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About Het Domein
Museum Het Domein is a relative young museum for contemporary art and urban history and archaeology. A museum that takes a lively, creative, and idiosyncratic approach to presenting the history of its region and its city, and current developments in international contemporary art.
The Contemporary Art Department on the ground floor centres on the international avant-garde, with a distinct emphasis on photography, video and cross-over art. Young artists and their older artistic forbears are the department’s principal focus.
The Urban History & Archaeology Department on the top floor takes a cultural anthropological approach to the region’s past and present. It also houses the museum’s permanent collection of archaeological and historical artefacts, together with a specially designed ‘multi-media’ street for younger visitors.
Museum Het Domein is located in a former nineteenth-century municipal school in the historic centre of Sittard.
About Vitamin Creative Space
Vitamin Creative Space is a contemporary art institution in China. Vitamin Creative Space views contemporary art as the essential vitamins which keep our life and society open. Vitamin Creative Space is a physical and a spiritual unity: the “Space” has been developing by the non-stop explorations within the transforming Chinese context, practically and theoretically. The activities within Vitamin Creative Space are closely connected to the floating energies of life.
Vitamin Creative Space is specifically geared to the contemporary Chinese context and it demonstrates an alternative working method. In order to operate independently from institutionalized funding, it is active both as an “independent” art space as well as a “commercial” gallery. By merging these two, Vitamin Creative Space is actively challenging the preconception in which traditionally these forms are opposing strategies for supporting and presenting contemporary art. By operating in this manner, Vitamin Creative Space tries to raise the search for new Chinese contributions from both an artistic practice level and an institutional level within the new global context.
About Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhaes – MAMAM
MAMAM is a national wide recognized institution that has been contributing to create the discussion and promotion of Modern and Contemporary Art in Northeast Brazil. It is a non-profit organisation linked to the City Hall of Recife. The Museum of Modern Art Aloisio
Magalhães (MAMAM) was founded in 1997 and it is headquartered in the
central area of Recife.
One of the missions of MAMAM is to articulate a continuous dialogue between
Recife´s traditions and the contemporary visuality that enriches the local experience and knowledge. Since the beginning, the institution has been promoting exhibitions that evidence the diversity and richness of the modern and contemporary art.
MAMAM´s collection comprises more than 1100 works of art in all media and
periods (from the Modernism period until 2006). Donation is the main way to
acquire the pieces of art. The highlights of the collections are:
Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Gilvan Samico, Cildo Meireles, Vik Muniz, Ernesto Neto, Rivane Neuenschwander, and Lucia Koch.
MAMAM no Pátio is the new outbuilding of MAMAM. It is located at Pátio de São
Pedro, a historical court craved in the oldest part of Recife. Its aim is to
support experimental art and critical thought on contemporary art. The space runs exhibitions and performances, research, artists and art educators’ residencies, debates and publications. MAMAM no Pátio is furnished to fit all necessities of
any kind of show.
The institution believes that education is one of the most important aims of the museums in Brazil. MAMAM therefore offers a wide range of educational activities, such as galleries
tour, a special programme designed for teachers, seminars, talks and workshops.
About Fundação Joaquim Nabuco
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco is a research institution founded in 1949 by the sociologist Gilberto Freyre in order to study the conditions of life in the Northeast and North regions of Brazil and in a broader sense about the life in the tropical regions. Nowadays, it is linked to the Ministry of Education of Brazil and comprises 4 directories: Culture, Documentation, Research and Planning. Fundação Joaquim Nabuco is one of the most notable institutions in Brazil and its variety of programmes and actions make it an unique place for education, experimentation and diffusion of knowledge.
The MiMtendant Cristiana Tejo is in charge of the Coordination of Education and Diffusion, the sector that promotes seminars, workshops, prizes and publications focused on Contemporary Culture. It is the most recent development of the institution and the newest department of Fundação.
About The Townhouse Gallery
The Townhouse Gallery is a space for independent arts, aimed at promoting contemporary arts within the region and internationally.
The three-floor main building, adjoining annex and 650-meter concerted factory space house exhibition halls showcasing new contemporary works, classrooms, a library and six studios. The gallery hosts theatre and experimental music performances, as well as film screenings, public lectures and workshops.
About Schunck*
SCHUNCK*, located in Heerlen, Limburg is a multi-disciplinary cultural institution with a main focus on modernity and urban culture in the international environment of contemporary art and society. Starting January 1st 2009, the SCHUNCK* opened its gates, welcoming visitors to a new form of cultural institutions. The museum is perceived as an eclectic space for art generated by synergies between reflections over modern and contemporary art, a center for research and presentation in the field of architecture and urbanism, it contains a public library and a music school. The unique combination of all these aspects makes SCHUNCK* incomparable to traditional cultural institutions, giving it an aura of innovation: a "Newseum". The SCHUNCK* represents the shift in the appreciation of a museum experience by its interdisciplinary activities and broad crossovers between various cultural disciplines. http://www.glaspaleis.nl/1031/homepage