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Germaine Kruip: Only the Title Remains

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21 Nov 2009 - 17 May 2010
Museum De PaviljoensMuseum De Paviljoens, Odeonstraat 3, 1325 AL Almere +31365450400, www.depaviljoens.nl/Odeonstraat 31325 ALAlmere,

From autumn 2009 to spring 2010, Museum De Paviljoens will present the solo exhibition Germaine Kruip: Only the Title Remains. In this exhibition, Kruip takes the architecture of the Aue Pavilions (Robbrecht & Daem, 1992) as a point of departure for a site-specific overview of her work. For the first time, a broad range of her conceptual work will be shown in a single exhibition: from her ongoing project Image Archive (since 2004) and her ephemeral performances and light installations through to her recent film Aesthetics as a Way of Survival (2009).

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Marble Untitled (2009) van Germaine Kruip is nu te zien in Museum De Paviljoens

The sun determines the opening hours
Daylight plays an important role in the installations of Germaine Kruip. The exhibition Germaine Kruip: Only the Title Remains will close its doors at sundown every night. For the current opening hours, see below. Outside of the opening hours, the work Rehearsal (2005-2009) will be visible through the windows of Museum De Paviljoens.

Aesthetics as a Way of Survival
In Only the Title Remains, Germaine Kruip also presents works that were never shown before in the Netherlands. One of these works is the film Aesthetics as a Way of Survival, which was previously showcased in the exhibition of the same name at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf (May 2009 - August 2009) that she created in collaboration with curator Renske Janssen. In this film, Kruip follows the bowerbird in its natural habitat in northeast Australia. The male bowerbird lures females with ingenious structures of twigs that it decorates with colourful patterns of flowers, berries, leaves and what else is available. This remarkable phenomenon is the reason for a symposium of the same name to be held in March 2010, at which biologists, art historians, neurologists and architects will explore the (vital) importance of beauty.

The Dutch Identity?
Starting with the 2002 exhibition Nonlinear Editing, Museum De Paviljoens has spotlighted the Dutch identity in a series of exhibitions, lectures and publications on Dutch art since 1960. Germaine Kruip is the fifth artist to take centre stage in a series of solo exhibitions at Museum De Paviljoens presenting the work of Dutch-based artists who play an important role in the Dutch art history of the past 10 years. She was preceded by Meschac Gaba (2009), Barbara Visser (2006-2007), Job Koelewijn (2004-2005) and Yael Davids (2003-2004). In the coming three years this reflection will be intensified in a programme that in 2012 will culminate in a publication revealing the results of this investigation.

Opening Germaine Kruip: Only the Title Remains
Saturday 21 November 2009, 17.00 – 19.00