Galerie AKINCI

06/12/2022

We are proud to share that the book ‘Two Diaries’ by Gluklya and Murad can now be ordered (via DM or email)

The book covers the period in which Gluklya & Murad Zorava met in the Bijlmerbajes, when it was used both as an artists’ incubator and an asylum centre.

Gluklya (Natalia Pershin- Yakimanskaya) is a visual and performance artist living and working in Amsterdam. Murad Zorava is a Kurdish activist and poeat currently living in Europe.

Pages 240
ISBN 9783753302867
Price €25
Published by Walther & Franz König
Editors Charles Esche & Ashley Maum
Producers Framer Framed & Van Abbemuseum
Designer Bardi Haliti

Made possible with support from Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Mondriaan Fonds, Prinsbernhars Cultuur Fonds, AFK, Blue Square Gallery and AKINCI.

29/11/2022

Thank you all for coming to the opening of Floating World by Ruby Swinney! 🦚

Floating World is on view until 21 January, 2023.



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27/11/2022

On Friday evening we celebrated the first hours of the show ‘Floating World’ by Ruby Swinney with an intimate dinner. Thank you all for coming! ✨



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26/11/2022

Today is the opening of ‘Floating World’ by Ruby Swinney. Come and join us for a drink between 5-7 pm! 🥂

The name Floating World, comes from the Japanese term ukiyo, meaning floating, fleeting, or transient world. The paintings in the exhibition are full of loss, confusion and alienation, but what event has caused these feelings is not shown, it is not certain, or cannot be remembered.





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15/11/2022

Last Saturday the solo exhibition ‘Each moment like the first’ by Zigniew Rogalski opened at Mosart City Center of Art, Poland.

Nostalgia associated with passing away characterizes the latest works of Zbigniew Rogalski. ‘Each moment like the first’ features still lifes, bird skulls, repainted photographs of Araki's flowers, Edward Weston's shell and works from the Tenderness series by Lebanese artist Myriam Boulos. Love, death, sensuality and biology mix and remain in a frozen embrace.

29/10/2022

If you are in Sweden, don’t forget to visit the group exhibition ‘Pop Life’ at Teckningsmuseet, where Charlotte Schleiffert’s impressive drawings are on display.

The exhibition locates itself at the nexus between high and low culture and examines the extent to which the language of popular culture and its subject matter prevails in contemporary figurative drawing today.

The exhibition is on show until 29 January 2023.

23/10/2022

Boarded-up windows and punctured walls, common sights in our world today, remind us of a pervasive sense of isolation and abandonment created by dramatic current events. Roiter presents a delicate balance between the opposing forces of hope and fear in his works.

Come and have a look at the solo exhibition of Andrei Roiter at AKINCI.





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19/10/2022

Last Friday we celebrated the first hours of NOW Part II by Andrei Roiter with an intimate dinner in the gallery! ✨

NOW Part II is on view until 19 November.

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05/10/2022

Upcoming // please join us for the opening ‘Now Part II’ by Andrei Roiter on Saturday 15 October between 5-7 pm! 🥂

The title NOW hints at a paradox that mutually form the basis of both exhibitions. There is the ‘now’ of current events that occupy our minds, but there is also a more universal and timeless now as it exists in art and in enduring ideas.

In his new body of paintings Roiter reflects on a fragile world. The artist meditates on the general mood and atmosphere, as well as on his own vision of our current time through visual metaphors that resonate with ambivalence. Throughout his oeuvre Roiter has established a personal ‘iconography’ in order to elicit deep layers of meaning.

04/10/2022

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Today, on World Animal Day, we highlight the work of Charlotte Schleiffert, which is now on show in the group exhibition Singing with the Wolves at AKINCI. For decades, Charlotte Schleiffert (1967) has been painting hybrid creatures: grotesque types born from collages of times, styles, cultures, and genders. She is fascinated by birds as well as by insects and reptiles, and she strives to create an utopian non-hierarchical world within her works.

In the mesmerizing large works on paper by Charlotte Schleiffert women dressed in richly elaborated garments often have bird heads with colourful beaks. Their nonhuman looks seem to be in perfect harmony with their human bodies. Actually, their non-human faces contribute to their personality. In her monumental watercolours Schleiffert depicts life-size women in a loving embrace with giant toads, reptiles, or huge insects.

Schleiffert concludes: ‘These women have chosen to live with animals instead of a man’. One woman has a red head of a turkey. Her dress is blue and she stands as a monument leaving the war debris in the background, raising a wand as to stop the violence. The work is titled ‘Save Ukraine’.

Singing with the Wolves is on show at Akinci until 8 October 2022.

For more information click the following link: https://amsterdamart.com/en/agenda/singing-with-the-wolves-group-exhibition/

Credits: Galerie AKINCI
Photo by Peter Tijhuis

24/09/2022

We are thrilled to show ‘TouchMETell’ by melanie bonajo during Around Video | Art Fair in Lille, France from 30 September - 2 October, 2022. Around Video will take place in Hotel Moxy! 🍭

The video installation called TouchMETell allows children (and adults) to think and talk about intimacy, their limits and body awareness.

melanie bonajo and a group of children aged 6-8 investigate how they experience their own body and physical contact with others. melanie uses open interview techniques and kinesthetic forms of play which take place in a soft, fuzzy, cuddly and multi-colored landscape of different formed objects.

‘What is s*x? Does love have anything to do with s*x? Can you feel emotional pain in your body? What are feelings? Are you ever lonely?’ Is a selection of the many questions bonajo asks the children while they push, hug, paint or stroke each other.

23/09/2022

Come and visit ‘Singing with the Wolves’ and see works by melanie bonajo, Charlotte Schleiffert, Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen and Smári Róbertsson! 🐺

One of the protagonists in Singing with the Wolves is a video animation of a white wolf by artist duo Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen in collaboration with Smári Róbertsson. The animal is trotting slowly towards the viewer while humming Frank Sinatra’s ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’. In this exhibition the main characters are non-humans or partly humans like the monumental hybrid figures by Charlotte Schleiffert. With their film Progress vs Sunsets – re-formulating the Nature Documentary (2017) melanie bonajo raise the question: ‘Can we send ‘funny’ animal videos into space for aliens to discover the Earth’s ecosystem?’

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20/09/2022

Just a few days left to visit the exhibition ‘Inside the Outside. Pioniers in Fotografie’ / ‘Pioniers in Photography’ and see multiple works by melanie bonajo!🍀

Inside the Outside. Pioniers in fotografie (until 25th september) CODA Museum Apeldoorn
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20/09/2022

Just a few days left to visit the exhibition Inside the Outside. Pioniers in fotografie and see multiple works by melanie bonajo

Inside the Outside. Pioniers in fotografie (until 25th september)
CODA Museum Apeldoorn
Photos by Sushilla Kouwen

18/09/2022

Today is the last day to visit us ! Come and see melanie bonajo in booth #56.💜

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17/09/2022

Singing With the Wolves by melanie bonajo, Charlotte Schleiffert, Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen and Smári Róbertsson is on view until 8 October. See you! ☀️

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16/09/2022

Yesterday we kicked off at , come and visit us this weekend to see our solo booth #56 with melanie bonajo!

13/09/2022

We are excited to show photos from the recent project ‘When the body says Yes’ by melanie bonajo, now at the Dutch Pavilion, Venice Biennale, during ! 💜

We look forward welcoming you in booth #56 between 15-18 September, Westergas Amsterdam.

Through their videos, performances, photographs, and installations, melanie bonajo (they/them/theirs) examine current conundrums of co-existence in a crippling capitalist system, and address themes of eroding intimacy and isolation in an increasingly sterile, technological world. They research how technological advances and commodity-based pleasures increase feelings of alienation, removing an individual’s sense of belonging. Their works present anti-capitalist methods to reconnect and to explore s*xualities, intimacies and feelings. bonajo’s experimental documentaries often feature communities living or working on the margins of society, either through illegal means or cultural exclusion, and the paradoxes inherent to ideas of comfort with a strong sense for community, equality and body-politics. Their most recent work however is When the body says Yes (2022) which right now is the Dutch entry at the Venice Biennale and is part of the artist’s ongoing research into the current status of intimacy in our increasingly alienating, commodity-driven world. For bonajo, touch can be a powerful remedy for the modern epidemic of loneliness.

08/09/2022

Come and visit ‘Singing With the Wolves’ by melanie bonajo, Charlotte Schleiffert, Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen and Smári Róbertsson! On view until 8 October. ✨

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Save Ukraine, 2022
Mixed technique on paper
300x150 cm

Miss Sagittarius, 2021
Mixed technique on paper
302x150 cm

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05/09/2022

We kicked off the new Gallery Season with our opening by melanie bonajo, Charlotte Schleiffert, Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen and Smári Róbertsson! 🥂

Thank you all for coming to the opening of ‘Singing With the Wolves’. On view until 8 October, 2022.

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18/08/2022

Save the date // Please join us for the festive opening weekend of ‘Singing with the Wolves’ by melanie bonajo, Charlotte Schleiffert, Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen on 2&3 September! 🥂

Credits:
melanie bonajo, Progress vs Sunsets, 2017, ultra chrome, canton lustre, museum glass, 72x108 cm

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16/08/2022

If you are in Leeds UK, don’t forget to visit the solo exhibition’Sleep in Witness’ by Lungiswa Gqunta at the Henry Moore Institute! On view until 30 October, 2022.

Sleep in Witness traces the intangible world of dreams as a space of learning where extraordinary, overlooked and discredited places of knowledge are illuminated.

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11/08/2022

3 days left to visit the European City of Culture Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg and see melanie bonajo and Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen installation! Curated by , and commissioned by

Margit & Persijn present new animations specially conceived for Esch 2022.

melanie bonajo presents Progress vs Sunsets - Re-formulating the Nature Documentary.

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28/07/2022

We are happy to share that Inge Meijer’s work ‘Oceanic Feeling’ & ‘Maple Tree’ are part of the group show ‘Living Landscape’ at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Netherlands! 🌱

During the coronavirus pandemic, many people rediscovered nature and their local landscapes by walking and cycling. The museum also looks to its surroundings for the exhibition Living Landscape. See how artists such as Jan van Goyen, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Jan Sluijters and Charley Toorop depict the landscape in the south Holland Maas delta from the late-16th century to today. These artists paint mills, waterways, and meadow birds – the idyll of the typical Dutch landscape – as well as harbours, wharves, and the increasing industrial urbanisation prominent in this part of the Netherlands. ‘The exhibition is both eye-catching and thought-provoking,’ says museum director Anne de Haij. ‘You see beauty and decay. The Maas delta is water-rich but also the most densely populated area in Europe, and not just today – there’s always been tension between nature and humans here.’

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27/07/2022

We are excited to announce that the prophetic installation ‘Clothes for demonstration against false election of Vladimir Putin (2011-2015)’ by Gluklya is now being presented in the exhibition ‘Fashion Show: Clothing, Art and Activism’ at The Glucksman Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.

Curated by Chris Clarke.

Opening Thursday 28 July and runs until 6 November, 2022.

This monumental installation had first been shown in Okwui Enwezor’s legendary show ‘All The World’s Futures’ at the Venice Biennale 2015. Gluklya’s ‘Clothes for demonstration’ reflect the suppressed revolt and frustrations expressed during the demonstrations in Russia that took place after the “re-election” of Vladimir Putin in 2011.

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26/07/2022

We are very proud to announce ‘Brutal Times’ by Cevdet Erek, an impressive sound and rhythm installation at Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo.

Rilindja is an icon of brutalist architecture. It was designed by Georgi Konstantinovski and built in the 1970s to host Kosovo’s first publishing house, Rilindja Press Palace. It was here that Yugoslavia’s Albanian-language newspaper, Rilindja, was published. In the decades that followed, it functioned as a site of both cultural enfranchisement and – with the breakdown of Yugoslavia – its antithesis. Most recently, it hosted a series of electronic dance music events organised by the Hapësira collective, who have advocated for the site to be protected and transformed into a multidisciplinary cultural space. In Brutal Times, Cevdet Erek responds to the political turbulence underlying the many shifts in Rilindja’s function, identity and appearance. Engaging with a now-abandoned section of the building, the artist draws out the temporalities embedded within the post-privatisation void: using graphics, lights and sounds, associated with the production process of the newspapers and techno music. The rhythms are based on Rilindja’s timeline, running from the end of the second world war to the 1990s: one second of the artwork stands for one day in history. With this immersive environment, Erek creates a space of embodied memory and experience, raising the question of what comes next.

Brutal Times, 2022, Site-specific installation with multichannel sound, moving graphics on LED wall, moving lights and architectural intervention .

Archival material from RILINDJA newspaper; made possible by Bibliotekaria – Thesari I Kombit Shqiptar.

Commissioned by Manifesta 14 Prishtina and supported by SAHA Association.

runs until 30 October, 2022. Free entrance!

16/07/2022

Thank you all for coming to the finissage of Password by Molly Palmer! 🔮🥂

Couldn’t make it yesterday? We are open one more day! So, come and visit Password for the very last time. 💫

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13/07/2022

We are very proud to have melanie bonajo’s work in the group show, TOGETHER. Interact - Interplay - Interfere , Italy, curated by Judith Waldmann. On display until 25 September, 2022

Other artists are: Adrian Piper, Francis Alys, Franz Erhard Walther, Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, a.m.

Interact – stands for collective actions as well as a series of community projects realised on site, such as the creation of a community garden on the terrace of the Kunsthaus.

Interplay – stands for works in which visitors can playfully interact with each other.

Interfere – stands for art that appeals to the political and social commitment, empathy and sense of responsibility of visitors.

The exhibition TOGETHER is in keeping with KUNST MERAN’s aim of finding ways of experiencing art less through passive viewing and more through active and self-determined participation.

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12/07/2022

Last week to visit the show ‘Password’ by Molly Palmer!

Pop by on Friday 15 July between 5-8 pm for the Finissage and toast with us. 🥂☀️

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07/07/2022

AKINCI is proud to announce that Lungiswa Gqunta’s solo exhibition ‘Sleep in Witness’ opens today at the Henri Moore Institute in Leeds! 🥂

Sleep in Witness traces the intangible world of dreams as a space of learning where extraordinary, overlooked and discredited places of knowledge are illuminated.

The exhibition includes two new installations, Zinodaka 2022 and Ntabamanzi 2022, along with the video Gathering 2019.

05/07/2022

We’re happy to invite you to the finissage of Password by Molly Palmer! 🔮

Together we’ll celebrate this exhibition and fill its last hours with conversations, drinks and friends. See you Friday 15 July, 5-8 pm.

05/07/2022

We’re happy to invite you to the finissage of Password by Molly Palmer! 🔮

Together we’ll celebrate this exhibition and fill its last hours with conversations, drinks and friends. See you Friday 15 July, 5-8 pm.

25/06/2022

We are proud to present Password by Molly Palmer! Password is on view until 16 July. Come and visit us! 🔮

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19/06/2022

We are proud to announce that Charlotte Schleiffert & Inge Meijer are part of the group show ‘Watamula’ at Dordrechts Museum, NL! Watamula is on view from 19 June, 2022 until 8 January, 2023. Curated by

Credits:
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What kind of leader do we need II, 2014 (detail) collection

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18/06/2022

Save the date | Finissage & intimate tour with Molly Palmer on Friday 15 July from 5-8 pm! Come and join us. 🪩

The Object, 2021
Wood, hand painted, gilded
126x100x28 cm

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14/06/2022

Throwback to the opening of ‘Password’ by Molly Palmer during Amsterdam Art Week! ✨🔮✨

‘Password’ is on display until 16 July. See you!

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