Chaim van Luit
Left right right right, 2013 - 2017, HD video (loop), 14''
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Chaim van Luit
Left right right right, 2013 - 2017, HD video (loop), 14''
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Maria Barnas
It is unmentionable, 2017, video, 10''
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Jasmina Cibic
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Jasmina Cibic
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Antonis Pittas
Hands on, 2017, installation (slide projection), 240 slides
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Antonis Pittas
Throw Hands, 2015, cushions, artificial leather, furniture stuffing, 240 x 50 x 100 cm
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Antonis Pittas
Uniform with and without, 2017,
photo print on museum grade paper, each 20 x 29 cm
Antonis Pittas
untitled (before new year), 2017, graphite, variable dimensions
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Jasmina Cibic
Tear Down and Rebuild, 2015, single channel HD video, stereo, 15' 28''
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Jasmina Cibic
Tear Down and Rebuild, 2015, single channel HD video, stereo, 15' 28''
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Jasmina Cibic
Tear Down and Rebuild, 2015, single channel HD video, stereo, 15' 28''
NAP, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, installation view
Chaim van Luit
Icosaëder (water), 2017, posters on underlayment
NAP, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, installation view
Otto Berchem and Yael Bartana
NAP, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, installation view
Otto Berchem
Impenetrable (Europe), 2015, fabric
NAP, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, installation view
Antonis Pittas
untitled (where do we go from here), 2017, graphite, variable dimensions,
NAP, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, installation view
Otto Berchem
Revolver, 2013, 10'' video loop
NAP, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, installation view
Falke Pisano
Figures of Speech (diagrammed), 2009, mdf, paint, metal, nylon, foamboard, digital prints
NAP, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, installation view
Falke Pisano
Figures of Speech (diagrammed), 2009, mdf, paint, metal, nylon, foamboard, digital prints, ca. 7-8 x 13 m and 190 cm high
NAP, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, installation view
Falke Pisano
Figures of Speech (diagrammed), 2009, (detail) mdf, paint, metal, nylon, foamboard, digital prints, ca. 7-8 x 13 m and 190 cm high
NAP, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, installation view
Chaim van Luit
Octaëder (air), 2017, posters on underlayment, dimensions variable
NAP, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, installation view
Chaim van Luit and Navid Nuur
NAP, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, installation view
Cristina Lucas
Surplus Value, 2014, dimensions variable
NAP, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, installation view
Cristina Lucas
DNB Gold Vault, 2015, lamda print, framed, 70 x 50 cm each
NAP, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, installation view
Amalia Pica
Greyscale, 2007, poster series, B&W off set prints, dimensions variable
NAP, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, installation view
Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen
How can we know the dancer from the dance?, 2016, single screen video, 22'56''
NAP, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, installation view
Paulien Oltheten
Sweeping, 2016 / Broomstick, 2016, video, / c-print, 8'29'' / 165 x 110 cm
NAP, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, installation view
Chaim van Luit
Tetraëder (fire), 2017, posters on underlayment, dimensions variable,
NAP, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, installation view
Paulien Oltheten
Kapitalism, 2016, video, 6'',
NAP, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, installation view
Sue Tompkins
'Body Rocks' series, 2015, typewritten text on newsprint, 21 x 15 cm each
Tic, 2015, acrylic and metallic paint on voile, 30 x 25 cm
Sue Tompkins
'Body Rocks' series (detail), 2015
typewritten text on newsprint, 21 x 15 cm each
Dora Garcia
12 attempts to forge a letter from Joyce to Ibsen, 2014, thee stained paper and ink, (5x) 20 x 21 cm
Ulysses, 2009, book cut on plinth, 20 x 13 x 3 cm
Hedwig Houben
The Hand, The Eye, It and the Foot, 2015, video
NAP, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, installation view
David Jablonowski, Trade Alert (Zählt Nicht Uns, Zählt Eure Tage), 2015, approx 300 x 200 x 250 cm
David Maljkovic, Missing Colours, 2010, installation
NAP, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, installation view
David Jablonowski
Trade Alert (Zählt Nicht Uns, Zählt Eure Tage), 2015
approx 300 x 200 x 250 cm
David Maljkovic
Missing Colours, 2010, installation with 3 framed b/w photographs, 1 framed diptych photo collage, 1 framed photocollage, 1 collage on canvas, 1 framed photo collage with wool fabric, 1 tl light, coloured cellophane, slideshow of 80 sides, drawing for construction
NAP, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, installation view
David Maljkovic
Missing Colours, 2010, installation with 3 framed b/w photographs, 1 framed diptych photo collage, 1 framed photocollage, 1 collage on canvas, 1 framed photo collage with wool fabric, 1 tl light, coloured cellophane, slideshow of 80 sides, drawing for construction
NAP, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, installation view
Paulien Oltheten
I'm filming the dog, 2016, slideshow; 25 video fragments, 100 photographs, audiotrack, 22'30''
NAP, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, installation view
Paulien Oltheten
I'm filming the dog, 2016, slideshow; 25 video fragments, 100 photographs, audiotrack, 22'30''
NAP, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, installation view
Dina Danish
Practicing Foreign Languages, 2008
single channel video with sound, 2'36''
David Maljkovic
New Reproductions, 2013-15, wallpaper, inkjet print on archival paper, 300 x 300 cm, framed work: 150 x 100 cm
NAP, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, installation view
Chaim van Luit
Kubus (earth), 2017, posters on underlayment, variable dimensions
NAP, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, installation view
NAP, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, installation view
Navid Nuur
Tentacle Thought NR: 18 (SF), 2006-17, neon
NAP, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, installation view
Susan Philipsz
The Dead, 2000
vinyl record and soundtrack, 12''
Dina Danish
An Audience in Hiding, 2013, single channel video with sound, 16''
NAP, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, installation view
Maria Barnas, The Speech, 2017, words, speaker, windjammer, 55 sec (loop)
Antonis Pittas, untitled (everyone in the word knows it), 2017, graphite, variable dimensions
NAP, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, installation view
Maria Barnas
The Speech, 2017
words, speaker, windjammer, 55 sec (loop)
Chaim van Luit, Dodecaëder (ether), 2017, posters on underlayment, variable dimensions
Anna Ostoya, Morphing of Blasts (Yellow), 2016, oil and acrylic, papier-mâché, newsprint, archival inkjet print on canvas, 61 x 51 cm
NAP, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, installation view
Anna Ostoya
Morphing of Blasts (Yellow), 2016
oil and acrylic, papier-mâché, newsprint, archival inkjet print on canvas, 61 x 51 cm
Anna Ostoya
Morphing of Blasts (Yellow), 2016, Morphisms, 2016, Screens and Screams, 2016, Stained Glass, 2016, Uncle Me in a Maidan Cloak, 2016
NAP, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, installation view
Anna Ostoya
Stained Glass, 2016
oil and acrylic paint, crayons, archival inkjet print on canvas, 61 x 51 cm
Anna Ostoya, Stained Glass, 2016, Uncle Me in a Maidan Cloak, 2016
Oscar Abraham Pabón, High purity, monument to Ludwig Wittgenstein, 2014, 43 clay bricks, wooden pedestal, ceramic
NAP, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, installation view
Alexandra Leykauf, Everybody's Autobiography, 2015, video loop, 2' 24'', sound, colour
Alexandra Leykauf, La Tempesta (Giorgione) - Dessauer Strasse, 2016, analogic c-print, 136 x 118 cm
NAP, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, installation view
Gabriel Lester
Habitat Sequences, 2016-17, 70 x 46 cm each
NAP, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, installation view
Gabriel Lester
Eeuwig de sigaar, 2016
50 x 45 x 35 cm
Yael Bartana
Black Stars Shed No Light, 2014
neon, 170 x 152 cm 
Yael Bartana, Black Stars Shed No Light, 2014, neon, 170 x 152 cm
David Jablonowski, E-commerce 5 (Firewall San Francisco), 2015, mirror, scale model of ship, aluminium
NAP, Stiger Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, installation view
Nieuw Amsterdams Peil – Where do we go from here?

Amsterdam’s cultural scene has been enriched with a new and special initiative: six leading galleries in the Jordaan – Annet Gelink Gallery, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Galerie Fons Welters, Stigter Van Doesburg, tegenboschvanvreden and Martin van Zomeren – are jointly organizing an art project titled Where do we go from here?. Curator Alessandro Vincentelli, has developed the concept for the exhibition.

“Careless speech has rarely had such disturbing consequences. The recent US Presidential election, the British Brexit vote, the upcoming Dutch national elections – what better time to question the role of speech, Who speaks, Who acts? There is a significant sense that we simply don’t understand the direction of travel currently being followed. Now, at the beginning of 2017, there are many rallying cries
to make this year different to the last. Where do we go from here? starts with this question” (Vincentelli).

At a time when the cultural sector is under strain and populist agendas are growing, many feel the need for reflection and a different response to fragmentation, individualism, self-interest and fear. For this project, the six galleries are functioning as one exhibition space. Works by twenty-five artists will be shown, mostly within galleries that don’t normally represent them. Some of the artworks, performances
and site-specific pieces have been produced specially for this occasion. By including the public space between the galleries, the neighbourhood has become dynamically involved with Where do we go from here? Originally a working-class neighbourhood, the Jordaan has grown into an urban district, being both socially and economically diverse. Each street is packed with history, and the area is reflecting the global issues that underly the concept of the show.

Where do we go from here? has come about due to the need to develop new formats as a response to the somewhat worn model of the large art fairs and to the commercial interests associated with them. The six galleries have formed a group called Nieuw Amsterdams Peil. This first edition of Nieuw Amsterdams Peil is a pilot project; plans have already been made for joint projects in the near future.
The title of the exhibition has been derived from a work by the artist Sigurdur Gudmundsson, D’où venonsnous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous? (study no. 4), from 1976. N.A.P. gives direction to this query. Alessandro Vincentelli’s curatorial focus on language, communication and miscommunication touches on the unsettling idea that, in these unusual times, a venomous type of rhetoric seems to be giving rise to the ‘freedom’ to say things previously deemed ‘unutterable’.

Where do we go from here? is a dynamic initiative involving works that have largely been produced specifically in response to the invitation to reflect on the galleries, their location and the concept of the exhibition. Chaim van Luit, to name one example, has created work based on his study of arrows – symbols for indicating direction – which he happened to find, sometimes during his journeys through networks of corridors underground. The repeated presence of arrows in the exhibition serves as a system of codes that interconnects the galleries. Navid Nuur, too, interconnects the spaces between the galleries. Throughout the exhibition we can come across his We Share Air buttons. The exhibition has moreover been an opportunity to show significant works that have rarely been on view in the Netherlands, such as Falke Pisano’s installation Figures of Speech (diagrammed), 2009. With this installation he artist allows us to physically experience the complex principles of the relationships between artist, artwork and spectator, through text and language.

An unusual aspect of the collaboration among the six galleries is that the proceeds from the sale of works will be equally shared by all the galleries of N.A.P. It makes no difference which of the galleries the visitor chooses for the purchase of that one, much-wanted work, since N.A.P. is combining its forces!

Participating artists:
Maria Barnas (NLD), Yael Bartana (ISR), Otto Berchem (COL/USA), Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen (NLD), Jasmina Cibic (SVN/GBR), Dina Danish (EGY/FRA), Peggy Franck (NLD), Dora García (ESP), Sigurdur Gudmundsson (ISR), Hedwig Houben (NLD), David Jablonowski (DEU), Gabriel Lester (NLD), Alexandra Leykauf (DEU), Cristina Lucas (ESP), Chaim van Luit (NLD), David Maljkovic (HRV), Navid Nuur (NLD), Paulien Oltheten (NLD), Anna Ostoya (USA), Oscar Pabón (VEN), Susan Philipsz (GBR), Amalia Pica (ARG), Falke Pisano (NLD), Antonis Pittas (GRC), Sue Tompkins (GBR).

Curator:
Alessandro Vincentelli (BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead) in collaboration with Imara Limon & Imke Ruigrok (production and organisation) Alessandro Vincentelli is Curator of Exhibitions & Research at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. He completed an MA at the Royal College of Art’s Contemporary Curating Course. At BALTIC, he has curated exhibitions with many artists including Steve McQueen, Yoko Ono, Elizabeth Price, Lindsay Seers, Heather Phillipson, RAQS Media Collective, Bani Abidi, Hajra Waheed and Martin Boyce. In 2017 he is curating an exhibition with Canadian artist Rodney Graham for BALTIC and an exhibition with Jasmina Cibic in 2018.

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15/01/2017 - 25/02/2017
  • Curated by Alessandro Vincentelli
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  • Maria Barnas
  • Yael Bartana
  • Otto Berchem
  • Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen
  • Jasmina Cibic
  • Dina Danish
  • Peggy Franck
  • Dora García
  • Hedwig Houben
  • David Jablonowski
  • Alexandra Leykauf
  • Gabriel Lester
  • Cristina Lucas
  • Chaim van Luit
  • David Maljkovic
  • Navid Nuur
  • Paulien Oltheten
  • Private: Anna Ostoya
  • Oscar Abraham Pabón
  • Suzan Philipsz
  • Amalia Pica
  • Falke Pisano
  • Antonis Pittas
  • Sue Tompkins