Category: Nieuws

During the exhibition Recall of Infinity, Museum Cobra in collaboration with Special Arts is hosting a finissage with an ongoing program for the public, studios and artists on

What can you do this day?
– Viewing the exhibition Recall of Infinity. There are several entry tours
– Join art in motion
– Get to work with Klets & Kwast in the Cobra Atelier
– Open Poetry Stage in collaboration with Nikki Verhoeven, city poet of Amstelveen and Mattino, ambassador of The Other Poem. Write a poem to a work of art and come recite it on stage October 27.
– The announcement of the winner of the Special Award 2024.

It is an ongoing program, for which you cannot make reservations by section. Subject to program changes.

Museum Cobra is proud to announce the appointment of Suzanne Wallinga as its new general director. Together with financial director Cor Dinkgreve, she will form the museum’s new board of directors from October 1, 2024. Her appointment marks a new chapter for Museum Cobra, in which her vision and refreshing approach will further strengthen the museum.

About Suzanne Wallinga
Suzanne Wallinga has since built an appealing career in the art world. She is co-founder and former director of art platform A Tale of a Tub and granted many commissions to various artists working on new productions at the intersection of art, literature, architecture and design. As a freelance curator, she developed exhibitions and programs with social relevance, focusing on themes such as ecological crises and inclusivity. For this, Wallinga worked with renowned institutions such as the Kröller-Müller Museum, the Frans Hals Museum and the Stedelijk Museum, among others. In addition to her work as an exhibition maker, Suzanne Wallinga has been advising cultural institutions on policy and strategy for over fifteen years, most recently Sonsbeek. She was also interim director of Amsterdam Art. She is also active as a director and supervisor at various art institutions around the country and publishes regularly on art.

Future vision
With Suzanne Wallinga, Museum Cobra gains a director with a wealth of experience in both artistic and business policy, and a keen eye for social relevance in the art world. Her passion for making art more accessible to diverse audiences, combined with her expertise in curating high-profile, contemporary exhibitions with a social character, fits seamlessly with Museum Cobra’s mission and vision.

“The Supervisory Board is delighted with the appointment of Suzanne Wallinga as General Director of Museum Cobra! The Board is impressed by her originality and her vision of modern and contemporary art and her ideas to approach, from the perspective of the Cobra idea, local, national and international artistic and social developments. The Board believes that Suzanne Wallinga’s knowledge, experience and entrepreneurship will give Museum Cobra new élan,” says Jerry Straub, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Museum Cobra.

Suzanne Wallinga: “I am very much looking forward to working with the Cobra team. I want to make a valuable contribution to the development, strengthening the position and reputation of the museum in Amstelveen, both nationally and internationally. This is the moment to let Museum Cobra be a place for inspiration, exchange and encounter. Art helps us to express ourselves and connect with others-an essential element in our current society. I look forward to working with artists, our partners and stakeholders, and am grateful for the support of the Supervisory Board. See you at the museum!”

Tonight the Cobra Business Club handed over a check worth 50,000 euros to Museum Cobra.

After the commitment of the 3-year subsidy of the Municipality of Amstelveen, the Cobra Business Club is very happy to contribute their part in the form of 50,000 euros to the survival of the museum and therefore the survival of the Cobra Business Club.

We thank the members of the Cobra Business Club: altera vastgoed, AM, Amson & Kolhoff Notarissen, BDO, De Groot Douma Vosmeijer & Frantzen Advocaten, Dura Vermeer, Handelsbanken, KEIM, KLM, Léons, Lunshof Makelaardij Amstelveen, Maasdam Group, Netjes Beheer, Rabobank Amstel en Vecht, Renewi Nederland B. V. Randstad-Noord Region, Technische Unie, Trebbe, Unibail-Rodamco Westfield, Van Doorne, Van Poelgeest BMW-MINI Amstelveen, Zorg en Zekerheid.

Museum Cobra has been nominated for Best Event Venue for the Meetings Awards 2024! And we need your vote to win this special title.

Our unique location offers endless possibilities for events: a reception among art, a product presentation in a room, a meeting or presentation with an inspiring guided tour, or a dinner surrounded by beautiful art objects. Museum Cobra is the place where art and events come together!

Can you help us win the prize? Vote now via Meetings

On Sunday, September 15, the second edition of the Cobra Children’s Museum opened. It was a successful afternoon where many families came to see the children’s work.

After a number of preparatory lessons at school, at elementary school Het Palet and de Bloeiwijzer in Amstelveen, children themselves chose a theme for this second edition of the Children’s Museum. Based on this theme, over 35 children, together with accompanying artists, Annet Breure and Julia dos Santos Baptista, set to work creatively to visualize their ideas around this theme. Each time they were taught a new visual technique and they learned to give words to what they made and their ideas about it. The accompanying artists listened to their stories, creating a wonderful audio tour to accompany this exhibition.

Evegeny Astapov

Cobra Children’s Museum
The Cobra Children’s Museum is a unique exhibition that shows how children express their ideas around their own chosen theme. A celebration of boundless imagination! It is a place where children have a say in what can be seen and experienced in a museum. Their own place to make that happen. The children are introduced to Museum Cobra, the Cobra ideas, the design process of their own museum and finally the creative execution of it in the form of a real exhibition in the museum. The Cobra Children’s Museum will be built, festively opened and the children themselves will give a tour of their own museum.

This is the second edition of the Cobra Children’s Museum. Start of this second edition were preparatory lessons at school, in which questions like “What is a museum?” and “What should a museum be about?” were central. Through an intensive, 4-day workshop, the children were taken through a creative making process that culminated in this exhibition with its own audio tour.

This second edition of the Cobra Children’s Museum was also developed and supervised by artist and visual teacher Júlia dos Santos Baptista and Annet Breure, story collector and storyteller. For more information, see www.plantenverhalen.nl/florafantastica

Partners:
Elja, VSB, Plantenverhalen, MAM, De Bloeiwijzer, Het Palet, Buurtkamer

Evgeny Astapov

Summer is here again! Come cool off (or shelter from the rain) with us at the museum.

During the summer there are four exhibitions on display in Amstelveen.
Diana Blok – I challenge you to love me
Pierre Verger – The One That I Am Not
Endless Imagination
Open depot

Gallery view, Victor Wennekes

In addition to the exhibitions, a number of fun activities have been organized.
Experimenteel schilderen
Artist talk: Tatjana Almuli in gesprek met Diana Blok
Gendermonologen
Masterclass (portret)fotografie
Instaprondleidingen
Familierondleidingen
Atelier CoBrA

Summerschool ’24 was another great success where a lot of art was made.

From Monday through Friday, participants attended various workshops and lectures and made a lot of art under the guidance of Jonas Ohlsson.

For example, Taneesha Sijmons gave a lecture on sexuality. She is a coach on sensuality, relationship and intimacy and is an erotic dancer. Through her work, she empowers and supports people to discover their relationship with themselves, their partner(s), their bodies and to embrace and deepen their sensual well-being. As an erotic dancer, she embodies the celebration of women, demonstrating the power of empowerment. Through her performance art, she emphasizes that nudity and sensuality need not be seen as taboo and uses her art forms to exhibit the beauty, magnetism and freedom within sensuality.

Kenneth Aidoo also conducted a workshop. Kenneth Aidoo is a visual artist who explores the social position of people from the African diaspora through film, paintings, drawings and video installations. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2019 with a series of portraits, exploring the everyday experiences he encountered in the Netherlands. Other topics in his work include the triangle connection between Ghana, the Netherlands and Suriname, and what it is like to have a tri-cultural identity. Aidoo has exhibited both in the Netherlands and an international show in Antwerp, Belgium. He has been nominated for the Royal Prize for Modern Painting in 2021 and is one of three winners in 2022. His work is in private and public collections.

The week ended with a presentation and closing drinks. The exhibition will be on display at Museum Cobra for a while longer!

Evgeny Astapov