The outdated exhibition format
Guus Beumer has been the director of The New Institute for one year now. One of the legacies of the institute are its major exhibition spaces of the former NAi. What role do the exhibitions play in relation to the societal task of such an institute? According to Beumer, exhibitions are costly, time consuming and mostly geared towards an older audience. Are exhibitions becoming an outdated mode of presentation? Do they have a future? Join us on Thursday, April 17th as Guus Beumer shares his dilemma and engages in a dialogue with you, the audience.
Guus Beumer
Guus Beumer is the director of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam since the start on January the 1st of 2013. Beumer was appointed as director because of his rich experience and background in the field of the arts, design, architecture, fashion and entrepreneurship.
Guus Beumer has been the director of Marres, the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht since 2005. Since 2006, he has also served as artistic director of NAiM/Bureau Europa in Maastricht. Beumer has a background in social sciences and has years of experience in the cultural field. He became known as the initiator and art director of fashion labels Orson + Bodil and SO by Alexander van Slobbe. As a curator, he earned his stripes with high-profile exhibitions in the field of art, design and architecture, such as Higher Truth and Safe Haven in De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Edible City, and State Alpha, on the architecture of sleep in NAi Maastricht and the series on nineteenth century positions such as the dandy, the collector, the dilettante, and the flaneur in Marres. In 2011, Beumer was appointed curator for the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 2011. In 2009, Beumer was artistic director of Utrecht Manifest, Biennial for Social Design. Beumer initiated Out of Storage: The Largest Temporary Art Museum of Europa, which was set up in Maastricht in 2011. Beumer is an experienced publicist for, amongst others, Metropolis M and Elsevier and has been advisor for, amongst others, the Mondriaan Foundation, Co-lab and The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design, and Architecture.
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