Peoples! If you’re into #Dutch #photography and love subject based content driven work and live near #Rotterdam - you have until this weekend to see the #Kunsthal exhibit of Angeniet Berkers about the #Lebensborn #nazi program to create an Arian progeny.
Horrific, educating and a warning in current times.
(Photo’s partially referring to the Norwegian Stahlheim home and current hotel where I’ve stayed two years ago - look at my timeline)
Geweldig project! In het Noorse hotel Stalheim heb ik overnacht, pas ter plekke horend dat er een Lebensborn tehuis in had gezeten… 
From: @versbeton
https://mastodon.nl/@versbeton/114420716463610709
Kunstenaars blijven ons confronteren met de realiteit en herinneren ons eraan dat verbeelding niet alleen schoonheid voortbrengt, maar ook de wereld kan veranderen. Van Kabul tot Gaza, van Moskou tot Beijing https://kanteldenker.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/kunst-als-strijdmiddel/
'Naar de dood van Marat' - ter herinnering aan het Syrische jongetje Ayan Kurdi omdat wij nooit mogen vergeten | 'After the death of Marat' - In memory of Syrian boy Ayan Kurdi because we must never forget.
#refugeecrisis #lego @aiww #aiweiwei #modernart #art #contemporary #contemporaryart #kunsthal
Porseleinen pilaar met vluchtelingenmotief - kunnen wij er zeker van zijn dat we nooit zullen moeten vluchten naar een vreemd land? | Porcelain pillar with refugee motif - can we be sure that we will never have to flee to a foreign country?
#modernart #art #contemporary #contemporaryart @aiww #aiweiwei #kunsthal
Drieluik van Mao, de glans van de onaantastbare leider als symbool is duidelijk verdwenen | Mao in Triptych, the luster of the untouchable leader as a symbol is clearly gone.
#modernart #art #artoftheday #contemporary #contemporaryart @aiww #aiweiwei #kunsthal
Selfie in lego van #aiweiwei en politie in de lift tijdens zijn eerste aanhouding vanwege onderzoek constructiefouten ingestorte schoolgebouwen | Selfie in lego of Ai Weiwei and police in the lift during his first arrest for investigating construction defects in collapsed school buildings.
#modernart #art #contemporary #contemporaryart @aiww #kunsthal
"I can't breathe" in het Arabisch. De laatste woorden in lego van de Saoedische journalist Kashoggi voordat hij vermoord werd | "I can't breathe" in Arabic. The last words in lego of Saudi journalist Kashoggi before he was killed.
#sculpture #sculptures #modernart #art #contemporary #contemporaryart @aiww #aiweiwei #kunsthal #rotterdam
Op schaal nagebouwde gevangenis met altijd 2 bewakers om je heen. Terreur in optima forma | Scale recreated prison with 2 guards around you at all times. Terror in optima forma.
#sculpture #sculptures #modernart #art #contemporary #contemporaryart @aiww #aiweiwei #kunsthal #rotterdam
Herinterpretatie van de, door de Europese soldaten geplunderde, dierenriemfiguren uit het zomerpaleis in China | Reinterpretation of zodiac figures looted by European soldiers from the summer palace in China.
#sculpture #sculptures #modernart #art #contemporary #contemporaryart @aiww #aiweiwei #kunsthal #rotterdam
Ai Weiwei - dezelfde provocatie als kunstvorm, als artefact, als symbool | Ai Weiwei - another provocation as art form, as artefact, as symbol.
#kunsthal #sculpture #sculptures #modernart #artmuseum #art #exhibition #contemporary #contemporaryart @aiww #aiweiwei
Kunst van Ai Weiwei - de provocatie als kunstvorm, als artefact, als symbool | Art by Ai Weiwei - provocation as art form, as artefact, as symbol.
#kunsthal #sculpture #sculptures #modernart #artmuseum #art #exhibition #contemporary #contemporaryart @aiww #aiweiwei
Herinneringen aan de tijd van het massaal fietsen in China. Hetgeen wat overblijft | Memories of the days of mass cycling in China. What remains.
Ai Weiwei in #kunsthal
#sculpture #sculptures #modernart #artmuseum #art #exhibition #contemporary #contemporaryart
On my way to #RafikAnadol in the #Kunsthal in #Rotterdam checking if it makes sense to mimic nature in art.
https://www.kunsthal.nl/en/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/refik-anadol/
Powerful exhibit of work by #AiWeiwei at #Kunsthal #Rotterdam. The art itself fascinating to see, but the stories behind it make for an exhibit that will stay with me for a long, long time. Remakes of the cell he was held in during his detention in China. A fun-looking snake along the ceiling made from backpacks from children who died in the Sizuan earthquake.
Photo is part of "Illumination", a lego rendition of the last selfie he was able to make upon his arrest.
Powerful art.
A question for the #museam people found here, following a visit to the #Kunsthal in #Rotterdam and the powerful exhibit of #AiWeiwei 's work:
How is something like his Sunflower Seeds transported???
For those unfamiliar: the work is described as "a floor with 1 ton of hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds" https://www.kunsthal.nl/en/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/ai-weiwei/ Photo is a detail of the work, which is much larger in total.
Ai Weiwei in de #Kunsthal: erg druk en erg belangrijk. Gaan! https://www.kunsthal.nl/nl/plan-je-bezoek/tentoonstellingen/ai-weiwei/
