NLMagazine/Amsterdam, Arts & Culture - Salon d'Amour is a participatory performance by conceptual artist Margret Wibmer that explores love as a force for transformation in times of social and ecological crisis. The performance is presented as part of our current exhibition, Collecting I: Bridges, in which the work of Wibmer is featured.
The performance invites the audience into a shared space of reading and listening to love letters from renowned international writers and artists such as James Baldwin, Frida Kahlo, John Cage, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Marianna Maruyama, Ingeborg Bachmann, Astridh Roemer and others.
Rooted in Margret Wibmer’s long-term research into socially engaged art, ecology and transcultural identity, Salon d’Amour asks: how can humans and non-humans navigate shared realms of reciprocity, cooperation, and collaboration? Recently presented in Kanazawa, Japan and now staged in a new edition created for The Merchant House, Salon d’Amour mediates participants into a space of intimacy, anonymity, and exchange through a specific choreography, selected texts and masks developed and made by Wibmer, and a soundscape by composer Robert Poss.
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At The Merchant House
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Friday 4 July & Saturday 5 July, 19:00-21:00 (Doors open 18:30)
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Tickets must be purchased online. Limited availability.
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(Fri 4 July is sold out. Waiting list only.)
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Extremely limited spots. No experience needed—come as you are.
Performance in English & Dutch. -
Supported by AFK – Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Iona Stichting, and the Austrian Embassy The Hague.
Margret Wibmer
Is an internationally renowned visual and performance artist with Austrian roots, based in Amsterdam. Her work explores the dynamic relationships between bodies, objects, and spaces, often involving the audience as active participants. Wibmer has exhibited and performed among others with Tsuzuru in Kanazawa, Japan, with ICAI in The Oculus in New York City, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, RMIT Design Hub Melbourne, Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy in Japan, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, KAI 10 – Arthena Foundation in Düsseldorf, Lumen Travo Gallery, Bradwolff Projects, Movement Exposed Gallery Space and many other venues. Wibmer is adjunct lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in Singapore since 2021 and joined the US based Institute for Cultural Activism International (ICAI) as a performer and board member in 2022.
Collecting I: Bridges
Works from the collection of Christopher Springham FRSA and the artists of TMH
Featuring: Tracey Emin, Banksy, Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley, James Rosenquist, and Margret Wibmer, among others
This exhibition explores the transformative nature of art collecting as an open-ended conversation among collectors, artists, artworks, galleries, art professionals, and audiences. At the heart of the show are works from the collection of the London- and Amsterdam-based collector and sustainability entrepreneur Christopher Springham FRSA.
“This show highlights the important role—of supporting and preserving art—that we can all play. It’s a great occasion to see TMH’s artists alongside the works chosen by Christopher Springham with such passion.” —Marsha Plotnitsky, Founding Artistic Director of TMH
