Le pavillon national des Pays-Bas (Biennale de Venise 2019) (48105010111)

The Dutch pavilion houses the Netherlands's national representation during the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

arts festivals.

Background

Organization and building

The pavilion, designed by Ferdinand Boberg, was originally built in 1912. It was later razed and rebuilt in 1953 by

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. Early life Rietveld was born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888 as the son of a joiner. He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at ni ...

. Since 1995, the Mondriaan Foundation has been responsible for the Dutch entry at the Biennale di Venezia, appointing a curator for each entry.

Representation by year

Art

* 1956 —

Constant Constant or The Constant may refer to: Mathematics * Constant (mathematics), a non-varying value * Mathematical constant, a special number that arises naturally in mathematics, such as or Other concepts * Control variable or scientific const ...

Bart van der Leck Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876, Utrecht – 13 November 1958, Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian he founded the De Stijl art movement. Son of a house painter, he started his ca ...

Piet Mondriaan Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (, also , ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being o ...

, André Volten * 1964 —

Karel Appel Christiaan Karel Appel (; 25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-gar ...

, Lucebert, J. Mooy * 1966 —

Constant Nieuwenhuys Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys (21 July 1920 – 1 August 2005), better known as Constant, was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician. Early period Constant was born in Amsterdam on 21 July 1920 as the first son of Pieter N ...

with paintings, sculptures, New Babylon objects, watercolors and drawings * 1968 —

Carel Visser Carel Nicolaas Visser (3 May 1928 – 1 March 2015) was a Dutch sculptor. He is considered an important representative of Dutch abstract-minimalist constructivism in sculpture. Life and work Visser was born on 3 May 1928 in Papendrecht. From 194 ...

*1970 – Willem Graatsma, Jan Slothouber *1972 –

Jan Dibbets Jan Dibbets (born 9 May 1941, in Weert) is an Amsterdam-based Dutch conceptual artist. His work is influenced by mathematics and works mainly with photography. Life and career In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he started as an art teacher at ...

*1974 – (no biennal) *1976 – Jan Dibbets, Jerry de Keizer, Herman Herzberger *1978 – Douwe Jan Bakker, Sjoerd Buisman, Krijn Giezen, Hans de Vries * 1980 —

Ger van Elk Ger van Elk (9 March 1941 – 17 August 2014) was a Dutch artist who created sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work has been described as being both conceptual art and arte povera. Between 1959 and 1988 he lived and wo ...

* 1982 — Stanley Brouwn * 1984 —

Armando Armando may refer to: * Armando (given name) * Armando (artist) (1929–2018), the name used by Dutch artist Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd * Armando (producer) Armando Gallop (sometimes written as Armando Gallup) (February 12, 1970 – December 17, ...

* 1986 — Reinier Lucassen * 1988 — Henk Visch * 1990 —

Rob Scholte Rob Scholte (born June 1, 1958 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch contemporary artist. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. His work consists of reproductions of images from the media and from art history. He lives and w ...

* 1993 — Niek Kemps * 1995 —

Marlene Dumas Marlene Dumas (born 3 August 1953) is a South African artist and painter currently based in the Netherlands. Life and work Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Kuils River in the Western Cape, where her father had ...

, Maria Roosen, Marijke van Warmerdam (Curator:

Chris Dercon Chris Dercon (born 1958) is a Belgian art historian, curator, and museum director born in Lier in Belgium. As a museum director, Dercon has worked and published extensively on the future of museums, working with renowned architects Rem Koolhaas, ...

) * 1997 —

Aernout Mik Aernout Mik (born 3 July 1962) is a Dutch artist, internationally known for his installations and films. Biography Mik spent his childhood in Groningen and studied there from 1983 to 1988 at the Academie Minerva. He also had lessons from . H ...

, Willem Oorebeek (Curators: Leontine Coelewij, Arno van Roosmalen) * 1999 — Daan van Golden (Curator: Karel Schampers) * 2001 — Liza May Post (Curator: Jaap Guldemond) * 2003 —

Carlos Amorales Carlos Amorales (Mexico City, 1970) is a multidisciplinary artist who studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. The most extensive researches in his work encompass ''Los Amorales'' (1996-2001), ''Liquid Archive'' ( ...

, Alicia Framis, Meschac Gaba,

Jeanne van Heeswijk Jeanne van Heeswijk (born 1965) is a Dutch visual artist and curator. Her work often focuses on social practice art, or the relationship between space, geography and urban renewal. She lives and works in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. From 1983-198 ...

, Erik van Lieshout (Curator: Rein Wolfs) * 2005 — Jeroen De Rijke / Willem de Rooij (Curator: Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen) * 2007 —

(Curator Maria Hlavajova) * 2009 —

Fiona Tan Fiona Tan (born 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia) is a visual artist primarily known for her photography, film and video art installations. With her own complex cultural background, Tan's work is known for its skillful craftsmanship and emotional int ...

(Curator: Saskia Bos) * 2011 —

Barbara Visser Barbara Visser (born 16 August 1977) is a Croatian-Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). From 31 August 2021 to 10 January 2022, she served as Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands ...

, Ernst van der Hoeven, Herman Verkerk, Johannes Schwartz, Joke Robaard, Maureen Mooren, Paul Kuipers, Sanneke van Hassel, Yannis Kyriakides (Curator: Guus Beumer) * 2013 — Mark Manders (Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti) * 2015 — Herman de Vries (Curators: Colin Huizing, Cees de Boer) * 2017 — Wendelien van Oldenborgh (Curator: Lucy Cotter) * 2019 — Remy Jungerman,

Iris Kensmil Iris Kensmil (born 1970, Amsterdam) is a Dutch artist of Surinamese descent. In 1996 she obtained her degree from the Academie Minerva in Groningen. In 2017 Kensmil participated in the exhibition ''Zwart en Revolutionair'' (Black and Revolutiona ...

(Curator: Benno Tempel) In 2022 the Dutch representation ( Melanie Bonajo (Curators: Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth and Soraya Pol)) will not take place in the Rietveld building, but in the Chiesetta della Misericordia, while the Rietveld pavilion will be used for the Estonian exhibition.Lee Cheshire (11 April 2022)

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