In de zomer van 2011 gaf de Kulturstiftung des Bundes in Berlijn in samenwerking met de Haus der Kulturen der Welt onderdak aan het festival Über Lebenskunst. Dit culturele festival gaat over duurzaamheid, en heeft als doel verschillende visies ten aanzien van duurzaam wonen en leven in de 21ste eeuw te presenteren. Het eten en drinken voor de 8.000 festivalgangers werd voorzien uit de Vorratskammer / Pantry, een kunstproject van myvillages.org.In juli 2010 begon myvillages.org, de voorraadk...

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Joost Colpaert (°1965, lives and works in Oudenaarde, Belgium) has been producing paintings and videos for many years in which recurring cycles, fluent progress and the force of water play a central theme. He is inspired by his musical background: where a painting is spatially restricted, music can continue to flow (eternally). In a series of paintings from around 2000 the idea of recurring cycles was expressed in the form of rings, streamers and tyres which wound around and through each oth...

"I can resist everything", wrote Oscar Wilde, "except temptation". What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers in Amsterdam. About the pleasures and pitfalls of painting, forbidden favourites and the flirtation between the art of painting and other muses.

In his work artist Remy Jungerman searches for an autonomous visual language that does justice to the cultures of the countries that define him: Suriname, the Netherlands and the United States.

'Remy Jungerman. Behind the Forest' focuses on his artistic output of the past fifteen years, including new work created especially for his eponymous solo-exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

In his sculptures, panels, installations, collages and screen prints, Jungerman traces pathways of p...

| A new book project by Alex Farrar, including an index of 49 questions about happiness.

| Limited-edition publication bound with several different covers, cut from a single drawing by Daniel Jacoby.

Are Dutch people happy people?

Does art make you happy?

What was your earliest memory of happiness?

What have you taught your children about happiness?

Notes on Happiness is a book project by artist Alex Farrar. The book is a long reflective text, based on conversations that Farrar had with peop...

How do you make a book about a period that is behind you? The publication Six impossible things before breakfast is a journey across twenty-five years of Verzameld Werk [Collected Work] and beyond. Verzameld Werk was an open house in the heart of Ghent. A playground for designers and guests, architects and artists. Tailor-made by thinkers and doers. It was founded in 1991, with Ingrid De Coster as one of its founders.

For this book, Ingrid De Coster collaborated with Loes Verstappen and Bas S...

Theo Leijdekkers groeide op in een katholiek gezin en zat op een jongensschool voor lager onderwijs in het Overijsselse Delden. Tijdens zijn middelbare schooltijd kwam hij in aanraking met anders denkenden en raakte geïnteresseerd in muziek en met name tekenen. Na zijn studie andragologie in Groningen kocht hij met zijn eerste vrouw een huisje in het “alternatieve” Noord- Groningse dorp Den Andel en werd hij nog meer geïnspireerd door de kunst en kunstenaars ter plekke. Er volgde een op...