24 juni 2010 t/m 30 jan 2011
Thursday 24 June is the kick off of the international Rietveld Year with Rietveld currant buns (‘krentenbollen'), the launch of the Rietveld iPhone application, the start of the multidisciplinary programme and the publication of the Rietveld Magazine. The city of Utrecht is rightly proud to have within its city limits the most Rietveld buildings and the fact that the Centraal Museum is the owner of the largest Rietveld collection in the world. Rietveld’s work is characterised by its craftsmanship, the possibility of reuse and sustainability, important up and coming and contemporary values. That is why the city of Utrecht has proclaimed the year 2010 as Rietveld Year. The year is regarded as the starting point of a longterm campaign to profile Rietveld as an icon of the city and province of Utrecht and to permanently link his name to Utrecht.
Rietveld ‘krentenbol’
The celebrations marking the Rietveld Year will start on Thursday 24 June at 8 a.m. when special currant buns (‘krentenbollen’) are served to the people of Utrecht in front of the Rietveld Schröder House. The story goes that the ‘krentenbol’, was Rietveld’s favourite delicacy. The special Rietveld ‘krentenbol’ is made by master chef Jon Sistermans of Restaurant Wilhelminapark in Utrecht.
Programme
The Rietveld Year has a multidisciplinary character. The aim is to get a broad and divers public interested into the life and range of ideas of Gerrit Rietveld. This is why the Central Museum is collaborating with various partners, including the Dutch Film Festival, Premsela, residents of Rietveld houses, Armando Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Utrecht Manifest, Dick Bruna, rock act C-Mon & Kypski, the University of Utrecht, Technical University Delft, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) and the Van Gogh Museum. Highlight of the Rietveld Year is the exhibition Rietveld’s Universe at the Centraal Museum. This exhibition runs between 20 October and 30 January. For the full programme, see www.rietveldjaar.nl, online from 15 June.
Rietveld iPhone application
The Utrecht architect Rietveld has realised over 100 projects in the Netherlands. These projects have been included in the Rietveld Architecture iPhone application, developed in collaboration with Makayama. The application is launched and freely available from this day. With the application you can see, wherever you are in the Netherlands, if there is a Rietveld building in the vicinity. With the navigation system you can find the location of the building.
Rietveld Magazine
Rietveld was an appealing architect and designer, but also a very special man. Both these aspects have been highlighted in the Rietveld Magazine, which is compiled in collaboration with Eigen Huis & Interieur (Home & Design) magazine. The magazine also includes a programme with a complete overview of all activities. The magazine is distributed during the events and can be purchased at the Centraal Museum for € 2.95.
Thursday 24 June is the kick off of the international Rietveld Year with Rietveld currant buns (‘krentenbollen'), the launch of the Rietveld iPhone application, the start of the multidisciplinary programme and the publication of the Rietveld Magazine. The city of Utrecht is rightly proud to have within its city limits the most Rietveld buildings and the fact that the Centraal Museum is the owner of the largest Rietveld collection in the world. Rietveld’s work is characterised by its craftsmanship, the possibility of reuse and sustainability, important up and coming and contemporary values. That is why the city of Utrecht has proclaimed the year 2010 as Rietveld Year. The year is regarded as the starting point of a longterm campaign to profile Rietveld as an icon of the city and province of Utrecht and to permanently link his name to Utrecht.
Rietveld ‘krentenbol’
The celebrations marking the Rietveld Year will start on Thursday 24 June at 8 a.m. when special currant buns (‘krentenbollen’) are served to the people of Utrecht in front of the Rietveld Schröder House. The story goes that the ‘krentenbol’, was Rietveld’s favourite delicacy. The special Rietveld ‘krentenbol’ is made by master chef Jon Sistermans of Restaurant Wilhelminapark in Utrecht.
Programme
The Rietveld Year has a multidisciplinary character. The aim is to get a broad and divers public interested into the life and range of ideas of Gerrit Rietveld. This is why the Central Museum is collaborating with various partners, including the Dutch Film Festival, Premsela, residents of Rietveld houses, Armando Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Utrecht Manifest, Dick Bruna, rock act C-Mon & Kypski, the University of Utrecht, Technical University Delft, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) and the Van Gogh Museum. Highlight of the Rietveld Year is the exhibition Rietveld’s Universe at the Centraal Museum. This exhibition runs between 20 October and 30 January. For the full programme, see www.rietveldjaar.nl, online from 15 June.
Rietveld iPhone application
The Utrecht architect Rietveld has realised over 100 projects in the Netherlands. These projects have been included in the Rietveld Architecture iPhone application, developed in collaboration with Makayama. The application is launched and freely available from this day. With the application you can see, wherever you are in the Netherlands, if there is a Rietveld building in the vicinity. With the navigation system you can find the location of the building.
Rietveld Magazine
Rietveld was an appealing architect and designer, but also a very special man. Both these aspects have been highlighted in the Rietveld Magazine, which is compiled in collaboration with Eigen Huis & Interieur (Home & Design) magazine. The magazine also includes a programme with a complete overview of all activities. The magazine is distributed during the events and can be purchased at the Centraal Museum for € 2.95.
Gerrit Rietveld, Red Blue chair, 1925
Van Baaren Museum Foundation and the Centraal Museum join forces
The Van Baaren Museum Foundation, located in Utrecht, has succeeded, in collaboration with the Centraal Museum, in purchasing a triptych from Marei von Saher, the sole heir of Jacques Goudstikker. The triptych is an altarpiece that was painted ca. 1525 for the families Pauw and Zas from Utrecht.
The Van Baaren Museum Foundation, located in Utrecht, has succeeded, in collaboration with the Centraal Museum, in purchasing a triptych from Marei von Saher, the sole heir of Jacques Goudstikker. The triptych is an altarpiece that was painted ca. 1525 for the families Pauw and Zas from Utrecht.
Master of the Pauw and Zas Altarpiece, Triptych with the Last Supper, around 1525, Goudstikker Collection
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From March 8th till May 25th 2008, the Centraal Museum shows the private collection modern textile art of Benno Premsela (1920-1997) in the exhibition ´Benno by touch´. Premsela's passion for textile is made clear by showing artpieces that inspired him in his own work. It's the first time that all these objects are exhibited together.
From March 21st 2008, the Centraal Museum has the honour of being the 1st museum to present the work of artist Willem van Malsen (1940-2005). Van Malsen was a well-known figure in the Amsterdam artscene of the 70s and 80s. The exhibition reflects the versatility of van Malsen work: he was for example a painter, an illustrator, a writer, a draughtsman, so much more and quite a handful. His onconventional and often humorous works are on display until May 4th 2008.
Presenting masterpieces from the history of fashion and interiors, the passage of time is central to the visitor’s experience of the new display ‘Script’.
Script - fashion and interiors, from salon to house. Image and copyrights CMU/Ernst Moritz.
From 16 February 2008 the Centraal Museum is displaying its collection of modern art in a new and refreshing context in the exhibition Standpoints. Themes such as mass culture, politics, freedom and the elite form the starting point for an experimental look at the collection, freed from the traditional framework of art history. Seven contemporary artists add their own topical and personal standpoints in the form of wall paintings that establish a dialogue with the works on display. This makes for a highly innovative installation. The Centraal Museum hopes that this new way of presenting the collection will give an impulse to the debate about contemporary artistic engagement.
Pyke Koch, Portrait of H.M. Koch-de Geer, 1940. Image & copyrights CMU/ Ernst Moritz
The Centraal Museum recently obtained three new paintings, which are all Town views of Utrecht painted around 1800. On the opportunity of these new acquisitions, there is a small exhibition of these and other town views of the city of Utrecht from the same period.
Jan Hendrik Verheyen, View on the Weerdpoort in Utrecht 1821. Collection Centraal Museum, Utrecht; acquired 2007.
Prof. Stacey will introduce and show clips from 2 recent films on genetic engineering by independent women directors
The Centraal Museum is very excited to anounce that Alexander van Slobbe will organise an exhibition in cooperation with the Centraal Museum to celebrate his 20th anniversary at the end of 2008.
The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP) is the core in which the artist Koen Vanmechelen works around an extensive breeding programme with chicken breeds from all over the world. By doing so he asks attention for crossing borders in all means of the word and above all a mutual understanding. The chickens are as a part of the exhibition Genesis showns in the exhibition room.
The Centraal Museum in Utrecht has purchased the painting Man Kind by Marlene Dumas for it's collection.
‘First of all, the World must be changed’. So begins the founding manifesto of the Situationist International from July 1957. From 15 December 2006 until 11 March 2007 the Centraal Museum Utrecht presents the first large survey exhibition devoted to the Situationist International – the last avant-garde movement of the twentieth century.
The Centraal Museum presents a debate on the value of contemporary democracy after 150 years.
Sunday 19 November, 3h
Dutch spoken
The Centraal Museum presents the 'Viktor & Rolf for H&M' wedding dress from 24 October til 26 November.
This autumn the Centraal Museum offers lots of special activities for children and their parants. For more information, contact the educational board
The red and blue chair (1918- 1924) of Gerrit Th. Rietveld, part of the collection of the Centraal Museum, is added to the Dutch historic canon, as presented on the websitewww.entoen.nu
The Centraal Museum Utrecht presents the first solo exhibition of Derk Wessels (b. Utrecht 1972)in project room 6. Wessels works in a colorfull and expressive style.
Art collector Han Nefkens has financed two technological outfits from the latest collection of Hussein Chalayan, the One Hundred Eleven series. Nefkens is now donating them as a long-term loan to the Centraal Museum Utrecht where they will be included in the contemporary fashion collection.
The popularity of drawing is steadily on the increase. The persistent cliche of the drawing as a mere sketch or preparatory study has long been discredited, as an ever increasing number of artists turn their attention to the medium. Rough sketches, finely detailed precision work and surreal fantasy worlds demonstrate that drawing easily measures up to painting in terms of quality and stature. This summer the Centraal Museum presents a number of exhibitions which focus on drawing as an independent artistic form.
Shigeru Uchida, Horizontal, 1999
Portor
Horizontal
Au Tartan
Bed Willem III
Fokke & Sukke
Spijkerskrant
Impakt 2003
cd rom
Gooseberrie&strawberrie
DIOR
brides of dracula
DIOR
'ideal!living'
21 September 2002 to 12 January 2003
in Centraal Museum
For four months from 21 September 2002, the Centraal Museum will be devoting itself to 'Ideal ! Living', an overview of a hundred years of interior life and design - the first in a series of thematic exhibitions with which the Centraal Museum will be steering a new, more public-oriented course. At 'Ideaal ! Wonen' there will be something for everyone. The exhibition will cover everything from Rietveld's designs to IKEA's 'democratic design'. In short, it will be a complete and surprising survey of homes in the last century - and also a look at where we are today.
21 September 2002 to 12 January 2003
in Centraal Museum
For four months from 21 September 2002, the Centraal Museum will be devoting itself to 'Ideal ! Living', an overview of a hundred years of interior life and design - the first in a series of thematic exhibitions with which the Centraal Museum will be steering a new, more public-oriented course. At 'Ideaal ! Wonen' there will be something for everyone. The exhibition will cover everything from Rietveld's designs to IKEA's 'democratic design'. In short, it will be a complete and surprising survey of homes in the last century - and also a look at where we are today.
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Saturday 14 and sunday 15 oktober, the Centraal Museum can be visited for free. Your visit is sponsored by the provence of Utrecht, that offers free museum visits in the province of Utrecht. See also: www.gratisrondjemusea.nl
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