This summer, the Central Museum Utrecht in collaboration with the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, offers a platform to young and innovative artists. For this exhibition, the museum has selected visual artists, designers and architects, who have received a starter stipend for their work from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture between 2006 and 2008.
The works of 31 promising young artists, who are not afraid of sharing their opinion about modern-day society, are on display. Various disciplines and talents come together: design, architecture, photography, illustration, painting, and film. Despite all diversity, the nature of the works can be characterised as clear, direct and confronting, like the title says in Dutch: recht voor zijn raap.
The exhibition is not only presenting work of up-and-coming talent, but also work of artists who have already developed themselves and became successful in the past few years. For example, Christien Meindertsma, who won the Dutch Design Award in 2008 for best design with PIG 05049. And illustrator Gijs Huijgen and fashion designer Iris van Herpen with the same prize in 2009 for their work in the categories best illustration and best product fashion, jewellery & accessory. Especially for the exhibition, several artists, like Sjocosjon and Marc Koehler, create new work.
Also a two-part catalogue about the exhibition will be published, made by the designers Alfons Hooikaas and Felix Weigand.
June 19th - September 12th
Central Museum Utrecht
Written for BLEND.
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