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Jan-Willem van Rijnberk

Visual Artist with an interest in leisure, heritage, and sustainability

Henri Swinkels deputy livability and culture province of North Brabant

Gedeputeerde Swinkels on opportunities for Brabant: 'Unlike in the national government, we already don't work in a 'disciplinary' way here. We don't put everything in boxes.'

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
21 April 201821 April 2018
10 min read
ACTUAL

The trigger for this story is that relatively recently, the Council for Culture published its sector foresight. The summary opens with the words that 'Culture moves'. A rather euphemistic statement in my view. In this case, it means that the making, spreading and experiencing of culture is constantly changing. The second very obvious observation of...

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Art Rotterdam 2018: Measures the feverish temperature of contemporary art

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
8 February 201829 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, IMAGING

Is the prevailing flu wave raising the feverish temperature of contemporary art? From today, 8 February, you can come and take the temperature of the current state of contemporary art in person at a positively moody Art Rotterdam. From 8 to 11 February 2018 at the Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam. It is a broad-based art fair where...

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Frieze Art Week: Kunst als zoete koek

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
14 October 201715 October 2017
8 min read
IMAGING

Afgelopen week was in Londen de Frieze Art Week. Een week die wordt gezien als één groot spectakelstuk voor de hedendaagse kunst. Dit jaar voor de 15de keer. De verzamelaars, de liefhebbers en de markt, iedereen komt bijeen. Bovendien wordt de Frieze Art Fair internationaal gezien als één van de belangrijkste indicatoren voor de markt in hedendaagse kunst. Van milimeters…

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Marta-Minujin-Parthenon-of-books-Friedrichsplatz-Kassel-2017

Documenta 14, schuld, boetedoening en schaamte: Hoe jaag je de liefhebbers in de gordijnen?

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
29 June 20171 July 2017
10 min read
IMAGING

Van de 100 dagen waarin Kassel zich dit jaar, zoals elke 5 jaar opnieuw omvormt in ‘het wereldmuseum voor hedendaagse kunst’, zijn er alweer 20 dagen weggetikt. Dat is zeker niet geruisloos gegaan. De formule die artistiek leider en hoofdcurator Adam Szymczyk en zijn staf op Documenta hebben losgelaten, heeft een groot aantal liefhebbers in de gordijnen gejaagd. Voor mij…

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Sheila Hicks, Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands -2016-2017- Arsenal-End-wall

Venice Biennale emphasises soft forces in art

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
22 May 201730 March 2022
13 min read
For members only, IMAGING, PREMIUM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The 57th Venice Biennale brings the world together and the art world to Venice. This year, the biennial art event is bigger than ever. Here you will find out what is 'trending' in contemporary art. Everyone thinks something of this event and we live in a time when everything and everyone is held up against the yardstick: 'Have you been there?....

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View on the Acropolis and Partheon, Athens (photo author)

Documenta 14: You have 100 days to discover Athens

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
13 April 201726 May 2017
10 min read
IMAGING

Every five years, the art world turns upside down. Then it is time for the fourteenth Documenta. At that time, the German city of Kassel turns into a veritable Mecca for art connoisseurs and art lovers, snobs and connoisseurs. And, of course, tourists looking for that other Efteling. This year's Documenta has a sizeable Dutch contribution. But there is more: for the...

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Ascent, Fiona Tan, video artwork of cinematic allure

Fiona Tan delivers a feature-length video artwork with Ascent

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
3 March 20173 March 2017
11 min read
IMAGING

The video artwork 'Ascent' is one of Fiona Tan's most recent works. Ascent is a feature-length video artwork: 1 hour and 17 minutes[ref]A work resulting from a special commission from the Izu Photo Museum in Japan[/ref]. You may already be familiar with this artist's work[ref]The now 50-year-old Fiona Tan is "no ordinary Indian girl", born in Pekan...

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Nieuwe vleugel Museum De Pont Tilburg vanuit de tuin.

Museum De Pont, waar nu 1000 bloemen extra bloeien

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
2 September 201631 August 2017
6 min read
ACTUAL, IMAGING

Een van de mooiste musea van Nederland is te vinden in Tilburg, een stad die door sommigen nog altijd gezien wordt als de rafelrand van Nederland. Dit centrale onderdeel van Brabantstad krijgt ook relatief weinig geld van de overheid. Hoe hier dan toch een van de beste musea van de wereld kan liggen? Museum De Pont is, net als Huis…

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Foto 1. Betty-Woodman-LIVERPOOL-FOUNTAIN-artwork-in-public-space-2016

Liverpool Biënnale: een grabbelton die af en toe tot verwondering leidt

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
4 August 20162 August 2017
10 min read
IMAGING

“Things happen, and then they happen again, but not the same way, not quite; such is the logic of the biennial. And then there are things which have never happened before, and which happen now and in a time that seems somehow out of time, or takes our “now” out with it.” [hints]“Dingen gebeuren, en dan gebeuren ze weer, maar niet…

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