Studio visits Bart Rutten: 12 and 17 January

On Friday, January 12 and Wednesday, January 17, 2023, curator, art historian, and artistic director of the Centraal Museum Bart Rutten will visit several artists' studios in The Hague. Bart Rutten is the artistic director of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd. He has a broad interest in various forms of art, ranging from conceptual works to painting, and from drawings to installations.

Registration
If you are interested in an atelier visit with Bart Rutten, please let us know by Sunday, December 17, 2023. The responses will be presented to Bart Rutten, together with any suggestions from Stroom. From this list, he will make a selection based on which the program will be composed. Shortly after the deadline, you will receive a message informing you whether you have been selected for a studio visit.

Brief Biography
Bart Rutten (1972) is a curator, art historian, and has been the artistic director of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht since May 2017. Alongside managing director Marco Grob, he is responsible for the museum’s policy, with Rutten overseeing the exhibition program and collection management. Since Rutten’s appointment, the museum has increasingly focused on contemporary art as an integral part of its program, and initiatives have been launched to develop a more inclusive exhibition and collection policy.

The most recent exhibition he curated was Double Act, Masterpieces in Paint and Video, in which iconic video art installations from the world-famous Kramlich Collection were placed in dialogue with highlights of 17th-century paintings from the museum's collection. For the past two years, he has also been responsible for the exhibition on mid-career Dutch artists at Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd. In December 2023, a transhistorical and interdisciplinary collection exhibition curated by Rutten will open there.

Before his appointment in Utrecht, Rutten worked at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam as head of collections and as a curator, responsible for exhibitions such as The Oasis of Matisse (2015) and Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde (2013). Prior to that, he worked at the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch and the Netherlands Institute for Media Art.

Rutten presents items about exhibitions for the TV program Nu te zien and serves on various advisory committees and boards in Utrecht and other parts of the Netherlands. These include the Supervisory Board of Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, the artists' space W139, and in the role of advisor for Vereniging Rembrandt, Musea Bekennen Kleur (which he initiated), and the interdisciplinary platform HEM in Zaandam. www.centraalmuseum.nl