Stichting MU

Location: Eindhoven, NL
Year founded: 1998

Address:
Emmasingel 20 5611 AZ Eindhoven NL

Contact details:

Tel: +31-(0)40-2961663
Email: mu@mu.nl

Website: mu.nl

Social Media:
MU Facebook group
Angelique Spaninks Facebook

Twitter: angeliqmu

Indicative opening times:
Everyday mo-fr 10-18 h, sat 11-17 h, sun 13-17 h.
Between exhibitions MU is closed, so check our website.

Current staff:
Angelique Spaninks  director/curator

MU zooms in on the hybrid actuality of now and later in visual culture. MU is an adventurous guide to all art lovers with a keen interest in the energetic mix of design, fashion, music, architecture, and new media that contemporary art and culture have to offer.

MU is an open minded dynamic space where most projects breath the 21st century practice of multidisciplinary co-operation. Attracting a wide audience, of over 20.000 mainly young people, MU is a meeting place and inspirational breeding ground for creative Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and the world.
MU initiates and co-produces projects with all kinds of artists in a mixture of disciplines. MU likes to challenge upcoming international artists to realise their dreams, or to stage their first large presentation, solo, or in a group. In that sense MU shows what art can be, not what art should be.

The name MU is derived from a Japanese character for ‘synergy’. In Zen Buddhism, however, mu has a deeper meaning, one that is even more typical of MU. In Zen, mu stands for ‘nothing’, ‘not one’, ‘not zero’, ‘not yes’, ‘not no’. It creates the possibility to put an end to black-and-white thinking, to leave questions unanswered, and to show what may happen next.

Many of the projects that MU has realised in the past have been made possible through a branched-out network of contacts. Among the co-operating artists were illustrious names such as Kim Gordon, Susan Cianciolo, Han Hoogerbrugge, Ari Marcopoulos, Peter Sutherland, Swoon, D-Fuse, Scanner, Geoff McFetridge, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Genevieve Gauckler, Eva + Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, Julie Verhoeven, VVORK.com, Christien Meindertsma, Maya Hayuk, Stephen Smith aka Neasden Control Centre and Fons Schiedon. Besides working with these great artists MU also likes to focus on interesting topics or areas in contemporary culture which result for instance in group shows with young artists from South Africa or thematic shows like Funware, Learning To Love You More or The New Psychedelica which will be on show in april/may of 2011 during Trajector. For a complete overview of MU projects see: exhibition/archives at www.mu.nl.

Since 1998, MU is located on the first floor of De Witte Dame, a former Philips factory in the centre of Eindhoven.

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Showing at Trajector:

Values Jasper van Es

Art and the artworld evolve around values. In all senses of the word: esthetic, ethic and financial. Jasper van Es likes to take this as a starting point for his project Values, in which money and the way it is used in the artworld is examined on another level.

Personally Jasper has a kind of love and hate relationship to money. He likes to have it, if only to live comfortably, but he doesn't want to sell his soul. Not personally but especially not as an artist. Still he has to deal with it, in one way or another. Given this dilemma he started examining how the value of money can actually be artistically attributed or dimished. This resulted so far in three ongoing projects: 1.Maecenas, 2. An Artists Privilege and 3. An Artists Touch. All three deal with actual money becoming art objects, by becoming more or less valuable, but always collectable.

MU, as a platform for visual culture with a sharp eye for the activist and subversive in all kinds of multidisciplinary practices, likes to promote young artists by helping them produce new works. The reason for bringing Jasper van Es to Brussels is that he is actually in his first year to conquer the artworld as a professional artist and he does that in a very promising way. On top of that his Values project is for the full 100% fitting to the Neuconomics theme of this Trajector Art Fair. And since doesn't believe in coincidence it had to be like this.

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