Henk Visch - Unguided Tours
About this activity.
From 28 June to 21 September 2025, Museum Belvédère will present a solo exhibition by visual artist Henk Visch (1950) in the museum park and in the rooms of the west wing. With a selection of twelve sculptures in the museum park, two smaller installations and sculptures in the west wing, the exhibition offers an extensive look at the poetic and often philosophical oeuvre of one of the most idiosyncratic artists in the Netherlands.
Between form and thought
Henk Visch's sculptures vary from monumental formats to smaller installations. They are usually made of bronze, aluminium, steel or wood and sometimes in combination with added objects of found material. The titles that Visch gives to his works are remarkable; they are often poetic, written in different languages and evoke associations and meanings.
Henk Visch is known for a visual language that balances between abstraction and recognisability. His sculptures are often quiet and withdrawn, stylised figures of people and animals, that are almost delicately balanced. They seem to be lost in thought, waiting or floating between worlds. The artist is not concerned with depicting visible reality, his work is rather a metaphor for reality and experiences. His sculptures raise questions about human presence, vulnerability and the unspeakable.
The exhibition brings together both recent and older work, with key pieces from his oeuvre from the past decades. In addition, both old and new work is presented that has never been shown in a museum before. The arrangement in the museum park creates a dialogue between form, space and meaning – an invitation to the visitor not only to look, but also to think, to feel and above all to wander.
About the artist
Henk Visch (Eindhoven, 1950) is a sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist. He was trained as a graphic artist at the Royal Academy of Art and Design in 's-Hertogenbosch. Visch made his international breakthrough in the 1980s and represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 1988. He was a lecturer at the Academies in Amsterdam and Maastricht, a professor in Stuttgart and Münster and a guest lecturer in Beijing. His work is included in numerous collections at home and abroad and is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach in which sculpture, drawing and language are linked.
Museum Belvédère.
Location.
Museum Belvédère
Oranje Nassaulaan 12
8448 MT Heerenveen
www.museumbelvedere.nl/nl/