main program

the Avantgarde:
Specters of the Nineties

10 september 2011 – 15 january 2012

Curators: Lisette Smits and Matthieu Laurette
Artists: Art Club 2000, Sadie Benning, Bernadette Corporation, Plamen Dejanov & Swetlana Heger, Jeremy Deller, Stephan Dillemuth and Hans-Christian Dany, Maria Eichhorn, Annika Eriksson, Andrea Fraser, Rainer Ganahl, Renée Green, Jens Haaning, Pierre Huyghe, Karen Kilimnik, Ben Kinmont, Job Koelewijn, Renée Kool, Aleksandra Mir, Regina Müller, N55, Marylène Negro-Klaus Scherübel, Laurie Parsons, Asier Pérez, Dan Peterman, Hinrich Sachs, Joe Scanlan, Tilo Schulz, Superflex, Apolonija Sustersic, Barbara Visser, Carey Young.

Press Release (Dutch) (PDF file, 83 KB)

Press Release (English) (PDF file, 82 KB)

Images by Johannes Schwartz (ZIP file, 53 MB)

Images by Kristien Daem (ZIP file, 4 MB)

the Avantgarde:
Madame Realism

12 march – 05 june 2011

Curator: Lisette Smits
Artists: Eva Berendes, Ruth Buchanan, Bonnie Camplin, Melissa Gordon, Pernille Kapper Williams, Annette Kelm, Kitty Kraus, Janette Laverrière, Linder, Hanne Lippard, Michaela Meise, Josephine Pryde, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Clare Stephenson, Lina Viste Grønli, Jessica Warboys and Amelie von Wulffen.

Press release (dutch) (PDF file, 57 KB)

press release (english) (PDF file, 58 KB)

images madame realism (ZIP file, 54 MB)

the Avantgarde:
Hygiene, the story of a museum

24 october 2010 – 30 january 2011

Curators: Guus Beumer and Claudia Banz
In cooperation with EventArchitectuur

press release (dutch) (PDF file, 1 MB)

press release (english) (PDF file, 1 MB)

press images (ZIP file, 16 MB)

parallel program & projects

the Avantgarde:
Specters of the Nineties

12 november 2011

Artist: Hinrich Sachs

Press Release (Dutch) (PDF file, 88 KB)

Press Release (English) (PDF file, 87 KB)

A Common Dialect

03 july – 14 august 2011

Curator: Femke Dekker
With contributions by The Session, Our Polite Society, Maarten Simons and several alumni of the ABKM

This summer project is financially supported by the Maastricht Youngsters program of the Municipality of Maastricht

Press Release (Dutch) (PDF file, 2 MB)

Press Release (English) (PDF file, 2 MB)

A glimpse of the dynamics within a collecting art institute
Consumerist excess and the fiction of economic speculation
Create or destroy
Health as common good and social capital
How to deal with this new reality?
is the idea of a school still grounded in the locality of a physical environment?
The ultimate symbol of godlessness
Trust me - I'm a designer
We'll be rich tonight!
Without a palace of glass, life is a burden