Breakfast at Ellen's

I had a breakfast meeting this morning. Ellen de Bruijne Projects. The meeting was meant for Close Connection, a programme allowing international curators to visit several art institutions in Amsterdam during Art Amsterdam.

Now I must admit, the morning is not my best time of the day, cetrainly not before 10 AM. So I found it a bit difficult to cope with all the excited and energetic people joining me at the breakfast table. The awful things was that I forgot to bring flyers or even business cards, so I could not explain without words what Open Source is all about.

But, Chikako gave a nice presentation and I got a chance to see her installation, which is a preview of her Open Source project.

All in all, zero points for networking, but ten points for art experience!

News from artists 3: Locked In

Thomas Hirschhorn features in an exhibition curated by my friend and colleague curator Maria Bojan. The exhibition is called Locked In and shows at Casino in Luxembourg until 29 June.

Other participating artists are Carlos Amorales, Pierre Bismuth, Michaël Borremans, Heather & Patrick Burnett-Rose, Mircea Cantor, Sebastián Díaz Morales, Tessa Farmer, Miklos Gaál, Douglas Gordon, Antony Gormley, Sagi Groner, Nanna Hänninen, Boukje Janssen, Jesper Just, Victor Man, Melik Ohanian, Marilène Oliver, Stéphane Pencréac’h, Victor Răcătău, Jérôme Schlomoff, Speak UP! Tanja Nellemann Poulsen & Grete Aagaard, Yves Trémorin, Vera Weisgerber and Guido van der Werve.

News from artists 2: Sorry for the metaphor

Amalia is showing at Artis in 's-Hertogenbosch. Until May 18th.

Walking down the Street

For those who would like to plan ahead: here the route of Open Source Amsterdam.

Open Source Amsterdam (May-June 2009) covers the whole area between Station Bijlmer/Arena and subway station Kraaiennest.

Reading at the Rozemarn

I did some community service this morning. Raymonde Roebana, one of the teachers at the Rozemarn, an elementary school in the Bijlmer, invited me to do some reading for six-year-olds.
I liked the school very much - it is very art-minded, with artist's studios in the hall ways and all.

Meeting Michael

An hour before heading back to Amsterdam, Nienke and I had a quick talk with Michael Beutler. He is truly racing around Europe from exhibition to exhibition, so this last moment meeting was the best we could do for now. He'll come to the Bijlmer in May.

Berlin Biennial

It was cold, cold and cold
Skulptur Park of the Biennial
Simon (our designer) created a flyer especially for the Berlin Biennial.