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Fran Van Coppenolle’s Colourful Sculptures Lift You Up
2 October 2023
Bathrobes, fleece blankets, plastic bottle tops, and wooden or steel beams: there’s potential in almost everything Fran Van Coppenolle finds. She makes multicoloured, seemingly weightless sculptures with them, that often float in space. ‘I do everything I can to take away the gloom.’
Revulsion and Fascination: Hybrid Creatures in Visual Art
27 June 2023
From medieval sin to modern climate catastrophe: in art, hybrids of humans, animals and objects confront the reader with the inconceivable.
Nothing Stands Between the Viewer and Art in Food Art Museum LAM
3 February 2023
Hidden in the nineteenth-century park behind the world's most famous tulip garden Keukenhof is the only food art museum in the Netherlands. The LAM takes a critical look at consumption but avoids approaching it with moralism and art historical jargon.
Marie Reintjes Wants to Be Able to Paint Everything
5 May 2020
Marie Reintjes (b. 1990) is always looking. As soon as she sees something that intrigues her, she wonders how she can transpose it into paint. Her eye often falls on everyday, seemingly trivial subjects: a radiator, two boots, a pair of pants with dots. Her painting style is as dynamic as these imag
Wessel Verrijt’s Structures Are Always on the Road
15 April 2020
Like his (mobile) installations, Wessel Verrijt seems to be moving endlessly. The artist from Eindhoven is always in-between residencies, performances and exhibitions. Whenever he arrives somewhere, he immediately erects a new work on-site, often recycling discontinued pieces, manifesting in a refre
These Are the 100 Most Important Dutch and Flemish Works of Art
16 December 2019
CODART, the international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art, has announced the CODART Canon. The Canon consists of 100 Dutch and Flemish works of art dating from before 1750 that are of particular importance to the history of art. The list can be found on canon.codart.nl.
Kasper Bosmans: ‘Each of My Artworks is Like an Onion’
27 September 2019
Kasper Bosmans’ career (b. 1990, Lommel) is soaring, and the international art scene has taken notice. Blessed with a fresh perspective, this young Brussels-based artist looks into various art-historical motifs, elements taken from heraldry – which he considers folkloric witticisms –, and diff
Cultural Attaché Joost Taverne in New York: ‘The U.S. Is a Very Interesting Country in the Field of Art and Culture’
27 June 2019
The Cultural Attaché is a series of interviews by DutchCulture, the Dutch network and knowledge organisation for international cultural cooperation, with cultural attachés of the Netherlands. How do these attachés help Dutch art and culture? What were their expectations when they were posted abro
Intimate Remoteness: The Clouds of Berndnaut Smilde
18 June 2019
Berndnaut Smilde is known for his inverted rainbows and sculptures that spread an antiseptic scent throughout several rooms. However, the Dutch artist became world-famous in 2012 when he created a series of clouds, of which Nimbus 2 was included in the London Saatchi Gallery and its photographs went
Get ‘m: five Dutch music, theatre and dance companies conquer Washington
4 April 2019
As a result of the efforts of the collaborative project Never Grow Up!, five Dutch groups find their way to Washington, USA, for a season-long focus.
50 Icons of Modern Dutch Art in Museum de Fundatie
4 April 2019
Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle presents the fifty leading works that have been produced in the Netherlands over the past half century. The exhibition Freedom – The Fifty Key Dutch Artworks Since 1968 is deliberately subjective, intended both as an invitation to debate and as a declaration of love fo
