Winter 2026
West Wing, October 17, 2026 – January 17, 2027
This third exhibition in the Relationships & Contrasts series brings together highlights from the extensive private collection of Hans and Cora de Vries, which is housed in its entirety at Museum Belvédère, with highlights from the museum’s own collection. The exhibition explores what can emerge when works of art by different artists and from different collections are brought together. Works can complement, challenge or contrast with one another, creating new meanings and perspectives. The focus is not on the individual reputation of an artist, but on the interaction between the works.
From Gallery to Collection
From 1969 to 2004, Cora de Vries (1944–2010) ran the renowned Amsterdam gallery Collection d’art. The gallery exhibited the work of numerous leading artists from the Netherlands and abroad. Alongside her work as a gallerist, Cora de Vries built an impressive private collection together with her husband, Hans de Vries. In collecting, they deliberately sought out artworks that could enter into dialogue with one another, either through stylistic affinities or through contrast. This way of looking at art remains an important guiding principle for the presentation of the collection, which is now housed in its entirety at Museum Belvédère.
New Relationships, New Meanings
The previous exhibitions Relationships & Contrasts in 2021 and 2023 presented various selections from the collection of Hans and Cora de Vries. For the third edition, works from the de Vries collection are presented in equal proportion alongside works from the museum collection.
The artists represented in Interactions include Karel Appel, Armando, Gerrit Benner, Eugène Brands, Jan Commandeur, Constant, Jean Dubuffet, Etienne Elias, Alphons Freymuth, Jaap Hillenius, Hans van Hoek, Willem de Koning, Willem van Leusden, Piet Ouborg, Har Sanders, Jan Schoonhoven, Toon Teeken, Thijs Rinsema, JCJ Vanderheyden, Bram van Velde and Co Westerik.
A Prelude to the Future
The arrival of more than one hundred artworks from the collection of Hans and Cora de Vries has strengthened the position of Museum Belvédère within the Dutch museum landscape. Interactions – Relationships & Contrasts III is therefore more than a continuation of the previous exhibitions. The exhibition serves as a prelude to new presentations and to the possibilities that a larger museum building will offer in the future.
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