Makers of their own time – Chapter 2
A-Z West – Andrea Zittel
Metropolis M's research fellow Jessica Gysel presents the second text in a series on alternative forms of cooperation and collaboration in queer & feminist cultures. Her first contribution was devoted to Salmon Creek Farm which was founded by Fritz Haeg in Northern California. Now she drives south towards Joshua Tree: the homeland of artist Andrea Zittel and her inspiring life project A-Z West. (images by Katja Mater)
read moreVerkiezingen zijn niet genoeg! Kunstpraktijken als democratische vernieuwing
Elections Are Not Enough! Art Practices as Democratic Renewal
Metropolis M, in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, is holding a livestream event on the eve of the Dutch parliamentary elections. Joram Kraaijeveld, research editor at Metropolis M, will talk to artists about their distinctive practices and the ways they strive to achieve democratic renewal through artistic and political action, both inside and outside government.
read morePainting women painting women – on the work of artist Lisa Brice
Women claiming their place in art history - Lisa Brice's work shows women at work, painting women, many of them in cobalt blues and deep bright reds. Her work is full of quotes from art history questioning the way white men used to claim this figurative tradition.
read moreA World Inside You: an elegy for SOPHIE
‘What you gave me, what you’re still giving me, is a kind of support, a kind of reassurance that this little body, this little life, this little world can be reimagined and remade.’ – Ada M. Patterson writes a tribute to hyperpop artist SOPHIE.
read moreThe most peculiar sensation of rotating without moving – a conversation between gerlach en koop and Laura van Grinsven
gerlach en koop made Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe: an exhibition that can be considered as a single work. It was closed almost immediately after it’s opening at GAK in Bremen. In conversation with the artists Laura van Grinsven finds traces of this invisible work in the space between falling asleep and waking up. There where you will find a distinctive ‘double recollection of the two bodies’.
read moreHet zoete leven - feestelijke seizoensopening Amsterdamse galeries
Graduation Shows 2019: Gerrit Rietveld Academie
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