Ove Lucas (born ca. 1960) is a Dutch
curator
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and director of the
Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam.
[Editorial. "Ove Lucas directeur CBK Rotterdam," ''Trouw.'' 26 april 2006.]
Biography
Early career
Lucas started his career in the Rotterdam art sector in the early eighties during his replacement service at the
Lijnbaancentrum
The Rotterdamse Kunststichting RKS (''Rotterdam Arts Council'') was an independent foundation to promote art and culture in Rotterdam from 1945 to 2005. In 2005 the foundation merged into the Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture, an advisory body ...
Rotterdam under
Felix Valk. He subsequently attended the School of Journalism, which he completed in 1985.
Later in the eighties, Lucas became exhibition maker at the Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam. In this role, he organized the ''Rotterdam Assorti'' exhibition in the Hal Building, the current
Hotel New York
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, in 1990 with city curator Jan van Adrichem of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and
Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern
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Biography Education and early c ...
of the
Rotterdam Art Foundation.
[Henk Drent,]
De kwaliteit verrast de keuzeheren Rotterdam Assorti: tijdsbeeld met veertig kunstenaars uit dit gebied
" ''Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad,'' Rotterdam, 1990/05/02, p. 15.
In the nineties, under
Hans Walgenbach, Lucas worked as artistic director of the Villa Alckmaer exhibition space.
In 1999 the exhibition facility moved to
TENT Rotterdam
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in the Witte de Withstraat, which was led by the same trio as before: Lucas as general coordinator in collaboration with Arno van Roosmalen and Thomas Meijer zu Schlochtern.
Director of Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam
In 2006, Lucas was appointed director of Stichting Centrum Beeldende Kunst CBK (Center for Visual Arts) Rotterdam. Since the departure of Ton de Vos, the successor of
Hans Walchenbach, in 2005, he had been acting director. In the following year, in 2007, he coordinated the privatization of the Center for Visual Arts.
The CBK Rotterdam was reorganized by Lucas with parts of moved into and independent Rotterdam Artotheek. An important task that has remained with the CBK Rotterdam is the management of the sculpture collection in the outdoor space in the city. He actively participates in the public debate on this subject, and on more general art issues in the city.
[Caspar Naber. " ‘Gemeente neemt de Kunstraad niet serieus’," ''NRC handelsblad.'' 6 november 2015.]
Work
''Rotterdam Assorti'', 1990
In the year 1990 about 1200 visual artists were living in Rotterdam and its direct surroundings, of which half was under the age of 35. In order to present the quality of these artists a selection was made of the work of 38 young artists, presented in the former office building of the
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(Nederlandsch Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij).
A selection was made of 24 young new artists under the age of 35, among them
Ben Zegers and Marian Breedveld. Further more there were 12 more familiar artists present such as
Geert van de Camp ,
Otto Egberts,
Daan van Golden
Daniël (Daan) van Golden (4 February 1936 – 10 January 2017) was a Dutch artist, who has been active as a painter, photographer, collagist, installation artist, wall painter and graphic artist. ,
Johan van Oord,
John van 't Slot,
Henk Tas,
Hans Verwey,
Co Westerik
Jacobus "Co" Westerik (2 March 1924 – 10 September 2018) was a Dutch visual artist.
Life and work
Born in The Hague on 2 March 1924, Westerik received his education at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague from 1942 to 1947. After his graduati ...
and Erik Wijntjes.
Publications, a selection
* Ove Lucas, ''Grafiek : vier interviews van Ove Lucas met Rotterdamse grafici : Michiel Brink, Dirk Huizer, Gerard Immerzeel, Hans Koopman, Joost Minnigh.'' Centrum Beeldende Kunst-Artoteek Rijnmond :
Stichting Kunstzinnige Vorming Rotterdam, 1988.
*
André Dekker & Ove Lucas. ''Zeitweiliges Treffen : actuele kunst uit Frankfurt = aktuelle Kunst aus Frankfurt.'' Centrum Beeldende Kunst, 1988.
* Ove Lucas & Bob Goedewaagen (photography), ''5 jaar 51 kunstenaars.'' Rotterdam : Centrum Beeldende Kunst, 1992.
* Paul van der Eerden & Ove Lucas. ''Sorti du labyrinthe,'' Rotterdam : Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, 1996.
References
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1960s births
Living people
Dutch art curators
Dutch nonprofit directors