Taking Place

Taking Place invites visitors to renew their acquaintance with the Stedelijk Museum and its history. Inspired by the unique condition of the museum's interior, artists occupy and animate the galleries with specially selected works, including those previously exhibited at the museum as well as new site-specific works produced for this occasion. In Taking Place the historical, functional and architectural conditions of the museum are both subject and material for this special presentation of works.

Taking Place also features a presentation of posters commissioned by the Stedelijk Museum since its opening in 1895. The reprinted designs exhibited relate the history of an institution that grew from an assortment of period rooms-cum-exhibition spaces into a pioneering museum for modern and contemporary art and design.

The Karel Appel mural from 1956 in the former restaurant space is now joined by a work by American artist Lawrence Weiner, SCATTERED MATTER BROUGHT TO A KNOWN DENSITY WITH THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD / CUSPED (2007), a recent acquisition to the museum's collection made possible by a gift from the Friends of the Stedelijk Museum.

Artists featuring in Taking Place: Karel Appel, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Rineke Dijkstra, Ger van Elk, Morgan Fisher, Mario Garcia Torres, Hans Haacke, On Kawara, Martin Kippenberger, Barbara Kruger, Germaine Kruip, Louise Lawler, William Leavitt, Navid Nuur, Roman Ondák, Willem de Rooij, Diana Thater and Lawrence Weiner.

Taking Place

Künstler: Karel Appel, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Rineke Dijkstra, Ger van Elk, Morgan Fisher, Mario Garcia Torres, Hans Haacke, On Kawara, Martin Kippenberger, Barbara Kruger, Germaine Kruip, Louise Lawler, William Leavitt, Navid Nuur, Roman Ondák, de Rijke / de Rooij, Diana Thater, Lawrence Weiner