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After more than twenty-five years as Casco, Casco Projects, and finally Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, we are changing our name to Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons. The title heralds our new modus operandi, presented initially in the form of an exhibition that opens on 26 May 2017. With this change we aim to act on our political-aesthetical intentions and face their urgencies with “working for the commons” as the guiding imperative for all Casco operations.

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The phrase “Why Not Ask Again” is a bid, and a query, whose ascending, joyously twisting arc embraces the maneuvers, disputations and stories that contain and encode the turbulences and transports of our time. A listener eavesdropping on deep space walks out of the pages of the recent sci-fi novel, The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. A wanderer steps out into the deep time of eternity and the straight path of a police bullet in the terminal sequence of the picaresque Bengali film Jukti, Takko aar Gappo from 1974 by Ritwik Ghatak. They embody the spirit of a mobile triangulation between reason, intuition and the fabulous that the Biennale seeks to discover, transmit, and learn from. Chief curators – Raqs Media Collective.

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In 2017, Artefact looks at the Act of Magic. From poetry to strategy, from magical object to obscure systems, from harmless distraction to manipulation: the artists in The Act of Magic investigate what enchants us today.

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In conjunction with “We are the Center for Curatorial Studies”, this two month series reflects upon and proposes new directions for an institution of curatorial practice. Guided by artist projects, this fictional center takes the medium of the exhibition as pivotal to its futures. With: Can Altay, David Blamey, Katarina Burin, Jasmina Cibic, Céline Condorelli, Marjolijn Dijkman, Chris Kraus, Gareth Long, Ronan McCrea, Harold Offeh, William McKeown, Eduardo Padilha, Sarah Pierce, Richard Venlet, Grace Weir, and others.

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With: Can Altay, Martin Beck, David Blamey, Gerard Byrne, Nina Canell, Jasmina Cibic, Céline Condorelli, Sara Cwynar, Marjolijn Dijkman, Mary Heilmann, James Hoff, Vlatka Horvat, Matt Keegan, Chris Kraus, Gareth Long, Ronan McCrea, Williw McKeown, Ulrike Müller, Museum of American Art Berlin, Brian O’Doherty, Harold Offeh, Eduardo Padilha, Sarah Pierce, Falke Pisano, Elizabeth Price, Richard Venlet, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Grace Weir, Arseny Zhilyaev, and others. Curated by Paul O’Neill.
THE VISITOR TALKS – Marjolijn Dijkman: Oct. 5 – 2016, 5:00 – 7:00 pm. at CCS Bard.

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Antenna Futura convenes contemporary artistic positions that explore a realistic-imminent or a phantastic-distant future. Scientific contributions and workshops on the topic will take place in the framework of the exhibition.

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In this exhibition the visitor travels to France with Jan Sluijters and to Spain with Leo Gestel, but also to Indonesia with Isaac Israels, to America with Adrian Lubbers and to the North Pole with Louis Apol. Scores of travel-fevered artists vie for attention, with attention to painting, travel sketches, sculptural work, but also photography, installation and video. With works of contemporary artists like: Joost Conijn, Jan Dibbets, Bertien van Manen, Rob Birza, Jennifer Tee and Roy Villevoye.

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Third Nature questions how we live dependent upon what lies in-between us: infrastructure is the given answer to the question of how worlds are constituted. The exhibition explores how it feels to function in a world governed by infrastructure, through forms of divination, imagination and speculation. Curated by Laura Herman. With: Nina Canell, Marjolijn Dijkman, Femke Herregraven, Basim Magdy, Suzanne Treister.

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With Marjolijn Dijkman, Laura Herman, Femke Herregraven, Brian Larkin, Basim Magdy, Nader Vossoughian, and Clare Lyster. Definition Series: Infrastructure, curated by Laura Herman, invites scholars, artists, and critics to discuss contemporary implications of this omnipresent term.

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Exhibition part of AFO 51. AFO is currently one of the most important European festivals in the area of popular science film. It aims to present science as an attractive, dynamic and diverse sector through films charting natural, humanities and social science disciplines.

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With: Marjolijn Dijkman, Sam Laughlin, Rick Smits and Henk Wildschut.
An exhibition on how our imagining of the future, with it’s expectations and dreams, is influenced by the present. The artists part of this exhibition will present actual topics which have an impact our image of the future.

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With: Amélie Bouvier, Benoit Felix, Filipe Felizardo, João Fonte Santa, Marjolijn Dijkman, Marcin Dudek, Mattia Denisse, Musa Paradisiaca – Eduardo Guerra & Miguel Ferrão, Roeland Tweelinckx.
Curated by: Eduardo Matos

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20 leading contemporary artists from all over the world have been invited by Museum De Lakenhal to share their vision on today’s globalized world. To do so, they will exhibit new or existing work that has been inspired by the extensive collections of Leiden’s many museums. With: Georges Adéagbo, Mark Dion, Marjolijn Dijkman, Romuald Hazoumè, Meshac Gaba, Simryn Gill, Mona Hatoum, Tsang Kin-Wah, Rivane Neuenschwander, Lucy Orta & Jorge Orta, Raqs Media Collective, Batoul S’Himi, Andrea Stultiens, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Tintin Wulia, Ghana Think Tank, Taryn Simon, Chen Zhen

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The program and event series Facts & Fiction inquires into the representation and perception of disasters and dystopias: Why is it that the contemporary arts—from Hollywood to the fine arts and literature—are much more interested in catastrophes than in a vision of happiness? What makes the apocalypse so thrilling? Why are we so fascinated by the aesthetic of cataclysms and natural spectacles? What does an analysis of these images reveal, and what can we offer in reply to them? With: Allora & Calzadilla, Yael Bartana, Christoph Draeger, Guy Ben-Ner, Marjolijn Dijkman, Omer Fast, Jonathan Horowitz, Ho Tzu Nyen, Gabriel S. Moses, Oliver Ressler.

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The Present is Now Appearing will be presented with works by Felix De Boeck, a Belgian modernist avant-garde artist, in a cabinet titled Vertigo. This exhibition presents the first series of two cabinets where contemporary art works are installed in relation to specific works of De Boeck.
Participating artists: Marjolijn Dijkman and Sofie Muller (Cabinets #1) / Stéphanie Leblon and Ruth van Haren Noman (Cabinets #2)

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The relation of man to forest has something dizzying and awakens many pictures and emotions: the forest is at once the cradle of humanity, part of solitary or family walks, refuge of the Resistance or a protected place. Be they musicians, visual artists, photographers, film makers, performers, storytellers, architects, landscapers, loggers, charcoal burners, tank tops or shamans, each of the forty contributors bring their interpretation and vision of a environment full of mysteries and legends.

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On the contemporary interpretation of present-day culture through representations of the landscape. The works presented make clear how we look at the landscape, how the definition of a landscape through technique and media is stretched and how we use the landscape as metaphor for current issues, be they social, political or aesthetic.

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An exhibition of international video art presented in unusual urban spaces around the Southside district of Birmingham

With: Adel Abdessemed, Roy Arden, Kevin Atherton, Oliver Beer, Marjolijn Dijkman, Dean Kelland, Vladimir Logutov, Kelly Mark, Heather and Ivan Morison, Grace Ndiritu, Junebum Park, Cornelia Parker, Perry Roberts, Santiago Sierra, Beat Streuli, Gillian Wearing, Yang Zhenzhong

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The focal point in this exhibition is the contemporary interpretation of present-day culture through representations of the landscape. The works shown in Out There, make clear how we look at the landscape, how the definition of a landscape through technique and media is stretched and how we use the landscape as metaphor for current issues, be they social, political or aesthetic.

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Artists: Alexánder Apostol, Yto Barrada, Marcelo Cidade, Nathan Coley, Livia Corona, José Dávila, Marjolijn Dijkman, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Angela Ferreira, Andreas Fogarasi, Meschac Gaba, Carlos Garaicoa, Terence Gower – Pedro Reyes, Pablo Hare, Heidrun Holzfeind – Christoph Draeger, David Maljkovic, Olivia Plender, Anri Sala, Kostis Velonis

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Curated by Emmanuel Lambion
Artists: Beatrijs Albers en Reggy Timmermans, Stijn Ank, Laura Bergans, Greet Billet, Tom Bogaert, Kris Campo, Pieter De Raedt, Marjolijn Dijkman, Bruno Hardt, Bart Hendrickx, Quinten Ingelaere, Wouter Krokaert, Eda Lõhmus, Liesbeth Marit, Thomas Min, Erik Nerinckx, Anna Noa, Sabine Oosterlynck, Kevin Reynaert, Ellen Schroven, Stefan Serneels, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Filip Van Dingenen, Annelies Vaneycken, Henk Van Rensbergen, Bert Van Rossem, Sarah Joy Zwarts.

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Participating artists: Simon Evans, Adam Zaretsky, Antti Laitinen, Jimmie Durham, Ursula Biemann, Hans Scholten, Lucinda Devlin, Matthijs de Bruijne, Aquilizan, Simon Starling, Phylida Barlow, Luuk Wilmering, Persijn Broersen/Margit Lukács, Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Roy Villevoye, Egied Simons, Francis Alÿs, Matt Mullican, Ursula Biemann, Pierre Huyghe, Olivier Darné, Olafur Eliasson, Tinkebell, Erik Kessels, Raul Ortega Ayala, Ton Matton, Marjolijn Dijkman, Michiel Schwarz , Joost Elffers, Maartje Korstanje, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Jim Holyoak en Matt Shane, Hilarius Hofstede, Ai Wei Wei, Tea Mäkipäa, Keith Edmier, Natalie Jeremijenko, Superflex, Fischli en Weiss, Studio DRIFT, Atelier van Lieshout, Egied Simons, Zeger Reyers, Sjaak Langenberg, Tue Greenfort, Sjim Hendrix, Minerva Cuevas, Marjetica Potrč / OOZE, Heath Bunting, Superuse Studios, amongst others.

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Arti et Amicitiae will host a month long the exhibition Notes on a New Nature: Place, Myth and Memory, the second curatorial iteration of a research project by Nicholas O’Brien. This expo investigates the ways in which contemporary digital artists are examining the relationship between landscape and technology.

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