Display Show

Date: 16 January - 3 April 2016
Opening: Saturday 16 January, 16 hrs with an introduction by Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade
Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Open: Wednesday - Sunday, 12- 17 hrs
Closed: Easter Sunday (27 March)
Part of Attempts to Read the World (Differently)
Exhibition guide: download pdf

Stroom School: Display Show
Public program of tours and lectures;

Sunday 7 February 2016, 15 hrs
'Display Show': exhibition tour Bas de Boer
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Bas de Boer is a visual artist who creates kinetic installations and paintings.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 13 hrs
'Display Show': lecture/tour Gavin Wade
'Walls what I have built'
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Curator and director of Eastside Projects Gavid Wade will talk about the mobile wall system that Adolf Krischanitz developed for Vienna Secession and how they ended up in Eastside Projects and how he gave them new meaning.

Wednesday 17 february 2016, 20 hrs
'Display Show': lecture Koenraad Dedobbeleer
'Objections, Mischaracterized and Calling for Speculation'
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
In this illustrated lecture Belgian artist Koenraad Dedobbeleer explores the historical, institutional and incidental forces that determine the ways in which art is displayed.

Sunday 6 March 2016, 15 hrs
'Display Show': exhibition tour Marian Cousijn
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Reservations not needed
For her thesis for her Master in Museum Curating the art historian Marian Cousijn did research into the influence of Marcel Duchamp on the balance of power between the artist and the curator.

Tuesday 8 March 2016, 20 hrs
'Display Show': lecture Stuart Whipps
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
The British artist Stuart Whipps (also the regular photographer of Eastside Projects) will give an overview of his practice and will focus on his coming solo exhibition Les Ballets 1933 at Spike Island (UK) in July this year. He will talk about this in relation to display as he's currently developing a number of systems around this show.
www.stuartwhipps.com

Sunday 20 March 2016, 15 hrs
'Display Show': exhibition tour Arnoud Dijkstra
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Reservations not needed
(Furniture) designer Arnoud Dijkstra will share his vision on the concept of display.

Wednesday 23 March 2016, 20 hrs
'Display Show': lecture Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
A lecture by Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone about their films on Franco Albini and Carlo Scarpa.

Art is not exhibited, art exhibits

Display is an elementary social gesture: something is shown to someone and to the world. Display Show proposes we consider display as intrinsic to artistic production and interpretation, as the process of taking shape that redefines notions of work, artwork and exhibition.

Display Show follows a path that leads from doing-something-to-show-things (the technical term for which, in twentieth century art discourse, has come to be described as the verb "to display"), to the idea that those actions not only change the way we see things, but also transform the nature of what is displayed, of who is looking, and of their environment.
 
Display Show at Stroom Den Haag is an enquiry into forms of display and presents existing and new works by international artists including Céline Condorelli, Charlotte Cullinan & Jeanine Richards, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Flore Nové-Josserand, Goshka Macuga, Rita McBride, Eilis McDonald, Nathalie du Pasquier, Amalia Pica, Yelena Popova, Haim Steinbach, Gavin Wade, Nicole Wermers and Christopher Williams.

The exhibition is also articulated in relationship to, and ‘after' radical display practices from the twentieth-century, such as Franco Albini, Lina Bo Bardi, Eileen Gray, Herbert Bayer, Adolf Krischanitz, Frederick Kiesler, El Lissitzky and Carlo Scarpa; these approaches will be presented through methods of reconstruction, re-enactment, modelling, mirroring, copying and upcycling.

After presentations in Temple Bar Gallery (Dublin) and Eastside Projects (Birmingham) the third edition of Display Show takes place in The Hague. At Stroom Den Haag the Display Show integrates the work of Lina Bo Bardi, and will gradually transform through a public program of events in an exhibition on her work, entitled Another Reality. After Lina Bo Bardi (April 6 - July 3, 2016).
 
Display Show at Stroom introduces Céline Condorelli as one of the cooperating artists for the program Attempts to Read the World (Differently), a program in which Stroom, in a searching, intuitive way, makes an effort to develop tools and appoint ways in which we can read the tipping period the world is in.

Display Show is made possible in part by the Mondriaan Fund and the City of The Hague. The exhibition is realized in collaboration with Eastside Projects and curated by Céline Condorelli, Gavin Wade and James Langdon.