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KUNSTHAL ART & DRINKS
THE GIVING GARDEN / ART & DRINKS
A performance inspired by the work of Edvard Munch and his power to touch the human emotions. The Kunsthal presents for the first time in collaboration with WORM and the Image Festival a live happening: an after work event with art and drinks. Join this (over) active happening and visit the exhibition of Munch for only € 7,50. Including a performance by Abner Preis & WORM.
The first 30 visitors with all area passes will be free of entrance, a unique chance! The Giving Garden is the first Art & Drinks after work event of the Kunsthal. For the first edition: a performance by Abner Preis & WORM in collaboration with the Kunsthal and the Image Festival!
WITH
Abner Preis / Maartje Dijkstra (Fashion) / Hajo Doorn- WORM / Christoph Lambert (CH) / Niels Post / Nina Boas / Marrieka Koopmans / Elma Praiser / Ado Jahic / Dj Toby
www.kunsthal.nl
www.wormweb.nl
KUNSTHAL
WESTZEEDIJK 341
29 OCTOBER
17:00 > 22.00 HRS
O.K. PERIODICALS LAUNCH
O.K. Periodicals issue #5 launch 30th October at Roodkapje starting at 19:00 hrs. Make sure you are there! Drinks, music and deejay’s!
O.K. PARKING is a Dutch graphic/interaction design studio. Next to working for clients William van Giessen and Joost van der Steen initiate independent projects such as O.K. Periodicals and the O.K. Festival. They will also be speaking at the keynote sessions in the Cinerama at the 28th.Periodicals is self financing and contains no advertising, this issue of Perodicals covers articles about the human body but also architecture, fashion, morphed furniture, mutated insects, 3-D typography and more.O.K. Periodicals an independent magazine published twice a year by O.K. Parking and has a different theme for each edition. O.K. Periodicals is a stage for established and upcoming creative talent. It’s timeless and consists of 112 pages full of inspiration.
www.ok-parking.nl
www.ok-periodicals.com
www.roodkapje.org
ROODKAPJE
30 OCTOBER
19:00 HRS
BOB SMIT GALLERY
ROB VAN DER HOEVEN & BIRGIT VERWER
Although Rob van der Hoeven uses the occasional cliché, he does it in such an ironic and ingenious way that the view he presents is both palatable and unfamiliar. Rob’s works, pressed from molds in polystyrene, are almost iconic through their use of just a few colors per work and the translation of ideas into simple, cartoon-like, images. His socially critical works mostly express the complexity of our society in which the relation between offender and victim can be unclear. His images are presented in bite-size pieces with just one message per work, reinforced by a text.
Birgit Verwer’s impressive and exuberant sculptures are assembled from found and collected materials and have a socially critical aspect to them. The glamorous decors of eighties game shows are mainly what inspires her. On closer examination, these decors were not at all as glamorous as they appeared to be: they were merely facades in which nothing was what it seemed to be and in which life was presented as a game.
www.robvanderhoeven.nl
www.birgitverwer.com
www.bobsmit.com
BOB SMIT GALLERY
EENDRACHTSPLEIN 16
30 OCT > 28 NOV
12:30 _ 19:00 HRS
OPENING 30 OCT
15:00 HRS
MICHEL LINSSEN TURNS 50!
Michel Linssen (Den Haag, 1960) began, after his tenure of press photographer, during the mid eighties as pop photographer for magazines as the Muziekkrant, Oor, Popfoto/Muziekexpress and the Hitkrant. He worked more then fifteen years for the Telegraaf, photgraphing hundreds of concerts en for the Dutch Playboy he was responsible for the section “De wereld volgens…”. His photo’s appeared on the sleeve of Jan Douwe Kroeske’s “2 Meter sessiesies” and for the cultgroup Hallo Venray from Den Hague he shot all their sleeves, one of them the famous sleeve with the four belly buttons.
During a 2 Meter radiosession in 1992, Linssen photgraphed Curt Cobain. It were these photo’s that gained world wide acknowledgment and where published in international magazines for many years.
Michel Linssen lives and works in Rotterdam and will celebrate this year qat October 14 his 50th birthday. His birthday will be celebrated in galery V!P’s at friday October 15 together with the opening of his exhition FIFTY the same night.
In this exhibition fifty black and white photo’s will be showed which are shot between 1990 and 2000. Linssen shot during this period Madonna, the Red Hot Chilipeppers, Johnny Cash, Herman Brood, Bruce Springsteen, Kurt Cobain, Anouk and Johnny Rotten.
The FIFTY! Exhibition is programmed by our partner V!Ps International Art Galleries.
www.vipsart.nl
twitter: #.IMG #michellinssen – more information? Call V!P’s gallery: 010-2251120