Joost Conijn
Winner 2005 of the
Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen
The Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen is awarded biennially to an artist living in the Netherlands working in an innovative and experimental sense. The prize consists of the sum of 10,000 euro plus an exhibition with accompanying catalogue in the Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen.
The Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen 2005 has been awarded to Joost Conijn.
The title of the prize reflects the link with both initiators - Amstelveen Council and the Cobra Museum of Modern Art. Amstelveen.
The board of the Foundation Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen comprises Jan Brummelhuis (chairman), Jan van Zanen (mayor of the municipality of Amstelveen), Marieke Sanders-ten Holte and John Vrieze (director of the Cobra Museum).
Members of the jury are Hedwig Fijen (chairman and director of Manifesta), Alexander Strengers (head of the art collection of De Nederlandsche Bank), Dominic den Boogerd (director De Ateliers) and John Vrieze.
Johannes Schwartz winner 2007 of the Cobra Artprize Amstelveen
'Paintbox' is the name of the winners exhibition from 24 November 2007 to 13 January 2008 at the Cobra Museum. His wall installation, comprising a selection of early and entirely new works made especially to mark the occasion. His 'Paintbox' exhibition introduces two new works. The first is a wall installation, executed on the spot in the Cobra Museum, comprising an exact painted replica of his 'Rembrandt' (2005), a photograph he made of a wall in the Rijksmuseum, which was where the Old Master's 'Night Watch' had hung until major rebuilding. The other new work is a series of large-scale photographs of an art storage space in a Ministerial building entitled 'Art Archive' (2007). Along with this new, never previously shown work, photographs from his 'Van Gogh' (2002) series are also on display.
'Rembrandt' (2005).
