De Appel

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The De Appel Center for Contemporary Art (short De Appel ) is a Dutch exhibition center for contemporary art in Amsterdam , which by the De Appel Foundation operates. In 2008 almost 16,000 people visited the exhibitions in De Appel . The De Appel is unique for its performance known events Select and exhibitions.

The De Appel in 1975 by Wies Smals as a foundation, which first promoted the spread of performance and installation art forms that are difficult to convey in museums. Films and videos were added later. The founding director Wies Smals headed De Appel until 1983. The house has been run since 1984 by Saskia Bos , who initiated the Curatorial Training Program (CTP) in 1994 as a program to train curators . A course has five to six participants. The graduates of the CTP include Tobias Berger, Rita Kersting , Adam Szymczyk and Raimundas Malasauskas.

In September 2005, after 20 years as artistic director and managing director of De Appel, Saskia Bos joined the Cooper Union as dean of the School of Art . In the spring of 2006, the board of directors of the De Appel Foundation appointed Ann Demeester to succeed Bos. Demeester began her career as a cultural journalist for Belgian newspapers and had previously worked for Jan Hoet at MARTa Herford and headed the Amsterdam artists' initiative W139 .

After De Appel's lease for the former building in Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10 was not renewed in 2006 and plans to move to the ROC building in Westerstraat were unsuccessful, De Appel found a new home in a former school in the former working-class district of de Pijp south of Amsterdam Old town. The new building at Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59 was inaugurated in February 2010 with the first exhibition. It was built at the end of the 19th century as a primary school for boys and is therefore called de Appel Jongensschool .

literature

  • Marga van Mechelen: De Appel: performances, installations, video, projects, 1975–1983 . De Appel, Amsterdam 2006, ISBN 90-73501-69-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jaarverslag 2008 ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 3.39 MB) De Appel, Amsterdam 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deappel.nl
  2. ↑ Jörg Zutter: Jenseits des Tanzes ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: "Kunstforum International", Volume 58, 1983, p. 68.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstforum.de
  3. ^ De Appel - The formative Years . De Appel, “If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution”, November 17, 2006 - January 7, 2007.
  4. ^ A b Lawrence van Gelder: Arts, Briefly . In: New York Times, June 29, 2005.
  5. ^ Jennifer Allen: De Appel Fails to Secure New Building . In: Artforum, No. 47/2006.

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