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The Turing Foundation aims to let people in The Netherlands enjoy visual arts and music.

The Turing Foundation therefor supports visual arts exhibitions and music education .

Below, you will find an impression of the most important initiatives that we have previously supported.

Also see the Art Agenda.

Most recent projects:

vanaf 20 okt	Sol Lewitt, Joods Museum, 2023-2024 Our apologies, the text for this project has not yet been translated into English ... more	vanaf 23 sep	'Yayoi Kusama. The Dutch Years 1965-1970', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2023-2024 The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam is dedicating an exhibition to the Dutch years of Japanese artist Yayoi... more
April 2023	'Exceptional Opportunity' Initiative, 'Titus is back Home', Rembrandt House, 2023 The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association started a new initiative in 2022 entitled... more	t/m 24 sep	'Exceptional Opportunity' Initiative, 'Giorgio Morandi and the Netherlands', Museum Belvédère, 2023 The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association started a new initiative in... more
vanaf 14 okt	'Porcelain Fever', Keramiek Museum Princessehof, 2023-2024 The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics is housed in a grand eighteenth-century townhouse in the historical centre of... more	January 2023	'The Residents', music education for children aged eight to twelve, 2022-2025 The Residents is the Residentie Orkest's prime educational project for children aged between eight and... more
January 2023	Het Leerorkest, 2023-2025 The Leerorkest (founded in 2005) wants to give as many children as possible the opportunity of discovering how much fun it is to play an instrument and... more	January 2023	'Classic Express', Prinses Christina Concours, 2023 The Princess Christina Competition (founded in 1967) aims to acquaint all children and young people in the Netherlands with... more
January 2023	Pieter Roelf Youth Concert, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, 2023 The North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra has organised the Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts every year since 1999:... more	January 2023	Klassifest, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 2023 Stichting Klassiekfabriek has been organising the Klassifest festival in Paradiso since 2016: a one-day festival with bite-sized classical... more
January 2023	'Choose your instrument', Prinses Christina Concours, 2023 The Princess Christina Competition (PCC) aims to acquaint all children and young people in the Netherlands with... more	vanaf 6 okt	Eye to Eye. The People behind the Mummy Portraits, Allard Pierson, 2023-2024 The Allard Pierson Museum's 'Eye to Eye' exhibition is the first in the Netherlands about mummy... more
vanaf 11 sep	Van Gogh in Drenthe, Drents Museum, 2023-2024 In 1883, Vincent van Gogh lived and worked in Drenthe for three months, painting the landscape and the workers in the peatlands of... more	vanaf 7 okt	Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2023-2024 The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944) is regarded as one of the pioneers of abstract painting. She... more
t/m 3 sep	Futurism & Europe. The Aesthetics of a New World, Kröller-Müller Museum, 2023 Futurism (1909-1916) originated on the eve of the First World War in Italy. Futurists revolted against... more	vanaf 30 sep	The Brueghel Dynasty, Noordbrabants Museum, 2023-2024 The Noordbrabants Museum is organising a large-scale exhibition on the Brueghel dynasty, the most famous family of artists with... more
t/m 22 oktober	Exhibition: 'Henry Moore by the Sea: Form and Material', Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, 2023 Henry Moore (1898-1986) was one of the most influential artists in the previous... more

Exhibitions

Sol Lewitt, Joods Museum, 2023-2024

The following text will be translated into English as soon as possible:
Het Joods Museum (onderdeel van het Joods Cultureel Kwartier) organiseert een groot museaal project over de Amerikaanse conceptueel kunstenaar Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). Dit project komt tot stand in nauwe samenwerking met de Sol LeWitt Estate. Bezoekers worden uitgenodigd om op een toegankelijke manier de visuele kracht van Sol LeWitts kunst te ervaren. Zij ontdekken hoe zijn werk tot stand kwam, leren over zijn joodse identiteit en de impact ervan op zijn werk én zijn intensieve band met Nederland: de diepgaande relaties met Nederlandse musea, galeries, musea, verzamelaars en kunstenaars. Het werk van Sol Lewitt is de laatste 20 jaar in Nederland alleen in groepstentoonstellingen te zien geweest. Ook wereldwijd neemt de zichtbaarheid van LeWitts werk af. Mede daarom wil het Joods Museum het (Nederlands) publiek (op)nieuw kennis laten maken met de visuele kracht en conceptuele uitgangspunten van LeWitts oeuvre.

De Turing Foundation draagt €30.000 bij aan deze tentoonstelling, die van 20 oktober 2023 t/m 24 maart 2024 te zien zal zijn.

See also: Other projects in Netherlands

Sol Lewitt, Joods Museum, 2023-2024

'Yayoi Kusama. The Dutch Years 1965-1970', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2023-2024
The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam is dedicating an exhibition to the Dutch years of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929). Kusama (now 93) is famed for her pop art and her large installations but also as a feminist icon. In 1967 Kusama staged a performance in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, in which she painted various locals and the well-known artist Jan Schoonhoven with dots in the museum chapel. The performance caused a big stir and to this day appeals to the imagination. As well as the research findings on this performance, the exhibition also looks at work Kusama made in the Netherlands, her relationship with the Dutch art world and the interplay between her artistic development and social developments in the Netherlands in the 1960s.

The museum is bringing together work by Kusama and her contemporaries; this work is not often displayed in public and most of it comes from private collections. The exhibition consists of a total of 59 works, including 24 from abroad. For this project the museum is collaborating with the 0-Institute, which has collected photographic material of various artists from Kusama's time in the Netherlands. This material has never been displayed publicly in an exhibition.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 25,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 23 September 2023 and 25 February 2024

'Yayoi Kusama. The Dutch Years 1965-1970', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

'Exceptional Opportunity' Initiative, 'Titus is back Home', Rembrandt House, 2023
The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association started a new initiative in 2022 entitled Exceptional Opportunity: more than 100 Dutch art museums were invited to make a exhibition with iconic loans from other Dutch public collections in 2023. There was a budget for the very best proposals. The two winners were: Museum Belvédère and Rembrandt House Museum.

The Rembrandt House Museum is exhibiting Rembrandt's iconic Titus at a Lectern (1655) from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection. The young Titus van Rijn stares dreamily over the edge of his lectern. Father Rembrandt caught his gaze in 1655, when he lived with his family in the stately building on the Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam. Nearly 400 years later, Titus has been brought back home. It is the first time ever that Rembrandt's famous masterpiece is being exhibited in the place it was made: in what is now the Rembrandt House Museum. In a small exhibition room, visitors - like Rembrandt - come face to face with Titus. A multimedia tour gives three ways to look at the painting and experience it with a guided meditation. For this multimedia tour the Rembrandt House Museum has used sound clips from Beeld & Geluid's Dutch audio-visual collection.

The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association share the costs of € 31,250 for the loan of the painting. Titus can be seen at the Rembrandt House Museum from 18 March to 4 June 2023.

Titus at a Lectern (1655), Rembrandt (1606-1669), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

'Exceptional Opportunity' Initiative, 'Giorgio Morandi and the Netherlands', Museum Belvédère, 2023
The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association started a new initiative in 2022 entitled Exceptional Opportunity: more than 100 Dutch art museums were invited to make a presentation with iconic loans from other Dutch public collections in 2023. There was a budget for the very best proposals. The two winners are Museum Rembrandthuis and Museum Belvédère.

Museum Belvédère is showing a never-before-exhibited selection of Giorgio Morandi's paintings from various Dutch museums. The museum hosted the successful Giorgio Morandi and Bologna exhibition in 2018. This resulted in a private Dutch donation of one of Morandi's paintings to the museum. Five years later and based on this painting, the museum is curating a exhibition of Morandi's paintings in Dutch collections, with proposed loans from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. The exhibition draws attention to interest in the Netherlands for Morandi and his influence on Dutch artists. Parallel to the presentation, in an adjacent space, the museum is exhibiting the paintings the museum has collected that are related to 'its' Morandi; still lifes by Dutch artists who have an affinity to the Italian master. The artistic values cherished by the museum are at the centre of both presentations: concentration and stillness.

The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association share the costs of € 22.000 for this exhibition, which can be seen between 17 June and 24 September.

Natura morta (1950), Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), private collection

'Porcelain Fever', Keramiek Museum Princessehof, 2023-2024
The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics is housed in a grand eighteenth-century townhouse in the historical centre of Leeuwarden. The museum has one of the best collections of European and Asian ceramics, from refined porcelain to beautiful earthenware. From autumn 2023, the focus of the museum will be 'Porcelain Fever': an exhibition of extraordinary ceramic pieces from two important collections originating in the eighteenth century, the Meissen and the Sèvres collections. Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony, started the German Meissen collection, and Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764) played an important role in the founding of the French court's Sèvres collection. Rivalry between the two dynasties resulted in veritable porcelain mania. Some 150 objects have been used to illustrate how this competition brought the level of European porcelein production to great heights.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 30,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 14 October 2023 and 1 September 2024.

'Porcelain Fever', Keramiek Museum Princessehof

Eye to Eye. The People behind the Mummy Portraits, Allard Pierson, 2023-2024
The Allard Pierson Museum's 'Eye to Eye' exhibition is the first in the Netherlands about mummy portraits: portraits of the deceased (mostly on wooden boards) attached to the faces of mummies in the Roman period in Egypt (1st-4th century CE). The panel portraits are a unique fusion of elements of Ancient Egyptian and Roman culture and give an impression of how these inhabitants of Egypt saw, presented and prepared themselves for a life after death. Their colours, piercing gaze and particularly their almost modern realism appeal to the imagination. The exhibition focuses on the people behind the portraits: the subject, makers, relatives, archaeologists, collectors and researchers. A total of 35 mummy portraits from international collections will be exhibited in Amsterdam.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €40,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 6 October 2023 and 25 February 2024.

Oog in Oog. De mensen achter de mummieportretten, Allard Pierson, 2023-2024

Van Gogh in Drenthe, Drents Museum, 2023-2024
In 1883, Vincent van Gogh lived and worked in Drenthe for three months, painting the landscape and the workers in the peatlands of Drenthe. It was an important period in his development; he was isolated from the art world and had the time and space to reflect on his artistry. The Drents Museum is organising an exhibition focused on this specific period in the artist's life. Of the 24 surviving pieces from this period, the museum expects to loan some 20 of them. Works by Van Gogh's contemporaries will be exhibited alongside them: members of the Barbizon school and the Hague School of painters. The exhibition will start on 11 September 2023, exactly 140 years after Van Gogh arrived in Drenthe, and the layout is based on the route the artist took through the province.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €25,500 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 11 September 2023 and 7 January 2024 . The contribution is earmarked for the catalogue.

Vincent van Gogh, Hutten in Les Saintes Maries-de-la-Mer (1888)

Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2023-2024
The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944) is regarded as one of the pioneers of abstract painting. She created more than 1000 paintings, sketches and watercolours and was one of the first artists to make abstract pieces. In the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian's visual idioms and paths to abstraction are being placed side by side. Their shared interest in spirituality and theosophy is put in the broader context of scientific developments at the end of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, a formative period for both artists. The exhibition, organised in close collaboration with the Tate Modern in London, will show some 100 works by Af Klint and 65 works by Mondrian. In addition, drawings, sketches, letters and notebooks will give insight into both artists' way of working and mental processes.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €30,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 7 October 2023 and 25 February 2024 . The contribution is earmarked for the catalogue.

Hilma af Klint, Groep 4 Nr 7 (1907)

Futurism & Europe. The Aesthetics of a New World, Kröller-Müller Museum, 2023
Futurism (1909-1916) originated on the eve of the First World War in Italy. Futurists revolted against established norms and values and the traditions of the nineteenth century. Art should express the energy of modern life and the dynamics of the new era in all its activity. The exhibition at the Kröller-Müller Museum gives an impression of the 'futurist universe' in the broad context of the European avant-garde by showing an extensive array of objects from the period 1912 to 1939: paintings, sculptures, furniture, ceramics, interior and stage design, clothing, graphic work and utensils. Work by many artists will be exhibited. Italian futurists such as Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà and Fortunato Depero as well as avant-garde artists such as Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Marianne Brandt, El-Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg and Gerrit Rietveld will be shown at the exhibition.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €40,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 29 April and 3 September 2023 .

Futurism & Europe. The Aesthetics of a New World, Kröller-Müller Museum, 2023

Purchase of two works by Caspar van Wittel, Museum Flehite, 2022
Caspar van Wittel was born in Amersfoort in the Netherlands and went to Rome in 1674, where he was known as 'Gaspare Vanvitelli' and caused a furore. He is regarded as the founder of vedutism, the genre of townscapes with which successors such as Canaletto, Bellotto and Guardi would later have great triumphs. Museum Flehite organised a successful retrospective on Caspar van Wittel in 2019. In collaboration with the Rembrandt Association, it has managed to acquire two works by the artist from private English sellers: a View of Naples, depicting the Dock in Naples, La Darsena, and a View of Rome, depicting the Catel Sant' Angelo and the apse of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini.

This purchase was made possible in part by a contribution of € 30,000 by the Turing Foundation. Regular acquisitions are beyond the scope of the Turing Foundation's funding policy. A one-off exception has been made for the purchase of these two special works, which are important to Museum Flehite and the Netherlands National Collection both historically and in terms of art history.

Zicht op de Tiber in Rome met de Engelenburcht (1714), Caspar van Wittel

Vermeer in Delft, Museum Prinsenhof Delft, 2023
Museum Prinsenhof Delft is developing the exhibition 'Vermeer in Delft' parallel to the survey exhibition on the seventeenth-century master which will be in the same period at the Rijksmuseum. Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was born in Delft and lived and worked in the town his entire life; it was one of the most important artistic centres in the Northern Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Museum Prinsenhof is using important people in Vermeer's life to sketch the artistic, intellectual and social climate in Delft in the latter half of the seventeenth century: what was the artistic context in which Vermeer worked, what did the town of Delft and his daily life look like? The exhibition is expected to include 90 pieces, including paintings by contemporaries Carel Fabritius, Pieter de Hooch, Dirck van Baburen and Carel de Man. Most of these works are being exhibited in the Netherlands for the first time in many years.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 30,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 10 February and 4 June 2023. The contribution is earmarked for the publication.

Het Delft van Vermeer, Museum Prinsenhof Delft

Sofonisba Anguissola. Portraitist of the Renaissance, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2023
In collaboration with the Danish Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Rijksmuseum Twenthe is organising the first monographic exhibition in the Netherlands on the Italian renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625). Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the most talented artists of the sixteenth century, but few people know her name these days. In a time in which women had limited possibilities and opportunities, she successfully became an important portrait painter. She developed her own style with personal and expressive portraits of 'real' people, managing to capture their emotions well. She fulfilled the aristocracy's desire to be immortalised and painted at the Spanish court of Philip II and his wife Elisabeth of Valois for a time. Rijksmuseum Twenthe is exhibiting a total of 25 of the 34 works ascribed to Sofonisba Anguissola, twenty of which have not previously been exhibited in the Netherlands.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 20,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 12 February and 11 June 2023.

Sofonisba Anguissola. Portrettist van de Renaissance, Rijksmuseum Twenthe

The Brueghel Dynasty, Noordbrabants Museum, 2023-2024
The Noordbrabants Museum is organising a large-scale exhibition on the Brueghel dynasty, the most famous family of artists with roots in North Brabant. The Brueghel dynasty includes five generations of successful painters - of whom Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525/1530 - 1569) is the most famous - who worked over a period of about 150 years, from 1550 to 1700. The members of the Brueghel family were active in almost all genres of painting: from local and foreign landscapes and tableaux of everyday rural life to allegories, mythical stories, history paintings and floral still-lifes. As well as Pieter Brueghel the Elder, work will be exhibited by his sons Pieter Brueghel the Younger en Jan Brueghel the Elder, his grandchildren Jan Brueghel the Younger and Abraham Brueghel, his master Pieter Coecke van Aelst, and extended family David Teniers the Younger and Jan van Kessel the Elder. The exhibition is based on the Noordbrabants Museum collection, which will be augmented by loans from as many as 40 museums in the Netherlands and abroad.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 50,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 30 September 2023 and 7 January 2024.

De Brueghel-dynastie, Noordbrabants Museum, 2023-2024

'Hockney's Eye', Teylers Museum, 2022-2023
Since the beginning of his lengthy career, David Hockney (1937) has explored how we see the world around us and how artists over the centuries have captured this on the surface of a flat picture. In the exhibition Hockney's Eye - a co-production with the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Heong Gallery in Cambridge - works by Hockney, old masters' artworks and optical instruments give insight into how artists work. The exhibition includes a total of about 80 pieces, including highlights from Hockney's oeuvre which have never been shown in the Netherlands.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €40,000 towards this exhibition, which will be open to the public from 23 September 2022 to 29 January 2023.

'Hockney's Eye', Teylers Museum

Exhibition 'Kees van Dongen: Daring and Seduction', Singer Museum, Laren, 2023
Kees van Dongen's (1877 - 1968) work is characterised by the expressive use of colour and bright colour contrasts. Together with Matisse and André Derain, amongst others, he was one of the leading figures in Fauvism. The Singer Laren is working on an ambitious exhibition on Kees van Dongen's early period, from 1895 to about 1917. A selection of more than 70 works illustrates how in a brief time the artist managed to break through and become one of the most successful artists in Paris.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 40,000 towards this exhibition, which will open 17 January 2021 and run until 7 May 2023.

Het Blauwe Hoedje (1897), Kees van Dongen (1877-1968), Singer, Laren

Exhibition 'Anthropocene', Museum Helmond, 2022
The exhibition Anthropocene in Museum Helmond is about the human footprint on the earth and combines art, photography and film with augmented reality, theory, science and activism. The exhibition consists of 30 photographs by Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky in a large format (2 x 1.50 metres), combined with film footage of the same locations by Canadian documentary makers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier. The film images are taken from their documentary Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018). Museum Helmond brings visitors into contact with major global problems in an accessible way and its extensive peripheral programming gives visitors guidance and input for reflection, debate and discussion.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 18,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 10 April and 11 September 2022.

Edward Burtynsky, Lithium Mines #1, Salt Flats, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2017

Publication Mondriaan in Woord en Beeld, Uitgeverij IJzer, 2022
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. He played a leading role in the international avant garde and in the evolution from realistic to abstract art. Mondrian sent many letters, telegrams and postcards, about 1,650 of which have survived. He also wrote dozens of essays, in which he articulated his progressive ideas and artistic ideals. On the occasion of Piet Mondrian's 150th birthday on 7 March 2020, Uitgeverij IJzer is publishing the book Mondriaan in Woord en Beeld (Mondriaan in Words and Pictures). This publication links Mondrian's serial work to his essays. It was written by Louis Veen, whose PhD in 2011 was about Mondrian's written work.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 3,000 in 2021 towards this publication.

Publicatie 'Mondriaan in Woord en Beeld', 2022

Exhibition: 'Manhattan Masters', Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2022-2023
The Mauritshuis has had the special opportunity to exhibit ten masterpieces from The Frick Collection in New York. The Frick Collection is the art collection of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), housed in his former home overlooking Central Park. Thanks to a renovation, the museum is in the exceptional position of being able to lend a selection of Dutch masters, including three absolute masterpieces: Rembrandt van Rijn's Self-portrait (1658), Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl (c. 1657-1660) and Frans Hals' Portrait of a Man (c.1660). Works by, amongst others, Jacob van Ruysdael, Philips Wouwerman and Aelbert Cuyp will also be brought to the Netherlands. Most of the works have not been seen in the Netherlands since their acquisition in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 72,500 towards this exhibition, which will be from 29 September 2022 to 15 January 2023. The contribution is earmarked for the loan costs for Rembrandt van Rijn's painting Self-portrait (1658).

Self Portrait (1658), Rembrandt

Exhibition: 'Henry Moore by the Sea: Form and Material', Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, 2023
Henry Moore (1898-1986) was one of the most influential artists in the previous century. He was instrumental in introducing a new form of modernism to the UK. The sculptor is best known to the general public for his large abstract works in bronze and marble: monumental, abstract sculptures in organic form, mostly human figures. Museum Beelden aan Zee is exhibiting top works in Moore's oeuvre and is also focusing on his craft and use of materials. A grand total of 85 sculptures and objects will illustrate how the artist was influenced in the creation of his works by the choice of material and how it was processed.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €25,000 towards this exhibition, which will be from 8 April to 22 October 2023.

Mother and Child: Arch (1959, cast 1967), Henry Moore

Exhibition: 'Living the Landscape - Nicholson, Hepworth and the Artists of St. Ives, 1939-1975', Museum Belvédère, Oranjewoud, 2022
Museum Belvédère is organising an exhibition on the art created in St. Ives on the south-west coast of Great Britain in the period 1939-1975. The artist couple Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth settled in the Cornish seaside town in the late 1930s, where avant-garde artist friends Naum Gabo, Roger Hilton, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Bryan Wynter, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron and Sandra Blow joined them. St. Ives quickly developed into an international art centre. The artists were inspired by the ancient landscape, the sea and the local people's connection to their environment. A total of about 60 paintings and sculptures, mainly from international collections, will be brought to Oranjewoud, including many pieces that have not been exhibited in the Netherlands before.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €25,000 towards this exhibition, which will be from 28 May to 20 September 2022.

Disk with Strings (Moon), 1969, Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Exhibition: 'Living Landscape. Six Centuries of South Holland Maas Delta', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2022
The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam is organising an exhibition about the city of Schiedam and its surrounding landscape: the Maas Delta between Dordrecht and the Hook of Holland. The exhibition 'Living Landscape' presents a cross-section of six centuries of landscape art. It focuses both on the changing landscape of the Maas delta in South Holland and artists' ever-changing impression of this landscape. A selection of more than 30 works from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries are being exhibited thematically: Land, Water, Fire and Air. Works from the museum's own collection are being supplemented with masterpieces from various Dutch collections. The museum also hopes to loan several works from abroad, including William Turner's Rotterdam Ferry Boat (1833, National Gallery of Art, Washington).

The Turing Foundation is contributing €20,000 towards this exhibition, which will be from 30 April to 16 October 2022. This donation is earmarked for the loan costs of William Turner's painting Rotterdam Ferry Boat (1833).

Rotterdam Ferry Boat (1833), William Turner.

Vereniging Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2021
Dutch museums wanting to acquire a special work of art can seek assistance from the Vereniging Rembrandt. This association is committed to the protection and enrichment of Dutch public art collections. It was founded in 1883 and currently has more than 15,000 members. As an independent, private organisation, the association not only assesses the importance of acquisitions to individual museum collections, but also to the entire Dutch public art collection. Its guiding principle is that valuable art ought to be shared with everyone.

The Turing Foundation supports Vereniging Rembrandt with an annual donation of € 5,000.

Ecce Homo (ca. 1480), acquired in 2019 with aid from Vereniging Rembrandt for Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht

'Paula Rego', Kunstmuseum The Hague, 2021-2022
Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego's (Lisbon, 1935) oeuvre spans decades and deals with topical themes such as colonial history and feminism. Her early work is often politically tinted and directed against the dictatorial regime of Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar (1932-1968). Her later work is in the style of magical realism, with family suffering, family relationships and the dominant role of women as central themes. Paula Rego is a star in the United Kingdom, but she has never had a solo exhibition devoted to her work in the Netherlands. Which is why the Kunstmuseum Den Haag has organised an overview of Paula Rego's life and work, based on an impressive 70 works (from Tate Britain and Portuguese museums and private collections, including the Calouste Gulbenkian).

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 30,000 towards this exhibition, which will be from 27 November 2021 to 20 March 2022.

'Paula Rego', Kunstmuseum The Hague

'The Forgotten Princesses of Thorn', Limburgs Museum, Venlo, 2021-2022
Until the end of the eighteenth century, part of the small town of Thorn was home to a convent: an ecclesiastical institution which only hosted unmarried ladies of high nobility. The convent ladies were unusual women in their time: they were independent, elected one of their number as the 'princess-abbess', ruled over their mini-state and were welcome guests at European courts. The exhibition 'The Forgotten Princesses of Thorn' at the Limburgs Museum gives insight into the history of the convent and its inhabitants in the period 1700 to 1794, based on the biographies of three princess-abbesses. A total of more than 200 loans from approximately 50 lenders from museums and private collections in the Netherlands and abroad will feature in the exhibition, including paintings, trinkets, medals, marriage certificates, jewellery, clothing and furniture.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 30,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 1 October 2021 and 3 April 2022.

'The Forgotten Princesses of Thorn', Limburgs Museum, Venlo

'Golden Boy Gustav Klimt. Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse', Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2022-2023
The Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) lived and worked in Vienna's belle époque, a period of unparalleled artistic achievement. Klimt was a member of the symbolist art movement and gained particular fame for his later work, characterised by decorative ornamentalism and suggestive-erotic symbolism. The Van Gogh Museum is organising a retrospective on Gustav Klimt in which the influence of international avant-garde art on Klimt's oeuvre is illustrated: from Whistler and Toorop, via Monet and Rodin, to Van Gogh and Matisse. 50 works by Gustav Klimt and 50 works by contemporaries are being brought to Amsterdam. The exhibition will then continue at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 100,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen from 7 October 2022 and 8 January 2023.

Judith I (a.k.a. Judith und Holofernes), Gustav Klimt, 1901

Exhibition 'At Home with Jordaens', Frans Hals Museum, 2021-2022
The Frans Hals Museum is devoting an exhibition to the Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), one of the giants of Antwerp Baroque painting alongside Rubens and Van Dyck. A total of about 30 pieces by Jordaens belonging to the Phoebus Foundation, a private art foundation in Antwerp, are being exhibited in Haarlem. The highlight of the exhibition is the reconstruction of the - partly lost - reception room in Jordaens' house, where he had painted the walls and ceiling with scenes from the mythological story of Amor and Psyche.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €30,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 15 October 2021 and 8 May 2022.

Jacob Jordaens (1637-1645): Portrait of the daughter of the artist

Exhibition 'Thérèse Schwartze. Her Customer was King', Paul Tetar van Elven Museum, 2021-2022
Paul Tetar van Elven Museum was founded in 1927 and is located on the Koornmarkt in Delft, in the former home of the painter Paul Tetar van Elven (1823-1896). The museum is organising an exhibition on Thérèse Schwartze's work (1815-1918), who was a contemporary of Tetar van Elven and specialised in portrait painting. Schwartze's freer, modern work is combined and compared with the somewhat more conservative academy painter Tetar van Elven's work. A total of approximately 30 pieces (mainly portraits) by Thérèse Schwartze are being exhibited in Delft. The pieces are from Dutch museums and private collections.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €5,000 towards this exhibition, which will be on view from 6 November 2021 to 8 May 2022.

'Aztecs. The People behind the Myths', Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, 2021-2022
2021 will mark the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest which brought an end to the Aztec empire. Museum Volkenkunde is taking this opportunity to organise the first major Dutch exhibition on the Aztecs, one of the most iconic civilisations in world history. The highlight of the exhibition will be 128 unique works from Mexico that have never before been seen outside Mexico: recently excavated offerings, imposing statues of Aztec gods such as the god Mictlantecuhtli, mythical therianthropic earthenware figures, gold jewellery and drawings in codices. The works from Mexico will be supplemented with masterpieces from the museum's own collection and various European collections.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €30,000 towards this exhibition, which will be from 5 August 2021 to 27 March 2022.

'Aztecs. The People behind the Myths', Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden

'Lucio Fontana - The Conquest of Space', Design Museum Den Bosch, 2021-2022
The avant-garde artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is best known for his monochrome paintings with vertical cuts. This departed from the notion of a painting as a flat painted surface on which space is suggested. The Design Museum Den Bosch is organising an exhibition displaying work from Fontana's entire oeuvre and discussing his ideas about the conception of space in the various disciplines. The museum exhibits ceramic objects, paintings, lights, spatial installations and design. In addition to twenty works from the museum's own collection, many European loans will be on display.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €20,000 towards this exhibition, which will be from 2 October 2021 to 23 January 2022.

'Lucio Fontana - The Conquest of Space', Design Museum Den Bosch

'Face to Face with Gustav Klimt', Van Abbemuseum, 2020-2021
The Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) lived and worked in Vienna's belle époque, a period of unparalleled artistic achievement. In Face to Face with Gustav Klimt, the Van Abbemuseum is displaying drawings and paintings by the artist in an especially designed space. The most important work from Vienna is Beethoven Frieze. Klimt designed this artwork in 1902 for the Vienna Secessionist exhibition honouring Beethoven's ninth symphony and painted the frieze directly on the walls of the Vienna Secession Building. The Belvedère Museum recently had an exact copy of the frieze made and this high-quality, life-size facsimile (more than two-metres tall and 34-metres long) is on display for the first time at the Van Abbemuseum, as the centrepiece of and backdrop to the exhibition Face to Face with Gustav Klimt.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €15,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 3 March and 31 June 2021.

Beethoven Frieze (1901), Gustav Klimt, Secession Building, Vienna, Austria

'"Your Loving Vincent." Van Gogh's Greatest Letters', Van Gogh Museum, 2020-2021
Vincent van Gogh signed his letters 'Your loving Vincent'. The eponymous exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum is focused on 40 letters: the best letters Vincent van Gogh wrote to his family, his brother Theo in particular, and friends. The selection of letters is being exhibited next to approximately 30 paintings sketched in his letters, including The Potato Eaters, The Bedroom and The Sower.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €25,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 9 October 2020 and 10 January 2021.

'Je Liefhebbende Vincent. Van Goghs mooiste brieven'

'Hansken. Rembrandt's Elephant', Rembrandt House Museum, 2021
The elephant called Hansken travelled around Europe with her owner from 1633 to 1655 and was a spectacle wherever she went. Rembrandt van Rijn sketched her when she visited Amsterdam. The Rembrandt House Museum is devoting an exhibition to this special elephant and illustrating her history with etchings, maps, globes, and natural history specimens. Rembrandt's drawings of Hansken (Albertina, Vienna) and Hansken's skull (Museo della Specola, Florence) are being brought to Amsterdam. For the marketing and education related to the exhibition, the museum is collaborating with Artis Zoo and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

The Turing Foundation is contributing €17,500 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 1 May and 8 August 2021.

Hansken. Rembrandts Olifant

Exhibition 'The Botanical Revolution - About the Necessity of Art and Gardening', Centraal Museum, 2021-2022
In the exhibition About the Necessity of Art and Gardening, the Centraal Museum is exploring how gardens have served as a microcosm and metaphor of society in different ways. A cross section of work from art history - old art, modern art and very recent (commissioned) work by contemporary artists - is used to sketch the development of the relationship between nature and culture. Key pieces from the museum collection, including Abraham Bloemaert's Adam and Eve in Paradise (1604) and flower still lifes by Roeland Saverij, are being combined with loans from collections in the Netherlands and abroad. The highlight of the exhibition is Caspar David Friedrich's painting Cemetery Entrance (1825), representing death and the end of the cycle of nature.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €20,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 10 September 2021 and 9 January 2022. The contribution is earmarked for the loan costs of Caspar David Friedrich's painting Cemetery Entrance (1825) from the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden collection.

'De Botanische Revolutie - Over de noodzaak van kunst en tuinieren', Centraal Museum

Spinoza's Daily Life, Spinoza House, The Hague 2020-2021
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), one of the world's greatest thinkers, was co-founder of rationalism and one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy. The greatest Dutch philosopher was born in Amsterdam and lived in the vicinity of The Hague during his working life. He spent the last seven years of his life at Paviljoensgracht 72-74 in The Hague. This seventeenth-century house still has a largely monumental interior and contains a special collection of books by and about Spinoza. The Spinozahuis Association intends to open the Spinoza House to the public so that visitors can see how the great man lived and worked. The plan is to develop three functions: a museum about Spinoza, a reception and presentation area, and a study centre and library.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €3,000 towards this project.

See also: Other projects in Netherlands

Interieur Spinozahuis, Den Haag 2020-2021

Parallel Lives, Parallel Aesthetics: Léon Ferrari and Gülsün Karamustafa, Van Abbemuseum, 2021-2022
Parallel Lives, Parallel Aesthetics is a combination of two solo exhibitions: a large retrospective of León Ferrari (3 September 1920 - 25 July 2013, Buenos Aires) and an overview of Gülsün Karamustafa's (1946, Ankara) work to date. León Ferrari is one of Argentina's most celebrated contemporary artists. He won the Lion D'Or at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and the opening of the exhibition in 2021 marks the moment that the Van Abbemuseum will receive a donation from the Ferrari family, consisting of fourteen works. Gülsün Karamustafa, who won the Prince Claus Award in 2014, is one of the leading lights of contemporary Turkish art and an important figure in the struggle for recognition of female artists.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €15,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 27 November 2021 and 13 March 2022.

La Civilización Occidental y Cristiana (1965), Léon Ferrari

The power of our Dutch collections, 2020-2021
The Rembrandt Association is committed to protecting and enriching Dutch public art collections. It was founded in 1883 and now has more than 15,000 members. As an independent, private organisation, the association not only assesses the importance to individual museum collections, but also the importance to the entire Dutch public art collection. Its guiding principle is that valuable art ought to be shared with everyone.

The Rembrandt Association and the Turing Foundation are each contributing €175,000 towards the special initiative 'The power of our Dutch collections'. This campaign gives art museums the opportunity to request a contribution of up to €10,000 towards the design of a presentation based on one or several works in their own collection when they re-open after the corona lockdown. The campaign aims to inspire and revitalise the museums and draw attention to the richness of their own collections.

The power of our Dutch collections, 2020-2021

'Maria Magdalene', Museum Catharijneconvent, 2021-2022
Museum Catharijneconvent presents the aesthetic, cultural and historical values of Christian and other religious heritage as well as this history's influence on our society. The museum is planning an exhibition in 2021 dedicated to the biblical figure Mary Magdalene: what is the reason for the widespread fascination with her and how did this complex representation come about? Historical sources, paintings, contemporary visual art and popular culture are used to construct a multifaceted image. In addition to important works from the museum's collection, approximately 50 loans will be exhibited, including approximately nineteen from foreign museums and (private) collections.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €50,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 24 June 2021 and 9 January 2022.

Maria Magdalena (ca. 1624), Jan Cossiers (1600-1671), ©Collectie Jan Six

Exhibition 'Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: A Love Revolution', Cobra Museum, 2021
The Cobra Museum has had the rare opportunity to organise an exhibition of works from Jacques and Natasha Gelman's collection of modern Mexican art. This collector couple compiled several art collections in the period 1940-1985. The core of the collection is work by the artist couple Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957). The collection also includes work by contemporaries and founders of Mexican modernism such as José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The Cobra Museum exhibition is focused on Kahlo and Rivera's artistry, their role in the rise of modernism in Mexico, and Frida Kahlo's enormous popularity.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €40,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 28 May and 26 September 2021.

Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, Cobra Museum

Top pieces from the art depot, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2020-2021
The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam is exhibiting a selection of top pieces from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from its own art collection, including Portrait of a Boy by the Hungarian-Austrian artist Isidor Kaufmann (1853 -1921). In his travels around central and eastern Europe Kaufmann studied devout Hasidic Jews. His son Eduard was the model for this painting. Appreciation for Kaufmann's work increased greatly after the Second World War because the Eastern-European Jewish life he portrayed had been almost completely obliterated.

The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association are contributing towards this exhibition as part of their project 'The power of our Dutch collections'. The exhibition will be on view from 9 September 2020 to 21 February 2021.

Portrait of a Boy (1900), Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921)

Views of the Hofvijver, Historical Museum of The Hague, The Hague, 2020-2021
The Historical Museum of The Hague is organising a presentation of its permanent collection around a number of views of the Hofvijver and the Binnenhof - two of the most popular places in The Hague. These cityscapes, by painters like Arntzenius, Van Breen and La Fargue, are highlights of the Hague Historical Museum collection. They are being exhibited in a room with a beautiful view of the Hofvijver.

Winter Enjoyment on the Hofvijver, Abraham van Breen, 1618

Refurbishment former Post Office, Museum The Ship, Amsterdam, 2020-2021
From September 2020, Amsterdam School Museum The Ship is exhibiting a former post office which is entirely in the Amsterdam School style and was designed by architect Michel de Klerk. The magnificent interior of the post office is brought to life with a Japanese architect's early photographs, blueprints, and objects from the PTT (Post Telegraph Telephone) collection, including coats of arms, stamps and a unique letterbox.

Telephone booth in former Post Office, Amsterdam School Museum The Ship

'Alone with Vermeer', Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2020-2021
The Mauritshuis is organising an exhibition around a single work: Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft. The work has been celebrated since the nineteenth century for its extraordinary impact on the viewer and still moves visitors to this day. The museum is giving visitors the opportunity to experience the work alone (or in very small groups) and in silence.

View of Delft, Johannes Vermeer, 1660-1661

Sientje Mesdag's network, Mesdag Collection, The Hague, 2020-2021
The Mesdag Collection in The Hague is exhibiting a selection of artworks by female artists that Hendrik Willem Mesdag and his wife Sientje Mesdag-van Houten personally collected. Sientje was also an artist, gave painting lessons and was a board member of various artists' associations. Her network is the common thread in the presentation.

Thérèse Schwartze, Girl with a Guitar (Theresia Ansingh), 1904

Yamuna Forzani, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, 2020
The TextielMuseum in Tilburg is presenting two outfits by Yamuna Forzani it purchased in April 2020. The artist/designer Yamuna Forzani's visual language plays with the body and sexuality, the psychedelic aesthetics of the 1960s, and current visual culture of social media and kitsch. By collecting and displaying such pieces, the museum is not only supporting (young) makers in difficult times but is also adding a historic moment and new design trend to the museum collection.

Artist Yamuna Forzani posing next to her work, 2020. Photo Josefina Eikenaar

The Simpelveld Sarcophagus, Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, 2020-2021
The Dutch National Museum of Antiquities is organising a presentation on the extraordinary sarcophagus excavated in Simpelveld in Limburg in 1930. The sarcophagus contained jewellery, household goods and perfume bottles. Its interior is decorated with representations depicting furniture, crockery and a sofa with its occupant depicted on it. The sarcophagus is unique and the only one of its kind with a decorated interior. The museum is going to display the sarcophagus in the gallery and restore it in situ.

Detail of the interior of the Sarcophagus of Simpelveld

'Touching Worlds', Design Museum Den Bosch, 2020-2021
The Design Museum Den Bosch is organising a ceramic presentation of several masterpieces in its collection, which will be exhibited shortly after the museum's reopening. Two important ceramic works will be the centrepieces: Pablo Picasso's Vase Femme (1954) and Kenneth Price's B.C. Orange (1967). Both are symbolic of the different starting points of the development of artist ceramics and are key pieces in the Design Museum Den Bosch's collection.

Vase Femme (1954), Pablo Picasso

Sara Rothé's doll's house, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2020-2021
One of the most popular pieces at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem is a beautiful showpiece doll's house belonging to the Amsterdam merchant's wife Sara Rothé (1699-1751), who had a country house on the Spaarne river near Haarlem. The doll's house has been cleaned especially for the reopening and is on display in a prominent place along the new route through the museum. An exceptional feature of this eighteenth-century doll's house is the silver state room, which complements the museum's silver collection. Visitors gain a unique insight into a well-to-do eighteenth-century Dutch family's household.

The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association are contributing towards this exhibition as part of their project 'The power of our Dutch collections'. The exhibition has been on permanent display since 1 September 2020.

Sara Rothé's doll's house, approx. 1750

'Hazardous Undertaking: Rennenberg capturing Deventer', Museum de Waag, 2020-2021
Museum de Waag in Deventer is organising a presentation based on a centrepiece in its collection, the painting of the siege of Deventer by Dutch State troops led by Rennenberg. The months-long siege of Deventer in 1578 by the Dutch rebels brought an end to the Hanseatic city's era of greatness. The public is given insight into this dramatic episode with the aid of animations and 3D reconstructions. In addition to this showpiece, prints of the siege, halberds, a recently acquired mortar shell and an enormous amount of emergency money are also on display.

The siege of Deventer, anonymous, oil on canvas, end of 16th century, Museum de Waag collection

Self-portrait Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2020
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag organised a substantive presentation on Self-Portrait with Hat and Veil (1906-1907) by the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). The museum is exhibiting the painting for the first time as a link that underpinned the fire of expressionism which exploded in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. The work was restored especially for the presentation.

Self-Portrait with Hat and Veil (1906-1907), Paula Modersohn-Becker

Altarpieces, Museum Gouda, 2020-2021
Museum Gouda has an important collection of religious art. The sixteenth-century monumental altarpieces which survived the Iconoclastic Fury are unique in the Netherlands. The seventeenth-century altar paintings illustrate the story of hidden or house churches, when Catholic Mass was unofficially tolerated in the Calvinist Netherlands. The museum highlights the art-historical importance of the special altarpieces in its permanent display, but also puts them in their religious and historical context by means of a special presentation.

Triptych with The Shepherds' Adoration, Mary's Deathbed and The Ascension of Mary. On the reverse, The Annunciation. c. 1565

Bruce Nauman retrospective exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2021
In collaboration with Tate Modern, the Stedelijk Museum is organising the first major retrospective of work by American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941). Nauman is a visionary contemporary artist who has created performances, installations, video art, sculpture, drawings and neon works since the 1960s. A total of 40 core works from international collections shed light on the ground-breaking role Nauman's work has played and still does in abstract contemporary art.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 40,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 31 May and 30 October 2021.

"One Hundred Live and Die" (1984) by Bruce Nauman

Calder NOW, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2021-2022
The American sculptor Alexander Calder (1868 - 1976) was fascinated by movement and added dynamism to the previously static art of sculpture. The progressive and experimental nature of his work has had a major influence on the development of the visual arts and was and is an inspiration for contemporaries and subsequent generations. In collaboration with the Calder Foundation, the Kunsthal is organising an exhibition entitled Calder NOW, focusing on Calder's influence on contemporary art. Around 25 of Alexander Calder's works are being exhibited alongside works by ten leading artists who have been inspired by him, including Olafur Eliasson, Ernesto Neto, Sarah Sze, Roman Signer and Carsten Nicolai.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 50,000 towards this exhibition, which will open 20 November 2021 and run until 29 May 2022.

See also: Other projects in Netherlands

Calder NOW, Kunsthal Rotterdam

"Negative Beauty", FOAM, Amsterdam, 2021-2022
In autumn 2020 FOAM is organising an exhibition on the origins, function and value of photographic negatives. In recent decades digitisation has brought an end to the era of 'old-fashioned' photography, with final prints based on negatives. In the Negative Beauty exhibition, negatives are presented as exceptional objects with their own intrinsic value. Unique nineteenth-century negatives are combined with material from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 40,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen in 2021.

Kiki drinking, 1922 ©Man Ray, Gilman Collection

Candlelight, Museum Gouda, 2021-2022
Museum Gouda curates the historical collection of the mediaeval town of Gouda, a town famous for Gouda cheese and Gouda pottery. Since the Stearine Candle Factory opened in 1853, Gouda has also been a candle manufacturer. 'Candle Town Gouda' is the title of Museum Gouda's exhibition on the phenomenon of candlelight in painting. The museum has selected over forty paintings from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in which artists have used candlelight, for example, to enhance the drama, and emphasise depth and the effect of shadow. Around fourteen paintings are from international collections. Most of these foreign loans have not be exhibited in the Netherlands for a long time or ever before.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 20,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 13 November 2021 and 10 April 2021.

"The mocking of Christ" (ca. 1614), Gerard van Honthorst

John Constable, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2020-2021
Teylers Museum is organising the first retrospective on the English landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837), who was a member of the Romantic school and was ground breaking in his realistic portrayal of landscapes and cloudy skies. He was heavily influenced by the seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch masters and the realistic way in which Jacob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt and Rubens portrayed landscapes. An impressive 90 of Constable's works - paintings, watercolours and sketches - from international collections are being used to give an overview of his artistic development and the influence of Dutch masters on his work.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 40,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 19 September 2020 and 27 June 2021.

"A Boat Passing a Lock" (1926) by John Constable

'Frida Kahlo. Viva la Frida - Life and art of Frida Kahlo', Drents Museum, 2021-2022
In 2020 the Drents Museum is organising the largest project in the museum's history: an exhibition on Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Kahlo's predominantly autobiographical work is classified as magical realism and is characterised by her use of bright colours and Mexican folklore motifs. About 145 works from two Mexican collections - paintings and drawings from Museo Dolores Olmedo and personal objects from Museo Frida Kahlo - give an overview of Frida Kahlo's life and work. The works from the aforementioned collections have never been exhibited together before and most of Kahlo's works have never been seen in the Netherlands. This makes the exhibition a first in all respects.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €75,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 10 October 2021 and 27 March 2022.

Viva la Frida - Life and art of Frida Kahlo, Drents Museum

'Willem van de Velde: Father & Son', Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam, 2021-2022
From October 2020 the National Maritime Museum is presenting an exhibition on Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611-1693) and his son Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707). The pair worked together for forty years in a thriving and international family studio and set the tone in seascape painting in the seventeenth century. Willem van de Velde the Elder was expert at detailed pen paintings and Willem van de Velde the Younger excelled in the production of oil paintings. The overview will consist of around 40 paintings and 35 drawings by the two Van de Veldes (mostly from foreign collections), varying from small sketches to monumental naval battles and supplemented with, among other things, model ships and a special tapestry.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €40,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 1 October 2021 and 27 March 2022.

The Battle of Livorno (detail), Willem van de Velde de Oude (1610-1693)

'In the light of Cuyp. Aelbert Cuyp & Gainsborough - Constable - Turner', Dordrechts Museum, 2021-2022
The landscape painter Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) lived and worked for his entire life in the town of Dordrecht. During his life his work was sold predominantly in and around Dordrecht, but in the mid-eighteenth century his art was discovered by English art collectors, resulting in 'Cuyp mania'. Aelbert Cuyp's work had a major impact on English landscape painters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Painters such as Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner particularly admired his work. The Dordrechts Museum is marking the 400th centenary of the artist's birth with an ambitious exhibition on Aelbert Cuyp's influence on English landscape painting. 35 of Cuyp's paintings and an equal number of his successors' paintings from foreign (mainly British) collections will be coming to Dordrecht.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 40,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between 3 October 2021 and 6 March 2022.

Gezicht op Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp, Kenwood House, Londen

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Classical music

'The Residents', music education for children aged eight to twelve, 2022-2025
The Residents is the Residentie Orkest's prime educational project for children aged between eight and twelve. Every year, hundreds of children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in The Hague are given the opportunity to develop themselves and broaden their horizons through music. The project involves eight primary schools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in The Hague and covers a period of four years. Children are acquainted with music, learn to play an instrument, have weekly music lessons, practice at school and play together in an orchestra. In addition, they can take part in Stadsorkest The Residence orchestra in which children from all parts of The Hague make music together after school every week. Over the coming years The Residents will concentrate on further growth in the number of schools and in the Stadsorkest. The Residents Academy is also being intensified and expanded for secondary school pupils who would like to play their instrument in an orchestra but have (often financial) difficulty doing regular music lessons or joining a youth orchestra

The Turing Foundation is contributing a total of € 75,000 over three years towards this musical education project for the academic years 2022-2023 to 2024-2025.

The Residents, educatie voor kinderen van groep 5 t/m 8

Het Leerorkest, 2023-2025
The Leerorkest (founded in 2005) wants to give as many children as possible the opportunity of discovering how much fun it is to play an instrument and make music together. They do so by giving primary school pupils weekly music lessons, given by professional music teachers. The children are acquainted with (classical) music, learn to play a musical instrument and can participate in after-school talent orchestras and follow-up programmes at secondary school. Some 5,000 children in Amsterdam are taking part in more than 30 Leerorkest orchestras. They are loaned their instrument for free from the National Leerorkest Instrument Depot, which was set up by the Leerorkest and manages some 8,000 musical instruments.

The successful Leerorkest concept is being expanded around the Netherlands in the coming years. The aim is to come to a well-structured organisation, operating across the country, that links, renews and supports a network of music organisations for children with knowledge and instruments. The focus is on children growing up in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

The Turing Foundation is contributing a total of € 60,000 over three years towards upscaling the Leerorkest into the Leerorkest Nederland.

Het Leerorkest

'Classic Express', Prinses Christina Concours, 2023
The Princess Christina Competition (founded in 1967) aims to acquaint all children and young people in the Netherlands with (classical) music. It wants to stimulate and support their musical talent. One of the Princess Christina Competition's most appealing educational activities is the Classic Express: an extendible truck with technological features creates a real concert experience for children. In this driving concert hall primary school pupils (aged four to twelve) experience the value of music, they are inspired to make music and they experience the fun of performing. The concerts are interactive and informative. They are given by winners of the competition, whose young age means they have easy contact with the children. The Classic Express visits regular and special-needs schools throughout the Netherlands, and explicitly looks for schools in vulnerable neighbourhoods when choosing schools.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 22,000 towards the Classic Express in 2023.

A concert in the Classic Express

Pieter Roelf Youth Concert, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, 2023
The North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra has organised the Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts every year since 1999: live performances by a symphony orchestra with high-quality classical music for school children (9-12 years-old) in the three northern Dutch provinces of Friesland, Drenthe and Groningen. A total of 8,000 children visit one of the eight concert halls in the north of the Netherlands with their classes. The performance for the 2023 edition of the Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts is entitled 'Concert for Rafiq' and is about a nine-year-old girl who has to flee her country. A topical theme, conveying in an appropriate and sensitive way what it is like to live in war and to have to flee your country. The music is based on Mahler's Symphony No. 1. The concert is interactive and children take part with singing, rhythmic texts, body percussion and movement. The project also gives teaching material for five preparatory lessons in class.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 10,000 towards the youth concerts, which will be performed between 1 and 16 June 2023.

Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts

Klassifest, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 2023
Stichting Klassiekfabriek has been organising the Klassifest festival in Paradiso since 2016: a one-day festival with bite-sized classical music for a young audience between the ages of 20 and 40. Whilst many orchestras and ensembles struggle to attract this target group, Klassifest has managed to do so successfully. Its concept: all Klassifest concerts last a maximum of half an hour, the bar is open and there are no seats in the hall. The venue (the pop concert venue Paradiso) and the short concerts give the audience the opportunity to listen to various kinds of classical music and different musicians in a shorter time. After successful editions in 2017, 2018 and 2019, Klassifest was unfortunately cancelled in 2020, 2021 and 2022 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Klassifest 2023 is planned for 15 April 2023, and together with the Conservatory of Amsterdam an interesting programme has been put together, with performances by the Dutch National Opera Academy, the Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory of Amsterdam, Nieuw Amsterdams Klarinet Kwartet, Slagwerk Den Haag, violinist Merel Vercammen, the Dianto Reed Quintet, 3violas and Soheil Shayesteh.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 5,000 towards this festival, which will take place on 15 April 2023.

Klassifest, Paradiso, Amsterdam

'Choose your instrument', Prinses Christina Concours, 2023
The Princess Christina Competition (PCC) aims to acquaint all children and young people in the Netherlands with (classical) music and then stimulates and supports them so that they can develop their musical talents as much as possible. Years ago PCC developed the Choose Your Instrument (CYI) platform, which caters for the space between being inspired by music (via the project Classic Express) and the practical next step of choosing an instrument and a teacher, (optional) financing and a first music lesson. Flyers referring to the website are handed out after Classic Express sessions, but the platform is now outdated and urgently requires an update. PCC is focusing on developing an active database with thousands of accredited music teachers across the Netherlands, good search functions, information about financial support, and making CYI more user-friendly. A renewed CYI will enable PCC to better monitor and support the impact of Classic Express. PCC is also looking for strategic partnerships as the aim of CYI is to be of value to the entire sector. Other organisations involved in music education/participation (including professional orchestras) are being invited to joining CYI as a partner. With their own landing page in their own style, organisations can use CYI for useful data reports for impact monitoring and contribute towards the further development of their education projects.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 25,000 in 2022 towards the modernisation of Choose Your Instrument.

'Choose your instrument', Prinses Christina Concours, 2023

Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Bus transport to school matinees, 2022-2025
The mission of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet (NOB) is for everyone to experience the magic of opera and ballet and it welcomes visitors of all ages. The NOB focuses particularly on young people: it wants every school-going child (in both primary and secondary education) to have the opportunity to experience what it is like to be moved by a beautifully sung story or a magnificent dance experience. School matinees are an important part of the programme for primary schools: extra performances of specially selected opera and ballet productions exclusively for schools from across the Netherlands. The school matinees have proved very popular, but transport to the theatre is an organisational and financial barrier to many schools outside Amsterdam. By providing bus transport the NOB wants to offer a structural solution to this problem and reach primary school children from all over the country.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 115,800 towards bus transport to the special Dutch National Opera & Ballet school matinees, which will take place between September 2020 and June 2025.

Nationale Opera en Ballet, Busvervoer naar schoolmatinees

Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts 'Arcadia', North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, 2022
The North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra has organised the Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts every year since 1999: live concerts with high-quality classical music for school children (9-12 years-old) in the Netherlands’ three northern provinces of Friesland, Drenthe and Groningen.

The Turing Foundation is supporting the Pieter Roelf Youth Concert 2022 with a contribution of € 10,000. The COVID-19 crisis led to the postponement of the ‘Concert for Rafiq’ programme, originally planned for May and June 2020, to 2021 and then to its cancellation in 2021. Our donation is now being used for the performance ‘Arcadia’ in 2022, when the symphony orchestra can once more perform at full strength. In June 2022 Arcadia will be staged 24 times in the Netherlands’ three northern provinces.

Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts 'Concert for Rafiq', North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra

Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht, 2022
The Festival Oude Muziek ('Early Music Festival') is the biggest early music festival in the world, attracting around 65,000 visitors a year. The festival's theme in 2018 is 'The Burgundy Lifestyle'. The inspiration was historian Johan Huizinga's book Herfsttj der Middeleeuwen (The Autumn of the Middle Ages; 1918), which is being used to translate Burgundian court culture - in which Franco-Flemish polyphony blossomed, and became the model for European music - and the history of the Burgundian mentality into a prospectus for the festival.

The Turing Foundation supports Festival Oude Muziek during the pandemic 2020-2022 with € 6,000.

Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht

'Classic Express', Prinses Christina Concours, 2022
The Princess Christina Competition (founded in 1967) wants all children and young people in the Netherlands to be acquainted with (classical) music. It aims to stimulate and support their musical talent. One of the Princess Christina Competition's most appealing educational activities is the Classic Express: an extendible truck with technological gadgets which creates a real concert experience. In this mobile concert hall, primary school pupils aged four to twelve can attend a concert and be given music lessons by winners of the competition. The Classic Express visits regular and special-needs schools, and explicitly looks for schools in vulnerable neighbourhoods when choosing schools.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €20,000 towards the Classic Express activities in 2022.

A concert in the Classic Express

Het Leerorkest, 2022
The Leerorkest (founded in 2005) wants to give as many children as possible the opportunity to discover how much fun it is to play an instrument and make music together. Affiliated primary schools offer pupils a weekly music lesson, given by professional music teachers. The children are introduced to (classical) music, learn to play a musical instrument and can participate in after-school talent orchestras and follow-up programmes at secondary school. About 5,000 children in Amsterdam play a musical instrument in one of the more than 30 Leerorkests. The children are loaned an instrument for free from the National Leerorkest Instrument Depot, which was set up by the Leerorkest and manages approximately 8,000 musical instruments. Orchestras are set up in all parts of the city, but especially in neighbourhoods where extra attention is really needed.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €20,000 towards the Leerorkest's activities in 2022.

Het Leerorkest

School performances, Het Nederlands Dans Theater, 2022
The Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT, founded in 1959) is a leading international contemporary dance company based in The Hague. Every year the NDT reaches about 150,000 visitors all over the world with innovative artistic productions. Talent development and education are important cornerstones of the organisation's policies. The NDT wants to introduce children to dance as an art form, thus contributing to their social-emotional and artistic development. The NDT has developed a multidisciplinary project for children aged nine to twelve at schools in the Hague region. This project is working towards four major dance performances in February and May 2022 in the new Amare theatre in The Hague which will reach a total of approximately 3,600 children. It emphasises reaching schools in deprived areas and special-needs schools.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €20,000 towards this educational project by NDT in 2022.

See also: Other projects in Netherlands

School performances, Het Nederlands Dans Theater, 2022

Klassifest, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 2022
Stichting Klassiekfabriek has been organising Klassifest in Paradiso since 2016: a one-day festival with bite-sized classical music for a young audience between the ages of 20 and 40. Whilst many orchestras and ensembles struggle to attract this target group, Klassifest has done so successfully. Its concept: all Klassifest concerts are no longer than half an hour, the bar is open and there are no seats in the hall. The venue (a pop concert venue) and the short concerts give the audience the opportunity to listen to various kinds of classical music and different musicians in a shorter time. Klassifest 2020's theme, 'Ludwig's birthday!', marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 5,000 towards Klassifest 2021. Postponed to 2022 due to the pandemic , date as yet to be determined.

Klassifest, Paradiso, Amsterdam

Oerol Festival, Terschelling, 2020-2021
Every year the Frisian island of Terschelling is transformed into one large stage for theatre, dance, street theatre, visual art and music for ten days. The theatre performances take place on the beach, in the dunes, forest and barns, on dikes or simply in the street. The mostly innovative performances are especially made for the venues or adjusted accordingly. Since the first edition in 1982, Oerol has grown into a household name in the Netherlands, and its high-quality, newly staged work reaches a large (up to 135,000 tickets are sold a year), wide and curious audience. Oerol 2021 had to be cancelled due to the corona pandemic.

The Turing Foundation supports the Oerol Festival during the pandemic 2020-2021 with € 4,000.

Oerol Festival 2019, Terschelling

Oranjewoud Festival, Heerenveen, 2020-2021
The Oranjewoud Festival takes place every summer at the Oranjewoud estate near Heerenveen. This colourful music festival presents high-quality classical music in the most accessible and stimulating way possible. A total of 160 concerts will be performed over five days in four programme parts: a main programme, free short concerts in the 'Test Garden' at the heart of the festival, a mini-festival for children up to the age of twelve in the 'Children's Test Garden' and peripheral programming. The Oranjewoud Festival draws more than 15,000 visitors every year.

The Turing Foundation supports Oranjewoud Festival during the pandemic 2020-2021 with € 4,000.

Oranjewoud Festival 2018

String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam, 2021-2022
In 2022 the String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam, the world's biggest string quartet festival, took place in a reduced form. The continuing uncertainty about COVID-19 measures led to the cancellation of this festival. With radio broadcasts, a live stream from New York and a last-minute live concert, the Biennial's third edition - the COVID-19 edition - will probably go down in history as the most memorable edition. The Turing Foundation supported the first two editions of the Biennial in 2018 and 2020.

The Turing Foundation supported the Biennial organisation during the COVID-19 pandemic with a contribution of € 2,000.

The Impossible Voyage, String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam, 2018

Wonderfeel Festival, 's Graveland, 2021
The Wonderfeel festival has been organised on a former estate in 's-Graveland since 2015: a three-day outdoor classical music festival with the relaxed atmosphere of a pop festival. The seven Wonderfeel stages highlight various genres in classical music. More than 350 musicians will give more than 100 concerts from noon to midnight. The regular concerts are accompanied by varied peripheral programming consisting of nature excursions, pop-up concerts, literature, poetry and children's activities.

The Turing Foundation supports Oranjewoud Festival during the pandemic with € 2,000.

Wonderfeel 2019, 's Graveland

'The Residents', music education for children aged eight to twelve, 2021-2022
'The Residents' is the Residentie Orkest's prime educational project for children between the ages of eight and twelve. For ten years now, hundreds of children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in The Hague have been given the opportunity to develop and broaden their horizons through music. Children learn to play an instrument in a three-year course at primary schools. The participants are given an extensive introduction to musical instruments, visit a rehearsal by the orchestra, meet a musician and visit a performance. Then they choose 'their' instrument and are given weekly instrumental music lessons in a group by professional music teachers.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 20,000 towards this project in the 2021-2022 academic year.

The Residents, educatie voor kinderen van groep 5 t/m 8

'Welcome to the Orchestra', classical music for children aged eight to eleven, 2021-2022
Welkom bij het Orkest (Welcome to the Orchestra) introduces primary school pupils aged eight to eleven to classical music and the symphony orchestra. The programme's central theme is a weekly vlog in which presenter Pepijn Gunneweg looks for a piece of music he has heard somewhere. He gradually becomes fascinated by how this music is made and he discovers the musicians, instruments and eventually the (Netherlands Philharmonic) orchestra behind the music. Pupils prepare in class for a visit to the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra with teaching materials, songs, body percussion, conducting, musicians visiting the class and music lessons via live stream. And after five weeks they are ready for a real concert by the entire Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra at the NedPhO-Koepel in Amsterdam East.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 20,000 towards this project in the 2021-2022 academic year.

'Welcome to the Orchestra', classical music for children aged eight to eleven

'Beauty and the Beast', music education for children aged eight to twelve, 2021-2022
The Dutch Ballet Orchestra is a symphony orchestra consisting of 45 permanent musicians and is the permanent musical partner of the Dutch National Ballet and the Nederlands Dans Theater. The production Belle en het Beest (Beauty and the Beast) is the Dutch Ballet Orchestra's new structural education programme for primary school pupils aged eight to twelve. The project consists of a performance, digital teaching material and music workshops at the schools, given by Dutch Ballet Orchestra musicians and music teachers. The development phase is in autumn 2021 and the implementation phase will start in March 2022 in the Haarlem, Zaandam, Alkmaar and Utrecht regions. A total of sixteen school performances and eleven family performances are planned for 6,400 primary students and 7,300 other visitors over two seasons.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 20,000 towards this educational project in the 2021-2022 academic year. The contribution is earmarked for the development phase.

'Beauty and the Beast', music education for children aged eight to twelve

Het Grachtenfestival (The Canal Festival), Amsterdam en omstreken, 2021
The Grachtenfestival, founded in 1998, is a ten-day festival with classical music at special locations in Amsterdam, with performances that are free or have a low admission price. No fewer than 265 concerts are being organised this year at 100 different venues, both in the centre of Amsterdam and in North, New West, on the IJ, at the Zuidas and beyond the ring road. The Grachtenfestival is performing more and more in districts outside the centre of Amsterdam to reach a larger and more diverse audience. In addition to the festival's popularity amongst the general public, the Grachtenfestival is an important stage and springboard for young and talented musicians.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 15,000 towards this festival, which will be from 13 to 22 August 2021.

Het Grachtenfestival (The Canal Festival), Amsterdam

School performances of Circus Charms Music Theatre Production, 2020-2022
Frank and René Groothof return to the theatre with the project 'Circus Charms', a music theatre production based on the stories, plays and poems of Russia's greatest absurdist writer Daniil Charms (1905-1942). Charms' work has been adapted into a performance consisting of a mix of circus, storytelling, brothers' quarrels and film. The common thread is classical music: the ensemble SeaSession is performing chamber music by unknown avant-garde Soviet composers from the 1920s - Alexei Zhivotov, Alexander Mosolov, Arno Babajanian, Vladimir Deshyevov and Leonid Polovinkin - contemporaries of Charms. A total of eleven family performances and six school performances are being performed.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €15,000 towards this project, which will take place between 19 September and 29 December 2020. The contribution is earmarked for the school performances.

School performances of the Circus Charms music theatre production

Pärt Festival, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, 2022
Muziekgebouw aan' t IJ is honouring composer Arvo Pärt (Estonia, 1935) with a festival presenting an overview of his oeuvre. Pärt composed sacred minimalist compositions with emotion and warmth unprecedented in this style. Works such as Tabula Rasa (1977) and Passio (1982) have been taken up by a wide and diverse audience. The festival programme has a total of ten concerts performed by top musicians such as trombone player Jörgen van Rijen, pianist Ralph van Raat, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Capella Amsterdam and the Cello Octet Amsterdam. Extensive peripheral programming provides context, there are introductory concerts for children and young people, and media partner NPO Radio 4 will broadcast live throughout the festival.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 10,000 towards this festival, which can be seen between 23 and 27 March 2022.

Pärt Festival, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam

Wonderfeel Festival, 's Graveland, 2020-2021
The Wonderfeel festival has been organised on a former estate in 's-Graveland since 2015: a three-day outdoor classical music festival with the relaxed atmosphere of a pop festival. The seven Wonderfeel stages highlight various genres in classical music. More than 350 musicians will give more than 100 concerts from noon to midnight. The regular concerts are accompanied by varied peripheral programming consisting of nature excursions, pop-up concerts, literature, poetry and children's activities.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 10,000 towards Wonderfeel 2021, which will be from 16 to 18 July 2021.

Wonderfeel 2019, 's Graveland

Mahler Festival 2021, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 2021
The Concertgebouw intends to organise another large-scale Mahler Festival in 2020, 100 years after the first edition. Over the space of ten days, all of Mahler's symphonies will be performed in the Main Hall by the world's most famous orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. A Mahler Pavilion will be assembled on the Museumplein in front of the Concertgebouw so as many people as possible can enjoy the festival. During the day there will be lunch concerts, lectures and educational activities in the Pavilion. The evening concerts in the Main Hall will be screened in the Pavilion through a video and audio link.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 15,000 towards this festival. This contribution has been earmarked for the programming in the Mahler Pavilion.

See also: Other projects in Netherlands

Mahler Festival 2021, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

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Poetry

In the past, the Turing Foundation also supported poetry projects.
As of 2022, the foundation concentrates on the visual arts and music education.

The first anthology of Dutch poetry, 100 poems from the Netherlands from 1945 to now, Querido, 2021-2022
Tsead Bruinja, Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2021, has compiled an anthology consisting of 100 poems in 'all languages in the Netherlands'. As well as poems in Dutch, poems in regional languages and dialects are also included in the collection, as are poems in immigrants' mother tongues. The poems include a translation into Dutch. Bruinja wants this anthology to give an inclusive impression of Dutch poetry. He has not tried to make a definitive selection but wants to make a good start with a new way of looking at what 'Dutch' literature is, which includes Remco Campert, Tjitske Jansen and Radna Fabias, but also Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Jan Glas and Nydia Ecury, as well as Mowaffk Al-Sawad and Mia You. Querido will publish the anthology during Poetry Week 2022, at the end of January 2022.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 5,000 towards this anthology in 2021.

See also: Other projects in Netherlands

The first anthology of Dutch poetry, 100 poems from the Netherlands from 1945 to now

The Twelfth Poetry Contest 2020-2021
The Turing Poetry Contest was organised between 2009 and 2018 by the Turing Foundation and the Poetry Club. The Poetry Club continued the competition in 2019 with a new name, The Poetry Contest, and made it part of Prijs de Poëzie, a broad new initiative for poetry prizes. The contest is being followed up in 2020 with the same approach: registration is anonymous, everyone is free to participate and the main prize is a grand €10,000.

The Turing Foundation is donating the prize money for the twelfth edition of the Poetry Competition, a total of €14,500.

The Twelfth Poetry Competition

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