In November 1998 the foundation that annually awards the Erasmus Prize celebrated its fortieth year of existence. In connection with this anniversary, which is being celebrated nationally with a range…
The interplay of applying and removing paint, of presence and absence: it constitutes the essence of the oeuvre developed by Scottish artist Callum Innes (Edinburgh, 1962). The exhibition I’ll Close…
The exhibition being held in the project space is dedicated to the paintings of Linda Arts (Nijmegen, 1971), of whom a large screen print, designed as a bus-shelter poster, was shown at De Pont about…
Bang! A gunshot! A gangster wearing a Trilby hat, a femme fatale, a detective standing in the rain on a dimly lit streetcorner. The silhouette of a smoking gun. A gloomy voice-over reports... The…
Never before has the work of Robert Therrien (Chicago, 1947) been shown in the Netherlands. De Pont is now dedicating a major exhibition to the sculptures and drawings of this American artist, who has…
‘Innocence is precisely: never to avoid the worst.’ This final sentence of Lettre au nègre , written in 2003 by Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009), has become the title of an exhibition…
The Marlene Dumas exhibition Name no Names has been organized by the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne and is being shown in Tilburg following presentations in Paris and New York. It…
Four large drawings from the past two years comprise the basis of an exhibition of work by Johan Kuipers (Sneek 1960) in the project space at De Pont Museum. Their dimensions far exceed those of an…
Anish Kapoor regards the work of art as a medium that activates the viewer’s perception and thereby evokes sensory and other types of experiences. ‘I’ve got nothing particular to say, I don’t have any…
For the expressive, at times almost violent-looking paintings of the Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer (Baden, 1929), an existing depiction has almost always served as the point of departure up to now.…