Grand and compelling, yet also comical and offering perspective: this is the oeuvre of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (1976) in a nutshell. With large-scale video installations, operas and…
Melvin Moti (Rotterdam, 1977) usually makes silent films: layered narratives with which he tries to get a grip on immaterial things such as time and space in order to place our perception in a broader…
Sky Mirror (for Hendrik) is a gift commemorating the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary. Tilburg is the first Dutch city to have a Kapoor sculpture in its public space. In 2017 De Pont is celebrating…
Dedication means authority : it sounds like a catchy aphorism. The quote comes from the founder of Taoism, the Chinese philosopher Lao-tze, whose eighty-one texts containing wisdom on mystical and…
Over the years Frize has experimented with countless procedures that can result in a painting. He determines, in advance, a painterly action which he then carries out systematically. That pragmatic…
It is astonishing how Anish Kapoor manages to make the act of observation such an intense experience. Matter appears and disappears, and the distinctions between reality and illusion, being and not…
Isaac Julien directed a number of notable documentaries in which fiction and reality are used in tandem, before making a ‘real’ feature film in 1991 in the form of Young Soul Rebels, which immediately…
Kjartansson has been playing with the idea of empty billboards in barren landscapes for some time. Outdoor advertising that provides no information to anyone. In his series of three etchings entitled…
Hamza Halloubi studied visual art at La Cambre in Brussels and HISK in Ghent, Belgium. In 2015 he was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and had his first solo exhibition in the Netherlands…
Jan Andriesse once remarked that making a painting is, and always will be, the only rational exercise in futility. This remark undoubtedly arose from his conviction that it is impossible to use visual…