Highlights of the month

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCY Performing landscapes 2024: Ali Glover & Carole Louis

Artists talk: Friday 17.05, 19h at Greylight Projects (NL)


Very Contemporary is pleased to announce the chosen artists for the 2024 Performing Landscapes residency hosted by Greylight Projects: Ali Glover & Carole Louis. Both artists will work at Greylight Projects in Heerlen (NL) between May and June 2024, developing a new project to be publicly presented at the Performing Landscapes festival on 7th September 2024, taking place at Art au Centre in Liège (BE).

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Walk & Talk: Magdalena von Rudy

Sunday 12.05.24, 14:30 at Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster (DE)


Kunsthaus NRW is launching a new series of events this year in which you are cordially invited to exchange ideas with young artists in our exhibitions.
At the next event on 12 May 2024, Magdalena von Rudy will present her video work "Raising". Afterwards, you can continue the conversation with the artist over coffee or tea in the Kunsthaus salon.

IKOB Black Box: Ragnar Kjartansson, Death and the Children

04.05 ⟶ 09.06.2024 at IKOB (BE)


On a sunny summer camp day, a group of children are taking part in a guided tour of the cemetery when Kjartansson emerges from a crypt wearing make-up and a gloomy costume, pretending to be Death himself. The children go back and forth between belief and disbelief but do not hesitate to seize the opportunity of this unusual encounter with Death. What follows is an open discussion of existential questions and a debate about the quality of the performance and the artist’s props. In black and white and against a highly symbolic backdrop, Death and The Children takes apart a seemingly difficult subject with humor and without taboo.

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ALEVTINA KAKHIDZE: Windows, signs of peace

27.04.24 ⟶ 18.08.24 at SCHUNCK (NL)


Alevtina Kakhidze's drawings, installations and videos deal with identity, the war in Russia-Ukraine, the complex dynamics between East and West, power relations, the role of capitalism and our consumer culture, and cultural contradictions and conflicts.
Some of these drawings will be on display on the second floor at SCHUNCK Glaspaleis.

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