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Jan Mankes - Kraai op Berkenboom (1913), particuliere collectie

Jan Mankes

expressions of spiritual life

January 25 to June 22, 2025

The largest Mankes exhibition ever, spread over two museums. Together with Museum Arnhem we are showing Mankes like never before.

In 2025, Museum Arnhem and Museum Belvédère will present an exhibition diptych around the oeuvre of Jan Mankes (1889-1920). The artist lived and worked in Friesland from 1909 to 1915 and settled in Eerbeek, Gelderland, in the last years of his life. The two exhibitions in Arnhem and Oranjewoud provide a representative overview of one of the most special artists working at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Mankes occupies a unique place within Dutch painting. His empathy creates the dreamy and lived-in work that has made him so popular. He is seen as an important key figure between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and his affinity with the Tachtigers, symbolism and magical realism is special

Jan Mankes - Bomenrij (1915), Collectie Museum More, fotograaf: Peter Cox

Museum Arnhem 

In its exhibition, Museum Arnhem emphasizes an overview of Mankes' work and relates it to work by contemporaries; artists who inspired him and artists who in turn found inspiration in his work.

The focus of the exhibition is on meaning and tranquility in troubled times.

Museum Belvédère

Museum Belvédère mainly focuses on the work that Mankes made in 1909-1915, the period in which he lived in the Frisian village of De Knipe and drew inspiration from the area where Museum Belvédère is located.

This double exhibition will take place in both museums from January 25 to June 22, 2025.

Oscar Voch – whispers

January 25 – June 22, 2025

Complementary to the Jan Mankes exhibition, whispers is on dislay, with work by a contemporary kindred spirit of Jan Mankes: the Dutch artist Oscar Voch (1962). In his digital photographic work, the artist shows related tranquil images and subdued still lifes, filled with the same timelessness.

Voch's photo works are based on graphics, painting and photography. With the help of the computer, he combines images made by hand and with the camera into digital works of art with their own poetic atmosphere, filled with mystery and melancholy. His photo works are usually the result of many preliminary studies and endless searches for stillness, expressiveness and mood. A monograph will be published to accompany the exhibition.