Let us explore the stars

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents an historic survey of the international avant-garde artists’ group Zero, the largest artists’ network in history to change notions of art forever.

Heinz Mack during the shooting of the film <i>Tele-Mack</i>, 1968. Photo: Edwin Braun

Fire, light, movement, space, demonstrations, and performances: the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents an historic survey of the innovative, international avant-garde artists’ group, Zero.

In the ’50s and ’60s, the Zero artists’ group experimented with the most innovative materials and media. In 1962, the Stedelijk Museum staged the first museum presentation of Zero. A few years later, a more comprehensive survey, “Nul 1965”, followed, a presentation widely considered as one of the movement’s highlights. Now, precisely fifty years later, the Stedelijk is proud to present an historical survey that sheds light on how the network’s artists – Armando, Heinz Mack, Henk Peeters, Otto Piene, Jan Schoonhoven, Günther Uecker, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Jean Tinguely, and Yayoi Kusama – redefined the meaning and form of art forever.

Top: Heinz Mack during the shooting of the film Tele-Mack, 1968. Photo: Edwin Braun. Above: Akira Kanayama, Boru, 1956. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Lucio Fontana and Jef Verheyen, Le Jour, Knokke, December 3, 1962. © Filip Tas / Sabam 2015 / FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen

Yayoi Kusama, Aggregration: One Thousand Boats Show, 1963. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Jürgen Morschel, ‘Zero 3: Dokumentation der neuen Kunst’ in Schwäbische Donauzeitung, July 26, 1961

Left: Jan Schoonhoven (back) and Herman de Vries, "Nul" exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1962. Right: Illustration from ZERO vol. 3, 1961. Designed by Heinz Mack. © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkVG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2015

July 4 – November 8, 2015
Zero
Let us explore the stars
curated by Margriet Schavemaker
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Museumplein 10, Amsterdam

Let us explore the stars

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents an historic survey of the international avant-garde artists’ group Zero, the largest artists’ network in history to change notions of art forever.

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