door admin | dec 2, 2025 | Prikbord
Conservator moderne kunst & vormgeving CODA Rianne Groen nodigt ons uit bij:
De paddenstoel aan het einde van de wereld
een tentoonstelling over verval en veerkracht
CODA Apeldoorn | 9 november 2025 t/m 12 april 2026 | coda-apeldoorn.nl/paddenstoel
Hoe leven we verder in een wereld die steeds meer onder druk staat? De natuur geeft ons een verrassend antwoord: ze komt bijna altijd weer terug, zelfs op plekken die onherstelbaar beschadigd of verlaten lijken. In de tentoonstelling De paddenstoel aan het einde van de wereld, te zien in CODA Museum Apeldoorn van 9 november 2025 tot en met 12 april 2026, maak je een wandeling langs indrukwekkende, spectaculaire en spannende kunstwerken van zeven kunstenaars en kunstenaarsduo’s. Zij laten zien hoe wij kijken naar de natuur, hoe we er deel van uitmaken en hoe de mens vaak alles dat leeft beïnvloedt en naar eigen hand probeert te zetten.
Sommige kunstwerken tonen hoopvolle samenwerkingen tussen mens en natuur, terwijl andere werken juist de schade laten zien die onherstelbaar is. Voor een aantal werken worden ook nieuwe technologieën en samenwerkingen met wetenschappers ingezet om zo frisse ideeën en beelden vorm en inhoud te geven. Laat je verrassen, raken en inspireren door kunst die vragen stelt over onze toekomst, onze plek in de wereld en wat we kunnen leren van de veerkracht van de natuur.
De paddenstoel aan het einde van de wereld
In het boek De paddenstoel aan het einde van de wereld beschrijft antropoloog Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing hoe na de atoombomaanval op Hiroshima een matsutake-paddenstoel – die juist gedijt in door de mens verstoorde landschappen – als eerste teken van leven verscheen. Ze volgt de reis van deze zeldzame paddenstoel; van plukkers in Oregon tot fijnproevers in Japan. Hun verhalen laten zien hoe de geschiedenis en ecologie van deze paddenstoel verweven zijn met de kwetsbare levens van mensen. Zo onderzoekt Tsing de gevolgen voor de mens die moet leven in een natuur die door eigen toedoen ontregeld is; een idee dat de basis vormt voor deze tentoonstelling.
In de tentoonstelling
De paddenstoel aan het einde van de wereld is verdeeld over de twee grote tentoonstellingsruimtes van CODA Museum (de grote zaal en de Noordzaal). CODA combineert deze ruimtes tot één grote ervaring. In de tentoonstelling is onder andere een unieke installatie te zien van meerdere (video)werken van kunstenaarsduo Broersen & Lukács. De werken zijn in deze samenstelling nog niet eerder in Nederland te zien geweest. In de tentoonstelling is ook een aantal spectaculaire, grootschalige werken te zien, zoals een zeven meter hoog ‘worteltapijt’ van Diana Scherer, een monumentale software-installatie van het duo Driessens & Verstappen en kunstwerken met geur en geluid van Suzette Bousema. Bijzonder zijn de bruiklenen van de internationaal gerenommeerde kunstenaar Otobong Nkanga. Van Nkanga is onder andere een acht meter breed wandtapijt te zien in de tentoonstelling.
Deelnemend kunstenaars
Suzette Bousema, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Driessens & Verstappen, Maartje Korstanje, Otobong Nkanga, Zeger Reyers, Diana Scherer
door admin | okt 1, 2025 | Prikbord
We are pleased to invite you to the preview of the inaugural exhibition In the Fold at Working Title, a new contemporary art gallery located at Van Ostadestraat 43A, in Amsterdam.
You are warmly invited to the preview from 16:00 to 18:00, followed by the official opening from 18:00 to 21:00. If you are unable to attend on this date, the exhibition will be on view until Saturday, 8 November, and you are welcome to visit at a later time.
To mark the beginning of this new chapter, artist Dion Rosina has co-curated the exhibition, presenting his work alongside that of Nathan Joshua Bastien, Wendy Owusu and Matt Saunders. While their practices vary in style and even span different periods, the works are connected by the theme of sampling and fragmentation, both visual: through collage and assemblage, and conceptual: in their reflections on fractured identities and histories.
Dion Rosina (1991) is a Dutch Afro-Caribbean painter. His work often begins with collages made from a variety of images, which he manipulates and reassembles into his paintings, a working method heavily influenced by sampling which can be found in HipHop music.
Rosina is interested in how different themes, ideas, and visuals can influence one another through the act of assembling, like life itself, where everything is interconnected and constantly shaped through interaction.
Rosina began his practice in 2020. Since then, his work has been exhibited at institutions including Museum MORE, museum Rembrandthuis, Drents Museum, and Museum Catharijneconvent, as well as Documenta Fifteen in Kassel. His work is on view At Buro Stedelijk in the exhibition #52 TO BE DETERMINED were artistic interventions are explored in the semi-public space. The exhibition runs until 23 October.
Wendy Owusu (1994) work centres on identity, enabling her to conduct anthropological research to delve into her cultural heritage. She also examines the preservation of traditions and their modern adaptations. Her findings are shared with audiences through editions, videos, and installations, blending documentary imagery with photography. Additionally, she investigates themes of group and urban transition, utilizing textiles and clothing as narrative tools.
Owusu graduated with honours from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2021 and is currently a resident at Artagon Pantin (Paris). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2022 – 2023), Vancouver Art Gallery (2023), and CODA Museum (2023). She has collaborated with institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, and Fondation Cartier.
The working method of Nathan Joshua Bastien (1989) is similar to that of Rosina. By assembling different images he uses painting to generate new meanings, which are largely shaped by the viewer’s interpretation.
He finds inspiration in a multicultural identity, street and counterculture, as well as in the design and representation of the world of children and educational programs with socio-cultural integration emerging as an overarching motif.
Bastien graduated in 2023 at the LUCA School of Arts (Gent) with a masters in painting.
The work Hertha Thiele #1 made by Matt Saunders (1975) connects painting, photography and printmaking to the moving image and heavily referencing film and the history of cinema. The work shows the German actress Hertha Thiele, best known for her silent films of the early 1930s, whose painted portrait is cut out and mounted again onto a once-blank canvas.
Matt Saunders studied at Harvard, Cambridge and at Yale University, where he was trained as a painter. He has exhibited his work internationally at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2020), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013). His work is in the collections of major institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
In the Fold
Preview
02.10.2025
16:00 – 18:00
Dion Rosina, Nathan Joshua Bastien, Wendy Owusu and Matt Saunders
On view until Saturday 8 November 2025
Opening Hours
Thursday 12:00 – 18:00
Friday 12:00 – 18:00
Saturday 12:00 – 18:00
Working Title
Van Ostadestraat 43A, 1072SN Amsterdam
door admin | aug 7, 2025 | Prikbord
Help ArtTable member and curator Nesli Gül bring this exhibition to life!
Hi, I’m Nesli Gül Durukan, an independent curator, researcher, and art writer based in Amsterdam. My work explores memory, archives, and overlooked narratives in contemporary art. After completing my PhD, I’ve curated exhibitions across the Netherlands, Turkey, and beyond. With Mountain as a Living Archive, I’m bringing together artists from different generations and cultures to reflect on transformation, resilience, and the landscapes we carry within us.
In a city without mountains, we’re building one from art. Amsterdam is a city defined by its flatness, a landscape reclaimed from the water. But what if we could build a mountain here? Not of rock and earth, but of memory, resilience, and shared history.
This is the vision behind Mountain as a Living Archive, a cross-cultural group exhibition coming to Amsterdam’s PAKT Foundation from August 29 to September 21, 2025. The exhibition explores mountains as living repositories of time, memory and transformation, featuring breathtaking works by four incredible artists from the Netherlands and Turkey.
Read more and donate via this link:
https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19496-mountain-as-a-living-archive
Images: Awoiska van der Molen makes a special edition ‘The Living Mountain’ (an image-booklet measuring 21x17cm) for this Crowdfunding campaign. [Top left] Müge Yılmaz presents signed limited edition A3 prints, part of The Water, The Soil, The Jungle. [Bottom right] Kevin Bauer presents signed limited edition A2 prints from his installation work P (Parking). [Bottom right] Zeynep Yilmaz’s drawing, 10.5×14.5 cm (oil pastel on paper).
door admin | nov 29, 2024 | Prikbord
Even in a world full of artificial presences, the human need for touch, understanding, and connection persists. On the 9th of November, Nesli Gül Durukan witnesses an unconventional wedding ceremony in the atrium of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. In Metropolis M, she wrote this article about is.
Image: Alicia Framis Marries AI Hologram Ailex Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, 9 November 2024. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.
