Metabolic Kilobytes (2022) is Raphaela Vogel’s second work in the collection. The work is a perfect embodiment of Vogel’s hybrid artistic practice in which she exploits the properties and contrasts of…
The artistic quest of Anne & Patrick Poirier began in Rome nearly fifty years ago. During a stay at Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome, they became fascinated with the age-old ruins and other…
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…
Welcome to De Pont Museum! Visitors must reserve their tickets online, also when they are eligible for a discount or free admission. We offer you every opportunity to maintain distance and will do our…
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…