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december 17, 2020 - Vangogh Museum
Here to Stay: A decade of remarkable acquisitions and their stories
Announcement of spring exhibition 2021
From 5 February 2021 at the Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam, 17 December 2020
- This coming spring, the #vangoghmuseum will display a large selection of its best and most remarkable acquisitions from the last 10 years
- The focus is on personal stories related to the acquisitions, offering various perspectives
- Stories from museum staff, including curators and restorers, but also from a collector, museum supporters and a group of 10 Amsterdam residents, each with a fresh individual perspective
- The exhibition opens to the public on Friday 5 February 2021, and is on display until 24 May 2021
On 5 February 2021, the exhibition Here to Stay: A decade of remarkable acquisitions and their stories opens at the #vangoghmuseum. This exhibition will feature a large selection of artworks that have been added to the museum collection in the past 10 years. Here to Stay introduces the full extent of the #vangoghmuseum collection area: from paintings and drawings to prints, sculptures and letters, and from works presented to the museum as gifts by individual donors to pieces acquired at auction. The #vangoghmuseum is not only home to the world's largest collection of works by #vincentvangogh: indeed, most of the remarkable artworks in this exhibition are by artists other than Van Gogh. Here to Stay features work by major names including Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, but also by lesser-known artists such as Henri Guérard.
Aside from the artworks themselves, the stories behind the acquisitions play a central role. Curators explain why a museum collects works, and why it is so important that a museum continues to make acquisitions. And how does a decision go about deciding which works are worth adding to the collection?
The exhibition addresses the art historical perspective, but also the question of why the acquisition belongs in the #vangoghmuseum. Museum staff also relate their personal stories. About how the curators were moved to tears when they viewed an (at the time, still potential) acquisition by Maurice Denis in a collector's depot, and a ray of light suddenly shone on the head of the baby depicted in the work. And about how they were kindly asked to leave a smart hotel bar, after cheering a little too exuberantly upon hearing that the museum had placed the winning bid for an artwork at an auction on the other side of the globe. But the exhibition also reveals how a ripped letter by Van Gogh was meticulously restored, and how the descendent of the Jewish man depicted in a painting by Munch came face-to-face with the portrait at the museum after many years.
Personal stories from #people from outside of the museum also accompany the artworks in this exhibition. Such as the stories of collectors, museum supporters, and of 10 Amsterdam residents, who – especially for this exhibition – were invited to offer their personal perspective on their favourite acquisition from the past decade. From a resident of the Museum Quarter and a high school student, to a youth worker from the District of Nieuw-West, and the Amsterdam city poet. All 10 wrote a story, and by including their perspectives in this exhibition, visitors are emphatically invited to consider their own personal perception. After all, the artworks at the #vangoghmuseum are part of the Dutch State Art Collection, and as such, are the public property of us all. Here to Stay focuses both on the art and these stories, which introduce visitors to a range of new perspectives on the acquisitions. An artwork is not static, and a museum collection lives and breathes.
Here to Stay: A decade of remarkable acquisitions and their stories is on display at the #vangoghmuseum in Amsterdam from 5 February until 24 May 2021.
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