Practical info

Opening hours
Thu May 30th 16:00 - 00:00
Fri May 31st 16:00 - 00:00
Sat June 1st 14:00 - 22:00
Sun June 2nd 12:00 - 20:00

Note: last entry up to max one hour before closing time.

Your visit

• You can enter with your ticket within 30 minutes after the start of your timeslot. You are free to stay as long as you like, or come and go throughout the day. 
• We recommend visiting the museum for at least two hours to see all works and performances.
• We invite you to pay what you can afford for your visit.

Duration
8 hours continuous

Ticket price
€10 - €40, pay what you can

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Tehching Hsieh 

We are showing One Year Performance 1980-1981 by legendary Taiwanese artist Tehching Hsieh. Hsieh completed this performance in 1981: for a whole year, he clocked in every hour on a clocking-in machine installed in his studio in New York, making him the perfect embodiment of the self-disciplining human.

Pierre Bal-Blanc

French artist Pierre Bal-Blanc once worked as a go-go dancer in a performance by Félix González-Torres. A growing sense of being objectified prompted him to create the video work Employment Contract (1992).

Julian Hetzel

Julian Hetzel is showing Time Machine (2014), in which two performers constantly read out the time. Where work is normally seen as a dynamic activity, Hetzel reveals an alternative: a slowed-down universe as an invitation to waste our time in more meaningful ways. 

Anna-Marija Adomaitytė

Anna-Marija Adomaitytė from Lithuania created WORKPIECE on the basis of her experiences working at McDonalds. Twice every evening she carries out a highly accurate performance on a conveyor belt, as a representation of the fast-food machinery within which she once operated.

Ahmet Öğüt

Labor after Pay, Love before Work can be seen offline, but can be followed via an online livestream. The public can watch Ahmet Öğüt paint for eight hours. However, only as long as the stream receives 'likes' will the artist work.

Gosia Wdowik

As a young talent, Polish maker Gosia Wdowik experienced a burn-out. This inspired her to create the new durational performance Body in Resistance (Frascati Producties) which she will show and perform herself throughout the entirety of the exhibition. The exhausted body resists the demands of time.

Dries Verhoeven

Dries Verhoeven himself is showing the monumental work Broeders verheft u ter vrijheid  (nominated for the VSCD mime award in 2021). Bulgarian performers with experience as migrant workers sing a historical workers’ song amidst a ballet performed by robot arms.  Parallel to this, the film The Recruitment will be shown, in which we follow Verhoeven on his search for singing performers in Bulgaria. 

In the video installation To Perform, we hear these performers talking about their experiences in the automated workplace. For Songs for Thomas Piketty, Verhoeven recorded the voices of singing homeless people; vandal-proof ghetto-blasters allow these voices to be heard in public spaces, where begging is now prohibited. The smaller works Burger and Painkiller Dispenser can also be seen.