Corporate art collections on the move

[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]For companies and organisations, art loans and donations are good ways to ensure collection mobility. They create greater exposure for the works and their makers. At the end of this year, an exhibition consisting entirely of works on loan from corporate collections will open at Singer Laren museum.

In ‘Out of Office. Art treasures from corporations’, Singer Laren, together with the VBCN (Association of Corporate Collections Netherlands), will display an overview of 75 years of Dutch art from corporate collections. Two works from corporate collections managed by QKunst will be on view in the exhibition (11th December – 7th April).

One of those is the work ‘Berries’, by Maria Roosen, on loan by the province of Gelderland. QKunst-team member Judith de Bruijn is on site one day a week as an art consultant and manages loan requests among other things. ‘Maria Roosen’s work will definitely be missed by everyone who works here’, says Judith. ‘But this way, the artwork and the artist can enjoy a greater exposure. That is the main reason the province happily agrees to loan requests like this one.’

Another work from the collection is currently on loan, a painting by Marten Hendriks. Boijmans Van Beuningen museum is showing the piece in the exhibition ‘Time Slip’, an overview of Marten Hendriks’ work form the past 55 years. The exhibition can be visited until 13th January 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]

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Corporate art collections on the move

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Besides loans, QKunst also accompanies clients with their donations, a good way to give artworks a new home in a fitting context. This takes places according to the ‘Netherlands guidelines for deaccessioning of museum objects’ (LAMO) and the Heritage law. Artworks are first presented to museums and institutions where they can be durably displayed and managed.

Alliander for instance, advised by QKunst, recenty did several donations. The Amsterdam Museum welcomes the ‘Ooster Gasfabriek’ by Herman Heijenbrock (1871-1948) and the City of Amsterdam a pre-study of a sculpture by André Volten (1925-2002) placed in the Amsterdam public space.

The Museum voor Achterhoekse Schilderkunst (MAS) received a donation by Rabobank North- and East-Achterhoek and will be presenting these works in a special exhibition in February. This bank is one of the local Rabobanks to which QKunst provides custom advice, as preferred partner of the Rabobank art department.

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‘Master Talk’ by David Claerbout

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Later this week, during the Amsterdam Art Weekend and International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Claerbout will give a ‘Master Talk’ about his work. Meanwhile, at the Annet Gelink Gallery, a new film installation by Claerbout will be on display: ‘Confetti’.

Using film and digital photography, David Claerbout explores the conceptual impact of the passing of time. He describes himself as ‘an advocate for the background’. In his work, the stage that traditionally serves as a background gets the leading part. During his master talk Claerbout will describe this process and illustrate it with examples from his own work.

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Lecture: IDFA – Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA: Master Talk David Claerbout – Dark Optics, EYE Filmmuseum, 24th November, 2-3.30 pm.

Opening: ‘Confetti’, David Claerbout, Annet Gelink Gallery, Laurierstraat 187-189, Amsterdam, 23th November, 5-9 pm.

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‘Master Talk’ and new work by David Claerbout

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Exhibition Broersen & Lukács at Foam

[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]For Noorderpark Station, one of the stops on the brand new Amsterdam North-South metro line, artist duo Broersen & Lukács created the artwork ‘De Poorten van Noord’ (‘Northern Gates’). This week, the duo’s first big museum exhibition will be opening at Foam, as part of the exhibition series ‘Next Level’.

Persijn Broersen (Delft, 1974) and Margit Lukács (Amsterdam, 1973) make video works, installations and graphic works, that often take place in parallel worlds and represent our current visual culture. The way Broersen & Lukács represent human interaction with nature coincides with a visual exploration of how we produce and experience images.

In this exhibit, Foam serves as a background for new installations, combined with existing works. Commissioned by Foam, the duo developed a brand new three-part installation of sculptures and projections in which they take a closer look at nature as a construction of the human imagination.

The artists will be present at the opening of the exhibition on Thursday 22d November, 5.30 pm. Next Level: Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács – Point Cloud, Old Growth is on view until 10th February 2019.

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Exhibition Broersen & Lukács at Foam

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‘Strangers’ in De Pijp Station

[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]This summer, Amterdam’s brand new mayor, Femke Halsema, opened the North-South metro line. Now some 73.000 travellers use the metro almost daily and enjoy its special art collection. Indeed, the North-South Line is a unique underground museum open to anyone with an ‘ov-chipcard’ (travel card). On Thursday 15th November, the last artwork of the collection was festively inaugurated: Sipping Colors by the Argentinian artist Amalia Pica in De Pijp Station.

The inauguration started with a special edition of Pica’s performance ‘Strangers’ (2008). The performance was on loan by Tate Modern that previously acquired the performance. It involves two people that have never met before. They stand ten metres apart, connected by a single string of brightly coloured paper bunting. A visual exploration of language and communication, Strangers dramatises the simple interaction in any communication between sender and receiver.

In her work for The Pijp Station, Amalia Pica let the colours of similar bunting trickle down the station walls. Pica considered it a special challenge to submerge the new metro station with the colours and movement of the neighbourhood where she once lived herself. Pica considers her work a success if travellers feel just a little bit lighter and happier when they walk out of the station without directly relating this to the artwork they just saw.[/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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‘Strangers’ in De Pijp Station

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Successful auction at Alliander

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On October 5th, at the Leeuwarden-office, QKunst-team member Mijke Rummens was standing ready to hand over the artworks to their new owners. ‘I only saw happy faces all day’, she recalls. One of those belonged to Maarten Mulder, manager at IT Asset, who bought two pieces. ‘I’m moving into a new house next year. It has very high walls, so I was looking for big artworks. I only realised how big they were when I came to pick them up. One just about fit in my car, the other didn’t. It was a bit of hassle to organise alternative transportation, but I managed and I hung the biggest piece in my living room that same weekend. I’m thrilled to now personally own works that I know from the office.’

Deaccessioning
Due to the renovation of all its offices, Alliander, assisted by QKunst, developed an art policy that makes way for a special relocation of the artworks. Works that no longer fit in the collection have been deaccessioned according to the ‘Netherlands guidelines for deaccessioning of museum objects’ (LAMO) and the Heritage law. Artworks are first presented to museums and institutions where they can be durably displayed and managed.[/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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Successful auction at Alliander

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For instance, the sculpture ‘Nakaarten’ (Having in a chat afterwards), by Hetty Noorman (1927-2010), who worked in Loosdrecht, found a new home at Stichting Kunstbezit ’s-Graveland. They are going to pick a spot for the sculpture near the Loosdrechtse Plassen. Stichting Kohesie added a work by Wim van Woerkom (1905-1998) to their collection. The Amsterdam Museum welcomes the ‘Ooster Gasfabriek’ by Herman Heijenbrock (1871-1948) and the City of Amsterdam a pre-study of a sculpture by André Volten (1925-2002) placed in the Amsterdam public space.

Returning
In some cases, works have been returned to their maker of his/her family. The sculptures ‘Opstijgende reiger’ (Ascending heron) and ‘Het gezin’ (The family) by artist Leo Camps have recently been placed back in the ‘Boenderbos’ in Belgium. The Boenderbos is Leo Camps’ sculpture garden and is situated in Belgian Limburg. The sculptures have been well placed: the family appears on one of the garden paths as if they are visitors. The heron seems to be rising from the reed on the waterfront.

This way, works that were kept in the storage room have now found new homes and are being seen and enjoyed in living rooms, museums and in public space.[/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]

Eva Spierenburg wins K.F. Hein Fund Prize

[vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” padding_top=”pt-40″][vc_column width=”2/3″ class=”col-sm-6 column-right”][vc_column_text]‘An exciting research proposal that does not shy away from tough questions’, that was the KF Hein Fund Prize 2018 jury’s assessment on artist Eva Spierenburg’s proposal, who received the prize on Thursday 20th September at the Central Museum in Utrecht.

The K.F. Hein Fund Prize consists of € 20.000 and an exhibition at Central Museum in Utrecht next year. Spierenburg will spend the coming year researching how performance and ritual acts can become a part of her installations

This year, the jury consisted of Cees van Eijk (chairman), Annelou Evelein, Jasper Hagenaar, Lotte van Laatum and Bart Rutten, director of the Centraal Museum. Next year, Véronique Baar wil take over from Evelein, as Baar took her place on the commission in June.

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Art North-South Line in the media

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De Volkskrant: ‘Every passerby – on the way to the office, congress, house or lover – automatically becomes, for a few minutes or longer, an exhibition visitor, as an everyday routine. Exactly what you would like to happen in every museum.’

NRC: ‘No anonymous decoration that no one can take offense or be surprised about, but layered work where something can be discovered.’

De Standaard: ‘The municipality of Amsterdam calls the new North/South line an ‘underground museum’. That is not pr-speak for once: the art in the stations is a reason in itself to take the metro.’

Der Tagesspiegel: ‘The soberly functional stations designed by the renowned architecture firm Benthem Crouwel […] get their individual face through integrated art.’

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The North-South Line is open!

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Klick here to see the duo interview of David Aulman and Véronique Baar by Menko Arends of AT5

A compilation of the opening by AT5:

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The North-South Line is open!

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Opening exhibition at SiF Utrecht

[vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” padding_top=”pt-40″][vc_column width=”2/3″ class=”col-sm-6 column-right”][vc_column_text]On July 12th, Social Impact Factory (SiF) Utrecht will open an exhibition with works by Britt Dorenbosch and Kim van Erven. It is the first exhibition that QKunst, one of the users of the building, organizes as a ‘social return’. For the exhibitions we select artists connected to Utrecht. In addition, we seek to connect with a current theme that is topical with the residents of SiF.

This first exhibition has the theme ‘home’ and investigates when we feel at home somewhere and how objects play a role in this. The artists Britt Dorenbosch and Kim van Erven both, each in their own way, explore how they and we relate to our daily environment.

Dorenbosch captures everyday objects in drawings and paintings. A box of laundry detergent or a plate with melon pieces are a vehicle for her to investigate childhood memories. Van Erven explores why and how people decorate their environment. She is fascinated by the way we experience our environment and which impressions and feelings come to mind.[/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 exhibition at SiF Utrecht

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Véronique Baar manager project art A12

[vc_row fluid=”stretch_row_only” padding_top=”pt-40″][vc_column width=”2/3″ class=”col-sm-6 column-right”][vc_column_text]In the period 2020-2026 the highways A12 and A27 around the junction Lunetten in Utrecht will be broadened. In this area there are various elements of the ‘Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie’ (New Dutch Water Line). Rijkswaterstaat is responsible for saving and restoring elements of this heritage, which might receive UNESCO World Heritage status by 2020. In addition, Rijkswaterstaat is committed to highlight this former line of defence in strategic places.

On the initiative of Recreatieschap Stichtse Groenlanden, owner of the recreation area south of the A12, Rijkswaterstaat has made resources available to realise a work of art that makes the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie visible in such a strategic location. The Province of Utrecht facilitates the supervision of the process and has commissioned Véronique Baar from QKunst to manage the project.

The artwork will be visible for traffic using the A12, for cyclists and hikers coming over the bicycle bridge from Lunetten, and for water sports enthusiasts, swimmers, festival visitors and other users of the recreational area that is being exploited by Down Under. The artwork will contribute to a better connection and a softer transition from the city to the outlying area.

The realisation of an image-defining work on the A12 is an opportunity to generate positive attention for the project Ring Utrecht, the area Laagraven including Down Under and the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie. For all parties involved, it is an opportunity to make a positive contribution to disclose the cultural-historical values of the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie.[/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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Véronique Baar manager project artwork A12

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