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Traveling Landscape. Ai Weiwei, Beijing
(> 9/01/2008) - Berlin
AedesLand
The exhibition on Chinese artist, architect and urbanist Ai Weiwei is put on display at AedesLand after Ai Weiwei's campaign 'Fairytale'. Created for Aedes, his installation 'Traveling Landscape' plays ironically with the journey of the suitcases, which traveled with the 1001 Chinese visitors to Germany. Just like the accommodation and fittings for the documenta guests in Kassel, they had been designed especially by Ai Weiwei, each of them a unique specimen. By now, the suitcases have finished their global container journeys - Beijing-Kassel-Beijing-Berlin - just like most of the everyday objects that surround us today.
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Architecture, People and Resources | Baumschlager & Eberle 2002-2007
(> 13/01/2008) - Munich
Pinakothek der Moderne
Since its establishment as a partnership in 1985, the architectural practice of Baumschlager & Eberle in Lochau / Vorarlberg has completed well over 300 construction projects and building studies, earning itself an international reputation. Recent representative works include large-scale projects such as the Vienna airport extension, the MOMA high-rises in Beijing, the WHO / UNAIDS building in Geneva and the 1,000-bed hospital in Kortrijk (Belgium). Key to the Baumschlager & Eberle philosophy is that architecture is a complex entity requiring the integration of many different elements, to which justice can only be done if a building meets all the demands made on it in terms of structural intelligence, ecology, economic efficiency and social acceptability. This philosophy is reflected in the division of the »Architecture, People and Resources« exhibition into three distinct parts.
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Public Projects_ Contemporary Finnish architecture for learning and culture
(> 1/02/2008) - Berlin
Deutsche Architektur Zentrum
The exhibition presents an overview of 30 different projects built after the year 2000, the most interesting projects of contemporary Finnish architecture. The goal of the show is to document the special atmosphere particular to Finnish architecture and Finnish architect's motivations; whether for the type of representative buildings, or in the choice of material and form. The exhibition focuses on architecture for learning and culture in and outside of Finland such as: libraries, culture centers, schools, university buildings, day care centers and buildings for sports, and is a project of The Association of Finnish Architects' Offices (ATL), curated by Ms. Tarja Nurmi, Architect SAFA and architecture critic from Helsinki.
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Le Corbusier
(> 10/02/2008) - Weil am Rhein
Vitra Design Museum
The work of Le Corbusier remains highly significant and relevant in today's architectural discourse. Yet during the past two decades, no major museum show has addressed the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier's work such an important point of reference for contemporary architecture and urbanism. To fill this void, the Vitra Design Museum is now joining forces with the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Royal Institute of British Architects in the production of an international retrospective.
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Im Rampenlicht. Baumeister als Bühnenbildner
(> 10/02/2008) - Stuttgart
Kunstmuseum
Willi Baumeister (1889-1955), a painter and typographer who came to be known as one of the most important representatives of abstract painting, designed his first stage set for the »Deutsche Theater Stuttgart« in 1919. The exhibition will show expressive sketches and striking designs for a range of theatre productions. Photos of theater rehearsals and performances, press reviews, and correspondence containing humorous, private sketches will supplement the exhibition material.
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Megacity Network
(> 17/02/2008) - Francfort/Main
DAM
This exhibition presents for the first time some architects and architectural practices of South Korea, in order to better understand the architectural movements of this important Asian country. About fifteen offices show some of their projects realized during the last ten years: residential, cultural and office buildings, shopping centres and schools.
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Contractworld
(12 - 15/01/2008) - Hannover
Hannover Messe
International forum for architects and interior designers and will now take place for the eight time at the trade fair Domotex. The line-up of speakers for the contractworld.congress features many international high-fliers in the world of architecture and interior design (Daniel Libeskind, Professor Stephan Braunfels, Alejandro Zaera Polo, Eric Owen Moss, Piero Lissoni, etc.)
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Omer Fast
(> 20/01/2008) - Vienna
Museum Moderner Kunst
Omer Fast was born in Israel and has been residing in Berlin for five years. His previous projects frequently concerned places that can be considered historical collections or archives. These projects included an open-air museum of 'living history' in Virginia, and a disused movie set in Cracow, where Omer Fast explored the ways in which our media-driven society transforms historical events into contemporary tales. Omer Fast's solo exhibition at Mumok will present a new video installation.
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Vienne-Bruxelles
(> 23/12/2007) - Brussels
Musée d'Architecture - La Loge
The exhibition relates the decisive influence of the Viennese Art on the young generation of architects in Brussels at the beginning of the 20th century. Especially Léon Snyers, but also other architects who were influenced by this revelation : Henry Van de Velde, Léon Sneyers, Paul Hamesse, Jean-Baptiste Dewin, Emile Van Averbeke, Renaat Braem, Louis Herman De Koninck et son épouse, Fernand Khnopff, Edouard Pelseneer, Maxime Brunfaut, Raymond Moenaert...
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- Des Fantômes et des Anges
(> 6/01/2008) - Hornu
Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu (MAC's)
On the occasion of its fifth anniversary the Museum welcomes an exceptional exhibition coming from the collections of the Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole - Villeneuve d'Ascq.
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Melting Ice. A Hot Topic
(> 6/01/2008) - Brussels
Palais des Beaux Arts
This innovative exhibition brings together 40 artists from around the world to address issues confronting our changing environment as reflected in the melting and thawing of ice, snow, and permafrost from the Himalayas to Kilimanjaro, from the Andes to the
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Christopher Dresser: pionier van modern design
(> 13/01/2008) - Ghent
Design Museum
Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) born in Glasgow has been the first industrial designer. Trained to be a botanist, he used botany as a source of inspiration for his language of forms.
After a visit to Japan in 1876-1877, the brilliant Dresser created several objects that were clearly influenced by Oriental models. It is those objects, with their minimalist forms and with which he earned himself a name in later years that will be on display.
Dresser showed a keen interest in the industrial production process. Most of the time he worked with standardized elements. He made designs for metal, ceramics and glass. If it weren't for Dresser, modern design would be rather different today.
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Sottsass
(> 13/01/2008) - Ghent
Design Museum
Ettore Sottsass (1917), Austrian by birth but Italian in heart and soul, opened his own architecture and design studio in 1947. From 1958 he was the design consultant for Olivetti for over 20 years. In the late 1960s - early 1970s, Sottsass played an important role in the avant-garde culture. Sottsass worked both for Studio Alchimia and for the Memphis group.
The exhibition, organized on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Ettore Sottsass, gives an overview of his large but varied oeuvre. Both the aspects of architecture and design are highlighted.
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Milton Glaser
(> 3/02/2008) - La Hulpe
Fondation Folon
Designer of the well known logo 'I LOVE NY', Milton Glaser was a friend of Folon and they worked together several times. The Folon Foundation will exhibit the artist's graphic and colourful universe: posters, serigraphs and aquarelles.
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Quai des orfèvres
(> 10/02/2008) - Seneffe
Château de Seneffe
Five Belgian designers and personnalities (Franco Dragone, Alain Hubert, Olivier Strelli, François Schuiten et Dimitri Weber) display antique silverware in the lounges of this pretigious 18th Century cassle.
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"Chants et Paysages" Ettore Sottsass à Sèvres 1993-2006 - Hornu
(19/01 - 9/03/2008) - Grand-Hornu
In 1994 Ettore Sottsass, one of the most important designers, discovered the technical process of the "Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres". He developped a serie of objects which are still produced nowadays. In 2005 the Manufacture renewed this intersting cooperation with new forms and new materials.
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Alechinsky from A to Y
(> 30/03/2008) - Brussels
Fine Arts Museum
In honour of Pierre Alechinsky, a famous Belgian artist now aged 80, the retrospective exhibition shows many important works in close cooperation with the artist: paintings, drawings, engravings and book illustrations selected in national and international collections.
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POLYCLOSE
(17 - 19/01/2008) - Ghent
European fair for window, door, sunprotection, entrance and facade technology
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Copenhagen Changing
(> 6/01/2008) - Copenhagen
Dansk Arkitektur Center
The exhibition displays MAD's use of imaginary shapes and high-tech visualisations and shows how they, combined with a sustainable agenda and with ideas for the future Chinese city, challenges Chinese approaches to values, culture and the environment.
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Now that it is time
(> 14/02/2008) - Copenhagen
Danish Museum Art & Design
Three significant personalities in Danish sculpture and architecture, Thomas Bang, Ingvar Cronhammar and Poul Ingemann have especially for this exhibition created works and installations, which exist in a widely expanded territory between the functional object and the sculptural gestalt without function, where the concept of purpose assumes unexpected and new dimensions.
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Paula Rego
(> 30/12/2007) - Madrid
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
This retrospective of the Portuguese painter Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935) presents 80 paintings, 60 drawings and 60 litographies.
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Be-Bomb: the Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz. 1946-1956
(> 7/01/2008) - Barcelona
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
This exhibition analyses the dialogue between different spheres of post-war political and cultural life in the United States and France, documenting a particular period between 1946 and 1956 and encompassing from the euphoria of the liberation and reconstruction following the Second World War to the shadows and fear of the Cold War.
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Yves Tanguy. The Surrealist Universe
(> 7/01/2008) - Barcelona
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Classed as "the most surrealist of the Surrealists" by André Breton, the driving force behind this artistic movement, Yves Tanguy (Paris, 1900 - Woodbury, Connecticut, 1955) is today one of its representatives least-known to the public at large. The exhibition comprises over two hundred and fifty pieces. About fifty of his paintings, the most important part of his work, are exhibited, from the early post-Cubist and Expressionist works of 1924 to Multiplication of the Arcs, painted shortly before he died.
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Art in the USA: 300 Years of Innovation
(> 25/04/2008) - Bilbao
Museum Guggenheim
This exhibition features a compelling selection of approximately 200 artworks culled from a range of private and public collections in the United States. Six historical periods demonstrate how the art of each era both reflected and contributed to a complex visual narrative of a nation during times of discovery, growth and experimentation.
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- Carnegie Art Award
(> 6/01/2008) - Helsinki
Kiasma
Carnegie Art Award was founded in 1998 to promote Nordic contemporary art and artists. In addition to the exhibition, the event includes awards to four of the participating artists, an exhibition book and a film presenting the artists. The prize is this year awarded to Torsten Andersson, Jesper Just, John Kørner and Nathalie Djurberg. Biannually, the experts of the Nordic contemporary art each nominate five artists they consider prominent. Of the 143 artists nominated this year, the jury chose the 26 artists for the Carnegie Art Award 2008 exhibition.
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- Yuki Hayama - Ceramic Stories
(> 6/01/2008) - Helsinki
Design Museum
Yuki Hayama is a self-educated Japanese ceramic artist, who combines the traditions of Japanese ceramic art with his own personal style.
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- Emerging Identities - East!
(> 17/02/2008) - Helsinki
Museum of Finnish Architecture
On display is contemporary built culture from former Socialist countries which have recenty become members of the European Union. This Eastern European journey focusses on the built projects of young architects. They develop projects out of their own initiative and idealism, and their buildings embody strong conceptual thinking and the implementation of the concept. It is not only the new public buildings, but far more the many small interventions that represent current tendencies. There are over 90 participants from 9 countries: Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland.
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Création architecturale et Innovation urbaine dans le centre historique de Bordeaux
(> 23/12/2007) - Bordeaux
Arc en rêve centre d'architecture
Call for new ideas on architectural creation on the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of INCITÉ with Manuel Aires Mateus, Lisbon • Fabre/ de Marien, Bordeaux • La Nouvelle Agence, Parempuyre / Christophe Hutin, Bordeaux • Duncan Lewis & Off Architecture, Bordeaux • Jan de Vylder Architecten, Ghent.
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Le Corbusier : 103 maisons et la ville de Chandigarh
(> 5/01/2008) - Toulouse
Centre Méridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville
From 1951 the his death in 1965, Le Corbusier associated with Pierre P Jeanneret, Maxwell Fry andJane Drew, has worked on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian State of Punjab.
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Design contre Design
(> 8/01/2008) - Paris
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
The exhibition focuses on international design, from Verner Panton to Ingo Maurer, from Gaetano Pesce to Marc Newson.
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Purs décors ? Chefs-d'œuvre de l'Islam aux Arts Décoratifs
(> 13/01/2008) - Paris
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Les Arts Décoratifs has a collection of over 3,000 works of Islamic Art. Exceptional both in size and quality, it includes a number of unique masterpieces (carpets, textiles, ceramics, miniatures, etc.). Three hundred of these works show the influence of the Arts Décoratifs collection in the applied arts at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and emphasise the role the institution has played in this field.
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Matières à cultiver
(5/01 - 16/03/2008) - Paris
Galerie VIA
An exhibition that aims at showing the new possibilities for using renewable materials: timber, multiplies, composite fibres of vegetable origin.
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Curtis Moffat: Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935
(> 13/01/2008) - London
Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture Exhibition Gallery
Curtis Moffat created dynamic abstract photographs, innovative colour still lives and some of the most glamorous society portraits of the early 20th century. He was also a pivotal figure in Modernist interior design. Moffat's archive, containing over 1,000 photographic prints and negatives as well as press cuttings, scrap books and ephemera, was generously donated to the V&A in 2007 by Penelope Smail. The donation is celebrated by featuring some of its highlights in this display. It also acts as a starting point to study Moffat's pioneering but hitherto little-known work in more depth.
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Louise Bourgeois
(> 20/01/2008) - London
Tate Modern
This first major survey since 1995 of the work of the French-born artist Louise Bourgeois (b.1911) will provide an unprecedented opportunity to reassess her work. Over a long career, Bourgeois has worked in dialogue with most of the major international avant-garde artistic movements of the twentieth century, from Surrealism to Conceptual art, but has always remained uniquely apart, powerfully inventive and often at the forefront of contemporary practice.
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Shrinking Cities
(> 26/01/2008) - Manchester
CUBE
The Shrinking Cities project funded by the German Cultural Foundation investigates the process of urban shrinkage with an international network of more than 200 artists, architects, filmmakers, academics, and local initiatives focussing on developments in the US, UK, Germany, Russia, and Japan. After several large exhibitions in Europe, North America, and Asia, the Shrinking Cities Exhibition is coming for the first time to the UK, presenting its international investigations with over 80 exhibition works.
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Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
(> 27/01/2008) - London
Barbican Art Gallery
It is a major exhibition focusing on representations of sex from diverse eras and cultures. Provocative and ambitious, it includes around 250 works, spanning over 2000 years, including Roman marbles, Indian manuscripts, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures, Chinese paintings and prints, Japanese woodcuts, 19th century photographs and contemporary video. Drawn from important public and private collections from around the world, some of the works have never been seen in public, others rarely shown and many have never been exhibited in the UK.
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My Sust. House
(> 17/02/2008) - Glasgow
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse opens the door of its interactive 'eco-house'! This fun, activity packed sustainability den offers a hands on opportunity to learn about cutting edge and traditional approaches to energy saving and renewable energy.
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Jean Prouvé
(> 25/03/2008) - London
Design Museum
The radical, functional and inspiring work of the French designer and engineer Jean Prouvé (1901 - 1984) will be shown in this first comprehensive overview of his work in the UK. With examples of his unique furniture design, architecture, drawings, film and photographs, the exhibition will present the enormous influence of Prouvé within the history of 20th Century design. This exhibition re-designed for the Design Museum was originated by the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany in cooperation with Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt and Design Museum Akihabara, Japan.
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(20 - 23/01/2008) - Birmingham
Design Interiors, Furniture, Furnishing Accessories, Outdoor Collection, Lighting
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Architectural Landscapes in Greece Erieta Attali, 1997-2007
(> 6/01/2008) - Athens
Benaki Museum - Pireos Street Annexe
A photographic review of recent activities in contemporary Greek architecture, presented through the large scale colour and black-and-white panoramic images of architecture and landscape photographer Erieta Attali. This photographic overview includes work by 18 Greek architectural practices, and presents private residences and public buildings in Greece.
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Mark Rothko
(> 8/01/2008) - Roma
Palazzo Esposizioni
Rétrospective de l'oeuvre d'une figure remarquable de l'art contemporain américain
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Victor Vasarely. Non il cuore ma la retina
(> 27/01/2008) - Milan
Triennale Bovisa
By presenting 80 large size paintings and 50 drawings and grafic works the exhibition wants to underline the influence of this artist on contempory culture.
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La città che sale. We try to build the future
(> 31/01/2008) - Rome
MACRO (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma)
Some artists have tried to materialize their utopías, to build the future. This exhibition relies on design and building. Works of Young architects are also presented. Curators: Danilo Eccher et Odile Decq.
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Glenn Ligon: Some Changes
(> 18/02/2008) - Luxembourg
MUDAM
The work of the American artist Glenn Ligon is exploring concepts like the construction of an individual identity, as well as being a part of something bigger - socially, politically or sexually -, in a country emerged out of immigration.
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Vreemde dingen: Surrealisme en design
(> 31/01/2008) - Rotterdam
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
This unique exhibition in Rotterdam, home to an exquisite collection of Surrealism, explores for the first time how this anti-modernist movement based on the ideas of Freud and Marx infiltrated fashion, theatre design, architecture and the interior.
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Barcelona 1900
(> 20/01/2008) - Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum
The exhibition celebrates the astonishing transformation of this vibrant city between 1880 and 1909. In this period Barcelona underwent an impressive architectural development and flourished socially and artistically. The exhibition will provide an insight into a city which continues to intrigue visitors and inspire artists and architects to this day. All the leading artists of that period - Pablo Picasso, Isidre Nonell, Santiago Rusiñol, Alexandre de Riquer and Ramon Casas - as well as the architects - Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch - whose legacy is still so powerful, are represented often by works that are rarely on view to the public.
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Bogotá - The proud revival of a city
(> 26/01/2008) - Amsterdam
ARCAM
Some twenty years ago, the Columbian capital was in the same seemingly hopeless state as the cities that are currently undergoing rapid growth. In that relatively short space of time, Bogotá has managed to deal with the problems caused by its growth.
The exhibition begins with an introduction to Bogotá. This is followed by the story of how the city’s transformation was launched, with ambition, public-private initiatives and administrative reorganizations in order to bring the spatial interventions closer to the city’s - now proud - inhabitants. A large number of photographs and maps show these interventions. These include: new public spaces, the realization of social housing, a new transport system, the reorganization of streets, the renovation of the old city centre and the realization of public buildings with a special focus on architecture. It is not a blueprint of a process for cities which, within a short space of time, have more new inhabitants than they can cope with, but the exhibition does offer hope and inspiration.
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Jean Tinguely. Alles beweegt!
(> 27/01/2007) - Rotterdam
Kunsthal
A major retrospective of Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) for the first time in forty years. Tinguely is one of the icons of modern art and world renowned for his moving sculptures of rusty iron and waste material that work as machines but serve no useful purpose. Since the 1950s, his grinding, squeaking, spouting and banging oeuvre has created an indelible impression in the art world and particularly outside it. Tinguely's large, rattling machines and colourful objects are vital and cheerful, as well as being poetic and sometimes ironic. This is art that will surprise and bring a smile to everyone's face, especially children, simply because everything moves!
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Cuypers. Architectuur met een missie
(> 3/02/2008) - Rotterdam
NAI
The architect Pierre Cuypers (1827-1921) enriched the Dutch landscape with dozens of churches, designed 'Centraal Station' and the 'Rijksmuseum' in Amsterdam, and restored a considerable number of buildings, among them the medieval castle 'Kasteel de Haar' near Utrecht. His architecture and views remain controversial. From September 22, the NAI will present in both Rotterdam and Maastricht the most comprehensive review ever of the work of this inspired and controversial architect.
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Art Nouveau, tijdens laatste tsaren
(> 5/05/2008) - Amsterdam
Hermitage
René Lalique, Vase 'Bacchants', Paris, c. 1924
The objects produced within this movement are the highlights of the Western decorative arts collection in the Hermitage in St Petersburg. This collection of Art Nouveau has not previously been on show in the Netherlands. Amongst the major works are the gifts to the last tsars made by the glassmakers Émile Gallé and the Daum brothers; works by René Lalique and Carl Fabergé will also be included.
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Magnum - 60 Years of Photoqraphy
(8/02 - 12/05/2008) - Amsterdam
Stedelijke Museum
This retrospective is being presented to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the renowned Magnum photo and press agency. The exhibition uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of Magnum year by year and gives visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carl de Keyzer, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas and Leonard Freed. They have recorded every major aspect of our times, from armed conflicts and revolutions through to everyday life and outstanding personalities. Their insight and vision have enabled them to create iconic images which have been disseminated through the international press to become part of our society’s collective memory.
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Os Gregos, Tesouros do Museu Benakis
(> 6/01/2008) - Atenas
Gulbenkian Museum
Greek art and culture through 157 objects (ceramics, paintings, silverware, sculptures) from Prehistory to the 19th Century.
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Robert Rauschenberg: Travelling 70-76
(> 11/01/2008) - Porto
Fundação Serralves
This exhibition will be one of the most important of the year - presenting the work by one of the 20th-century's leading and most prolific artists, for the first time ever in Portugal. This is the first retrospective of Rauschenberg work produced in the 1970s - an almost unknown area...
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The works of Alfred Grenander
(> 6/01/2008) - Stockholm
The Swedish Museum of Architecture
As an architect and city planner Alfred Grenander was "the Swede building in Berlin". Above all he was involved with the development of the Berlin underground railway. This exhibition provides an overview of the broad oeuvre of Grenander, concentrating on his designs for stations and vehicles, but also including his designs for residential buildings, interiors and furniture.
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Berlin above and below ground. The works of Alfred Grenander
(> 6/01/2008) - Stockholm
The Swedish Museum of Architecture
As an architect and city planner Alfred Grenander was "the Swede building in Berlin". Above all he was involved with the development of the Berlin underground railway. This exhibition provides an overview of the broad oeuvre of Grenander, concentrating on his designs for stations and vehicles, but also including his designs for residential buildings, interiors and furniture.
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Berlin Projects
(> 26/01/2008) - Stockholm
Arkitekturmuseet
The Berlin theme at Arkitekturmuseet continues with this exhibition. Hélène Binet, one of the leading architectural photographers in the world, has been taken photos of buildings in Berlin in the 1980s, 1990s as well as in this millennium. This is the first time they are exhibited together.
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Forests of the World. The Other Commitment
(> 6/01/2008) - Basle
Fondation Beyeler
The exhibition presents a spectacular portrait of the trees and forests of our planet in 100 mostly large-format photographs. It is not just aimed to please on a superficial level, but to jolt us and draw attention to the urgent need to protect one of the most important foundation stones of our existence.
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Max Ernst. Dans le jardin de Nymphe Ancolie
(> 27/01/2008) - Basel
Museum Tinguely
Max Ernst was born in Brühl near Cologne in 1891 and died in Paris in 1976. This exhibition assembles around 150 of his works, some of which, on loan from international museums and galleries as well as private collectors, have rarely, and in certain cases never before, been shown in public.
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Moving West – From the School of Applied Arts to the Zurich University of the Arts
(> 10/02/2008) - Zürich
Museum für Gestaltung
On 1 August the School of Art and Design Zurich (HGKZ) and the School of Music and Theater Zurich (HMT) amalgamated to become one of the largest art universities in Europe: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) / Zurich University of the Arts. This historic moment is on the one hand the prompt to trace the history of the Kunstgewerbeschule / School of Applied Arts founded in 1878 and on the other to highlight the perspectives of the new art university. The exhibition concentrates on ideas, personalities and key study areas which always also reflect social trends. The innovative power of products, concepts and processes can be experienced just as much as present and future success stories.
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