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Reclaiming places tells the story of a changing world, and the claims of indigenous people to inhabit the space that surrounds them and that they are made of. The works presented here are bound by joint environmental concerns. They also explore the notions of inhabiting the land – as well as exploiting – and possessing – it. With: Marwa Arsanios, Marjolijn Dijkman, Laura Huertas Millán, Joar Nango, Otobong Nkanga.

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Auscultation is a public and experimental launch of the “Between the Lines” project in collaboration with Vent des Forêts at Festival Les Nuits des Forêts. Day with two gatherings with: Office National de Forets, CA et forêt privée, COFOR and artist Marjolijn Dijkman.

During the experimental session Auscultation, we can hear how long sound frequencies resonate in the trees and whether or not they are interrupted. The duration of resonance is influenced by the amount of water in the trees, the density of the wood, and whether the trees are alive or dead.

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Through the curiosity and tenacity of artists’ investigations we encounter the manifold phenomena of the complex nature surrounding us. With: Rune Bosse, Stefanie Bühler, Marjolijn Dijkman, Tue Greenfort, Toril Johannessen, Sanna Kannisto, Anders Moseholm and Marika Seidler.

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The COAL Prize dedicates its 2021 edition to the crucial issue of forests at the center of the climate crisis and ecological transition. Nominated artists: Karin Bolender (US), Marjolijn Dijkman (NL), Sara Favriau (FR), Collectif Fibra (PE), Julie C. Fortier (CN), Beya Gille Gacha (FR), Noémie Goudal (FR), Vincent Laval (FR), Erik Samakh (FR), Feda Wardak (FR). Award ceremony 16 June 2021.
Created in 2010 by the COAL association, the COAL Prize has in ten years become a vehicle for the identification, promotion and dissemination of artists all over the world who dare to imagine and experiment, to transform territories, lifestyles, organizations and production methods.

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This exhibition examines the changing sea around us. Things that we have taken for granted are uncertain and causal chains are surprising in the future. Changes in the horizon and emotions reflected by the sea are pondered over in the exhibition with the help of the works of contemporary international and Finnish artists.

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With: Catrin Andersson, Christian Falsnaes, Tue Greenfort, Max Guy, Ilkka Halso, Minna Henriksson, Ane Hjort Guttu, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang (Sofie Hesselholdt, Vibeke Mejlvang), Ingela Ihrman, Toril Johannessen & Marjolijn Dijkman, Floating Museum, (P)Art of the Biomass (Janna Holmstedt, Malin Lobell), Cheryl Pope, Sean Raspet, Michael x. Ryan, Nilsmagnus Sköld, Sophie Tottie, Wang & Söderström (Anny Wang, Tim Söderström), Amanda Williams.

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A Common Breath is a exhibition programme on decolonisation and ecology. With: Marwa Arsanios, Myriam Bahaffou, Minia Biabiany, Ama Josephine Budge, Isabel Burr Raty, Régine Debatty, Marjolijn Dijkman, Malcom Ferdinand, Laura Huertas Millán, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Karrabing Film Collective, Kris Kimpe, Elizabeth Povinelli, Samira Saleh, Fabrizio Terranova and Ana Vaz.

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For her new commission in the CAC Lobby, Marjolijn Dijkman creates a custom collage comprised of photographs depicting obsolete ephemera associated with economies of energy—minerals, circuit boards, personal devices, and batteries. The photographs are captured using a high voltage photography technique with conductive glass, sourced from smartphones.

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As a workplace for visual artists, FLACC creates the organizational, technical and artistic conditions for the realization of unique artistic projects. Every year FLACC invites a max. 8 artists to set up a new project. They open up their facilities and provide full organizational and artistic support.

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NOME is pleased to announce the group exhibition Plan B, featuring works by James Bridle, Paolo Cirio, Cian Dayrit, Marjolijn Dijkman, Goldin+Senneby, Igor Grubič, Khaled Hafez, Voluspa Jarpa, Rajkamal Kahlon, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Sajan Mani, Ana Prvački, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Kirsten Stolle, and Xiyadie.

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With: Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Carla Acevedo-Yates, Regina Agu, Carolina Caycedo, Stephanie Cristello, Ryan N. Dennis, Marjolijn Dijkman, Luise Faurschou, César García-Alvarez, Floating Museum, Elizabeth Hénaff, Toril Johannessen, Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg, Laura Lupton, Haley Mellin, Srimoyee Mitra, Cristina Molina, Hương Ngô, Katie A. Pfohl, Sean Raspet, Jodi Roberts, Mika Rottenberg, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Kate Sierzputowski, Xaviera Simmons, Kim Stringfellow, Oscar Tuazon, Neville Wakefield, Willie Wright.

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Spoiled Waters Spilled focuses on the notion of toxicity, of circulation, of water (rivers), on ecology and activism. With: Minia Biabiany, Jessika Kharzik, Marjolijn Dijkman & Toril Johannessen, Witnesses, Marianne Fahmy, Rikke Luther, Elvia Teotski.

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Solo exhibition by Marjolijn Dijkman at Club Solo in collaboration with S.M.A.K. Ghent, BE, part of Breda Photo 2020. A publication about the exhibition with essays by Galit Eilat (Medusa Foundation) and Thibaut Verhoeven (S.M.A.K.) will be launched at the finissage. Breda Photo is the largest photo exhibition in the Benelux and is held every two years in Breda.

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Featuring works by Nora Al-Badri and Nikolai Nelles, James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Paolo Cirio, Cian Dayrit, Marjolijn Dijkman and Toril Johannessen, Goldin+Senneby, Igor Grubić, Khaled Hafez, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Sajan Mani, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Quayola, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Kirsten Stolle, and Xiyadie.

Curated by Luca Barbeni and Jesi Khadivi.

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Humanity is at a turning point. Individually and collectively, if they want to survive, human beings need to change their way of connecting with the world but also with each other. Is Manichaeism the only solution? Should we only think in terms of utopia and dystopia in order to discover new avenues?

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Sonic Acts Academy is a three-day festival at the intersection of innovative audio-visual and performative art and critical thinking, motivated by changes in the ecological, political, technological and social landscape.  The Academy also invites visitors to join for a conference that features cutting-edge emerging and well-known artistic voices.

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Georges Senga (member of Picha) and Marjolijn Dijkman (co-founder of Enough Room for Space) will introduce ‘On-Trade-Off’, an artistic trajectory initiated by the artists’ initiatives Picha (Lubumbashi, DRC) and Enough Room for Space (Brussels, BE) and some of the works they have developed within this project. Focusing on this one chemical element (Li3) allows the project to zoom in on particular social, ecological, economic and political phenomena that characterise the production processes currently experiencing rapid growth.

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The starting point for the research project On-Trade-Off is the raw material lithium, a naturally occurring element (number three on the periodic table), and its crucial role in the global transition towards a ‘green and fossil fuel free economy’. With: Sammy Baloji, Marjolijn Dijkman, Jean Katambayi, Musasa, Georges Senga, Daddy Tshikaya, Maarten Vanden Eynde.

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With the exhibition Polarities – Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological – including the projects of this years winners of the BAD Award – MU stays with the Anthropocene trouble by tapping in on the extremities of our time, seen from the collaborative perspectives of scientists and artists, without losing sight of the way we must eventually all learn how to cope with drastic changes.

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In this Amsterdam edition – also moonlit – experts with different scholarly backgrounds will focus on the ecological, social and economic consequences of the extraction and processing of lithium and cobalt. They will look both at the history of electricity and the current use of raw materials from the DRC for electronics and energy storage.

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‘The Extended Mind’ proposes that our cognition – that is our mind, thoughts, reasoning, perception, imagination, intelligence, emotion and experience – does not just take place within our brains. It also takes place through our bodies and the broader world and enabled by all the tools, technologies, institutions, materials and techniques we might use to orientate our understanding of where we are in the world.

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The Dutch contribution to the XXII Triennale di Milano comprises a programme of events in Milan, Rotterdam, and a publication. It takes the complex relationships between light and dark, between seeing and not seeing, as a starting point for an exploration of their conflicting effects on humans, the Earth and other organisms.

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On-Trade-Off: The Weight of Wonders is an artistic trajectory initiated by Picha (DRC) and Enough Room for Space (BE). The exhibition shows works by Sammy Baloji, Marjolijn Dijkman, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Musasa, Jean Katambayi, Georges Senga and Daddy Tshikaya. On-Trade-Off highlights lithium (li3), which is considered ‘the new black gold’ because of its crucial role in the global transition to a fossil-free economy.

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Future Genealogies, Tales From The Equatorial Line takes the Equator’s imaginary line not as one of demarcation—the majestic Congo River disregards it by straddling it twice—but rather of imbrication. At its closest a place where earth gravity alleviates and where the poles’ magnetic attractions balance each other, the equatorial latitude opens the possibility for narratives that respond to alternate compasses, recognizes new centers of gravity and where de-polarized stories can unfold.

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