Barbara Visser
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Architecture Biennale 2010, opened 27/8/2010
VACANT NL – Where Architecture Meets Ideas
Rietveld Landscape, the curator for the Dutch entry to the Venice Architecture Biennial 2010, invited by the NAI, Roitterdam, has formed a multidisciplinary team to develop the installation and communication of the pavillion.
This installation calls upon the Dutch government to make use of
the enormous potential of vacant buildings from the 17th, 18th,
19th, 20th and 21st centuries in our country.
Aug 29th - Nov 21st 2010
Destrřy Design at MUDAC, Lausanne
An exhibition of works from the collection of the FRAC Nord–Pas de Calais, 24/2 – 23/5/2010
With: John M. Armleder, Bless, Maurizio Cattelan, Sam Durant, General Idea, Marti Guixé, Donald Judd, Gaetano Pesce, Superflex, Maarten van Severen, Christopher Wool, Andrea Zittel (a.o.)
Playground at STUK, Leuven
Playground returns with a third edition showcasing a series of performances, projects and installations by visual artists, theatre makers and choreographers who offer a unique view on contemporary society. Artists no longer set their artistic activities in terms of traditional disciplines and combine media such as performance, installation, film and interactive work.
With a.o. Ulla von Brandenburg, André van Bergen, Katinka Bock, Myriam Van Imschoot, Lars Siltberg, Markus Schinwald & Oleg Soulimenko, Matt Mullican, Youri Dirkx & Aurelien Froment and Sarah Vanhee.
www.playgroundfestival.be/2009
Depression at Marres, Maastricht
September 19 – November 29, 2009
Curators: Lisette Smits and Dan Kidner
. Artists: Alighiero e Boetti, Nairy Baghramian, Gillian Carnegie, Stephan Dillemuth, Chris Evans, Claire Fontaine, Melanie Gilligan, Karl Holmqvist, Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Lee Lozano, Alan Michael, Melvin Moti, Seth Price, Jim Shaw, Barbara Visser, Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan
Depression is the title for an international group exhibition presented in the context of the Marres program, which in the coming years will reflect on the 20th century and the idea of avant-garde. A way to describe the past century is to typify it as the era in which man was transformed from the civilian into the consumer. Read more on:
www.marres.org
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2008
Designer Veronica Ditting, left (who has also designed this website!) Barbara Visser, and Trudy Dorrepaal from printer Lecturis, with the book.
1987 – 2007 Barbara Visser: The Complete Incomplete Series at De Best Verzorgde Boeken of 2008/ The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2008
The Complete Incomplete Series brings together nineteen serial works based on photography. Each series is extended, elucidated and augmented with related material from the artist's archive, sometimes by the addition of images used or reworked by others. As such, these collections reveal the context in which a specific work was created, while also showing the way time endows the works with new meaning. Starting from Barbara Visser's recent work and ending with works dating from her student days at art college, this book offers a chronologically reversed retrospective of an oeuvre in which works expand and mutate through reappraisal and new interpretations. Text: A conversation with Robbert Dijkgraaf, president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Complete Incomplete Series is published on the occasion of the award to Barbara Visser of the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2008 awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Design by Veronica Ditting, 270 pages, full colour, ISBN 978-90813-3701-4
Order here, few copies left!
Graduation Galleries Design Academy Eindhoven
October 17 – 25, 2009
My students from the masters IM - Conceptual Design in Context will present their work in Eindhoven.
www.designacademy.nl
Heineken Prize 2008
From left to right: Barbara Visser, Pia de Jong, Robbert Dijkgraaf, HRH Prince Willem Alexander, looking at the publication Barbara Visser - The Complete Incomplete Series 2006-1987, made for this occasion.
Barbara Visser is awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2008 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. A comprehensive publication will be presented on October 2nd, 2008 at the award ceremony at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam.
Exhibition: Mimétisme, Extra City, Antwerp
January 25 – April 6th, 2008. Curated by Anselm Franke, Artists: Pawel Althamer & Artur Zmijewski, Elisabetta Benassi, Charif Benhelima, Pierre Bismuth, Lieven de Boeck, Claude Cahun, Mircea Cantor, Andrea Cooper, Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg, Harun Farocki, Marlon Fuentes, Tom Holert, Sofia Hultén, Yayoi Kusama, Ted Gaier & Peter Ott, Ria Pacquée, Jean Painlevé, Jean Rouch, Constanze Ruhm, Tomas Schmit, Isabell Spengler, Erik Steinbrecher, Javier Téllez, Barbara Visser
Mimétisme is a group exhibition probing an alternative conceptual framework for "theatricality" in the visual arts. Rather than looking at formal exchanges between theatre and the arts, this exhibition brings together works that use and critically reflect the abilities to act and to become like something else. In doing so, it leaves behind the dominant understanding of mimesis as realist pictorial representation in favour of what Walter Benjamin has referred to as the "mimetic faculty": the mind's ability to detect and appropriate similarities, to mirror others, to imitate, to immerse and to become. Read more on:
www.extracity.be
David Roëll Award 2007
On November the 2nd 2007, Barbara Visser has received the David Roëll Award from the Prins Bernhard Culture Foundation for her entire oeuvre. This prize is awarded every three years to a contemporary visual artist.
Barbara Visser is er niet
Comprehensive monograph Published by JRP Ringier This publication is the first extensive publication on the oeuvre of Dutch artist Barbara Visser (*1966). Authors: Jennifer Allen, Paul Elliman, Maria Grever, Jörg Heiser, Alexis Vaillant, Barbara Visser. Barbara Visser's works explore the uncertain relationship between registration and dramatization, between notions of original and copy, the natural versus the staged, and the tension between what we call the documentary and the fictitious. Using a wide variety of media and formats, her work sheds a new light on our understanding of civilized man, and the objects with which he surrounds himself. By rigorously separating text and image, the book offers multiple interpretations, triggering the readers' own memory and associations. As Jörg Heiser writes his text on "myths": "It can be read as an intricate set of experiments exploring three distinct ways of 'navigating' myths, and a possible notion of truth that we inevitably need in order to do so. These three different ways, correspond to the three different types of empirical knowledge as defined by Donald Davidson: knowledge about what's in my mind, in the world, and in other peoples' minds." Designed by Mevis & Van Deursen and Felix Weigand in close collaboration with the artist.
2010
VACANT NL - Where Architecture Meets Ideas
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010
Placebook Panorama, detail