Stedelijk Museum Annual Report 2012
Stedelijk Museum Annual Report 2012
Stedelijk Museum Annual Report 2012
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Partly in honor of the opening, the museum received many gifts of art from private<br />
collectors, gallery owners, artists, and a number of institutions (described in greater<br />
detail in the section devoted to Acquisitions). Rijkman and Irene Groenink financed<br />
the reinstallation of the iconic sculptural work Sight Point (for Leo Castelli) by<br />
American artist Richard Serra, which was installed on <strong>Museum</strong>plein just before the<br />
reopening. Another (anonymous) private benefactor made a substantial contribution<br />
to appointing the education rooms; and, through their foundation, Freek and Hella<br />
de Jonge made a substantial donation toward realizing the artists’ workshops for<br />
children.<br />
MIKE KELLEY, the first major international touring exhibition to be shown in the<br />
refurbished and renewed <strong>Stedelijk</strong>, opened in December. The <strong>Stedelijk</strong> <strong>Museum</strong><br />
had already been awarded the prestigious Turing Award for this exhibition in 2009.<br />
At the time, the lavish contribution from the Turing Foundation was decisive in<br />
enabling us to realize what seemd like an “impossible dream”—a dream that came<br />
true in <strong>2012</strong>. The museum is enormously grateful to our main benefactors Cees and<br />
Inge de Bruin-Heijn, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and benefactor<br />
All Art Initiatives, for joining principal benefactor the Turing Foundation in making<br />
the Mike Kelley retrospective possible. Not least, the <strong>Stedelijk</strong> is deeply indebted to<br />
our main sponsor Rabobank for supporting this exhibition in Amsterdam.<br />
The Turing Foundation once again made an important contribution to the Turing<br />
<strong>Museum</strong>plein Coach, and in so doing supported a joint project of the <strong>Stedelijk</strong><br />
<strong>Museum</strong>, the Rijksmuseum, and the Van Gogh <strong>Museum</strong>. Transport appears to be<br />
the greatest barrier to schools that would otherwise plan a visit to a museum. Over<br />
the next few years, the coach will provide free transport to the three museums at<br />
<strong>Museum</strong>plein for thousands of children from the wide environs of Amsterdam in the<br />
three highest grades of elementary school.<br />
Founders, Sponsors, Donors<br />
The <strong>Stedelijk</strong> <strong>Museum</strong> was opened on September 22, <strong>2012</strong>, by Her Majesty Queen<br />
Beatrix of the Netherlands. The City of Amsterdam—the owner of the building and<br />
the collection—and the <strong>Stedelijk</strong> <strong>Museum</strong> Amsterdam would like to express their<br />
sincere thanks to the following corporations, institutions, and organizations for their<br />
generous contributions:<br />
Primary Founders<br />
ABN AMRO<br />
IMC<br />
Teijin<br />
VandenEnde Foundation<br />
Founders<br />
Mr. R. H. Defares<br />
Ribbink-Van den Hoek family<br />
Audi<br />
Schiphol Group<br />
<strong>Stedelijk</strong> <strong>Museum</strong> Business Club<br />
Co-Founders<br />
Irene and Rijkman Groenink<br />
Cor and Jannet van Zadelhoff<br />
Aalberts Industries<br />
Bouwfonds Cultuurfonds<br />
De Nederlandsche Bank<br />
Heren 2<br />
Houthoff Buruma<br />
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Marcel Wanders, and AEDES Real Estate<br />
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