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Han Nefkens


Through his long time commitment to the professional development of young curators, Han Nefkens has elevated art patronage in the Dutch cultural sector to a higher level. Since approximately seven years he has brought together contemporary art in the H+F Collection. Exhibitions and permanent loans to museums like the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, the Centraal Museum, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Huis Marseille, Museum de Pont and museums elsewhere in the world, allow a wide audience gain access to the collection.


The support of the H+F Curatorial Grant means an important stimulus for the further schooling and development of young exhibition makers or art historians. De Appel can offer its students, after having finished the eight month long programme in Amsterdam, a further confrontation with the professional practice by means of an ‘on the job training’ of one and a half year. In the future the current collaboration will be extended to include other museums, cultural institutes, private persons or businesses. Goal is to create a multiform network in which the participants pursue a common goal: opening up innovatory visions of contemporary art to a broad public, formulated and realised by talented exhibition makers. (more)