For a long time now, the museum has been tracking and supporting artists at the start of their careers by buying and displaying their work. Slotting into a series of initiatives, Prospect Park is a half-yearly display of recently acquired works by young local, (Eu)regional artists. To raise the visibility of their work and people’s acquaintance with the artworks themselves and their makers, we link each Prospect Park presentation to a special weekend during which artists, (budding) collectors, critics, colleagues and others can engage with these acquisitions, and address the implications they might have for the museum and its contents, the artistic climate and the surroundings.
Prospect Park II focuses on work by three artists, all of which is very dissimilar in nature. In between Moments (2007) by Rijks academy student Karen Sargsyan (1973, Yerevan), is a remarkable group of figures made of paper. Recent works on paper by Hadassah Emmerich (1974, Heerlen – Berlin) openly acknowledge her fascination for exoticism, and Jeroen van Bergen (1979, Heythuysen - Maastricht) presents several architectural models whose basic module is the toilet. Opening:
During the opening designer and private collector Martin Visser will be interviewd by Paula van den Bosch.