Vincent van Gogh</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Johan-Thorn-Prikker/B81FFBF6FF8388B4">Johan Thorn Prikker</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Jan-Toorop/AA106B46AF56C7D4">Jan Toorop</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/William-Degouve-de-Nuncques/BCDA3B8EE4A58EDD">William Degouve de Nuncques</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Odilon-Redon/E81C33B947562FB8">Odilon Redon</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Pierre-Puvis-de-Chavannes/AEC514B1E2541613">Pierre Puvis de Chavannes</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Jan-Sluijters/5084830DC39695D1">Jan Sluyters</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Charley-Toorop/5A1D715375AE4C37">Charley Toorop</a> and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Piet-Mondrian/6404F68E0DA7C95D">Piet Mondriaan</a>, among others. And sculptures by artists including <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/John-Radecker/5FF77A243F67EE4E">John Rädecker</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Johan-Coenraad-Altorf/EDB4810D135B3E85">Johan Coenraad Altorf</a>. " itemprop="description" />

On Kawara</a>, Gilbert & <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Gilbert---George/2E3E480B20562A6F">George, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Jan-Dibbets/0A6E1AAFABCABB5F">Jan Dibbets</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Alan-Sonfist/07098B9CA9E98CC4">Alan Sonfist</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Herman-de-Vries/6D37EF9ADD54BBB2">herman de vries</a> and others.‘I AM STILL ALIVE’. On Kawara confirms his continued existence with telegrams to artists, collectors, gallery owners and curators. The slogan ‘I GOT UP’ also makes its way around the world: between 1968 and 1979, the artist sends two postcards every day with the message that he has risen. The text is always the same. The stamps, postmarks and address change, depending on where he is at that time.Artists have always been sending letters and messages, but not all mail sent by artists is automatically mail art. The origins of mail art lie in the 1960s, when <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Ray-Johnson/83033605F3A76371">American artist Ray Johnson</a> sends collages to friends and receives their responses in the mail. Shortly afterwards, Fluxus artists such as George Maciunas, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Yoko-Ono/988F4E9CCA4E00B6">Yoko Ono</a> and Robert Filiou begin using the global postal system to distribute their art. The artists of this international collective aim to avoid the beaten path within the established art world of traditional institutions, such as the art market, museums and galleries. They seek to make art democratic and accessible to all. Mail is an affordable alternative communication channel with an enormous reach.The Kröller-Müller Museum has a modest collection of mail art, mostly from the late 1960s and early 1970s. This was the heyday of this art form. In addition to mail art by On Kawara, I AM STILL ALIVE also presents work by Gilbert & George, Jan Dibbets, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Stanley-Brouwn/3AA8DAE416E7DAE3">stanley brouwn</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Eva-Hesse/B7EA611BC2650B04">Eva Hesse</a>, Alan Sonfist and herman de vries from the collection. " itemprop="description" />

Carl Andre</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Eva-Hesse/B7EA611BC2650B04">Eva Hesse</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Donald-Judd/73AA7D3AAB232CA8">Donald Judd</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Sol-LeWitt/5D1F862F0381BF32">Sol LeWitt</a> and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Robert-Morris/29339781911D61DA">Robert Morris</a> bring sculpture back to basics: a work can be horizontal or upright, it occupies a space, is made of a certain material and has a structure and a form. The sculptures are simply what they are. " itemprop="description" />

Pistoletto (Biella, 1933) stands among a pile of discarded rags. Venus is the classic symbol of eternal beauty. The subject is common within Western art history but Pistoletto makes her out of synthetic resin. His Venus seems to belong in a garden centre rather than a museum.In contrast to the classical figure, the motley collection of rags denotes a raw reality of pollution, poverty and social decline. Beauty and decay, the classical and the contemporary, the eternal and the everyday all converge here. This is Pistoletto's commentary on our modern consumer society. His Venus remains standing among the accumulated rubbish of contemporary society that towers over her head. She turns her back on us but at the same time holds a mirror up to us.The mirror has traditionally been one of the attributes of Venus, the goddess of love. The small bronze Aphrodite, the Greek name for the same goddess, also holds one. The mirror refers to the vanity of the beautiful goddess admiring her own reflection. Pistoletto plays with this idea in his Venus of the Rags. It is not the beauty of Venus but our modern society that is under scrutiny here. " itemprop="description" />

work by Walter De Maria</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Jan-Dibbets/0A6E1AAFABCABB5F">Jan Dibbets</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Ian-Wilson/651F154FF011A13B">Ian Wilson</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Lawrence-Weiner/CF9E63AAA5CD0BBD">Lawrence Weiner</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Kroller-Muller-Museum/"/Artist/Ian-Hamilton-Finlay/BFE4924684A5F835">Ian Hamilton Finlay</a> and stanley brouwn. " itemprop="description" />

Gerry Schum</a> (1938–1973) establishes the Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum together with artist Ursula Wevers (1943). This ‘television gallery’ is not a physical space, but consists of broadcasts on German channels featuring film and video work by contemporary artists. It is a radically new way of reaching a wide audience directly in the living room and bypassing traditional art institutions, a tendency that becomes more widespread in the 1960s. The two broadcasts of the Fernsehgalerie are presented at the museum: Land Art and Identifications. " itemprop="description" />

Kroller-Muller Museum

Otterlo | Netherlands

Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939) assembled the largest private collection of her time, for which the museum was built in 1938. The building, now a national monument, was designed by the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde. In the '70s a new wing was added, designed by the Dutch architect Wim Quist. The Kröller-Müller Museum has an vast collection of paintings and drawings by Vincent van Gogh: over 180 drawings and pirnts and 87 paintings. The permanent collection also includes works by famous artists such as Pablo Picasso, Auguste renoir, Claude Monet and Piet Modnrian as well as contemporary artists. Walking through the sculpture garden (25 hectares) you will encounter the unique collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin, henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Richard serra, jean Dubuffet and many others, often in surprising spots. The museum lies at the centre of the Hoge Veluwe National Park, a nature reserve comprising 5.500 hectares of woodland, heathland, meadows and sand dunes. make the most of your museum visit by combining it with a walk or ride on one of the free white bycles and enjoy the peace and quiet.