Herwig Ilegems – Head to Head
In Head to Head, Herwig Ilegems has a literal tête-à-tête with a variety of animals. He carefully places his forehead on an animal’s beak, nose or forehead. Will it allow this? Ilegems has no idea. Not wanting to force the animal, he tries to develop a relationship of trust. […]
Eija-Liisa Ahtila – Vaakasuora – Horizontal
With the cinematic installation Vaakasuora – Horizontal, Eija-Liisa Ahtila creates a living, horizontally oriented portrait of a spruce tree you can walk past.
This far and further
How can we together paint a hopeful picture for the future in these bizarre times? Museum Voorlinden takes a pause in its new collection exhibition This far and further to show how artists explore other paths. Thanks to the powers of their artistic imagination, you yourself start longing for a new vista and want to […]
Rinus Van de Velde – The Armchair Voyager
With drawings, sculptures, installations and moving images, Rinus Van de Velde (1983) creates intriguing, almost filmic scenes in which elements from our reality and his imagination merge. Especially for Voorlinden, he will create an exhibition in which he combines his own work with his favourite works from the museum’s collection.
Anouk Kruithof – Universal Tongue
Twerking, Vogue, Fortnite, flash mobs, a Sufi or chair dance: YouTube is full of videos of people dancing. And there are more dance videos uploaded every minute. With a team of 52 researchers from all over the world, artist Anouk Kruithof researched dance videos on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Together they found 1,000 dance styles […]
Art is the Antidote
Lockdowns, hardening and division? Art is the antidote! Museum Voorlinden proves this with its new exhibition Art is the Antidote. With a large dose of sparkling, socially engaged and funny artworks from its own collection, the museum acts as a charging station, a place where you can build up your resistance. The exhibition is on display […]
Beat Zoderer – Less and More
Museum Voorlinden proudly presents the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of Beat Zoderer (1955). With everyday materials, he makes colourful objects, installations and sculptures, each of which is an attempt to create order out of chaos. Beat is one of the most prominent artists in Switzerland, yet he is hardly known in the Netherlands. Voorlinden is going to change this. The solo exhibition can be seen from 19 February to 15 May 2022.
Picasso-Giacometti
In collaboration with the Musée national Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti, Museum Voorlinden presents the first exhibition dedicated to the work of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century: Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti.
Rodney Graham – Vacuuming the Gallery
Voorlinden presents Vacuuming the Gallery by the Canadian artist Rodney Graham (1949).