aalst (Belgium). The exhibition connects to the diverse urban contexts of both institutions: the rapid gentrification of Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West area, and the changing post-industrial context of Netwerk Aalst. For each location, the artist develops specific public sculptures that come back in the exhibition spaces. How does Tamás Kaszás’ alternative reality affect the way we perceive and interpret the public space in which it is set?

image: Silkscreen print from SCI FI AGIT PROP by Tamás Kaszás, 2017-18

http://deappel.nl/nl/exposities/tamas-kaszas-sci-fi-agit-prop

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Hiwa K — To remember, sometimes you need different archeological tools 7 Oct – 20 Dec 2017

deappel.nl/exhibitions/hiwa-k-to-remember-sometimes-you-need-different-archeological-tools

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De Appel Curatorial Programme and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam proudly present Why Is Everybody Being So Nice? The Power Nap. The event concludes the series of events organized by De Appel Curatorial Programme and marks the launch of an online publication alongside a program of performances, readings, and a collective snooze in the auditorium of the museum building.

http://deappel.nl/en/events/de-appel-curatorial-programme-why-is-everybody-being-so-nice-the-power-nap%E2%80%A8

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BUSY DAYS with Christine Sun Kim stages five artistic interventions throughout Amsterdam (and beyond). It presents a concise selection of works by the American artist Christine Sun Kim that explore the medium of sound through technology, performance and drawing. Each of these interventions concerns a particular medium, duration and social context, such as a nightclub, a radio station or an office hallway, and highlights Kim’s singular relationship with spoken languages and her aural environment.

image: Christine Sun Kim, (still from) LAUTPLAN, 2017

http://deappel.nl/en/exhibitions/busy-days-with-christine-sun-kim

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de Apple's CURATORIAL PROGRAMME SUMMIT: "You're such a curator!" 23.NOV–24.NOV.2016

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Humming at de Appel by Johanna Ehde

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS for workshop by Myriam Lefkowitz “Walk, Hands, Eyes (Amsterdam)”

Language: English Reservations: to apply, please send your CV and a short description of something that has struck your attention in the city lately to [email protected] by May 15 Participation is free, max. capacity 10 persons

All the curious, interested and brave are invited to participate in the workshop Walk, Hands, Eyes (a city) led by the artist Myriam Lefkowitz in de Appel arts centre and its surroundings on Sunday 24 May. The workshop is part of the Curatorial Programme Final Project, on view at de Appel arts centre from 23 May until 28 June 201

http://deappel.nl/visit/programme/activity/?id=985

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less fact than fiction, but a hell of a lot of truth… Nina Yuen’s video work is enchanting. On now at de Appel arts centre. our review here: http://

bit.ly/1hOFyJO

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Group Show ‘Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning?’ at de Appel arts centre

www.artslant.com/ams/events/show/329891-father-cant-you-see-im-burning

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Hans op de Beeck, Staging Silence (2), 2013, video  

This video is part of the exhibition “Artificial Amsterdam. The City as Artwork” currently showed in De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam. In his video, Hans op de Beeck creates a chain of imaginary spaces. Sugar becomes snow, a potato a mass of rocks in the water.

When it comes to art, most of the time we expect to see the result of a process the artist has been through without us seeing it. Hans op de Beeck questions that. By watching the video we are able to follow him in creating a breathtaking new world. From scratch. From chocolate. While watching this video I started to wish Hans op de Beeck would make me my own customized little fantasy world.

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Falke Pisano, Prison Work, installation view, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, 2013; Courtesy of the artist and de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam; Photo: Daniel Nicolas.

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Group Show ‘Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing’ at de Appel arts centre

http://www.artslant.com/ams/events/show/343264-curiosity-art-and-the-pleasures-of-knowing

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From February 8 until 13 April we present an exhibition revolving around the Chicano collective Asco, who from 1972 through 1987 realized numerous interventions in public spaces. Asco’s performances in and around East LA resembled scenes from movies that were never made – or fashion shoots, or promotional images of rock bands. They called some of these No Movies. Their actions were done without notice or permission in a public spaces fraught with political and racial tensions, and sometimes under police curfews; the imagery they used was linked to fantasy and fiction. Asco always remained on a dangerous political edge. Realized in cooperation with Nottingham Contemporary and CAPC Bordeaux.

Photo's by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk