Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology)
Leiden, The Netherlands

Anceaux's Glasses
Anthropological Photography since 1860
8^th March - 8^th September 2002

The Museum of Ethnology not only possesses a collection of objects but also many photographs showing people and cultures throughout the world, generally taken by Western photographers and researchers. A review of 150 years of ethnological photography gives an impression of how other cultures were perceived in the past - not only how they were observed and recorded by photographers but also what these images contributed to the wider public's knowledge of the cultures.
(More about this on: www.rmw.nl)

 
Wereldmuseum Rotterdam (World Museum)
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Present-day Aboriginal Art (Hedendaagse Aboriginal Kunst)
30^th March - 8^th December 2002
(More about this on: www.wereldmuseum.rotterdam.nl)

 
Nijmeegs Volkenkundig Museum (Nijmegen Ethnological Museum)
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Mak Bilong Ol (Made by Us)
Modern Art from Papua New Guinea
8^th March - 3^rd May 2002

 
Aboriginal Art Museum
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Desert Art
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne
23^rd February - 23^rd June 2002

Desert Art presents an overview of the most important artists who currently work in the vast desert area of Australia. As many as ninety art works, painted by thirty individual artists, from the private collection of Gabrielle Pizzi are shown, among which major pieces like Walter Tjampitjinpa's Water Dreaming (1972) from the first years of the painter's movement and Michael Nelson Tjakmarra's Five Dreamings (1984). Desert Art is the first touring exhibition visiting the Aboriginal Art Museum.

Desert Art is composed of the private collection of the internationally renowned art collector Gabrielle Pizzi. Her gallery in Melbourne has been trend setting for years. Since the 1990s Pizzi has been devoting herself to presenting Aboriginal Art and enlarging its reputation in Europe. Desert Art has been shown under the title Aborigena in the Palazzo Bricherasio in Turin, during the summer of 2001.

Contemporary Aboriginal Art started in 1971 in the remote desert community of Papunya and developed into one of the most remarkable art movements of the 20^th century. Characteristic of the art of the individual artists from the different desert communities is the broad stylistic variety of directions. The exhibition Desert Art takes up this fact in a special way, by highlighting the works of ten major artists. Artists like Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Inyuwa Nampitjinpa, Gloria Petyarre, Emily Kame Kngwarreye and George Tjungurrayi are even represented with five paintings or more. In this way style, vision and thematic choice of these artists are fully done justice. (More about this on: www.aamu.nl)