Calendar

01/08/2019 to 31/08/2019

LIMA Gallery: belit sağ

From the 1st of August until August 31, two videoworks by belit sağ are exhibited in LIMA's gallery space in the basement of LAB111.
Open daily from 12 - 23 at LIMA, Amsterdam (Arie Biemondstraat 111).
Entrance is free.

belit sağ, what remains, 2018, 7'05''
what remains is constructed from images that sag shot and gathered during 2015 and 2016 in Cizre, a primarily Kurdish town in Turkey on the Syrian border, as well as found footage from all over Turkey from...

29/07/2019 to 11/08/2019

LIMA summer break

While summer is in full swing in Amsterdam, we are heading towards the beach, just like in Rafael Montañez Ortiz' 'Beach Umbrella' from 1985. 

LIMA will have a short summer break from Monday July 29 until August 11. During this period the office will be closed. 

LIMA wishes you a wonderful summer!

24/05/2019 to 21/07/2019

Exhibition Lyubov Matyunina - I am a tool of gentrification

I am a tool of gentrification is an experimental documentary series by Lyobov Matyunina in which she aims to explore complex shifts in the gentrification process of Amsterdam. What is the role of the artist in this process? How we can make use of the current situation and turn it into a positive development for the arts and artists?

The project aims to function as a series of speculative propositions on the subject of how to make gentrification work for Amsterdam-based artists and...

23/05/2019 to 24/05/2019

Social Capital #2 Amsterdam-West. Reflections on a City in Flux

Social Capital #2 Amsterdam-West
Reflections on a City in Flux
 
Amsterdam is expanding rapidly because of economic and social forces. As a result, the public domain is under increasing pressure. Despite regulations, monoculture and commodification, how can we continue to see public space as a place for imagination and adventure? To address this question, TAAK launched the multi-year art project Social Capital. For Social Capital #2 West LIMA and TAAK collaborated with...

16/05/2019

Art Machines 0.1 - Talk: Joost Rekveld at Sensorlab

CCU and LIMA invite you for an inspiring evening with Joost Rekveld, the Dutch master of media art and experimental film. For years now, Joost has been motivated by the question of what we can learn from a dialogue with machines. In his work, he explores the sensory consequences of systems of his own design, often inspired by forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. The evening is introduced by Sanneke Huisman (LIMA media art platform, followed by Joost his talk in which he takes you through his extensive oeuvre and thereby gives a refreshing perspective on the history of media art and science.
17/04/2019 to 20/05/2019

Samira Elagoz - The Young and The Willing

From Wednesday April 17 until May 20 The Young and The Willing by Samira Elagoz will be exhibited in LIMA's gallery space in the basement of LAB 111. Opening on Wednesday April 17 at 6 PM.
17/04/2019

LIMA at Jungle Amsterdam: Variscoop #3

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In collaboration with John Prop (stichting Polderlicht) LIMA presents Variscoop #3; the last of the three Variscoop evenings filled with video- and sound art from artists working and/or living in The Netherlands. Minimal animation, digital image manipulations, color experiments, soundscapes and artistic documentaries, the works that are presented this evening show great variation and diversity. The artists are present and will be interviewed. 

Gerco Ruijter & Michel Banabila:...

28/03/2019

The Story of Technoviking.

The Story of Technoviking.
Thursday March 28, 20.00 - 22.30
LIMA, Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam
Press Lots of Keys to Abort in collaboration with The Institute of Networked Cultures and LIMA
Entrance: € 11,- euro / free with Cineville
Language: English

Expect a varied program that includes the introduction of Press Lots of Keys to Abort, a short film about microwaves, popcorn, the film 20Hz (2011) by Semiconductor from the collection of LIMA...

27/03/2019

LIMA at Jungle Amsterdam: Variscoop #2

In collaboration with John Prop (stichting Polderlicht) LIMA presents Variscoop #2; the second of the three Variscoop evenings filled with video- and sound art from artists working and/or living in The Netherlands. Minimal animation, digital image manipulations, color experiments, soundscapes and artistic documentaries, the works that are presented this evening show great variation and diversity. The artists are present and will be interviewed. 

At Variscoop #2 the following works...

22/03/2019

Digital Canon?! Launch

On Friday, March 22, LIMA launched the Dutch canon of digital art. The presentation, by Sanneke Huisman and Jan Robert Leegte, took place in front of an international audience during the annual Transformation Digital Art symposium.

The art-historical canon has been under fire for several decades. The idea of a canon, independent of time and place and based on universal characteristics of quality, is increasingly refuted. But a new form of canon formation has led to a renewed...

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