The Green Box Museum
I was surprised to discover the existence of this cabinet-museum dedicated entirely to contemporary art from Saudi Arabia – apparently the only one in the world. It is in the centre of Amsterdam. See...
View ArticleExhibition in Amsterdam: The New Middle East
The wave of popular uprisings throughout the Arab world have revealed a new Middle East – young, dynamic, secular, pragmatic and creative – which few people in the West knew about. It did not however...
View ArticleDe Gele Koe als startpunt voor Saoedische kunst
NRC nieuw orientalisme 14 April 2011 Goed artikel van Raymond van den Boogaard waarin ik en mijn medereizigers worden geinterviewed over hedendaagse kunst in het Midden-Oosten.
View ArticleExhibition of Mahmoud Dayoub in The Hague
I recently set up an exhibition in the headquarters of the Humanistic Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos) in The Hague. The works are by the young Syrian artist Mahmoud Dayoub. Hivos...
View ArticleA visit to the National Museum of Riyadh
The National Museum of Riyadh is a very interesting museum designed by the Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama (figs 1 & 2). It was inaugurated in 1999. It is located on the grounds of the Murabba...
View ArticleAfghanistan in Documenta 13
Note: a very different, one-page graphic version of this article was published in the Belgian art magazine A Prior #23; see the article here. Another article about this subject was published in the...
View ArticleAn Encyclopedia of National Representation: Review of the Venice Biennale, 2013
Although I came to Venice to test and explore an artist’s project that fundamentally critiques the system of national representation at the Biennale, I must admit I enjoyed the national pavilions much...
View ArticleIbrahim Abumsmar at the Window in Paris
I curated this small exhibition (27-29 September 2013), whose only ambition was to document the two months residency of Ibrahim Abumsmar in Paris – whence the simple title, ‘A Saudi Artist in Paris’....
View ArticleMaking an exhibition with my students at the Paris School of International...
This year (2014) I asked my students to write their papers as catalogue contributions to an exhibition I made in Paris to coincide with the end of the term. Here one can find the links to their papers...
View ArticleReview of Crisis of History in Belgian art magazine
Aya Johanna Danielle Durst Britt wrote a thoughtful review, in Flemish, of the exhibition in Amsterdam I curated – and which recently finished – in Al Arte Magazine.
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