Art Agenda

The Art Agenda is produced by The Gate Foundation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Please send all information with regard to activities and events relating to Asian art to:

The Gate Foundation
Herengracht 344, 1016 CG Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
Tel: +31-20-6208057, Fax: +31-20-6390762


Austria

Museum of the History of Art
Maria-Theresien Platz
1010 Vienna
Tel: +43-1-52177301
Daily 10am - 6 pm, closed on Mon.

Permanent collection
Egyptian and Oriental collection, paintings, coins, and antiquities.


Australia

Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland Cultural Centre
South Bank, South Brisbane
Brisbane
Tel: +61-7-38407333
Fax: +61-7-38448865
Daily 10am - 5pm

February 24 - November 3, 1996
The Spiritual and the Social
Recent work by nine artists from Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.

March 30 - June 30 1996
With a view to Japan: The influence of Japanese woodblock printmaking.
Exhibition of prints that range from pre-1920 to the 1980s.

July 5 - August 18,1996
Recent International Photography from the Collection
Photographic images from England and the Asia-Pacific region.

July 7 - August 18, 1996
Pat Hoffie: Fully Exploited Labour
Ethno-kitsch reveals how images are changed or manipulated when translated or copied by a foreign culture.

September 27, 1996 - January 19, 1997
Second Asia Pacific Triennial of contemporary Art
See article


Belgium

Royal Museums for Art and History
Tel: +32-2-7417214
fax: +32-2-7337735

Chinese Pavilion/Japanese Tower
van Praetlaan 44
1020 Brussels
Tel: +32-2-2681608
Daily 10am - 5pm, closed on Mon.

Permanent exhibition
Important collections of Chinese export porcelain.

Royal Museum of Mariemont
Chaussee de Mariemont
100-7140 Morlanwelz
Tel: +32-64-212193
Fax: +32-64-262924
Daily 10am - 6 pm, closed on Mon.

From May 1996
Seven important Vietnamese ceramics dating from the 9th to the 15th century will be exhibited with some bronzes and ceramics dating from the Dongson Period and the Ly Dynasty.


China

China International Exhibition Centre
c/o No. B9 Jianguomennei Street
Beijing, Postcode: 100005
Tel: +86-10-5134891/5233413
Fax: +86-10-5134890

August 16 - 20, 1996
China Art Expo '96
Chinese contemporary art


Denmark

Copenhagen 1996
Cultural Capital of Europe
Information Department
Amagertorv 21
DK-1160 Copenhagen K
Tel: +45-3377-9633
Fax: +45-3377-9601

May 2 - August 31, 1996
Container 96 - Art Across Oceans

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13
3050 Humlebaek
Tel: +45-42190719
Fax: +45-42193505
Daily 10am -5pm, Wed. 10am - 10pm, Sat./Sun. 10am - 6pm

May 15 - September 8, 1996
NowHere
A polyphonic exhibition in which five different views on contemporary art are assembled under one roof.


France

Museum of Fine Art and Archaeology
Place de la Révolution (Place du Marché)
25000 Besançon
Tel: +33-81-814447
Fax: +33-81-615099
Closed on public holidays.

Permanent collection
Fine art and archaeology from non-Western areas.

Musee Guimet
Place d'Iena 6
75116 Paris
Tel: +33-1-47238398
Fax: +33-1-47238399

Due to renovations the museum will be closed until the end of 1998.

Centre Pompidou
19 Rue Beaubourg
75004 Paris
Tel: +33-1-44751233
Fax: +33-1-44751203
Tues. 12 - 9.30pm, Wed.-Fri. 12 - 7pm, Sat-Sun 10am -7pm

June 5 - September 16, 1996
Chines / Arabies
Two French writers. Victor Segalen (1878 - 1919) and Lorand Gaspar (1925- ), who travelled through China and Arabia.


Germany

Museum of Ethnology
Lansstrasse 8
D-14195 Berlin
Tel: +49-30-83011
Fax: +49-30-8315972
Daily 9am - 5pm, Sat./Sun. 10am - 5pm

Permanent collection
Studies of the cultures of the Pacific islands, Africa, America and Southeast Asia.

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Fine Art Museum
Friedrich Eber Allee 4
D-53113 Bonn
Tel: +49-228-917201/4
Fax: +49-228-9171211

May 10 - August 25, 1996
Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet
see article

February 29 - June 16, 1996
China!
see highlight 1

Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Arthur Ladebeckstrasse 5
33602 Bielefeld
Tel: +49-521-512479/80
Fax: +49-521-513429
Daily 11am - 6pm, Thurs. 10am -9pm, Sat. 10am - 6pm, closed on Mon.

May 21 - July 14, 1996
Truong Tan
Work by the Vietnamese artist Truong Tan.

Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst
Universitätsstrasse 100
D-50674 Cologne
Tel: +49-221-9405180
Fax: +49-221-407290
Daily 10am - 4pm, Sat./Sun. 11am - 4pm, closed on Mon.

April 4 - June 30 1996
Ceramics by Korean artist Young-Jae Lee

Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Ubierring 45
50678 Cologne
Tel: +49-221-3369413
Fax: +49-221-22114155
Daily 10am - 4pm, first Thursday in the month 10am- 8pm, closed on Mon.

Permanent collection
Collections illustrating non-European cultures.

April 1996 - January 26, 1997
Who had the Coconut ? The Coconut palm tree - The tree of thousand possibilities
The significance of the coconut palm as one of the most important plants on earth for cultural and economic purposes.

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst
Universitätsstrasse 100
50674 Cologne
Tel: +49-221-9405180

April 27 - June 30, 1996
Ceramics by Korean artist Young-Jae Lee

Linden Museum
Hegelplatz 1
70174 Stuttgart
Tel: +49-711-1231242
Fax: +49-711-297047
Daily 10am - 5pm, Wed. 10am - 8pm, closed on Mon.

Permanent collection
World-wide ethnographical collections, Chinese and Japanese lacquer- ware.


Great Britain

The Burrell Collection
2060 Pollokshaws Road
Glasgow G43 1AT
Tel: +44-41-6497151
Fax: +44-41-6360086
Daily 10am -5pm, Sun. 11am -5pm

Permanent collection
Art objects from the ancient civilizations of Iraq, Egypt, Greece, Italy, the Orient and from Medieval Europe.

Ikon Gallery
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham B1 1BN
Tel: +44-121-643-0708
Fax: +44-121-643-2254

May 18- June 22, 1996
Cold Comfort, Part I
New work by Permindar Kaur for her first solo exhibition in Britain.

British Museum
Great Russelstreet
London WC1B 3DG
Tel: +44-171-6361555
Fax: +44-171-3238480
Daily 10am - 5pm, Sun. 2.30am - 6pm

Permanent collection
Antiques from Egypt, Western Asia, Greece and Rome. Medieval, Renaissance, Modern and Oriental collection, prints, drawings, coins and medals.

May 24 - July 28, 1996
Like a stream of Gold
Paintings and sculpture from southern India, featuring items rarely seen in public.

British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Tel: +44-171-4127111
Fax: +44-171-4127268

As from April 1996
Display of items which will range from one of the earliest Japanese printed books (c. 1170) to examples of early colour printing from the mid-17th century onwards.

March 6 - June 30, 1996
The Hastings Albums: Rare Indian Drawings on display at the British Library
Among the highlights are watercolours by the Indian artist Sita Ram illustrating journeys made by Lord Hastings (Governor-General 1813- 1823) in India.

Kapil Jariwala Gallery
4 New Burlington Street
London W1X 1FE
Tel: +44-171-4372172

May 28 - July 26, 1996
17th-19th Century Tanjore Paintings

Delfina Studios Trust
Maryland Works
22 Grove Crescent Road
London E15 1BJ
Tel: +44-181-5198841
Fax: +44-181-5031251

May 15 - June 14, 1996
The New South
Southern India's leading contemporary painters and sculptors

Victoria and Albert Museum
South Kensington
London SW7 2RL
Tel: +44-171-9388500
Fax: +44-171-9388458
Daily 10am - 5.50 pm, Mon. 12 - 5.50pm

Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
53 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
Tel: +44-171-3873909
Fax: +44-171-3835163

from August 1996
Earth, Fire and water: Chinese ceramic technology exhibition


Hong Kong

Gallery La Vong
Fine Contemporary Vietnamese Art
One Lan Kwai Fong 13/F
Central Hong Kong
Tel: +852-2286-9686/6682
Fax: +852-2286-9689
Daily 10.30am - 6.30pm, closed on Sun.

Permanent exhibition
Work of Vietnamese artists including Nguyen Tu Ngiem (born 1922).


Indonesia

Gedung Pameran Seni Rupa
Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
Jalan Merdeka Timur 13
Jakarta Pusat

June - July 1996
Asian Modernism
Diverse developments in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand

Cemeti Art Gallery
Jalan Ngadisuryan 7a
Yogyakarta 55133
Tel/Fax: +62-274-371015

Featuring Edith Bons (April), Munadi (May) H. Gaya (June), A.S. Kunia (July)


Italy

University of Venice
Ca'Soranzo, 2169 San Polo
30125 Venice
Tel: +39-41-5204868/5285570
Fax: +39-41-720809

May 28 - 31, 1996
In Search of Elegance
The Third Venice Conference on Japanese Art
See highlight 2


The Netherlands

Gallery Delaive
Spiegelgracht 23
1017 JP Amsterdam
Tel: +31-20-6259087
Fax: +31-20-6204130

June 9-July 15,1996
Pop Art China - Pop Art America
Featuring Feng Mengbo, Li Shan, Liu Wei, Yu Youhan, Wang Guangyi, Wang Ziwei and Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann.

Rijksmuseum
Hobbemastraat 19
PO Box 74888
1070 DN Amsterdam
Tel: +31-20-6732121
Fax: +31-20-6798146
Daily 10am - 5pm

On April 29, 1996 the Rijksmuseum South Wing was reopened after a three-year renovation.
See Article

Museum of the Tropics
Linaeusstraat 2
1092 CK Amsterdam
Tel: +31-20-5688418
Fax: +31-20-5688331

Semi-permanent exhibitions about the life of people in the tropics, including a special Southeast Asia department.

December 13 1995 - September 1 1996
Distant friends of Jan Klaassen. Puppet-shows in Africa and Asia.
See article

April 1 - October 1996
Woven Documents
Indonesian textiles collected by Georg Tilmann 1882-1941).

May 3, 1996 - January 5, 1997
North Vietnam

Foundation for Indian Artists / Galerie Schoo
Fokke Simonszstraat 10 / Lijnbaansgracht
1017 TG Amsterdam
Tel: +31-20-6231547
Fax: +31-20-6231547
Daily 1pm - 6pm, 1st Sun. of the Month 2pm - 5pm, closed on Mon.
The Gallery will be closed in July and August 1996
and

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
Rozenstraat 59
1016 NN Amsterdam
Tel: +31-20-4220471

June 1 - 29, 1996
The Other Self
A project of the Foundation for Indian Artists. Participating artists: Bhupen Khakhar, N.N. Rimzon, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Berend Strik, Rob Birza and Bastienne Kramer.

Indonesië Museum Nusantara
St. Agathaplein 1
2611 HR Delft
Tel: +31-15-2602358
Fax: +31-15-2138744
Daily 10am - 5pm, Sun. 1pm - 5pm

Permanent exhibition on Indonesian cultures
Empire of Treasures Nusantara (Schattenrijk Nusantara)
A presentation of ceremonial objects, dance masks etcetera.

Groninger Museum
Museumland 1
P.O. Box 90
9700 Groningen
Tel: +31-50-3666555
Fax: +31-50-3120815
Daily 10am - 5pm, closed on Mon.

Semi-permanent exhibition in the Philippe Starck pavilion of "Geldermalsen" porcelain from the Far East, especially relating to the period of the VOC (Dutch East Indies Company).

Frans Halsmuseum
Groot Heiligland 62
P.O. Box 3365
2001 DJ Haarlem
Tel: +31-23-5164200
Fax: +31-23-5311200

July 13 - August 25, 1996
Ceramics by Jun Kaneko

Museum The Princessehof
Grote Kerkstraat 11
8911 DZ Leeuwarden
Tel: +31-58-2127438
Fax: +31-58-2122281
Daily 10am - 5pm, Sun. 2pm - 5pm

Permanent collection
Large exhibition of ceramics from China, Japan, India, Vietnam etc.

Museum of Ethnology
Steenstraat 1
2312 BS Leiden
Tel: +31-71-5168800
Fax: +31-71-5128437
Tuesday to Friday 10pm - 5pm, Sat./Sun. 12 - 5pm closed on Mon.

During reconstruction activities a semi-permanent exhibition will be presented: Japan a.d. 1850. An exhibition about life in Japan about 1850.

October 6th 1995 - August 25th 1996
Forgotten Islands, the mystery of the Southeast Moluccas

Museum of Ethnology Rotterdam
Willemskade 25
3016 DM Rotterdam
Tel: +31-10-4111055
Fax: +31-10-4118331
Daily 10am - 5pm, Sun. and public holidays 11am - 5pm

December 1995 - May 19 1996
Power & Gold
Jewellery from Indonesia and the Philippines from the collection of the Barbier-Mueller

Museum in Geneva.
House of Asia
Witte de Withstraat 19a
3012 BL Rotterdam
Tel: +31-10-2130665
Fax: +31-10-4118228
Daily 12.30pm - 18.30pm, closed om Mon. and Tues.

March 24 - May 27, 1996
Javanese Painter Achmad Sururi: Uniformity in diversity

Moluks Historisch Museum
Kruisstraat 313
P.O. Box 13379
3507 LJ Utrecht
Tel: +31-30-2367116
Fax: +34-30-2328967
Daily 1pm - 5pm, closed on Mon.

Permanent exhibition
The lives of people of the Moluccas who came to the Netherlands in the 1950s.


Norway

Ethnographic Museum
Frederiksgate 2
0164 Oslo
Tel: +47-22-859300
Fax: +47-22-859960
Daily (September 15th to May 14th) 12 - 3pm, (May 15th to September 14th)
11am - 3pm, closed on Mon.

Permanent collection
From East Asia, Africa, North America, South America, the Arctic, the sub-Arctic


Portugal

Museum of Ethnology
Avenida llha da Madeira-ao Restelo
1400 Lisboa
Tel: +351-1-301526415
Fax: +351-1-3013994
Daily 10.30am - 6pm, closed on Mon.

Permanent collection
Ethnological collections from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe.


Singapore

Singapore Art Museum
71 Bras Basah Road
Singapore 189555
General information
National Heritage Bond
Tel: +65-3323550
Fax: +65-3343054

May 31 - July 31, 1996
20th Century Chinese Painting; Tradition & Innovation


Switzerland

Museum für Völkerkunde und
Schweizerisches Museum für Volkskunde
Augustinergasse 2
PO Box 1048
CH-4001 Basel
Tel: +41-61-2665500
Fax: +41-61-2665605

The Baur Collections
8 Rue Munier-Romilly
1206 Genève
Tel: +41-22-3461729
Fax: +41-22-7891845
Daily 2pm - 6pm, closed on Mon.

The Museum will be closed temporarily from June 26 1995 to Spring 1997 due to the enlargement of the museum and reconstruction activities.

Barbier-Mueller Museum
10 Rue Calvin
1204 Genève
Tel: +41-22-3120270
Fax: +41-22-3120190
Daily 10am - 5pm

Permanent collection
African, Oceanic, Melanesian and American art.

Rietberg Museum
Gablerstrasse 15
CH-8002 Zürich
Tel: +41-1-2024528
Fax: +41-1-2025201
Daily 10am - 5pm, closed on Mon.

Permanent collection
Indian and Tibetan art, art from Africa and the Pacific, Eskimo and Northwest American Indian and pre-Columbian art.

April 4 - July 14 1996
Mandate of Heaven: Emperors and artists in Ancient China
See article

Kunsthaus Zürich
Heimplatz 1
CH-8024 Zürich
Tel: +41-1-2516765
Fax: +41-1-2512464

April 4 - July 14 1996
Ancient China: Men and Gods in the Middle Kingdom


United States of America

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90036
Tel: +1-213-8576111
Fax: +1-213-9317347
Daily 12.30pm - 5pm, closed on Mon.

April 6 - June 16, 1996
Shin Hanga I and Shin Hanga II

Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Harvard University Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: +1-617-4959400
Fax: +1-617-4959936
Daily 10am - 5pm, closed on Mon.

until June 9, 1996
Treasures from the Sackler's collection
Masterworks of East Asian Painting

The Newark Museum
49 Washington Street
Newark NJ 07101-0540
Tel: +1-201-5966550
Fax: +1-201-6420459
Daily 12 - 5pm, closed Mon., Tues.

until June 30, 1996
Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal
Hindu ritual activity that expresses the private relationship between the worshipper and the gods in Bengal

Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: +1-617-2679300
Fax: +1-617-2670280

April 19 - June 30, 1996
Object as Insight: Japanese Buddhist Art and Ritual

The Asia Society
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Tel: +1-212-2886400
Fax: +1-212-5178319

March 29 - August 18, 1996
Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars' Rocks

China Institute in America
125 East 65 Street
New York, NY 10021-7088
Tel: +1-212-7448181
Fax: +1-212-6284159

April 20 - July 6, 1996
Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400

Smith College Museum of Art
Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063
Tel: +1-413-5852760
Fax: +1-413-5852782
Daily Tues.-Sat. 12 - 5pm, Sun. 2pm - 5pm, closed on Mon.

March 28 - May 26, 1996
Haiga: The Haiku-Painting Tradition
Works by masters of haiga, including scrolls, screens, and wood- block books, dating from the 17-20th century.

Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oberlin College,
Oberlin, OH 44074
Tel: +1-216-7758665
Fax: +1-216-7758799

May 12 - May 27, 1996
Transformations: Chinese Themes and Images in Japanese Woodblock Prints
See highlight 3

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2800 Grove Avenue
Richmond, VA 23221-2466
Tel: +1-804-3670844
Fax: +1-804-3670844
Daily 11am - 5pm, Sun. 1pm - 5 pm, closed on Mon.

Until June 2, 1996
Indian Painting from the Punjab Hills
Miniature paintings produced in the small Hindu kingdoms and principalities of India's Punjab Hills.

Peabody Museum of Salem
E. India Square
Salem, MA 01970
Tel: +1-508-7451876/9500
Fax: +1-508-7446776
Daily 10am - 5pm, Sun. 12 - 5pm

April 25 - July 22, 1996
Profusion of Wrapping Cloths of the Choson Dynasty

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
California 94118
Tel: +1-415-3798800
Fax: +1-415-6688928

April 10 1996 - August 11 1996
Mingei
Two centuries of Japanese Folk Art.

February 7 - July 7, 1996
Living Masters
Recent Paintings by C.C. Wang

July 2, 1996
Reopening of the Southeast Asian Galleries

Smithonian Institution
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Avenue SW
Washington DC 20560
Tel: +202-3572700
Fax: +202-7862515
Daily 10am - 5.30pm

May 12, 1996 - Indefinite
Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion
Indian objects, made between the 9th and 20th centuries for use in worship.

June 30 - December 1, 1996
Paintings by Masami Teraoka

until September 2, 1996
Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier
The contacts and complex interrelationship between China and its northern neighbours, the pastoral tribes who inhabited the vast lands north of the Great Wall during the first millennium BC

Smithonian Institute of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
1000 Jefferson Drive at 12th street SW
Washington DC 20560
Tel: +1-202-3572104
Fax: +1-202-3574911
Daily 10am - 5.30pm

until September, 1996
The Life of a Japanese Painting

February 28, 1996 - indefinite
Beyond Paper: Chinese Calligraphy on Objects

March 1, 1996 - indefinite
Crosscurrents in Chinese and Islamic Ceramics

until September 1996
In Human Form: Images of the Secular and Divine in Chinese Painting

until September 1996
Female Imagery in Indian Painting

until August 1996
The Life of a Japanese Painting
Recently restored Japanese paintings offers an insight in repairing rare paintings on delicate silk or paper.

until early 1997
Seto and Mino Ceramics
Glazed ceramics from the Seto and Mino regions in central Japan over the past 1200 years.

Seattle Art Museum
100 University Street
Seattle WA 98122-9700
Tel: +1-206-6258900
Fax: +1-206-6543135
Daily 11am - 5pm, Thurs. 11am - 9pm, Sun. 12am - 5pm, closed on Mon.

until July 14, 1996
Exhibition of Chinese Ornaments


Vietnam

Red River Gallery
71A Nguyen Du Street
Hanoi
Tel: +84-4-229064

Permanent collection
Work of such Vietnamese painters as Khuc Thanh Binh, Thah Chuong, Dao Tanh Dzuy, Pnam Minh Hai, Dang Xuan Hoa, Tran Luong, Pham Hong Thai, Boa Toan, Truong Tan, Do Minh Tam.

Art Gallery Hien Minh
1st Floor, 44 Dong Khoi Street, Distr. 1
Ho Chi Minh City
Tel: +84-8-224590

Permanent collection
Work of the Vietnamese painter Nguyen Thi Hien.

Galleria Vinh Loi
49 Dhong Koi Street, Distr. 1
Ho Chi Minh City
Tel: +84-8-222006

Permanent collection
Among other items the work of the Vietnamese artist Bui Xuan Phai (1921-1988).


The Art Agenda is produced by The Gate Foundation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Please send all information with regard to activities and events relating to Asian art to:

The Gate Foundation
Herengracht 344, 1016 CG Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
Tel: +31-20-6208057, Fax: +31-20-6390762


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