Vleeshal Middelburg

About

The Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art is an art museum in Middelburg, the Netherlands. The center organises exhibitions of contemporary art and an accompanying public program in a building which was formerly Middelburg's town hall, on the market square. Characterized by its distinct Gothic architecture, Vleeshal is a unique space. The venue has inspired many artists to create extraordinary exhibitions, bringing Vleeshal international renown. Under the directorship of the current director Roos Gortzak, artists such as Cally Spooner, Ola Vasiljeva, Simone Forti, Andrea Éva Györi, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Paul Maheke have developed new works. Until 2017, Vleeshal also organised exhibitions in a second exhibition space: Vleeshal Zusterstraat. As a result of municipal cutbacks, Vleeshal Zusterstraat closed on October 1, 2017. The library of Vleeshal Zusterstraat was transferred to the library of Zeeland on long-term loan. This collection of publications is focussed on contemporary art and includes monographs, critical analyses, catalogues, and works on artists who have exhibited at Vleeshal. In 2015 Vleeshal kicked off its nomadic programme, as an extension of its existing exhibition programme...

Since 2005, the Vleeshal collection has been stored at MHKA Antwerpen as part of a long-term loan. MHKA handles the conservation and loan applications of the collection, which includes works by artists such as Mona Hatoum, Jimmie Durham, Marlow Moss, Marcel Duchamp, Nina Beier and Marie Lund, and Marinus Boezem. Works by Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Marlow Moss are currently on view at the Antwerp museum.

- 'The Vleeshal Opera' with Dorothy Iannone & Juliette Blightman

- ‘I Think I Look More like the Chrysler Building’ with Kasper Bosmans, Lena Henke, Win McCarthy, Annelies Planteijdt and Diane Simpson 2020

- 'Progressive Touch' Michael Portnoy 2019

- 'As Long As The Potatoes Grow' with Pieter Slagboom

- ‘Every Loft Needs a Sink’ curated by the artist initiative Root Canal, consisting of Anders Dickson, Frieder Haller, Henna Hyvärinen and Thomas Swinkels

- 'Allegiance & Oblivion' with Kaspar Müller

- 'A fire circle for a public hearing' with Paul Maheke 2018

- 'Show Personality, Not Personal Items' with Leda Bourgogne, Nora Turato and Evelyn Taocheng Wang

- 'Traumatized Lemon' with Andrea Éva Győri

- 'Paranoid House' with Anders Dickson, Philipp Gufler, Henna Hyvärinen, Becket Mingwen and Sophie Serber 2017

- 'Why Patterns' with Noa Eshkol, Daan Gielis, Radna Rumping, Damon Zuccini, Milan Grygar, Lina Lapelyte, Les Trucs, Sergei Tcherepnin and Hannah Weinberger

- 'Survival Guides for Ballroom Dancers, Renovators, Softball Moms, Working Parents and Troubled Folk in General' with Moyra Davey, Martin Kohout, Katja Novitskova, Laure Prouvost and Jay Tan

- 'Violent Incident' with Rosa Aiello, Bernadette Corporation, Andrea Fraser, Jef Geys, Gil Leung, Bruce Nauman, Danh Vo