Amsterdam Foam

Richard Avedon in Foam t/m 13 mei 2009
Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam toont de eerste overzichtstentoonstelling van Richard Avedon na zijn overlijden in 2004. Avedon was tijdens zijn leven al een legende en wordt algemeen gezien als een van de belangrijkste fotografen van de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw. Avedon maakte in de vroege jaren ’50 naam als revolutionair modefotograaf. Daarnaast was hij een groot vernieuwer binnen de moderne portretfotografie. De tentoonstelling omvat meer dan 200 werken en toont de reikwijdte van Avedon’s unieke visie: van de glamourfoto’s van de Parijse modewereld begin jaren vijftig, de vele portretten van beroemdheden, zijn tien meter lange werk The Factory, een selectie uit zijn fameuze serie In the American West tot opnames gemaakt kort voor zijn dood in 2004, De foto,s zijn gemaakt tijdens de opening donderdag 12 februari.meer info www.foam.nl

Amsterdam Gallery Kerseboom

Amsterdam Gallery Kerseboom leidsegracht 38-40
Peter Klashorst 'Quiet Days in Bangkok'
from januari 29- - februari 21
for more info go to www.kerseboom.com/

Amstelveen Museum Jan van der Togt

Museum Jan van der Togt in Amstelveen organiseert van 29 november tot en met 25 januari een overzichtstentoonstelling van Herman Brood (1946-2001). Een groot deel van de expositie van schilderijen en tekeningen bevat nog onbekend werk van de kunstenaar. more info www.jvdtogt.nl

Amsterdam The Chiellerie

From SATURDAY 8 - 13 November 2008 The Chiellerie presents:
“The Gospel According to Brian O’Blivion”
The enigmatic guerrilla-poet and visual artist Laser 3.14 will unleash his vision on the interrelatedness between humanity and omnipotence of technology. In a reality where mankind is driven to self-consuming meta-consumption by the very technologies he has created, how far can and will our symbiotic relationship with the digital and the cathode-ray tube go? Already, our cosmology of truths has been supplanted by an amorphous and infinite number of hyper-realities and truisms. What of our organic autonomy? Will we transmorph, as Laser suggests, into neo-anthropomorphic techno-beings…? More info www.laser314.com/

Amsterdam The Affordable Art Fair

The Affordable Art Fair
Amsterdam 30 October – 2 November 2008.
Gashouder, Westergasfabriek
85 galleries, contemporary art from €100 - €5000
more info www.affordableartfair.nl

Amsterdam Mediamatic

Mediamatic exhibition Kiki on Steroids!
Kiki on Steroids runs from 18 October 2008 until 4 January 2009 and is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 12:00 until 20:00 hrs.
Women who want to be men, men who want to be women and everything in between. Mediamatic's new exhibition Kiki on Steroids! is an intimate exploration of the world of transgenderism and self-representation on the internet. We will be showing the photoseries XXBoys by Kael T Block and Lupe by Bogomir Doringer. There will be workshops and activities so you can experience yourself what it's like to change from a man into a woman or vice versa. info www.mediamatic.net/

Amsterdam Melkweg Gallery

Amsterdam Bevalt! portretten van CORB!NO 2-10 tm 2-11 2008

Corb!No, otherwise known as Maarten Corbijn, is one of Holland's most famous portrait photographers. In Amsterdam Bevalt! at the Melkweg, he captures, in black and white, 30 Dutch celebrities for more info go to www.melkweg.nl

Amsterdam ORANJE(RIE) KLEURT ROOD

Ode aan een unieke plek in het Amstelpark
Een project van Marlijn Franken-modeontwerp/kunstprojecten
Info www.marlijnamsterdam.nl

Amsterdam Foam

Pieter Hugo - The Hyena & Other Men
Foam 5 September - 2 November 2008

Foam presents ‘The Hyena & Other Men’, an exhibition by South African photographer Pieter Hugo (b. 1976, Johannesburg). In March 2008, Hugo was selected by an international jury as winner of the annual KLM Paul Huf Award. Part of this prize for young international photographers is an exhibition at Foam.
Pieter Hugo travelled twice to Nigeria (in 2005 and 2007) to follow a legendary group of itinerant street artists known as the Hyena Men. These men earn their money by performing on the streets with hyenas, pythons and baboons, and by selling traditional medicines.

Amsterdam Melkweg Gallery

Young Identities portretten van Jasper Groen
in de Melkweg galerie van 4 september t/m 28 september

Waar houdt bij pubers het groepsgevoel op en begint hun eigen identiteit? Deze vraag staat centraal in de expositie die bestaat uit drie fotoseries die Jasper Groen het afgelopen jaar heeft gemaakt.info www.jaspergroen.nl/
Voor Young Identities maakte Groen samen met fotograaf Martijn van de Griendt een fotoboek over de emo-cultuur in Nederland, dat tijdens de expositie in de Melkweg Galerie te koop is.
Meer informatie www.melkweg.nl

Amsterdam Go Gallery

AEROSOL SYMPOHNIES Part II
A confluence of classical music and Street Art.
Opening: Saturday, August 16th until mid october 2008

Last year, summer 2007, GO Gallery worked with a number of
international and local Street Artists, to present
AEROSOL SYMHPONIES.
(The word Aerosol being derived from the Spray Can)
In this showing, two worlds come together. The exhibit is a meeting
of the world of classical music and modern art, street art.
All the artists have chosen a piece of classical music, which has
touched them personally. The music, its origin and the story behind
it have been studied carefully. With this piece of music, the artists
have then made an artwork, a composition of their own, a painting.
Just as the composer was inspired by his surroundings, the artist has
let him/herself be inspired by their favorite composer.
for more info go to www.gogallery.nl/

Amsterdam Museum Jan van der Togt

Museum Jan van der Togt
16 juli - 31 augustus 2008

Dixie Solleveld met een Amsterdams portret

Fotografe Dixie Solleveld volgde haar studie aan de

Fotovakschool in Den Haag en werd vooral bekend door

haar vele portretten van bekende mensen uit de

Amsterdamse kunstscene. Bewapend met haar camera

bezocht zij menig opening in galerie of museum.

Dit resulteerde in een groot aantal series onvergetelijke

portretten en een prachtig tijdsbeeld van de Amsterdamse

kunstwereld. Het geëxposeerde werk bestaat onder

meer uit de collages “Amsterdam op Palen”,

“Amsterdam zw/w”, “Ode aan Corneille” en vele portretten van

bekende Amsterdammers more info www.jvdtogt.nl/

Amsterdam Foam

Kors van Bennekom - Kors's Choice

11 July - 14 September 2008

Foam presents an exhibition celebrating the seventy-fifth

birthday of the Amsterdam photographer Kor van Bennekom

(b. 1933). It was in 1956, at the height of the Cold War, that

Kor van Bennekom began working as a photographer for

the communist newspaper De Waarheid, where he

remained with until 1965. His photos provide a magnificent

record of ordinary, hard-working people in a city rebuilding

after the war, racked by poverty and unrest. In 1966

Van Bennekom helped found Uitkrant voor Amsterdammers,

a magazine of listings and articles about culture in the capital.

Van Bennekom brought street photography into the theatre,

portraying Dutch and international actors, musicians,

ballet dancers and cabaret artists in a bold and vibrant style.

At the same time, Van Bennekom also photographed

his family. These photos tell the simple, unadorned story

of a home life in which his wife Ine, his children,

grandchildren and he himself are the main characters.

Kor van Bennekom is a combination of street photographer,

theatre photographer and family photographer, whose

remarkable oeuvre reflects the history of the Netherlands

in the second half of the twentieth century.

more info www.foam.nl/

Amsterdam Tuinpark Zonnehoek

Gedurende de maanden juli, augustus en september

exposeert de Zwitserse kunstenaar Hanz Daniel beelden,

objecten en installaties in het Tuinpark Zonnehoek.

Daniel gebruikt vooral hout, soms steen en steeds vaker ijzer.

Het materiaal is het vertrekpunt. Het liefst werkt hij met

materiaal uit de directe omgeving.Zo ontstaan stapels o.a.

de zogenaamde luchtkastelen of wordt de natuur

gemanipuleerd of gaat hij de grond in. De laatste beelden

zijn vreemde vruchten. Naast dit nieuwe werk zijn ook

enkele oudere, figuratieve beelden te bewonderen.
Het tuinpark is iedere dag van 10.00 tot 17.00 open,

de toegang is gratis. U vindt het tuinpark Zonnehoek

direct ten noorden van de Spaarndammerbuurt, bij de

ingang van de Houthavens. Tuinpark Zonnehoek
Archangelweg 3 info http://www.hanzdaniel.ch/

Amsterdam Arps & Co

Animus Anima

a photo exhibition by Paula Kajzar and Antonio Pellicano from

Calabria at Arps&Co in the Dikker&Thijs Gallery,

Prinsengracht 438 , until 28th July

Two photographers, a pair in love, show us their animus

anima in abstract images, made on the stage of dance in

the Calabrese theatre where they perform a steady job

as stage photographers. An ideal environment to create

from their metaphor a personal imaging language.

"An invisible play develops on the stage of our lives.

It concerns everybody. A drama with uncountable

scenery's sprouting from the soul. The people in our

existence are moving on this inner stage.

But more then these characters that come from the

outer world, everybody hosts a universe called

Animus Anima. Two elements that are perpetually moving.

This evokes our psycho constantly to separate and attach,

to long and find, to loosen and to bind." more info

www.arpsgallery.com/ www.artphotography.it/

Amsterdam V!P's Gallery

Stanley Donwood

EVERYBODY'S HAPPY NOWADAYS

1 juli-3 aug, V!P's Spiegelstraat 8 Amsterdam

For over twelve years British artist Stanley Donwood

determined the visual identity of Radiohead. He designs their

covers, posters and official merchandise, and in a joint

collaboration with frontman Thom Yorke he translates their

musical ideas and social concerns in appealing images that

immediately settle in the eye of the beholder.

Numerous projects later the line between Radiohead’s

music and Donwood’s artwork has become increasingly thin,

which gave him the status of Radiohead’s semi-official sixth

member. Donwood: “I think that my obsession with

nuclear apocalypse, Ebola pandemics, global cataclysm

and Radiohead’s particular brand of unsettling melody

have gone together quite well.” more info www.vipsart.nl/

Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum

Snap Judgments

- New positions in Contemporary African Photography

27.06.08 - 30.09.08

This summer the Stedelijk Museum CS presents Snap

Judgments, an exhibition of work by 35 contemporary African

artists and photographers with unique perspectives on their

own continent. The exhibition reveals how artists are using

photography to respond artistically to the enormous changes

currently taking place in African economic, social and cultural life.

The artists also break away from lingering stereotypical

images of their cultures, histories and countries.

more info www.stedelijk.nl/

Amsterdam Foam

Domingo Milella - Paesaggi

27 June to 31 August 2008

Foam presents the first solo exhibition by the young Italian

photographer. Domingo Milella (b. 1982) in the Netherlands.

Over the last six years Milella has worked on a major project

documenting the urban landscape and focusing in particular

on the boundary between city and nature. each year Milella

spent a month travelling to distant corners of Europe,

USA and Mexico to photograph the landscape.

more info www.foam.nl

DreamAmsterdam

Dream Amsterdam presents Ryoji Ikeda Spectra
On midsummer's night, 21 June, Dream Amsterdam Foundation

organises a open–air event at the site of one of the installations,

where Ikeda will present an immersive new audio work.

Using pure light as the material for his interventions in various

secret locations across Amsterdam, Ikeda's intensely bright

light installations will appear mysteriously, connecting a

constellation of points across the cityscape.

more info http://d100086.pem.kpn.net/

Amsterdam Go Gallery

Hope Yourself Amsterdam, opening June 21st.

‘Hope Box is a worldwide program initiated by Dutch artist

Rienke Enghardt, collecting creative minds from all over the

world in several projects where music and art collide into

one big happy family.

On the first day of this summer, June 21st at 14:00

GO gallery in Amsterdam will present the Hope Yourself!

exhibition starring: The London Police, Laser 3.14, Lunar,

Rienke Enghardt + special gueststars, and the launch of

theHope Yourself!single starring Def P., Dursun, Bizzo,

Bad Brya, Bim Bimma, Rem, Marvel. On top of that

a breakdance performance by Turn it Loose and at the

happy end theHope Yourself! Fairy-tale (videoclip

and booklet) by the Djole Pesevski and Jovan Mikonjic

more info www.gogallery.nl/ and www.hopebox.nl/

Amsterdam Prints&TheRevolution

Thursday, the 19th, Prints & The Revolution will open

her doors for a brand new exhibition.

This time we chose a huge empty garage as the perfect location

This time we will exhibit the works of 22 great artists.

We've got it all: huge canvasses, small canvasses, silkscreen

prints, original drawings and t-shirts.Artists who have just

joined The Revolution are: BOLT, Henk Schiffmacher,

Super A, Leendert Masselink, DEES and Eric Lucia.
Location: Ceintuurbaan 250-252, Amsterdam
June 19th till July 3 info www.printsandtherevolution.com/

Amsterdam Foam

Malick Sidibé - Chemises

Foam presents a unique work by the celebrated Malinese

photographer Malick Sidibé (b. 1935). Sidibé is the eminence

grise of African photography and one of the first African

photographers to win recognition in the West for his work.

Centrepiece of the show is a series of original chemises,

coloured sheets of card on which Sidibé pasted small prints of

the photos he took at parties and events in Bamako,

the capital of Mali. Partygoers were able to view and order

copies of photos after the event. The chemises displayed

here date from between 1962 and 1973. They are

accompanied by numerous portraits taken by Sidibé in the

1970s at his studio in Bagadadji, a working-class area of

Bamako. Together the displays offer a unique and often

heart-warming insight into Malinese society in the early

years following independence. Malick Sidibé received

a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for his entire

oeuvre at the Venice Biennale of 2007. This year Sidibé

was also honoured by the International Centre for

Photography (ICP) in New York with their 24th Lifetime

Achievement Award. info: http://www.foam.nl/

Amsterdam Witzenhausen Gallery

Mi Matties & Kristal

Photographer Paul Blanca is back

photos from the opening 7 Jun 2008

Mi MattiesThe portrait series Mi Matties (Amsterdam street

slang for 'my friends') originated during Blanca’s wanderings

through Amsterdam. Throughout the city, Blanca contacted

members of street gangs and managed to coax the tough

street kids to his studio to model for him. The result is an

exciting serie of black and white portraits. The Mi Matties

exhibition consists of twenty-five photographs,

some of which are printed in a life-size format.

Paul Blanca also created a box of photographs depicting

women as candy, named Kristal. The nude models

were doused in chocolate, sugar glaze or powdered sugar,

but you would not call them 'sweet'. The box contains

19 largely erotic photographs and a poem composed by

Joost Zwagerman especially for this serie.

The Kristal box is available in a print run of 30 copies.
more info www.witzenhausengallery.nl

Amsterdam Hermitage

Images of St Petersburg

7 June to 24 August 2008

The exhibition ‘Images of St Petersburg’, which includes over

100 photographs from the Hermitage collection,

provides a unique opportunity to see life in St Petersburg in

the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the city was still

the capital and lively centre of the Russian empire.

Visitors to St Petersburg will discover that in spite of

revolution and war the centre of the city and the Hermitage

were very well preserved, as can be seen in the historic

photographs offering pleasantly familiar views in this

9th exhibition in the Hermitage Amsterdam,

for more info http://www.hermitage.nl/en/index.htm