De Appel & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Within the archives of De Appel lies an accumulation of objects -- of artworks, props, leftovers, and unidentified materials -- that have come to be known as its Unintended Collection. Unintended because no-one made the decision to begin assembling them, nor seeks to add to their number, nor governs their categories. Starting from the eccentricity of this collection, Landscape with Bear presents a single continuous landscape that blurs the line between art object and display. Building from the proposition that practices of collecting are part of regimes of knowledge-production, this exhibition asks, what kinds of knowledge can emerge from the fragmentary, the uncertain and the unstable?