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EVERYTHING IS LOCAL, Landscape 1

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:56:08 +0000

Christophe Coppens opens his first exhibition on 9 March 2013 in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. His first work as a ‘full-time artist’ is commissioned by Han Nefkens Fashion on the Edge.

Christophe Coppens (b. Belgium, 1969) worked as an accessories designer for 21 years, under his own label as well as for other designers. On 5 May 2012 he decided to close his business and discontinue all his activities in the realm of fashion. His most personal reason for doing this was the dilemma between fashion and art that he felt for many years. “You can’t be a good artist with the mentality of a fashion designer,” Coppens explains. “And I didn’t succeed at being a part-time artist.” His first work as a ‘full-time artist’ is EVERYTHING IS LOCAL, Landscape 1, a work commissioned by Han Nefkens Fashion on the Edge. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents this work to the public for the very first time.

Han Nefkens Fashion on the Edge, an initiative from Han Nefkens and José Teunissen in collaboration with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, focuses on the edge of fashion and the visual arts. Han Nefkens Fashion on the Edge was set up in 2006 and has since invested in the development of dresses and installations by Viktor & Rolf, Hussein Chalayan and many others. As part of the H+F Collection, these pieces have been given to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen on long-term loan.

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Rejina Pyo ‘Structural Mode’

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:32:03 +0000

This autumn Rejina Pyo, winner of the Han Nefkens Fashion Award 2012, will present her work in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. From 29 September Pyo’s collection ‘Structural Mode’ will be on view in the Willem van der Vorm gallery and in the Richard Serra Room.

Rejina Pyo

Rejina Pyo is a Korean born fashion designer based in London. Immediately after graduating from her MA Fashion at Central Saint Martins she was taken on by Roksanda Ilincic to work at her eponymous label as first assistant designer. She also collaborated with the H&M owned ‘Weekday’, creating a range of designs based on her MA collection that are sold across Europe in their chain of stores.

London Fashion Week

Inspired by modern art and architecture, Rejina Pyo created a stand out collection for her Central Saint Martins MA show at London Fashion Week. Her use of wooden sculptures together with fluid dresses created a beautifully idiosyncratic mood that captured the attention of the fashion press. It also captured the attention of Vassilis Zidianakis from ATOPOS CVC who curated the ‘ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion’ exhibition, hosted at the Benaki Museum in Athens, where Pyo’s collection was presented as part of this exhibition.

Structural Mode

Rejina Pyo’s newly commissioned work for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen focuses on her long time study of fashion and art and is entitled ‘Structural Mode’. It is another statement collection working on the boundary between wearable garments and art works, fusing together elements of fashion and sculpture. Curator of the exhibition is José Teunissen.

Design in Boijmans

This exhibition is part of the ‘Design in Boijmans’ programme. This summer design has been spotlighted in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. With the renewed arrangement of the museum collection and several design exhibitions, in 2012 a lot of attention is paid to design in the museum.

Photo of Rejina Pyo and Han Nefkens by Diana Monkhorst.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

La La La Human Steps

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:08:36 +0000

From 16 February Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents an exhibition in the museum Istanbul Modern. The exhibition, titled ‘La La La Human Steps’, has been put together by director Sjarel Ex and is featuring works by artists who relate to the image of mankind historically, personally or socially. They focus on subjects like desire, curiosity, failure, despair, treachery and confrontation. From the H+F Collection (or purchased by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen with support from the H+F Patronage), works of artists such as Andro Wekua, Sylvie Zijlmans and Zwelethu Mthethwa are exhibited.

Istanbul Modern

Videos from the H+F Collection

admin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:13:14 +0000

In the context of the International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO Madrid, the Madrilenian Room Mate Hotel Óscar and its famous terrace are part of the exhibition circuit.

On 15, 16 and 17 February, anyone who visits the terrace in the evening can enjoy important video works by the artists Sam Taylor-Wood, Lorena Zilleruelo and Fabien Rigobert.

The works belong to Han Nefkens’ H+F Collection or are commissioned by his ArtAids Foundation. Han Nefkens is the winner of the 2012 ARCO Award for International Private Art Collecting.

An event like this fits into the vision of Room Mate Hotels’ founder Kike Sarasola, who wants to bring art to the streets or more specific to his hotels. Anyone who visits the Óscar terrace will have a very special evening.

15, 16 and 17 February, 22:00
Hotel Room Mate Óscar
Plaza Vázquez de Mella 12
Madrid

ARCO Madrid

Illustrated: Pasos / Steps by Lorena Zilleruelo

Revisiting Time / Le point de non retour

admin — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:28:45 +0000

In the framework of the third edition of the H+F Curatorial Grant, Guest Curator Irene Aristazábal proposes the exhibition Revisiting Time with works of the collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and works on loan at the FRAC from the H+F Collection. This selection is based on the idea of point of no return. The works reflect temporal tipping points that radically transform the course of future events and thus have or will affect the future.

FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais

Illustrated: Deimantas Narkevičius Disappearance of a Tribe from the H+F Collection in long-term loan to the FRAC.

Hussein Chalayan, récits de mode

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:19:07 +0000

Les Arts Décoratifs has given ‘carte blanche’ to one of the most innovative and creative fashion designers of our time: Hussein Chalayan. Chalayan’s couture pieces Laser Dress en Laser Hat (Readings Collection 2008) are part of this exhibition. These works from the H+F Fashion on the Edge Collection are on long-term loan to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, NL.

Les Arts Décoratifs

Photo: Christopher Moore

Out of Storage

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:34:36 +0000

Out of Storage is developed by Marres Projects in association with FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and is described by Hilde Teerlinck (Director FRAC) and Guus Beumer (Director Marres) as “a miraculous marriage between chance, significance and partnership”. Alongside an exhibition that presents a large number of works from the collection of FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Out of Storage consists of a program of events entitled Provisoire & Définitif – a reference to a work by Maurizio Nannucci that is presented in the exhibition. This program consists of educational projects, research, publications, workshops, debates, lectures and performances, which reflect on several models for a museum. The project also includes various partnerships, amongst others with Maastricht University and H+F Collection. From the H+F Collection works of Gerald Van der Kaap, Masato Nakamura, Elina Brotherus and Adel Abdessemed are exhibited.

Illustrated: 070411 1520 (Renaldas) by Gerald Van der Kaap

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FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais

Han Nefkens, 10 Years of Patronage

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 11:00:39 +0000

An exhibition about Han Nefkens’s first ten years as a patron of the arts. Over the last few years Han Nefkens has entered into collaborative ventures with a range of museums and arts organizations, both national and international, as a way of sharing his art collection with a wider public. The exhibition, created to accompany the publication of a full catalogue, uses video and other media to illustrate the importance of private patronage. Design: Milou van Ham with Steffen Maas. Curator: Sjarel Ex.

Two videos from the exhibition are presented by arttube, the video channel of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. See below.

Art & Fashion. Between Skin and Clothing

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:24:16 +0000

When art and fashion get together, it crackles between skin and clothing. Fashion reflects our modern culture in a sensual, but also a conceptual manner. Since the nineteen ninetees, designers such as Comme des Garçons and Martin Margiela explored the boundaries of clothing and their significances. After the turn of the millenium, Viktor & Rolf and Hussein Chalayan presented their fashion shows like art installations.

The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions, an exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in 2009 by curators José Teunissen and Judith Clark, made possible by the H + F Fashion on the Edge program from writer and art collector Han Nefkens, is now presented in a new edition in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg by José Teunissen and Annelie Lütgens under the title: ‘Art & Fashion. Between Skin and Clothing’.

http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/

Taking Place

admin — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:34:23 +0000

Taking Place reintroduces the Stedelijk Museum by addressing its history, the spatial and temporal conditions of the unfinished building and the ways in which artists use, occupy and animate museum spaces. The historical, functional and architectural conditions of the museum are both subject and material for this special presentation of works by local, national and international contemporary artists, who range from well-known and established figures to emerging artists. Renovated gallery spaces on the ground and upper floors of the building ultimately designated for the presentation works from of the museum’s collection of 19th- to 21st-century painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper and applied industrial- and graphic design will for this occasion be used in an innovative and experimental way that takes advantage of their current state.

White is the Colour (2002), a work by Diana Thater from the H+F Collection (in long-term loan to Centraal Museum, Utrecht), is part of this exhibition.

Stedelijk Museum

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij