Fall Opening Weekend with Amsterdam Art:
- Friday 13 September, 17:00-21:00 – Opening & Toast at TMH
- Saturday 14 September, 12:00-18:00 – Special opening hours
Grounding this exhibition is the anniversary reprint of the catalogue published by TMH for the Jan Schoonhoven / Henk Peeters exhibition in its first season (2013/14). Now, we return to a selection of works from this highlight of our program, including an extraordinary group of Schoonhoven’s drawings that Peeters collected under the title “21 of the Most Beautiful Drawings” and several masterworks from Peeters’s hand. As Marsha Plotnitsky, Founding Artistic Director of TMH, writes in the catalogue that opens our new series of publications Consequences I-V:
Jan Schoonhoven (1914-1994) and Henk Peeters (1925-2013) were the founding members of the NUL group—a 1960s collective of Dutch artists that played a key role in the international ZERO movement. […] It became clear in hindsight that the project, the exhibition and catalogue [on Schoonhoven and Peeters], played a crucial role in identifying the patterns of the TMH program—of intended and unexpected consequences.
TMH opened in October 2013, situating itself in a 17th-century canal house in Amsterdam. The setting combines a minimalist gallery space, with large windows opening to the street, and a Baroque period room (stijlkamer) in the back still marked by its pièce de résistance—a remarkable ceiling painting of the goddess Flora and her putti. […] The TMH show counterposed Peeters’s works to Schoonhoven’s drawings, and the combination—both in light of Peeters’s ironic and sensual, rather than minimal, approach to NUL and the context defined by TMH’s architecture—created an agglomeration in which minimalism seemed contested by baroque-like irreverence and humor.
