Accumulation of Things

In Vestibulum 4 Anne Geene raises the issue of the human desire to collect, organize and know. In so doing, she subtly refers to the passion for collecting of Helene Kröller-Müller, the museum’s founder. Helene regarded her collection, meticulously recorded in her collection book, as closed. But can ‘a carefully selected series of works of art’ ever be complete? With this question in mind, Geene examines concepts such as possession, completeness, selection and desire.

‘Vestibulum’ refers to the place where the exhibitions take place: the former entrance to the museum in the building designed by architect Henry van de Velde and opened in 1938. Every six months, Kröller-Müller Museum invites an artist to create a presentation for this now rather undefined space, which in some way relates to the place, the history of the museum or the collection.