The exhibition Freedom without Borders. From Appel to Basquiat is the highlight of the anniversary year in which we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the international Cobra movement (1948 – 1951)! A must-see for anyone interested in modern art and a unique opportunity to see these revolutionary and inspiring works up close. Discover surprising combinations in this […]
One more time there is the opportunity to browse through Constant’s household treasures. Nothing makes you realise that there used to be a time when objects were produced to last a lifetime then when cleaning out the house of someone born in 1920. Most objects found their way to our archive, storage or the auction […]
On the first floor we show our Cobra art collection in a new presentation, including all Cobra artist such as Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, Constant and Pierre Alechinsky. This presentation includes an extra focus on the relation that Cobra artist had with music.
Ata Kandó: Hungarian refugees and Slave or Dead The Cobra Museum shows work by Ata Kandó in line with the Kati Horna overview. Just like Kati Horna, Ata Kandó was a committed documentary photographer, Hungarian by origin and trained by József Pécsi. Ata Kandó believed a good photograph had both an artistic and a social […]
“Only fun can validly oppose the system” The Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amstelveen displays an extensive selection from the works of the Italian artist Enrico Baj (1924-2003). Enrico Baj: Play as Protest is a simultaneous re-introduction in the Netherlands of this freespirited artist’s work. The exhibition displays about 100 of the artist’s works […]
Shinkichi Tajiri was born as Shinkichi George Tajiri on 7 December 1923 in Los Angeles. He was a versatile artist. Although he expressed himself in many disciplines, he made his contribution to Cobra as an experimental sculptor. In addition, he was a painter and also made photographs, films and computer drawings. With Tajiri, versatile also […]
Jennifer Tee has for years shown a unique multi-talent, applied with seemingly equal ease to profound choreography and to large-scale hanging sculpture. It is striking that, however coherent and layered her work is, it still remains accessible to a wide audience. The jury was unanimously in favour of awarding the 2015 Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen […]
Appel attended classes at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam (1940–1943), where he met Corneille. During a stay in Paris they became inspired by works of Jean Dubuffet and of people with a mental illness. Back in Amsterdam they befriended Constant. Mid 1948 they founded the Experimental Group in Holland, together with other […]
Asger Jorn was continuously on the lookout for collaborations. In Denmark, he joined the art groups Linien (1934–1939) and Høst (1942-1948). During the Second World War he was part of the cultural resistance, in part with his magazine Helhesten. Immediately after the war he established a large European network. He met the later co-founders of […]
In 1947, the poet Christian Dotremont founded the group Le Surréalisme Révolutionnaire. However, major differences of opinion between the French and Belgian branches turned out to be unbridgeable. Together with Danish artist Asger Jorn, the Dutch artists Karel Appel, Constant and Corneille and the Belgian poet Joseph Noiret, Dotremont subsequently founded a new group: Internationale […]
