{"product_id":"collection-as-cosmos","title":"Collection as Cosmos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is currently at the printer; it will ship internationally from the beginning of November 2026. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePlease \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kverlag.com\/pages\/subscribe-to-k\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esign up to our newsletter\u003c\/a\u003e to stay informed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollection as Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e is an exhibition research companion that brings together manuals, essays, and visual documentation to think differently about how art—and time itself—might be organized. At its heart is the Van Abbemuseum’s collection of modern and contemporary art, whose histories, contradictions, and possibilities become fertile ground for imagining other ways of living with the past, present, and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeparting from the linear structures that tend to organize museum collections, the book takes up the Greek root of \u003cem\u003ekósmos\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning both order and decoration. Materials gather like star clusters across time, forming constellations around four artistic practices and temporal propositions: Regenerative Time, Unchronological Time, Public Time, and Cosmic Times. Through questions of grief and mourning, personal and institutional histories, rest and recuperation, and celestial and agricultural knowledge, these constellations offer different ways of contending with modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade for those who have encountered the collection display and those who may never have the chance, \u003cem\u003eCollection as Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e offers a departure point for finding more just and joyful ways of living in our shared everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Launch\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 24, 2026, 16:15–17:15\u003cbr\u003eVan Abbemuseum, Eindhoven\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Lineo Segoete, and Rangoato Hlasane (Another Roadmap Africa Cluster) for the publication launch of \u003cem\u003eCollection as Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e, as part of \u003cem\u003eThe Universe is Bigger Than…\u003c\/em\u003e a conference with cosmologist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein; artists and System Thinkers Ayoung Kim and Vladan Joler; and the MA Contextual Design students from Design Academy Eindhoven with Maia Kenney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore information \u0026amp; full program → \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vanabbemuseum.nl\/en\/see-and-do\/activities\/conference-the-universe-is-bigger-than\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003evanabbemuseum.nl\/conference-the-universe-is-bigger-than\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"K. Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64756754809209,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/1751\/1935\/files\/K.Verlag2026_VAM-Collections-as-Cosmos.png?v=1790869049","url":"https:\/\/kverlag.com\/products\/collection-as-cosmos","provider":"K. Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}