Suzanne Oxenaar (born 1950s-1960s) is a Dutch cultural entrepreneur,

designer A designer is a person who plans the form or structure of something before it is made, by preparing drawings or plans. In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exp ...

and co-founder and artistic director of the

Lloyd Hotel Lloyd Hotel is a hotel housed in a historic building in the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam, commissioned by the Royal Holland Lloyd (Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd). Founded as a hotel, it initially housed travelling immigrants. Later, it was used ...

in Amsterdam.

Biography

Oxenaar is the daughter of

Rudi Oxenaar Rudi, born Albert Rudolph (January 24, 1928 – February 21, 1973), also known as Swami Rudrananda, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Rudi was a spiritual teacher and an antiquities entrepreneur in New York City.Swami Rudrananda udi ''Spiri ...

, former director of the

Kröller-Müller Museum The Kröller-Müller Museum () is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum, founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller within the extensive grounds of ...

, and Thil Oxenaar-van der Haagen (1931-1985). Her brother Aart Oxenaar (1958) is director of the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Oxenaar came into prominence in the late 1980s with the renovation of an old Amsterdam theater into an art center. In 1990 with her own office she managed an art exhibition in

Loevestein Castle Loevestein Castle ( nl, Slot Loevestein) is a medieval castle in the municipality of Zaltbommel, Gelderland, the Netherlands. The castle was built by the knight Dirk Loef of Horne (hence "Loef's stein" (stone) house) between 1357 and 1397. Unti ...

with artists such as

Klaas Gubbels Klaas Gubbels (born 1934) is a Dutch painter and sculptor with a special love of coffeepots. Biography He was born in Rotterdam and in 1954 he became assistant to Wally Elenbaas and Louis van Roode.David van de Kop David Johannes van de Kop or David Vandekop (The Hague, November 3, 1937 - Dreischor, September 14, 1994) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and sculptor.Biographical data at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Life and work From 1956 to 1961 ...

, Gabriëlle van de Laak and

Bořek Šípek Bořek Šípek (14 June 1949 – 13 February 2016) was a Czech architect and designer. Biography Born in Prague, he was renowned for his individual, unusual, colorful, and rich style. He experimented with unexpected and often opulent shapes. ...

. Another of her early adventures was the initiation of the Supper Club in Amsterdam in 1991. A year later in 1992 she managed to transform an old hospital in Gorkum into an temporary exhibition space.Mark Peeters,
Kunst over het brein in oud Gorkums ziekenhuis
" ''NRC Handelsblad,'' Rotterdam, 1992/08/24, p. 6. Geraadpleegd op Delpher op 14-10-2019. Later the 1990s with the historian Otto Nan she developed a plan to renovate and old Lloyd office in Amsterdam into the

, which was put into action. In 2004 the hotel opened their doors. In 2009 Oxenaar was awarded the

Benno Premsela Prize The Benno Premsela Prize is a former Dutch design prize, awarded every two years from 2000 to 2012 by the Mondriaan Fonds to a person who has played a stimulating role in the field of visual arts, design or architecture. The prize is named after de ...

Publications

* Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver, Suzanne Oxenaar, Pierre Tuning. ''Ambition/field climbing: project in de 'Historische Tuin Aalsmeer' 1996.'' Mondriaan Fund, 1997 * Suzanne Oxenaar (ed), ''Het vijfde seizoen,'' Amsterdam : SKOR, 2002.

References

External links

Suzanne Oxenaar - Lloyd Hotel - MfDC
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oxenaar, Suzanne Living people Dutch designers Dutch directors Year of birth missing (living people)