Rudi Fuchs and Maarten Bertheux are responsible for the selection of ARTZUID 2015.

By Editor 27 May 2015

ARTZUID 2015

May 22 – 22 September, 2015

Curators:
Rudi Fuchs and Maarten Bertheux

The curators selected 21 artists, who will present 66 sculptures. The exhibition route stretches 2.5 km along the Apollolaan, Minervalaan and Zuidas (South Axis). The artists selected all have a podium of their own, displaying ensembles of monumental sculptures.

Fuchs and Bertheux’s approach to this edition of ARTZUID is innovative in relation to previous editions. The guest curators have chosen to invite a smaller number of visual artists, who will once again furnish the public areas with sculptures. The choice for groups of sculptures by a single artist at a given location is rare. Such groups can be found in a museological environment, but almost never in an urban setting.

Participating artists:
Ai, Weiwei (CHN), Baselitz, Georg (GER), Bianchi, Domenico (ITA), Byars, James Lee (USA), Cragg, Tony (GBR), Craig-Martin, Michael (IRL), Gironcoli, Bruno (AUT), Gubbels, Klaas (NED), Herold, Georg (GER), Houseago, Thomas (GBR), Josephsohn, Hans (SUI), KAWS (USA), Kiecol, Hubert (GER), Kirkeby, Per (DEN), Lüpertz, Markus (GER), Paladino, Mimmo (ITA), A.R. Penck (GER), Plensa, Jaume (ESP), Rückriem, Ulrich (GER), Schütte, Thomas (GER), Stella, Frank (USA), Tajiri, Shinkichi (USA/NED), Tal R (ISR/DEN), Warren, Rebbeca (GBR)

Fringe programming:
At fixed times every day there are guided tours in Dutch and English, involving professional art historians and artists. There is also an app that includes an audio tour. ARTZUID is once again able to offer schools a free educational programme, thanks to sponsorship from Rabobank. The children’s studio is back in business. There are also artists’ talks and lectures about the exhibition, held in nearby hotels and in museums, and special lectures in the ‘museum rooms’. The collaboration with the Grachtenfestival (Canal Festival) Amsterdam once again provides several public concerts, given at or near the exhibition locations. The ARTZUID Pavilion is the central meeting point.

About ARTZUID
The goal of Foundation ArtZuid, which was established in 2008, is to organize a world class biennial sculpture exhibition designed to focus more attention on Berlage’s monumental Plan-Zuid and to make museological art accessible to a new and broad public.