Early in 1996, De Pont purchased a four-part work by the German painter Sigmar Polke (Oels, 1941). This acquisition, Hermes Trismegistus 1-4 (1995) was first shown at the 1995 Carnegie International…
Seven years ago, in the autumn of 2002, De Pont Museum held an exhibition mainly comprised of paintings by Anton Henning (Berlin, 1964). This summer the museum is dedicating a presentation to this…
Still Life is an exhibition of 102 vases that have been decorated and adapted by ninety-nine different artists from Brabant. The driving force behind this project is Frank van der Linden. It was in…
De Pont presents the first, major Gesamtkunstwerk of visual artist Marc Mulders (1958) and designer/artist Claudy Jongstra (1963). Marc Mulders has been known for years for his expressionist oil…
Apart from our new exhibition with Anne & Patrick Poirier visitors can also enjoy a broad selection of works from our own collection. These include a number of recent acquisitions, one of them by a…
Kasper Bosmans (Lommel, 1990) has a fascination with history – not as much with the well-known historical narratives as with events that occurred on the fringes. He makes associative connections…
In 1998 Loek Grootjans (Arnemuiden 1955) invited anyone who wanted to become acquainted with his work to climb a mountain in the Alps with him (Sugar Mountain Travel). The difficult journey would lead…
The Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (1976) works with every conceivable type of medium – from large-scale video installations, performance and ceramics to painting, theater, opera and pop music.…
For the second time now De Pont has organized a triennial exhibition titled Brabant Now . Eleven, mainly younger artists who have some connection with Brabant—having been born here, having studied…
Artist and researcher: Jan Andriesse (Jakarta 1950) takes many approaches to the phenomenon of light. As one of the makers of the documentary Hollands Licht (2003) he set out to discover the…