[Nettime-nl] nieuws over de appel

[geert lovink <geert@desk.nl>]

de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam
http://www.deappel.nl

Exhibition Address in 2010:
de Appel Boys' School
59 Eerste Jacob van
Campenstraat/Corner Ferdinand Bolstraat, Amsterdam (tram 3, 12 or 25,  
stop Ferdinand Bolstraat)

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de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam
Correspondence Address:
de Appel office
P.O.BOX 10764
1001 ET Amsterdam
t +31(0) 20 6255651
f +31(0) 20 6225215
http://www.deappel.nl

De Appel is pleased to announce that, commencing in February 2010, it  
will be making use of a new exhibition space at 59 Eerste Jacob van  
Campenstraat in Amsterdam. This will mark the end of de Appel’s  
temporary 'disembodiment' in 2009 - a year in which the regular,  
additional programme of performances, projects, lectures,  
'informances' and publications came to the fore in various locations  
in the city, with the Frascati and Stadsschouwburg theatres as  
institutional partners. This emphasis on text, (spoken) word and  
gesture will shift in 2010 back again to object and image with a  
series of exhibitions. De Appel's intrinsic line and its ambition to  
remain progressive and 'unusual' on the basis of its long past history  
is thus being continued.

Having been housed on the Brouwersgracht, Prinseneiland and the Nieuwe  
Spiegelstraat, de Appel has manifested itself in very different ways  
and guises since 1975. Now, through this relocation, de Appel is  
cropping up again at an unexpected spot in Amsterdam. The building on  
the Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat was built at the end of the  
nineteenth century as a '3rd class' public primary school for boys, in  
what was then the rapidly burgeoning district known as De Pijp on the  
edge of Amsterdam. After that it had different functions, from music  
library to a training school for midwives. Because of its historical  
character and its central location in a striking and lively ambiance,  
a stone's throw from the Museumplein and de Ateliers, it offers de  
Appel an exquisite place for resuming its exhibition programme in full  
swing.

A brief pick from what will be presented in 2010. In February 2010 we  
will be opening with the group exhibition "For the blind man in the  
dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there", produced in  
collaboration with the Saint Louis Museum (Saint Louis, USA), ICA  
(London) and Kulturgest (Lisbon), which focuses on the 'enigma' of  
contemporary art and presents 'non-understanding' as a positive  
attitude. With solo exhibitions by Rod Bianco/Bjarne Melgaard (AUS/ 
USA), Valérie Mannaerts(BE), Matt Mullican (USA), Mika Rottenberg (ARG/ 
USA) and Emily Wardill (GB), de Appel will, as in previous years, be  
exploring the idiolects, personal mythologies and private  
preoccupations of a number of young and more established artists.

The exhibition space on the Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat, from now on  
named 'de Appel-Boys' School', will be used as de Appel's exhibition  
space during 2010 and 2011. At the end of 2011 de Appel will  
permanently 'settle' at 142 Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam, in a  
National Monument traditionally known as ‘the Seaman’s Hope’ (de  
Zeemanshoop). The building on the Prins Hendrikkade is being renovated  
by architectural office denieuwegeneratie (http://www.denieuwegeneratie.nu 
) in collaboration with ADP Architects (http://www.adp- 
architecten.nl). Construction will start in 2010 and will be finalized  
in 2011.


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