2021
1 October 2021 to 16 January 2022
Philips Wing
Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Young Girl, c. 1470. Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu BerlinPowerful emperors, flamboyant aristocrats and well-to-do citizens. Never before have so many European Renaissance portraits been brought together in the Netherlands. This autumn, more than a hundred international masterpieces by famous artists such as Holbein, Dürer, Memling and Veronese will be on display in the exhibition Remember me. Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, increasing numbers of people had themselves immortalised by the artists of the day. Remember me is about ambition, longing, loss – and how people want to be remembered.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Ammodo, the Rijksmuseum International Circle, the Maria Adriana Aalders Fonds/ Rijksmuseum Fonds, and central government: the Council Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) has granted a guarantee of indemnity on behalf of the Minister for Education, Culture and Science.
Document Netherlands: Henk Wildschut. Distance
1 October 2021 to 16 JanuarU 2022
Fotogalerij
Henk Wildschut, New staff at the testing centre in the RAI are taught how to take test samples, 2020Coronavirus has had the Netherlands in its grip since March 2020. Photographer Henk Wildschut examined the impact of the virus on civil life and captured the Dutch handling of the pandemic. Rather than engaging with the distractions of the day, Wildschut chose to keep his distance and use his photography to reveal patterns. And distance, in a very literal sense, is a key focus here. So too is the subject of big numbers – in the stocks of facemasks and other protective gear, for example. This year, for the first time, Document Netherlands Junior will run concurrently with Distance in the Photo Gallery of the Rijksmuseum, with ten young photographers capturing the effects of Corona restrictions on their daily lives.
Document Netherlands is made possible by Fonds 1975 / Rijksmuseum Fund.
Document Netherlands Junior is made possible by The de Vink Foundation / Rijksmuseum Fonds
Night Watch Gallery
Rijksmuseum/Reinier Gerritsen - installation of the missing piecesThe Night Watch is now on show in its complete form for the first time in 300 years. Several sections were cut from The Night Watch in 1715, and now artificial intelligence has been used to reconstruct the missing parts and mount them around the world-famous painting. The Night Watch in its original form will be on display until early October. This project marks the conclusion of the research phase of Operation Night Watch, the biggest and most wide-ranging study ever conducted into Rembrandt’s masterpiece, using the latest and most advanced technology available to determine the best approach to preserving the painting for future generations. The restoration itself will start at the end of 2021. The public will be able to follow the progress of the research and restoration work live in the Rijksmuseum’s Night Watch Gallery.
AkzoNobel is the main partner of Operation Night Watch..
Operation Night Watch is made possible by The Bennink Foundation, C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken, PACCAR Foundation, Piet van der Slikke & Sandra Swelheim, American Express Foundation, Familie De Rooij, Het AutoBinck Fonds, TBRM Engineering Solutions, Dina & Kjell Johnsen, Familie D. Ermia, Familie M. van Poecke, Bruker Nano Analytics, Henry M. Holterman Fonds, Irma Theodora Fonds, Luca Fonds, Piek-den Hartog Fonds, Stichting Zabawas, Cevat Fonds, Johanna Kast-Michel Fonds, Marjorie & Jeffrey A. Rosen, Stichting Thurkowfonds, Familie Van Ogtrop Fonds and the Night Watch Fund.
2022
11 February to 6 june 2022
Philips Wing
Three young Indonesians on a street. Two of them are Republican volunteers from Sulawesi, members of the armed youth organisation KRIS, on leave in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, December 1947. Photograph: Hugo Wilmar, Dutch National Archive/Spaarnestad CollectionIn spring 2022, the Rijksmuseum will present the exhibition REVOLUSI!, on the impassioned pursuit of a free Indonesia after a long period of colonial domination. It looks at how people fought, how they negotiated, and how the revolution defined lives. We will reflect a history with many faces and many voices, by zooming in on the personal stories of individuals who lived through these events from 1945 to 1949. The team of Indonesian and Dutch curators will bring together stories, historical objects, artworks, propaganda posters, films and photographs that testify to a turbulent past.
The appointment of the Indonesian curators Amir Sidharta and Bonnie Triyana was made possible by the Johan Huizinga Fund / Rijksmuseum Fund.
Vincent Mentzel: The Power of the Image
28 January to 6 June 2022
Photo Gallery
Spectators during a football match between Ajax and Feyenoord in the Kuip in Rotterdam, Vincent Samuel Mentzel, 1969. Acquired with the support of BankGiro Lottery playersVincent Mentzel (1945) has long been one of the Netherlands most iconic photographers. As a photojournalist at NRC Handelsblad he helped define the news image. As well as reporting on the national political scene for many years, he travelled the world to cover political and other current affairs. Mentzel has multiple World Press Photo and Silver Camera awards to his name. In the course of his career, he has seen photography rise to become a self-contained and powerful medium offering opportunities for artistry. The exhibition traces this development through Mentzel’s own work. In 2011, Vincent Mentzel transferred a large selection of his photographic work to the Rijksmuseum.
In 2012, the prominent Dutch photojournalist Vincent Mentzel set up a designated fund with the Rijksmuseum. Thanks to this fund photographs from the Rijksmuseum collection with a significant journalistic value are made available for the public..
Barbara Hepworth in the Rijksmuseum Gardens
27 May to 23 October 2022
Rijksmuseum Gardens
Hepworth with the plaster prototype for ‘Single Form (Memorial)’, Palais de Danse, St Ives, March 1962. Photograph Studio St IvesThe ninth edition of the annual sculpture exhibition in the Rijksmuseum Gardens will be devoted to the English sculptor Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (Wakefield, 10 January 1903 – St. Ives, 20 May 1975). Hepworth is one of the key figures of British modernist sculpture. This exhibition provides an overview of Hepworth’s post-war work, with an emphasis on the 1960s and early 70s. Many of the exhibits are important public works that have never previously been moved from their place. This selection presents Hepworth at the very peak of her artistic prowess.
Modern Japanese Lacquer. Out of the Box
1 July to 4 September 2022
Philips Wing
Japanese Cormorant (detail), Rokkaku Daijō, 1938. Purchased with the support of the Goslings NieuwBeerta Fund/Rijksmuseum FundThere’s something magical about Japanese lacquer art. The decorations are made with exceptional care and skill using dozens of layers of lacquer in a process that takes months, if not years. In this exhibition, traditional depictions in gold, silver and black form the departure point for a journey into modernity, creativity and exuberant colours. The almost 70 objects on show trace this development in the early 20th century.
Guest curator Jan Dees developed the exhibition, which was made in cooperation with Museum für Lackkunst, Münster. The core exhibits come from the collection of Jan Dees and René van der Star, and are complemented by exceptional loans from Japan, the US and Europe.
XXL Paper
1 July to 4 September 2022
Philips Wing
Cyclorama (detail), anoniem, ca. 1850, Rijksmuseum. Schenking van de heer en mevrouw Drucker-Fraser, MontreuxXXL Paper presents the largest works on paper in the Rijksmuseum collection, most of which have never been displayed before, due to their size. The selected works include actual-size design drawings of stained-glass windows for St Bavochurch in Haarlem, dating from 1541, as well as a vast 19th-century hand-painted cyclorama no fewer than 23 metres in width that was recently discovered in one of the Rijksmuseum’s depots.
The restoration of the cyclorama was made possible by the Bank Ten Cate & Cie. Fund/Rijksmuseum Fund.
Essential support
The Rijksmuseum is grateful for all the forms of support that it has received in this difficult period. It is clearer than ever that government funding, contributions from the business community and funds, as well as gifts, legacies and the support of Friends are, and will remain, essential for the Rijksmuseum.
