In summary
Art collection locations
Number of locations: approximately 30
Number of art works
Approximately 10,000. Of these works, 6,000 belong to the core collection (and most are unique).
Disciplines
All
Focus of collection
The acquisition policy primarily focuses on work by Dutch artists and foreign artists with a strong link to the Netherlands.
Sponsoring and awards
Since 2004, the ABN AMRO Art Foundation annually funds the ABN AMRO Art Award, an incentive monetary prize awarded to a foreign artist who either lives or works in, or has some relationship with the Netherlands. The laureate’s work is exhibited and an accompanying monograph is published. Additionally, ABN AMRO purchases one work from this (public) exhibition to include in its own art collection.
For information about ABN AMRO’s sponsor activities, please contact the sponsor department of ABN AMRO Group Communications.
Guided tours
On request, for employees and clients as well as for other interested parties.
Website
www.abnamro.com
Art collection website
ABN AMRO Collection
Expositions and publications
Expositions:
• ‘Special magazines’, Drents Museum, Assen, 1989
• ‘A Choice’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1989-1990
• ‘80 works on paper’, Print Collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1995
• ‘The many faces of the bank’ (presentation of the Historical Archive and the ABN AMRO Art Foundation), former ABN AMRO office, Kneuterdijk 1, The Hague, 1998
• ‘Bank secrets’, Museum Amstelkring / Ons Lieve Heer op Solder, Amsterdam, 2001
• ‘Per Saldo’, Noord-Brabants Museum, Den Bosch, 2002
• ‘Fahrettin Örenli, A tourist in life’ (head office ABN AMRO Bank), Amsterdam, Gustav Mahlerlaan 10, Amsterdam, 2004
Publications:
• A Collection, a choice from the Amro Bank collection, 1988
• A Collection, a choice from the ABN AMRO Bank collection, 1995
• The Bank’s Many Faces, 1998
• A Collection, a choice from the ABN AMRO Bank collection, 2002
• Fahrettin Örenli, A tourist in life, catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name, 2004 |
