Play BKR Eindhoven

Vandaag sluiten we het project Play BKR Eindhoven af. Het was een fantastisch project, met veel nieuwe ervaringen en veel leuke reacties en bijdragen. Het was ook een experimenteel project waarin we allerlei nieuwe dingen hebben geleerd, over kunst, over kunstenaars en ook over collecties en, niet op de laatste plaats, over social media. Een terugblik:

Discussie in depot

Een groot aantal medewerkers van de afdeling collecties deed mee. Nu niet alleen ‘beroepsmatig’, maar ook als liefhebber. Ieder koos een kunstwerk uit onze collectie ‘BKR Eindhoven’ en legde uit waarom dat z’n favoriet was.

The cultural heritage of Sweden constitutes a balanced combination of the Swedish sensibility and of influences from foreign larger cultures, like the German and the French traditions.[1] Such a strong foreign cultural factor has not surprisingly led to the fact that “Swedish cultural policy began with the defence of national identity.”[2] The Crown and the court’s desire to have a more sophisticated cultural establishment became the second cultural motor, and social movements were the third cultural motor with an aim to make cultural life accessible to everyone. The energy of these heterogeneous forces drove the country to reconsidering the importance of the cultural sector in the twentieth century. Nationalist, elitist or popular, these agents’ legacy motivated the care-taking of Swedish cultural life, and therefore its artists.

Adolf Hitler, Dianthus (http://quazen.com/arts/art-history/10-paintings-by-adolf-hitler/)

Germany 

German cultural policy has historically been greatly heterogeneous. The several independent feudal states and city republics had in the nineteenth century a rich and self-managed cultural life. Under the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), the competences on culture were divided among four government instances’ levels. The National Socialist regime (1933-1945) replaced this system for a highly centralized one. After the WWII, Germany splitted in two and adopted dramatically opposed government systems, being culture Western and elitist, under a centralized rule in West Germany, while being Soviet and popular under a centralist rule in East Germany. What remains nowadays at the cultural level is the result of this convulsive national history, between centralization and federalization, elitist and popular, with still a great attention devoted to art.

Play BKR Eindhoven from de Krabbedans on Vimeo.

Vrijdagavond 8 april vond de opening plaats van Collectie Belicht in De Krabbedans in Eindhoven. Met verschillende deeltentoonstellingen kijkt De Krabbedans naar de wijze waarop collecties ontstaan en zich ontwikkelen. Eén van de deeltentoonstellingen is ‘Uit de Doeken’, waarin de BKR werken uit de collectie van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, die de afgelopen maanden bij Eindhovenaren thuis in bruikleen waren, bij elkaar gepresenteerd worden.

Opening van de tentoonstelling 'Uit de Doeken', met de werken uit het project Play BKR Eindhoven

Entrance of the exhibition by Edwin van Onna (Projectleider and curator, De Krabbedans)

One side of the exhibition's room by Edwin van Onna (De Krabbedans)

Detail of the time-line between two paintings by Kees Bol, Edwin van Onna (De Krabbedans)

Another side of the exhibition's room, Edwin van Onna (De Krabbedans)

Detail of the time-line between a painting by Ad Snijders and another painting by Pieter Stoop, Edwin van Onna (De Krabbedans)

Thanks to the staff of De Krabbedans for organizing such a great exhibition, the art borrowers of the art works for their enthusiasm and support to the project, and of course, to all our colleagues from the RCE who have helped in one or another way!

Hugo de Jong at his appartment in Eindhoven next to Jan Goossen's "Ontmoeting"

Hugo de Jong is the lucky art lover who got Jan Goossen’s sculpture “Ontmoeting” on loan. As you can see in the picture exemplified by the two paintings that hang above Hugo, he is a passioned young art collector. His appartment is a real contemporary art museum with paintings and photographs everywhere. So “Ontmoeting” could not be in a better place, well yes, in De Krabbedans on display since this Friday 8th in the “Uit de doeken” exhibition.

Yvette Lardinois next to "Ontmoeting"