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20 leading contemporary artists from all over the world have been invited by Museum De Lakenhal to share their vision on today’s globalized world. To do so, they will exhibit new or existing work that has been inspired by the extensive collections of Leiden’s many museums. With: Georges Adéagbo, Mark Dion, Marjolijn Dijkman, Romuald Hazoumè, Meshac Gaba, Simryn Gill, Mona Hatoum, Tsang Kin-Wah, Rivane Neuenschwander, Lucy Orta & Jorge Orta, Raqs Media Collective, Batoul S’Himi, Andrea Stultiens, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Tintin Wulia, Ghana Think Tank, Taryn Simon, Chen Zhen

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History Rising is a subversive and engaging study of museum display by artist Marjolijn Dijkman and curator Jes Fernie. By distancing museum objects from their support structures the project seeks to critique the assumptions that are made about how things are positioned, who chooses to display them, and how the social, political and aesthetic choices that are made in the process dictate the language of display.

This book is made up of visual and written essays, an interview between the artist and curator, an inventory of works, and documentation of Dijkman’s installations in museums and galleries in the UK. These installations propose strange and fantastical juxtapositions, alleviate objects from the weight of history and create links with modernism, the heritage industry and the aesthetics of sci-fi.

Editors Jes Fernie and Marjolijn Dijkman
Design by Salome Schmuki
Published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
ISBN 9789491677304

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This LUNÄ Talk explores how science and fiction relate to each other, focusing on topics as immortality, robotics, extraterrestrial life. On this special full moon evening after the Super Blood Moon Eclipse, all guests will be seated around LUNÄ, an installation of Marjolijn Dijkman with a fascimile of the oval table which was used by the Lunar Society in Birmingham in the 18th century. With: Anke Bangma, Dirk van Delft, Marjolijn Dijkman, George van Hal, Jaap van de Herik, Maarten Lamers, Peter Pels and Dorien Zandbergen.

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The program and event series Facts & Fiction inquires into the representation and perception of disasters and dystopias: Why is it that the contemporary arts—from Hollywood to the fine arts and literature—are much more interested in catastrophes than in a vision of happiness? What makes the apocalypse so thrilling? Why are we so fascinated by the aesthetic of cataclysms and natural spectacles? What does an analysis of these images reveal, and what can we offer in reply to them? With: Allora & Calzadilla, Yael Bartana, Christoph Draeger, Guy Ben-Ner, Marjolijn Dijkman, Omer Fast, Jonathan Horowitz, Ho Tzu Nyen, Gabriel S. Moses, Oliver Ressler.

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The Present is Now Appearing will be presented with works by Felix De Boeck, a Belgian modernist avant-garde artist, in a cabinet titled Vertigo. This exhibition presents the first series of two cabinets where contemporary art works are installed in relation to specific works of De Boeck.
Participating artists: Marjolijn Dijkman and Sofie Muller (Cabinets #1) / Stéphanie Leblon and Ruth van Haren Noman (Cabinets #2)

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This series of LUNÄ Talks will specifically focus on the notion of the future investigating modes in which the idea of future is seeded in our society today. With: Ramon Amaro, Rebecca Bligh, Stephen Boyd Davis, Owen Cotton-Barrat, Caroline Edwards, Mark Fisher, Jay Griffiths, Cathy Haynes, Ken Hollings, Magda Osman, Emily Penn, Mary Margaret Rinebold, Philip Sheldrake, Murray Shanahan, Maarten Speekenbrink, Jamie Ward and many others. (Developed by Marjolijn Dijkman in collaboration with fig-2)

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The relation of man to forest has something dizzying and awakens many pictures and emotions: the forest is at once the cradle of humanity, part of solitary or family walks, refuge of the Resistance or a protected place. Be they musicians, visual artists, photographers, film makers, performers, storytellers, architects, landscapers, loggers, charcoal burners, tank tops or shamans, each of the forty contributors bring their interpretation and vision of a environment full of mysteries and legends.

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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is an ever-expanding collection of photographs, assembled since 2005, that observe how people organise their living environments across the world. Art+Climate=Change 2015 is a festival of climate change related arts and ideas will include over 20 curated exhibitions at alongside a series of keynote lectures and public forums featuring local and international guests.

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On the contemporary interpretation of present-day culture through representations of the landscape. The works presented make clear how we look at the landscape, how the definition of a landscape through technique and media is stretched and how we use the landscape as metaphor for current issues, be they social, political or aesthetic.

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History Rising is a subversive and engaging study of museum display. Viewers and participants are invited to reconsider their view of history by looking at the mechanisms museums put in place to create a sense of order and hierarchy within their collections. Curated by: Jes Fernie

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An exhibition of international video art presented in unusual urban spaces around the Southside district of Birmingham

With: Adel Abdessemed, Roy Arden, Kevin Atherton, Oliver Beer, Marjolijn Dijkman, Dean Kelland, Vladimir Logutov, Kelly Mark, Heather and Ivan Morison, Grace Ndiritu, Junebum Park, Cornelia Parker, Perry Roberts, Santiago Sierra, Beat Streuli, Gillian Wearing, Yang Zhenzhong

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The focal point in this exhibition is the contemporary interpretation of present-day culture through representations of the landscape. The works shown in Out There, make clear how we look at the landscape, how the definition of a landscape through technique and media is stretched and how we use the landscape as metaphor for current issues, be they social, political or aesthetic.

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Artists: Alexánder Apostol, Yto Barrada, Marcelo Cidade, Nathan Coley, Livia Corona, José Dávila, Marjolijn Dijkman, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Angela Ferreira, Andreas Fogarasi, Meschac Gaba, Carlos Garaicoa, Terence Gower – Pedro Reyes, Pablo Hare, Heidrun Holzfeind – Christoph Draeger, David Maljkovic, Olivia Plender, Anri Sala, Kostis Velonis

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With: Jonathan Dronsfield, Ben Dawson, Gregor Moder, Oxana Timofeeva, Alexander Negrelli, Katja Diefenbach, Alan Smart, Jack Henrie Fisher, Alexi Kukuljevic, Jeff Weber, Mladen Dolar, Samo Tomcic, Udi Aloni, Anne van Leeuwen, Sami Khatib, Marjolijn Dijkman, Tzuchien Tho, Olivier Surel, Bruno Besana, Okkyung Lee, Anna-Luise Lorenz, Simone van Dijken, Jayme Yen, Kristin Posehn, Top Liste Surrealiste, Michael Lewis, Michael Weinman, Helmut Voelter, Andrea Liu, Koen Brams (in absentia), Mary Ikoniadou, Cathleen Schuster, Marcel Dickhage, Imogen Stidworthy, Karin Kihlberg, Reuben Henry, Hsiao Chen, Antonio Serna, Marc Matter, Robert M Ochshorn, Jon Krohn, Yanik Avila, Adrian Alecu, Hannes Boeck

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The first survey of its kind to explore contemporary art that focuses on ecology From land art and earthworks in the 1960s to conceptual art of the new millennium, ecology-focused art has been a prominent genre in the art world for decades. This book offers a look into the recent explosion in contemporary art that deals directly with nature, the environment, climate change, and ecology. Organized into six thematic chapters, Art & Ecology Now moves through the various levels of artists’ engagement, from those who document and reflect on nature, to those who use the physical environment as the raw material for their art, and committed activists who set out to make art that transforms both our attitudes and our habits.

Including works by: Allora & Calzadilla, Edward Burtynsky, Marjolijn Dijkman, Tue Greenfort, Hans Haacke, Eva Jospin, Nadav Kander, Yao Lu, David Maisel, Gustav Metzger, Svetlana Ostapovici, Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, and more.

Edited by: Andrew Brown
ISBN-10: 0500239169 / ISBN-13: 978-0500239162

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Hosted by the Cameroonian artist magazine DiARTgonale, the two special editions JAMAN (2012)  and ECHOES (2013) present the outcome of a long-term curatorial endeavour, initiated in 2009, for which Cameroonian and European artists collaboratively produced new, research-based artworks. The upcoming launches continue a series started last December in Cameroon during the triennale Salon Urbain de Douala 2013. Initiated by: Annette Schemmel and Marjolijn Dijkman

12 February 2014: SMBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
13 February 2014: WIELS & Enough Room for Space HQ, Brussels, Belgium
21 February 2014: SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

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P.E.A.R. (Paper for Emerging Architectural Research) aims to re-establish the fanzine as a primary medium for the dissemination of architectural ideas, musings, research and works, and to present the complexity and variety of architectural practice. We actively seek to publish thinking that wouldn’t ordinarily be seen in the mainstream architectural press, and we are interested in showing that the architectural is concerned with more than just architecture.

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A publication, edited/curated by Zoë Mendelson and published by And Publishing, will include articles, artworks and fiction. Alongside This Mess is a Place‘s own collaborators from psychiatric and archival fields there will be contributions of artistic projects from Jim Bay (UK); Michel Blazy (FR); Carrie M Becker (USA); Marjolijn Dijkman (NL); Nat Goodden (UK), Jefford Horrigan (UK), Catrin Huber (UK); Dean Hughes (UK); Verity Jane Keefe (UK); Mierle Laderman Ukeles (USA); Florence Peake (UK); Michael Samuels (UK); Kathryn Spence (USA); Robin Waart (NL); Julian Walker (UK) and Laura White (UK) among others.

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The film programme Constructed Sceneries explores the different ways in which artists use cinematic apparatus to re-contextualize and challenge standard perspectives of public surroundings. With work of: Jan Dibbets, Marjolijn Dijkman and Amir Yatziv
Curated by: High&Low Bureau

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Curated by Emmanuel Lambion
Artists: Beatrijs Albers en Reggy Timmermans, Stijn Ank, Laura Bergans, Greet Billet, Tom Bogaert, Kris Campo, Pieter De Raedt, Marjolijn Dijkman, Bruno Hardt, Bart Hendrickx, Quinten Ingelaere, Wouter Krokaert, Eda Lõhmus, Liesbeth Marit, Thomas Min, Erik Nerinckx, Anna Noa, Sabine Oosterlynck, Kevin Reynaert, Ellen Schroven, Stefan Serneels, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Filip Van Dingenen, Annelies Vaneycken, Henk Van Rensbergen, Bert Van Rossem, Sarah Joy Zwarts.

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Participating artists: Simon Evans, Adam Zaretsky, Antti Laitinen, Jimmie Durham, Ursula Biemann, Hans Scholten, Lucinda Devlin, Matthijs de Bruijne, Aquilizan, Simon Starling, Phylida Barlow, Luuk Wilmering, Persijn Broersen/Margit Lukács, Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Roy Villevoye, Egied Simons, Francis Alÿs, Matt Mullican, Ursula Biemann, Pierre Huyghe, Olivier Darné, Olafur Eliasson, Tinkebell, Erik Kessels, Raul Ortega Ayala, Ton Matton, Marjolijn Dijkman, Michiel Schwarz , Joost Elffers, Maartje Korstanje, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Jim Holyoak en Matt Shane, Hilarius Hofstede, Ai Wei Wei, Tea Mäkipäa, Keith Edmier, Natalie Jeremijenko, Superflex, Fischli en Weiss, Studio DRIFT, Atelier van Lieshout, Egied Simons, Zeger Reyers, Sjaak Langenberg, Tue Greenfort, Sjim Hendrix, Minerva Cuevas, Marjetica Potrč / OOZE, Heath Bunting, Superuse Studios, amongst others.

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Arti et Amicitiae will host a month long the exhibition Notes on a New Nature: Place, Myth and Memory, the second curatorial iteration of a research project by Nicholas O’Brien. This expo investigates the ways in which contemporary digital artists are examining the relationship between landscape and technology.

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