{"id":1578,"date":"2025-08-21T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/?post_type=exhibitions&#038;p=1578"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:15:13","slug":"loved-ones-emo-verkerk","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/tentoonstelling\/dierbaren-emo-verkerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearly beloved, Emo Verkerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Emo Verkerk winner of the 2025 Victoriefonds Oeuvre Prize<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Sept. 19 to May 31<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tickets.stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/#\/tickets\/tickets\">Plan your visit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dearly beloved, Emo Verkerk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1976, at the age of 21, Emo Verkerk created his first work of art: an extended kitchen chair that emphasizes presence. It was the start of a body of work full of portraits of historical figures, from writers to shamans, that genuinely fascinate him. His choice is intuitive, based on sympathy, not admiration. Each encounter leads to a unique method of painting, sometimes even multiple portraits of one person. For Verkerk, painting is about empathy, not as a means but as a consequence. The portrait emerges from the past and appears in the present. A reflection on art, culture and the human psyche. The exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, however, shows an almost unknown side of his work: portraits of people from his immediate surroundings, brought together under the title, Pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition <em>Loved ones <\/em>can be seen on the second floor <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image: Barend, 1998<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Practical information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exhibition:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Loved ones - <\/em>Emo Verkerk<br><strong>Opening Hours<\/strong>: Tue to Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m.<br><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Canadaplein 1<br><strong>Dates:<\/strong>\u00a0September 19, 2025 to May 31, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tickets.stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/#\/tickets\/tickets\">Plan your visit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emo Verkerk winner of the Victoriefonds Career Achievement Award 2025 September 19 through May 31 Loved ones, Emo Verkerk In 1976, at the age of 21, Emo Verkerk created his first work of art: an elongated kitchen chair that emphasizes presence. It was the start of an oeuvre full of portraits of historical figures, from writers to shamans, who genuinely fascinate him. His choice<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/tentoonstelling\/dierbaren-emo-verkerk\/\" title=\"Read moreAnimal bars, Emo Verkerk\">... Read more \"<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1630,"menu_order":6,"template":"","class_list":["post-1578","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1578\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}