Introduction to the catalogue 'de Opening' by Hendrik Driessen, De Pont's founding director. When, in the spring of 1989, the trustees of the J.H. de Pont Foundation asked me to assist in shaping the…
The Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (1976) works with every conceivable type of medium – from large-scale video installations, performance and ceramics to painting, theater, opera and pop music.…
In Kunu , Onias Landveld playfully yet insistently confronts the viewer with choices and patterns that are connected to personal histories. Landveld (Paramaribo, 1985) fled the Surinamese civil war in…
'Don’t paint the thing itself; paint the effect it produces' (Howard Hodgkin) This exhibition focuses on Howard Hodgkin’s paintings of places and moments in time as subjective expressions of visual…
According to the dictionary Pulse means, among other things, heartbeat or rhythm. For those who know Kees de Goede’s work,this will immediately evoke associations with the imaginary ticktock of the…
Since the first day of spring 2001, the garden has been the domain of Rudy Luijters (The Hague, 1955). Luijters has given his project the title Calendarium : for a period of two growing seasons, until…
The exhibition consists of a selection of works from the period 1987-1994, the accent being on his most recent work. Jeff Wall (1946, Vancouver) was trained as an artist but, shortly after completing…
‘Please note: jma wishes to make it clear that five paintings are not yet finished.’ Jean-Michel Alberola once placed this text at the entrance to a Paris gallery as an introduction to his exhibition.…
Gutter Splash Two Corner Cast is the first large work of art that was produced on site for De Pont’s collection. In the spring of 1992, six months prior to the museum’s inaugural opening, Richard…
In 1997 the work Arena by American artist Rita McBride (Des Moines, Iowa, 1960) was shown at Witte de With, center for contemporary art, in Rotterdam. Arena consists of semicircular segments of…