28/11/2009 - 21/03/2010
Play Van Abbe ia an 18-month programme consisting of exhibitions, projects, performances, lectures and discussions, taking the collection of the Van Abbemuseum as a starting point. Play Van Abbe is subdivided into four parts, each with its own theme.
Part 1, The Game and the Players, begins on Saturday 28 November 2009 and runs until March 2010.In this first part of the 18-month programme Play Van Abbe, the museum focuses on the stories of artists and exhibition makers.
The Game and the Players consists of three exhibitions: Repetition: Summer Display 1983, Strange and Close and Rien ne va plus. Part 1 of Play Van Abbe will be closed in March 2010 with the project If I Can’t Dance... Edition III - Masquerade.
From 28 November 2009, Play Van Abbe is the Van Abbemuseum’s major project for 18 months. It is a multifaceted programme working with and around the collection of the Van Abbemuseum and will cover the majority of the exhibition space. Play Van Abbe consists of exhibitions, projects, performances, lectures, discussions, and new techniques for mediating the public’s reactions to art and its contexts. With the social and political changes of the last 20 years in mind, the museum uses Play Van Abbe to ask topical questions about the identity and objectives of museums and cultural heritage organisations more generally.
What is the role of an art museum in the 21st century? What are the conventions of a museum and to what extent are we aware of them? How did they develop and are they appropriate today? Can we make them visible? Change them? Play with them?
Van Abbemuseum
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5611 Eindhoven, Eindhoven (Noord-Brabant), Netherlands
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