VU Art collection
Academic research and education at VU is characterized by a high level of ambition, and encourages free and open communications and ideas. Only by exchanging ideas and knowledge we can understand the world we are living in. Therefore VU strives for inclusiveness and openness where different opinions can be exchanged. Our art policy contributes to this goal. Art makes us conscious of our own thoughts and ideas and makes us aware of other perspectives. It contributes to an open and investigative attitude that is needed to conduct science.
Collection
The art collection of the VU has grown by acquisitions, art assignments and gifts. The collection contains about 1200 works in various media and provides an overview of important artistic and social developments since the late '70s. Artworks of Carel Visser, Cornelis Rogge, Tom Claassen, Philip Akkerman, Gé Karel van der Sterren, Isabelle Wenzel and Jan Banning are part of the VU Collection.
Artpolicy
Since 2016 VU University Amsterdam aspires to a distinctive and relevant art policy by bringing together current artistic research and scientific research. Science investigates reality by interpreting and objectifying data. Art mirrors the human, subjective experience of reality. The combination of knowledge and experience leads to insight into ourselves and the world around us.
History
When VU University moved from the city center to Buitenveldert in 1967, the Executive Board ordered a committee to bring art to the campus. The Exposorium committee organized exhibitions, mediated in art commissions and set up an art loan system. Because of the freedom that prevailed, the VU was seen as a platform for experiment and innovation.
India Sushma Prasad, 2003
photo
80 x 80 cm
Collection title
VU Art collection
Contact
Wende Wallert
Head office
Amsterdam, Zuidas
Art collection locations
Campus but mostly in main building
Number of art works
1200 of which more than 300 make up the main collection.
Launch year
1967
Disciplines
all disciplines
Focus of collection
Contemporary artistic research in relation to scientific research
Guided tours
On request
Website
www.vu.nl
Art collection website
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Publications
- Hendriekje Bosma/Yvonne van Ulden, Exposorium1967-2007, forty years of art policy at the VU, Amsterdam 2007
-Hendriekje Bosma, Liseth van den Dungen, Helene van Fentener van Vlissingen(student-assistants),Buitenveldert 1958-1998-2008, the development of a city side, Amsterdam 1998
-Bert Jansen, (edited by Fieke Konijn/John Vrieze), art on the campus, the realisation of the 1 % regulation at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1986
Exposition space
Two or three times a year the VU organizes presentations in which artistic and scientific research are combined. This can result in an exhibition but also other forms as a residency, performance symposium or digital presentation are possible, The goal is to involve the public in actual developments in art and science.
Supporting
- GET LOST, art route at the Zuidas, with upcoming artists 22-6 t/m 22-9 2018
- OPEN ZUIDAS, manifestation Amsterdam Zuid/Zuidas, open ateliers, companies, art route, 25/26/27-10-2012
- Life after planning, symposium Visuele Identiteit Zuidas Amsterdam, Vrije Ruimten Zuidas AIR: i.s.m. Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Virtueel Museum Zuidas, Vrije Universiteit, 01-03-2011
Works on loan
Bas Princen, Cooling Plant Dubai, 2009, photo, 125 X 150 cm, ed. 1/6, "Rollercoaster, the image in the 21st century", Museum of the Image (MOTI), Breda, 2012