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20/09/2010

September 27, 2010: debate Koolhaas in Beijing, Fonds BKVB

September 27, 2010: debate Koolhaas in Beijing, Fonds BKVB

Debate on the occasion of the release of the book Koolhaas in Beijing by Edzard Mik, published by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.  Speakers: Edzard Mik, Ger Groot, Hans Ibelings, Jannah Loontjens. Moderator: Awee Prins.

Location: De Balie, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam. Date: September 27, 8,15 pm

This is the fifth publication in a series of essays commissioned by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. The English edition [ISBN 978-90-76936-27-7] will be distributed and promoted world-wide by Jap Sam Books.

Architects, contrary to most artists, work by definition from the core of society. Rem Koolhaas is one of the few architects who demonstrates the ability to do so while maintaining a critical distance. Does his strategy contain a hint for artists on how to create significant art in a world where everything seems bound for insignificance? Writer Edzard Mik visited the CCTV building in Beijing, designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA, and wrote a lyrical 'road essay' about Koolhaas, Beijing and on being an artist in the twenty-first century.


Edzard Mik (1960) is a Dutch novelist and a regularly featured essayist on visual art, architecture and theater in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and weekly magazine Vrij Nederland.

For more information: Fonds BKVB