Landscape with Bear

Landscape with Bear

With:
Alisa Blakeney
Aram Lee
Aude Mgba
Bruno Alves de Almeida
Cookies – Antonio Barone, Alice Grégoire, Federico Martelli and Clément Périssé
Dita Birkenšteina
Fanfare – Lotte Van de Hoef and Freja Kir
Jan Hüskes
Miguel John Versluys
Nikolay Alutin
Shen Xin
Sofía Dourron
Tamar Shafrir

Within a small section of De Appel’s archive lies an accumulation of objects – artworks, props, leftovers, and unidentified materials – that have come to be known as its “Collection (Unintended)”. Starting from the eccentricity of this collection, the exhibition Landscape with Bear presents a single continuous topography that blurs the line between art object and display. Alongside works by significant historic figures are those whose authors are unknown and objects of uncertain provenance. Building from the proposition that practices of collecting are part of regimes of knowledge-production, this exhibition asks, what kinds of knowledge can emerge from the fragmentary, the uncertain and the unstable?