Groene Kamer (Green Room) is the most monumental and architectonic work that Marien Schouten has produced up to now. His plan to create an entirely tiled space came about in 2000, when he received an…
Elly Strik (The Hague 1961) has been living and working in Brussels for some time now. In this home of Belgian surrealism, she produces her life-size drawings of peculiar personalities. Years ago…
A special loan: Race, Class, Sex (1992) by Mark Wallinger Special loans of work are frequently on view at De Pont. Usually these are ‘reciprocations’ for major work lent from our own collection. In…
Clay is a raw material for potters and ceramists, and its use is associated more with applied arts than with monumental art. Guido Geelen managed to break with that tradition, though his unruly…
82.241 visitors! On 12 September 2017 it was be precisely twenty-five years since De Pont Museum in Tilburg opened its doors to the public. This anniversary will be celebrated with the exhibition…
The German entry for the 1999 Venice Biennale consisted of a contribution by Rosemarie Trockel (1952). She had made a trio of films, specifically for the Biennale, and all three were screened in the…
The work of Marlene Dumas deals with the tension between watching and being watched - and in fact - with the problem of interpretation. She often works after found images that she collects in a…
Drawings, paintings, illustrations... Outbreak is a presentation of work by ten artists and illustrators. It hangs on a long wall, jumbled about like a burst of energy. Compiled associatively around…
Banner’s work consists of sculpture, drawings, installations, books and performances. She frequently makes use of language and its physical form. The punctuation mark, for instance, has been…
Artist and philosopher Loek Grootjans (Arnemuiden, 1955) has created an asylum for Vincent van Gogh in the shape of a pavilion, exhibiting various traces of the painter gathered over time. After…