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Rotterdam Design Prize 2011
The nominated designs of the Rotterdam Design Prize will be exhibited in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam from 26 November. The Rotterdam Design Prize 2011 is a joint project ...
Marijke van Warmerdam
A hat dancing on the wind, flowers blooming or a girl doing a handstand. In her work, Marijke Van Warmerdam (1959) chooses remarkably simple subjects. She makes use of image ...
Series: Han Nefkens
From the moment that art freed itself from the rules of craftsmanship and moved towards the methods of science there have been benefactors; people with money who supported artists in ...
Series Beauty in Science
A museum exhibits works of art. They can amaze or move the spectator and induce emotion and often a sense of beauty.
Science is a search, based on verifiable facts ...
All Eyes on Kees van Dongen
A world-class exhibition to match the extraordinary artistic verve of Kees van Dongen was presented in autumn 2010. The exhibition ended 23 January 2011 with over 205.000 visitors.
Traces of Johan Thorn Prikker
In the early 20th century, the action radius of the Dutch artist Johan Thorn Prikker (1868-1932) covered The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Visé, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Munich, Hagen, Krefeld and Neuss. Everywhere ...
The choice of the curator
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen has a very extensive and rich collection of more than 140,000 objects, from textile to painting, from drawing to chair.
ArtTube asked the curators to ...
Boijmans TV
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen presents in cooperation with RTV Rijnmond, Popov film and the RO Theater the new television series Boijmans TV. It is being broadcast from Wednesday 14 April ...
From... with Love
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's staff often travel for work. In the "From .. with Love" series they report back from their trips.
The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions
The exhibition The Art of Fashion is on view at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen until January 11th 2010
In general, fashion and art are considered to be totally different. Art ...
Boijmans Megastructures
When you visit an exhibition, you rarely stop to think about all the work that has gone into giving you so much visual enjoyment. The series Boijmans Mega Structures takes ...
Time travelling
In films, it is always accompanied by sparks and explosions, but in the museum you pass from one period to another in peace and comfort. Backwards, forwards to the future ...
VIP guest book
Countless special artists, actors, scientists, politicians, journalists, musicians and many more visit Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen every week. Without any advanced warning, we ask them to say something on camera ...
Images of Erasmus
Although it’s not absolutely certain that (and if so, when) Erasmus was born in Rotterdam - his name is inextricably linked to this Dutch city at the river Meuse.
Erasmus ...
Lectures
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen regularly invites speakers from home and abroad to hold lectures. About an exhibition, about exceptional works of art or special themes in art. Some of these ...
Brazil Contemporary
In the spring of 2009, three Rotterdam museums, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Dutch Architectural Institute and the Dutch Photo Museum, featured the works of Brazilian artists, architects and designers ...
Portraits of artists
Hundreds of artists from all over the world annually exhibit their works in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. We have made short video portraits about some of these in which we ...
Old news
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen was not born yesterday. It has existed for 160 years. In Old news, we let the museum relive its history.
And a remarkable film from the ...
Pipilotti Rist: Elixir
In the spring of 2009, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presented the spectacular exhibition ‘Elixir: the video organism of Pipilotti Rist’.
Elixir was a major retrospective of nine spatial installations by ...
