Cobra Museum names a new directorate
The leadership of the Cobra Museum will be assumed by two directors.
The Board of the museum will appoint art historian Katja Weitering (Artistic Museum Director) and Els Ottenhof (Executive Museum Director).
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Mogens Balle
A Great Unknown Dane
29.05 - 22.08 2010
While Danish artist Mogens Balle (Copenhagen 1921�1988) may be relatively unknown in the Netherlands, it is certainly not the case in Denmark and amongst Cobra circles. In recent years, international appreciation of his work has grown enormously. Now, in an extensive survey show, the Cobra Museum has brought the work of this major Danish Cobra artist to the Netherlands for the first time. The more than 80 artworks that make up this fanciful survey exhibition are the product of an inspired and an experimental artistic life.
Erik Klein Wolterink
Winner 'Bouw in Beeld'
Prize 2010
22.06 - 01.08 2010
Back Home, the theme of the 2010 'Bouw in Beeld' Prize has been visualised by the ten finalists for this exhibition. The ten finalists were chosen from a field of 135 entrants by: Marcel Feil, Curator at FOAM and additionally of this exhibition; photographers Marie-José Jongerius and Andrea Stultiens (winner of the 2009 Bouw in Beeld Prize); designer Hans Gremmen; and, Curator Frank van der Stok, who also served as the technical consultant to the final ten nominated photographers. The work in the exhibition was judged by an independent jury consisting of architect Mels Crouwel (Jury Chair); photographers Vivane Sassen and Paul Kooiker; the Director of the Museum for Photography in Berlin, Ludger Derenthal; and, Financial Times critic and former Head of Photography at Sotheby's in London, Francis Hodgson.
The Back Home photographic exhibition will be on view first at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen to August 1.
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Guillaume Le Roy
12.06 - 10.10 2010
The Cobra Museum shows a selection of work from extensive oeuvre of the important Dutch graphic artist Guillaume Le Roy (Blaricum 1938 - Amsterdam 2008). Most of the approximately 40 works on view are woodcuts. The artworks on display are from the years 1980-2007, and all are on loan from the artist's own collection. This exhibition is significant in that it features a number of rarely-exhibited painted studies that Le Roy made in preparation for printed works.
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Masquerade
Cobra Playfulness and the Mask
12.06 - 10.10 2010
The Cobra Museum presents 'Masquerade: Cobra's Game with the Mask', an inspiring and multi-faceted summer exhibit about the relationship between Cobra and the mask: the mask as symbol for unrestrained and spontaneous art. The exhibition will show works from Cobra alongside tribal masks and will include art by Ejler Bile, Eugène Brands, Corneille, Sonja Ferlov, Egill Jacobsen, Robert Jacobsen, Asger Jorn, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Anton Rooskens, Theo Wolvecamp, as well as work by the Cobra-associated artist Piet Ouborg. Special ethnographic items will also be exhibited: African masks from a Royal Danish Collection, from two authoritative museum collections and from the private collections of Brands, Corneille, Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Ouborg en Rooskens. This exhibition contains approximately 80 works, many of which are on loan from Danish and Dutch collectors.
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