Oog voor kunst. De kunstwereld in Nederland

Artists, exhibitions and the institutions surrounding them form the subject of these documentary photographs of the Dutch art world. The project looks beyond openings and receptions to the committees, juries and artists’ collectives involved in producing and supporting art. It also considers artists working outside official circuits. Commissioned by the Rijksmuseum for its Department of Dutch History, the photographic project responded to the abolition of the BKR, a scheme that had provided artists with income in exchange for their work. The photographs document an art world changing as cultural policy shifted its emphasis from artists to art. This publication brings together the work of three photographers, with a text by Ursula den Tex, linking portraits and institutional settings within that wider social context.