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  • 4 May
    2013
    25 Aug
    2013
    Aernout Mik: Communitas
    Video Art

    Aernout Mik's intriguing video art places the human viewer in a precarious situation

    Arttown: Communitas shows video artist Aernout Mik's most important works since 1999. For this exhibition, Mik has specially rebuilt the basement of the Stedelijk museum to look and function as a maze. This set up will take you throug... Read more

  • 22 May
    2013
    22 Sep
    2013
    ArtZuid 2013
    Sculptures, Public Art

    International Sculpture route through Amsterdam Zuid: Churchillaan, Apollolaan, Minervalaan, Zuidas

    Arttown: ArtZuid is a sculpture route set up every other year in the Southern district of Amsterdam. The freely accessible exhibition draws attention to urban arts in an innovative way. It's a great favourite of the public and the scu... Read more

  • 18 May
    2013
    23 Jun
    2013
    FotoFestival Naarden 2013
    Photography

    Dutch photography around the world

    Arttown: Don't Stay Here - Photography on the move. The festival's theme this year is all about foreign territories. Read more

  • 17 May
    2013
    14 Jul
    2013
    Stephen Gill - Best Before End
    Photography

    Creative interpretations on city-life and our urban surroundings

    Arttown: Best Before End is a comprehensive retrospective exhibition of English photographer Stephen Gill (Bristol, 1971). The Read more

  • 16 Jun
    2013
    26 Jun
    2013
    Exhibit B
    Brett Bailey, Third World Bunfight

    Be guided past this stirring exhibition which confronts the audience with European colonialism

    Arttown: African people exhibited as objects of interest for the western public. Translating the disturbing tradition of the 19th and early 20th century ‘human zoos’ into a 21st century installation, South African director B... Read more

  • 1 Jun
    2013
    14 Jul
    2013
    Marc Lagrange - Diamonds & Pearls
    Photography

    Stirring solo exhibition of Marc Lagrange; 'Diamonds & Pearls' pictures glamorous, but thought-provoking, women

    Arttown: Belgian photographer Marc Lagrange has quickly gained a reputation as one of the most original and talented nude photographers on the scene at the moment. Lagrange approaches his photography with a distinctive eye, en sets vo... Read more

  • 26 Apr
    2013
    23 Jun
    2013
    World Press Photo
    Photography

    The world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest

    Arttown: Every year following the World Press Photo Contest, the winning images go on tour. In April, the exhibition is officially opened in Amsterdam and can be seen at venues around the globe until March of the next year. The tour p... Read more

  • 29 Mar
    2013
    1 Sep
    2013
    Beestenboel - Animals in Art
    Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings

    Enter the kingdom of the animals in their original artistic habitat

    Arttown: At the Jewish Historical Museum you will find a motley collection of animals; monkeys, camels, owls, and plenty more. You'll think yourself at the zoo, but there are no bars between you and the lion here! Read more

  • 9 Mar
    2013
    13 Sep
    2013
    Peter the Great, an inspired Tsar

    Over two meters tall and blessed with an insatiable thirst for knowledge; how Tsar Peter’s visit to the Netherlands transformed Russia.

    Arttown: Amsterdam celebrates 2013; the year of the special relationship between Russia and the Netherlands. The two countries have been major trading partners since the Golden Age and Amsterdam’s canal ring modelled for the design ... Read more

  • 26 Mar
    2013
    15 Sep
    2013
    School bags
    Will the school bag survive the digital age? The Museum of Bags and Purses can’t foresee the future, but is looking at the past of the school bag

    Arttown: The exhibition shows the history of the school bag and backpack. From large wooden bags from the 17th century to the canvas and nylon bags that we see so much in high schools nowadays. The use, material and design of ... Read more

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