In 'Before I Was Born', Tja Ling illustrates the story of her family’s journey from China to the Netherlands, between the 1930s and 1970s, in 14 interconnected pencil drawings. Out of respect and admiration for the way her (grand)- parents built a life for themselves with all the challenges they have had to face, migrating without any formal education or knowledge of the local language.

These drawings are a chronicle of pride, strength and respect. A narrative of a child discovering why he...

Beginning in the Middle. Conversations on the Post-Soviet, edited and compiled by Elsbeth Dekker and Robbie Schweiger, explores the works, lives and travels of artists coming from a (post-) Soviet context. The conversations delve deeper into questions of art and (de)colonisation in countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia, most of which recently celebrated their 30th anniversary of independence.

Departing from Dutch collections and exhibitions, the conversations try to grapple with question...

Displace explores the process of entering into a dialogue with soil as a living entity. It offers an intimate insight into Elena Khurtova's artistic research and process during her residency at 3bisF, on the site of Montperrin Psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence, and delves into her personal connection with displaced soils.

Extending the sensitive experience of touching red and yellow soils into the materiality of the book, Elena Khurtova and graphic designer Tariq Heijboer experiment wit...

AgriValley is a long-term poetic study of Dutch agriculture. In her cinematographic representations, video artist Mirte van Duppen brings together various production landscapes as a social construct: here, humans and machines live and work side by side. The futuristic, almost dreamlike images give an insight into the enormous impact of technological innovation in the agricultural sector.

Van Duppen shows the contemporary landscape in associative analyses, using visual rhyme and essayistic cam...

Anton Rooskens (1906–1976) made a significant contribution to modern art in the Netherlands as an artist affiliated with the Cobra group, but also afterwards. His paintings are included in leading museum collections in the Netherlands and abroad. It is time for a new, comprehensive publication on this important Dutch twentieth-century painter. Over the past years, art historians Marguerite Tuijn and Eliane Odding have delved into his oeuvre and life. Based on previously unused sources from ...

De jarenlange zoektocht van Jan Krul voerde hem langs religie en wetenschap,

langs westerse en niet-westerse culturen,

door het denken heen naar het maken,

door het rationele heen naar het intuïtieve en de droomwereld,

– en dat alles in volle overgave.

Naast de rijkdom aan beelden biedt dit boek ook een ontmoeting met de kunstenaar als mens, en werpt het een blik op wat kunst in een mensenleven kan betekenen.

Hoe persoonlijk de artistieke weg van Jan Krul ook is, de tekeningen, schilde...

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Arianne Olthaar (NL, 1970) portretteert en documenteert verdwijnende, verborgen en fictieve interieurs in film, fotografie en miniatuurmodellen. Haar werk is internationaal vertoond tijdens diverse tentoonstellingen en op filmfestivals waaronder International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, EMAF, New York Film Festival, Videoex, Media City Film Festival, IFFR, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. Tussen 2008 en 2012 bezocht Olthaar een aantal voormalige staats- en l...

Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK, America, and Europe, has been challenged, and issues such as nationality and politics have been brought in to the arena of public discussion. In this ground-breaking account of the development of post-War sculpture Andrew Causey examines innovative and avant-garde works in relation to contemporary e...

Het Van Gogh Museum beheert een collectie die in de kern bestaat uit de schilderijen, tekeningen, prenten en brieven van Vincent van Gogh, en een verzameling kunst van tijd genoten bijeen gebracht door Vincent en zijn broer Theo. Dat de verzameling bijeen is gebleven en is onder gebracht in een eigen museum, is te danken aan de familie Van Gogh.

Na de tragische dood van Theo, slechts een half jaar na het overlijden van Vincent, zette zijn weduwe Jo van Gogh-Bonger zich haar leven lang in voor...