Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen news

07 FEBRUARY, 2019

Rotterdam’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen - the world’s first publicly accessible art depot - will open in 2021.

The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen will be a unique space for exploration, interaction and discovery. The Depot will be the first museum storage facility in the world to offer public access to the largest part of the 151.000 artworks from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection without the mediation of a curator.

February 2019

05 Feb

‘netherlands ⇄ bauhaus – pioneers of a new world’

‘netherlands ⇄ bauhaus’, with over 800 Bauhaus objects, opens this weekend. It is the final major exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen before its renovation. On the opening day – Saturday, February 9 – admission to the museum is free for everyone.

January 2019

25 Jan

Viktor&Rolf dress for Boijmans

Han Nefkens has bought an extraordinary dress from fashion house Viktor & Rolf at Paris Fashion Week. The patron has just announced that he is donating the work, called 'I Want a Better World', to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

November 2018

30 Nov

Co Westerik – Everyday Wonder

In 2019 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is paying tribute to the Rotterdam-based artist Co Westerik, who recently died at the age of 94, with a retrospective of his art and his diaries. It is the first time these private journals are on display.

21 Nov

‘netherlands ⇄ bauhaus - pioneers of a new world’

Before work starts on the ambitious programme of renovating and refurbishing the museum, we are pulling out all the stops again. In February 2019, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen kicks off the Bauhaus centenary with a huge exhibition about the legendary art and design school, whose influence is felt to this day.

07 Nov

Boijmans in Transit

Museum in flux during forthcoming renovation works: a large part of the collection will remain accessible to the public. As is clear from the report published this week, Rotterdam’s Council for Art & Culture fully supports this future scenario. The Rotterdam Municipal Executive is also positive about the plans.

October 2018

26 Oct

Dalí, Magritte, Miró, Man Ray, and Picabia on a journey

The famous Surrealist collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, with masterpieces of Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Francis Picabia and many others, has traveled to Italy: the exhibition ‘Dal Nulla al Sogno’ opens on October 27th in the Fondazione Ferrero in Alba.

11 Oct

Sol Calero for Sensory Spaces 15

The first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by Sol Calero opens at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen on 13 October. The installation that Calero has created for the museum will be the tailpiece of the ‘Sensory Spaces’ series, which was initiated in 2013.

04 Oct

Boijmans in the War. Art in the Destroyed City

In the autumn of 2018, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen transports visitors into the history of the then Museum Boymans during and around the Second World War. Recent research provides the basis for the candid discussion and visualisation of this past. The presentation includes wartime acquisitions, visual documentation of exhibitions ‘back then’, and Rotterdam art from the years under occupation.

August 2018

28 Aug

The journey of The Tower of Babel: just 1 more week on display in Rotterdam

The masterpiece of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is about to make a journey. Pieter Bruegel’s ‘The Tower of Babel’ is still on display in Rotterdam until the 3rd of September. After that, the painting will be part of an exhibition in Vienna from October 2 till January 13: here it will find its place next to the other Tower of Babel…

July 2018

31 Jul

‘Boijmans in the War: Art in the Destroyed City’ from 13 October

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen examines its controversial past In a multifaceted exhibition that opens on 13 October 2018, the museum opens up about its own role during the war and sheds light on the art scene in the destroyed city. Memories of Rotterdam’s residents are now being collected and will be part of the exhibition. The exhibition is on show until 27 January 2019. The exhibition ‘Boijmans in the War: Art in the Destroyed City’ explores the role and position of Museum Boymans during...

May 2018

31 May

Sensory Spaces 14 – Latifa Echakhch

The internationally renowned Morroccan-French artist Latifa Echakhch is presenting a site-specific work this summer in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Her contribution to the museum’s Sensory Spaces series is her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands.

29 May

ANIMA MUNDI

An emotional connection to robots, artworks and objects and the desire for eternal life are inherent to humanity and are expressed in all artistic disciplines. This summer, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam shows how art becomes ‘lifelike’.

Breathing Colour - Hella Jongerius

‘Breathing Colour’ is designer Hella Jongerius’s plea for unstable colours. In this exhibition, she shows us the beauty and dynamism of colour, and challenges us to experience colour as powerfully as we experience forms. ‘Breathing Colour’ is on view this summer at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

28 May

Press preview

The press preview for the major summer exhibitions at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen takes place on Thursday 7 June at 10.00 a.m.

Hot Glue - Bertjan Pot

No retrospective of polished ‘showroom products’, but a gallery filled with ideas. Bertjan Pot’s raw design process is on view in Rotterdam this summer. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing masks, lampshades and other textile works made using a principle essential to textiles: the repetition of a small element to create a larger whole.

18 May

Gelatin: Vorm - Fellows - Attitude

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s 1500m2 Bodon Galleries has been taken over by Vienna-based Gelatin as they present a major body of new sculptures. Gelatin’s humorous, infectiously enthusiastic works involve the public with special costumes - as participants. Nothing is forced and touching the art is allowed.

February 2018

07 Feb

Good Evening to the People Living in the Camp – New Work by Joost Conijn

Joost Conijn, video still from the film Good evening to the people living in the camp, 2018

06 Feb

Sensory Spaces 13: Anne Hardy

British artist Anne Hardy is known for her large-scale installations in which objects, light, color and sound seem to take on a life of their own. She invites visitors to enter this ‘sentient space’ and to experience how the work slowly changes around them. Things can appear concrete and familiar but everything feels slightly unreal. For the thirteenth edition of the Sensory Spaces series, Anne Hardy will present a new site-specific work at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Sensory ...

January 2018

19 Jan

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents 2018 programme

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is proud to present the highlights of this year’s programme. With no fewer than twenty exhibitions, 2018 promises to be a multifaceted and inspiring year in the museum. In 2019, the museum building will close for a large-scale renovation but Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will continue its activities elsewhere in the city.

November 2017

17 Nov

BABEL: Old Masters Back from Japan

The Tower of Babel and ninety other masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection were recently exhibited in Tokyo and Osaka. This was the first time that such a rich group of early Netherlandish works was shown in Japan. The same selection of works will be on view in Rotterdam from 3 February to 21 May 2018 under the title BABEL: Old Masters Back from Japan.

October 2017

20 Oct

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen as a Laboratory for Social Design

Doing your washing in a launderette, producing a glass service from local sand or recycling plastic yourself; everything is possible during ‘Change the System’ – a design exhibition in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen that runs until 14 January 2018. The museum wants a range of Change Challenges to actively involve visitors in social design. ‘Everyone’s participation is important in changing the system,’ explains curator Annemartine van Kesteren. Designers challenge visitors to play an active pa...

11 Oct

Academy of Tal R

'Academy of Tal R' offers the first in-depth exploration into the artistic journey of one of the most active and productive painters of our time. His sources of inspiration are numerous and include styles of other artistes like Picasso, Dumas and Picabia. Featuring roughly 170 works, consisting of new pieces made especially for this exhibition and an overview of the vibrant work of Tal R from the past twenty years, this mid-career retrospective is the largest survey of his oeuvre to date. 'Ac...

September 2017

07 Sep

Rembrandt on display at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen from 9 September

From 9 September 2017 to 14 January 2018, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is presenting more than 60 of the most beautiful prints by Rembrandt. This exceptional selection of landscape prints, genre scenes, portraits, self-portraits and religious scenes can be appreciated for the first time, after a recent restoration and conservation project. Highlights include the Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages Beside a Road, St Jerome Beside a Pollard Willow and The Three Crosses, one of his most experi...

July 2017

25 Jul

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents: Hewn, Carved, Donated

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is staging a special presentation of medieval sculptures from the Schoufour-Martin Collection from 9 September 2017 to 28 January 2018. The collection contains more than a hundred objects, three-quarters of them wooden statues. The exhibition is a tribute to Jacques Schoufour and his wife Ingeborg Martin, who for decades built up their collection with passion. Their magnificent gift to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has doubled the museum’s collection of medieval ...