View of De Appel's group show "When Elephants Come Marching In", through which guest curator Mark Kremer investigates "the ongoing influence that Psychedelia and Conceptualism still have in contemporary Western art".

We also visited the solo show of Dutch conceptual artist Marinus Boezem at Upstream Gallery. The show focused on "the significance of the artist’s physical presence and absence for the concept of his artworks" and included jewels like this 1969 "Piss Project" piece, which was too difficult to capture as it's a sequence of photographs, hence the photo taken from the catalogue available at the gallery.

 

And to end our Amsterdam Art Week, we went back to the Stedelijk Museum to see Marlene Dumas's retrospective properly as well as the exhibition 'How Far How Near. The World at the Stedeljk' curated by SMBA's Director Jelle Bouwhuis, which included a great film work by Godfried Donkor 'The Currency of Ntoma' on the symbolism and the financial value that textiles (Dutch Wax, batik, kente cloth and lace) have for women in Ghana.


Related posts:

• Report from London's Frieze week 2014 (27 October 2014)
• Report from Madrid: Exhibitions during Apertura 2014 Gallery Weekend (15 September 2014)
• Report from Glasgow: Lecture at The Common Guild and studio and gallery visits (4 December 2013) 
• Report from Paris: FIAC week, 21–28 October 2013 (5 November 2013)
• Report from Athens: "AGORA", 4th Athens Biennale 2013 (4 November 2013)
• Report from New York: Gramcsi Monument, visiting critics at ISCP, Carol Bove at The High Line and galleries route (23 September 2013) 
• Report from Dublin and Derry-Londonderry: research trip to Ireland, 8–14 March 2013 (16 March 2013)
• Report from Urdaibai: commission series 'Sense and Sustainability', Urdaibai Arte 2012 (22 July 2012)

(Above) Poster campaign spread around Dutch art spaces by 'Disgruntled Dutch Artists. This one placed at the entrance to the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. Read more about the funding cuts.

(1 Above) Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam show: 'Mounira Al Solh & Bassam Ramlawi. And drawings by Rene' Daniels'.

(3 below) Prix de Rome 2011 exhibition at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam.

(Above) Vincent Vulma's presentation.

(Above) Edward Clydesdale Thomson's work.

Above: work by Gwenneth Boelens.

(3 photos above) Erik van Lieshout's studio in southern Rotterdam.
(Below): Erik took us to see the Kiefhook Housing estate, designed by De Stijl's architect J.J.P. Oud in the 1930s.

(Above) Lawrence Weiner piece at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Visiting Casco (2 above) and BAK in Utrecht (1 below).



(2 above): 'Two versions of the imaginary' exhibition at Annet Gelink Gallery curated by Maria Barnas. With works by Carlos Amorales, John Baldessari, Becky Beasley, Leidy Churchman, Dina Danish, Ryan Gander, Sharon Houkema, Emre Hüner, Martin Kippenberger, David Maljkovic and Amalia Pica.

(5 images below): Kunstverein's wonderful bookstore 'Openings & Closings – The Richard Kostelanetz Bookstore'.

(5 Below): De Appel's group show 'Genius without Talent'. Participating artists include: Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, Cobra, Constant Dullaart, Jakup Ferri, Robert Filliou, Beatrice Gibson, Laura Garbstiene, Ane Hjort Guttu, Annabel Howland, Alan Kane, Tomasz Kowalski, Suzy Lake, Pantelis Makkas, Cyprian Muresan, Sylvia Sleigh, Praneet Soi, John Smith, Helene Sommer, Leon Spilliaert, Rogier Taminiau, Piotr Uklanski, Adriaan de Villiers, Nina Yuen.