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…
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…
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…
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…
Kjartansson has been playing with the idea of empty billboards in barren landscapes for some time. Outdoor advertising that provides no information to anyone. In his series of three etchings entitled…
Hamza Halloubi studied visual art at La Cambre in Brussels and HISK in Ghent, Belgium. In 2015 he was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and had his first solo exhibition in the Netherlands…
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…