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HERBERT FOUNDATION

A highly cerebral private collection in an industrial complex in Ghent

Collectors:

Anton & Annick Herbert

Address:

Coupure Links 627 A

9000 Ghent

Belgium

Tel +32 9 2690300

contact@herbertfoundation.org

www.herbertfoundation.org

Opening hours vary depending on exhibition. Please check the website for the most current information.

To utopia and back. The collection of the Ghent-based couple Annick and Anton Herbert focuses on art produced between 1968 and 1989. In a former steam-engine factory near the center of the Flemish city they present in temporary exhibitions works by concept and avant-garde artists such as Bruce Nauman, Marcel Broodthaers, Carl Andre, Robert Barry, and Lawrence Weiner as well as Martin Kippenberger, Franz West, and Thomas Schütte. What connects them all is their critical reflection upon social and artistic issues. What makes the collection so unique is its profound archive of artist books, letters, postcards, posters, invitations, and other documents, which show the friendly ties and decades of intellectual debate between the Herberts and “their” artists.