Art, sports and play in Breda

[vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” padding_top=”pt-40″ padding_bottom=”custom-padding” custom_padding_bottom=”0″][vc_column width=”2/3″ class=”col-sm-6 column-right”][vc_column_text]QKunst guides the city council of Breda in the process of realising an artwork at the Talentencentrum (talent centre) that is being built bordering the Northern access route to Breda. Last year, the city council invited four artists to share their vision on art, sports and play at the talent centre. Based on these visions, an artist collective was selected to make a design. Expect a sneak peek in January!

Several sports facilities border the Northern access route to Breda. The ‘Talentencentrum Breda’ is being added to the list. It will give room to talent development in sports on the regional level and to amateur associations. The artwork will reflect the activities going on inside the building and connect the centre and outskirts of the city.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″ animation=”zoomIn” animation_delay=”0.2″ class=”col-sm-3 column-left”][vc_column_text]

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Art, sports and play in Breda

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Project Heden completed

[vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” padding_top=”pt-40″ padding_bottom=”custom-padding” custom_padding_bottom=”0″][vc_column width=”2/3″ class=”col-sm-6 column-right”][vc_column_text]Art loan and gallery Heden manages about 15.000 artworks. In recent years, QKunst supported Heden within taking inventory, valuing and sharpening the collection, using the QKunst collection management application. This project has now been completed and Heden has a good insight in its collection for organising exhibitions, as well as renting and selling works.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″ animation=”zoomIn” animation_delay=”0.2″ class=”col-sm-3 column-left”][vc_column_text]

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Project Heden Foundation completed

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Opening provincial house

[vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” padding_top=”pt-40″ padding_bottom=”custom-padding” custom_padding_bottom=”0″][vc_column width=”2/3″ class=”col-sm-6 column-right”][vc_column_text]The province of South Holland has an art collection with a strong regional focus, that has been growing since 1950. In the past years, QKunst accompanied the province with the profile sharpening, valuing, restoration and disclosure of the collection. QKunst also helped the province organize a brand new depot. And, QKunst helped the province with preparing the art plan of the provincial house after the building’s renovation, that started in 2020. In all these matters, QKunst worked closely together with the internal provincial art commission.

Opening by the King
The renovation was completed after two years and this month the renovated main building will be officially inaugurated by the King. On 10 September, there will be an open day. In buildings A and B, there was already art on display. Visitors and employees can now view and experience the collection once more in the renovated main building of the provincial house. The collection has been organised in three themes: ‘Heritage of the future’, ‘Working together on South-Holland’ and ‘Dutch skies’.

New depot
‘Five years ago, we stored our collection at the Archeologic depot in Alphen aan de Rijn’, says Rik van den Burg, project member of the housing department at the Province of South-Holland, in a special publication by the province. ‘The conditions for art storage were far from ideal. So when we had decided to re-establish the collection, the first thing we did was to transport it to a museal storage box specifically designed for the province of South Holland. From there, we started with the restoration.’

After the renovation, there no longer existed a separate room for exhibitions. The former gallery that was used to this end has become part of the States’ room. ‘But there are many possibilities in the corners of the building. And the users of the building will definitely get a say in that.’

Graffiti and commissioned art
The spot with graffiti art on the building fences is new. ‘We had three ‘jams’, with different themes: the resistance during World War II, graffiti through the ages and South-Holland/The Hague. A number of works is still on display in ‘the mayor’s alley’, that leads from the parking garage to building C. With the artists’ permission of course.’ And especially for this hallway, three new panels were commissioned that tell us more about South-Holland and the province’s task. In short, the art is back for everyone to enjoy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″ animation=”zoomIn” animation_delay=”0.2″ class=”col-sm-3 column-left”][vc_column_text]

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Opening provincial house The Hague

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10th exhibition at SIF Utrecht

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In Eyes for your surroundings, Utrecht-based artist Tim Wunderink and Britte Koolen show us how they look at the world around them. Each from their own perspective, they translate their surroundings to sculptural wall art and installations.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”5078″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″ animation=”zoomIn” animation_delay=”0.2″ class=”col-sm-3 column-left”][vc_column_text]

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10th exhibition at SIF Utrecht

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Hengelo Collection values

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Evert Strobos: these are some of the artists whose work has been incorporated in the art collection of the municipality of Hengelo. The municipality wishes to better use the collection and make it more visible. To this end, the municipality asked QKunst to make a content-based appraisal of the collection.

The collection has thus been incorporated in our collection management application, to allow us to categorize and value the works. This way, the municipality can form a picture of the collection’s various qualities, and use this as a basis to define different future scenarios for the collection.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″ animation=”zoomIn” animation_delay=”0.2″ class=”col-sm-3 column-left”][vc_column_text]

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Hengelo Collection values

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Goodbye dear Mijke!

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Last Friday we said our goodbyes with a special team day. Melody gave us an art-based learning training at the current exhibition in Doornburgh, and in the afternoon, Bart Lunenburg took us on in his residency research at the abbey.

During the delicious dinner, the exchanges gifts turned out to be based on the same idea: On behalf of team Q, Wouter van Reek designed a joyful illustration for Mijke, and Mijke surprised each of us with a personal ceramic medal made by door Elma Čavčić.

What an amazing day! Thank you dear Mijke! And of course thank you Melody Toering, Elma Cavcic and Wouter van Reek, and Bart Lunenburg, Buitenplaats Doornburgh and Restaurant de Zusters for having us![/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”4904″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″ animation=”zoomIn” animation_delay=”0.2″ class=”col-sm-3 column-left”][vc_column_text]

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Goodbye dear Mijke!

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QKunst 18!

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Eight years ago, for our 10th anniversary, we collaborated with graphic designer Hansje van Halem. She designed the cover over 10 beautiful notebooks bearing our core values, and we gave them to our relations.

On the inside, we displayed works by young talents. The coming weeks, we share pictures of each notebook and the values that still define us on Instagram. Want to take a look?

The notebooks are now part of the collections of the Stedelijk Museum and the Design Museum and have become a collector’s item.

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QKunst 18!

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A new home

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In the past years, for various clients, we successfully replaced works at Museum Het Domein, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Museum Valkenburg, Museum Het Valkhof, Rijksmuseum Twente, and Stedelijk Museum Kampen, among others. Very recently, we added Rijnstate hospital to the list. A monumental glass work by Eugène Terwindt will be included in the Rijnstate art collection. The physical transfer is in preparation.

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A new home

24/02/22[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” css=”.vc_custom_1545060726449{padding: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Invite and challenge

[vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” padding_top=”pt-40″ padding_bottom=”custom-padding” custom_padding_bottom=”0″][vc_column width=”2/3″ class=”col-sm-6 column-right”][vc_column_text]The Technical University of Delft possesses a collection of modern and contemporary art, with at its core, works that are fixtures to the campus grounds. In the past year, QKunst has accompanied the TU Delft with making an inventory of the collection, formulating a policy focused on collection care and a long-term vision on activating and expanding it. Policy and vision were developed in close collaboration with students and employees responsible for academic heritage, facility management and real estate.

The TU wants to expand its art collection with high quality works that invite and challenge everyone to reflect on science and technology. There is room for artists that are familiar with commissioned work, but also for makers that want to develop these skills. In the coming months, functioning as a pilot, a work for the pond in the central part of the campus will be developed. It will touch issues regarding ecology and biodiversity and will also include a technical component, in which artists and students can find solutions together: the work must contribute to maintaining the quality of the water.

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Invite and challenge

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Collection highlights at the province of South-Holland

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The art collection, which consists of work by artists who live or work in the province, will expressly be given room in the building. The province wants to pass on heritage to the next generations and considers the art collection to be part of it. In recent years, the collection has been (preventively) conserved where necessary.

In the renovated building, highlights of the collection will be shared with visitors, relations, and employees. This concerns works that are connected to the original building of the Provincial house, such as rare tapestry by Lex Horn, a monumental sculpture by Sigurdur Gudmundsson and paintings by Bob Bonies and Peter Struycken, but also works that have been acquired in a later stage, for instance by Marcel van Eeden and Wout Berger.

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Collection highlights at the province of South-Holland

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