June 12 until August 29, 2010 (to be confirmed)

The Dutch fashion designer, performance artist and artist Aziz Bekkaoui (*1969) boasts a unique vision, and remarkable associative and styling skills. This guarantees an intriguing exhibition in the Catharijneconvent Museum in the summer of 2010.
Gold plays an important role in themes such as protection, decoration, power, immortality, value and worship. These roles are either symbolic or actual. Crowns, scepters and icons are some of the objects that have been fashioned from gold from time immemorial, and for various reasons. Until today, gold remains a valuable commodity, in many aspects. The collection of the Catharijneconvent Museum comprises many stunning, gold-embellished paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, chalices and vestments. These illustrate the religious tradition that gold is the only material worthy of praising the Lord.

In the exhibition InGold, Bekkaoui enhances the museum’s own collection with remarkable, thought-provoking, surprising, old, modern and contemporary works on loan. 

For more information please visit: www.catharijneconvent.nl