While the Anthropocene is screaming for attention and some believe the post-Anthropocene is already at the gates, it becomes increasingly difficult to determine our position. We’re collectively sliding along a scale from denial and indifference to fear and mournful rebellion....
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It looks like we’re drowning in a sea of things – high time to reconsider our perception of the world and act accordingly. Can we find fresh perspectives on the relations between objects and us? Zero waste, no inequality!...
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What does it mean to have the freedom to focus on your artistic and professional growth for an entire year? The Creative Industries Fund NL offers this very opportunity to makers in the fields of design, architecture and digital...
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The first computers were programmed by women, 75 years ago, and women wrote the software behind Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap for mankind’. Since then, IT has become ever more important and gradually turned into a field for nerds where women seem out of place altogether. But...
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The performances and videos of Li Binyuan (1985) bring about a sense of catharsis. Whether he stands within an inch of a rapidly rotating, man-sized circular saw, or holds up a board against a thundering waterfall for several minutes, in...
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A new landscape is taking shape around us, made of artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and synthetic biology. Science may not completely comprehend this complex, elusive matter yet, but designers are already working with it anyway. How do they do it?...
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If you keep looking long enough, you can see how everything changes. Animal species, plants, bacteria, mountain ranges, continents, solar systems—nothings retains its shape forever. Living and non-living things respond to each other in an endless, complex inter- action...
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For the fourth consecutive year, MU sets the stage for Create Out Loud, the talk show that brings design alive during Dutch Design Week, seven evenings in a row. Each night, new guests take us on a refreshing trip...
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This year again, MU organises plenty of activities during the Dutch Design Week. Join the conversation about design during the Create Out Loud talkshows, get busy at the interactive workshops, meet other makers at INBETWEEN #5: KONT Portfolio Slow Date...
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News apps, videos, podcasts, Twitter feeds, VR: we’ve come a long way since the days of the town crier or the printed press. Submerged in media, we have numerous ways to generate and share stories – literally at our fingertips....
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What privacy, artificial intelligence and digital connectedness have in common? They are all interwoven in the work of Dries Depoorter. In Back End he shows how boundaries can be dissolved with a few simple interventions. How human creativity and machine...
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What will become of the internet? Where will AI take us? These pressing questions get the radically queer treatment of artist Zach Blas, at MU, from 11 May to 8 July.The short film Jubliee 2033, centrepiece of Blas’ much-praised Contra-Internet...
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How will bio-technology influence our lives? Does DNA hold our definitive truth? These critical issues are dramatically politicised by artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, at MU, from 11 May to 8 July. A world premiere, the four-channel video installation T3511 tells the...
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We are living in interesting times – and what a mixed blessing it is! The optimism that swept across the western world after the fall of the Berlin Wall has been replaced by bewilderment. ‘What the [beep/fuck/f**k] is happening?!’...
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This exhibition explores different dimensions and scales of time, from the universal to the personal and from the cellular to the geological, even the astronomical. Time can be seen as simultaneously binding us, through heredity, and separating us, by death, across generations. And then...
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When Strijp-S was just a dirt pit where you could splash into a concrete pool on a summer's Sunday at Plan-2.Back when there were still illegal after parties in steamy techno tunnels until the early morning hours.In the summer of...
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For the third year in a row, MU sets the stage for a fresh and lively talk show at the end of almost every day of Dutch Design Week 2017. This year we will provide a platform for seven guests...
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When do we ever blush or shout in public? When do we give attention, enjoy or cry for all to see? Can we still be intimate with ourselves and with others while the world is watching? And if so: what...
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This year again, there are plenty of things organised by MU during DDW. From stimulating symposia, tempting pop-up performances and a bookshop full inspiration, to an exhibition in which the digital materialises, and a compound full of intimate experiences, you...
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The internet is everywhere. Set free from the websites and the screens, it now penetrates our thoughts and our bodies and everything around us. Each day, the digital and physical become more integrated – but how does this effect our...
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Ylja Band and Tristan Roques are the winners of the first MU INBETWEEN open call! They came up with the idea to turn MU into the Most Extravagant Twister Game Ever - and we love it! You are invited to...
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A sentence, written on the wall of a wooden shack housing the secret service office in a mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Discipline Before Anything Else. Discipline may sound unconnected in mineral-rich South Kivu with all its...
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In forty years, graffiti has grown from a local New York subculture into a worldwide phenomenon with its own heroes and business models. Embraced as urban decoration or buffed by all means, graffiti has escaped a slow death, mainly thanks...
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A project by Vincent Wittenberg and Wladimir Manshanden. The starting point for this project was a massive database of photos taken by cleaning companies hired between 2005 and 2013 by the municipality of Eindhoven, a medium sized Dutch city known for its...
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*sold out*Encounters in another world, a journey through the unknown that leads to new insights and transformation: the award-winning installation Door into the Dark re-invents the art of storytelling by revisiting some of the oldest themes known to man. Created...
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A dance of humans and viruses to the tune of evolution, a compass needle made of iron extracted from placentas and 3D printed materials inspired by the development of human organs.Fluid Matter presents the winning projects of the Bio Art and...
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What if people would share their political power with non-human things? What if animals, plants, objects and technologies can represent their own interests?Welcome to the Anthropocene: for the first time in the history of the planet one species (mankind) has...
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With the large scale video installation Guilty Landscapes Dries Verhoeven brings the reality of uncomfortable news images confrontingly close. He poses the question of whether a personal connection is possible between the viewer and the person being viewed. What...
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MU looks back on a successful Dutch Design Week and attracted more than 40,000 visitors with For Play, Shaping Sexuality at MU, the Parliament of Things in Plug in City, and the talkshow Create Out Loud. View the photos here.(Check out...
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Just like last year, together with Dutch Design Week, MU will host the high-profile daily design talk show Create Out Loud presented by Isolde Hallensleben (conducted in English). From Sunday 23 until Saturday 29 October, Isolde will take her guests and the audience on...
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The oldest dildo ever to be found dates back 28,000 years. Together with statuettes like the Venus of Willendorf the toy is hard evidence that physicality and sex have sparked our imagination ever since the Stone Age. It also shows that sexuality can be...
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Ten years after Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, we seem to respond to climate change with pragmatism rather than panic. We separate our waste, put solar panels on our roofs and we just wait and see if there’s any need for more...
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American artist Addie Wagenknecht critically examines the concept of borders and the laws that govern them. Zooming in on digital networks and developments that create a range of new liminal situations, she explores the tension between technology and...
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A retrospective exhibition and the 20th anniversary of the Internet artwork My Boyfriend Came Back From The War (MBCBFTW) by Olia Lialina. Twenty years ago, in 1996, Russian artist Olia Lialina created My Boyfriend Came Back From The War (MBCBFTW)....
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With Body of Matter, MU zooms in on the body and the possibilities biotechnology has to offer to change, enhance, investigate and replace it, now and in the near future. In the thought-provoking essay presented with this exhibition, publicist and...
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Body of Matter presents the work of ten artists that advance our ideas about the body. They explore its materiality, stimulation, quantification using technology, integration with alien matter, and, finally, its obsolescence by simulation. The artists here expand our collective...
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Stable and fragile at the same time, a node between part and whole: the Holons invented by Jetske Visser and Michiel Martens capture the essence of our existence in one fluent movement during GLOW NEXT 2015. A Holon might best be described as a soap...
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MU's space, centrally located at Srijp-S, will be the stage for a fresh design talkshow at the end of every Dutch Design Week-day. Everything concerning design could be point of discussion, it will be entertaining for a broad audience as...
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Just Follow The Crowd! During Dutch Design Week 2015, hundreds of thousands of people visit Eindhoven to see the latest developments in design. They move from one location to the next in droves, they eat in restaurants created for the...
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Laser scans, point clouds, projections and digital interpretations determine our perspective in the installations by Marnix de Nijs, on show in MU from 31 July until 20 September. Meanwhile, they reveal how fragmented and illusionary our ‘normal’ perception really is....
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Few topics are as trending as the weather. If it isn't our daily obsession with temperature, rain or wind it's the transformations in our atmosphere and climate. We just can't stop talking about it.¨Even more, climatological changers like global warming,...
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MU Eindhoven presents Los Angeles based artist, Cassils in their first museum solo exhibition in Europe. Titled Incendiary, this show explores Cassils’s multidisciplinary practice, which crosses a spectrum of performance, sound, sculpture, photography and video. The show is anchored in...
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Simple, everyday materials you can find in your kitchen drawer. For Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten and Bob Waardenburg - the three artists behind We Make Carpets - anything from pasta to clothes pegs, drinking straws and even...
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Thirty million unique visitors watched the websites of visual artist Rafaël Rozendaal – 30.730.587 to be exact – in 2014 alone. The number says much about the reach of art in the internet age but it also testifies to...
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The subtitle of the current exhibition Matter of Life says 'Growing new Bio Art & Design', and you can take us op on that! During the workshops and events that MU and the participating artists in Matter Of Life organise...
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MU | Strijp S Matter of Life | Growing new Bio Art & Design Pigeons, fungi, human cells, finches and flowers are just some of the mediums of bioart and design. These emerging fields are the source of daring experiments and thoughtful...
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MU | Strijp S NONOTAK | DAYDREAM V.4, SILHOUETTES & LATE SPECULATION 8 November – 15 November, 2014 NONOTAK plays with relationships between audience, perspective, light, shadow and setting in their two brand new installations DAYDREAM V.4 and SILHOUETTES. These audiovisual...
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MU | Strijp S Kneeling | Five years of We Make Carpets Simple, everyday materials you can find in your kitchen drawer. For Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten and Bob Waardenburg – the three people...
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MU | Strijp S GenderBlender Conference On Friday, July 4th, MU dives deeper into this subject with Professor Uta Brandes, specializing in the impact of gender on design and vice versa. Additionally artist Heather Cassils, renowned for the way she trains...
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MU | Strijp S Dinnershow at 't Ketelhuis Not only is he the face of the Gender Blender exhibition, Sven Ratzke also shines in a dinner show specially made for GenderBlender, with a mix of old and new repertoire, he...
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MU | Strijp S GenderBlender GenderBlender Weekend Special on 4, 5 and 6 July with debates, lectures, performances, workshops, vaudeville and films. Femininity, masculinity, and everything in between. With GenderBlender MU and guest curators/artists Hanneke Wetzer and Leonie Baauw are focusing...
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MU | De Witte Dame MUtate A relay farewell to The Witte Dame After nearly sixteen years of MU in our location at De Witte Dame, it is time to move on. We have become young grownups at...
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MU | De Witte Dame MUtate A relay farewell to The Witte Dame After nearly sixteen years of MU in our location at De Witte Dame, it is time to move on. We have become young grownups at...
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MU | Strijp S Art & Arcade If you are a gaming addict and an art freak, MU is THE place to be for you this April and May. Art & Arcade, a collection of ten gaming classics that have...
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Palazzo Clerici, Milaan Work With Me People, part III This year MU and Bart Hess' Work With Me People (part III) are settling in the magnificent Palazzo Clerici in the heart of Milan, where Tiepolo once worked his magic on some...
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MU | De Witte Dame MUtate A relay farewell to The Witte Dame After nearly sixteen years of MU in our location at De Witte Dame, it is time to move on. We have become young grownups at this location, and at...
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MU | De Witte Dame MUtate A relay farewell to The Witte Dame After nearly sixteen years of MU in our location at De Witte Dame, it is time to move on. We have become young grownups at this...
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MU | De Witte Dame MUtate A relay farewell to The Witte Dame After nearly sixteen years of MU in our location at De Witte Dame, it is time to move on. We have become young grownups at this location,...
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MU | Strijp S Nelly Ben Hayoun is known as ‘The Willy Wonka of design and science'. Her latest project, titled Disaster Playground is a platform investigating future outer space catastrophes and the design of procedures to manage them...
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MU | Strijp S During the Dutch Design Week of 2013, Lucas Maassen and Twan van Bragt made the pilot episode of 'The Sitcom! Chairs being funny'. In nine days they shot a total of fourteen scenes...
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MU | De Witte Dame Workshops and lectures: November 13 - 16 Opening exhibition and book launch: Friday November 15, 8:00pm "Release early, often and with rap music. This is Notorious R&D." —F.A.T. Lab Celebrating more than five...
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MU | Strijp S The Italian born artist Quayola uses contemporary digital technology to tackle classic aesthetics and the universal rules for beauty and perfection. Until now he has mostly created his studies in the form of projections, installations, photography and...
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MU | De Witte Dame A typical studio setting, four sets. A living room, a bedroom, a kitchen and a bar. That’s about all a sitcom needs, with the addition of an audience or some canned laughter and a handful of...
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MU | De Witte Dame Death Spray Custom (UK), Florian Hofnar Krepcik (NL), Thomas Marecki (D), Patrick Pulsinger (Aut), Tom Sachs (USA), Arcangelo Sassolino (I) en Hansjörg Schneider (D). Transportation of information and ourselves, this ever moving social and physical network around...
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MU | Strijp S The installations of Zoro Feigl (1983) seem to be alive. His materials danse and twist. Placed together in a space, the separate works become one: large and ponderous in places, nervous or gracious elsewhere. Feigl’s forms are constantly...
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Opening Sunday May 19 from 13.00 in MU | Strijp-S Torenallee 40-06, Eindhoven With Small Gestures MU wants to take up and explore her new second artspace at Strijp-S in a subtle way. Small Gestures emphasizes the beauty in the details and...
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Opening Friday May 17 2013 from 20.00 in MU | De Witte Dame 'What would happen if we started an exhibition that wouldn't ever stop?' That was what curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier talked...
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Opening Friday 22 March from 20 h. Finissage with live performances on 4 May from 20 h. In the vanguard of music, sound artists are always exploring new ways of creating music. Often the search will not only lead them to the...
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Ryoji Ikeda (Gifu, 1966) is one of Japan’s leading composers of electronic music and visual artists. His work is focused on the essential characteristics of sound, light and data. Ikeda has gained himself a reputation as one of the few...
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Opening Friday 9, from 20.00 Fortunate accidents and the small contradictions of life, now and the day after tomorrow, are the ready-made meals with which the digital collective Pleix likes to feed itself. Based in Paris, the seven-members of Starship Pleix...
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Work With Me People will be held in the former Plan-2 in the Klokgebouw opposite the multi-storey car park on Strijp S. Since his graduation from the Design Academy in 2007, designer Bart Hess has made a name for himself in...
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Opening August 10, 8 pm Eindhoven has a tradition to uphold when it comes to thinking about the future, with technology and design together playing the leading role. It was therefore inescapable that the English think tank Tomorrows Thoughts...
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Wild-C is a continuous project during the Summer and Autum of 2012 at Sectie-C, Daalakkersweg 2, Eindhoven. You can visit the website for more information (in Dutch) www.wild-c.nl A place where the city takes on a hint of the...
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In the era of growing Internet surveillance, filtering, ACTA, 3-strikes and censorship, offline data sharing is becoming more and more important for freedom of communication. Centred around the projects Dead Drops by Aram Bartholl and PirateBox by David Darts, this...
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How do we hold on to our memories? In how far do memories make us who we are? But also, in how far do they actually distort what once was true? These are questions that are on everyone’s minds now...
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Saturday June 16 start at 8 pm Sunday June 17 start at 11 am Free entrance UNDER TOMORROWS SKY is a project by Liam Young of Tomorrows Thoughts Today opening in August at MU art space, Eindhoven. Liam has assembled a think tank...
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Location: Ventura Lambrate, Via Privata Oslavia 8, 20134 Milan, Italy General Opening: Times, Tuesday 17 – Sunday 22 April, 10h00 - 20h00, Open Evening: Wednesday 18 April, 20h00 - 22h00 In recent years, MU has given a few prominent...
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December 2012 is almost upon us, the Mayan calendar is nearing its end, stock markets are collapsing, crisis is the key word, and natural disasters succeed one after another. Conspiracy theoreticians are preparing en masse for the approaching Apocalypse. According to...
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The Tosso Variations For his first solo exhibition, the Berlin-based artist/filmmaker/composer Gabriel Shalom presents a videomusical suite in five movements. 'Videomusic' is Shalom's self-invented term for his unorthodox compositions of both sound and images. Shalom's practice is equal parts avant-garde...
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Première Friday January 13, 2012, 8 pm Online now "The digital settles in as background. We remember less and query more. Our identity play would be considered schizophrenic in the last century. We have more friends than ever before yet know...
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Wild-S is a temporary forest with its own pavillion, built by MU in collaboration with the Rotterdam-based artist collective Observatorium during the summer and fall of 2011. Wild-S is a place to play and to be. You don’t need to...
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Participating designers: Julian Bond, James Bridle, EDHV, Ruth Gurvich, Theo Jansen, Markus Kayser, Tim Knapen, Thomas Lommée, Jorge Lopes dos Santos, Lucas Maassen & Raw Color, Minale Maeda for Droog, Jun Mitani, Yuri Suzuki, The T-Shirt Issue, Troika for Swarovski,...
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Opening Friday June 24, from 8 pm onwards. "Come, let us go down and confound their speech" The Great Babylon Circus, curated by the Berlin based critic and curator Lukas Feireiss in collaboration with MU, brings together cutting-edge creatives from the field...
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OPENING FRIDAY APRIL 8 ATERPARTY: Friday, April 8. Line up: The Oscillation (live), Strange Boutique, Rodaidh McDonald, David Maclean. Starting 23h, location: Stroomhuis. Tickets 3 euro for sale on Thursday and Friday night at MU (from 20h). The internet is the most influential experience...
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Opening Friday, February 4, 20 h. with an unique solo performance by the French pianist Maxence Cyrin, who reinterprets the Pixies easily as he does Daft Punk. The laws and illusions of film, animation and the perception of reality...
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Opening with performances on friday November 12 at 8pm David Link / Christoph Haag, Martin Rumori, Franziska Windisch & Ludwig Zeller / Dave Griffiths / Electroboutique / Joan Leandre / Jon Satrom & Ben Syverson...
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designteam: HEYHEYHEY - Frank Winnubst - Bas van Raay - Bart Bekker - Kor Smeenge - Jeroen Hezemans - The Cre8ion.Lab: Bas van Hout - Loek Jurres - Jorg van Keulen - Colin Raaijmakers - Joran Quinten - Kal Konings His...
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Opening Augustus from 20.00 Man-size sound waves, meters jumping and clocks ticking, giant punch cards and endless white noise. In August and September, MU will be placing its entire gallery at the disposal of the London artist/designer Stephen Smith, better known...
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photography: Peter Sutherland Afterparty after the opening starting at 24h . With dj's: Moleke Mbembe, Spoek Mathambo & Richard tha Third. Gather at MU. Athi-Patra Ruga - Gugulective - Spoek Mathambo & Richard Tha Third - Kudzanai 'Kudzi' Chiurai...
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In the olden days – when people still thought the earth was flat – the universe was sometimes compared to the inside of a human skull. This was our notion of the infinite that lies beyond the world we live...
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With effect from January 15th, MU and SubmarineChannel.com will be spotlighting the phenomenon of film titles. Title sequences can be engaging, funny, exhilarating - or simply drop-dead beautiful. Some ooze visual poetry and sophisticated imagery, while others hit you hard...
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Wildly feminine, cheerful, seductive and wicked at the same time. Nimbly hopping between art, fashion and illustration, the English multi-disciplinary artist Julie Verhoeven (1969) has built up quite a reputation for herself over the past few years. Her work adorns...
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A project by Frank Bruggeman and Ernst van der Hoeven. GroundAbout is about looking. It’s about city and vegetation, culture and nature, not as separate entities but as one amalgamated whole. Artist Frank Bruggeman and Landscapearchitect Ernst van der Hoeven have...
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An initiative of MU and KOP. A psychedelic print with sound effects, an analogue TV animation, a carrousel full of images, an architectural dream, typographical reflections and a painted-over short-fronted farmhouse. A random sample of what will...
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What are we looking at when we’re looking at something and how precisely are we looking at it? And is our way of looking perhaps just as personal as our handwriting? These questions...
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A retrospective of the Austrian meidart duo Granular Synthesis wouldn’t be complete without the singele screens works they have made next to their big multiscreen installations. In the nineties they became famous for their big works that overhwelm with their...
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We run a website presenting art called Vvork. On average three or four artworks are published daily. The continuity of this practice (started in April 2006) led to an invitation to curate an exhibition for MU. There surely is a difference in...
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In a forest of hanging sticks, Danish designer, artist, and drummer Henrik Vibskov creates three worlds at MU this winter. Each world refers to one of the many attention-arousing performances with which he over the past couple of years has...
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Stroomhuis Eindje 1, Eindhoven A homemade raft full of artists – an artistic armada that is a cross between a jolly Carnivale circus and a free-and-easy, contemporary hippie commune. For two summers the Miss Rockaway Armada brought art and music to...
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A collective as a band, a band that’s not making music but applying itself to image sampling and mixing. That’s who The Changes are. ‘The Times they are The Changes’, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, and so music leaves the...
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Collaborate, spar, share dreams, and find forms of expression. Designers are often loners, locked up in their studio labouring over their newest object. Increasingly often, however, they’re closely cooperating in duos or in other formations, in order to achieve even...
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Friday October 10, 2008 we celebrate the 10th birthday of MU. During the day there will be an english spoken symposium about internet and art blogging. After that we throw a big party with a few international guests on the...
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With two fat orange books, the Berlin graphic design agency Neubau has taken the world by storm. NeubauWelt and NeubauModul are the titles of these two volumes, bursting with thousands of black-and-white patterns and illustrations. What would it be like...
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We have tossed around the title of the project many times. ‘Decaying concrete’ was an option. It’s harsh and tough, but a little too wild and negative. Discipline, in the English pronunciation. Sounds good, multi-interpretable, but is too close to...
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Lichtplein (achter de Witte Dame), Emmasingel, Eindhoven Armed with a chainsaw, a load of used scaffolding boards, and a fistful of nails, screws, and tools, the Swedish designer Anders Jakobsen, aka Lagombra, has built a sensational roller coaster...
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It's about what happens if Philip K. Dick takes control of your mind, if time stands still, if ordinary things become mysterious and fantasy creatures overturn the order of your soul. Come and see works of ours being vandalized by...
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From the dark depths in the texts of Morrissey, which according to the Norwegian artist Lars Laumann (1977) seem to predict the death of Princess Diana, to a literally glaringly pink collection of fanfantasies about Kylie Minogue by Australian artist...
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Geneviève Gauckler designs characters. They look deceptively simple. Despite this simpleness – the design often consists of just a ‘vaguely human or potato-shape form, with two eyes, ears, arms and legs’ – so, despite this simpleness (and perhaps precisely because...
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Vestdijktunnel Dark and light, day and night, shadow and sun, dirty and clean. Contrasts the Parisian artist and performer ZEVS (1977) likes to work with, as they are available in any city. Mixing these in the streets with visible and often...
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A project that is a cross between an exotic Garden of Eden and an illegal growshop, a home hothouse, and a biotech laboratory. NAT, designing nature is about the interface where nature and culture, biology and design intertwine. Some call...
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Learning To Love You More / LTLYM is best described as a chameleonic cat with nine lives. Here, all tastes are catered for: it is a website and an art project, a series of exhibitions and do-it-yourself assignments. It is...
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From poetry to animation, from graphics to 3D work, from textile and wallpaper to paintings, graphic artist Geoff McFetridge has complete control over these widely divergent disciplines. In the past ten years, Los Angeles-based McFetridge has created in his free...
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In the exhibition MSLM, on view from June 15 in WEI on the corner of the Ventose flat in the Mathildelaan, the fashion awareness of young Muslim girls takes centre stage. Headscarves and burqas may have created quite...
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Robots. Those little metal men, clanking and rattling steel skeletons moving along haltingly, set into motion by electrodes and wires, pneumatic and hydraulic joints? Yes, and Amorphic Robot Works directed by the American artist Chico MacMurtie has built more than...
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Shake “no” and you will see “YES”, nod “yes” and you will see “NO”. If you are keeping your head still, you will see a black oak cross with flashing red lights. In all his work, artist Rob Zimmerman plays...
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Canciones del mundo al revés sings in printed and cut-out paper and cardboard about the ever-growing divide between rich and poor, between power and powerlessness, between the US and Mexico. Paper-cut artist Swoon, whose home base...
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What do bike messengers, graffiti artists, amateur soccer players, wild deer, and a controversial female photographer have in common? Not a lot, obviously, except for the fact that the American photographer and filmmaker Peter Sutherland has aimed his camera on...
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Helmond. Hermitage Helmond is an art project in the centre of Helmond. The Hermitage enables the visitor to have an one on one art experience. This is established in cooperation with a range of art organisations from the...
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Starting point for Copypaste History is the strong tradition of Dutch design in the 20th century. Well-known designs are the Fokker F27 Friendship, the clapskate and the BRO 27 couch by Martin Visser. They have become...
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It’s lying like discarded money, past its date, written off, the last bit in the vault. However, the little stacks of banknotes are still recognizable for anyone who used to have them in his wallet. A blue banknote, with a...
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The London collective D-Fuse ranks among the international top class makers of audiovisual art and VJ-ing. Founded in the middle of the 1990s by designer/artist Michael Faulkner, D-Fuse (a play on words expressing both the fusion and the diffusion in...
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Call them the walking billboards of pop culture. Or a tattoo that you can put on, or take off, depending on your mood or the moment. Originally designed to be an undergarment meant to be worn under a shirt, the...
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Froglike creatures with a skin almost looking like paper are climbing the walls. Aluminium buses the size of your finger, letters about love, death and work, and singles fanning out across the wall like a virus. The results of the...
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Underdogs & überprodukte by designer Maarten Baas and theatre maker Joris van Midde is all about non-verbal communication. In this thirty-day project in MU, Baas and Van Midde will bring to life a whole series of furniture. Every Friday evening,...
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Ari Marcopoulos (1957) is a photographer and filmmaker. Born in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, he currently lives and works in Sonoma in rural northern California. However, he shoots his photographs everywhere, on the snow-capped mountaintops of the world, in the...
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If it’s visual arts you’re looking for, Eindhoven is a real treasure trove of surging and seething underground artistic vigour. To make the public at large aware of the as yet little known artistic developments, MU and De Krabbedans have...
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It is the city of Eindhoven’s ambition to compete as Brainport Eindhoven with other knowledge regions in Europe and the rest of the world. Many Dutch people may have warm feelings for the Brabant landscape, yet such a competitive position...
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MU and Area 51 In June 2001, MU organised the exhibition ZONE, which was entirely centred on the relationship between art, architecture and skateboarding. ZONE proved to be...
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Han Hoogerbrugge (41) studied painting at the Rotterdam Academy of Arts from 1982 to 1987. After graduating he starts working as a visual artist in the conventional sense of the word, doing paintings, drawings, installations and sculptures. In 1996 he...
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COSMIC WONDER is the most eye-catching and experimental fashion label from Japan. In 1999, Yukinori Maeda (1971) set up COSMIC WONDER in Osaka, which remains to be the base of operations for him and his 11 coworkers. Maeda has...
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From October 16 through October 26, MU will host the fourth annual Designers Present show in De Witte Dame in Eindhoven. This annual exhibition, which is part of Design Week 2004, is a comprehensive representation of contemporary Dutch design. In...
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For the first time ever 12 Neenstars will be in the same space at the same time. Neen Today is a meeting of international artists. They will create new images in order to realize an ever-changing show which will...
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Mike Mills was born in Los Angeles as the son of a retired museum director. Mills was educated at the Cooper Union in New York and lived in NYC for 15 years. He returned to California to create his own...
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November 14 until December 21, 2003 Opening Friday November 14, 20.00hA smoking cowboy on horseback in Woensel West, the Sang Lee Superstore and the seclusion of a Japanese tea-ceremony on the Aalsterweg. A new feature of the...
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October 10 until October 21, 2003 Opening Friday October 10, 20.00hTwenty Dutch designers invited by fellow designers from different design disciplines to take part in an exhibition. Departing from this concept, Design Platform Eindhoven has organised...
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August 30 until September 28, 2003 Opening Friday August 29, 20.00hBetamaxxx Betamaxxx is Nanda, Rocs, PhetOne, Baschz and...
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May 7, 2003 16.00h until 19.00h . MU The art institute MU was founded in 1998 and has...
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March 14 until April 19, 2003 . Klein Dytham architecture (KDa) is Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein. Having studied architecture at The ...
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January 22 until Februari 12, 2003 Opening wednesday 22 January, 20.00h Slide shows: sunday January 26 and Sunday February 2 at 15.00 . The idea for ‘I Am A...
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January 17 until February 23, 2003 Opening Friday 17 January, 20.00u Yuzen History Mix Yuzen History Mix shows kimono designs by...
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November 15 until December 29, 2002 Opening Friday November 15, 20.00h Born in London in 1966,...
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October 16 until October 22, 2002 Opening Friday October 22, 20.00h Ingeborg de Roode, curator industrial design at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, has selected twenty young designers for a presentation at MU in De Witte Dame....
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1 September until 27 September, 2002 Opening Sunday 1 September, 17.00h Add Instant Life is a comprehensive presentation of the most recent, multifarious artworks ...
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July 20, 2002 The focal point of the exhibition ZONE, organised by MU in the summer of 2001, was the interrelation between ...
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May 31 until July 6, 2002 Opening Friday May 31 Due to the presence of the Design Academy and the TUE in Eindhoven and the...
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April 26 until May 24, 2002 Opening Friday April 26, 17.00hIn this era of ‘experience economy’ and the leisure industry, cities face increasing pressure to distinguish themselves. Ever since Frank Gehry put the city of Bilbao into...
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February 28 until March 30, 2002 A blank screen, the cursor is blinking. Visitors are asked to enter words. These words are floating to the...
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January 18 until February 17, 2002 Opening Friday January 18, 20.00h After the first graffiti boom, which in the late '80s made a cross-over to the art world, the USA now witnesses the rise of a...
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November 8 until December 6, 2001 Opening Friday 8, 20.00hJos Bosman, university lecturer at the TU/e, was the initiator of Some, a series of conferences dealing with contemporary urban developments. Some is an acronym for Scenes...
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17 oktober t/m 21 oktober 2001Concurrently with the first Eindhoven edition of the annual Graduation Show of the Design Academy in De Witte Dame, the exhibition Designers Present took place in MU, featuring the products, concepts,...
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September 1 until October 2001 Opening Friday September 1, 20.00hIn parallel with the exhibition in MU, Maurer United Architects will compile a publication entitled PLAY, which is to be published in english language by 010 Publishers...
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June 16 until August 12, 2001 Opening Friday June 16, 20.00h ZONE is a project involving the interrelation between skate culture, art and architecture. The project is an initiative of MU in co-operation with De Vleeshal...
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April 13 until May 20, 2001 Opening Friday April 13, 20.00hIn the project Fly With Me On My Carpet, the photographer Giti Entezami investigates the interiors and exteriors of the houses inhabited by Turkish families in...
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February 10 until March 25, 2001 Opening Friday February 10, 20.00hGenerating Live is a dynamic environment featuring projections, sound and light and fragments from movies, music and club culture. The event is an investigation into the integration...
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December 1 until January 24, 2001 Opening Friday December 1, 20.00hThe exhibition 'Individualisering /Individualisation' was sparked off by the housing development plan 'OfftheRoad-5speed non-standard prefab housing' by Lars Spuybroek (Bureau NOX). The thematic exhibition relating to...
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September 4 until September 15, 2000 Opening Friday September 4, 20.00hAlthough not really involved in printmaking as such, each one of the eight young artist who were asked to express their views on this medium of...
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August 20 until September 1, 2000 Opening Friday August 20, 20.00h The exhibition Archiprix 2000 presented the best graduation projects of the participating institutes in the field of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture in Amsterdam, Arnhem, Delft, Eindhoven, Groningen, Maastricht,...
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October 14 until November 19, 2000 Opening Friday October 14, 20.00h Homma Camera is de titel van de expositie die MU maakte met de Japanse fotograaf Takashi Homma Camera is the title of the show in MU,...
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June 16 until July 14, 2000 Opening Friday July 16, 20.00hThe project E+ is an initiative of the committee government-trade and industry chaired by Rein Welschen, mayor of Eindhoven. E+ was realised by Philips Design in...
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May 2000The manifestation Soundscape White Lady aimed at providing the impetus for the integration of the sound factor in the design process, exploring not only the functional but also the more poetic aspects of sound in...
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March 17 until April 24, 2000 Opening Friday march 17, 20.00h In Kim's Bedroom, conceptualizer and guest curator Kim Gordon (SonicYouth) introduces the spectator to an extraordinary, personal world in which visual arts, photography, film/video, fashion and...
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Januari 28 until Februari 28, 2000 JODI is the collective name for the artists Joan Heemskerk (the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans ...
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December 15, 1999 until Januari 21, 2000 Oh My God is a manifestation in which visual artists, designers, architects, filmmakers and publicists ...
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11februari December 11, 1998 until January 16, 1999 .At the invitation of guest curator Jan van den Dobbelsteen, ten artists worked and exhibited together in MU. The title Great White Out refers to an atmospheric condition of...
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November 21 until December 12, 1999 On 21 November 1999 the exhibition Food for Thought: Chinese Contemporary Art opened its ...
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October 17 until November 7, 1999 By means of large photo-panels, maquettes, pieces of furniture and various other objects, the exhibition presented a selection from...
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19 juli t/m 23 augustus 1999 This year, the annual in-house workshop Groot Grafiek (Large-format Prints) which was organised ...
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4 t/m 26 september, 1999 Opening Friday September 4, 20.00hThe exhibition elucidated the realisation of the CD-ROM by USA, a group project of architect Peter Paulusse, visual artist Mark Dijkstra, philosopher Han van Dijk and interaction designer...
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June 27 until July 18, 1999 Opening Friday June 27, 20.00h An overall picture of the application of letters and captions in everyday city life. The book and the exhibition present a photographic overview of typographic expressions...
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May 9 until June 19, 1999 Opening Friday May 9, 20.00hZes Steden/Six Cities was the first Dutch retrospective presentation of the Rotterdam based architects’ firm MVRDV. MVRDV partners are Winy Maas (1959), Jacob van Rijs (1964)...
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April 2 until April 24, 1999 Opening Friday April 2, 20.00hPaul Dubois-Reymond, Mark Klaverstijn, Leo van Munster...
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Oktober 1998 The architect Lebbeus Woods (1940) lives and works in New York. He is often classified among the group of young avant-garde architects to which also Coop Himmelblau and Daniel Libeskind belong. Their deconstructivist architecture has...
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October, 1998The exhibition was the reflection of a long-term study of urban development in Australia, carried out by Peter Trummer (Austria, 1964) and Penelope Dean (Australia, 1967). Trumner and Dean investigated to what extent urbanisation is...
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September 4 until September 19, 1998 Exhibit was a special exhibition featuring the final projects of 30 students majoring in all the disciplines of the Faculty of Architectural Engineering in the TUE. The exhibition makers considered...
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June 22 until July 17, 1998 Materials in Design is een reizende tentoonstelling die ontwikkeld is door het European Design Centre waarin voorbeelden worden getoond van nieuwe materialen, materiaaltechnologieën en nieuwe toepassingen in producten. Centrale boodschap...
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May 20, 1998 The new MU location in De Witte Dame was inaugurated with an elaborate programme of afternoon and evening sessions presenting exhibitions, lectures, performances and a dance-event. Both Harm Tilman and Winy Maas gave...
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May 20 until June 20, 1998 Rood, Wit/Blauw is an international project involving an intensive collaboration between the artists Yang Zhilin and Wu Weishan from the People's Republic of China and the Dutch artists Roberto Ruggiu...
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April 10 until may 10, 1998Marx and Steketee Architects was founded by Annette Marx and Ady Steketee with the purpose of generating a type of architecture that can be understood as a de-conditioning intervention in an...
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March 1998TUE (Technical University Eindhoven) and Grafisch Atelier Daglicht jointly organised a workshop entitled DAGCAD II as part of the investigation into the relation between art and technology. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce twelve selected graphic artists...
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