Exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Mad About Surrealism Rotterdam, Netherlands

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Exhibition, NL

Exhibition Mad About Surrealism in Holland design by MAXWAN architects + urbanists

18 Apr 2017

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Exhibition, Rotterdam

Design: MAXWAN architects + urbanists

Exhibition design for the international exhibition Mad About Surrealism

Maxwan exhibition design
GEK VAN SURREALISME | MAD ABOUT SURREALISM

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
11.02.2017 – 28.05.2017

photographs © Artur Borejszo

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, presents ‘Mad About Surrealism’ with over 300 surrealistic works from Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, Miró and others.

Photos below © Lotte Stekelenburg

Most of the works have rarely ever been exhibited and some of them might never be on display again.

The exhibition showcases the collections of four renowned surrealism collectors: Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch.

The exhibition is the third Maxwan designed ‘blockbuster’ exhibition in the Boymans’ main exhibition space, the Bodon Hall.

The key ingredient in the design is a newly built central room with a zeppelin-like shape.

The bright interior of the zeppelin hosts eight themes – Dali’s paranoia, Fabulous women etc. – composed of works from all four collections.

By its size and position the zeppelin divides the Bodon Hall into four quadrants – one for each collector.

The skin of the zeppelin is a highly reflective gray that surrealistically reflects light, artworks and visitors of the collection rooms.

Mad About Surrealism Exhibition – Information

City: Rotterdam
Country: Netherlands
Client: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Program: Exhibition design for 300 artworks about surrealism and introduction space
Total floor area: 2500 m²
Start of project: 2016-11
End of project: 2017-01
End of construction: 2017-02

Partner in charge: Hiroki Matsuura, Rients Dijkstra
Team leader: Giulia Sarah Bacci

Team: Gabriella Georgakaki, Artur Borejszo, Aleksandar Hrib, Valentina Chiappa Nunez

Photographer: Lotte Stekelenburg, Artur Borejszo

Dutch Museum Exhibition ‘Mad About Surrealism’ images / information from MAXWAN architects + urbanists

MAXWAN architects + urbanists

Address: Museumpark 18, 3015 CX Rotterdam, Netherlands
Phone: +31 10 441 9400

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands, north western Europe

10 + 9 Mar 2014

Collection Building Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Design: MVRDV
Public Art Depot

picture from architects practice
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
Design: MVRDV architects

Aerial photograph of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen © Ossip van Duivenbode
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen