DE LIEFDE

Love appears in countless forms: a glance, a touch, a small gesture, or a grand moment. This exhibition shows how artists experience and express love: intimate, playful, tender, and sometimes challenging.

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Participating Artists

Joep Neefjes
The uncle of my sweetheart Willemein, amateur photographer Hein Wertheimer, left a bequest of 22 million guilders to the Nederlands Fotomuseum. He never gave me a single penny.

Nico Lootsma
Love can express itself in many ways: in a story, in music, or with flowers in spring, for example. Or between the lines of a shopping list, like one I once found in a supermarket.

Don Duyns
Love has as many forms as there are human beings. Don Duyns (1967) searches for it close to home: a caress, a touch, a kiss, a quiet glance.

Erik Romme
My little artwork about Love is inspired by the book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Everything about this Penguin pocket edition, with a cover by Robert Jonas, radiates love and the meaning of my existence.

Bas Kosters
Love is omnipresent in my work. In my practice, where engagement and attention are paramount, love can be seen in many ways: love for yourself, for others, and for being different. How do we live together harmoniously in this world, paying attention to each other, to materials, to stories, and to the world?

Jos Houweling
For true love—the love that comes only once in your life, love with obstacles that you overcome—see the Bouquet series, and that is what I have done.

Anne Verhoijsen
A photo in the newspaper. A man with a hood over his head, captured by the Americans in Afghanistan. At his request, he received his young son through the barbed wire. Every day.

Timon Hagen
Love is: it feels so lonely for me when you are no longer here.

Bob Bunck
Love is the most important thing we can experience in life, and therefore deserves a tribute. That is why I often choose to make Love personal and physical in my work.