WHITE BALLS ON WALLS

Dir: Sarah Vos / 90 min / 2022 / German, Sranan, English, Dutch / English subtitles

Succession contemporary art world-style.

Saturday 28 October. Simultaneous screenings at:

Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (Buy Tickets)

14:00 — 15:30: a mediated tour around the Warwick Art Collection (meeting point TBA)

15:30 — 17:00: screening of White Balls on Walls (Screen 3)

17:00 — 18:00: after-screening discussion livestreamed from WAC to MAC (speakers TBA)

Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham (Buy Tickets)

15:30 — 17:00: the screening of White Balls on Walls 

17:00 — 18:00: after-screening discussion livestreamed from WAC to MAC

The administration at the legendary Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam attempts to diversify its staff and exhibition policy, while facing multiple bureaucratic obstacles, public disapproval, and internal conflicts. Making the audience privy to the functioning of one of the biggest and most prestigious contemporary art institutions in Europe, Sarah Vos’ film addresses the uncomfortable issues of money, underrepresentation (93% of the Stedelijk’s collection is white men, most of whom are dead) and the colonial history of the Netherlands. Many of the insecurities hilariously exposed by White Balls on Walls can be transposed onto the larger hypocrisy of the cultural industry, which exercises in box-ticking and diversity quotas but remains patriarchal and euro-centric at its core.

Post-screening discussion TBA