Exhibition programme Jheronimus Bosch Year 2016
From December 2015 to January 2017 the Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch will present four
exhibitions of contemporary art and design. The quincentenary of the death of the painter Jheronimus
Bosch provides the framework for a programme with contemporary artists who draw their inspiration
from the famous medieval artist.
Jeroen Kooijmans: The Fish Pond Song
19 December 2015 – 5 June 2016
The Lost Army
After the Battle
The Healing
The Jheronimus Bosch Year 2016 will kick off with the première of the video trilogy The Fish
Pond Song by Jeroen Kooijmans. This epic tale in three parts is the culmination of ten years
of filming in the Netherlands, Hungary and on Curaçao.
The Fish Pond Song is about religious mania and the eternal search for salvation. Important
sources of inspiration are the famous Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch and
twenty-first century history since ‘9/11’, an event which Jeroen Kooijmans experienced at
close quarters.
A monumental installation occupying the entire first floor of the Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch
guides visitors on a journey through an imaginary world as they listen to ‘The Fish Pond Song’, the
poetic debut of the writer Tommy Wieringa.
Nacho Carbonell
18 June – 11 September 2016
The Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell regards his chairs, sofas and lamps as living beings with a
personality of their own. Their strange appearance makes it virtually impossible to hazard a guess as
to their use. These ‘products’ are situated on the border between sculpture and design. Nacho
Carbonell’s surrealist idiom shows affinities with the work of Jheronimus Bosch and Salvador Dalí.
The Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch presents the first retrospective of this up and coming
designer.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
18 June – 11 September 2016
Spitting Leaders (2008)
Guernica Syndrome (2012)
The Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo is interested in the relation between art and
power. He makes his installations, sculpture and video art in a way that is both serious and
humorously playful on the basis of a strong political commitment.
For instance, in 2011 he purchased the discarded pleasure yacht of the dictator Franco and turned it
into a sculpture of fragments. For the presentation in the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch
Sánchez Castillo is making new work based on the fascination that Jheronimus Bosch held for King
Philip II of Spain (1527-1598).
Heaven, Hell & Earth
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Gabriel Lester, Pipilotti Rist
24 September 2016 – 15 January 2017
Hell
Earth
Heaven
The exhibition Heaven & Hell (& Earth) is a triptych with work by artists with an international
reputation, based on the major themes of Jheronimus Bosch. Heaven & Hell (& Earth) is centred on
the continuous conflict between the essential and contradictory forces in life, the world, and the
human psyche. The British duo Jake & Dinos Chapman represent Hell, the Swiss video artist Pipilotti
Rist makes a contribution on Heaven, and the Dutch artist while film maker Gabriel Lester brings
these extremes together in a new installation.
The 2016 programme of the Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch forms part of
Bosch Grand Tour: Jheronimus Bosch as source of inspiration
Under the name Bosch Grand Tour, seven prominent museums in Brabant are presenting a 2016
exhibition programme of contemporary art to flank the exhibition Jheronimus Bosch – Visioenen van
een genie [Visions of a genius], to be held from 13 February to 8 May 2016 in Het Noordbrabants
Museum.
Bosch Grand Tour is a project of the Van Abbemuseum, De Pont Museum, MOTI Museum of the
Image, Natuurmuseum Brabant, Het Noordbrabants Museum, Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch,
and the TextielMuseum.
Bosch Grand Tour is part of the event Jheronimus Bosch 500 that is spread out over several years,
with a major cultural programme in 2016 as its climax. For more information please go to bosch500.nl
Not for publication
For more information or illustrative material:
Martijn van Ooststroom
073-62 73 513 [email protected]
Marije Lieuwens
073-62 73 517 [email protected]