NEWS

MARGARITA GARCÍA ROBAYO WINNER OF THE 2ND FHN CREATIVE WRITING GRANT

29th April 2013 THE JURY OF THE 2ND HAN NEFKENS FOUNDATION CREATIVE WRITING GRANT, MADE UP OF JOSÉ MANUEL MARTOS, REMEDIOS ZAFRA AND DANIEL GASCÓN, HAS UNANIMOUSLY CHOSEN MARGARITA ...[+]

CHINESE ARTIST ZHOU TAO, WINNER OF FIRST HAN NEFKENS FOUNDATION BACC AWARD

11th January 2013 Chinese artist Zhou Tao (Changsha, 1976) has been named winner of the first Han Nefkens Foundation BACC Award for Contemporary Art. This newly created award ...[+]

IMAN ISSA WINS THE 1ST HAN NEFKENS FOUNDATION-MACBA AWARD

18th December 2012 Iman Issa (Cairo, 1979) has been unanimously named winner of the 1st Han Nefkens Foundation-MACBA Award for Contemporary Art. The award was set up in ...[+]

PROJECTS

COLLABORATORS

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H+F

Han Nefkens started to collect art in 2000. The H+F Collection, named after himself and his partner Felipe, is in long-term loan to various museums in The Netherlands and abroad. Nowadays Han Nefkens is not only active as a collector but also as an initiator of international art projects, often in collaboration with museums and other art institutions.

ArtAids

The ArtAids foundation was set up in 2006 at Han Nefkens’ initiative. ArtAids fights AIDS with the power of art as its most important weapon. ArtAids invites leading artists to produce work that is inspired by AIDS and related problems. These works of art are used to raise the public’s consciousness and to encourage their involvement.

 
 
Han Nefkens

According to Han Nefkens, sharing is the antidote to loneliness, and he does so through his artistic and anti-AIDS projects and his writing. In 1995, he made his debut with the autobiographical novel Bloedverwanten (“Parents”), which was followed by Twee lege stoelen (“Two empty chairs”, 2006) and De gevlogen vogel (“The bird flew”, 2008). Nefkens also writes short pieces, “vignettes”.