INCORPORATIONS   1 Nov - 23 Nov 2025

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FOURTH 19 Dec 2024 - 6 Jan 2025

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INCORPORATIONS

Michael Stevenson, Tomasz Skibicki


GDL525, Amsterdam
1–23 November, 2025


GDL525 is situated on the fifth floor of Gouden Leeuw, a monumental concrete complex of 400 apartments built in 1974 in the Amsterdam South-Eastern suburb of the Bijlmermeer. Tomasz Skibicki’s and Michael Stevenson’s exhibition, Incorporations, considers GDL525 multipurpose functions as curatorial office, exhibition space, and domestic interior, to imagine an architectural system where typology morphs into anatomy.

Incorporations borrows its title from processes of incorporation as blurrings and reformings of boundaries between organism and system, self and infrastructure, revealing complexity through scaling and doubling. The exhibition reframes corridors as digestive tracts, fire exits as throats and the entire building as a colossal body corporate whose circulatory system mirrors those of its inhabitants and visitors.

For Michael Stevenson and Tomasz Skibicki, this dual morphology arises also from the screen as a purveyor of riddled translation, regression, and doubling. A space of re-scaling where proof and apparition flip in endless relay: between actor and audience, content-maker and viewer, sender and receiver, celebrity and fan, healer and healed.

The showcased works are new examinations of previously presented pieces staged for the tubular entrance corridors, the living room of apartment 525 and the high-rise fire exit of tower 5 of the monumental residential complex.

On November 13th, the exhibition was extended in a talk by Michael Stevenson at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. The talk departs from the works featured in the exhibition to exemplify the artist’s four-decade-long ongoing investigation into the entanglement of belief, psychiatric, and institutional systems of power, control, and domination, while opening a view onto the broader concerns and interests that have shaped his work and practice.

The exhibition was made possible with the support of the AFK - Amsterdam Fonds voor Kunsten.


PRESS RELEASE


Tomasz Skibicki, bateria: ERLEBNIS 3#, 2018/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Tomasz Skibicki, bateria: ERLEBNIS 3#, 2018/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Tomasz Skibicki, bateria: ERLEBNIS 3#, 2018/2025, detail, 2-channel synced videos, stripped-down TFT monitors, custom fabricated hinge-mounts, dull-tech media players, multi-channel audio, HD video, sound, color, 1.48 min, loop.
Tomasz Skibicki, bateria: ERLEBNIS 3#, 2018/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Tomasz Skibicki, bateria: ERLEBNIS 3#, 2018/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Tomasz Skibicki, bateria: ERLEBNIS 3#, 2018/2025, detail, 2-channel synced videos, stripped-down TFT monitors, custom fabricated hinge-mounts, dull-tech media players, multi-channel audio, HD video, sound, color, 1.48 min, loop.
Tomasz Skibicki, bateria: ERLEBNIS 3#, 2018/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Tomasz Skibicki, bateria: ERLEBNIS 3#, 2018/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Michael Stevenson, Building and Training a Demon Expulsion Team, 2017/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Michael Stevenson, Building and Training a Demon Expulsion Team, 2017/2025, detail, rubber, plastic, wood, steel, aluminium, paper, card, rope, chalk.
Michael Stevenson, Building and Training a Demon Expulsion Team, 2017/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Michael Stevenson, Building and Training a Demon Expulsion Team, 2017/2025, detail, rubber, plastic, wood, steel, aluminium, paper, card, rope, chalk.
Michael Stevenson, Building and Training a Demon Expulsion Team, 2017/2025, detail, rubber, plastic, wood, steel, aluminium, paper, card, rope, chalk.
Michael Stevenson, Building and Training a Demon Expulsion Team, 2017/2025, detail, rubber, plastic, wood, steel, aluminium, paper, card, rope, chalk.
Michael Stevenson, Building and Training a Demon Expulsion Team, 2017/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Michael Stevenson, Building and Training a Demon Expulsion Team, 2017/2025, detail, rubber, plastic, wood, steel, aluminium, paper, card, rope, chalk.
Michael Stevenson, Building and Training a Demon Expulsion Team, 2017/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Michael Stevenson, Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, 2020/2025, detail, steel, plastic, synthetic fabrics, flat screen, 5.38 min, loop.
Michael Stevenson, Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, 2020/2025, detail, steel, plastic, synthetic fabrics, flat screen, 5.38 min, loop.
Michael Stevenson, Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, 2020/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Michael Stevenson, Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, 2020/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Michael Stevenson, Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, 2020/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Michael Stevenson, Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, 2020/2025, installation view, GDL525, Amsterdam.
Michael Stevenson, Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, 2020/2025, detail, steel, plastic, synthetic fabrics, flat screen, 5.38 min, loop.