David Claerbout (Kortrijk, 1969) is no stranger to the Dutch museum visitor. Various museums, among them De Pont, have his work in their collections. In 2003 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen devoted a…
Twenty-five years ago Hans Broek (Veenendaal, 1965) brought new life to landscape painting with his vast panoramas of the American West Coast. Various examples of this work can be found in De Pont's…
Some sculptures appropriate space, while others structure and define it. The works of Piet Tuytel (Alblasserdam, 1956) are among the latter sort. Tuytel likes the flat landscape of the polders, whose…
In the project space Carina Diepens (Geldrop, 1958) is showing four sculptures in combination with a series of watercolors and one video work. Both the watercolors on the wall and the sculptures on…
Until now, scarcely any work by Anton Henning (Berlin 1964) has been shown in the Netherlands. Yet international concern for his paintings and installations has grown recently. Henning is regarded as…
The New North 2007 Wood, foam, expandable foam, resin, paint, Magic-Sculpt, Magic-Smooth, epoxy, glue, mirror, horse hair, wire, quartz crystal, 369x135x107 cm Just as in 2004, the project space at De…
Lobster with vanilla, steak tartare with oyster and foie gras brûlé – just a few of the legendary culinary delights once prepared by Amsterdam’s top chef John Halvemaan (1949-2019). Recently his widow…
Lobster with vanilla, steak tartare with oyster and foie gras brûlé – just a few of the legendary culinary delights once prepared by Amsterdam’s top chef John Halvemaan (1949-2019). Recently his widow…
Jan van Duijnhoven (Uden, 1944) celebrates light. Every day he observes sunlight in order to paint its optical refraction into the spectrum colors red, yellow and blue, plus white. When we look into…
In the fifteen years of its existence, De Pont has produced many exhibitions on contemporary art. De Stijl in Tilburg happens to be an exception to this. Here the subject is the long friendship…