NL - The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space
Location: London
Year founded: 2010
Address:
40/42 Riding House Street
London
W1W 7ET
Contact details:
ntendant – Ken Pratt
Tel: +44 794 384 4676
Email info@nlpopup.co.uk
Website: nlpopup.co.uk
Social Media: Facebook group
Indicative opening times:
Thurs to Sat, 12:00 to 18:00 for most exhibitions or check the site for specific event details.
Current staff:
Intendant – Ken Pratt
Dutch Embassy Contact – Daphne Thissen – Cultural Attaché in London
NL - The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space is an exhibition and project space in central London that presents the full spectrum of Dutch creative culture - from art and design to fashion and architecture - to a British audience.
Managed by an external independent curator and working in partnership with UK organisations, NL is supported by the cultural department of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the UK in cooperation with the Sovereign Art Foundation and is located in the heart of London only minutes away from Oxford Circus tube station.
Whilst NL profiles a range of disciplines, the visual arts aspect of the programme has proven particularly strong and popular. It is also in keeping with its partnership with a visual arts foundation. The focus in the field of visual arts has focussed not only on emerging talent, but also on works in important Dutch corporate and private collections.
Dutch visual artists whose work have been shown to date include Marc Bijl, Ansuya Blom, Iris Van Dongen, Martin Effert, Aaron van Erp, Jasmina Fekovic, David Haines Jacqueline Hassink, Risk Hazekamp, Paul van den Hout, de Humobisten, Claire De Jong,Erik Van Lieshout, Joep van Lieshout (AVL),Kate Mayne, Erwin Olaf, Ronald Ophuis, Maaike Schoorel, Renie Spoelstra, Marijke van Warmerdam Willem Weismann, Anne Wenzel and Bas Zoontjens, amongst others.
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Showing at Trajector:
The Netherlands has a long history of international trading that saw its seafaring people travel to the most distant regions of the known globe in the spirit of commerce. Ironically, although this legendary ‘handelsgeest’ still sees many foreign ventures with other Dutch careers, Dutch contemporary artists have a something of a reputation for sticking close to home. And, who could blame them given the Netherlands’ traditionally nurturing conditions for the visual arts and artists.
By contrast, ‘On the Road’ presents works by a handful of extremely different Dutch artists who have, in the tradition of those early adventurers, chosen to live and work outside of the Netherlands. Does the life of an artist living outside of his of her homeland have an impact on the art? That’s really up to the viewer to determine.
‘On the Road’ presents works by Jasmina Fekovic, Claire De Jong, Marcelle Hanselaar, Risk Hazekamp and Willem Weismann.
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