Art - Ivar Hagendoorn

15 Jun 2025 · Blog | Art

Five Friends at the Museum Brandhorst

The Museum Brandhorst in Munich has organized an excellent exhibition exploring the artistic and personal relationships between visual artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham.

7 Jun 2025 · Blog | Art

Anselm Kiefer: Sag mir wo die Blumen sind

Anselm Kiefer’s dual exhibition “Sag mir wo die Blumen sind” at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum and Stedelijk Museum is a vast, haunting meditation on memory, war and the dialogue between art and history.

31 May 2025 · Blog | Art

American Photography at the Rijksmuseum

American Photography at the Rijksmuseum is a fascinating exhibition, which examines how photography has captured the complex reality of American life, from its aspirations to its contradictions.

29 May 2025 · Blog | Art

Arcimboldo, Bassano, Bruegel: Nature’s Time at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has organized a fascinating exhibition, which focuses on Renaissance representations of the seasons and their symbolic, scientific, and cultural significance.

25 May 2025 · Blog | Art | Design | Architecture

4 Museums 1 Modernism

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the foundation of “Die Neue Sammlung”, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich has organized an exhibition showcasing highlights from the collections of the four museums that make up the Pinakothek der Moderne.

16 May 2025 · Blog | Art

Civilization: The Way We Live Now at the Kunsthalle München

The exhibition "Civilization: The Way We Live Now" presents a sweeping photographic exploration of contemporary global society. Showcasing the work of over 100 photographers from around the world, it investigates the complexities and interconnections of modern life.

16 May 2025 · Blog | Art

Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia

"Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia" documents twelve years of Pussy Riot's performances and interventions. It's a colorful, chaotic mix of photographs, videos and handwritten texts that capture the group’s anarchic spirit.

11 May 2025 · Blog | Art

Gemäldegalerie of the Akademie der bildenden Künste Vienna

The Gemäldegalerie (Paintings Gallery) of the Academy of Fine Arts is one of Vienna’s best kept secrets. The collection includes works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Botticelli, Cranach and Hieronymus Bosch.

10 May 2025 · Blog | Art

Anton Corbijn: Favourite Darkness at the Kunstforum Wien

I greatly enjoyed visiting Favourite Darkness, an Anton Corbijn exhibition at the Kunstforum Wien, which features many photographs that were new to me.

10 May 2025 · Blog | Art

Egon Schiele's Last Years at the Leopold Museum

The exhibition “Changing Times: Egon Schiele’s Last Years, 1914–1918” at the Leopold Museum in Vienna delves into a transformative period in Schiele’s career, one marked by technical refinement, emotional resonance and thematic complexity.

21 Apr 2025 · Blog | Art

L’art est dans la rue at the Musée d’Orsay

“L’art est dans la rue” is a colourful and well documented exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay which explores the rise of the illustrated poster, which came to dominate the streets of Paris during the second half of the 19th century.

4 Apr 2025 · Blog | Art

Artemisia Gentileschi at the Musée Jacquemart-André

The Musée Jacquemart-André honours the 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi with a small but exquisite exhibition featuring some forty paintings including various masterpieces.