Kunstinstituut Melly Archive

Florian Waldvogel (Witte de With and curator of Manifesta 6) will discuss the topic of art schools with Anke Bangma (Piet Zwart Institute) and Ine Poppe (Willem de Kooning Academy). How is the next generation of artists educated?

Renske Janssen (Witte de With) will talk with Ina Klaassen, Head Policy & Research Dienst Kunst en Cultuur and Jan Zoet (director Rotterdamse Schouwburg) about art policies in Rotterdam. What will change?.

Solange de Boer (Witte de With) in conversation with Nina Post of Episode Publishers and Marcel Witvoet of NAI Booksellers about the publishing and distributing of art and architecture books.

Zoe Gray (Witte de With) will interview the people behind Fucking Good Art, Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma, and Tubelight, Terry van Druten and Raymond Frenken, about art criticism and writing in Rotterdam.

Belinda Hak (Witte de With) will talk with Dirk Monsma (director SKVR) and Fianne Konings (Konings Kunst and art educator of the CBK) about goals and strategies in art education.

Ariadne Urlus (Witte de With) in conversation with Rein Wolfs (head of presentations Boijmans van Beuningen) and Shervin Nekuee (sociologist and publicist, former member of RKS and RRKC) about the new audience for art institutes. The conversation starts from the new “Stimuleringsprijs Culturele Diversiteit” of the Mondriaan Foundation.

Registration of the event To Tell The Truth in which the public role and political discourse of the art sector is discussed (1:16:38).

The symposium Think Art began with a comparison and contrast between the methodology of the philosopher engaged in aesthetic investigation and the methodologies of the historian, the sociologist and the artist. Three sessions each including two lectures, were offered as public presentations, followed by a closed-door seminar where some fifteen persons were able to discuss and elaborate on the themes introduced in the lectures, as well as others that came up in the course of the discussions.

The symposium Think Art began with a comparison and contrast between the methodology of the philosopher engaged in aesthetic investigation and the methodologies of the historian, the sociologist and the artist. Three sessions each including two lectures, were offered as public presentations, followed by a closed-door seminar where some fifteen persons were able to discuss and elaborate on the themes introduced in the lectures, as well as others that came up in the course of the discussions.

The symposium Think Art began with a comparison and contrast between the methodology of the philosopher engaged in aesthetic investigation and the methodologies of the historian, the sociologist and the artist. Three sessions each including two lectures, were offered as public presentations, followed by a closed-door seminar where some fifteen persons were able to discuss and elaborate on the themes introduced in the lectures, as well as others that came up in the course of the discussions.

Stephan Prina contextualizes the exhibition No Rocks Allowed

Jeff wall contextualizes the work of Ken Lum.

Raymond Bellour lectures on the relationship between cinema and painting, on the occasion of the exhibition Cézanne.

Walter Nikkels contextualizes the work of Philip Akkerman

A discussion with Stephan Balkenhol, Jean-François Chevrier, Chris Dercon, Craigie Horsfield, Ludger Gerdes, Martin Kreyssig and Jeff Wall.

In conjunction with the exhibition of Jessica Stockholder and Saint Clair Cemin, the American art critic and artist John Miller conveyed his view on the history of assemblage.

Francesco Pellizzi talks about the work of Julio Galan and Guillermo Kuitca, two Latin American artists.

Francesco Pellizzi talks about the work of Julio Galan and Guillermo Kuitca, two Latin American artists.

Jean-François Chevrier talks about the exhibition De Afstand (Distance) which presented “distant,” documentary photography by eight artists.

A discussion with Guy Brett, Catherine David, Rodrigo Naves and Sonia Salzstein- Goldberg on Helio Oiticica.

In conjunction with the exhibition South Bronx Hall of Fame by the Americans John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, which had presented an overview of their portrait-sculptures of neighbours and friends in the South Bronx, New York.

Works by two different artists, the American painter Michael Byron and the Portuguese painter Julião Sarmento, were confronted. The Portuguese sociologist and art critic Alexandre Melo dealt with the relevance and non-relevance of the work outside the so-called ‘art centers’. Works by two different artists, the American painter Michael Byron and the Portuguese painter Julião Sarmento, were confronted.

The German artist Hermann Pitz, the curators Marianne Brouwer and Kasper Kӧnig and the artist Ludger Gerdes discussed the future of public sculptures before an enormous maquette for the new Rotterdam.

Bruce Mau lectures on graphic design and form.

During Facts and Rumours, an exhibition curated by the Dutch artist Henk Visch, and Voorwerk 2, the Franco-Italian ethnologist Remo Guidieri presented a philosophical interpretation of the marriage between the creative process of art and the professionalization of the art

Craigie Horsfield lectures on the work of Walker Evans

Registration of the event Politics of Verticality: The West Bank as an Architectural Construction with Ariella Azoulay, Catherine David, Zvi Efrat, Anselm Franke, Sandi Hilal, Efrat Shvily, and Eyal Weizman (1:01:11).

Documentary on 100 years of cinema by Chris Dercon for national TV broadcaster VPRO for the series Laat op de avond na een korte wandeling (1:37:38).

Paul van Gennip and line kramer test the installing of the artwork by Honoré d’O (0:48 min).

Contexts, exploring the history of the profession, conditions and ideas underlying curating, and the increasingly international practice of exhibition making.

Contexts, exploring the history of the profession, conditions and ideas underlying curating, and the increasingly international practice of exhibition making.

Contexts, exploring the history of the profession, conditions and ideas underlying curating, and the increasingly international practice of exhibition making.

Contexts, exploring the history of the profession, conditions and ideas underlying curating, and the increasingly international practice of exhibition making.