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Very Contemporary is a network of various art institutes located in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. On our website you can find out what happens in the region and learn more about the different art organisations. If you like to follow us you can find us on facebook and instragram or you can subscribe to our newsletter.


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Here below you find the highlights of this months and there is more to find in the agenda section.

Mining Myths, solo exhibition by Miriam Sentler

14.09.24 ⟶ 05.01.25 at Het Nieuwe Domein (NL)


Sentler's interdisciplinary work highlights the change of landscapes at the hands of industry in the modern era. Her work always starts from interaction with the landscape and she tries to highlight the changing relationships between humans, matter and animals. The focus here is on the cultural and ecological legacy of the oil, gas, and coal industries.

INTO THE VOID - Blank spaces as a tool for artistic realisation

Opening 22.09.24, 15h at IKOB (BE)


Into The Void, is an exhibition project initiated by the IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art in East Belgium together with the Dutch artist Ton Slits and the curator Rick Vercauteren to reflect on the future and relevance of artistic practice in the medium of the exhibition together with the participating artists Leo Vroegindeweij, Ton Slits, Nathalie Brans and Tinka Pittoors. This reflection takes place against the backdrop of turbulent times that are full of challenges for us as individuals and as a society. The question we ask ourselves is how artists and curators can work together in a non-hierarchical way to achieve results that both challenge outdated exhibition formats and make it possible for visitors to experience comprehensible results.

Andy Warhol: Vanitas

15.09.24 ⟶ 16.03.25 08.09.24 at SCHUNCK (DE)


SCHUNCK Museum together with The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh presents the exhibition Andy Warhol: Vanitas. Vanitas shows more than a hundred works and objects from the Andy Warhol Museum's collection.

Where am I standing? -> Junge Kunst Euregio x What the Flag!?

⟶ 20.09.24 at NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (DE)


For this year’s Young Art Euregion the NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein teams up with 10 different art organizations in the Euregion for a new edition of What the Flag!?.

The Young Art Euregion series is supported by STAWAG‘s in order to support young artists in the Euregio. What the flag?! is a project initiated by Greylight Projects and hosted for three years by the Very Contemporary network.

Open depot: Industrieland NRW

⟶ 02.02.25 at Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster(DE)


As part of the Open Depot series, the Kunsthaus will be presenting a selection of images of industry, mining and open-cast mining from September. In addition to the iconic photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch and Bernd and Hilla Becher, there will be photographs by Claudia Fährenkemper and painted depictions of industry by Gustav Deppe, Glenn Gibbs, Georg Grulich and Wilhelm Thelen. These are attempts to depict industry between romanticism and fascination with technical constructions.