In 1993 Jeroen Doorenweerd (Terneuzen, 1962) was the first artist to be asked by De Pont to give shape to the museum's garden with a work. His son Mischa (Tilburg, 1988), then five years old, played…
A solo presentation of work by Eylem Aladogan (Tiel, 1975) is a rare occasion. For the exhibition at De Pont she has produced a new monumental sculpture, Heart of Steel (Fire at Will) . An exciting…
Light, color and space are the fundamental materials used by Ann Veronica Janssens (1956). With these intangible phenomena she creates ‘sculptures’ that make the invisible visible. Architecture is, by…
Robert Zandvliet (Terband 1970) volgde zijn opleiding aan de academie in Kampen en werkte aansluitend twee jaar op De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Sinds april 1996 beschikt hij over het gastatelier van De…
At a young age Robert Zandvliet (Terband 1970) already began to earn praise for his paintings. In 1996 he made use of a guest studio at De Pont, and the museum acquired his work for the collection. In…
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…