SCHUNCK presents new museum program 2023/2024

With programming for the new season, we are focusing on local and new talent, as well as politically engaged artists and icons of the past. These include the work of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, Alevtina Kakhidze from Eastern Ukraine and Quentley Barbara, born in Curaçao. Their experiences and personal journeys take shape in drawings, installations and paintings.

About Heerlen

In collaboration with Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, we are involving visual artist Koos Buster in asking what residents of Heerlen 'don't like' about the city. In addition, the exhibition In for life: 10 years of David Bade in Heerlen will be on display through 10 March, in which the sum total of ten years of creativity with and about Heerlen residents takes shape. As always, new talent will also be given a platform next season, in the Dreaming Out Loud, Euregional Prize for Architecture and Driver's Seat series.

Andy Warhol

In the fall of 2024, we will open an exhibition on Andy Warhol in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, USA. The exhibition Vanitas sheds new light on the artist's work and focuses on the role of religion in his life and work. Vanitas features some one hundred works and personal archival pieces by Warhol, who is considered the leading figure of the pop art movement. With this exhibition, we are once again exhibiting the work of an icon of contemporary art, following the exhibitions Basquiat: The Artist and his New York Scene and Keith Haring: Grace House Mural. As a museum, we always look for unexpected or untold stories of the artists that provide a special angle when putting on an exhibition.

Atrium and Art Depot 

The Atrium, the museum's new wing, currently features the extraordinary work of Heerlen artist Nic. Tummers. The visual artist and architecture critic advocated more 'socio-space' throughout his working life. His interdisciplinary approach to visual art, architecture and urban planning is still an inspiration to many today. The exhibition brings past and present together by introducing a new generation to Tummers' ideas, plans and designs. In the other part of the new wing, the Art Depot, we structurally present two exhibitions. In two of the three spaces within the Art Depot, visitors see part of the permanent collection, with an ever-changing theme. In the third space there is an ever-changing guest exhibition, entitled 'The selection of'. The series is kicked off by Emile Roemer, who shows his selection from the SCHUNCK collection.