Fucking Good Art (FGA) is an art magazine for art critic, an initiative of two Rotterdam based artists Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma.
Normally, FGA is published several issues a year in printed form and on the internet, and free available.
FGA #20 The Swiss Issue
This 20th issue of FGA, The Swiss Issue (and what life could be) is a field study on art and the art market, made in what could be the last days of neo-liberalism, the 3 months in which the UBS lost 16 billon dollars in the dividend crisis.
FGA #20 The Swiss Issue has been made at the introduction of the Kunsthaus Zurich for the exhibition 'Shifting Identities - [Swiss] Art Today'. The editors have attempted to understand how the machine behind art works and have looked critically at the role of the market. They have quickly come to understand that the market is effective for only approximately 3 to 5 per cent of the artists. But how does who decide who will make it to the top?
For this issue, six writers were invited for critical reflections on the art world and its existing model and artists, designers, curators and collectors in Switzerland were interviewed about art and the market. One question we posed to everyone: 'do you think the current hierarchical model works?' Which usually led to a second question: is it possible to conceive another model?
text contributions by Karen Wright, Piroschka Dossi, Anders Petterson, Barbara Basting, Ilona Genoni, Dora Imhof, Sören, Jo Maier, Thibaut de Ruyter
conversations with Harald Szeemann, Adam Szymczyk, Oliver Kielmayer, Rein Wolfs, Frank Hyde-Antwi, Daniel Baumann, Henry Levy, Wenzel A.Haller, Benjamin Somerhalder, Esther Eppstein, Daniel Suter, Andrea Thal, Annina Zimmermann, Jörg Zintzmeyer
artist contribution: Thomas Hirschhorn, Lutz & Guggisberg, Relax, Serge Spitzer, Felix Stephan Huber, Till Velten, Fabio Marco Pirovino, Karen Weinert, Anna Katharina Scheidegger, San Keller, Dagmar Heppner, Stefan Burger, Hans Rudolf Ambauen, Ganzblum, Heinrich Gartentor, Showroom, Batia Suter
meta comic 'What Life Could Be' by Michael Baers, in collaboration with the editors
- editors
- Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma
- graphic design
- Nienke Terpsma and Janna Meeus
paperback | 280 pp | 21 x 14.5 cm- language
- english/german
- ISBN
- 9789059730878
- price
- € 15.00 [netherlands]
€ 17.50 [europe]
€ 19.50 [outside europe]
FGA #12 International edition/Berlin
The editors of the Rotterdam-based art magazine Fucking Good Art, Nienke Terpsma and Rob Hamelijnck, proudly present their 12th issue: Fucking Good Art - International edition/Berlin.
This is the second time they have produced a paperback instead of their trusty A3 folded to A5 pink pamphlet with observations, critiques and reviews. It explores the (international) art world from a Berlin perspective, from the local point of view, in a mixture of articles, interviews, a crimi, a meta comic, reviews, and commissioned art works.
It is their opening salvo on greater Europe's culturati, taking aim, this time, at the incongruities, banalities, ongoing conversations, and internecine conflicts that make up an integral part of urban cultural life in Berlin. They do this no less with an unique mixture of brevity, wit, and hardball critique while displaying considerable elan.
Nienke Terpsma and Rob Hamelijnck are artists/designers and have been in Berlin since October 2005 until April 2006, while in attendance at the 'Project Studio Berlijn', a three months residency run by The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
Fucking Good Art - International edition/Berlin with
- Guide - nine pages list of 40 artist-run spaces
- a Novel by Starship
- a Comic: The Suitcase Artist
- Articles: on History as Fetishism, East of Italy, and Berlin's waiting room ..
- Interviews: curators Berlin Biennial 04, Waling Boers, Harm Lux, Manfred Pernice, Thomas Scheibitz
- and much more ..
Contributions by: Andreas Koch, Antje Schiffers & Thomas Sprenger, Ariane Müller & Hans-Christian Dany & Martin Ebner (Starship Magazine) Beate Engl, Beatrix Günther, Bernd Trasberger, Catherine Griffiths, Christine Würmell, Claudia Wahjudi, Dany Müller, David Shrigley, Dida Zende, Dorothea Jendricke & Wulf Walter Böttger, Erwin Weishaupt, Felix Huber, Florian Wojnar & Nikolai von Rosen (Future7), Helmut & Johanna Kandl, Hester Oerlemans, Jack Segbars, Jason Coburn, Micah Magee, Michael Baers, Nathalie Zonnenberg, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Nienke Terpsma, Rob Hamelijnck, Roos Menkhorst, Shahira Eissa, Susanna Mende, The Suitcase Artist, Tobi Maier.
- editors
- Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma
- graphic design
- Nienke Terpsma
paperback | 160 pp | 21 x 14.5 cm- language
- german/english
- ISBN
- 9789059730434
- price
- € 10.00 [netherlands]
€ 12.50 [europe]
€ 15.00 [outside europe]
FGA #10 The Interviews
FGA #10 The Interviews contains eight interviews with former and new museum directors and curators in the Netherlands, like
Chris Dercon (former Director Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, present Director the Haus der Kunst, Munich),
Catherine David (former Director Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and former Curator Documenta X),
Sjarel Ex (former Director Centraal Museum Utrecht, present Director Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen),
Arno van Roosmalen (former curator TENT., Rotterdam, and present Director Stroom hcbk, The Hague) and
Reyn van der Lugt (former Director Groninger Museum, present Head of Exhibitions at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI).
- editors
- Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma
- graphic design
- Nienke Terpsma
bound/softcover | 144 pp | 14,5 x 21 cm- language
- dutch/english
- ISBN
- 9059730275
- price
- € 10.00 [netherlands]
€ 12.50 [europe]
€ 15.00 [outside europe]