Curators

Hendrik Driessen
(Heemstede, 1952)

 

DIRECTOR DE PONT MUSEUM (1989-2019)

Hendrik Driessen began his museum career in Arnhem in 1977, as curator of public relations with Pierre Janssen at the Gemeentemuseum. A year later, he moved to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to head the then newly established communications department. One of the projects he worked on at the Stedelijk was director Edy de Wilde’s farewell exhibition, La Grande Parade, still one of the best-attended exhibitions in Dutch museum history. From 1986, he was chief curator and acting director at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. In 1989, he was asked to set up a completely new museum institution, the current museum De Pont in Tilburg.

Hendrik held several ancillary positions, including administrative at the photography museum Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and Manifesta in Amsterdam.

Rebecca Nelemans
(Zundert, 1967)
 
Art historian, author, exhibition maker and moderator

Rebecca Nelemans writes on contemporary art and design and runs courses and lectures with an emphasis on modern art. Among other things, she led art talks at Museum de Pont in Tilburg (2011 to 2015). As a curator, she organised exhibitions and festivals on private initiative or commissioned by Museum de Beyerd and SMB in Breda, the Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch, Park013 and the Van GoghHuis in Zundert, among others.

Since September 2017, she also works as a regional broker for the Mondriaan Fund.