This international group exhibition follows the Dutch poet Gerrit Komrij on his journey in search of the third land he once wrote about in his poem 'Counterbalance'. It aims to explore how we create a place and time to belong in a world that is constantly changing.
" ...I have, in order to escape this fate, Invented a third land within my head,
A land where lies and phantoms congregate... "
Artists: Agnieszka Kurant, Camille Henrot, Charles Avery, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Fiona Tan, Jennifer Tee, Jonathas de Andrade, Jorge Méndez Blake, Marcius Galan, Mira Sanders, Pablo Bronstein, Paloma Bosquê, Ryan Gander, Shilpa Gupta, Shirin Neshat, Simon Fujiwara, Tomás Saraceno.
Curators: Nathanja van Dijk & Carolyn H Drake.
In the international group exhibition My Third Land, Frankendael Foundation follows the Dutch poet Gerrit Komrij on his journey in search of the third land he once wrote about in his poem ‘Counterbalance’. The third land is a place that exists between the fatherland the poet left behind and his new world: an imaginary place created through the illusion of its inhabitant.
My Third Land aims to explore how we create a place and time to belong in a world that is constantly changing. Can we still imagine a place where we feel at home within contemporary society; in which people, power, culture and knowledge constantly evolve and change locations? This state of constant motion evokes our desire to discover and simultaneously fuels the need to find a place in which to feel at ‘home’.
PROGRAM:
Saturday October 26, 9.30 pm Film program Journey to the Third Land
Saturday November 2, Salons of the Imaginary Arts* by Club Interbellum: Museumnight / The Patafysic Salon
Saturday November 9, Salons of the Imaginary Arts* by Club Interbellum: Invisible Cities
Saturday November 16, Salons of the Imaginary Arts* by Club Interbellum: Temples, gardens and talisman
Saturday November 23, Salons of the Imaginary Arts* by White Rabbit Theatre: Living Fantasies
Thursday November 28, Heimwee Soirée - A mini festival about nostalgia and desire for the unknown
Opening October 19, 4 PM.
Sunday, October 20th, open from 1 pm
The Frankendael Foundation
Middenweg 72 1097 BS Amsterdam
Hours:
Thursday–Sunday noon–6pm or by appointment
Free admission
Guided tour every Sunday at 2 PM