until 2 November
The life of things
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Things are everywhere. We create them, collect them, cherish them, give them meaning, and thoughtlessly discard them. In the collection exhibition The Life of Things, Voorlinden dives into the world of objects together with artists: what do they actually tell us about ourselves?
With sculptures, still lifes, readymades, and installations, artists in the collection exhibition The Life of Things show what all the objects around us say about our relationships, systems, and the meanings we create through them. The exhibition opens impressively with Famished Road (2023) by Ibrahim Mahama. He created a gigantic wall measuring 5 by 10 meters, made up of about 2,000 shoemaker’s boxes. This work, created especially for Voorlinden, almost blocks the passage, encapsulates histories, and breathes life and hope.
Reflection of the Voorlinden Collection
From Ai Weiwei, Hans op de Beeck, and Michael Craig-Martin to Sun Yitian, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, and Wouter Paijmans, the exhibition The Life of Things reflects the diversity of Voorlind…
With sculptures, still lifes, readymades, and installations, artists in the collection exhibition The Life of Things show what all the objects around us say about our relationships, systems, and the meanings we create through them. The exhibition opens impressively with Famished Road (2023) by Ibrahim Mahama. He created a gigantic wall measuring 5 by 10 meters, made up of about 2,000 shoemaker’s boxes. This work, created especially for Voorlinden, almost blocks the passage, encapsulates histories, and breathes life and hope.
Reflection of the Voorlinden Collection
From Ai Weiwei, Hans op de Beeck, and Michael Craig-Martin to Sun Yitian, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, and Wouter Paijmans, the exhibition The Life of Things reflects the diversity of Voorlinden’s collection. You’ll find works by internationally renowned names as well as emerging talent from the Low Countries and globetrotters like He Xiangyu and Anouk Kruithof. The latter creates a pixelated landscape at Voorlinden using 3,500 books from the GDR. Each book tells its own story, and together they reflect how digitization seems to displace physical objects. The Life of Things concludes with an installation by Oliver Beer, which gives a voice to objects from all times and places.
When
- Daily until november 2nd, 2025 from 11:00 to 17:00
