In March 2021, while its doors remained closed during the ongoing lockdown, De Pont organized National Chain 2020 / Social Practices , a project by American artist Rita McBride and German…
Over the past thirty years, Thomas Schütte (1954) has developed a versatile body of work consisting of sculptures, drawings, watercolors, photographs and prints. De Pont has shown interest in Schütte…
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,…
The artistic quest of Patrick and Anne Poirier began nearly fifty years ago in Rome. During an artist-in-residence period at Villa Medici, the French Academy there, they became fascinated with the…
On the initiative of Grafisch Atelier Eindhoven, ten Tilburg artists have each produced a design for an urban poster. Normally, this type of poster serves as advertisement in light boxes located on…
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…
Due to work aimed at further increasing the sustainability of our museum building, which was originally part of a woollen mill built in the 1930s (learn more ), De Pont will be closed from Monday 19…
Since the early nineties there has been considerable international interest in the work of the Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser, who is regarded in his own country as being the father of contemporary…
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…
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…