Steven ten Thije

Ger van Elk in conversation with Charles Esche and Steven ten Thije, 5 April 2009

Ger van Elk has died aged 73. His passing is a great loss to the Dutch and international art world and we are remembering him by making an interview from our first Exhibition Histories book.

‘Op Losse Schroeven’ and ‘When Attitudes Become Form’: Public Reception in the Netherlands and Switzerland

The media coverage of ‘Op Losse Schroeven’ started on an almost playful note on 14 March 1969, the day before the exhibition opened to the public, with a small news item broadcast on Dutch television.

Marinus Boezem in conversation with Steven ten Thije

Marinus Boezem in conversation with Steven ten Thije

Ger van Elk in conversation with Charles Esche and Steven ten Thije

Ger van Elk is a Dutch artist who first exhibited his work when based in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. In 1968, with his fellow countrymen Marinus Boezem and Jan Dibbets, he took part in ‘Junge Kunst aus Holland’ (‘Recent Art from Holland’), curated by Harald Szeemann for the Kunsthalle Bern prior to ‘When Attitudes Become Form’, and in the international festival ‘Arte Povera + Azioni Povere’ in Amalfi, Italy.