‘Nul = 0′: The Dutch Nul Group in an International Context reveals the artistic principles of the Nul movement. Leading international writers reconstruct the developments and collaborations of the Dutch Nul group with its spiritual brethren: the artists of the German Zero, the French Nouveau Réalisme, Italy’s Azimut Group and the Japanese Gutai Group, as well as individual artists like Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama and Lucio Fontana. Given the current generation of artists’ rediscovery of such elements as time and space, light and motion, the achievements of these artists are now more relevant than ever.
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Nul = 0
'Nul = 0' gaat over de Nederlandse nul-groep in een internationale context. Toonaangevende auteurs reconstrueren de ontwikkelingen en samenwerkingsverbanden van de Nul-groep met zijn internationale geestverwanten: de kunstenaars van het Duitse Zero, het Franse Nouveau Réalisme, de Italiaanse Azimut- en de Japanse Gutai-groep en individuen als Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama en Lucio Fontana.kunst

Riksa Afiaty
Power & Other Things
The project takes its name from the demand for the transfer of power and other things to the newly independent Indonesia in 1945. It travels through time, from European colonial occupation through the development of the republican state to the trans-national contemporary cultures of today. It looks at the various international exchanges that happened in the territories of contemporary Indonesia, through the images and ideas of artists. These exchanges were of different kinds: trade, culture, religion, ideology and war. They produced a variety of results: violence, oppression, racism, creativity, spiritual awakening, and other things. The ideologies and challenges of modernity are common ways in which Indonesia has been depicted by others and has defined itself over the period. As this modern period recedes into history, the project will seek ways to remember how it has influenced contemporary understanding and ask the current generation of artists to look back in order to rewrite the past and potentially create the conditions for a different future. The catalogue and the exhibition will follow a broad chronological narrative, allowing readers and visitors to learn more about how this huge archipelago has changed over the past two centuries and to observe how it has responded and adapted to influences originating from both inside and outside the islands. The influence of the imperial Dutch and Japanese occupations naturally form a significant element in the narrative of the exhibition as does the constant struggle for different forms of independence or equal treatment by the Javanese and other Indonesian cultures. The importance of Chinese and Arab influence on Indonesia's cultural history will also feature as the exhibition tries to look for alternative ways, alongside the post-colonial, for understanding the present. The presentations will include work made during the residencies as well as new commissions.kunst

Gladys C. Fabre (red.)
Theo van Doesburg
'Theo van Doesburg' presents a nomadic propagandist on an ongoing quest for a new aesthetic which, in interaction with contemporary science and technology, seeks to reform the world. It opens with a presentation of the art and ideas of the Dutch movement De Stijl, the review and art movement of the same name having been founded in 1917 in Leiden. Attention is also given to the collaborations between van Doesburg and other eminent artists of the avant-garde, with works by leading members of the movement De Stijl. This exhibition and accompanying catalogue highlights the importance of the interdisciplinarity and interaction that contributed to the development of a new style, in agreement with a new way of living, which simultaneously brings together art and architecture, cinema, poetry, literature and design.kunst
