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Parallel session
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Title
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No Ghost Just a Shell
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Type
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short presentation & discussion
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Date, time
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Thursday 10th June, 14:00-16:00
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Organisation
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Christiane Berndes, curator & Head of Collections
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Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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Description
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In 2002, the Van Abbemuseum bought an exhibition consisting of 28 works by 18 different artists as part of the project ‘No Ghost Just a Shell’. A second version of the project was bought by private collectors in Miami. Central to this project was a virtual character made for the Japanese manga animation industry, the rights to which were bought by the French artists Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno. They gave it the name AnnLee and invited other artists to use the character in their own work to fill the empty shell with stories and ideas. In 2002 Huyghe and Parreno concluded the project by transferring the copyright to AnnLee to herself, giving her ownership of her own identity. The project has been shown in various ways at different institutions such as the Van Abbemuseum, Tate Modern and the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. This workshop will present questions as: What does the purchase of a group exhibition mean? What are the possibilities for showing the works on their own and what is the impact on the significance of the project itself? How do the two versions relate to each other? How do two different institutions approach these questions?
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Maximum number of participants: 25 |
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Biography
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Born in 1955 in Venlo, the Netherlands, Christiane Berndes lives and works in Eindhoven. Studied art at Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht and art history at Utrecht University. Worked as assistant curator at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Since 1997 curator of collection at the Van Abbemuseum. Member of the Steering Committee of the SBMK (Foundation for the conservation of contemporary art) since 2000. As curator of collection she organised several exhibitions of the collection of the museum: ‘One on One’ (2004), ‘Nederland niet Nederland’ (2004-5), ‘What Happened to Art’ (2006) and ‘Plug In; re-imagining the collection’ (2006-2009). Currently she is curator and project leader of ‘Play Van Abbe’, an 18 months programme around the collection of the museum, including exhibitions, commissions, projects, lectures, publications and a symposium.
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Programme