Afternoon with artist Abdulrahim Turkistan
11 December 14:00 h
Saudi Arabian artist Abdulrahim Turkistan, who has studied communications engineering and works as a business professional in The Netherlands, follows evening classes at the Royal Academy of Art in The Haguer and will give us a talk about his work and experience as an artist. On show is one of his works from a series named Atlas, acquired by the museum in June, and inspired by the city and region of Kashgar in present day western China from where the artist's family emigrated to Saudi Arabia.
Tickets not necessary. No charge. To secure a chair please make a reservation at: events@greenboxmuseum.org, but there might always be some space left to sit on the floor.
We chose (exhibition)
24 November 2016 - 30 January 2017
To wrap up the old year and start the new year the museum incorporates into its permanent collection new work that was acquired in Saudi Arabia in 2015 and 2016.
Leiden visit of Ahmed Mater
6 September 2013
There are two exhibitions in the city of Leiden in the Netherlands opening in September 2013, which are of interest to us. Firstly, there is a celebration of 400 years of Arabic studies in the Netherlands: Excellence and Dignity, which is organized by Leiden University Libraries. Then secondly, the National Museum of Ethnology, Museum Volkenkunde, is showing Longing for Mekka - an exhibition about the Hadj. This second exhibition will include several contemporary artworks made by artists from Saudi Arabia.
To install his work Magnetism for the exhibition in Museum Volkenkunde Ahmed Mater visited the city of Leiden and its university, which is the oldest in the Netherlands. It was granted in 1575 by William of Orange - after the town withstood an enemy siege - to create an administrative, theological and scientific elite for the nation. Of Ahmed's visit to Leiden, we made some pictures with the inevitable smartphone and present those here.
With dr. Arnoud Vrolijk, curator of Oriental manuscripts and rare books at Leiden University Libraries. Looking at the original photo's made by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) and Abd-el Ghaffar, the physician from Mecca., around 1885.
Inside Rapenburg 61, once the house of dr. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, professor of Islamic studies, now the office of Leiden University Fund.
Connecting to Jeddah music recorded in 1908 at the exhibition celebrating 400 years of Arabic studies in the Netherlands.
Visit
The museum is open on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 13:00 to 17:00 hours or on any other day or evening by appointment made by e-mail or by phone:
E info@greenboxmuseum.com.
T 31(0)624282884
Entry fee is € 5 per person and € 40 for groups of 8-20. Students (everybody younger than 27 we consider as such) have free access. The location of the museum is on the fourth floor of an office building near Leidseplein at Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 12,
1017 RC Amsterdam.