Sarkis
Ballads
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
2 June – 30 September 2012
The Submarine Wharf in Rotterdam’s docklands is currently undergoing a true transformation. The construction of the various monumental sculptures that make up Sarkis’ installation ‘Ballads’, commissioned by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Port of Rotterdam, is well under way. They include an 18-metre bell tower and a 16-meter lampshade in which a spotlight rises and falls to the rhythm of the artist’s breathing.

Minimal Myth
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
2 June – 16 September 2012
This summer the museum is exhibiting a selection from its own collection of Minimal art and works by the Dutch Nul group from the 1960s and 1970s alongside related work by contemporary artists. Artists such as Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, Jan Schoonhoven and Ad Dekkers will be exhibited in relation to artists including Monika Sosnowska, Nathan Hylden and Oscar Tuazon. The exhibition has been selected by Francesco Stocchi, the museum’s senior curator of modern and contemporary art.

Pure luxury on paper
Rijksmuseum
8 May-9 July 2012
From 8 May, the Rijksmuseum will be exhibiting a selection of 30 works from two new donations of Japanese prints. Luxury, subtlety, technical perfection, expressiveness and, of course, beautiful Japanese women all feature prominently in these new collections, recently donated by two leading collectors.

Jeff Wall – Children
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
until 1 January 2013
‘Children’ by photographer Jeff Wall was presented to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in 2008 as promised gift by Han Nefkens. The installation is a collection of circular light boxes with photographs of children from different ethnic backgrounds.

Co Westerik – Drawings collected by Leo van Oosterom
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
10 March – 3 June 2012
Several years ago, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen received a gift of ninety-five drawings by Co Westerik, from the collection of Leo van Oosterom. The artist is known mainly as a painter, but he also made many drawings. This spring, a selection of drawings and water colours from this donation will be on show in the Print Room.