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'Amsterdam’s most iconic gallery' – Fons Hof in Het Parool

> Significant contribution to the history of the Dutch gallery world
> Portrait of an gallery in a changing art landscape
> Includes interviews with and essays by, among others, Hans den Hartog Jager, Louise Schouwenberg, Sjeng Scheijen, Laurie Cluitmans and Marsha Bruinen
> Book launch Sunday 25th of May during Amsterdam Art Week

For forty years, Galerie Fons Welters has been one of the best art galleries in the Netherlands. In the early 1980s, when galleries started shooting up all over the place, Fons Welters quickly forged his own unique position out of nothing. After initially concentrating on sculpture, he gradually extended his gallery presentations to include installations and painting. Artists could always approach him with ideas that would have met with little response in other quarters. One such was Job Koelewijn, whom Welters allowed to demolish the entire rear wall of the gallery for his solo show, The World is My Oyster (1996). Artists ranging from Joep van Lieshout to Magali Reus, from Tom Claassen to Evelyn Taocheng Wang and from Femmy Otten to Adriano Amaral have found a platform for their artistic development at Galerie Fons Welters.

authors / editors

Marsha Bruinen, Laurie Cluitmans, Lia Gieling, Aggie Langedijk (ed.), Louise Schouwenberg, Hans den Hartog Jager, Sjeng Scheijen, Wilma Süto, Olav Velthuis

in collaboration with

Galerie Fons Welters

design

Vanessa van Dam

ISBN

978-94-6208-908-2

publicatiedatum

May 2025

availability

expected

language

Dutch, English