A new CODARTfeature has been published on the CODART website. To mark CODART’s 25th anniversary in 2023, the Friends of CODART Foundation made a donation to the Cultuurfonds, with which to finance one extra Curators’ Stipend. It was awarded to the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, to contribute to a research and exhibition project on the Utrecht artist Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656). It enabled the museum to appoint Iris Blokker as a junior curator of Old Masters for seven months, to assist and support the senior curator Liesbeth Helmus. Earlier this year CODART spoke to them about the Stipend, their collaboration, and the challenges facing the curator’s profession.

“Liesbeth Helmus: “Every three years I organize a major exhibition for the Centraal Museum on a subject relating to its collection. After Utrecht, Caravaggio, and Europe, I carried out a project on the Bentvueghels. Now I’m focusing on Gerard van Honthorst. It’s the first major retrospective on this painter’s work in the world – which is actually quite strange. After all, he was the most important painter from the Northern Netherlands in the early decades of the seventeenth century. (…)” Continue reading…

CODARTfeatures

Published monthly, features provide information on new curatorial developments, current projects, collections of Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide, as well as insight into the work of the museum curator.

Last month’s feature was Dutch Marine Painting in Hamburg by Patrick Rivière. To browse all features, visit codart.nl/features.