Opening Making Use - Dutch Art Institute at the Van Abbemuseum
Saturday 22.06.2013, 14.00
We cordially invite you to the opening of Making Use on Saturday 22 June. For the past three years the Van Abbemuseum has been teaching at the Dutch Art
Institute (DAI / MFA ArtEZ) in Arnhem. Together with the students, the museum tackles a range of contemporary themes such as autonomy and the place of art in society. For the first time the course ends with an exhibition in the museum.
For the presentation the museum reversed the roles and asked the students to 'use' the museum, drawing on elements of the institution to inform their practice, from the collection, the spaces, people or limitations of the museum. The group tackled this challenge in different and surprising ways. The show will include works by Mercedes Azpilicueta and Ohad Ben Shimon, Anna Dasovic, Yoeri Guepin, Fotini Gouseti, Rei Kakiuchi, Eden Mitsenmacher, Pendar Nabipour, Fraser Stewart, Katja van Driel and Susan van Hengstum.
