This autumn, De Pont museum will present the first extensive solo exhibition of Monster Chetwynd (London, 1973) in the Netherlands. The artist formerly known as Spartacus and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd,…
2014 Visual Art Prize of Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Noord-Brabant awarded to Ria van Eyk Ria van Eyk (1938) is considered an exceptional pioneer in the abstract textile art that began to flourish…
48 Portraits (1971/72) is a series of paintings that were first shown in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 1972. Richter presented these portraits, hung in a line, all at the same level,…
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…
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…
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…