Lucile Desamory & Lucy McKenzie

The first collaboration between Lucy McKenzie and Lucile Desamory was a pop-up birthday card that they made for a mutual friend. This marked the start of many other collaborations, including Untitled (2007).

The installation was made for an exhibition at art centre STUK in Louvain. McKenzie and Desamory built a tailor-made diorama for the old building of STUK, which drew attention to a small isolated room. They worked with the peculiarities of the architecture and the historic layers of the building. For this, McKenzie and Desamory let themselves be inspired by the visual language of shop windows, stage sets, educa- tional dioramas and interior design. In the installation, they transform the physical space with flat, life-sized figures and trompe l’oeil elements, which distort their surroundings.

Double Plus Good

Curators
  • Heske ten Cate
  • Laurie Cluitmans
In collaboration with
  • Aveline de Bruin

The group exhibition Double Plus Good presents artworks that are the result of one-off collaborations between artists. The artists in this exhibition take the vulnerable step to open up their practice to other makers, and explore each other’s world of thinking through paper, films and installations. What drives artists to engage in occasional or long-term collaboration with other makers or thinkers?

Double Plus Good includes collaborations between teachers and (former) students, between lovers and loners, between different generations and artists with a shared history. Together they enter a conversation with each other in their work, challenge each other to take the next step or to delve deeper into their matter.

The exhibition is a follow-up to ‘Collaborations’, an exhibition that Aveline de Bruin, of the Collection de Bruin-Heijn, previously showed in the Portuguese Quetzal Art Center and is being further developed and curated with her, curator contemporary art Centraal Museum Laurie Cluitmans and artistic director of Nest Heske ten Cate.

Read the introduction ‘Collaboration creates community‘ that Heske ten Cate wrote for the exhibition and her reflection on a period of intensive collaborations at Nest, as well as the essay ‘Nothing makes itself‘ by Laurie Cluitmans. Everything about the exhibition and the artists can be read here.

Collectie de Bruin-Heijn
The collection of Cees and Inge de Bruin-Heijn grew into one of the largest private collections in the Netherlands. The De Bruin-Heijn collection is managed by their daughter Aveline de Bruin, and in 2016 the family opened their own exhibition space for contemporary art: Quetzal Art Center in Vidigueira, Portugal.

Sponsors
  • Mondriaan Fonds
  • Stroom Den Haag
  • Gemeente Den Haag