The Kunstvlaai exhibitors are chosen by the Sandberg Institute and there is great emphasis on featuring new initiatives and contemporary art organizations. This year there were exhibitors from the Netherlands, Scotland, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, China, Germany and Suriname – in total over 400 contributing artists.

Their installations ranged from the pretty average through to unexpected spaces such as a tea-and-cake stand, a bizarre hotel concept from the Transvaal project, a great photography collection ‘Permissible subjects‘, courtesy of Avans Hogeschool and music from previous Shift interviewees, record label Narrominded.

The Glasgow School of Art students’ exhibition, for example, was transported completely in a single suitcase as all 31 students on the course were instructed to create simple work no bigger than A3 in size. Their exhibition came across as a modest and ‘quiet’ pre-run for their larger end-of-year show which opened a few weeks later at the Glasgow School of Art.

Kunstvlaai 6
Date: May 6th – 14th, 2006
Place: Westerpark
Address: 8-10 Haarlemmerweg, 1014 BE Amsterdam
https://www.kunstvlaai.nl