In summary
Art collection locations
Approximately 70 offices throughout the Netherlands
Number of art works
7,600
Disciplines
All
Focus of collection
Contemporary (inter)national art
Sponsoring and awards
In general, at KPN sponsoring is dealt with centrally, but the KPN Art Department offers advice about art-related sponsor requests. On a modest scale some smaller projects are directly supported, such as special editions by artists from the collection.
Guided tours
Within KPN, guided tours are organised for interested employees. Tours for people outside of KPN are possible on request.
Website
www.kpn.nl
Art collection website
None
Expositions and publications
Expositions:
• ‘VOOR~LINDEN, Making Meaning & Viewing Windows’ (presentation of work by Arno van der Mark on the Voorlinden estate), Wassenaar 1991
• ‘Observations’ (recent art acquisitions of KPN), PTT-museum, The Hague, 1997
• ‘A Choice from the KPN collection (Richard Billingham, Anton Corbijn, Axel Hütte, Sarah Jones, Liza May Post, Thomas Struth)’, presentation on invitation of Press Centre Nieuwspoort, The Hague, 1998.
• ‘Photography from the KPN collection, comprehensive exhibition of acquired photographs’, Huis Marseille, Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam 2001
Publications:
These presentations were all accompanied by booklets or catalogues. Additionally, in 1995 the first comprehensive catalogue of the collection appeared: Hidden Collection.
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