With a direct acknowledgement from the museum world from the mid-nineties, David Bade has combined his autonomous work with a more socially-oriented direction that standardised aspects like participation, inclusion and collaborating on grand installations and environments with people of all walks of life.
For his project “Storage for Distorted Matter” (2008 – ongoing), Loek Grootjans is collecting almost anything, bottles with samples of the great masters, his own filth, the ground Vincent van Gogh was born on, 21st-century masterpieces that cannot be made, the water that people washed up in on the Vlieland shore, the light Piet Mondrian first saw when he entered Domburg…