A hundred years ago, a group of avant-garde young artists working in the north-eastern Dutch province of Groningen founded a collective known as De Ploeg (‘The Plough’).

The group – including Jan

As a person falls asleep, or is dying, artist Mire Lee sees a sculpture emerge. “People are like ‘meat’ in that state. I find that endearing, potentially sad, but also intriguing because only the

In the course of his long career, Jan van der Zee (1898-1988) produced a vast body of work, extremely varied in both style and medium. His oeuvre includes paintings, drawings, lithos, woodcuts, lino

After the success of the exhibitions Kandinsky & Der Blaue Reiter and Haute Couture it is the turn of gems from the collection to dazzle, amaze and open the eyes of the visitor. Famous names jostle

Towards the end of the 19th century, artists turned their backs on history painting in favour of landscape, previously regarded as an inferior genre. In France, the Barbizon School emerged as artists

Our image of Cubism is very different from that entertained by the Parisian public in the period around 1910. Then, Henri le Fauconnier was regarded as the leader of the movement.Today, Picasso

Painting was rediscovered in the exhilarating 1980s. Maarten Ploeg (1958 – 2004) caused a sensation as an artist and musician at the time. He was awarded the Royal Prize for Painting in 1982, and in