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In addition to studio space, technical facilities and tutorial support for independent work, the Piet Zwart Institute offers an annually changing programme of thematic projects, which function as a framework for joint exploration of issues that are relevant to contemporary culture and society.

In this section you will find information about past projects and public lecture series from 1999-2011.




Who if not She! – Gender Performance, the Feminist Concern: Towards a Different Artistic Repertoire
A thematic project by Jan Verwoert (November 2010-June 2011).

A Multi-Media, Zig-Zag Little History of Big Ideas
A thematic project by Dieter Roelstraete (October 2010-January 2011).

Spastic Logic: Making Your Way Out of It Rather Than Talking Your Way Out of It
A thematic project by Chris Evans (January-March 2011).

The Life of an Artist
A thematic project by Lili Reynaud-Dewar (November 2010-June 2011).

Nocation
A thematic project at Kunsthuis SYB by Bernd Krauß (May-June 2011)




Models, Fragments, and Aphorism: Modes of Thinking about Making.
A thematic project by Ian Kiaer.

Office for the Unknown.
An exhibition project by Alexis Vaillant.

Masquerade.
A thematic project by A thematic project by Lars Bang Larsen, Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher.

Keeping and Sharing Secrets.
A thematic project by Jan Verwoert.

Part of the 2009-2010 programme is an excursion to Lisbon and Porto to visit the Portuguese art scene.




Speechless: The Proximity of Gesture, Philosophy and Cinema

A thematic project by Hadley+Maxwell (October 2008-January 2009)

Histories of Desire: Write Your Own Canon, Befriend Your Own Ghosts
A thematic project by Jan Verwoert (October 2008-June 2009)

The Monstrous at Play
A thematic project by Felix Ensslin (Dec 2008-March 2009)

Show and Tell
A thematic project by Hila Peleg (January-June 2009)

The Dancer’s Two Bodies
A thematic project by Jalal Toufic (March 16-25, 2009)

Court Theatre: Performance, Staging, and Technology in Art and Technology
A thematic project by Judy Radul (May 2009)

Part of the 2008-2009 programme is an excursion to Warsaw and Lodz to visit the Polish art scene.




Contemporary Thoughts on Critical Art Practice
A thematic project by Jan Verwoert (October 2007-June 2008)

Thing Theory – Thingness and/in the Work of Art
A thematic project by Dieter Roelstraete (January-June 2008)

A Perfect Society
A thematic project by Maria Pask (January 2008-March 2008)

The Heroic
A thematic project by Maxine Kopsa (February-June 2008)

One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes – On the Notion of Storytelling
A thematic project by The Uqbar Foundation (Irene Kopelman and Mariana Castillo Deball) (November 2007-February 2008)

Part of the 2007-2008 programme was a joint visit to the Berlin Biennale.




Art and Its Institutions
a workshop with Nina Moentmann and Jan Verwoert at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
(October 17-21, 2006)

Imagined Communities: Ways to inaugurate the pleasuredome
a seminar with Jan Verwoert
(throughout the year)

The City and the Abundance of Life: Biosocial potentials in the present
a project around the organisation of urban public space with Frans-Willem Korsten and Arda van Helsdingen
(October-December, 2006)

How to Do Things with Art: On the meaning of art’s performativity
a seminar with Dorothea von Hantelmann

Art and Remote Locations
a presentation project with curator Tracey Warr
(April-July 2007)

Part of the 2006-2007 programme was a joint visit to the Venice Biennial.




The Metropolitan Complex
a project with Sarah Pierce
(October-November 2005)

Authorship, Amateurism, Expertise
a series of seminars in collaboration with the Curatorial Training Programme of De Appel
organized by Anke Bangma and Annie Fletcher
(November 2005-January 2006)

First World Camp – On Mobility
a project with Emil Hrvatin and Peter Senk
(January-March 2006)

Imagined Communities
a series of seminars with Jan Verwoert
(January-May 2006)

Ritualizing
a series of public lectures, screenings and performances, curated by Hilde de Bruijn
hosted by TENT. and Witte de With centres for contemporary art
(February-April 2006)

Exhibition Project
a project and exhibition with Frederique Bergholtz
(April-June 2006)

Part of the 2005-2006 programme was a joint visit to the Berlin Biennial (May 2006).




Body Language and Embodied Meaning
a series of public lectures and screenings, curated by Anke Bangma
(December 2004-April 2005)

The Production of Public and Private Spheres
a project with Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai
(January-March 2005)

Black Friday
a project around multiplying, publishing and distribution with Christoph Keller from Revolver
(January-April 2005)

How to Send a Message
a project with Milica Tomic
(April-June 2005)

The Geography of Art
a series of public lectures and screenings with Christian Hoeller, Hedwig Saxenhuber & Georg Schoellhammer from Springerin magazine
(May 2005)

Art and Economy
a public symposium curated by Maria Lind, with Gregor Podnar, Gerald Raunig, Elin Wikström, Carey Young and Tirdad Zolghadr.
(June 4, 2005)

The year was concluded with a joint visit to The Venice Biennial (July 2005).




A joint visit to the Istanbul Biennial (October 2003).

Rotterdam Investigation or The Artist as a Site Researcher
a project with Lara Almarcegui
(October-December 2003)

Constructing Visions
a public series of lectures and screenings, curated by Anke Bangma and Florian Wuest
(November 2003-January 2004)

Trans/gender
a symposium and publication by Nina Hoechtl and Suzanne van Rossenberg
(January and November 2003)

Constructing Models of Contextual Practice
a project with Roddy Hunter
(January-March 2004)

Experience, Memory, Re-enactment
a public series of lectures and screenings, curated by Anke Bangma and Florian Wuest
(February-May 2004)

Platforms & Presentation: Art as a Discussion Piece
a project with Bik Van der Pol
(April-June 2004)




Individual Speed in the Information Society
a project with Hinrich Sachs
(October-December 2002)

Video Lounge
a project with Laurie Halsey Brown and Florian Wuest
(October-December 2002)

A Look Back to Now – Curating Artistic Positions
a project with Annie Fletcher
(January-April 2003)

Legal Space / Public Space
a project in collaboration with Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels
(January-April 2004)

Exhibition Project
a project with Maaike Bleeker and Catharina Scholten
(April-July 2003)

Part of the 2002-2003 programme was a joint visit to the Venice Biennial