Netherlands
Art and Culture
Director of the municipal art museum in Utrecht and in Rotterdam from Oct 1988- Sep 2022
The 18th international Art Exhibition, Foreign Section ; Dutch Interiors. 16 artistic crates invented by Dutch Artists travel to Japan. In collaboration with Centraal Museum Utrecht. Thank you Marcel Duchamp and Ellen de Bruijne. Collaborating artists: Joost Baljeu, Sandra Derks, DIID, Kees de Groot, JCJ Van der Heyden, Evelyne Janssen, Gerald van der Kaap, Seymour Likely, Frank Mandersloot, Thom Puckey, Marc Ruygrok, Alexander Schabracq, Wim T. Schippers, Roos Theuws, Giny Vos, Willem Wagenaar & Jacoba Haas. (Catalogue).
Research fellow, appointed at VU University Amsterdam in a by ZWO (nowadays NWO) supported investigation on the Dutch avant-garde. Pinpointed at the painters and architects connected with the movement in the surroundings of the De Stijl magazine. Specialized in the Hungarian/ Dutch artists Vilmos Huszár, Lajos d’Ebneth and Andor Weininger, typographer Piet Zwart and the connections between De Stijl and Bauhaus. Resulted in publications and exhibitions in The Netherlands and abroad. Supervised by Prof. dr Carel Blotkamp.
Under the chairmanship of Benno Premsela, this committee assessed all applications from visual artists and photographers for individual grants. As a permanent member, I was responsible too for the design and organization of the Stipendia '85-'86 exhibition (catalogue) to account for this post-BKR policy instrument. From this, the Fonds aan de Brouwersgracht for fine arts, design and architecture was established, which later merged with the Mondriaan Foundation, which included the Praktijkbureau Beeldende Kunst Opdrachten. Onder voorzitterschap van Benno Premsela beoordeelde deze commissie alle aanvragen van beeldend kunstenaars en fotografen voor een individuele subsidie. Als permanent lid was ik verantwoordelijk voor de opzet en organisatie van de expositie Stipendia ‘85-‘86 (catalogus) ter verantwoording van dit post-bkr beleidsinstrument. Hieruit ontstond het Fonds voor beeldende kunstenaars , ontwerpers en architecten aan de Brouwersgracht, dat weer later fuseerde met de Mondriaan Stichting waarin toen was opgenomen het Praktijkbureau Beeldende Kunst Opdrachten.