Cultural area

Downstairs you see CASE, Contemporary Art & Special Exhibitions, up there my livingroom and to the left the kitchen. On the attic my sleepingroom, guestroom and shower. You can't see my roof-terrace on this photo. Left of this house you can see my garage.

Besides CASE there are two more art galleries in the neighbourhood: Galerie Rob de Vries, with two spaces now, and Galerie Tanya Rumpff. And Teylers Museum is less than a hundred steps away from here. So, I live in the middle of Haarlem's cultural area.

Burgwal 2
NL 2011 BD Haarlem
tel: +31 (0)23 5361480

CASE shows mainly young national and international artists.
The galleryspace is for rent for special projects.

Untill november 8, 1997 on view PAINTINGS II with works by:

John Nixon
Jan van der Ploeg
Machiel van Soest

On the photo you can see the mural 'One Room, 4 Icons' by Jan van der Ploeg, as installed in Galerie Y-Burg, Vrieshuis Amerika, in Amsterdam.

In stock (by appointment) works by: Christo, J. Kounellis, R. Long, Lucassen, R. Motherwell, J vd Ploeg, G. Richter, C. Visser, A. Warhol, a.o.

Soon the project 'Transatlantic' will show here. November 18 - December 3 it first is to be seen in London (Incubator) and December 5 - 14 in Stockholm (Konstakuten).
More information on various special art projects can be found at the nmp international network website where you can also find more info on the project Transatlantic.

Koolsteeg 2 a
NL 2011 BJ Haarlem
tel/fax: +31 (0)23 5331203

Galerie Rob de Vries shows works by a permanent group of Dutch artists and incidentally by guest artists, with an accent on drawings, sculpture and photography.
Permanent artists: Roel Achterberg, Marlies Appel, Armando, Fons Brasser, Helen Frik, Pieter & Abby Heynen, Arno Kramer, Mariëtte Linders, Lon Robbé, Pascale Ticheler, Piet Tuytel.
Guests (1997): Willem Sanders, Joseph Semah.

Through october: 'Mix', a groupshow, with works by Armando (see photo) a.o.

Spaarnwouderstraat 47
NL 2011 AE Haarlem
tel: +31 (0)23 5359565

Galerie Tanya Rumpff shows national and international contemporary art to the own personal preference of the gallery owner.
(Installations, drawings, paintings, sculpture)

Untill july 20 paintings and drawings by Hannah Bart (see photos).
(information not recently updated)

Spaarne 16
NL 2011 CH Haarlem
tel: +31 (0)23 5319010

The Teylers Museum is the first museum I ever went to, on my bike, together with my older sister. It is not only the oldest museum of the Netherlands (1784) it's also one of the nicest. The museum has both science and art in the collection.
The first time I went there I still got my blue bike, so I must have been 9 or 10. I still remember the showcases with fossiles, the electrostatic generator (the largest in the world) and a big disk reflecting sound in such a way that you could hear someone whispering at the other side of the immense room. The atmosphere in the building took me, and will take you, 200 years or more back in time.

These days I mainly go to see the drawings and prints. Michelangelo and Rembrandt are present in the collection but also contemporary artists like Armando, Fons Brasser, Otto Egberts, Helen Frik, Mariëtte Linders, Piet Tuytel.
In the museums new wing you can see a lot of very interesting exhibitions. A special exhibition about the electrostatic generator is absolutely worth a visit and can be seen untill november 30.
Also untill november 30 'Dutch Drawings 1910 - 1950'.
Forthcoming: Rembrandt and his school (drawings), 13 dec - 15 feb.

The Teylers Museum was the first Dutch museum with its own internet site.