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SMART Project Space (SPS or SMART) is a nonprofit platform for visual art and contemporary culture founded in 1994. It is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands near the city center in the Oud West neighborhood in a building that used to be the Pathological Anatomical Laboratory. SMART Project Space is dedicated to supporting artists and stimulating new relationships between the audience and artist. SMART commissions, produces, and presents a variety of contemporary exhibitions, films, and performance events, drawing together a wide range of approaches from emerging international artists.〔Mondriaan Foundation〕 SMART has developed different platforms of artistic production and creative research - from exhibition space, to cinema, to artist studios, and to a café/restaurant. It is part community facility, part laboratory, and part center for academic inquiry because it provides an alternative to the existing institutional structures.〔Time Out Amsterdam, Published by Time Out Guides, 2005, Pg. 206〕 SMART is publicly funded by the Mondriaan Foundation, Municipality Amsterdam; Bureau Broedplaatsen, Stichting DOEN, The Netherlands Film Fund, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, VSBfonds, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Culture Ireland. ==History== SMART Project Space was founded in 1994 by Thomas Peutz, who is the acting president and artistic director. It first resided on the Kloveniersburgwal, first on number 7. Later, SMART moved into a larger building, the so-called Bushuis on number 48 (now a library of the University of Amsterdam) in the center of Amsterdam. In 2000 SMART moved to the building of the former Jan Swammerdam Institute of the University on the 1e Constantijn Huygensstraat.〔Werner Toonkt, Tuesday, November 21, 2006 (http://www.wernertoonk.nl/smart)〕 Since 2008, SMART has permanently settled in the former Pathological Anatomical Laboratory (PAL) in the Old West neighborhood of Amsterdam which is known for its diverse and eclectic ethnic and artistic community. SMART purchased the PAL (circa 1930) building in 2005 on the Arie Biemondstraat. It started its activities in 2006 in a part of the building while the rest of the building was extensively renovated. Renovations were fully finished in 2008 with the opening of the Cafe-restaurant LAB111 and SMART Cinema. There are four levels separated according to function. Artist studios and administrative office space are on the top floor. 600 m2 of exhibition space, including a main space and a smaller project space are on the first floor. An auditorium, two cinemas and a café/restaurant, LAB111, which is accessed through the main lobby. Lab111 was awarded a "9+" score by "notoriously finicky food critic Johannes van Dam." 〔Smith, Mark, "Get Smart", Time Out Amsterdam, February 2011, Pg. 70〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SMART Project Space」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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