Dutch National Portrait Gallery and Museum Jan Cunen support 3FM Serious Request: The Lifeline with pop-up exhibition “SOLD” by Ernst Coppejans From Friday 20 to Sunday 22 December 2019, Museum Jan Cunen, in collaboration with Dutch National Portrait Gallery, showed 8 photos from the SOLD series, a series of anonymous portraits of victims of human […]
Visitors who want to show their offspring the young (or nicely matured) gods and goddesses they once were could have their portraits taken at Lowlands Festival. In our daylight studio, three Rabo Photographic Portrait Prize winners were at work: Sander Troelstra (Friday), Sarah Mei Herman (Saturday) and Jitske Schols (Sunday). Some of their Lowlands 2019 […]
On the occasion of winning the Kees Scherer Award (Best Photobook 2013/2014 for ME WE) Koos Breukel curated an exhibition about people and water. In the Commander’s House – surrounded by water – there were portraits of Paul Kooiker, Rineke Dijkstra, Roy Villevoye, Otto Snoek, Benno Schlicht, Ingar Krauss, Marijn de Jong, Henk Wildschut, Stephan […]
Commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and under the heading ‘Europe by People’, we made selections of portraits for the Europe Building, which was built for all the meetings during the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In addition to a portrait gallery of famous Dutchmen in politics, culture, science, sports […]
In FACE TIME, six photographers respond to six paintings from six Dutch museum collections: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Museum De Fundatie, Het Noordbrabants Museum, Museum Arnhem, and Drents Museum. A new generation of portrait makers connects between existing and new art and acts as a bridge between artworks and people. FACE TIME shows […]
About seventy painted, drawn and photographed portraits of Amsterdammers gave an impression of the versatile character of the city, its inhabitants and its artists. Visitors stood face to face with famed as well as less well-known Amsterdammers, including Johan Cruijff, Sophie Hilbrand, Simon Vinkenoog, anonymous party people and harbour workers. The former Mayor of Amsterdam […]