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Lecture with Frank
Lubbers Deputy Director & Chief Curator / Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands Contemporary Art Museums as Generators of Ideas Thursday 19th May, 2005 / 8pm / Artos Foundation, Nicosia Frank Lubbers is Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Van
Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. He studied art at the State Academy of Fine Arts
and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. As a curator he has
organised numerous exhibitions with international artists such as, among
others, El Lissitzky, Marcel Broodthaers, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, James
Coleman, Aernout Mik, Marlene Dumas, René Daniëls, Rodney Graham and Matt
Mullican. Frank Lubbers has curated internationally in Tokyo, Sapporo, Beijing, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, Reykjavik and Toulouse. His current project at the Van Abbe Museum is entitled Un coup de dés, (A Throw of the Dice), based on the poem of the same name by Stéphane Mallarmé. Participating artists include Marcel Broodthaers, Donald Judd, Robert Barry, Jan Vercruysse, Rodney Graham and Douglas Gordon. The show runs until June 26, 2005. |
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As a deputy director he has worked among many other things on the foundation of a society of promoters for the Van Abbemuseum and he has been involved in the realisation of public-private partnerships. Among his past advisory functions may be mentioned a crown membership of the National Culture Council in The Hague, chairman of the Visual Arts Department of the Amsterdam Arts Council and most recently the chairmanship of the committee that executed the national audit of the Visual Arts & Design Academies for the Higher Education Council in The Hague. Frank Lubbers will talk about public collecting in general and the role and task of a museum of contemporary art in particular in today's changed art context. Departing from a Dutch perspective the talk starts with the origins of the museum of modern art which lay in many cases in a private collection. He will further concentrate on the role of the museum as a generator of ideas that may guide us in our efforts to create a better society. This lecture is open to the general public and free of charge. For further information, please contact: | |