Sunday, 17 July, 2022 - 20:31
The strict division between the categories of fine art and ethnography in museums of cultural heritage is a contentious topic. Any attempt to redress the balance between the two tends to meet with resistance, as soon as it challenges the core values and conventions from which museums derive their authority.
With Museo Bikoitza, however, the San Telmo Museum in Donostia / San Sebastian has generously opened up a pioneering space of experimentation between these categories, and granted a prominent role to artistic practices in the development of innovative approaches to its own ethnographic collection and narratives of display.
To do justice to the scope of this undertaking requires a certain cultural sensibility, and a capacity to look beyond the horizon of one’s own discipline. That is why, after careful deliberation, we are pleased to nominate Hinrich Sachs as our successor in the Museo Bikoitza project.
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Monday, 27 June, 2022 - 13:20
In July 2021 we have been given a year to work in the archives of the San Telmo Museum in Donostia / San Sebastian, and to produce an artwork that is based on a rereading of its ethnographic collection and display narratives. It is a prestigious commission, in the framework of Museo Bikoitza, a programme initiated by the artist Asier Mendizabal, and which has invited artists such as Ibon Aranberri, Erlea Maneros and Jose Mari Zabala.
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Saturday, 25 June, 2022 - 10:35
Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum are presenting their installation False Flag in Brutus, the largest contemporary art exhibition and performance space in the Netherlands. Their work will be on display from 1 July to 31 July 2022, as part of the Wild Summer of Art, an enormous exhibition with selected young talent and established names with new work by a total of 180 artists.
The Dutch variant of the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Wild Summer of Art offers an overview of the current state of affairs. Visitors can purchase the exhibited works directly from the artist. Depending on the results, Wild Summer of Art will become a recurring annual event similar to the Summer Exhibition at London's Royal Academy.
BRUTUS, the location of Wild Summer of Art is unique in its raw appearance. In this Artist Driven Playground, participants can go as big as they want. The composition of Wild Summer of Art is in the hands of a curatorial team led by Piet de Jonge (former curator of the Van Abbemuseum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Museum Kröller-Müller), Jessy Koeiman (curator Collective Learning, Art Institute Melly) and Liesbeth Bik (visual artist and curator). The curators were advised by twelve professional scouts, who suggested artists, which resulted in a broadly composed whole.
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Saturday, 25 June, 2022 - 10:18
For the second time Off Screen and CBK Rotterdam join forces. This time with extra attention for films that were made during the corona period with a PPR-contribution. Iratxe Jaio presents the movie she made in collaboration with her eleven-year-old son, who was unable to attend school for weeks due to the pandemic.
In the program: ‘An Unforeseen Encounter’ by Sarah Rose Guitian Nederlo, ‘el jardín de los espíritus’ by Lili Ullrich, ’Forces’ by Martha Hryniuk/Nick Thomas, ‘Under the Wing’ by Iratxe Jaio and ’I Declare a Thumb War’ by Ewan Macbeth.
The filmmakers will be interviewed by Ibrahim Alaouichrifi and Sven Peetoom. After the screening alderman Kasmi will be presented with the first copy of the PPR publication.
Date and time: wednesday 29 juni 2022, 20.00 – 22.00
Location: WORM, Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam
Tickets: €7,50 (free with Cineville-ticket) Buy your ticket here!
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Friday, 4 February, 2022 - 10:18
The point of departure for this work is ‘Le Drapeau Noir’ (Black Flag), a relatively unknown painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, which the artists came across during their research on art related to the Spanish Civil War. Produced in 1937, the canvas is said to have been inspired by the bombing of Gernika. It features a number of futuristic airplanes ominously hanging above the horizon. Like props from a science fiction movie, they seem to foreshadow the drones and satellites that circle our planet today, pointing towards a fundamental aspect of this historical moment: the way technological progress in aviation would forever alter humankind’s relation to territory.
Jaio and van Gorkum have manufactured three-dimensional models of these airplanes.
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Tuesday, 9 November, 2021 - 12:41
The Archaeological Museum of Bilbao and ANTespacio present “False Flag”, an exhibition with new work by the artists Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum.
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Tuesday, 28 September, 2021 - 08:15
‘Nire ama Roman hil da (My mother died in Rome)' will be shown at ‘Complexo Colosso – parte II’. For this second part of the exhibition, the curator Ángel Calvo Ulloa invites new artists to interpret the meanings of the unusual colossal statue found in one of the entrances to the city of Guimarães. Diego Vites, Carme Nogueira, the duo Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum and the collective Pizz Buin join the group of artists who challenge the fictional account of Colosso and the very idea of origin.
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Friday, 24 September, 2021 - 14:18
More than 450 artists spread over more than 50 studio complexes in Rotterdam will open their doors to the public during the Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend. You are welcome to visit us in our studio at the Ackersdijkstraat 20.
September 25 and 26
From 11.00 to 17.00
@ Ackersdijkstraat 20, 3037 VH, Rotterdam
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