The Beehive Experiment
↳ Artists With Attitude, Amsterdam, The Netherlands



The Beehive Experiment, Organized by AWA (Artists With Attitude), Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The Beehive experiment is initiated by AWA (Artists With Attitude), to develop an open and lively exhibition space in the gallery at OT301. The gallery is open only once a week (Monday evenings) and includes some sort of happening like lectures or performances.
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Space
Imagine you enter a space filled with stacks of boxes like in a storage. The boxes with one side open present their own world. They are filled by different artists with objects, models, photo's, books, monitors, intriguing mini installations.

Concept
Surprise, flexibility, and self-organization are important points of our concept. Beehive is not a temple but a vivid laboratory, which creates it's own dynamic. It makes it worthwhile to visit regularly, without knowing exactly what will happen.

Artists R not curated
Artists who want to participate get one of these little exhibition spaces over a period of 6 month to show whatever he/she likes. It's free of charge. The only thing we ask the artists is to place a different, interesting artpiece at least every 2 weeks in order to keep the 'beehive' lively. You can foward your box to another artist you know and who is interested in participating. The flexible box-architecture will also allow us to change the over-all-look of the art space regulary.

The Beehive Experiment is not a group exhibition of 32 artists but an accumulation of 32 mini galleries next to each other.

AWA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Curated by all participants
June 2, 2008— July 22, 2010

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Artists With Attitude were
Merav Artzi, Martin Hansen, Duro Toomato, Kiki Petratou, Maaike Stutterheim, Lucas van der Put, Ernst van Deursen, Judith Witteman, Esther Verhamme, Katja Novitskova.They are primarily busy with enhancing the communication between artists, promoting the space and keeping it alive with alcohol and music.
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