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Achmea Via its content, edge and humor, the exhibition Niet Normaal * Difference on Display will open doors and thus contribute to a broad social discussion. Niet Normaal fits in well with Achmea’s whatarewedoing-campaign. With its background in developing cooperative solutions, Achmea is an important partner in providing social security and healthcare. Achmea takes this responsibility seriously and places important social issues on the agenda. […] Niet Normaal also offers its visitors a mirror and generates issues for reflection. Achmea can identify with this approach, and supports the value of art and the role that art and artists can play in this public debate. The art of Niet Normaal provides a finger on the pulse of society and confronts us with ‘what we are doing. www.achmea.nl VSBfonds What is a disability? And what is normal? The campaign Niet Normaal raises questions about our norms and values concerning disability and being different. Niet Normaal appeals to the VSBFonds because of the project’s ambition to engage a wide audience in discussion about social perceptions of what it means to ‘be different.’ The VSBfonds believes that diversity is enriching. This is why VSBfonds supports projects that make room for differences in identity and background. Projects that empower people with physical, mental and learning disabilities and enable them to participate more fully in society. The stimulation of positive perceptions about people who are ‘different’ can facilitate greater and more rewarding possibilities for social inclusion.' VSBfonds is an investment fund that is active across a broad social spectrum: people & society, nature & environment, art & culture and sport. The fund donates millions of Euros annually to projects that stimulate the social quality of Dutch society. In this way the VSBfonds advocates for a society in which as many people as possible can participate and develop their possibilities. This, so that now and in the future, we can all play a role in shaping our lives and the quality of our surroundings. www.vsbfonds.nl Mondriaan Stichting The proposal concerns an ambitious and large-scale event that distinguishes itself from other art campaigns by its aim to connect a social-cultural agenda to contemporary visual art which will appeal to a wide audience. The exhibition explores the concept of normality, stimulating reflection on questions concerning the perfectibility of human beings, bio politics and the relationship between humans and machines. An international selection of artists has been invited to reflect on the subject and thereby function in a social-cultural context to pose questions about the concept of normality. The plans are clearly formulated, the peripheral programming is interesting and the organisation inspires confidence. www.mondriaanstichting.nl Stichting DOEN The exhibition and campaign Niet Normaal · Difference on Display reveals how normal it is to be different from physical, mental and/or cognitive norms. The current attention for body, health and biotechnological enhancement are confrontational. The exhibition makes visitors reflect upon contemporary norms and values in terms of health and illness and being normal versus abnormal. Stichting DOEN highly values the importance of stimulating societal and cultural participation to the community. For this reason DOEN finances Niet Normaal from budget of the BankGiro Loterij. www.stichtingdoen.nl Turing Foundation Niet Normaal · Difference on Display is a large scale, internationally ambitious project with the potential to draw a wide-audience to appreciate the work of important (international) artists. In addition to games, films and documentaries, Niet Normaal will also feature paintings of artists such as Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois and Marc Quinn. Many of these works are in collections which are seldom accessible to the Dutch public. These are important reasons for the Turing Foundation to support this project. www.turingfoundation.org Prins Claus Fonds Niet Normaal · Difference on Display not only presents high quality art, but it also expands the concept of diversity in relation to visual art and the audience. The exhibition opens its doors to people who may seem different but perhaps are not. It presents in another light the subjects disabled-abled, sick-healthy and the relationship between body and mind and how we imagine them, opening discussion about them. In short, a new approach to the visual arts and a new approach to large groups of people who deal with others, with sickness, mental illness and being different. Are we really so different from each other? www.prinsclausfonds.nl Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Niet Normaal · Difference on Display promises to be an important campaign. Art is always about difference. The way in which Curator Ine Gevers connects this perspective to health, biotechnology and social responsibility is very promising. This makes the project not only interesting, but pressing in its urgency. www.boijmans.nl |