Zijn naam was Austerlitz/Austerlitz was his name
February 12 – April 3, 2022

BÉATRICE BALCOU
DAVID BESTUÉ
PIERRE BISMUTH
PAVEL BÜCHLER
PEGGY BUTH
DANIEL GUSTAV CRAMER
JASON DODGE
MARCEL VAN EEDEN
AURÉLIEN FROMENT
SIMON FUJIWARA
MARIO GARCÍA TORRES
AGNÈS GEOFFRAY
ALEXANDER GUTKE
ANE METTE HOL
SVEN JOHNE
ALEXANDRA LEYKAUF
CHAIM VAN LUIT
CLARE NOONAN
MARZENA NOWAK
PAULIEN OLTHETEN
MOIRA RICCI
JASPER RIGOLE
STÉPHANIE SAADÉ
ORIOL VILANOVA
TRIS VONNA-MICHELL

a collaboration with TLÖN PROJECTS
curated by SAM STEVERLYNCK

The exhibition Zijn naam was Austerlitz/Austerlitz was his name marks the second edition of an annual collaboration between A Tale of A Tub and Tlön Projects and presents a variety of artworks selected from the imaginary collection of Tlön Projects. This imaginary collection is formed by the convergence of selected artworks from various international private art collections, whereby Tlön Projects aims to make artworks — that would otherwise have been largely shielded from the public — accessible.

For the second edition the Belgian art critic and curator Sam Steverlynck (1979) has organized a group exhibition based on the collection of Tlön Projects which takes W.G. Sebald’s (1944–2001) novel Austerlitz as a starting point. Almost coinciding exactly with the 20th anniversary of the premature death of influential German writer the exhibition takes the key work Austerlitz to tackle some of the literary techniques and themes that are elaborated in this novel: such as the impossibility of communication, memory’s unreliability, history’s latent life in the present, the use of found photographs to evoke or create memories and the unique combination of historic facts, autobiography and fiction.

The works comprising Zijn naam was Austerlitz/Austerlitz was his name is supported by the Municipality of Rotterdam, the Mondriaan Fund and J.E. Jurriaanse Stichting, and is developed in close collaboration with Tlön Projects.Zijn naam was Austerlitz/Austerlitz was his name originate from the following collections: Laurent Fiévet (France), Edgard F. Grima (France), G + W (the Netherlands), Joseph Kouli (France), Reyn van der Lugt (the Netherlands), plancius art collection, (the Netherlands), Alexander Ramselaar (the Netherlands), Family Servais (Belgium), Veys-Verhaevert (Belgium) and other collectors, who wish to remain anonymous.