December 19 – December 22

 every day 14h -18h

The magazine Kunstlicht investigates the remarkable renaissance of the map in visual arts with a publication and an exhibition. The launch of Mind the Map will coincide with the opening of Alternative Exactitudes on December 19th at P/////AKT platform for contemporary art, Amsterdam.

The exhibition will feature Annesas Appel, Lado Darakhvelidze, Luc Deleu/T.O.P. Office, Tim Hollander, Gert Jan Kocken, Jean Bernard Koeman, Julio Pastor, Elian Somers, Adrien Tirtiaux and Sofie Van Der Linden. During the opening there will be a performance by Pia Louwerens.

Overseeing the world is seeing an abstraction. Cartography is the ultimate symbol of this: the map only functions because it is an artificial entirety of simplified marks designating more complex forms of knowledge such as geographical or demographical knowledge, but also the memory or the imagination of the 'terrain'. For centuries, the cartographic representation of the earth was hardly ever contested, but this changed in the course of the twentieth century. In cartography as well as in the visual arts, the systems that had previously been utilized to render reality legible were critically assessed. opening: December 19, 20:00 introduction curators launch publication Mind the Map lecture by Robert Verhoogt performance by Pia Louwerens  

In the meantime, the map has become firmly rooted in contemporary art. What is the explanation of its appeal to artists? And is this process of influence one-sided or can cartography also develop by looking at the visual arts? Whilst Mind the Map examines these and similar questions as well as various case studies in a discursive manner, Alternative Exactitudes displays artwork that opens up our understanding of cartography, signaling new issues and formulating unexpected answers. The exhibition will be accompanied by a print-on- demand catalogue.