Gallery talks — Jan 17, 2018

Beginning mid-January in 2018, the Stedelijk Museum will offer Wednesday afternoon Gallery Talks for Jump into the Future – Art from the 90s and 2000s: The Borgmann Donation. Taking place in the exhibition galleries, the Gallery Talks offer various perspectives on the exhibition from curators, artists, and critics. Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen, curator of the exhibition, will lead the first Gallery Talk and will elaborate on a personal selection of artworks.
Price
€3 (excl. musem entrance)
Location
Begins in museum entrance hall, tours through the exhibition galleries
Time
Jan 17, 2018, 4 pm until 5 pm
Main language
English
Admission
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The Borgmann Donation includes an extensive number of contemporary art works from the German collector Thomas Borgmann. Among the featured artists are Cosima von Bonin, Matt Mullican, Lucy McKenzie, Jutta Koether, Paulina Olowska, Wolfgang Tillmans, Christopher Williams, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Heimo Zobernig. The group of works that will join the collection of the Stedelijk is made up of a donation, a purchase, and long-term loan. Jump into the Future is a major exhibition that occupies all thirty of the first-floor galleries that surround the museum’s grand staircase and is one of the largest exhibitions van Nieuwenhuyzen has curated.

Jack Goldstein, The Jump, 1978. © The Estate of Jack Goldstein
Photo: Ernst van Deursen

MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen is a photographer and art historian and has been a curator at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam since 1995. He is exhibitioncurator of the current show Jump into the Future – Art from the 90s and 2000s: The Borgmann Donation. He has organized several solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk, including Iza Genzken (2015-2016), Ed Atkins (2015), and Tino Sehgal (2015). For A Year at the Stedelijk: Tino Sehgal he received the 2017 AICA Award. He curated various group exhibitions such as Bad Thoughts – The Martijn and Jeanette Sanders Collection (2014-2015), Beyond Imagination (2012, co-curated with Kathrin Jentjens), From the Corner of the Eye (1998), and Wild Walls (1995). 

From 1999-2006, Van Nieuwenhuyzen was the chief curator of the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), the project space of the museum in the center of Amsterdam. From 2000 to 2003, he was associate director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, where he was responsible for the exhibition program with a team of three international directors. In 2005, he commissioned the film installation “Mandarin Ducks” by De Rijke/De Rooij for the Dutch pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. Van Nieuwenhuyzen regularly writes articles for international art journals, as well as essays about artists such as Marlene Dumas, Rob Scholte, Aernout Mik, Gabriel Orozco, and Allora & Calzadilla.

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