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The ZERO foundation was established in 2008 - upon an initiative by the Dutch curator Mattijs Visser-, a collaboration between the Düsseldorf ZERO artists with the Museum Kunstpalast. The ZERO foundation has the task of researching, preserving and presenting the works and documents of the German Zero group.
Zero (usually styled as ZERO) was an artist group founded in the late 1950s in Düsseldorf by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene. Piene described it as "a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning". [1] In 1961 Günther Uecker joined the initial founders. ZERO became an international movement, with artists from Germany, the ...
ARTZUID is an international large-scale sculpture exhibition that takes place every two years in Amsterdam. [1] Foundation ArtZuid won the Europa Nostra Award in 2011 for making a hidden cultural heritage site known to a broad public. [2] ARTZUID was established in 2008. The initiative came from United Art Consult led by Cintha van Heeswijck.
The distribution department presents video art, media art and installations to professionals and they organise and facilitate presentations of works from the collection. NIMk also maintains the collections of the Appel Foundation ( De Appel ), the former Lijnbaan Center in Rotterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN).
In 1957, he travelled by boat to Amsterdam, and lived there until his death in 2017. While there, Armando, an artist and friend of Brouwn, introduced him to the Zero movement. [citation needed] Brouwn taught as a professor at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg for multiple years. Brouwn eschewed giving biographical data.
Armando was born in Amsterdam, and as child moved to Amersfoort. There he saw, during the German occupation of the Netherlands, how the Nazis set up a "transition camp" for prisoners who were to be sent to concentration camps. The suffering of the victims and the cruelty of the Nazi camp guards, so near his home, influenced him for the rest of ...
Visual arts portal This category is for articles about artists from Amsterdam , a city in the North Holland province of the European country of the Netherlands . Contents
In 1955, the artist Pieter Kooistra started a foundation in his Amsterdam house to put SBBK art works on view rather than keep them stored in "art depots". [2] Anyone living within bicycling distance of Kooistra's house could rent an artwork for fl. 2.50 per month. [2] The number of members grew from 35 to 300 a year later.