Upcoming at the Foundation

The General’s Stork brings together historical accounts, Bible prophecies, colonial narratives and surveillance reports to investigate the contemporary conditions of a state paranoia that transformed a migratory bird into an international spy.

Heba Y. Amin (1980, Cairo) is an Egyptian artist, researcher and lecturer based in Berlin. She is co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, visual arts editor for the MIZNA newspaper (United States) and one of the artists behind the subversive action of graffiti on the set of the television series Homeland, which attracted the attention of the media worldwide (denouncing, in Arabic, the racism of the series). Heba Y. Amin has recently exhibited at the 10th Berlin Biennale, the 15th Istanbul Biennale, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, the Kalmar Art Museum in Sweden, La Villette (Paris), among others.

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In partnership with the Goethe Institute, Perruche programme

Second encounter of the cycle Artwork, life and ways of being
A reading of the twentieth century and its heritage from art and commitment.

A whole twentieth century can be read in the tension between the exigency of the artwork and the anxiety of life and in the attempts to resorb each other, the surrealists (the resolution of life by the ‘art) to the situationists (the overcoming of art through life), two points of the century-old iceberg failed on the continent, drifting revolutions. These seminar sessions will aim through different examples to illuminate this knot of work and life.

Gilles Collard founded the journal Pylône in 2003. Since 2016, he has been professor of philosophy at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels of la Cambre, where he is also the pedagogical director of the Atelier des écritures contemporaines. 

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The Ten Murders of Josephine is an opera created by Rana Hamadeh, both performed at Rotterdam Theater in 2017 and unfolded as an exhibition at Witte de With in the same year. The exhibition, conceived as part of the narrative but also as the backstage, the opera’s assembly line, consists of objects and numerous sound installations where events and characters organize a dramaturgy through the spaces of the art centre in the form of an investigation. For this meeting, Rana Hamadeh will comment on her creative process and the deployment of the work in several places and temporalities.

Born in Lebanon and based in Rotterdam, Rana Hamadeh is a visual and performing artist. Her work focuses on the artist’s discourse, conversations and speech as an artistic medium, thus challenging the public’s position, as well as the limits, mechanisms and power of meaning production. She received the Prix de Rome in 2017.

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Duo Cello and clarinet

The duo Hoffman-Brazauskas is an energetic ensemble with a vast repertoire ranging from baroque to tango, funk to contemporary premieres, the duo performs regularly in Belgium, Germany, Holland, Lithuania and Italy.

Žilvinas Brazauskas is a clarinetist and winner of numerous international competitions such as the Felix Mendelssohn Hochschulwettbewerb. He studied with Sabine Meyer and is currently studying with Martin Spangenberg.

Natania Hoffman, cellist, completed her studies at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth with Gary Hoffman and is currently pursuing a career in Europe, the United States, China, India and New-Zealand.

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The title Lagunophorie is given to a series of small banquets. It is borrowed from the name of an old celebration given during antiquity in honour of Dionysus and means the celebration of the “bottle holders”.

For this second event, Lagunophorie IV, Fabien Vallos will propose to think about a critical history of taste based on the concepts of luxury, collection, distribution and use.

Fabien Vallos is theoretician, author, translator, publisher, artist and independent curator. He teaches philosophy at l’École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles and l’École supérieure d’art in Angers. His theoretical work consists of developing a genealogy of the concept of inoperability as well as the development of a critical philosophy of work.

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