.jpg)  The ArtAids foundation was set up in 2006 at Han Nefkens’ initiative. ArtAids fights AIDS, with the substantial and monetary power of art as its most important weapon. ArtAids invites leading artists to produce work that is inspired by AIDS and related problems. These works of art are used not only to raise the public’s consciousness and to encourage their involvement but also to generate funds to support projects throughout the world aimed at preventing and fighting AIDS.
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H+F Fashion on the Edge and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will work together from 2010 to 2015. Over this period a budget of 700,000.00 euros will be made available for exhibitions, commissions, acquisitions and interventions within the museum’s ongoing programme in order to realize the initiative’s aims with a special focus on non-western designers and artists exploring the field between fashion and art. The biennial H+F Fashion Award, which has been awarded to new and interesting talent since 2007 and which was recently presented to Charles LeDray, will continue as part of this new partnership. The award facilitates a specially commissioned project that will be given on long-term loan to the museum. In the years in which the prize is not awarded H+F Fashion on the Edge will sponsor an alternative commission for an installation to be exhibited at the museum. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has built up a modest yet fascinating collection of objects that explore the experimental zone between fashion and visual art. Over the next five years the H+F Fashion on the Edge project will enable the museum to acquire key pieces in this fertile area. The intention is to bring together the entire H+F Fashion on the Edge collection, part of which is currently housed in the Centraal Museum. The partnership with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be crowned in 2015 with a major survey exhibition. Centraal Museum Utrecht Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Illustrated: Fabiana by Viktor & Rolf. |   The H+F Patronage (H+F Mecenaat), founded in 2005, is an exclusive partnership between Han Nefkens and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The goal of the H+F Patronage is to stimulate contemporary art and artists on an international level, and to introduce them to a new audience. This goal is achieved through the collection of work by a select group of artists for a number of years, and by initiating and facilitating projects and exhibitions like 'Silvie Zijlmans. The Uninvited' at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Han Nefkens has attached the H+F Patronage to the museum for the duration of five years, from 2005 until 2011. Works by artists David Claerbout, Ryan Gander and Sylvie Zijlmans, among others, have since been purchased and donated by the H+F Patronage. From 20 January to 28 October 2007 two interventions developed for The Collection One with the help of the Mecenaat could be seen in the Museum: Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzinger’s Four Vegetative Sleeping Rooms and Andro Wekua’s Wait to Wait. This last work was purchased by the Patronage. Also 'Apollo' by Olaf Nicolai is made possible by the H+F Patronage. In 2009 the H+F Patronage and the museum present exhibitions of the work by Ryan Gander, Jongenelis & Zijlmans, and are preparing the exhibition and The Art of Fashion. Recently Pipilotti Rist realised a new, permanent video installation, commissioned by the H+F Patronage and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. The video installation 'Laat je haar neer' (Let your hair down) will be five years on display in the stairwell in the public foyer.
Illustrated: intervention by Steiner & Lenzlinger. |  Launched in September 2007, the H+F Curatorial Grant is awarded annually to an ex-participant of the Curatorial Programme, the international programme for talented curators that de Appel has headed since 1994. The grant enables a young curator to work for 18 months on the realisation of an exhibition at the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais in Dunkirk. The winner is chosen on the basis of an exhibition proposal directly or indirectly inspired by the collection of the FRAC and the H+F Collection. Through the H+F Curatorial Grant, Han Nefkens aims to stimulate the professional development of young curators. De Appel can offer some of its students, on completion of the eight-month programme in Amsterdam, an ‘on the job training’ in an established institutional environment. The organisation of the H+F Curatorial Grant is based at de Appel and the FRAC. The Tomorrow Book Studio/Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht also participates in the project. In the future, the current collaboration will be extended to include other museums, cultural institutes, private persons or businesses. de Appel arts centre FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais Jan van Eyck Academie |
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