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Léopold Rabus
15/11/2009 - 7/2/2010
The human figures depicted by the Swiss artist Léopold Rabus (1977) are ill-fated, gruesome, awkward or crazy, but always humorous. Against the backdrop of an realistically rendered woodland scene and toadstools, a deserted shed or wooden house in the forest, he paints people from his immediate surroundings: Neuchâtel. His work, which is permeated with (black) humour, is akin to that of artists such as the German Jonathan Meese and the American Paul McCarthy. With the first solo museum exhibition of Rabus’s work, GEM is continuing its tradition of prominent exhibitions of contemporary art. The adjacent Gemeentemuseum already owns two monumental paintings by Rabus. They are part of the contemporary art collection that also includes paintings by Daniel Richter, Mattias Weischer, Michael Raedecker and Tjebbe Beekman.
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Catch of the Day
20/3/2010 - 27/6/2010
Full of the sunny, laid-back atmosphere of the Caribbean, the work of David Bade (b. Curaçao, 1970) is whimsical, humorous and colourful. This spring, the GEM, museum of contemporary art presents a major retrospective of Bade’s work since 1993. Highlights of the past will be interspersed with recent works and new versions of sculptures that have been lost.
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GEM and Gemak go green with David Bade!
20/3/2010 - 27/6/2010
Catch of the Day, the GEM’s forthcoming major retrospective of work by David Bade is set to become the Netherlands’ first ever climate-neutral exhibition. This is being achieved with the help of Klimaatfonds Den Haag. Every Sunday for the duration of the exhibition, there will be a free, climate-neutral shuttle bus service between Central Station, the GEM and Gemak.
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Now or Never
20/2/2010 - 7/3/2010
Het is een goede traditie van het Gemeentemuseum/GEM om eens in de twee jaar aandacht te besteden aan jonge kunstenaars afkomstig van de Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) in Den Haag. Ook dit jaar selecteerde het GEM elf aanstormende talenten die allen in 2009 afstudeerden.
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David Schnell
10/7/2010 - 3/10/2010
For centuries, artists have sought to create the suggestion of movement in their paintings. The vertiginous combinations of natural and artificial elements used by German artist David Schnell (b. Bergisch Gladbach, 1971) produce the desired illusion of both speed and depth.
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