{"id":340,"date":"2025-05-24T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/?page_id=340"},"modified":"2025-07-26T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:45:51","slug":"news-and-projects-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-and-projects-2\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/vroman-poetry-afternoon-and-exhibition-in-hilversum\/\">Vroman poetry afternoon and exhibition in Hilversum<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">On November 18th, the Vroman will be the focus of the Senver Poetry Afternoon. Jetske Spanjer will give a lecture about the man who left an indelible mark on Dutch literature. A showing of her 1995 IKON documentary will also feature. More information is available here The Vroman Foundation will hold an exposition on Leo\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/vroman-poetry-afternoon-and-exhibition-in-hilversum\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Vroman poetry afternoon and exhibition in Hilversum<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/leo-vroman-in-artikel-van-de-volkskrant\/\">Leo Vroman in article the Volkskrant<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">21 maart 2024 \/ Nieuws Unknown Juliana poem by Leo Vroman discovered in the princess&#8217;s legacy She died today exactly twenty years ago, he has also been dead for ten years. Princess Juliana (1909-2004), Queen between 1948 and 1980, led a withdrawn life in her final years. The poet Leo Vroman (1915-2014) remained productive into\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/leo-vroman-in-artikel-van-de-volkskrant\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Leo Vroman in article the Volkskrant<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/maud-van-den-beuken-chosen-as-the-third-vroman-fellow\/\">Maud van den Beuken, third Jan van Eyck Academic Vroman Fellow, exhibits her work<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">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&nbsp;Carry the River&nbsp;part of the project&nbsp;Where the River is, done in collaboration with TENT Rotterdam. Photo by Ali Haji<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/vroman-bankje-2024\/\">Vroman bench 2024<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dear Vroman family, Some of you may already be aware that the Leo \u2665 Tineke bench just by the Utrecht Sterrenwacht building has disappeared. On October 7th of last year, I found an empty space on my daily walk through the Zocherpark. It had been neatly tidied, and the ground raked, so there was no\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/vroman-bankje-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Vroman bench 2024<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/kunstwerk-saying-hi-and-goodbye-onthuld-27-mei-2021\/\">Art work &#8216;Saying hi and Goodbye&#8217; unveiled 27 May 2021<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">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 &#8216;Groen Alliantie&#8217; and Noelle Gracy and her son Liam, on behalf of the Vroman Foundation. Due to the covid-19 measures the invited audience was small,\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/kunstwerk-saying-hi-and-goodbye-onthuld-27-mei-2021\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Art work &#8216;Saying hi and Goodbye&#8217; unveiled 27 May 2021<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/dichterbij-vroman-expositie-oude-kerk-naaldwijk-verlengd-t-m-20-mei-2021\/\">Closer to Vroman \u2013 exhibition in the Naaldwijk Oude Kerk, extended to 20 May 2021<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">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 \u201cPeace\u201d gets its own image in the exhibition. Video and film clips are\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/dichterbij-vroman-expositie-oude-kerk-naaldwijk-verlengd-t-m-20-mei-2021\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Closer to Vroman \u2013 exhibition in the Naaldwijk Oude Kerk, extended to 20 May 2021<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2020-2021-saying-hi-and-goodbye-de-goudse-bevolking-heeft-zich-uitgesproken\/\">2020-2021 \u2013 Saying Hi and Goodbye, the population of Gouda decides<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">This was the headline in the Gouda Post newspaper on Wednesday 23 September 2020 in which the population of Gouda were asked to vote for two totally different artworks that were inspired by Leo Vroman\u2019s poem Hallucinations: We are the appearings That fade so fast That we are disappearings Of nature The Central Holland Green\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2020-2021-saying-hi-and-goodbye-de-goudse-bevolking-heeft-zich-uitgesproken\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2020-2021 \u2013 Saying Hi and Goodbye, the population of Gouda decides<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2020-juni-tweede-vroman-fellowship-in-samenwerking-met-de-jan-van-eyckacademie-te-maastricht-gaat-van-start-de-nieuwe-fellow-is-david-habets\/\">2020, June \u2013 The second Vroman Fellowship in partnership with the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. The new fellow is David Habets<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">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<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/remembrance-day-2020\/\">2020 Remembrance Day<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Leo Vroman\u2019s work was referred to many times during the recent war Remembrance Day on the 4th of May 2020 in the moving television programme \u2018Na de Dam\u2019, that the NPO broadcast after the National Remembrance Day ceremony from Dam Square in Amsterdam. If you missed it or would like to see it again it\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/remembrance-day-2020\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2020 Remembrance Day<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2019-2020-plannen-in-ontwikkeling-voor-een-ultieme-biografie-van-dichter-wetenschapper-leo-vroman\/\">2019-2020 \u2013 Planning the ultimate biography of poet and scientist Leo Vroman<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The feasibility of writing a definitive biography of Leo Vroman\u2019s life and work and that of his wife (Tineke) is being investigated. These works are managed and maintained for future generations by the Vroman Foundation. This is no simple task as the work is so broad. Obviously, Leo Vroman wrote a lot about himself, both\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2019-2020-plannen-in-ontwikkeling-voor-een-ultieme-biografie-van-dichter-wetenschapper-leo-vroman\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2019-2020 \u2013 Planning the ultimate biography of poet and scientist Leo Vroman<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2018-2019-warm-rood-nat-liefs-het-bloed-van-leo-vroman-10-november-2018-5-mei-2019\/\">2018-2019 \u2013 Warm, Red, Wet and Sweet, Leo Vroman\u2019s Blood (10 November 2018 \u2013 5 May 2019)<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In partnership with the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, the Vroman Foundation presents the exhibition Warm, Red, Wet and Sweet, Leo Vroman\u2019s 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\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2018-2019-warm-rood-nat-liefs-het-bloed-van-leo-vroman-10-november-2018-5-mei-2019\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2018-2019 \u2013 Warm, Red, Wet and Sweet, Leo Vroman\u2019s Blood (10 November 2018 \u2013 5 May 2019)<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2018-november-plaquette-onthuld-op-het-liefdesbankje-van-leo-en-tineke-vroman-in-utrecht\/\">2018 \u2013 November, plaque unveiled on Leo and Tineke Vroman\u2019s \u2018love seat\u2019 bench in Utrecht<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Eighty years ago, in November, Leo Vroman kissed Georgine (Tineke) Sanders for the first time on a bench in the Zocherpark in Utrecht. A plaque was unveiled on a bench in this spot to commemorate this kiss. They both studied in Utrecht and got to know each other whilst still very young. Leo knew immediately\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2018-november-plaquette-onthuld-op-het-liefdesbankje-van-leo-en-tineke-vroman-in-utrecht\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2018 \u2013 November, plaque unveiled on Leo and Tineke Vroman\u2019s \u2018love seat\u2019 bench in Utrecht<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2018-april-eerste-vroman-fellowship-in-samenwerking-met-de-jan-van-eyck-academie-maastricht\/\">2018 &#8211; April &#8211; First Vroman Fellowship in co-operation with the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">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 \u2013part of the Van Eyck\u2013 in April 2018 and will develop new work at the intersection of art and science.\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2018-april-eerste-vroman-fellowship-in-samenwerking-met-de-jan-van-eyck-academie-maastricht\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2018 &#8211; April &#8211; First Vroman Fellowship in co-operation with the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2015-2017-hoe-mooi-alles-bewerkt-tot-theaterstuk-toert-door-de-nederlandse-theaters\/\">2015-2017 &#8211; &#8216;Hoe Mooi Alles&#8217; transformed for the theatre, tours Dutch Theatres<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Leon van der Sanden has made an impressive performance of the irresisteble love story of Leo and Tineke in Mirjam van Hengel&#8217;s book &#8216;Hoe Mooi Alles&#8217;. 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\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2015-2017-hoe-mooi-alles-bewerkt-tot-theaterstuk-toert-door-de-nederlandse-theaters\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2015-2017 &#8211; &#8216;Hoe Mooi Alles&#8217; transformed for the theatre, tours Dutch Theatres<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2015-2016-reprises-expositie-leo-vroman-tekenaar\/\">2015-2016 \u2018Leo Vroman the Artist\u2019 is reprised<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">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\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2015-2016-reprises-expositie-leo-vroman-tekenaar\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2015-2016 \u2018Leo Vroman the Artist\u2019 is reprised<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2015-beeld-leo-vroman-van-jeroen-henneman-onthuld-op-de-chocoladefabriek-in-gouda-geboorteplaats-van-leo-vroman\/\">2015 \u2013 Sculpture of Leo Vroman unveiled on the roof of the Chocoladefabriek building in Gouda, Leo\u2019s birthplace<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Jeroen Henneman created a very accomplished portrait, a \u201cstanding sketch\u201d (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\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2015-beeld-leo-vroman-van-jeroen-henneman-onthuld-op-de-chocoladefabriek-in-gouda-geboorteplaats-van-leo-vroman\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2015 \u2013 Sculpture of Leo Vroman unveiled on the roof of the Chocoladefabriek building in Gouda, Leo\u2019s birthplace<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2015-hoe-mooi-alles\/\">2015 &#8211; How Lovely it All Is<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Mirjiam van Hengel, Leo Vroman\u2019s editor at Querido and former president of the Vroman Foundation wrote \u2018How Lovely it All Is. Leo and Tineke Vroman, love during wartime\u2019. The book was published on 10 April 2014, Leo Vroman\u2019s 99th birthday shortly after his death on 22 February of the same year. Mirjam van Hengel captured\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2015-hoe-mooi-alles\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2015 &#8211; How Lovely it All Is<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2010-expositie-weesperzijde-en-boek-leo-vroman-tekenaar\/\">2010 Exhibition at Weesperzijde and publication of Leo Vroman Artist<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">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\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2010-expositie-weesperzijde-en-boek-leo-vroman-tekenaar\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 2010 Exhibition at Weesperzijde and publication of Leo Vroman Artist<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2009-soms-is-liefde-eeuwig-documentaire-over-leo-en-tineke-vroman-door-yke-bertels\/\">Sometimes love lasts forever \u2013 a documentary about Leo and Tineke Vroman by Yke Bertels<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">This beautiful 35 minute documentary by Ike Bertels from 2009 made for the TV series Profiel is still available online through NPO Start. The documentary was rebroadcast to celebrate Leo Vroman\u2019s birthday (10 April 1915 \u2013 22 February 2014). Love, Life and Death are the central themes of poets Leo and Tineke Vroman. Their unconditional\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/news-nl\/2009-soms-is-liefde-eeuwig-documentaire-over-leo-en-tineke-vroman-door-yke-bertels\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Sometimes love lasts forever \u2013 a documentary about Leo and Tineke Vroman by Yke Bertels<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-340","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}