Han Hoogerbrugge, Video still ‘La Grande Fête des Voyeurs’, 2012
video (black and white, sound).
Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Anne Wenzel, z.t. (black girl), 2003.
Photo: Studio Hans Wilschut.
Collection Musuem Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen – new acquisitions Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has been able to expand its Rotterdam City Collection with the work of three internationally famous Rotterdam artists: Han Hoogerbrugge, Anne Wenzel and Lara Almarcegui.]]>
August 23, 2013, source: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
In the exhibition ‘The City, the Artists and the Museum. 25 years Rotterdam City Collection’, one acquisition has been included from each year of the collection’s existence. In addition, the museum is exhibiting a number of loaned works by artists whose work is not yet included in the City Collection. Curator Saskia van Kampen-Prein: “There is an enormous amount of artistic talent in Rotterdam and over the past 25 years the museum has acquired more than 800 works and objects from them. There are, however, various important artists and designers whose work is not yet in the possession of the museum. We are therefore extremely pleased that, thanks to the support of the Fonds Willem van Rede, we have recently acquired works by three of these artists. This acquisition represents an important step in maintaining a valuable City Collection.”
Hoogerbrugge, Wenzel and Almarcegui
Han Hoogerbrugge, pioneer is the field of internet art, has exhibited in various museums, including the Design Museum in London, the Documenta in Kassel and in 2012 held a solo exhibition in TENT Rotterdam: ‘La Grande Fête des Voyeurs’. The five-part animation of the same name is now part of the City Collection. Anne Wenzel has also exhibited internationally and in 2010 had a solo exhibition in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: ‘Requiem for Heroism’. The City Collection now includes her first large sculpture in black ceramics: ‘z.t. (zwarte meisje [black girl]) (2003). The piece is now considered a key item in her oeuvre. The work of Lara Almarcegui is also included in important international collections and this year can be seen in the Spanish pavilion at the Biennial of Venice. The museum has now acquired her well-known photo series ‘Ruins in the Netherlands’ (2008) for the City Collection.
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