ICEAC connections

This is the kind of contact we are trying to establish with universities, museums and educational institutions, in order to exchange thoughts, learn from each other and spread knowledge on the artists’ colonies in Europe and their artists. There are already strong connections to the institutions shown on the image. The ICEAC Library is being consulted frequently, at the moment mostly by scholars from universities.

The ICEAC Library

The library is open for research at its present location in Domburg, Jhr. De Casembrootplein 17A, 4357 NK Domburg. From 2026 onwards, it will be located on Ooststraat 10A, 4357 BE Domburg.

Main activities 2024

Research and Publications in the ICEAC Series. Cahiers, Catalogues and Books. With this year the euroart Jubilee Cahier, a catalogue on the Edmond Verstraeten exhibition in Domburg, a Cahier on the Winterexhibition in Domburg and ….

The main ICEAC activities in 2024 concentrated on researching and publishing. The ICEAC Book Series, Catalogues and Booklets or Cahiers really got going. To my great pleasure, the Province of Zeeland together with the Zeeland municipalities have granted the ICEAC and Domburg Museum € 10.000,- to let a quartermaster develop a program for organizing the Centre and its researches & activities in a manner that suits its natural and social environment. We are looking for the quartermaster in the first place within euroart.

The third Cahier is From Studio to Landscape. The adventure of the artists’ colonies in Europe. It is dedicated to 30 years of euroart and accompanies the exhibition of the same name in the Cultural Museumhotel L’esquisse in Barbizon, 2024-2025.

The fourth Cahier The Israëls. Father and Son, appeared at a memorial exhibition for Joseph Israëls at the occasion of his 200th birthday in Museum Domburg, in Domburg, The Netherlands, 2024-2025.

The second publication in the Catalogue Series concentrates on the Belgian luminist painter Edmond Verstraeten; it was published for an exhibition on him earlier in 2024, also in Museum Domburg.

The ICEAC Book Series is a Series of its own.

The ICEAC Book Series – once a year

It publishes one book a year, which should be a high-qualified scientific research study presented in an easy and accessible format. The Series is open to contributions from euroart Members. Suggestions are always welcome.

In February 2023 appeared No. 1: Forever Indebted. A real Mondrian of a clever fake.
In September 2024 appeared No. 2: Treasures of the Soul. Marianne von Werefin 1860-1938.

Domburg Heads

From December 17 onwards, 21 Domburg Heads, brought together by the Foundation Stad Domburg 800 Jaar, will decorate the walls of the Gallery of the MTVP Museum Domburg.

Domburg Impressions

In the Hall of the museum you can see impressive works by 8 photographers who were inspired by certain facets of 800 years of Domburg with the photo as an art form.

The Museum Domburg and the ICEAC Domburg have dedicated a memorial exhibition to the artist Jacoba van Heemskerck, which from its start in July was a great success, was supposed to end in September and then was extended until December 10, 2023. Before it started, a “Call for Paintings” by artists who are inspired by Jacoba or by her work was sent out among euroart artists.

Eleven of them, from the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Hungary and even Taiwan applied, and stayed as guests of the ICEAC and the Museum in Domburg – a taste of the ICEAC’s future Artists in Residence projects. Their works also can be seen in Museum Domburg until December 10.

A second group activity of the ICEAC is taking place at the moment, in cooperation with the Institute „Moderne im Rheinland“ at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität / University Düsseldorf. About 20 students, following a seminar on Modernism in the Netherlands with a focus on Domburg and its artists’ colony, and their teachers, are staying for a couple of days in Domburg and do partake in a special program dedicated to Domburg as an Artists’ Colony.

At the beginning of this project, they visited the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, which owns the largest collection of works by Piet Mondrian in the world. But in Domburg, they met the places, which inspired Mondrian, for real, saw the landscape through his eyes and discovered why on this former island he came to undreamt of ways of expression …

The students learned about Domburg as an artists’ colony and about the history and future of the Museum and the ICEAC on the spot. They had prepared talks and papers on several artists of importance to the colony and on their backgrounds and now could test them in the reality of the natural sources of inspiration or while looking at some paintings by them – and so enter into an exchange of ideas, findings and expectations.

After Mondrian, Jacoba van Heemskerck was an important subject, of course, and so were Jan Toorop, Mies Elout- Drabbe, Lodewijk Schelfhout and many of the other artists participating in the so-called Domburgsche Tentoonstellingen (1911-1921).

Both activities show again how fruitful cooperation between euroart-Members can be and how good it is to have solid, central anchor points for it.

Six contemporary artists in harmony with nature.

With Jackie Bongers, Ineke de Brouwer, Johan Elenbaas, Rose de Groot, Charlotte Houwing and Michiel Paalvast.