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14/12/2009

Niet Normaal / Difference on Display

Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam

Artistic Director: Ine Gevers
Curator of Ik + de Ander. Art and the Human Condition, Beurs van Berlage.

16 December 2009 through 7 March 2010, Amsterdam’s Beurs van Berlage will be hosting Niet Normaal, a large-scale, audience-oriented art event.
Internationally renowned artists respond to one of society’s most pressing questions: what is normal, and who decides?

What is normal, and who decides?
As technology and progress offer opportunities to people of all shapes and sizes, everyday life remains intractably uniform. More and more, markets and media determine how we look at ourselves and others. Perfection is the norm. Just what is that norm, and who would actually comply with it? Does it rule out a wrinkle, a depressive episode, an unwillingness to pursue a career, a visible prosthesis, a willingness to take performance-enhancing pills, invasive corrective surgery?

Art, science and society
The Beurs van Berlage’s main hall will be fitted with paintings, sculptures and installations by such artists as Marlene Dumas, Viktor & Rolf, Aernout Mik, Thomas Hirschhorn, Nathalie Djurberg, Marc Quinn, Louise Bourgeois and many others. The exhibition brings together work that has been commissioned especially for the occasion, as well as existing pieces from public and private collections in the Netherlands and abroad.

Parallel to the exhibition, a peripheral programme offers discussions, films, lectures and parties. Both beguile, confront, put into perspective. Art and science combine to address some of society’s most pressing issues.

Publication
Accompanying the exhibition will be a volume of texts, presented by NAi Publishers: Difference on Display - Diversity in Art, Science and Society. Concrete case studies and personal narratives offer fresh insights. Rather than objectify others, fixing them in a position of different-from, they propose a negotiation and redistribution of diversity. The volume, to be published in English and Dutch, will include full colour illustrations of work by all artists participating in the exhibition. Authors include Renu Addlahka, Michel Callon, Johnson Cheu, Amade M’Charek, Trudy Dehue, Patrick Devlieger, Donna Haraway, Ivo van Hilvoorde and Laurens Landeweerd, Petra Kuppers, Ingunn Moser, Griet Roets and Daniel Goodley, and Tom Shakespeare. Editors: Ine Gevers, Maaike Bleeker, Stuart Blume, Amade M’Charek, Miriam van Rijsingen en Jacqueline Schoonheim.

Support
Niet Normaal is heavily invested in education and accessibility, in association with SKOR, Waag Society, Kunstenaars & Co, IDFA and debate centres in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Niet Normaal is supported financially by a variety of sponsors, most notably Achmea and VSB Fonds.

Frank Lubbers | Business Manager. Previously Deputy Director of the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven.
Concern, Design Bureau of Gilian Schrofer, is making the design for the exhibition.

Foundation Niet Normaal
Damrak 329 - K24 (office and postal address) NL - 1012 ZJ Amsterdam
Telephone: 020 334 32 90 kantoor@nietnormaal.nl

Practicing Democracy
Wednesday, 16. December 2009
Location : De Unie Rotterdam
Democracy is constantly in motion, dependent on such environmental factors as climate, culture and the workings of a market economy. How can we arrange society in such a way that the voices of minorities, formerly unheard and unheard-of, may become audible? And how might this be made to fit a legal system that sharply differentiates between citizens and non-citizens?

Image: Louise Bourgeois, Extreme Tension (1/11), 2007, collection Centre George Pompidou, courtesy the artist and Osiris

Press contact: Lieke Timmermans via lieke@nietnormaal.nl This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or via 06 – 245 03 978.

Press viewing on Tuesday, 15 December, before noon.
Official Royal opening on 15 December, late afternoon.

Beurs van Berlage
Beursplein 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Opening hours
Monday through Sunday: 11.00 - 18.00 hrs.
Closed on Christmas Day and 1 January
Attention: box office closes at 17:30 hrs.
Admission
Adults: € 11
Children under the age of 13: free
Young people between ages 13 to 18 € 7,50
CJP (cultural youth passport) and Museumkaarthouders (museum card owners): € 7,50

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