Soils: De grond van ons bestaan

Group exhibition Soils explores a renewed connection with our soil.

Hosted by Van Abbemuseum

This project is now archived and was part of DDW24

Event type

Exhibition

Location

Center

Van Abbemuseum

Stratumsedijk 2

5611 ND

Build up of Soils (2024)

Nick Bookelaar

How can we re-ground ourselves in our environment? And how does that help us reconnect with each other? The group exhibition Soils addresses these questions. International artists, designers, farmers and activists work towards more empathy for our soils.

Mankind and soil

Soils focuses on the human relationship with soils. A relationship that is often complicated, as nation-states we know as Australia, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico and the Netherlands show. For the artists, these names are less relevant. Rather, they seek expression based on kinship and grounded knowledge, as is done by the Wurundjeri land, the Iku peoples' guarded Chundwa (Heart of the World), the Rangan Paser Adat territories, Sinanché in Mayan Yucatán and Eindhoven in North Brabant.

Soils (2024)

Nick Bookelaar

Soils (2024)

Peter Cox

Hosted by

Van Abbemuseum

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About Van Abbemuseum

The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is one of the first public museums for contemporary art to be established in Europe. The museum’s collection of over 3.600 works of art includes key works and archives by Joseph Beuys, Marc Chagall, René Daniëls, Marlene Dumas, Sheela Gowda, patricia kaersenhout, Gülsün Karamustafa, Iris Kensmil, Oskar Kokoschka, John Körmeling, El Lissitzky, Paul McCarthy, Pablo Picasso, Martha Rosler, and Lidwien van de Ven.

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