DDW Impressions: Van Abbe Museum

November 5, 2019
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DDW

One of the reasons why Van Abbe Museum was impressive was the emphasis they put on audience engagement, in its true sense. It felt authentic and sincere, it felt like the commentary made by the audience would actually make a difference.

Füsun Onur's work, representing Earth. Below is a copper bowl full of water and gold-plated pendants with country names on them


I liked their beyond art museum due to its fluctuate nature, that it was periodically being changed with new pieces. It was touching upon concepts like land, work and home. 3 words that keep changing their initial meaning as the world we live in redefines those meanings with changing practices in urbanism, post-capitalism and globalism.

They also had a very wide Guerilla Girls collection


Seeing some familiar faces of contemporary Turkish artists like Ahmet Öğüt, Füsun Onur was nice too. I found out that Ahmet Öğüt was actually one of the youngest artists in Van Abbe’s permanent collection.

The view from Van Abbe Museum

Lastly, Ad Sneijder collection! They had divided the whole collection on all five floors, showing the change and progression in his work throughout different periods of time. My favorite period was what he did after WWII, combining elements of military with his authentic take on Pop Art.