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2010
2009
2. Russian avant-garde. Non-conformists from the Bar-Gera collections
14. November 2008 - 22. February 2009
Eva Kmentová
8. January 2009
OSEMDESIATE
Postmoderna slovenskom výtvarnom umení
Retrospektíva 1985 – 1992
8. April 2009 - 30. August 2009
Carte Futuriste / Futuristic Drawings
100 Years of Futurism
17. June 2009 - 26. July 2009
Mudroch & Mudroch
The Dialogue That Never Took Place
18. September 2009 - 15. November 2009
The Brussels Dream
Czechoslovak Participation at the EXPO 58 World Exhibition in Brussels and the Lifestyle of the First Half of the 1960s
24. September 2009 - 15. November 2009
Juraj Bartoš
8. October 2009 - 29. November 2009
Renaissance
The History of Slovak Fine Art
18. December 2009 - 28. Marec 2010
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Modernice! 20. May 2009 - 21. June 2009 On the Exhibition Modernizuj! Moderna je „najs“ – „Modernajsuj“ / Modernice! Moderne krásna! / Modernice! Moderne zlatá! / Modernice! NL@SNG The last few years the spectacular bridge section of the Slovak National Gallery has been closed for the public. But Vladimír Dedečeks sculptural intervention now will open up to show “numerous projects in various stages of development” by NL Architects. An extensive selection of works that have been produced over the last two decades will be on display. For NL, exhibiting in this spacey space feels like coming ‘home’. The lengthy exhibition space will be split into two sections creating two ‘parallel universes’, one dark and one light. As such the exposition addresses the dilemma of many museums today: to become a Black Box or remain White Cube? 50 × A1 50 projects will be presented in 50 large prints that will benefit from the sensational day light. If these singular images get you interested, more in-depth information about them will be available through projected slideshows. The projections ‘behind the scenes’ will be divided in three subjects: Program the Program, Parking! and The Remix. Program the Program Program the Program presents projects that answer more than just the Brief. Since Architects basically are trained to respond to questions that are asked by others, they seem to lack the imagination (and courage) to spark developments by them selves. Architects by default don’t show initiative. Although it is rewarding to help shape the dreams of your clients, isn’t there something missing? What can we do to bring across a personal program? Can we become more pro-active? Many of NL’s projects create added value by introducing an extra function. The BasketBar for instance features a pitch on the roof that initially was not part of the program. The playing field activates the square around it and gives character to the restaurant below. In a similar way the sports building in Dordrecht – that is currently under construction – deploys an extra function as an attractor and signifier; the sculptural climbing facility is a crucial extension of the original requirements. Parking! Parking! is an ongoing investigation into how we can ‘integrate’ the car into architecture and urbanism. Since the foundation of our office on highway A4, we’re investigating why the position of the automobile in the city – 100 years after its invention – is not yet resolved. The projects presented range from our office logo, the slightly improved bumper sticker, to Parkhouse/Carstadt, an attempt to reinvent the parking garage, and from the Road Rings, a silver jewelry collection that celebrates the elegant engineering of highway crossings, to Circuit City, a speculative design that combines a race track dedicated to illegal street races with a high end Business District. And Parking! explains why we think perpendicular parking is so good. The Remix Our architecture can be understood as a form of sampling, recombining existing fragments, gluing bits and pieces together into new coherent arrangements. The Remix of Reality: the Architect as Deejay. By reconfiguring our everyday reality we hope to establish more ‘meaningful’ combinations of what is ‘already there’. These ‘affective relations’ can emerge if we discover (or create) links with the context. This can either be the physical reality that envelops a project, or the set of rules and regulations or ‘culture’ that forms its backdrop. Blok K / Funen for instance shuffles the starting points of urban plan and program to embed the apartments in a significant way. And 3Vase is the bizarre but still fully functional outcome of an experiment to bring together 3 archetypal vases into one object in order to fit any bouquet. 3Vase became the 3D-sybol for the ongoing research into how to manipulate the Existing into previously unimagined realities. Forum The Groninger Forum, our ‘key’ project, brings together all these themes in one building and will get center stage. Billboard Since it is impossible to represent architecture in exhibitions – for its core values of it cannot be transplanted – NL suggests two interventions that will bring ‘real’ architecture to the SNG. One is to construct small viewing rooms inside the exhibition space. A ‘landscape’ of stands will offer a laidback way to enjoy the show. The other is to remove the advertisement from the facade of the SNG. For one day the Museum can, again, show its real face. up | |
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