Marc Mulders’ (b. 1958) studio is a barn in the middle of a field of flowers. As he stands painting in the doorway, bees buzz and butterflies flit around his easel. Mulders calls his garden ‘my own

Rob van Koningsbruggen (b. 1948, The Hague) has had a major museum exhibition every decade since the 1970s. The last one – a grand retrospective – was at Kunstmuseum The Hague in 2002. This autumn, in

The architecture and interiors of De Stijl are famous around the world. Dutch architects and designers like Gerrit Rietveld, Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren and J.J.P. Oud blazed the trail

This wall plate, painted by Christian Benjamin Olsen (1873-1935) for Royal Copenhagen, was a wedding gift for the Danish king. The entwined initials C and A refer to King Christian X and his wife...

This early wall plate from 1890 by Carl Frederik Liisberg (1860-1909) shows how this painter experimented with soft contours and blended colours. Bleeding of the painted image during the firing at...

Raquel Maulwurf (Madrid, 1975) developed the installation 'The Carbon War Room’ especially for the Gemeentemuseum. It arose from the desire to physically create the depth that is evoked in her

The title of Hot Skillet Mama is a reference to a piece of music by legendary American jazz composer Sun Ra (1914-1993). Hot Skillet Mama’s lyrics express the singer’s desire for a woman, sweating...

In the early 20th century, the coast of Zeeland exerted a magical pull on artists. Domburg, in particular, would see a steady procession of painters in the summer who were inspired by the landscape