Beating around the bush Episode #4 at Bonnefantenmuseum

Lara Schnitger

Beating around the bush Episode #4 

Beating around the bush is an exhibition programme for 2014, in which the Bonnefantenmuseum will be presenting its collection in an investigative way. In four episodes, both the fixed values and the ‘quiet reserve’ of the collection will be brought into dialogue with new and proposed acquisitions.

The exhibtion features artworks of: Ben d'Armagnac, Monika Baer, Paul Chan, Marlene Dumas, Zackary Drucker en Rhys Ernst, Sidi El Karchi, Hadassah Emmerich, Ferdi, Lara Gasparotto, Gilbert & George, Jörg Immendorff, Lee Kit, Jutta Koether, Nam June Paik, Sol LeWitt, Tala Madani, Maha Maamoun, Mario Merz, Navid Nuur, Rik Meijers, Dennis Muñoz Espadiña, Bruce Nauman, Tanja Ritterbex, Karen Sargsyan, Lara Schnitger, Lily van der Stokker, Shinkichi Tajiri, Ed Templeton, Aline Thomassen, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Luc Tuymans, Ger van Elk, Franz West

http://www.bonnefanten.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/programma_2014/beating_around_the_bush_episode_4

Laura Lima

'The Fifth Flour' exhibition by Laura Lima, a Brazilian artist who won the biggest international award for visual art in the Netherlands (Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art (BACA) 2014).
Next to Beating around the bush you can see the
the fifth floor is an exhibition which creates an innovative dialogue with museum practice, specially developed by Laura Lima for the Bonnefantenmuseum. The museum is 'brought to life' by the presence of human participants in the artwork. The exhibition includes a wide range of art pieces. The museum is presented as a location for the production of new works and ideas by means of a tailor shop, where two tailors create 'custom suits' for wooden frames. 

http://www.bonnefanten.nl/

WHITE at The Nederlands Fotomuseum

WHITE
Photography, Art, Design, Fashion, Film

From 14 September 2013 to 5 January 2014, the Nederlands Fotomuseum presents the exhibition WHITE!
This exhibition displays existing and new work by national and international talent, by established and promising artists such as
Guy Bourdin, Erwin Olaf, Ed van der Elsken, Petra Lunenburg, Maison Martin Margiela, Nanine Linning & Les Deux Garçons, Fleur Goedendorp, Comme des Garçons, Anton Corbijn, Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas, Lidewij Edelkoort, Bibi van der Velden, Katinka Lampe, Inez van Lamsweerde, Aziz Bekkaoui, Mattijs van Bergen, Pierre et Gilles, Bertjan Pot, Iris van Herpen and Isaïe Bloch, Claudy Jongstra, Lonneke van der Palen and many more.

White stands for a fresh start, a blank page. White forms is the starting point of this  multidisciplinary exhibition that presents documentary, portrait and landscape photography, as well as art, fashion, design, architecture, film, video and more.
WHITE has been compiled by Anne van der Zwaag, curator and publicist in the domain of art, design, fashion, photography and colour!

The exhibition is part of the long-term programme entitled BLACK&WHITE, which has been made possible by a generous contribution from the Wertheimer Fund. For more information, please see www.zwartwit.nu.

 http://nederlandsfotomuseum.nl

Axelle Red - Fashion Victim at Fashion Museum Hasselt

It has been a while since the fantastic opening but here it is finally, my report. It was one of the best openings in a while, it seemed like the whole Belgian fashion scene was there.

Axelle Red is a successful singer-song writer, humanist and a style icon with a giant wardrobe. A wardrobe that, as it turns out, in a museum context turns into an art collection.

Her wardrobe turned out to be so special that Kenneth Ramaekers, director of MMH, the Fashion Museum Hasselt got the idea to ask her as a guest curator for an exhibition in the framework of a series of 'not professional curatorship by local heroes'.
Such as "Ultra Mega Lore' in 2010, an exhibition curated by the originating from Hasselt top model Hanelore Knuts.

Axelle also got carte blanche to tell her story. In addition to fashion she therefore also shows photography, video and art. With this expo she breaks a lance for Belgian artists, as she says.

27 years ago when Axelle Red (born Fabienne Demal in Hasselt in 1968) began to save money to buy unique clothing she didn't thought that today she would own a huge and very relevant wardrobe.
If you see the amount of clothing that she owns you think indeed 'a fashion victim', but each piece has its own story. For Axelle the clothes are more than just something you can wear. For her clothing are creative assets with which she expresses the spirit of various fases in her life. The clothing reflects on many friendships that she has kept thanks to her career, such as the special relationship with designer Véronique Leroy.

designer Véronique Leroy at the opening 

Thank God her passion so deeply rooted that she has almost kept everything.