To celebrate the official opening of MAAT, the museum will present its first site-specific commission addressing the dual theme of Utopia/Dystopia.
At nearly 1000 m2, Pynchon Park will occupy the new kunsthalle’s central Oval Gallery and is the third large-scale environment created by artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, following TH.2058 at Tate Modern (London, 2018) and Ballard Garden at De Singel (Antwerp, 2014). Bringing together media, literature and dystopia, the artist offers a fictional setting in which an extra-terrestrial has taken over the world and designed a park as a place to observe human behaviour under the best possible conditions.
The second part of the Utopia/Dystopia exhibition project will open in March 2017 to coincide with the completion of the MAAT site. Installed in the three remaining exhibition galleries in the new kunsthalle, Utopia/Dystopia Part II
will be a large group show featuring more than 60 works by a range of international artists and...architects. The show will reveal how the two fields have represented ideas of utopia, or anticipated emerging notions of dystopia, since the 1970s, with a strong focus on work produced over the last five years. Participants include Archigram, Andreas Angelidakis, Kader Attia, Pedro Barateiro, James Beckett, Jordi Colomer, DIS Collective, Didier Faustino, Cao Fei, Ângela Ferreira, Yona Friedman, Michael MacGarry, OMA, Tabor Robak, André Romão, Aldo Rossi, Michael E. Smith, Jonas Staal, Hito Steyerl and Superstudio, among many others.
Entrada actualizada el el 03 oct de 2016
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