The ikob hosts the collection of the 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine
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Catharina Van Eetvelde, Cruise (Sluice Chapter V), 2003 |
IN/VISIBLE
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Info
Exhibition duration: 08 March 2015 – 17 May 2015 Opening hours: from Wednesday to Sunday from 1 pm to 6 pm (closed on Monday & Tuesday)
Contact
info@ikob.be
Ingrid Mossoux
+32 87 56 01 10
Address
http://www.ikob.be
ikob – Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Rotenberg 12B
4700 Eupen,
Belgium
Kader Attia, Taysir Batniji, Neal Beggs, Stanley Brouwn, Luis Camnitzer, Peter Downsbrough, Marguerite Duras, Catharina Van Eetvelde, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Marco Godinho, Guerrilla Girls, Alexander Gutke, Paul Kos, Isabelle Krieg, Zilla Leutenegger, Marie Lund & Nina Beier, Tom Marioni, Mathieu Mercier, Eric Poitevin, Àngels Ribé, Lotty Rosenfeld, Mario Garcia Torres, Joëlle Tuerlinckx.
The ikob hosts the collection of the 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine (Fonds régional d'art contemporain) through a choice of significant artworks that reveal its singular and strategic character. In a few words, it is about inventing viewpoints turned the other way round, celebrating the invisibility and sensoriality and demanding the disappearance...
In such a perspective, the institution is not anymore a place of celebration, consecration and legitimization but rather turns into one of experimentation, a playground, a field open to all forms of critical manoeuvre and operation.
IN/VISIBLE reflects the current tendency of the contemporary art world of finding or reformulating alternative art forms that are not submitted to any market pressure and are connected to a fundamental artistic thinking which seems to have been lost in the past years.
Hence this exhibition is an opportunity for the ikob to both paying tribute to one of the most original and committed collections of the institutional contemporary art landscape and, almost directly, questioning its own status as a museum and thinking about its collection's future.
Curators: Béatrice Josse, director of the 49 Nord 6 Est Frac Lorraine (www.fraclorraine.org) and Maïté Vissault, director of the ikob
SPECIAL PROGRAMME
08.03.2015 | 15.00 : Opening with a tribute to the Guerrilla Girls on occasion of the International Women's Day with a series of posters: Reinventing the 'f' word – feminism! (realized between 1985 and 2012 and signed by the founding members).
25.04.2015 | 16.00 : Performance Comme de l'eau (2008) by Taysir Batniji – the 109 synonyms for water in the Arabic language are written with water on the grey exhibition ground and reactivation of Two Parallel Lines (1976) by Luis Camnitzer. In collaboration with a group of people from the centre for asylum seekers Bellevue in Eupen.
17.05.2015 | 15.00 : Finissage with short-movies by Marguerite Duras.
