Verwend Nest
29 Jan 2020 / Kinderworkshop@Nest
Doe een keer per maand mee aan een leuke workshop op woensdagmiddag, speciaal voor Verwende Nesten.
Fluid Desires
24 Jan – 22 Mar 2020 / Exhibition@NestHicham Berrada
Mimosa Echard
Inge van Genuchten
Marie Maillard
Shanta Rao
Jérôme Robbe
Maya Rochat
Leonid Tsvetkov
Guest curator: Nanda Janssen
Today’s world can be experienced as very fluid. Nothing is fixed, everything is in motion. Through scientific discoveries and new insights, concepts that had been carved in stone for decades, have now started to flow. Notions like time, space, reality, nature, the object, human and the object-man relation.
This hybrid, unstable world serves as a point of departure for the artists in ‘Fluid Desires’. Post-apocalyptic cocktails and works of art with a liquid allure zoom in on blurring boundaries between organic and inorganic, natural and synthetic, living and non-living. Their understanding of the world is through matter.
The artworks do not use symbols or metaphors, nor do they depict anything; on the contrary, they just are. These explosions of color, texture, and slipperiness, are related in aesthetics. Throughout the exhibition, the concept of contagion is recurrent. Contamination as a marker for meanings that mix, images that merge and ideas that influence each other. Because it fantasises about the future, sometimes ‘Fluid Desires’ has science-fiction-like traits.
Verwend Nest
19 Feb 2020 / Kinderworkshop@Nest
Doe een keer per maand mee aan een leuke workshop op woensdagmiddag, speciaal voor Verwende Nesten.
Philosophical lecture by Florentijn van Rootselaar
5 Mar 2020 20:00 / Lezing@Nest
Florentijn van Rootselaar shows what a fluid world looks like, but he also asks whether it is possible to get past that fluidity. Is there a future possible with new traditions and new forms of coexistence? To answer these questions, Van Rootselaar draws from the conversations he had with Zygmunt Bauman.
Présage
6 Mar 2020 20:00 / Performance@Nest
This performance by artist Hicham Berrada in the exhibition Fluid Desires takes place during Hoogtij.
Verwend Nest
18 Mar 2020 / Kinderworkshop@Nest
Doe een keer per maand mee aan een leuke workshop op woensdagmiddag, speciaal voor Verwende Nesten.
ASH presentation (postponed)
21 Mar 2020 18:30 / Educatie@Nest
Within the context of the current exhibition ‘Fluid Desires’, Nest has developed an educational program in collaboration with the American School of The Hague (ASH). The photography students are guided by a professional photographer in their artistic process to create new work responding to the theme of the exhibition.
