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13:00—17:00

During her residency as part of BijlmAIR, artist Mirjam Linschooten is researching the value and authenticity of art in Heesterveld. She talks to residents of Amsterdam Southeast about a group of wooden sculptures from West Africa – dismissed by experts as copies – about how they relate to the works.

How to Exit and How not to Enter is an investigation into this group of sculptures, made for Western tourists so not ‘authentic’. The title refers to the search for a destination for the objects outside traditional museums (how to exit) without re-presenting them according to a Western model (how not to enter). To this end, she questions art experts and curators and, during her residency, enters into conversation with people who relate to the objects from a personal or emotional connection, as an equal form of knowledge and expertise.

Mirjam Linschooten (1976) is a Dutch multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Amsterdam. Her work includes film, installation, photography, collage and text. She investigates how historical institutions, such as the Ethnographic Museum, deal with colonial heritage and counterbalance dominant narratives about history and culture. She completed her bachelor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and her master at the Dutch Art Institute.

Linschooten has done several residencies and exhibited internationally at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Leiden), Cemeti Institute for Art and Society (Yogyakarta), De Appel (Amsterdam,) Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Artellewa (Cairo), Museum of Modern Art (Tétouan), Art Gallery of Toronto, among others.