This May has a lot to offer in terms of events. First and foremost the long anticipated premiere of Forward Festival Amsterdam and other exciting events in May in the Amsterdam, Berlin and Vienna.

 

Forward Festival Amsterdam

 

 

Celebrating its debut in Amsterdam, the established annual hub of the creative industry across all disciplines is set to captivate audiences with a diverse lineup of more than 30+ Speakers from creative fields such as AI, digital art, graphic design, typography, photography and much more.

 

SPEAKER: DADA PROJECTS | BAUGASM | BUILDERS CLUB | STUDIO FEIXEN | AURELIA DURAND | ERIK KESSELS | ANNA GINSBURG | BASE DESIGN | SANDER PLUG | EVA CREMERS | THE RODINA | JIM STOTEN | BUS.GROUP | TEAM THURSDAY | THONIK | BAAST STUDIO | JONATHAN CASTRO | SOYUN PARK | AND MANY MORE

 

HARD FACTS

ITA
Leidseplein 26
1017 PT Amsterdam
23rd & 24th of May

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Collective Art Workshop: Exploring Humanity in the Age of AI

 

 

This workshop is for everyone who doesn’t feel comfortable when hearing about AI because it seems too far from their daily life. The sessions are given by visual artist and filmmaker Colina van Bemmel, who is also navigating the challenges and opportunities AI brings.

 

HARD FACTS
Treehouse NDSM
55-57 T.T. Neveritaweg 1033 WB
Amsterdam
22nd of May

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I log in, therefore I am

 

 
The exhibition ‘I log in, therefore I am’ poses the philosophical question of existence in the digital age. With technologies gaining autonomy through artificial intelligence, it is important to think about the duality of physical and digital realities. Ten artists reflect on the challenges of finding a sense of inner balance while navigating through physical, mental, digital, and virtual presences.

 

HARD FACTS
Treehouse NDSM
55-57 T.T. Neveritaweg 1033 WB
Amsterdam
May 30th – June 23rd

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Open days – Independent Space Index 2024

 

From Friday, May 31 to Sunday, June 2, independent Viennese art spaces will once again open their doors together as part of the Independent Space Index 2024. At this year’s festival, around 45 spaces will once again invite visitors to freely accessible special events and exhibitions during joint opening hours from 2pm to 6pm.

 

HARD FACTS
Different locations in Vienna
May 31th – June 2nd 2024

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Reverse Imagining Vienna

 

 

Since 2020, the global stock of man-made mass has been higher than the stock of biomass – around 90 per cent of which are building materials. In the Reverse Imagining Vienna project, two sculptors and nine writers take a Viennese Wilhelminian style house and the Prater Bridge, which crosses the Danube, as material and speculative anchors to gain perspectives on a sustainable approach to inanimate matter. In the style of reverse engineering, the two buildings were deconstructed and recomposed in Reverse Imagining in a historical, material-analytical, poetic and visionary way.

 

HARD FACTS
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Vienna

May 8th, May 15th, May 22nd, May 29th – 18:30

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NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE! Posters for Environmental Protection by Klaus Staeck since 1973

 

In the Poster Forum, the MAK shows posters on the subject of environmental pollution and climate change by graphic designer, lawyer, political activist, and early admonisher for the environment, Klaus Staeck (* 1938).
 

HARD FACTS

MAK Poster Forum
Stubenring 5, Vienna

– until May 26th 2024

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Nancy Holt: Circles of Light

 

 

The “Circles of Light” exhibition at the Gropius Bau in Berlin includes film, video, photography, sculptures and expansive installations as well as drawings and documentaries by US artist Nancy Holt.

 

HARD FACTS

Gropius Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7
10963 Berlin

– until 21st of July

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Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century

 

 

The photographs from the collection of François Pinault in the genres of portrait, fashion, still life, architecture and photojournalism range from 1910 to the late 1970s, with works from the renowned Condé Nast archive. Arranged chronologically, they exemplify the development of fashion history and the radical social changes in the western world.

 

HARD FACTS

Museum für Fotografie – Helmut Newton Stiftung
Jebensstraße 2
10623 Berlin

– until May 20th 2024

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Foam Talents

 

 

Foam proudly presents the work of 20 artists shaping the future of photography in the group exhibition Foam Talent 2024-2025. The exhibition brings together artists from across the world, their work signifying a bold new direction in the photographic arts.

 

HARD FACTS

Foam
Keizersgracht 609,
1017 DS Amsterdam
– until May 22nd 2024

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Image credits:

© Forward Festival
© Treehouse NDSM
© Treehouse NDSM
© Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
© Klaus Staeck
© Nancy Holt
© François Pinault
© Andre Ramos Woodard