Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

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Istanbul Modern – Rotterdam

Istanbul Modern – Rotterdam
A Selection from the Collection of Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
10 March – 10 June 2012
This spring Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be showing a selection of works from the Collection of Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, the first private museum in Turkey that organizes modern and contemporary art exhibitions. The exhibition, put together by the Chief Curator of stanbul Modern, Levent Çalıkoglu, is the first large-scale show of contemporary art from Turkey in Rotterdam.

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The road to Van Eyck

The exhibition ‘The road to Van Eyck’ with masterpieces from early Southern Netherlands and Burgundian painting from around 1400 will definitely take place.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen still does not have the 1.3 million necessary, but is ready – now that five hundred thousand has been promised – to take the leap and plan this exhibition for the end of this year.

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Evelyne Janssen at Rotterdam

Evelyne Janssen – POPHOUSE! An Extreme Case of Dollhouse
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
11 February – 12 August 2012
From February a playful, associative and apparently disordered miniature universe will descend upon the heart of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Evelyne Janssen will be installing her objects in the four spaces known as the cloverleaf. She has fused the English term ‘dollhouse’ and its Dutch equivalent ‘poppenhuis’ to create POPHOUSE!

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Maarten van Heemskerck, Rotterdam

Maarten van Heemskerck – Ancient Rome Relives
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
11 February – 3 June 2012
This spring, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be exhibiting prints, paintings and drawings by Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), in two rooms. Sketches made by Van Heemskerck during his visit to Rome are used to provide insight into the sources of inspiration of the artist from Haarlem. Central to the exhibition is the oil painting ‘Self portrait with Colosseum’, painted by Van Heemskerck in 1553, which has been specially loaned for this exhibition from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

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Francesco Stocchi will boost Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s curatorial team as curator of modern and contemporary art

As of 1 January, the Italian curator Francesco Stocchi will boost Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s curatorial team as curator of modern and contemporary art. Stocchi has been active for several years as a curator, writer and publisher. Director Sjarel Ex: ‘Stocchi’s appointment underpins the museum’s ambitions in the field of international art.’

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Kindred Collections, Rotterdam

Kindred Collections
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
11 February 2012 – 20 May 2012
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents two outstanding collections this spring.
The closely related collections of Jan and Wietse van den Noort offer an extensive survey of the arts of printmaking and drawing. A wide selection of works on paper from these ‘kindred collections’ are now shown together for the first time. A catalogue is also available.

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Mister Delta, a gallery owner and collector in the museum

Mister Delta, a gallery owner and collector in the museum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
11 February – 20 May 2012
In January 2012, the Rotterdam Delta gallery will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen celebrates this anniversary with an exhibition and a publication, examining the role and significance of this outstanding gallery.

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Cor Eversteijn (boxer) at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Eversteijn, boxer & barber
A project by Carel van Hees
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
29 October 2011 – 15 January 2012
Carel van Hees, known as a dedicated documentary photographer and film makers, takes on the role of story-teller in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. In the late seventies and early eighties, Van Hees followed the heroic and at the same time tragic life of boxing champion Cor Eversteijn (1949-1983).

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ArtTube: the platform will be enhanced with the participation of four other renowned museums

The online video channel ArtTube was launched in October 2009 by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and since then has become a great success. This autumn, the platform will be enhanced with the participation of four other renowned museums.
ArtTube will then become the first structural online collaboration between art museums in the Dutch language area. This unique collaboration has partly been made possible by SNS REAAL Fonds, from the autumn of 2011 the chief sponsor of ArtTube.

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