Divided Selves: Legacies, Memories, Belonging

Curated by Hammad Nasar MBE with Rosie Addenbrooke and Alice Swatton. Divided Selves explores notions of belonging and living together at a time when the idea of nation is under stress, threatened by challenges ranging from populism to armed conflict.

Artists include: Larry Achiampong, Bani Abidi, Said Adrus, Array Collective, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Flo Brooks, Sophie Ernst, Gordon Cheung, Iftikhar Dadi & Nalini Malani, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, Aziz Hazara, Lubaina Himid, Sofia Karim, Peter Kennard, Delaine Le Bas, Goshka Macuga, Rene Matić, Chloe Dewe Matthews, Hetain Patel, Michael Peel, Jamal Penjweny, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Donald Rodney and Jane & Louise Wilson.

PALESTINE FROM ABOVE

The exhibition showcases contemporary art works by local and international artists and practitioners, displays also archival and historical materials. It comes as a culmination of a collaborative research project, also called “Palestine from Above”, and is curated by a committee comprised of Zeynep Celik, Salim Tamari, Zeinab Azarbadegan and Yazid Anani.

The exhibition shows works by: Amer Shomali and Dia’ Azzeh, Andrew Yip, DAAR/Decolonizing Architecture Art Research (Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti), Gian Spina, Jack Persekian, Khaled Hourani, Khaled Jarrar, Nida Sinnokrot, Riwaq–Centre for Architectural Conservation (Mohanad Yaqubi), Soledad Salame, Sophie Ernst, and Sophie Halabi.

HACKING MONUMENTS

Artist: Marcio Carvalho (PT/DE) – Simona Da Pozzo (IT/NL) – Sophie Ernst (NL/UK) – Kiluanji Kia Henda (AO/PT) – Sara Vanagt (BE)

Hacking Monuments. Tips to make sense of them presents artists working with monuments in a performative way. This performative essence of the interventions is translated in two ways. One sees the action as a ritual where a reciprocal redefinition between the monumental object and the artist happens; a ritual of the transformation of the reality. In another one, the artist uses the monument as a body voicing issues and communities.

Hacking Monuments a project by Simona Da Pozzo is the winner of Call for Ideas – Urban Factor, promoted by Urban Center – Municipality of Milan in collaboration with Triennale Milano.

REOPENING MUSEUM DE LAKENHAL

Museum De Lakenhal reopened its collection in full in the restored museum rooms. From June 2019 onwards you can see nine new art commissions. Commissions have been given to Mark Dion (USA), Sophie Ernst (Berlin / Oxford), Kolk and Kusters (Eindhoven), Hansje van Halem (Amsterdam), Karin Borghouts (Belgium), Aleksandra Gaca (Delft) and the artists from Leiden Iemke van Dijk, Ankie Stoutjesdijk and Thomas Raat. (Photo: Eelkje Colmjon)

ALTERED INHERITANCES

Altered Inheritances: Home is a Foreign Place.

This exhibition of works by Shilpa Gupta and Zarina looks at  the notions of home and belonging. Works are poetic and personal reflections on how geographical dislocation affects ordinary lives.

Accompanying this exhibition is a floor projection by Sophie Ernst. In the video Zarina recollects her childhood home. She lived in Alighar until forced to leave in the violent aftermath of  the Indian independence from Britain in 1947.