True Colors | AKZO NOBEL at Kunstmuseum Den Haag
In True Colors, Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents a selection of works from the AkzoNobel Art Foundation’s contemporary collection, in dialogue with iconic works from the museum’s own collection. The exhibition centers on the universal themes of color, space, the individual and society. A unique combination of artists brings these themes to life in the museum’s magnificent galleries.
Solo Show | Wälnö AaltoNen, Turku, FN
Through her pieces, Eisma tells personal stories. She combines sensuality with lightness, and her source of inspiration are imaginary friends. When dealing with gloomier moods and experiences, she relies on colour and playfulness, allowing space for ambiguity and reflection, and even difficult emotions such as anger. Alongside her work as an artist, Eisma is actively taking a stand on societal issues and problems.
Afra Eisma (b. 1993) lives and works in The Hague and Amsterdam. She has held several solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions around the world, at, for example, The Tetley, in Leeds, Great Britain (2023), the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, in Delhi, India (2023), the Fundació Joan Miró, in Barcelona, Spain (2023) and The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, in Arita, Japan (2022).
Eisma’s exhibition is the last in the exhibition series Hop to Hope, based on the theme of friendship and a belief in the future. The Turku Museum Centre has once a year invited an international expert to plan an exhibition series for the WAMX space. The 2023 exhibition series ending the WAMX programme was planned together with Roos Gortzak, director of the Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands. The series featured artists working in the Netherlands and in Finland: Rory Pilgrim, Mounira Al Solh, Iona Roisin, the Home Alone Collective (Emma Sarpaniemi and Adele Hyry), as well as Afra Eisma.
MEGAPOLISOMANCIA | Solo show Furiosa Mexico City
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La Casa ErosionadA | Anahuacalli Museum, MX
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When the sun comes up | Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
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Very Small Feelings | Kiran Nadar Art Museum, New Dehli, India
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Splashdown tender | Tetley Museum, Leeds, UK
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Imaginary Friends | Fundació Joan Miró
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Solo Show | Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
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Dhaka Art Summit 2023
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Senos de Hombre | Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, CN
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Where Shall we Plant the Placenta | Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL
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Sites of Ruin | Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, US
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Solo Show | A Garden of Clouds, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL
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Solo Show | Siempreviva at Casa lago, cdmx, MX
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Heat / Energy at Kummelholmen | Mia Chaplin / GoGo Collective
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Sonsbeek Festival 20-24
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Solo Goethe Institute Naples | Fabian Herkenhoener
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5th International Biennale Casablanca| Buhlebezwe Siwani
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Duo Show Patty Morgan | Arash Fakhim
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Solo, Kunstinstituut Melly | Afra Eisma
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your silence will not protect you, Fries Museum | Afra Eisma
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Sam Samiee | Blush of the Soil at Dastan+2 Tehran
Dastan presents “Blush of the Soil”, a solo exhibition of works by Sam Samiee at Dastan+2. The exhibition will open on Friday, December 25, 2020 and will be on display for public viewing until January 15, 2021. This is the first solo exhibition of works by Sam Samiee at Dastan+2. His work has been previously featured in several exhibitions and international art fair presentations with Dastan including Art Basel Hong Kong, Liste Basel, Artissima, Untitled Art Miami Beach and “A Universal Pink” at the Electric Room. Sam Samiee (b. 1988, Tehran) is an Iranian painter, visual artist, essayist and educator based in Amsterdam and Tehran. In his work, he focuses on the practice of painting and creating exhibitions under the influence of long-term research in Persian poetry and Adab (a synthesis of both ethics and aesthetics), psychoanalysis, and art history: an encounter between Persian literary-humanistic perspective and the visual humanism of Western art history. Sam Samiee’s works have been exhibited in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (2018), Berlin Biennale X (2018), and Manchester Art Gallery (2014). One of his latest group exhibitions, titled “The Spark is You” curated by Ziba Ardalan for the 200th anniversary of Goethe’s West–östlicher Divan was held at Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art (London, 2019). He has finished a twoyear residency at Rijksakadmie van Beeldende Kunsten (2014-2015, Amsterdam) and has been a lecturer at AKI ArtEZ Academy for Art & Design (Enschede, Netherlands) for four years. He is now one of the artistic directors of the artist-run space W139 in Amsterdam and will be a judge of Royal Awards for Modern Painting in Netherlands until 2024— the award he also received in 2016. As a part of the Wolvecamp award for painting in 2018, Sam Samiee has published a book called “Footenotes to Life” in English. Along Samiee, the book has contributions by Benno Temple, director of Kunstmuseum Den Haag and the curator of the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019, Dr. Gohar Homayounpour founder of the Freudian Group of Tehran, Dr. Sommayah Kassamali, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the university of Toronto.