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Together with MAMA we proudly present This Naked Incident, a visual and textual exploration by Alexander van der Heide & Sander Coers into the place 'masculinity' has in the lives of young people today.

With a few days left of the exhibition jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Acts of modernism by Antonis Pittas and Theo van Doesburg at Centraal Museum we celebrated the launch of the publication jaune, geel, gelb yellow. Monochrome by Antonis Pittas, which was created in conjunction with the exhibition and published by Jap Sam Books.

Just in, the new publication of artist Koen Taselaar. On 15|12 the book will be launched at Page Not Found in The Hague and on 18|12 the book will be launched at gallery Block C in Groningen. Come by!

On Tuesday November 30th Alexis Blake received the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2021 from demissionary Minister van Engelshoven of Education, Culture and Science. Blake received this award for her performance Rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash. The award comes with a 40.000 euro cash prize and a work period at an artist at residency of choice.

On the occasion of the release of Rody Luton's new publication Rody Luton. The Encircled there will be an exhibition at puntWG in Amsterdam. New paintings and photo works of the artist will be on show between December 2nd and December 5th. 

November 13th opens the the Prix de Rome 2021 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum. The four nominated artists, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Alexis Blake, Silvia Martes and Coralie Vogelaar will present new work that they have made especially for the exhibition.

The program explored the historical context and present vocabularies of urgent debates regarding the inclusiveness of art institutions such as museums and contemporary art spaces. Invited guests responded to the essay by Rolando Vázquez/, featuring a keynote lecture by Professor Gloria Wekker and moderation by Nancy Jouwe.

The livestream of this afternoon is available at the Youtube Channel of Kunstinstituut Melly   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsdAzi-nj6Umet

 June 8, 17:00-18:30hrs

With Friedrich von Borries, Saskia van Stein and Ingo Offermanns.

For reservations: https://spui25.nl/programma/the-world-as-project

Organised in cooperation with: Goethe Institut Amsterdam and Spui25.