TBIH2021 | Shifting Image: In Search of Johan Maurits

Curator of the Mauritshuis Lea van der Vinde, Partner and Creative Director of Studio Louter Barend Verheijen & Partner and Creative Director at OPERA Amsterdam Jeroen Luttikhuis talk to TBIH's Marta C. Lourenço about The Shifting Image - In Search of Johan Maurits exhibition. It won the Museums + Heritage Award 2020 for International Project of the Year below £1m.
The Mauritshuis is a Dutch art museum with mostly Dutch seventeenth century paintings, and was named after the man who had it built as his home: Johan Maurits. In 2018 a public discussion about colonialism, slavery and heritage arose in the Netherlands when the Mauritshuis decided to remove a modern replica of Johan Maurits's bust from the foyer of the museum. A so-called Twitter-war was the pinnacle of this, with Dutch media, critics and even politicians interfering in the polarised debate. The Mauritshuis decided to continue the conversation with the exhibition Shifting Image - In Search of Johan Maurits, done in collaboration with Studio Louter & OPERA Amsterdam.
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