Artist Talk | December 14 , 1 pm | León Krempel and Robert Zandvliet

You are very welcome to attend the artist talk with Robert Zandvliet and Léon Krempel on Saturday, December 14 at 1 pm in the exhibition ‘Robert Zandvliet x Galerie Onrust, 30 Years’. León Krempel (1966) is an art historian with specialization in Dutch baroque art. He curated more than 50 exhibitions mainly in the field of contemporary art, e.g. Marlene Dumas, Rosilene Ludovico, Stan Douglas and John Gerrard. He has been director of the Kunsthalle Darmstadt since 2014. León Krempel will curate and organize a solo exhibition of Robert Zandvliets work in 2026.

Over the past twenty-five years Robert Zandvliet has developed a versatile as well as consistent oeuvre. That diversity is expressed in the choice of motif, but also in the manner of painting, in the degree of figuration and abstraction, in the character of the brushstroke and in the use of or perhaps even the very avoidance of color. The coherence among the works has to do with their subject matter. From the very start Zandvliet has been fascinated with the medium of painting. As a theme found throughout his work, the desire to fathom its potential is given shape in all sorts of ways.