Fiona Banner's early works took the form of 'wordscapes' or 'still films' - blow-by-blow accounts written in her own words of feature films including Point Break (1991) and The Desert (1994). These…
Tacita Dean’s Michael Hamburger is a moving portrayal of the poet and translator, a resident of Middleton in Suffolk and great friend of W.G. Sebald. For its 28 minutes, the film quietly observes the…
An all-consuming vortex, a sports car with the eyes of a cat and a carnivalesque procession of ten giraffes. The work of the German artist Raphaela Vogel offers a gateway to surprising worlds that…
The seeds for the installation The Essential were sown in 2002, while Martin and Inge Riebeek were working on a piece commissioned by a juvenile penitentiary in Veenhuizen: Heaven at 4 am. This…
Fiona Tan is best known for her skillfully crafted and moving installations, in which explorations of identity, memory and history are key. Tan’s artworks deal with the question of the gaze – both the…
Introduction A sports car with cat’s eyes, a poodle on a trampoline and a parade of giraffes – the German artist Raphaela Vogel (Nuremberg, 1988) establishes surprising connections in her work. In her…
In 1995 De Pont Museum held the first exhibition of work by Luc Tuymans in the Netherlands. This summer the now world-famous Belgian artist will be coming back to Tilburg with a second retrospective,…
Captivating, incisive, ironic, honest, camp and vocally flawless. This is how a musical performance by the Belgian artist Marijke de Roover (1990) could be characterized. At the HISK (Hoger Instituut…
A small solo presentation of work by British artist Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press is on view within the collection display. Several recent works, including three paintings from the series Full…
In Without Trace , the new presentation of the collection, photographs of impressive Canadian forests and hazy expanses in Ireland hang alongside photographs of railroad tracks in North America and…