main program

the Ruin:
RAW, Among the Ruins

11 march – 20 may 2007

Curators: Lisette Smits and Alexis Vaillant
Artists: Farîd-Ud-Dîn’Attar, Robert Breer, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Dee Ferris, Jason Fox, Vidya Gastaldon, Richard Hawkins, Uwe Henneken, Karl Holmqvist, Jonathan Horowitz, Dorota Jurczak, John Kleckner, Petra Mrzyk & Jean-François Moriceau, Alessandro Pessoli, Nathalie Rebholz, Nick Relph & Oliver Payne, Re-Magazine, Markus Schinwald, V/Vm, Camille Vivier and T.J. Wilcox more

the Ruin:
L'Art Pour Tous!

15 july – 26 august 2007

Curator: Brigitte van der Sande
Artist: Bernard Heesen more

the Ruin:
Stair/Stare

23 september – 16 december 2007

Artist: Johannes Schwartz
In cooperation with Experimental Jetset and Herman Verkerk more

the Ruin:
High Rise/Down Fall

11 may 2006

Artists: Johannes Schwartz and Experimental Jetset more

A glimpse of the dynamics within a collecting art institute
Can death, decay and blood indeed be so beautiful, almost seductive? 
Consumerist excess and the fiction of economic speculation
Create or destroy
Every bird can only sing what it is able to hear
Health as common good and social capital
How to deal with this new reality?
is the idea of a school still grounded in the locality of a physical environment?
The ultimate symbol of godlessness
Trust me - I'm a designer
We'll be rich tonight!
Without a palace of glass, life is a burden