December 31 09
It has been an exciting first year (in beta) for us at Non-fiction, with projects ranging from social media strategies for the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and Tropenmuseum Junior, via new concepts for an illustrious canal house ánd an ancient castle to a range of workshops in a.o. Ljubljana and Zürich. Together with our friends [...]
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By Michiel van Iersel
Also posted in 3voor12, Amsterdam, Architecture, Aura, Bimhuis, Duivenvoorde, Film, Museumplein, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Non-fiction, Scheepvaartmuseum, Trouw, VURB, art, deVerdieping
Tagged Ben Cerveny, Benthem Crouwel, Binger Filmlab, Concrete, De Verdieping, Duivenvoorde, Duivenvoorde. ING, ICN, James Burke, Juha van 't Zelfde, KesselsKramer, LAgroup, Michiel van Iersel, Moderna Galerija, Museumplein, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, n8, Paradiso, PICNIC, Reina Sofia, Scheepvaartmuseum, SNS REAAL Foundation, the Zuidas, Time Out Amsterdam, Tropenmuseum Junior, TrouwAmsterdam, VURB
June 9 09
Another week of Non-fiction events in Amsterdam, starting with the collaboration with the Filmmuseum and DOKU.ARTS festival on Wednesday at De Verdieping. We will screen the documentary ‘Rem Koolhaas – A Kind of Architect‘, with a brief interview with festival director Andreas Lewin. Entrance is free of charge. More information on this on Facebook. On [...]
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By Juha van 't Zelfde
Also posted in Amsterdam, Architecture, Aura, Film, Interview, Non-fiction, art, deVerdieping, event
Tagged Amie Dicke, Andreas Lewin, Aura Salon, DOKU.ARTS, Dragan Klaic, Filmmuseum, Henk van der Waal, Juha van 't Zelfde, Macha Roesink, Machinefabriek, Michiel van Iersel, Non-fiction, Pierre Bastien, Rem Koolhaas, Theu Boermans, Tracy Metz
May 28 09
Machinefabriek live at [F]luister from Renier Eclectro on Vimeo. During this first edition of a series of two Aura-salons and a finissage, as part of the Aura-project, Castrum Peregrini will confront artists, poets, writers and creative thinkers with the concept of aura as set out by Walter Benjamin. He defined aura as the distance between [...]
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By Michiel van Iersel
Also posted in Amsterdam, Aura, Interview, Non-fiction, art, event
Tagged Allerd van den Bremen, Aura, Castrum Peregrini, Erik Lindner, Joachim Umlauf, Lars Ebert, Machinefabriek, Michiel van Iersel, Renée van Marissing, Ton Venhoeven
May 22 09
Today the Aura exhibition, curated by Non-fiction’s Michiel van Iersel, was reviewed by the Amsterdam newspaper Parool. The article gives a pretty accurate description – in Dutch – of the exhibition’s theme and the works on show. We are very happy that they included a large image of Amie Dicke‘s installation in the abandoned room of [...]
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May 19 09
Crowd outside the main entrance before the opening (l) Castrum Peregrini’s Lars Ebert (l) and Michiel van Iersel (r) Last Thursday we celebrated the opening of the Aura project: an exhibition and a series of events in the historic premises of Castrum Peregrini Foundation, where in WWII young German Jews survived in hiding. The opening [...]
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By Michiel van Iersel
Also posted in Amsterdam, Aura, Non-fiction, art
Tagged Alexandra Leykauf, Allerd van den Bremen, Amie Dicke, Castrum Peregrini, Chris Kabel, Eric Wie, Jan Robert Leegte, John Kleckner, Lars Ebert, Michiel van Iersel, Renée van Marissing, Roger Willems, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Susanne Kriemann
May 14 09
What does a contemporary artist do with the vibrant past of a former hiding place on one of Amsterdam’s canals? Is it the aura, the uniqueness and authenticity of this place to be captured and can it be transformed into something new and relevant? Those questions live at the heart of the art projectAura: an [...]
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By Non-fiction
Also posted in Amsterdam, Aura, art, event
Tagged Alexandra Leykauf, Allerd van den Bremen, Amie Dicke, Castrum Peregrini, Chris Kabel, Erik Lindner, Henk van der Waal, Jan Robert Leegte, John Kleckner, Michiel van Iersel, Renée van Marissing, Susanne Kriemann
May 1 09
What does a contemporary artist do with the vibrant past of a former hiding place on one of Amsterdam’s canals? Is it the aura, the uniqueness and authenticity of this place to be captured and can it be transformed into something new and relevant? Those questions live at the heart of the art project Aura: [...]
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By Michiel van Iersel
Also posted in Amsterdam, Architecture, Aura, Bimhuis, FWD:, Heritage, Media, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Non-fiction, Scheepvaartmuseum, Trouw, Viral Radio, art, deVerdieping, event, images
Tagged Alexandra Leykauf, Allerd van den Bremen, Amie Dicke, Chris Kabel, Dragan Klaic, Erik Lindner, Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht, Henk van der Waal, Jan Baeke, Jan Robert Leegte, Joachim Umlauf, John Kleckner, Juha van 't Zelfde, Machinefabriek, Max Beckmann, Michiel van Iersel, Pierre Bastien, Renée van Marissing, Simon van Keulen, Susanne Kriemann, Theu Boermans, Ton Venhoeven, Tracy Metz, Walter Benjamin