Group exhibition, Antonis Pittas

The clown spirit

at Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome

studio manager

24 May - 24 June 2023

Mucciaccia Gallery was founded in Rome in 2006 by Massimiliano Mucciaccia. Specializing in modern and contemporary art, the gallery is engaged in the creation and promotion of exhibitions on distinguished modern and contemporary artists.

Solo exhibition Antonis Pittas

We cannot move

at Forum on European Culture, De Balie

projectmanager

31 May - 1 July 2023

De Balie brings together artists, activists and intellectuals to explore democracy as a cultural rather than a political expression. The 4th edition of the Forum on European culture focuses on the meaning and future of democracy in Europe. How does Europe deal with technological developments, its history of colonialism, imperialism and autocratic influences? And if Europe wants to be a democracy, what actions are needed?

Group exhibition

On the horizon

at Centraal Museum

exhibitioncoördinator

30juni - 27 august 2023

In the exhibition On the Horizon, we start from the time of the Italians to tell a story about how contemporary artists and creators today view the journey through the landscape. It is about the experience of the landscape, about traveling with a clear goal or, on the contrary, about the so-called wanderlust; traveling without a destination in mind. The journey through the landscape is still an important theme, a source of inspiration, but not only idealized images are created. Themes such as forced migration and climate crisis are also visible in the landscape.
With work from: Etel Adnan, Anna Aagaard Jensen, Jan Both, Joost Conijn, Gustave Courbet, Lungiswa Gqunta, Adrian Paci, Antonis Pittas, Baby Reni , Fiona Tan,  JCJ Vanderheyden,  Evi Vingerling and Rory Pilgrim.
Curated by Laurie Cluitmans

Solo exhibition

Pauline Curnier Jardin

at Centraal Museum
Sept 2023 - tbc

Curnier's playful, theatrical and critical work relates to current themes within feminism and stereotypes about the role of women in society. Curayed by Laurie Cluitmans.Photo: Fat to Ashes a Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Courtesy the artist and Ellen de Bruijne Projects. ©Mathias Völzke.

Solo exhibition Antonis Pittas

感覚麻痺

at Mujin-To Production, Tokyo
October 2023 - tbc

MUJIN-TO Production was founded in Koenji, Tokyo, in May 2006 to provide management and promotion to artists. Having moved to Kiyosumi Shirakawa area close to Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo since March 2010, they continue to organize a variety of events and exhibitions.

Group exhibition

Summerexhibition

at Centraal Museum
summer 2024

more info soon

Solo exhibition Antonis Pittas

Paraesthesia

at Annet Gelink Gallery
10 March - 15 April 2023

The installation Paraesthesia brings together a group of interconnected works that pull together different materials and techniques. Paraesthesia, which literally translates to ‘abnormal sensation’, is a bodily sensation of numbness, tingling, and burning, usually felt in the hands, arms, legs, or feet. Pittas, who suffers from it himself, sees paraesthesia as a metaphor to describe our current political realities; the collective sense of disorientation and becoming numb to destructive and violent events.

Group exhibition

Double Act

Kramlich Collection at Centraal Museum

8 October 2022 - 15 january 2023

Two seemingly completely different collections meet in Double Act: the monumental video installations of the American Kramlich Collection and 17th-century paintings from the Centraal Museum. Contemporary greats such as Bill Viola, Marina Abramović, Bruce Nauman and Steve McQueen are combined with Utrecht masterpieces by Abraham Bloemaert, Roeland Saverij, Jan van Scorel, Dirck van Baburen and Gerard van Honthorst. Curated by Bart Rutten.

Solo exhibition Antonis Pittas

Acts of modernism

at The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
17 of June 2022 - Nov 2022

Pittas’ installation is a direct intervention in the EMΣΤ collection, specifically in a chapter which refers to political turmoil and protest in the 1960s and 1970s, when the country was in the grips of a military dictatorship, prompting a consideration of different aspects of political discontent and its means of expression. This exhibition is part of a new programme in EMΣΤ invites contemporary artists to intervene in the museum’s collection. It is the first time the work of Theo van Doesburg is presented in Greece. Curated by Daphne Vitali. Photographs by Studio Vaharidis, Installation view ΕΜΣΤ

Group show Antonis Pittas

Statecraft

at The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
17 of June 2022 - Nov 2022

Statecraft is an international group exhibition that explores the underlying mechanisms at work in the engineering of the nation-state, as we know it today, and the challenges it faces in today’s globalised, networked world. Probing the history and the processes of nation-building in modern times, Statecraft examines the power structures and processes behind state bureaucracy, governance, and sovereignty, and their common issues of democracy, citizenship, rights, inclusion and exclusion. Curated by Katerina Gregos.

Solo exhibition

Marijke van Warmerdam
Then, now, and then

at Oud Amelisweerd

exhibition coordinator

10/09/22 - 13/11/22

Marijke van Warmerdam (1959, The Netherlands) is internationally renowned for her short films, photographs and sculptures, forming an extraordinarily consistent body of work.
In her work she portrays minute moments of life, manipulating them with simple, usually mechanic techniques such as repetition, mirroring or shifts in focus. Van Warmerdam creates an abstraction, a timeless, nearly still moment. Curated by Bart Rutten.

Group exhibition

The Little Bird Must Be Caught -Survival Kit 13

International Contemporary Art Festival at Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art

Project management for Antonis Pittas

The Little Bird Must Be Caught is the 13th edition of the international contemporary art festival Survival Kit. Curated by iLiana Fokianaki, the exhibition explores freedom of speech and sound, as well as various forms of resistance placing the Singing Revolution and Latvian local history in the context of global processes and our shared present.

Solo exhibition

Amie Dicke SOLO

at Oud Amelisweerd

Exhibitioncoördinator CM

15 april 2022 - august 2022

Amie Dicke’s work comprises a negotiation between everyday imagery and the validity of the whole of visual culture. Dicke prints images culled from various sources, from fashion magazines to Bauhaus catalogues, and charges them with a sense of physicality through dissolving the images from the paper. Elements are stripped back with sandpaper, caked in makeup, blotted with wine and surgically incised. Curated by Bart Rutten. Photographs by Gert Jan van Rooij

Group exhibition

Moving Stories

at Museum het Valkhof

Project management for Antonis Pittas
10 February - 29 May 2022

Two thousand years ago the Limes, the border of the Roman Empire, ran straight through the Netherlands. Soldiers from all corners of the world migrated to the Rhine to build and man forts and watchtowers on the south bank, with families, traders and craftsmen in their wake. They left behind everything they knew, sometimes by choice, but often by force. Moving Stories connects that ancient history with the present. Archaeologists, contemporary artists and a public-in-residence went in search of the 'moving stories' of migration. Curated by Marie Stel and Marenne Zandstra.

Book publication

Jaune, Geel, Gelb, Yellow. Monochrome

With Alex Farrar and Jap Sam Books
Editor and coordinator
Published January 2022

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The publication jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome discusses the failure, collapse and historicization of the modernist ideals espoused by Theo van Doesburg, set against the current political backdrop of mass protest. It reflects on the failing of modernity, with contributions by Maria Barnas, I.K. Bonset, Laurie Cluitmans, Johan F. Hartle, Dirk van den Heuvel, Bram Ieven, Bruno Latour, Thalia Ostendorf, Bart Rutten and Doris Wintgens.

Group exhibition

The future can be humane

at Cobra Museum in collaboration with Fondation Constant

Project management for Antonis Pittas
4 Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

Constant I 0 I is an interdisciplinary annual program that binds contemporary makers and institutions, celebrating the work, concepts and life of Constant and what role he still plays today. Pittas will design and curate the exhibition with works from Constant.

Group exhibition

Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies)

at Centraal Museum Utrecht
in collaboration with Impakt Festival

Projectcoördinator CM
Nov 3 2021 - Feb 2022

The exhibition is a collaboration between IMPAKT and Centraal Museum, with Katerina Gregos as guestcurator. It explores social patterns and examines the challenges and opportunities that the Internet and social media - and currently the coronapandemic - present for our intimate relationships. Curated by Bart Rutten and guestcurator Katerina Gregos.

Solo exhibition

Jaune, Geel, Gelb, Yellow. Acts of modernism

at Centraal Museum Utrecht
Project management for Antonis Pittas
14 August 2021 - February 6 2022

‘Jaune, Geel, Gelb, Yellow. Acts of modernism with Antonis Pittas and Theo van Doesburg is a collection intervention and commissioned work, reflecting on the work of Theo van Doesburg through the lens of contemporary political protests.

Group exhibition

Good Citizenship

at Oscam
Project management for Antonis Pittas
Opening Sept 9 2021 - Jan 2022

What do you think ‘good citizenship’ means? OSCAM invited UP, Marlou Fernanda, Maikel Deekman and Antonis Pittas to translate their answer into art.

Group exhibition

Ω - Omega

at De Elektriciteitsfabriek
by Gabriel Lester

Project assistant for Antonis Pittas
From 23rd of September - 28th of November 2021

Soft monument (2021) is a site specific intervention, as a response to the debate around public statues and its contested histories. The work plays with the tension between monument and ephemerality, questioning what and how we represent public memory in our current time. Soft monument displaces one of the monumental curtains hanging in the Electriciteits Fabriek and repurposing it as sculptural material. The result is an enclosed space, that disorientates, isolates, and changed our spatial perception. Curated by Gabriel Lester.

Application text for

Susanna Inglada

Editorial
June 2021

Susanna Inglada a politically committed artist, who makes large scale installations that balance between drawing, painting and sculpture.

Solo exhibition

From a River to the Room

by Gerbrand Burger
at Bellyditcham project space Project communication

Gerbrand Burger creates sculptures and site-specific installations in the intersections of visual art, architecture and design with materiality and craftsmanship as the common thread. The exhibition From a River to the Room is a solo project by Gerbrand Burger. It shows new work, mainly sculptures, that are a visualization of his approach towards form, materiality, craftsmanship and technique.

Annual program

Constant 101

On Our Means and Perspectivesby Fondation Constant

Project assistant

Fondation Constant developed a multidisciplinary program of projects in collaboration with Dutch museums, presentation institutions, archives, individual makers, magazines, publishers and educational institutes.

Group exhibition

EKO8

Triennial of Art and Environment
at UGM Maribor, Slovenia Project coordinator for Antonis Pittas
21 May- 18 July 2021

The EKO Triennial, dedicated to contemporary visual arts and the environment, will explore the intersections between the current socio-economic challenges, environmental policies, and post-colonial globalisation. Pittas will make a monumental site-specific installation. Curated by Alessandro Vincentelli.

Project Coordinator & Research Assistant

ENOUGH

Installation at Refresh Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Museum in collaboration with Gemeente Amsterdam

11 December 11 2020 - 28 March 2021

The sculptural installation ENOUGH consists of historical building fragments from Amsterdam’s monuments. Through researching their origins, Pittas reflects on contested monuments and statues today and plays with the ambiguous narratives of heritage, political protest and social movements. The process reactivates history and takes it into the present. To echo, voice and recycle the transhistorical realities, the fragments are ‘vandalized’ with graphite and marble dust quotations, taken from alternative archives as well as the contemporary public domain. Curated by Imara Limon.

Editorial

Interview Charl Landvreugd

with Margriet Schavemaker, for CBK Zuidoost published at Mister Motley Magazine

”Er worden radicaal nieuwe stappen gezet in het culturele domein waarin bevraagd wordt welke positie het museum en culturele instellingen vandaag de dag zou moeten innemen in de maatschappij. Om de kritiek van ontoegankelijkheid en eenzeidigheid te bestrijden wordt er met man en macht actief naar manieren gezocht om inclusief te programmeren.”

Assistant Curator & Research Assistant Intern

Pinball Wizard: The work and life of Jacqueline de Jong

at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, curated by Margriet Schavemaker

August 2018 - March 2019

Overview exhibition of the work and historical development of Jacqueline de Jong’s oeuvre, combined with works from the Stedelijk Museum collection. De Jong effortlessly switches between various styles: from expressionist painting to new figuration and pop art. Under the wings of Margriet Schavemaker (Head of Interpretation, Education and Publication) I worked closely with the artist and assisted in research into collection, as well as coordination, organization and realization of the exhibition. (Read Article)

Research Thesis (MA in Museology)

‘The role of in-between spaces in contemporary and modern art museums’

at Amsterdam University of Arts under the supervision of Dr Jeroen Boomgaard

March 2019 - September 2019

My thesis researched the role of “in-between” spaces, meaning the non-programmed spaces which are efficient and functional public areas within the contemporary art museum, and how they can potentially contribute to a more meaningful museum experience and to a more inclusive museum culture. (Read My Thesis)

Production

‘Up Tycoon’ by Jim Whiting

for Stichting NDSM-werf, curated by Rieke Vos

September - December 2017

Stichting NDSM-wharf develops and curates a cultural program to show the cultural uniqueness of the old shipyard wharf and its historic value. As producer responsible for the production of a place-specific artwork of British kinetic artist Jim Whiting (1951, UK), and the communication with various stakeholders. Curated by Rieke

Project Manager & Program Producer

Vincent op Vrijdag, Museumnacht

at Van Gogh Museum

October 2016 - April 2017

Vincent on Friday is a public program at the Van Gogh Museum, that focuses on contemporary art and music for young adults (ages 18 – 30). As freelance producer I worked at the Education department.

Project Management & Production