main program

the Avantgarde:
Hygiene, the story of a museum

24 october 2010 – 30 january 2011

Curators: Guus Beumer and Claudia Banz
In cooperation with EventArchitectuur more

the Avantgarde:
Madame Realism

12 march – 05 june 2011

Curator: Lisette Smits
Artists: Eva Berendes, Ruth Buchanan, Bonnie Camplin, Melissa Gordon, Pernille Kapper Williams, Annette Kelm, Kitty Kraus, Janette Laverrière, Linder, Hanne Lippard, Michaela Meise, Josephine Pryde, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Clare Stephenson, Lina Viste Grønli, Jessica Warboys and Amelie von Wulffen. more

the Avantgarde:
Specters of the Nineties

10 september 2011 – 15 january 2012

Curators: Lisette Smits and Matthieu Laurette
Artists: Art Club 2000, Sadie Benning, Bernadette Corporation, Plamen Dejanov & Swetlana Heger, Jeremy Deller, Stephan Dillemuth and Hans-Christian Dany, Maria Eichhorn, Annika Eriksson, Andrea Fraser, Rainer Ganahl, Renée Green, Jens Haaning, Pierre Huyghe, Karen Kilimnik, Ben Kinmont, Job Koelewijn, Renée Kool, Aleksandra Mir, Regina Müller, N55, Marylène Negro-Klaus Scherübel, Laurie Parsons, Asier Pérez, Dan Peterman, Hinrich Sachs, Joe Scanlan, Tilo Schulz, Superflex, Apolonija Sustersic, Barbara Visser, Carey Young. more

parallel program

Garden Intervention

23 october 2010 – 15 may 2011

Artist: Frank Bruggeman more

the Avantgarde:
An afternoon with...

15 – 22 may 2011

An afternoon with Lynne Tillman, Bonnie Camplin, Lili Renaud-Dewar and Hanne Lippard. more

La Biennale di Venezia: Opera Aperta / Loose Work

04 june – 27 november 2011

Curator: Guus Beumer
Organisation: Mondriaan Foundation
Artists: Barbara Visser, Ernst van der Hoeven, Herman Verkerk, Johannes Schwartz, Joke Robaard, Maureen Mooren, Paul Kuipers, Sanneke van Hassel, Yannis Kyriakides, with an performance by Alexander van Slobbe. more

A Common Dialect

03 july – 14 august 2011

Curator: Femke Dekker
With contributions by The Session, Our Polite Society, Maarten Simons and several alumni of the ABKM

This summer project is financially supported by the Maastricht Youngsters program of the Municipality of Maastricht more

the Avantgarde:
Specters of the Nineties

12 november 2011

Artist: Hinrich Sachs more

Valéry Proust Museum/White Cube Fever

26 november 2011 – 05 february 2012

Curator: Camiel van Winkel
Artists: Josef Albers, Robert Barry, Lynda Benglis, Frits van den Berghe, Cosima von Bonin, Dirk Braeckman, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Arnaud Holleman, Craigie Horsfield, Ekaterina Kaplunova, Hélène Keil, Raoul De Keyser, Alvin Lucier, Pol Mara, Willem Oorebeek, L.A. Raeven, Jeroen de RIjke/Willem de Rooij, Berend Strik, Paul Thek 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