Galery Waalkens

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Galery Waalkens
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Galery Waalkens in Finsterwolde designed by Gunnar Daan (2008).
OriginsFounded in 1962
Key people
 Albert Waalkens (founders)

Galery Waalkens is a Dutch art gallery for the international avant-garde in Finsterwolde founded by Albert Waalkens in 1962. [1] [2]

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Finsterwolde is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen, about 7 km northeast of the city of Winschoten. Finsterwolde was a separate municipality until 1990, when it was merged with Beerta into Reiderland. In 2010 Reiderland merged into the municipality Oldambt. The old municipality of Finsterwolde included six small nearby or connecting settlements. These are also taken into account in the population estimate of 2008, without which the actual population, purely based on the centre and new developments, would be 1250. The village is known for the Galery Waalkens.

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History

The art gallery had started by Albert Waalkens in the stable of his farm in 1962, where artists and their families mainly from the Randstad could also shelter. The gallery offered a podium for young experimental artists. The gallery came into prominence with some sculpture exhibitions along the public road. It started in ten statues in 1963 around the village of Finsterwolde, and evolved the 1967 exhibition along the public road with 200 sculptures by 63 artists. This exhibition stretched from the city of Groningen to the east of the province. [2]

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In 1984 Gunnar Daan come into prominence with an exhibition at the gallery. [3] In 2008 he made the design for the new building of the gallery.

In 1988 the art curator Poul ter Hofstede in cooperation with the Groninger Museum published a retrospective on the gallery with a chronological listing of the exhibitions. [4] In the year 2000 Waalkens was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts for his stimulating attitude towards artists.

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In the new millennium the son and former PvdA member of parliament Harm Evert Waalkens continued the gallery, and by 2014 his daughter Merel and her husband continued the tradition. [5] In 2017 the Stichting Beeldlijn completed a new documentary about the gallery and visual art in Groningen, entitled Boer tussen kunst en koren. [6]

Exhibitions, a selection

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Publications

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References

  1. ↑ Eigen huis en interieur, Volume 21, Nummers 7-12, 1988. p. 71.
  2. 1 2 "Galeriehouder Albert Waalkens overleden," De Telegraaf, 4 april 2007. (Internet Archive)
  3. 1 2 Hans Oldewarris, Peter de Winter, 20 Years 010. 2003. p. 219.
  4. ↑ Ter Hofstede (1988).
  5. ↑ Jan Schuurman Hess. Voettocht naar het hart van het land. 2014. p. 97.
  6. ↑ Joep van Ruiten. "Terug naar de tijd van Galerie Waalkens," Dagblad van het Noorden. 13 juni 2017.
  7. ↑ De Kampioen, jul. 1963. p. 417
  8. ↑ Ons erfdeel, Volume 49. 2006. p. 668.
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