Exhibition and film Tent Project Kröller-Müller Museum
The Kröller-Müller Museum has a world-renowned collection of mainly 19th and 20th century visual art. Our centerpieces include the large collection of work by Vincent van Gogh and the sculpture garden. The Kröller-Müller Museum is located in National Park The Hoge Veluwe, Otterlo, The Netherlands.
A small exhibition and a short film organised and produced as part of research into conservation strategies for the Tent project (1975) from Cornelius Rogge (1932) aims to shed light on the ethical dilemmas that the museum has to deal with. The Tent project is an interesting artwork with regard to conservation issues. The work consists of several tent-like structures that are on permanent display in the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum. They are made of tent cloth and ropes, amongst other things; vulnerable materials that are actually not suitable for a long-term presentation, especially in the Dutch outdoor climate. The history of the work illustrates this. In 1975 it was first placed in the sculpture garden and after numerous conservation treatments as a result of continuous decay, the work was finally dismantled in the early 1990’s. Around the year 2000 the Tent project was reconstructed on the basis of the original 1:10 scale model. This time, new and more durable materials were used to lengthen the functioning life of Tent project as part of the permanent collection of the museum.
Photo: Cornelius Rogge, Tent project (1975) in the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum (photo: Walter Herfst)
The exhibition and an explanatory film have been created within the project PRACTICs of Contemporary Art: the Future (2009-2011) with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union to raise awareness by a broader audience of the dilemmas in the field of conservation of contemporary art.
Project coordination: Evelyne Snijders and Sanneke Stigter
Duration: Aug 1, 2010 - Jul 31, 2011
Download the exhibition text:
Exhibition room text Tent Project KMM
For more information see the KMM website:
http://www.kmm.nl/research-project/2/25/Tent-project-Cornelius-Rogge