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Recent
A Tree
17th Jul - 21st Sep 2024
Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands​​
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To what extent is anthropomorphism a way to strengthen the connection between humans and trees, or an anthropocentric danger that makes it impossible to acquire objective knowledge? Exhibition A Tree, showcases research and works where artists explore the relationship between people and trees and ways in which we can relate more closely to their time span.
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To what extent is anthropomorphism a way to strengthen the connection between humans and trees or an anthropocentric danger that makes it impossible to acquire objective knowledge?
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A Tree, is about vegetal agency, plant knowledge, and the interaction between plants and people, with a specific focus on trees.
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With works by:
Sanne Vaassen, Gerbrand Burger, Hira Nabi, Manjot Kaur, Ingela Ihrman, Goldin+Senneby, Alice Ladenburg + + Ollie Palmer, Roderick Hietbrink.
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Animal Farm
23rd June - 17th Nov 2024
Musuem Rijswijk, Netherlands​​
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The theme of the Paper Biennale 2024 is ‘Animal Farm. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others,’ based on George Orwell’s book of the same title, which was published in 1945. This fable by Orwell is a satirical allegory and the starting point for contemporary artists to reflect on the relationship between humans and animals.
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Of Love and Longing
16 - 18 Feb 2024
INVESTEC Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa
Amsterdam
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​​With this solo presentation, the artist Manjot Kaur proposes alternatives to the binary of nature and culture, considering more fluid ways of thinking and living about complexities and contradictions of coexistence. Manjot Kaur’s work cross-pollinates ancient mythologies and precarious ecologies with fiction and speculation, showing transforming entities and alternative environmental horizons. Hailing from the rich tradition of Indian Miniature, the intimate paintings in gouache and watercolor on paper hybridize old narrations with new identities, conveying questions of relationality, reciprocity, and mutuality within natural, ancestral, and human worlds.
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Becoming Earths
June 2 - July 8 2023
Becoming Earths gathers speculative gestures of future feminisms embedded in reciprocal life with nature. The imaginative rewriting of new realities from feminist perspectives entangles common resources for the reproduction of life grounded in the potentialities with earth. With a constellation of artworks by Manjot Kaur (IN), Anouk Kruithof (NL) and Elisa Strinna (IT), the exhibition proposes embodied alternatives to the existing dualistic constructions of nature and culture.
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Where Shall We Plant the Placenta?
19.11.2022—22.01.2023
A Tale of A Tub
Space for contemporary art and culture
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
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Hurting and Healing:
Let’s Imagine a Different Heritage
19.3 - 28.8 2022
TENSTA KONSTHALL, Stockholm, Sweden
Group Exhibition
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This spring's exhibition at Tensta Konsthall poses the following question: How can the understanding of cultural heritage be decolonized by societies and organizations shaped by European knowledge systems? In this project, Charles Esche, director of the Van Abbemuseum and Tensta Konsthall engages in dialogue with a number of artworks, artists, researchers and guest curators with the purpose of looking closer at how western-centric perception of cultural heritage can be challenged and redefined.
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Participating artists: Brook Andrew, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research) Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti, Jeannette Ehlers & La Vaughn Belle, FCNN (Feminist Collective with No Name), Edi Hila, Patricia Kaersenhout, Manjot Kaur, Taus Makhacheva, Rabih Mroué, Renzo Martens & CATPC (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise), Otobong Nkanga, Katarina Pirak Sikku and Jonas Staal.
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and the programme is carried out together with The Royal Institute of Art, Mårten Snickare / Accelerator and Tensta Library with the support of the Mondriaan Fund and the Delegation of Flanders / Embassy of Belgium.
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The Pool of Memories
09.04 - 29.05 2022
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Immersive Interactive Project | Solo Exhibition
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Curated by Suvi Bains
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Ac/kademie #5: The Tree That Grew Out of My Womb
with Asha Karami, Manjot Kaur, Marie Caye, moderated by Ruby Hoette
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Tue 15 MAR 2022
3-way hybrid performance
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How do your ideas about fertility and motherhood affect your behavior and choices?
What does it mean to be fertile or infertile?
What is the future of organic reproduction while digital replication and production of consumer goods is exploding?
What happens if you see yourself as the parent of all animate and inanimate things?
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The 5th edition of the Ac/kademie series hosts a 3-way hybrid performance by Jan van Eyck alumni Asha Karami, Manjot Kaur and Marie Caye. Together with the public, they explore the topics of sexuality, fertility and parenthood through an abstract, interactive approach that goes beyond associations tied to human reproductive organs and childbirth. Caught between an organic and technological world the three artists try to navigate their way through the linguistic, visual and auditory representations of these themes. The event is moderated by Jan van Eyck participant Ruby Hoette.
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Ac/kademie: A series of artist-lead conversations amongst the residents of the Jan van Eyck Academie and of the Rijksakademie, two post-academies in the Netherlands. This series is organized in collaboration with the Rijksakademie, the Saastamoinen Foundation and the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts, Finland.
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Display at the Open Studios Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands, 2020-21
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for detail images and more info, follow the link below:
https://openstudios2021.janvaneyck.nl/participants/manjot-kaur
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