Inspector Casino´s Detective Show celebrates its 20th year´s birthday in 2025!

  In 2025 it will be 20 years since the foundation of Inspector Casino´s Detective Show with the (in)famous Inspector Casino.

It all started at the cellars of Radio Rietveld in the, at that time, new building of the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy. Hans Kuiper started with online radio and was lucky to be around its developments in the age of digitalisation. 

The original Inspector Casino Logo, designed by Babak Andishmand (2005).

Inspector Casino

Inspector Casino became a character in a series of radio plays, a hilarious connotation of the (predictable) detective stories all around (inter)national media. Inspector Casino fastly became a hype in the local Amsterdam art scene. What started as a ridiculisation of the almost traditional narrative soon splattered into associative sound sculptures with undiscernable story lines. The Inspector Casino soundscape was born.

In the meantime, Radio Rietveld was selected by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to be part of the 2006-2007 ´Just-in-Time´-exhibition, the Inspector Casino´s Detective Show was suddenly broadcasted via the airwaves over the whole city of Amsterdam. It would be not the last time. In 2008 the Show was listenable in the ´Kik´- art residence in Drenthe (NL) with a broadcasting reception reach of around 15 km.

Berlin

In 2009 the art radio program was broadcasted  out of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the show was transformed in a talk show on art and with artist guests talking on their work and projects, the participants often taking sound samples, and was listenable almost all over the city. It was one of the few shows solely on contemporary art in Berlin at that time, which made the show quickly famous in the art scene.

Initiator Hans Kuiper was also active at that time for other local TV and radio projects, like Pi Radio & B-Mix, as radio host and editor. He also started a talk show with German writer Tilo Koehler which ran till 2012.

Amsterdam FM

After returning to Amsterdam, The Inspector Casino programs on art were broadcasted at Amsterdam FM in 2012, the show contained soundscapes, live performances and interviews with local and international artists. 

Radio Neverno

In 2015 initiator Hans Kuiper was asked  for setting up another radio project in the art scene with Moritz Ebinger by curators of the ´Tomorrow Never Knows´ Exhibition in Arti et Amicitiae, the biggest art association in Amsterdam with exhibition halls in the center, Radio Neverno was born and the Inspector Casino´s Detective Show was back in the limelights.

After the exhibition and a renewed participation in the Museumnacht 2015, Ebinger left the radio  focusing on his other art projects. Kuiper kept on posting and interviewing artists, galerists and other players in the art scene, often looking for cross overs. Interviews appeared with art dealers, reportages on art and politics and opinion pieces were published, also with new contributors.

Since then Radio Neverno is a Podcast Radio station with occasionally Inspector Casino´s Detective Show in its program list, but in 2025-2026, it plans to go live again and The Inspector Casino´s Detective Show will be in the limelight again, producing live shows and podcasts on a regular basis.

Stay informed for these new series of art shows and updates on the streaming days! 

Some shows will be streamed live via the known streaming channels (Radioneverno.nl, Youtube.com, Twitch.tv & Instagram.).

Berlin Biennale (2) Christopher Cozier - lecture

Christopher Cozier lectured at the Berlin Biennale during the opening week. Cozier is an artist currently working in Trinidad (he runs an art space there) and lecturing world wide.

In this specific lecture Cozier gives an overview of his projects, the context of having grown up and working in Trinidad, his access into the art domain during and after his attendance of art school in the USA and his vision on the dominant perspectives in the contemporary art domain and the challenges this offers to artists of a different cultural background.

The second speaker is Gaby Ngcobo, curator of the Berlin Biennale 2018.

We advice you to put up the volume, the recording level unfortunately has been rather low.

Radio Neverno @Berlin Biennale (7/6-9/6)

By Hans Kuiper

Radio Neverno has obtained a press accreditation for the Berlin Biennale that opens for the public on June 9th 2018. We will visit the preview for art journalists and other invited art professionals.

We will keep our visitors and listeners, contributors and, of course, artists, informed on this thrilling event.

Photo: Opening show of Radio Neverno in Amsterdam, June 2015.


Below the message we received from the Berlin Biennale (sorry, it is in ...German!):

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 Samstag, 9.6.2018: 11–19 Uhr: Erster Publikumstag der 10. Berlin Biennale – dem Erwerb der Publikation während der Vorbesichtigungstage (7.–8.6.2018) zum vergünstigten Pressepreis von 20 statt 25 Euro in der Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg und in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art.



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Interview met kunstenaar en spreker op kunstdebat Bart Stuart

Een van de gast-sprekers bij het kunst-verkiezingsdebat op 8 maart 2018 in Arti et Amicitiae is kunstenaar/ organisator Bart Stuart. Radio Neverno interviewde hem eerder over W139 en de stand van zaken aangaande kunst in Amsterdam. Voor de liefhebber dit interview, dat werd opgenomen in 2015.

Antonio Grgic interview

Antonio Grgic currently exhibits in Amsterdam, at the (IN)Constancy of Space exhibition in Arti et Amicitiae, at the Rokin 112. Grgic lives and works in Zagreb in Croatia. Grgic studied architecture and uses this discours in his work as visual artist.

Hans Kuiper interviews Grgic on his work, his vision on art in public space, his experience as architect and visual artist and on the role and function of ideology.

The interview is in English and takes about 1 hour.


Website of Antonio Grgic here.

Interview with Portuguese sound artist Fernando Fadigas

Fernando Faidgas is a sound artist living and working in Lisbon, Portugal. In this interview we explore the role of sound in contemporary art, the balance between his teaching profession and his artistic projects and the current situation of the arts in Portugal. Fernando shortly discusses the role of institutions like Gulbenkian & Culturgest and independent art spaces like Plataforma Revolver.

Interview takes about 30 minutes.
Language : English

Interviewer: Hans Kuiper

Below some samples of his work.





THE INTERVIEW


Website Fernando Fadigas             Fernando Fadigas SOUNDS