Cast your vote for the North-South line

[vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” padding_top=”pt-40″][vc_column width=”2/3″ class=”col-sm-6 column-right”][vc_column_text]Hurray! The jury panel of the 2019 CODAawards has placed the Amsterdam North-South subway line in the 2019 CODAawards Top 100! The internationally acclaimed CODAawards celebrate the projects that most successfully integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces. With 435 projects from 27 countries submitted this year to the awards, the competition for these Top 100 spots was tough and we are quite proud! But that’s not all.

Besides the Jury award, there is also a People’s Choice award and voting is open to all. So, if you also think the Art in the North-South line deserves the People’s Choice award of the CODAawards 2019, cast your vote now (second row from the top, third block). Public voting is open until Friday 28 June, so only this week. Click vote and we’ll be very grateful to you! And don’t forget to share this within your network. Thank you![/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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Cast your vote for the North-South line

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Art in the North-South line: the book

[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]Last July, Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema officially opened the North-South metro line. Today, a good 90.000 travellers use Metro 52 daily and see the artworks in the stations. There is now a book about the works: Verbeelding Onderweg.

The first copy was presented to Arts & Culture Councillor Touria Meliani. Verbeelding Onderweg was written by journalist Edo Dijksterhuis, the design is by Smel design agency.[/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 in the North-South line: the book

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New exhibition at SIF Utrecht

[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]Dreamy images of birds combined with buildings, a cloud in a forest and a coloured bird in a grey world. The new exhibition curated by QKunst at Social Impact Factory Utrecht invites us into the worlds of Daniëlle Frenken and Studio Tweemaal.

Daniëlle’s fascination for flora and fauna translates clearly in her sculptures and collages. She combines the beauty of flora and fauna with industrial landscapes and plastic objects that refer to the human existence. Thus, she symbolises the contrast between culture and nature. Daniëlle’s work is on display on the first flour.

Studio Tweemaal, formed by Amber and Tamira, leaves it own traces in nature – or doesn’t it? A number of photographs and installations on the second floor are called ‘Pareidolia’. Pareidolia is the illusion that you recognise shapes and elements that are not really there, the way you can see animal shapes in clouds. Studio Tweemaal plays with this phenomenon and leaves us to see what we want to see.

The exhibition was inspired by ‘Skyscraper’, the whale that is currently on display in the canal across SIF Utrecht. The whale was made with five tons of plastic found in the Pacific Ocean and is statement against the enormous amounts of plastic humans leave in rivers, seas and oceans.

QKunst curates an exhibition at Social Impact Factory Utrecht three times a year, showing work by talented Utrecht-based or -born artists. We always look for a link with themes that matter to the ‘inhabitants’ of SiF Utrecht. ‘Traces in nature’ is on view since 28th March and is the third exhibition organised by QKunst.[/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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New exhibition at SIF Utrecht

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QKunst 15 years!

[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]Hurray! QKunst is 15 years old today! And that means we have something for you. No, not cake, but art! Indeed, what else? For our 10-year anniversary, we gave 10 artists a platform in the notebooks that we then distributed among our relations. Five years on, we are older and wiser and we want to step up our game: we are giving away three concept sketches for a location of your choice. Our goal: to show you the full scope of art in public space, to make you enthusiastic and to inspire you.

Location
We would like to receive a good picture of the location with a motivation explaining why this particular place demands an artist’s gaze. The location should be open to the public and preferably in motion, a building site for instance.

Selection
With our team, we will make a selection of three locations with the most interesting starting points for art. We hope for enough entries to enable to choose widely varied places.

Artists
We will then invite you and a plus one at our office and present you the body of works of a number of artists suited for the situation. We will decide together with you who will be commissioned to make a sketch, paid by QKunst.

Sketches
When the sketches are ready, we will welcome you again at our office with food and drinks and the artists will present their sketches. The authors’ rights will remain the artists’, but you will take the visualisation of the design home with you!

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QKunst 15 years!

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Collection management Heden

[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]After obtaining a grant via a plural private tender, QKunst started with a commission for Stichting Heden. Heden is an art library and a gallery that serves the corporate and the private market. Heden manages some 15.000 artworks. QKunst supports Heden within taking inventory, valuing and sharpening the collection, using the QKunst collection management application.[/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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Collection management Heden

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Artist selected for work at Fort Vechten

[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]Bart Lunenburg will make a final design for the artwork at the tunnel near Vechten.

After a pop up exhibition at the Waterliniemuseum Fort bij Vechten, where the designs by Kris Borgerink, Bart Lunenburg and Lenneke van der Goot were on display, the advisory commission chose Bart Lunenburg’s design. The artist will now further develop it, in close consultancy with the Province of Utrecht, the municipality of Bunnik and the Department of Waterways and Public Works. The visitors of the exhibition noted the timelessness of the design and the fact that the Roman Limes as well as the New Dutch Waterline can be easily recognised as such. The advisory commission thought the design stood out and was playful, the image was clear and familiar and interesting both from afar en up close.

Bart Lunenburg (Utrecht, 1995) grew up in Houten and graduated in 2017 as a photographer at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht (Utrecht School of Arts). Lunenburg is fascinated by how people connect with their daily surroundings and how they shape it with architecture.[/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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Artist selected for artwork at Fort Vechten

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Rabo-art for everyone

[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]“In February, an exhibition with ‘our’ works’ opened at the Museum voor Achterhoekse Schilderkunst. It was good to see the art being on view again.” We’re quoting Liesbeth Peters, Service Manager at Rabobank Noord- en Oost Achterhoek. QKunst worked on bringing more focus into the bank’s collection in the past year.

The Rabobank Noord- en Oost Achterhoek collection comprised some 500 works. Not all of them could be placed back in the offices. After sharpening it, the key collection was placed back QKunst in a new display.

The rest of the artworks was deaccessioned. One part found a new home at the Museum voor Achterhoekse Schilderkunst (MAS) in Vorden. Liesbeth Peters: ‘It is quite special that MAS has taken over a number of big series by artists from the area, thus ensuring that series by local artists stayed together.’

Home care organisation Sutfene received among others a series of works themed ‘The colours of the Achterhoek’. About ten drawings of Rabobank buildings went to the Company History Department of
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Rabo-art for everyone

01/03/19[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” padding_top=”custom-padding” padding_bottom=”custom-padding” custom_padding_top=”0″ custom_padding_bottom=”0″][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1493728421665{padding-top: 50px !important;}”][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”3659″ img_size=”full” onclick=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][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]All the works that could not be (re)placed were auctioned online. Employees and former employees of the bank could take part in this closed auction. ‘My collegues were very happy to be given this possibility’, says Peters. All remaining artworks were sold in a public auction.

‘The trajectory with Rabobank Noord- en Oost Achterhoek is a perfect example of what deaccessioning involves and what it can bring’, says QKunst director Véronique Baar. ‘Bringing focus into the collection and redecorating the buildings, placing back artworks – in regional museums but also social institutions. And, guaranteeing the historical value through the Rabobank Company History Department and local history societies and finally, giving employees the opportunity to acquire works.’

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Exhibition by Noraly Roozendaal at SiF

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Several art projects by Noraly Roozendaal are on display in the meeting rooms and workspaces at Social Impact Factory Utrecht. She graduated at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in June 2018 and was then invited to show her work at the Dutch Design Week.

QKunst curates an exhibition at Social Impact Factory Utrecht three times a year, showing work by talented Utrecht-based or -born artists. We always look for a link with themes that matter to the ‘inhabitants’ of SiF Utrecht. ‘Estranging beauty’ is on view since 22d November and is the second exhibition organised by QKunst.[/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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Exhibition by Noraly Roozendaal at SiF

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Restaurateur aan het werk

Province of South Holland restores art

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QKunst team member Jet Vermaning tells us more: ‘The province has an art collection that is strongly connected to its working area. Within the collection are a number of top pieces from important South-Holland artists from the 1960s among others, when the province started to collect. These works were kept in storage for a long time because there was no room for them. They now have been beautifully restored and absolutely deserve a place in the renovated provincial house.’

One of these top pieces is a painting by Peter Struycken from 1964. ‘He used black and white lacquer paint, making it very difficult for the restoration team to find the exact shade of white. But they managed and we’re looking forward to seeing the work back on the wall’, says Jet.

With the above-mentioned renovation and changes within the organisation ahead, the province of South-Holland developed a new art policy. QKunst helps with the implementation of the policy, working closely together with the provincial art commission.[/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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Province of South Holland restores top pieces

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First artist selection for artwork A12

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For drivers, cyclist and festival visitors
Near the waters of Laagraven (Plas Laagraven) along the A12 lay several elements of the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie. The State cares for this heritage that might become UNESCO World Heritage in 2020 and makes efforts to create more exposure for strategic places on the line.

The recreation area Down Under is one of these strategic places. On the initiative of ‘Recreatieschap Stichtse Groenlanden’, owner of the recreation area south of the A12, the State has made resources available to realize an artwork here. It will be visible for the 225.000 drivers using the A12 daily, for cyclists and hikers coming from the neighbourhood of Lunetten and for recreational athletes and festival visitors in the area itself.[/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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First artist selection for artwork A12

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The province of Utrecht facilitates the supervision of the process and created an artistic commission to make a selection of artists. The commission chose three diverse artists on longlist, who are expected to each have their very own approach to the commission: Zoro Feigl, Hansje van Halem en Gijs Van Vaerenbergh.

Zoro Feigl (1983) makes installations, monumental and subtle, in which he plays with the motion of materials that he uses and with the movement they provoke. Hansje van Halem (1978) designs typographic illustrations. She increasingly makes work in public space has been head of design of the music festival Lowlands as of 2017. Gijs Van Vaerenbergh is in fact two people: Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh (both 1983). In their designs the duo explores the edges of art and architecture.

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The artists will present their sketches tot the artistic commission in February 2019. The commission will then advise the commissioner on which artist to move forward with. According to the planning, the work should be completed at the end of 2019. We will announce which artist was chosen at the beginning of 2019.[/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][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″ class=”col-sm-9 column-left”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]