Sonsbeek

[3] The exhibition's most recent edition, Force Times Distance: On Labor and Its Sonic Ecologies, opened in October 2021 and will be on view through 2024.

[4] Sonsbeek was initiated in an attempt to repair the heavy damage the city had suffered during the Battle of Arnhem during the Second World War.

[7] The 1993 installment was curated by Valerie Smith, and included the artists Ann Hamilton, Mike Kelley, Annette Messager and others.

In October 2022, it was reported that the curators of Sonsbeek's most recent edition had left abruptly due to what its artistic director, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, had described as “precarious and ultimately unbearable" working conditions.

[4] In addition to Ndikung, the other members of the curatorial team who had announced their departure included Antonia Alampi, Amal Alhaag, Zippora Elders, Aude Christel Mbga, and Vincent van Velsen.

Robert Smithson, Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, 1971 Sonsbeek exhibition (photographed in 2006)