The third Jan van Eyck Academy Vroman Fellow Maud van den Beuken presented Carry the River, the first moment of her project Where the River is. She started her fellowship in June 2022. From the 2025 event Carry the River part of the project Where the River is, done in collaboration with TENT Rotterdam. Photo by Ali Haji

The new work of art, made by artist Henrique van Putten, was unveiled yesterday in the presence of the alderman for culture in Gouda, Thierry van Vugt, people from the ‘Groen Alliantie’ and Noelle Gracy and her son Liam, on behalf of the Vroman Foundation. Due to the covid-19 measures the invited audience was small,…

The Vroman Foundation and the BBV Protestant churches of Naaldwijk organised this exhibition in the Naaldwijk Oude Kerk (Wilhelminaplein 5) April 14-May 4 2021: CloserToVroman TeDrawings, photographs and poems form the essence of the exhibition in this unusual setting. The iconic poem “Peace” gets its own image in the exhibition. Video and film clips are…

Vroman Foundation members Janny Rodermond and Jetske Spanjer travelled to Maastricht in March to meet the new fellow (David) and the director of the van Eyck, Hicham Khalid. David is working hard on his project on lichen and starts his fellowship in June. for more about David Habets and the Vroman Fellowship: https://www.janvaneyck.nl/participants/david-habets

In partnership with the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, the Vroman Foundation presents the exhibition Warm, Red, Wet and Sweet, Leo Vroman’s Blood. The visitors will be introduced to his warm personality, his fascination for the red fluid, his curiosity for all living things and his love for Tineke, his wife. His prison camp diary…

The young Russian artist Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov has been selected as the first Vroman Fellow by the Vroman Foundation and the Van Eyck. Fedotov-Fedorov will start his six-month work period at the Jan van Eyck Academie –part of the Van Eyck– in April 2018 and will develop new work at the intersection of art and science.…

Leon van der Sanden has made an impressive performance of the irresisteble love story of Leo and Tineke in Mirjam van Hengel’s book ‘Hoe Mooi Alles’. The leads are Kees Hulst en Esther Scheldwacht. De premier of the show was on 25 september 2015 in the presence of members of the family, author Mirjam van…

Jeroen Henneman created a very accomplished portrait, a “standing sketch” (as Henneman calls it) of scientist/poet Leo Vroman in curved steel commissioned by the City of Gouda. On 10 April 2015 Leo Vroman who was born in Gouda would have been 100 years old. Even though he doubted that he would reach that age he…

Mirjiam van Hengel, Leo Vroman’s editor at Querido and former president of the Vroman Foundation wrote ‘How Lovely it All Is. Leo and Tineke Vroman, love during wartime’. The book was published on 10 April 2014, Leo Vroman’s 99th birthday shortly after his death on 22 February of the same year. Mirjam van Hengel captured…

Leo Vroman, poet, scientist and artist, celebrated his 95th birthday on 10 April 2010. To commemorate this occasion the majority of his visual work was shown for the first time at the Weesperzijde gallery in Amsterdam. This exhibition took place in April-May 2010. Leo Vroman is primarily recognised as a poet in the Netherlands. He…