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Droog30 @ Salone del Mobile Milano

Nieuwe Instituut organiseert in april 2023 tijdens designbeurs Salone del Mobile in Milaan samen met Triennale Milano een tentoonstelling rond Droog. Bij het dertigjarig bestaan staan de samenstellers stil bij anekdotes over de totstandkoming en ontvangst van opvallende meubels, woonaccessoires, verlichting en andere producten van Droog. Aan de hand van die terugblik reflecteren ze ook op ontwikkelingen die het design- en medialandschap de afgelopen decennia hebben doorgemaakt.

Samenstellers Maria Cristina Didero en Richard Hutten, een van de oprichters van Droog en die ook het tentoonstellingsontwerp verzorgt, maken ter gelegenheid van de presentatie een soort ruimtelijke vertaling van een twitter-feed. Je stapt als bezoeker binnen in een driedimensionaal meningenlandschap. Zo maken de curatoren de mentaliteit van Droog tastbaar en invoelbaar: nog steeds niet bang voor stevige reacties en onveranderd tegen de stroom in. Er zijn verhalen opgenomen over verschillende (post)moderne Droog-klassiekers. In Huttens inrichting kun je zelf live op locatie en via het twitteraccount @DROOG30 je mening achterlaten over wat je er tegenkomt. De tentoonstelling herovert het publieke debat dat zich tegenwoordig vooral online lijkt af te spelen en verbindt het aan de analoge ruimtelijke ingrepen waarmee de Droog-ontwerpers zich al decennia uitspreken.

Droog30 is tijdens de Salone del Mobile te zien bij Triennale Milano van 15 t/m 23 april, en bij het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam van 2 mei t/m 27 augustus.

Meer informatie over de tentoonstelling vind je hier.

KomedieLab: Volmondig *Uitverkocht*

De ingrediënten: spoken word, muziek, poetry, stand-up comedy en woordkunst om van te watertanden.
Het menu: zeven verschillende performers, zeven heerlijke gerechten.

Aan tafel! Spoken word en spijs. Kunst en kost. Verwacht een woordkunstavond van 7 performers in een maaltijd van zeven kleine gangen, onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden. Woordchef Luan Buleshkaj, die furore maakt als spoken word artiest, presenteert de avond. Luan schotelt ons zeven verschillende acts voor, van kersvers talent tot gevestigde namen. Spoken word en stand-up, muziek en poëzie. Kortom, een avond vol woordkunst om van te watertanden. Volmondig ja!

Volmondig wordt georganiseerd door KomedieLAB. Meer informatie over KomedieLAB vind je hier.

Dit evenement is uitverkocht.

Exhibition Claudy Jongstra X See All This

Claudy Jongstra exclusively opens her archive for an exhibition in collaboration with art magazine See All This. Jongstra’s works go back two decades and offer a good overview of the artist’s extensive oeuvre. With samples and artworks made for various exhibitions around the world, this initiative is the way to get your hands on a unique artwork.

For one time only, leading up to International Women’s Day 2023, artist Claudy Jongstra will open her archive for a unique and festive exhibition. This exhibition will co-facilitate LOADS, the new extension of Studio Claudy Jongstra: an indispensable and dynamic place for educational and agricultural projects that encourage biodiversity and revive historical dye plants and craftsmanship.

About Claudy Jongstra

Claudy Jongstra creates monumental, tactile installations in shimmering colours. All materials used for her fabrics are locally sourced: the wool comes from Jongstra’s flock of Drentse heath sheep and the natural dyes come from the dye plants growing in the botanical garden surrounding the farm in the Frisian village of Húns. In her creative process, she reverts to centuries-old colour recipes and techniques. Her work is featured in the collections of museums such as the MoMA in New York, the V&A Museum in London and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Archive Sale Claudy Jongstra by See All This

Art Magazine See All This would like to invite you to the special Archive Sale with works by Claudy Jongstra at [email protected]
Around International Women’s Day 2023, SAT will organise a festive sale and exhibition with unique works from the artist’s archive.

For one time only, leading up to International Women’s Day 2023, artist Claudy Jongstra will open her archive for a unique and festive sales exhibition. This Archive Sale will co-facilitate LOADS, the new extension of Studio Claudy Jongstra: an indispensable and dynamic place for educational and agricultural projects that encourage biodiversity and revive historical dye plants and craftsmanship.

About Claudy Jongstra

Claudy Jongstra creates monumental, tactile installations in shimmering colours. All materials used for her fabrics are locally sourced: the wool comes from Jongstra’s flock of Drentse heath sheep and the natural dyes come from the dye plants growing in the botanical garden surrounding the farm in the Frisian village of Húns. In her creative process, she reverts to centuries-old colour recipes and techniques. Her work is featured in the collections of museums such as the MoMA in New York, the V&A Museum in London and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Experiential experiments #2 December 4th 2022

Raw mind+fulness is the second event in a series of curated experiences @ droog. This time, we will focus on debunking mindfulness and approaching it from a simple and mundane perspective. Again, we will co-create an inspiring space and focus on critical engagement with different artistic and mundane practices and objects through a multidisciplinary approach.

About Collaborators 

Uno

Ikebana is a traditional Japanese flower arrangement technique and philosophy. “Ikebana reflects the person who arranged it.” is the basic principle of Sogetsu Ikebana. Flowers, no matter how beautiful, come from nature. In the process, we use them to create beauty guided by our feelings and intuition. Uno Fujisawa, who has Sogetsu Ikebana experience of more than 10 years, will share with us ‘How to capture/ discover the beauty with Ikebana’. During her Ikebana journey, a hard lockdown happened back in 2020. Since then, she was forced to redirect her focus on using vegetables and fruits for making Ikebana, cooking and eating the materials used for Ikebana to express the concept: To feel ‘life’ is to feel ‘connection’.  During this workshop, we will all make our own Edible Ikebana and eat together the materials which you use for making it.  We will all feel more profoundly connected after this workshop.  

 

Sofi 

Sofia Lee is an Amsterdam-based visual artist, photographer and linguist. Her interests lie in discovering the limits of old digital cameras and documenting their history. On the 4th of December, Sofi will present a digicam photo-booth installation, inviting guests to take a more active role in image-creation and deepen their relationship with digital photography. Her booth will feature a full digicam-to-printer setup using retro equipment. Guests are invited to approach the booth and directly engage with the digital photo creation process in all of its steps — beyond just pressing the shutter button. Guests may also bring their own digicams for prints. Prints will be available while supplies last.

 

Nikita

Nikita is fascinated and determined to bring not only the highest quality tea but also to infuse the experience with aspects of mindfulness. During the event, Nikita will facilitate a matcha experience in his mindfulness corner, enabling everyone to visit and have a personal moment of peace. During this process, participants will have a chance to visit Nikita and have a personal moment with him. This moment can be the moment of stillness, vulnerability, or comfort … – anything a person might need at that time. By granting ourselves this intentional time of stillness and connection, we are encouraged to give space to anything that is requiring our attention at the moment. 

 

 

Curated by Xenia Sikora

Das Mag Yard Sale

Het is weer yardsale-tijd! (Licht)beschadigde Das Mag-boeken voor een spotprijsje. Dezelfde formule als altijd: een tas vol boeken voor €25 (!), bij @droog in Amsterdam. Tot de 13e!

€25 voor een tas vol Das Mag-boeken.
No reservation required.

Artist Talk: Bas Kosters *cancelled*

This event is cancelled.

In this artist talk Bas Kosters will be present to discuss his newest exhibition Sincerely Yours @droog. He will focus on a question that frames this exhibition:  “How do I feel today?” The luxury of constantly reflecting on this is something Kosters occupies in daily life. But when thinking about feelings, the real feeling may also be overlooked. Opinions about feelings also contribute to this. Allowing but also rejecting the thought, the emotion is a game that you can keep yourself busy with.

The exhibition is completed with an extensive selection of autonomous work that shows the inner world of Bas Kosters. This world, which is mainly known for his idiosyncratic, sensational fashion shows from the beginning of his artistic career, has been translated for several years now in drawings, rich tapestries, glass objects, soft sculptures and paintings.

Come and join this talk with Bas.

Walk-in: 19:00
Start: 19:30
End: 21:00

Exhibition Bas Kosters: Sincerely Yours

‘Sincerely yours’ shows Kosters’ latest series of personal and loving drawings about being self-aware of emotions.

“How do I feel today?” The luxury of constantly reflecting on this is something Kosters occupies in daily life. But when thinking about feelings, the real feeling may also be overlooked. Opinions about feelings also contribute to this. Allowing but also rejecting the thought, the emotion is a game that you can keep yourself busy with. The emotional self-awareness takes place within us but also outside us, sometimes even publicly. Could it be a sign of a generation or an outcome of our hyper complicated lives? With this series of drawings, Kosters shows these often conflicting principles and emotions in a clear graphic style, in which the teddy bear as the main character plays a major role.

The exhibition is completed with an extensive selection of autonomous work that shows the inner world of Bas Kosters. This world, which is mainly known for his idiosyncratic, sensational fashion shows from the beginning of his artistic career, has been translated for several years now in drawings, rich tapestries, glass objects, soft sculptures and paintings.

With this own initiative, Kosters shows his work as an autonomous artist himself and for this he settles for the second time at [email protected] The centrally located location forms an excellent backdrop for Koster’s work. The choice for an independent sales exhibition without gallery representation is an experiment to determine your own course. The exhibition ‘Sincerely yours’ is like a visual letter to the viewer; sincere, candid and loving.

About Bas Kosters

Since his graduation, Bas Kosters (1977) has worked with his studio on a variety of design and art assignments. This enables him to further develop and deepen his autonomous work. The course of his work is increasingly shifting from applied to autonomous. His 2016 solo exhibition ‘I want it to be soft’ in Museum Arnhem paid tribute to the adroit creative centipede he really is. Iconic is an overused term, but it certainly applies to Bas’s work, which includes actual fashion as well as costume design, graphics and illustration, installations and performance art, punkish publishing and engaged protests, commercial creative collaborations and everything that the artist wishes to file under his cherished fluid autonomy. He recently worked on glass objects with the National Glass Museum Leerdam, published a book with 100 portraits, has been able to create new work especially for various museum exhibitions and currently works as an artist in residence at the European Ceramic Work Center.

Artist Talk: Olphaert den Otter

On Monday 21 November, visual artist Ophaert den Otter gives an artist talk on the occasion of the exhibition Reality Check.

Reality Check is a solo exhibition by visual artist Olphaert den Otter (Poortugaal, 1955). The exhibition features 28 paintings in egg tempera on paper and canvas/panel, from the series World Stress Painting, Home Made, and Postcode. Most of these have never been shown before. They form a bridge between classical landscape painting and contemporary subject matter. This exhibition shows how beauty and engagement can reinforce each other.

In his talk den Otter spins a philosophical story around the theme of ‘worldview’. Is the earth the centre of the universe or a speck of dust? Do you think reality is malleable, or are we powerless in the face of the challenges ahead? Should we do something, regulate it, fix it, or should we meditate, like a hermit in a Chinese scroll painting? Den Otter demonstrates the themes using art historical examples and his own work, by engaging the conversation with the audience.

Olphaert den Otter will be introduced by the curator of the exhibition Reality Check Renny Ramakers.

The artist talk will be held in Dutch.
Ticket includes a free drink.

The exhibition Olphaert den Otter: Reality Check is on view from 10 November 2022 to 9 January 2023.

About the artist

Olphaert den Otter (born 1955, Poortugaal) studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Den Otter’s career spans over 40 years as a visual artist, a painter, animator, and, in the past, teacher at various academies. His work is included in various museum collections including the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Museum Belvédère Heerenveen. Den Otter participated in group exhibitions in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Belgium, and Australia. Besides his practice as a visual artist, he is a countertenor in the Rhetorical Quartet and lectures on cultural-philosophical themes. Olphaert den Otter lives and works in Rotterdam.

IDFA hub @droog

Internationaal Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) heeft dit jaar meerdere festivalcafés, waar @droog er één van is! Kom voor je IDFA documentaire een hapje eten of tussendoor even uitrusten in ons café.