Sowing and Weeding
Folk Culture and Contemporary Art

18.06 - 04.09 2011

In Europe, and certainly in the Netherlands, we are experiencing a true ‘renaissance of folk culture’. This summer, the Cobra Museum presents a multilateral, international group exhibition that links today's renewed interest in folk culture to contemporary art and cultural heritage. The exhibition takes a close look at the relationship between folk culture and art, in which the most pertinent issue is the role that folk culture plays in the continuing process of globalization.

Over twenty European artists for whom folk culture is a source of inspiration are taking part. Several of these artists have been especially invited by the Cobra Museum to develop new work for this exhibition. Works by some of the Cobra artists are included. Cobra was the first post-war movement of avant-garde artists for whom folk art and folk culture were an essential source of information.

Participating artists:
Bureau Venhuizen (NL), CoBrA, Hadassah Emmerich (NL), Steingrimur Eyfjörd (IS), Kristof Georgen (DE), Sebastian Hammwöhner (DE), Uwe Henneken (DE), Nadine Hottenrott (DE), Britta Jonas (DE), Aurelia Mihai (RO), Mariella Mosler (DE), Monika Nuber (DE), Gabriela Oberkofler (IT), Rory Pilgrim (GB), Pinar & Viola (NL), Lisl Ponger (A), Anselm Reyle (DE), Gitte Schäfer (DE), Wiebke Siem (DE), Martin Städeli (CH), Helmut Stallaerts (BE), Derk Thijs (NL), Olga Titus (CH), Gert & Uwe Tobias (RO).

Cobra Museum
Sandbergplein 1
Amstelveen NL
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