Activities during
Klee and Cobra
- Children's studios
- Exclusive dinner
- Family workshop
- Lab
- Tours by appointment
- Workshops for children
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Klee and Cobra
A Child’s Play
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'Cobra in the Open' is a new sculpture garden to open in the attractive surroundings of Kasteel Keukenhof, next spring. The garden is an initiative of the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Kasteel Keukenhof in Lisse. With Cobra in the Open the Cobra Museum will organise exhibitions of Cobra sculptures over a three year period. The first sculpture exhibition (from 22 March - 21 October 2012) will show large sculptures by Karel Appel.
Developmental psychology with the University of Amsterdam
A special programme has been developed around the theme of the exhibition. Visitors are invited to participate. The programme includes series of lectures, an on-line experiment, an interactive weblog and a research lab at the museum.
Interactive weblog: with stories, insights and background information on the theme of children’s drawings. Edited by Dr. Ad Dudink, developmental psychologist, and the UvA (online from 1 February, 2012).
This programme has in part been made possible with the support of the SNS REAAL Foundation.
Klee and Cobra
A Child’s Play
28.01 - 22.04 2012
Klee and Cobra: A Child’s Play reveals the shared fascination of Paul Klee and the Cobra artists with the wondrous, imaginary world of the child. Over 130 Paul Klee masterpieces and 120 by Cobra artists (Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Eugène Brands, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky and others) have been brought together from international collections. Visitors will experience how both Klee and the post-war Cobra artists translated the free expression of children into radical new art, which still today remains colourful, spontaneous, raw and pure.
Klee and Cobra has been organized in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark.
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The winner of the Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen 2011 presents new work, merged with works from the Cobra Museum collection in a unique installation. Nathaniel Mellors (b. 1974 Doncaster England; lives and works in Amsterdam) has rapidly gained an international reputation with idiosyncratic works in which the complex relationship between language and power is a recurrent theme.
