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Events list for Dutch cultural events in the 13 westernmost states. Follow the links to individual websites for
more details on the listed events. Events/dates/locations may be subject to change. It is recommended that you
consult the venue/website before attending an event.
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to inform you that the Consulate is busy working with the design community in San Francisco to organize a week-long celebration of Dutch design that will take place November 14-18. Seeing Orange: Dutch Design Week SF is comprised of a series of lectures, workshops and presentations by Dutch designers in a range of fields, including architecture, fashion, graphic design and product design. We will be sharing details with you about the program very soon.
In the meantime, we hope you will enjoy some of the events below — some wonderful ongoing exhibitions and some can't-miss performances and lectures.
Enjoy!
Department of Cultural Affairs
Consulate General of the Netherlands
San Francisco
P.S. For more information on Dutch culture in the US, check out Dutch Performing Arts Events and Dutch Cultural Events.
CONTINUING EVENTS | COMING EVENTS
Exhibition: Marijn van der Poll in TechnoCRAFT
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Through October 10, 2010
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents its first design exhibition, organized by San Francisco-based design icon, Yves Behar. TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers, and Design in the Age of Individuality explores the boundaries between the role of the designer and the consumer with works that invite the viewer to participate in the act of creation. The exhibition includes the Do-Hit Chairs, by Marijn van der Poll, and House of Furniture, by Studio Makkink & Bey.
Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears
Bas van Ader
Pitzer Art Galleries, Pomona, CA
Through December 10, 2010
Suspended Between Laughter and Tears is an exhibition of video, photography, installations and archived materials from the estate of the late Dutch-born and California-based conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who is assumed to have perished at sea in 1975. The exhibition's title refers to the artist's exploration of the tenuous point between comedy and tragedy in his work. It is the first large-scale survey focusing on the breadth of his artistic practice mounted in the United States in over 10 years and will include documentation of works that have previously only been seen in catalog reproductions. A publication will accompany the exhibition and will include interviews with Ader's widow, Mary Sue Anderson.
Exhibition: Jacco Olivier in SITE Sante Fe
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Through January 2, 2011
SITE Santa Fe's Eighth International Biennial, Dissolve, presents hybrid works of art by artists blending traditional art forms with new technology. The exhibition includes a video installation by Dutch artist Jacco Olivier.
Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences / Documented Assignments
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Through January 3, 2011
Co-organized by the Hammer Museum and the Aspen Art Museum, Mark Manders: Parrallel Occurances/Documented Assignments is the first North American tour of this acclaimed Dutch sculptor's work. Through his sculptural practice, the artist seeks to bypass language, translating his thoughts and obsessions directly into three-dimensional objects—existing and self-made—and tableaux that incorporate figures, animals, household furniture, archeological fragments, everyday objects, and architectural components. Transformed by their proximity to one another, these mundane sculptural elements collectively evoke a mysterious world of daydreams and fairy tales. For this exhibition, the artist will create a completely new body of work, encompassing sculpture and works on paper.
Exhibition: Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands
Through February 6, 2011
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
During the Middle Ages, the area occupied today by Belgium and the Netherlands flourished economically and artistically. By the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the towns of Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Utrecht participated in one of the greatest flowerings of book illumination in Europe. This exhibition surveys the Getty Museum's holdings of medieval manuscripts from this region, including masterworks made for such influential patrons as the dukes of Burgundy - Philip the Good and Charles the Bold - and the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. After eleven weeks the books' pages will be turned to reveal further illuminated riches.
COMING EVENTS | CONTINUING EVENTS
Iwan Baan Receives Julius Schulman Award
The Julius Schulman Institute at Woodbury University, Los Angeles, CA
October 10, 2010
On October 10, Iwan Baan will receive the inaugural Julius Schulman Photography Award in Los Angeles. The Julius Schulman Institute at Woodbury University will honor the legacy of the renowned photographer during a series of events that coincide with the 100th anniversary of the day of his birth. A symposium, exhibition and celebration will be held on October 9 and 10.
Lecture: Ernst van de Wetering
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO - October 25, 2010
Consulate General of the Netherlands, San Francisco, CA - October 26, 2010
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA - October 27, 2010
The Netherland-America Foundation,in cooperation with the Otto Naumann Gallery in New York City, has organized a lecture and consultation tour for Ernst van de Wetering, the world's foremost authority on the work and authentication of the Dutch 17th century painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The timing of the tour coincides with the publication of the Vth volume of the Rembrandt Corpus, an extensive research and scholarship project initiated several decades ago. The lectures will disseminate the specialized knowledge gained through the Rembrandt Research Project (RRP), largely through comparative scholarly, technical and scientific studies, as well as through connoisseurship. The lectures, along with the associated meetings with relevant museum staff, will enable the direct exchange of insights and knowledge between a renowned Dutch art historian and American scholars, curators, collectors, dealers, conservators and a more general public. Listed above are the dates of the tour in the Western US. For more details on the tour and Ernst van de Wetering, visit the NAF website.
Performance: Bang on a Can performs Louis Andriessen
Stanford Lively Arts, Palo Alto, CA
November 5, 2010
Louis Andriessen / David Lang
A rare West Coast premiere of a newly minted piece by the eminent Dutch composer Louis Andriessen—fresh from its Carnegie Hall debut last season. And with it, a recent work, sunray, by David Lang—Stanford alumnus, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music, former Andriessen student, and co-founder of Bang on a Can. Andriessen's musical palette is edgy and bright. His new collaboration with Marijke van Warmerdam, who has created the video for Life, is a continuation of work with other filmmakers, notably Peter Greenaway. David Lang's music embraces and extends Andriessen's kinetic quality and virtuoso writing, with an emotional urgency and beauty that have established him as an important figure—composer, collaborator, educator—on the international arts scene.
Philo Bregstein
UC Berkeley, Dutch Studies, Berkeley, CA
November 7-9, 2010
Dutch journalist and filmmaker Philo Bregstein will be guest at Berkeley's Dutch Studies in November. He will present the following programs:
Jacques Presser
Photo J. Stegeman/Spaarnestad
Film on the life and work of Jacques Presser with an Introduction by P. Bregstein
Sunday Nov. 7, 3-5pm
Room 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Lecture on the Holocaust in the Netherlands
Monday Nov. 8 5-6pm
Institute of European Studies
Lecture on Dutch historian Jacques Presser and the Holocaust debate in the Netherlands
Tuesday Nov. 9, 3.30-5pm
179 Dwinelle
Performance: Wunderbaum: VENLO
REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
November 17 - 21, 2010
There is no way to know exactly what will happen when the daring Dutch theater ensemble Wunderbaum premieres Venlo, a new theatrical event developed during a three-week REDCAT residency. Known internationally for its intelligent and lively blend of humor, social politics, and theatrical intensity, Wunderbaum collaborates with Los Angeles artists from various disciplines in this new work. The ensemble's genuine passion and heightened theatrical sensitivity have made it one of the most closely watched young collectives.
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