{"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":"2026-02-19T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:21:50","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 26<\/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><strong>Dearly beloved, Emo Verkerk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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>The exhibition <em>Loved ones <\/em>can be seen on the second floor <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image: Barend, 1998<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Practical information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><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 26, 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><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emo Verkerk winnaar van de Victoriefonds Oeuvreprijs 2025 19 september t\/m 26 mei Dierbaren, Emo Verkerk In 1976 maakte Emo Verkerk op 21-jarige leeftijd zijn eerste kunstwerk: een verlengde keukenstoel die presentie benadrukt. Het was de start van een oeuvre vol portretten van historische figuren, van schrijvers tot sjamanen, die hem oprecht boeien. Zijn keuze<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":4,"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":10,"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1578\/revisions\/2448"}],"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}]}}