Call for studio visit by Pieter Boons on 29 and 30 November

On Friday 29 November and Saturday 30 November, Pieter Boons, senior curator of Middelheim Museum, will make a number of studio visits to artists in The Hague. For his areas of interest, please refer to his biography (see below).

Sign up
If you are interested in a studio visit by Pieter Boons, you can register through an online registration form until Wednesday, Nov. 13. We ask you to briefly motivate your interest in a studio visit and to include a link to your artist profile on haagsekunstenaars.nl and your personal website. The responses received, together with any suggestions from Stroom, will be presented to the curator. From this list he will make a selection on the basis of which the visit program will be compiled. You will receive a message shortly after the deadline to inform you whether you have been selected for a studio visit.

Short biography
Since 2008 Pieter Boons (1980, BE) has been affiliated with the Middelheim Museum and in 2017 he was appointed curator. The Middelheim Museum was founded in 1950 as an open-air museum for contemporary sculpture in a protected landscape. It's a free and open-air museum where a permanent display of some 350 artworks are being altered with temporary exhibitions.

The Middelheim likes to experiment in close collaborations with contemporary artists often resulting in making new commissions, tailor-made for the museum collection or the exhibitions. Therefore, Pieter Boons' curatorial practice needs to be hands-on, and so it often starts pragmatically from the making itself of artworks or exhibitions. He has worked very closely with artists such as Roman Signer, Joan Jonas, Bernhard Wilhelm, Kader Attia and William Forsythe amongst others.

Although most projects test the resilience of sculpture in the most broad sense, the projects also relate to an (inter)national zeitgeist where issues as gender, power structures, the politics of identity and the history of imperialism are never far away. Recent projects include soloshows by Camille Henrot (2022) and Anna Mendieta (2019) and the ambitious group show Congoville, unfolding the museum’s own unseen colonial history (cocurated with Sandrine Colard).

About the studio visiting program
Stroom regularly invites curators, artists and critics from The Netherlands and abroad to visit the studios of artists from The Hague who are registered at Stroom. These studio visits offer an opportunity for artists to present their work and receive constructive feedback on their practice. The program also aims is to strengthen and broaden the artists' network.