The Stedelijk Museum as a guest - Avant-gardes 20s-/60s

From the rich collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Avant-gardes 20s/60s puts work from the likes of Picasso, Malevich and Mondriaan with that of Warhol and De Kooning as a major overview of the avant-garde movements of both the 1920s and the 1960s.

Surrealism to Pop Art
The exhibition tells the story of art in its liveliest decades of the last century, its relationship with politics in the wake of both World Wars and the global shift in the cultural power balance. In the 1920s, it was late Cubism, Surrealism, the Bauhaus, De Stijl and Russian Constructivism that caused a stir, with the core group of artists almost all operating out of Europe. Forty years on, it was the emergence of Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptual Art, pushed by the American artists. Other key names in this showcase will include Schwitters, Carl Andre and Nauman, Roy Lichtenstein, Yves Kein.

Stedelijk Museum's role
In post-war Amsterdam, many American artists staged their first European exhibitions at the Stedelijk, gaining a foothold on the continent's influential art world.
While the Stedelijk continues its renovations (due to reopen March/April 2010) its projects show across the cities other great museums. Avant-Garde '20s/'60s appears courtesy of the Van Gogh Museum.