A Brief History of Video Art in Holland. 30 Years in the Work of 30 artists

The works presented include pieces by Marina Abramović (Belgrade, 1946) and Ulay (Solingen, 1943), Nan Hoover (New York, 1931 - Berlin, 2008), Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas (Espinal, 1934), Elsa Stansfield (Glasgow, 1945 - Amsterdam, 2004) and Madelon Hooykaas (Maartensdijk, 1942), Jeffrey Shaw (Melbourne, 1944) and Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942), among others. The show also includes work from the new generations that actively participated in the internationalisation of the visual arts, such as Tion Ang (who received the award for best young artist at the Venice Biennale in 2001), Yael Davids (Jerusalem, 1968) and Alicia Framis (Barcelona, 1967), who represented Holland at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

The geographical limits of this exhibition also make it possible to interrogate history, the construction of the nation and the national and the practice of technological media in an extended cultural space without borders. Moreover, themes that have left their mark on the history of video and concentrated the attention of theoreticians and historians, such as the questions of gender, narrative mechanisms and ‘new identities,’ are explicitly dealt with in the exhibition and can be traced across a varied and colourful spectrum of expressions.