Opening Art on Display 1949-69
The opening of Art on Display 1949-69 on 3 October consisted of a full-day programme with a number of salons that welcomed a variety of guests for discussions about exhibition design and other topics. Recordings of the salons are now available online.
3 October 2020 11:00 - 21:00
Art on Display 1949-69 brings together some of the most progressive post-war exhibition designs by architects in the form of 1:1 reconstructions. It features displays by Carlo Scarpa, Franco Albini and Franca Helg, Lina Bo Bardi, Aldo van Eyck, and Alison and Peter Smithson. The exhibition Art on Display 1949-69 is designed by architect Jo Taillieu, with graphic design by Goda Budvytyte. The dozens of paintings and sculptures displayed in the reconstructions are from the collections of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.
The Detour Guides (Dutch)
Breakfast Salon 11.00 - 12.00 uur How do you get visitors to look at an exhibition? What role does exhibition design play in this? Het Nieuwe Instituut's Detour Guides share their initial reactions to Art on Display. With Pia Canales, Bas van der Kruk, Semm Capella, Erik Peters, Giliam Spliethoff and Shahaila Winklaar.
The Exhibition and The Institute (English)
Coffee Salon 13.00 - 14.00 uur
- Guus Beumer, Director of Het Nieuwe Instituut.
- Penelope Curtis, curator Art on Display, Director of Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
- Rein Wolfs, Directeur Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
- Dirk van den Heuvel, curator Art on Display.
How to Design an Exhibition About Exhibitions? (English)
Lunch Salon 15.00 - 16.00 uur
- Rita Albergaria, architect and designer Art on Display Lisbon.
- Jo Taillieu, architect and designer Art on Display Rotterdam.
- Wouter Davidts, Professor Art and Architecture, Ghent University.
- Penelope Curtis, curator Art on Display, Director of Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
- Dirk van den Heuvel, curator Art on Display.
Democratization of the Arts, Then and Now (English)
Souper Salon 17.00 - 18.00 uur
- Anna Tilroe, curator and art critic.
- Guus Beumer, Director of Het Nieuwe Instituut.
- Penelope Curtis, curator Art on Display, Director of Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
- Dirk van den Heuvel, curator Art on Display.
The Exhibition as Design Laboratory (Dutch)
Cocktail Salon 18.30 - 19.30
Under the guidance of Dirk van den Heuvel and Guus Beumer, designers discuss exhibition design and important contemporary developments.
- Rianne Makkink.
- Toon Koehorst.
- Lada Hrsak.
The Nightshop 20.00 - 21.00 uur
With Malique Mohamud and Alexandre Furtado Melville (Concrete Blossom) and Vincent van Velsen.
Breakfast Salon: The Detour Guides. (Dutch) Opening programme Art on Display 1949-69, 3 October 2020.
Coffee Salon: The Exhibition and The Institute. Opening programme Art on Display 1949-69, 3 October 2020.
Lunch Salon: How to Design an Exhibition About Exhibitions? Opening programme Art on Display 1949-69, 3 October 2020.
Souper Salon: Democratization of the Arts - Then and Now. Opening programme Art on Display 1949-69, 3 October 2020.
Cocktail Salon: The Exhibition as Design Laboratory (Dutch). Opening programme Art on Display 1949-69, 3 October 2020.
The Nightshop (Dutch). Opening programme Art on Display 1949-69, 3 October 2020.
Art on Display 1949-69 is the result of a collaboration between Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre and the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The exhibition can be seen from 4 October 2020 to 7 March 2021.