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Jan-Willem van Rijnberk

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

Henri Swinkels gedeputeerde leefbaarheid en cultuur provincie Noord-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
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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: art as sweet as pie

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
14 October 201715 October 2017
8 min read
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Last week in London was Frieze Art Week. A week seen as one big spectacle for contemporary art. This year for the 15th time. Collectors, enthusiasts and the market, everyone comes together. Moreover, the Frieze Art Fair is seen internationally as one of the most important indicators of the market in contemporary art. From millimetres...

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

Documenta 14, guilt, atonement and shame: How to chase fans into the curtains?

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

Of the 100 days in which Kassel is transforming itself into 'the world museum of contemporary art' this year, as it does every five years, 20 days have already ticked away. This has certainly not happened silently. The formula that artistic director and chief curator Adam Szymczyk and his staff have unleashed on Documenta has brought a large number of fans to their feet. For me.

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

Venice Biennale emphasises soft forces in art

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
22 May 201730 March 2022
13 min read
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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 to the yardstick: 'Have you been there?....

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View on the Acropolis and Partheon, Athens (foto auteur)

Documenta 14: You have 100 days to discover Athens

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

Every five years, the art world is turned 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, videokunstwerk van filmische allure

Fiona Tan delivers a feature-length video artwork with Ascent

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

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, where an extra 1,000 flowers are now blooming

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
September 2, 201631 August 2017
6 min read
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One of the most beautiful museums in the Netherlands can be found in Tilburg, a city still seen by some as the frayed edge of the Netherlands. This central part of Brabantstad also receives relatively little funding from the government. So how can one of the best museums in the world be located here? Museum De Pont, like Huis...

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

Liverpool Biennial: a grab bag that occasionally leads to wonderment

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
4 August 20162 August 2017
10 min read
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"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]"Things happen, and then they happen again, but not....

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