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Opportunities: Call for participants de Appel Curatorial Programme 2016-17

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Participants of de Appel Curatorial Programme 2015-16 at the Istanbul Biennial. Courtesy de Appel arts centre

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
DE APPEL CURATORIAL PROGRAMME 2016-17

Deadline: 18 January 2016

de Appel arts centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.deappel.nl

Initiated in 1994, the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre aims to offer young curators a condensed package of experiences and skills that can be seen as instruments to refine their thinking and enhance the development of their professional career. It is one of the oldest curatorial programmes, but continues to adjust its curriculum to new circumstances in the curatorial field.
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Douglas White “Song of the Roustabouts” at Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam


Douglas White, Elephant Tent, 2012. Unfired clay, jute, wood, steel, rope. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gabriel Rolt

Douglas White
Song of the Roustabouts
19 January – 23 February 2013
at Galerie Gabriel Rolt

Douglas White’s “Song of the Roustabouts” is an exhibition of sculptural works including the eponymous large-scale installation made from over 1,000 kilos of wet clay suspended by a strange system of ropes, pulleys and wooden poles. The work, which the artist will construct on-site in the large open space of the gallery, recalls a haunting encounter White had more than a decade ago.
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Opportunities: de Appel Curatorial Programme 2013–2014


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Call for applications: de Appel Curatorial Programme 2013–2014
Deadline: 14 January 2013

“There is an abc-ignorance that precedes knowledge, and there is another learned ignorance that comes after and that is created through ‘knowing’ and that will equally like the first be annihilated and annulled by knowledge.” –Michel de Montaigne [1]

Initiated in 1994 as an in-house international training trajectory for young curators, the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre offers its participants a condensed package of professional encounters, hands-on experiences and skills that can be seen as instruments for the further development of a professional career. Encompassing a wide array of sometimes contrasting voices, the programme pays attention to the various approaches that exist and arise in contemporary curating, thus mapping the dynamic professional field in all its complexity and confusion, its fragmentation and fluidity.
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“The Research and Destroy Department of Black Mountain College” at W139, Amsterdam


Installation view. Courtesy of W139

The Research and Destroy Department of Black Mountain College
20 October – 2 December 2012
at W139, Amsterdam

Artists: Saar Amptmeijer, Leyla Aydoslu, Sara Bjarland, Sven Boel, Kees Boevé, Antonia Breme, Crystal Z Campbell, Melanie Ebenhoch, Johan Henning, Roderick Hietbrink, Jeroen van der Hulst, Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Katrin Kamrau, Daniel vom Keller, Bram Kinsbergen, Linda Lenssen, Mahal de Man, Tim Mathijsen, Sofia Montenegro, Xue Mu, Suat Öğüt, Marc Oosting, Olivia Alders Plessers, Thomas Raat, Natalia Rebelo, Daniel Rödiger, Fabian Schröder, Kema Spencer, Edward Clydesdale Thomson, Britt Vangenechten, Kasper de Vos, Jonas Wijtenburg, Emile Zile
Curated by Jean Bernard Koeman

The Research and Destroy Department of Black Mountain College brings together a group of bricoleurs, conceptual artists whose work share the idea of collecting. The physical shape of the work is determined by the content of their own research. The gathering, or ensemble of different ideas in literary images tells a story, and stands close to the notion of anachronism. [read the full text here]
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