An exhibition that explores new developments in international artistic practice. Arte Útil is an artistic practice which imagines, creates and implements social benefits. With this aim, the old museum building is transformed theatrically into the new Museum of ‘Useful Art’, an institution devoted to interpreting these practices and assessing their importance in recent art history.
Since the 80s a growing number of artists have used their own practice to propose creative solutions for social problems. The purpose of this exhibition is to show and consider artistic tools as an element of transformation and social interaction. Tools which deal with the real world of today and question the role of art as an exercise in representation and as a practice that is separate from life.
AC/E is collaborating with the Van Abbemuseum through its mobility programme by supporting the participation in the exhibition of the Spanish artists Nuria Güell, Santi Cirugeda, Memetro and Lara Almarcegui.
Since the 80s a growing number of artists have used their own practice to propose creative solutions for social problems. The purpose of this exhibition is to show and consider artistic tools as an element of transformation and social interaction. Tools which deal with the real world of today and question the role of art as an exercise in representation and as a practice that is separate from life.
AC/E is collaborating with the Van Abbemuseum through its mobility programme by supporting the participation in the exhibition of the Spanish artists Nuria Güell, Santi Cirugeda, Memetro and Lara Almarcegui.