K_nstvl___ History
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festivals (7)
talks (1)
presentations
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seminars (1)
exchange (1)
workshops (1)
other (2)
K_nstvl___ History
— Earlier editions
April 2023
New direction Kunstvlaaiother
13 April 2018
Making metaphorical spaghetti with Samet Yilmaz, Workshop on self-organization and collectivityworkshop
24 – 26 November 2017
Visiting Program German Kunstvereineexchange
20 May 2017
PLAYTIME, 11th K_nstvl___ Festivalfestival
07 January 2017
Non-Lecture #1talk
24 November 2016
A Festival of Project Spacesfestival
24 September 2016
The value of visibilityseminar
Text Archive
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Text Archive
29.06.2017
Article_The Micro Art Initiative #7, Atelier 014, meer dan een expositie-ruimte
14.04.2017
Article_The Micro Art Initiative #6, EXBunker Utrecht
24.03.2017
Article_The Micro Art Initiative #5, Zoete Broodjes in Amsterdam-West
13.03.2017
Article_The Micro Art Initiative #4, circa…dit - Arnhem
30.01.2017
Article_The Micro Art Initiative #3, Rib Rotterdam
11.12.2016
Article_The Micro Art Initiative #2, Locatie Z Den Haag
11.11.2016
Article_The Micro Art Initiative #1, Studio 47 Amsterdam
01.01.2016
Book_Artist Run Europe, Practice / Projects / Spaces
2016
Book_Also-Space, From Hot to Something Else: How Indonesian Art Initiatives Have Reinvented Networking
15.03.2015
Research_Footfall, Articulating the Value of Artist-Led Organisations in Ireland
01.03.2015
Research_Onderzoek naar het Nederlandse initiatief in de beeldende kunst
06.05.2014
Article_Size Matters, Een verkenning van de onmisbaarheid van kleine kunstinstellingen
01.01.2011
Research_Onderzoek Nederlandse kunstenaarsinitiatieven
K_nstvl___ Socials
K_nstvl___ Socials

socials will come here

NEWS * NEW DIRECTION KUNSTVLAAI * NEWS * MICRO ART INITIATIVE #8 BY LOTTE VAN GEYN – OUT NOW * NEWS * JULY 10, 2017 – DEADLINE FOR MONDRIAAN FUND 'WERKBIJDRAGE KUNSTINITIATIEVEN' * NEWS * OPENING PARTY PLAYTIME ON SATURDAY MAY 20, WITH BIG HARE, DER EINZELGÄNGERS, NOISE MASTER DJ LONELY AND MARY LAKE * NEWS * 23 PROJECT SPACES PARTICIPATING IN PLAYTIME *
K_nstvl___ News
07.02.2022
New direction Kunstvlaai
29.06.2017
Micro Art Initiative #8 by Lotte van Geyn – out now
28.06.2017
July 10, 2017 – deadline for Mondriaan Fund 'Werkbijdrage Kunstinitiatieven'
03.05.2017
Opening Party PLAYTIME on Saturday May 20, with Big Hare, Der Einzelgängers, Noise master DJ Lonely and Mary Lake
29.04.2017
23 project spaces participating in PLAYTIME
About K_nstvl___
About K_nstvl___
About

With her diverse program, K_nstvl___ focuses on experimental art spaces and collective creativity. Art collectives, often led by artists, offer emerging artists a platform and act as a catalyst for innovation, both in terms of content as well as organization. K_nstvl___ explores the playing field of these initiatives and the different contexts within which they operate. How do they organize and manifest themselves? What strategies do they employ to (re) present artists and to enter into sustainable connections in their local community? With what social questions and challenges are they confronted with? With a festival, meetings, discussions and publications, K_nstvl___ provides a platform for these collectives to share and exchange knowledge.

De K_nstvl___ is currently in a transition to a new organizational form and an adapted program. She is also looking for a new location. Due to the increasing social awareness of the need for social and democratic innovation, it becomes relevant to investigate the role of experimental institutions and collective creativity in a broad social context. That is why K_nstvl___ is researching how it can transform into a collective of collectives. With shared ownership and polyphony as the basis for the organization of multiple activities, including a national manifestation where collective creativity is central. We investigate how K_nstvl___ can be of added value at the location where it will take place and what is needed to introduce a wide audience to the unique network of collectives in the Netherlands. From a national network, K_nstvl___ is rooted locally and has a sharp look at the world.

These new developments within K_nstvl___ are initiated by artist Yasser Ballemans. 

Are you interested in our plans and do you want to get in touch with us? Send an email to info@kunsvlaai.nl

K_nstvl___ has an ANBI-status.

History

Since 1997 K_nstvl___ has been an important platform for project spaces, art(ist-run) initiatives and other experimental organisations within the visual arts. It was initiated by the Sandberg Institute, the master course of the Rietveld Academy, as a response to KunstRAI, a fair for contemporary art in Amsterdam. It used to accommodate master students as well, who would showcase their work alongside the initiatives. The festival started out as an annual event and over time became biennial. The first eight editions took place in the monumental Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam and had the characteristics of an alternative art fair.

In 2012 K_nstvl___ left the Westergasterrein to pursue a more nomadic existence, with the aim to start pioneering once again. The set-up of K_nstvl___ changed as well: it turned into a manifestation that generates and functions in a more selective manner, resulting in a more specific and more international content. In 2014, the tenth edition took place in the Amstelpark, a large park in the south of Amsterdam. In line with its unconventional venue, K_nstvl___ 2014 centred around critical engagement with space and alternative approaches to production and exhibition formats. For more information about this edition, click here.

Team

De nieuwe koers is een initiatief van beeldend kunstenaar en artistiek directeur van de Kunstvlaai Yasser Ballemans. Hij wordt bijgestaan door beeldend kunstenaar en onderzoeker Karolien Buurman, grafisch ontwerper Katja van Stiphout en adviseur communicatie Rufus Ketting. Het bestuur van Stichting Kunstvlaai wordt gevormd door Noor Mertens (directeur Kunstmuseum Bochum), Sjoerd Westbroek (kunstenaar en kunstdocent Piet Zwart Instituut en Willem de Kooning Academie), Esther Didden (cultuurfilosoof) en Marjolein van de Ven (hoofd programma en publiek en conservator hedendaagse kunst Stedelijk Museum Breda).

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