Amsterdam
A selection of photos taken around Amsterdam.
Vitra Campus
In 2005 I finally had a chance to visit the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein.
Basel
Basel is home to many art museums and works of contemporary architecture.
Jeff Wall at the Schaulager
I like the work of Jeff Wall so it was a great pleasure to see 70 of his photographs together in one exhibition.
Hussein Chalayan at the Groninger Museum
The most interesting part of the exhibition is the setting Hussein Chalayan created in the Coop Himmelb(l)au pavilion of the Groninger Museum.
Casa da Musica
I had the great fortune of visiting the Casa da Musica by OMA|Rem Koolhaas on a guided tour before the official opening, when the building was still largely empty.
Serralves Museum
The Serralves Museum designed by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza is a beautiful building that fits quite wonderfully within the surrounding landscape.
Johan Simons: Elementarteilchen
In Elementarteilchen, Johan Simons’ adaptation of the novel of the same title by Michel Houellebecq, the five actors mostly stand on a corrugated floor on an otherwise empty stage. The piece consists of little more than this, but this “little more” touches precisely the right tone.
Guy Cassiers: Proust 4. Marcel's Way
I had some reservations about the first installment of Guy Cassiers' adaptation of "A la recherche du temps perdu", but the third and now the fourth part stole my heart.
Thomas Hirschhorn: Anschool
Energy yes! Quality: No!
Willem de Kooning at the Kunsthal
Compared with the retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1995 this is a rather poor, pared down survey of Willem de Kooning's body of work.
The Eye Deceived. Painted Illusions by Cornelius Gijsbrechts
A fascinating exhibition at the Mauritshuis in Den Haag brings together a number of paintings by the 17th century master of the trompe-l'oeil, Cornelius Gijsbrechts.