Updated December 2008

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New website
For a first impression see: www.fvandenbosch.nl/new/
 
Out of the Box Symposium
Organised by the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation, in cooperation with Ted Noten and Gert Staal.
Date: January 11th 2009, 1 - 5 pm. (museum open: 12 am)
Place: SM-s, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch.
Language: English

The symposium is the finnisage of the exhibition Tedwalk. During the tea break you will have the opportunity to watch the show (again). The symposium deals with the question how jewellery can find a broader and different public. Ted Noten is an example of an artist who is very successful with this. What kind of strategies are possible: should we place our hope in artfairs (PAN, Tefaf), or auctions (Damien Hirst showed us the way, and some designers as well, but how many artists are actually capable of matching that, and should jewellery go this way), or do we need to develop more initiatives outside the museum, gallery, fair, and how do we do that? And who is thinking about good serial jewellery, fashion jewellery, accessories, who is looking for cooperation with fashion houses, other disciplines, fine artists, designers?

Program:
- Liesbeth den Besten, introduction Liesbeth den Besten is the chairwoman of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation.
- Gert Staal interviews Jeu van Sint Fiet Gert Staal is a critic, writer and teacher specialised in design, he is the author of Ted Noten’s monograph (2006). Jeu van Sint Fiet is a general practitioner based in Maastricht, and a collector of art.
- Susan Pietzsch, “Schmuck2 – adding to, subtracting from, and multiplying jewellery” Susan Pietzsch is jeweller and through Schmuck2 (founded in 1997) she organises interdisciplinary exhibitions and projects.
- James Beighton, “Outside-In: from gallery to street and back again” James Beighton is Curator of Craft, mima – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
- Short presentations by a group of students from the jewellery department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
- Discussion with the speakers and the audience, moderated by Gert Staal.

After the symposium there will be a drink at the restaurant Punt.NL.

 
Prize-giving ceremony 2008
On the 23rd of November, TED NOTEN received the Françoise van den Bosch Award 2008 in the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch where a crowd of people gathered to attend this event.

It was followed by a beautiful and spectacular catwalk show, organised in cooperation with students of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute, featuring Ted Noten's jewels and objects.  This show 'Tedwalk' will run till the 11th of January 2009. 
 
For images, and a registration of the catwalkshow see: www.tednoten.com
 
Out of the Box Symposium
On January 11, 2009, the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation, in cooperation with Ted Noten and Gert Staal, organises a symposium 'Out of the Box', about the future of contemporary jewellery.
Place: SM-s, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch.
Guests: Susan Pietzsch (D), James Beighton (UK), Gert Staal.
Language: English
Everybody is welcome.
More information follows.
 
 
Françoise van den Bosch Award 2008 for TED NOTEN
The jury, Karl Fritsch (recipient Françoise van den Bosch Award 2006), James Beighton (mima Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Lous Martin (maker, Gallery Lous Martin, Delft), Chequita Nahar (maker, head of jewellery and product department Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht) and Miecke Oosterman (on behalf of the board of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation), decided to award Ted Noten with the Françoise van den Bosch Award 2008. 
 
Ted Noten (Tegelen NL 1956) has been working as a designer of jewellery, objects and installations since 1990. With his jewellery projects Ted Noten succeeds to reach a broad and international audience, and besides that he has acquired recognition in the world of design and fine arts. Last year, as the result of his own initiative, he realized a solo exhibition in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam) and a publication CH2=C(CH3)C(=O0OCH3 enclosures and other TN's (published by 010, Rotterdam).
Ted Noten holds an International Research Fellowship at Birmingham City University (formerly University of Central England).
 
Weekend for friends of the foundation
In the weekend of 20 and 21 October the foundation organised a special weekend for friends and potential friends in a private house in Amsterdam.
In cooperation with the Stedelijk Museum and the family of Françoise, the foundation could realise a presentation of jewellery of Françoise and recent aquisitions by the foundation. Showcased was jewellery by the last five recipients of the Françoise van den Bosch Award, and Young Talent from Germany, Australia, Finland, Spain and Japan. Some 35 pieces in all.
 
Want to become a friend? 

for more information please contact:

info@fvandenbosch.nl   or  liesbeth@denbesten.demon.nl

 

 

Young Talent 2007: Japan

Two members of the board of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation, Manon van Kouswijk and Suska Mackert, engaged in teaching at the Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry, Tokyo, for five weeks, have advised the board to buy jewellery from five young Japanese jewellers:

Jiro Kamata, 'Sunny Ring', 2005 (gold, lens)
Yutaca Minegishi, brooch 'Ant's Queen', 2005 (freshwater pearls, gold, plastic)
Mikiko Minewaki, chain 'Plachain', 2003 (plastic)
Yuka Oyama, photo 'Schmuck Quicky', 2003
Masao Takahashi, brooch 'Samurai Sword', 2005 (steel)

After buying jewellery from Dutch, German, Australian, Finnish and Spanish artists, it was the sixth time that we focused on young jewellers. Young Talent was started in 1999 as a counterpart to the Françoise van den Bosch Award, which is meant as a recognition to a renowned artist. In this way the Foundation aims at supporting and stimulating young, promising artists at the start of their carreer.

OTHER NEWS:

 

Philip Sajet
April 15th, in Nijmegen, the Marzee Prize 2007 was awarded to Philip Sajet (1953) for his body of work. The prize is awarded annually by gallery director Marie-José van den Hout.

In memoriam Chris Steenbergen
On March 12th this year Chris Steenbergen passed away at the age of 87. Chris Steenbergen was one of the predecessors of the new jewellery in Holland after World War II. Steenbergen was born in 1920 in Amsterdam, where he studied at the Institute for Applied Arts. After the war he set up his own studio in Amsterdam as an independent gold and silversmith. Chris Steenbergen made silverware and jewellery. In the nineteen fifties  he was influenced by the sculpture of  Antoine Pevsner, Henry Moore en Naum Gabo. Since the nineteen sixties his jewels became voluminous. The solid simplicity and clearness were inspired by the form principles of the abstract constructivism. Steenbergen always preferred pure forms in silver, gold and combinations of these; sometimes he applied coloured Perspex. Chris Steenbergen build up a professional studio in a period in which materials were scarce and circumstances were difficult. His work was showcased on several occasions in group exhibitions. In 1985 an overview of his work was shown in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, a catalogue accompanied the exhibition. He was still active as a jeweller at an advanced age. In the year 2000 he received the prestigious Oeuvre Award of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture and on the occasion of this a publication appeared.

OLD NEWS:
 
Françoise van den Bosch Award 2006:
The Françoise van den Bosch Award 2006 has been officially presented to Karl Fritsch in the Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch (SM’s) on Sunday January 21 2007.
 
The jury included: Robert Smit, Suska Mackert, Jan Walgrave, Monica Gaspar and Ida van Zijl.
 
Karl Fritsch (Sonthofen, 1963) studied first in Pforzheim and later in Munich where he currently lives and works. Karl Fritsch belongs to a younger generation of jewellery artists. His work is cutting edge, teasing old and new conventions in jewellery, and has received international recognition from the start of his career. In recent years his jewellery has increasingly became more and more spectacular and colourful. 
 
The Award involves an amount of money (5000 euro) and the acquisition of a piece of jewellery by the award winner, which will be added to the Françoise van den Bosch Collection in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.


karl fritsch
Ring, 2006
White gold, aquamarine, glass, rubelith, amethyst 







Ring, 2000
Oxidised silver, emerals, ruby, saphire, diamond 




 
The Foundation acquired two rings of Karl Fritsch. The first one, dating from 2000, is composed of oxidysed silver and several small stones, diamond, emerald and ruby. The other ring, made in 2006, illustrates Fritsch's
recent development. The mat white gold setting is drilled with holes from different angles. The setting is mounted with coloured facetted stones, aquamarine, glass, rubelith and amethyst, which are glued together.
 
 
exhibition Karl Fritsch:
An overview of Karl Fritsch' jewellery, entitled "Metrosideros Robusta" which started in the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, is now in tour in Europe.
 
Because of the Award, Darling Publications in Cologne & New York, published two books about Karl Fritsch:
"Metrosideros Robusta" (444 pages, 1093 photos, Price: € 69,90)
"The Baby Brick" (864 pages, limited edition of 250 in different hand made qualities, price: € 110,-)

 

Françoise van den Bosch Prize 2004
On November 4th, 2004, the Françoise van den Bosch Prize 2004 was presented to ROBERT SMIT, at the Stedelijk Museum CS in Amsterdam.
The foundation acquired a work by Robert Smit, the brooch “Bottle in Landscape”, gold, silver, led, paint, 128 x 125 x 7 mm, 2003.

Bottle in Landscape

Jury Report

Young talent 2005
The Françoise van den Bosch Foundation asked Mònica Gaspar, art historian, writer and curator in Barcelona, to propose some young Spanish talents . Her proposals were all adopted. The foundation acquired jewellery by Marc Monzó (Barcelona, 1973), Blanca Sánchez (Miranda de Ebro, 1974), Gemaa Draper (Barcelona, 1971) and Xavier Ines Monclús (Barcelona, 1966).

Archive:
Presentation of Françoise van den Bosch Prijs 2004 to Robert Smit
Speech prof. Dr. Tilman
Acquisitions Young Talent from Finland
photo's exhibition warwick freeman
warwick freeman at th the tropen museum
Jury report Warwick Freeman
Introduction Liesbeth den Besten, part one and part two
Françoise van den Bosch Prize presented to Warwick Freeman

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