Encounters in the Museum
5 December 2018
In the first semester of the 2018-2019 academic year, Dirk van den Heuvel is tutoring the seminar series Encounters in the Museum for post-master students at The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design. The seminar revisits the creative nexus architecture-art by investigating a handful of art exhibitions designed by architects for the display of avant-garde works and permanent collections from the postwar years 1949-69.
Encounters in the Museum investigates art exhibitions designed by Franco Albini, Lina Bo Bardi, Aldo van Eyck, Carlo Scarpa, and Alison & Peter Smithson, and relates them to two firms doing the same thing today: AMO/Rem Koolhaas with Stedelijk BASE and MVRVD with the Boijmans Depot. The seminar is a collaboration with the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum for their exhibition Art on Display 1949-1969, which is curated by Van den Heuvel together with Penelope Curtis. The exhibition will open in October 2019 in Lisbon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Gulbenkian Museum building and will be part of the Lisbon Triennale exhibition programme.
On Wednesday 3 October Penelope Curtis, director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, gave a special guest seminar about Albini and Scarpa at Het Nieuwe Instituut. On Tuesday 20 November, Hans Lentz (exhibitions manager) and Margriet Schavemaker (curator and professor at UvA) hosted a seminar about Stedelijk BASE, the new installation exhibiting the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam designed by Rem Koolhaas/AMO. The results of the student work will be shown as a pop-in exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut in early 2019.