At the start of the eighties Anish Kapoor emerged as a member of the new generation of British sculptors. This group, which also included Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow, stood out by way…
In the large presentation of the collection being installed at De Pont Museum this summer, thirty years of collecting is viewed from the vantage point of the turbulent times in which we now live. Art…
The series Landline refers to the contours of landscape. Scully has eliminated nearly all vertical forms from these works in order to create, as he puts it, "a movement from one side to the other."…
The work Black Drawings by Marlene Dumas (Capetown, 1953) has recently acquired a counterpart. Now hanging in the room across from the space containing her 111 drawings is a portrait gallery that she…
For the second time now De Pont has organized a triennial exhibition titled Brabant Now . Eleven, mainly younger artists who have some connection with Brabant—having been born here, having studied…
Silvia Martes (b. 1985, Eindhoven) studied in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, where she completed her postdoctoral residency in 2021. That year…
About four years ago De Pont exhibited a number of works by Berlinde De Bruyckere (Ghent, 1964) for the first time. The sculptures and drawings from the series Sewn Together received many positive…
In 2021 De Pont acquired the video Quarta-Feira de Cinzas/Epilogue (Ash Wednesday) by Rivane Neuenschwander and Cao Guimarães. From a low vantage point and close-up of the camera, we see armies of red…
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 Pont collection consists of over 800 works by international artists. This autumn's collection presentation consists of: Ai Weiwei Grapes, 2010 Hanging Man in Porcelain, 2009 Aria Dean GUT…