Published with an eponymous exhibition in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, this catalogue provides an overview of works created there by immigrant Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji between 2016 and 2021, together with the oeuvre he produced in Iraq in the 1980s. Central to this cartography is a reflection on Baghdad, the artist’s own family history of migration, and his experiences in Iraq during the turbulent years he spent working there. His characteristic black linework and melancholic under...

The work of Koen Taselaar is a unique universe in which only he determines the rules. He makes skillful drawings, but also clumsy ceramics and elaborate Tapestries.

Taselaar’s visual language emerged from the grey area in which text is not only meaning but also form. He expresses this in drawn puns, imaginary record sleeves or large psychedelic paintings. In search of ways to process his diverse output, he makes publications and large scale drawings, which function as flat exhibition space...

Munayem Mayenin's artworks, paintings, kollarimaginics, drawings and designs

Effigy hanging and burning, a specific theatrical form of political protest, has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against United States military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, in US domestic politics, and in the Arab Spring. Taking these events as points of departure, Göttke investigates the conditions of this visual genre of protest, its roots and genealogies in a number of countries, its aesthetics and politics.

Effigy protests communicate comm...

Imagine only two artists and one patron involved in the world-famous Ghent Altarpiece. Albeit this gives rise to fake information, which induces unacceptable and unreasonable conclusions.

The author proceeds through the WYSIWYG method. This proves efficiently as the way of painting is very accurate, precise, and honest. In the end, the historical checks and balances reveal an acceptable story of a dynamic artists' community.

Prix de Rome 2021. Beeldende Kunst / Visual Arts verschijnt bij de gelijknamige tentoonstelling in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam met nieuw werk van de kunstenaars die zijn geselecteerd voor de shortlist van de Prix de Rome 2021. Centraal staat het werk van Mercedes Azpilicueta, Alexis Blake, Silvia Martes en Coralie Vogelaar. Volgens de internationale jury reflecteren de vier finalisten op actuele thema’s, bieden kritische herinterpretaties van historische gebeurtenissen, verbinden onderbelich...

An observatory is a place for the observation of the universe. The artists of Observatorium, however, cast their gaze upon the inhabited world. All over the planet, they have created works of art that are not only to look at, but also to enter, observe and reflect from. Over the past 30 years, Observatorium produced an internationally significant body of work, from the sculpture Zandwacht (Sand Watch) in the Port of Rotterdam to Dwelling in Seclusion, a work of art devoted to solitude in New ...