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Dr. Renée Steenbergen is an independent advisor, researcher, journalist and curator on private collecting and patronage, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Steenbergen advises art organisations (visual, performing and litarary arts) about strategies to stimulate individual giving and is also a consultant to private collectors and individuals who intend to support the arts.
Bureau Renée Steenbergen
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email : info@ReneeSteenbergen.com
Just launched: the Care for Culture Centre, mediator between potential private donors and art organisations. Dr. Renée Steenbergen is currenly setting up the centre Care for Culture, a private initiative based in Amsterdam, focusing on mediation between private benefactors and public art institutions and art projects in The Netherlands and abroad.
Scientific Education
2002:
PhD University of Amsterdam on Private Art Collecting in The Netherlands (Publication)
1987:
MA Art History of the Modern Period and BA Classical Archaeology at University of Amsterdam.
Advisory and Research Functions
2011-2012:
Strategic Advisor to the Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, about developing a Trustee model for collectors and donors
Strategic Advise about a public-private initiative in Belgium to develop a new Museum of Modern Art
2010-2011:
Strategic advisor to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, about Developing a Vision and Protocol for relationships with priavte parties
External advisor to the Grachtenfestival for music events on and around the Amsterdam grachten. Developing a fundraising track for major donors.
External advisor to the Art Amsterdam Art Fair. Concept and organisation of the VIP-programs in 2010 and 2011. Themes: The Age of the Collector (2010) and Collectors go Public (2011)
2010:
External advisor to the Wereldmuseum for non westerns art in Rotterdam. Start up of a fundraising track for individual giving
2009-2010:
External advisor to the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam. Development of further individual giving under benefactors of the museum.
Since 2009:
Concept and development of a privately funded Kunsthalle (exposition centre) in The Netherlands, with option for building up a collection in cooperation with private collectors
Since 2008:
Development of the Care for Culture Centre for information and matching between private benefactors and art organisations (in cooperation with private parties and Dutch government)
2008-2009:
External adviser to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on committing private collectors to the new Stedelijk. Advisory report (November 2005).
2006-2009:
Member of the committe of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam concerning the exhibition Jewish Patronage in The Netherlands 1850-2000 (opening spring 2010). Author of a research essay on jewish patronage in Amsterdam between 1900 and 1940
2005-2008:
Research and writing of The New Patron. Culture and the return of private money, in cooperation with a Dutch private foundation
2004-2005:
External advisor to the Kröller-Müller Museum on building up a circle of private collectors
2002-2006:
External advisor and guest curator for the newly opened museum for private collections, De Fundatie in Zwolle.
2002:
Secretary of Audit committee of Rabobank Nederland art collection. Internal report assessing and discussing the future of the Rabo collection.
1996-2001:
PhD research into Dutch private art collectors: Anything costing that much is priceless. Art collecting in The Netherlands. Ancillary research post at University of Amsterdam. Commercial edition of PhD thesis: Iets wat zo veel kost, is alles waard. Verzamelaars van moderne kunst in Nederland (Anything costing that much is priceless: Collectors of modern art in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Vassallucci 2002).
1992-1995:
External advisor at the Ministry of Welfare, Health and Culture (WVC):
• Three-year study into the effects of Dutch galleries involvement in foreign art fairs; three reports: Marktverruiming (Expanding art markets);
• Study into the effects of the Temporary Purchase Subsidy Regulation (TASR) on the formation of collections in 32 Dutch museums, Collectie Nederland (report).
1989-1990:
Editorial advice and research for the television programme Kunstwerk (Artwork). Member of various museum acquisition committees, juries and local and national government advisory panels, including Mondrian Foundation (chair Interest Subsidy Regulation Committee), member of various private funds.
Lectures and symposiums
Speaker and moderator at congresses, corporate symposiums, annual meetings of business clubs and meetings of societies of fiends of museums. Subjects: the art market; art collecting; patronage; financing of art.
Assignments for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Cercle Caulois in Brussel, King Badouin Foundation in Brussels, Stichting Promotors Van Abbe Museum, VNO-NCW, Tefaf international art fair, Merrill Lynch private banking, Goldman Sachs international, Rabobank Nederland, ING Private Banking, Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers, Sponsoren Singer Museum, Teylers Museum, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Frisia Museum (now Scheringa Museum), Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Aboriginal Art Museum, University of Amsterdam, University of Leiden, Amsterdan Congress Organisation etc.
Press journalism
From 2007 onwards:
Regular contributor to Het Financieele Dagblad (the Dutch Financial Times) about art markets, private collecting and patronage.
Since 1987:
Regular writer for NRC Handelsblad (daily newspaper). Originally as art critic, since 2002 as investigative reporter. News reports, interviews, reviews, book reviews, in-depth reports, background articles and opinion pieces for the Cultural Supplement (gallery column from 1987 to 1997) and art pages, book section, and recently also for the Economy section and the Science supplement.
2001-2005:
Series of portraits of Dutch collectors, first in Kunstblad, since 2003 in Kunstbeeld.
Since 1989: Analytical pieces about art in bundles, monographs and museum catalogues.
In addition, journalistic contributions to various Dutch and English art magazines, including Archis, Flash Art, DutcH, Jong Holland, Kunstbeeld, Ons Erfdeel, het Veilingtijdschrift, De Witte Raaf, and pieces for diverse corporate publications.
Exhibition projects
2008-2011:
Guest researcher and curator of the large scale exhibition Four centuries of private collecting in The Netherlands in The Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam.
2006-2010:
Researcher for the exhibition Jewish Patronage in The Netherlands 1850-2000, opening in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam in spring 2010. Co-author of the catalogue Jewish Patronage.
2006:
Guest curator of a special exhibition about collecting during Tefaf international art fair. Parallel programme in Marres, centre of contemporary art and design in Maastricht. Theme: La Collection Imaginaire.
2002-2006:
Guest curator and content advisor for the Museum De Fundatie in Zwolle, which opened in 2006, dedicated to private collecting. Research and presentation of a series of showcases of donated collections (portraits of collectors and their collections). Guest curator of the opening exhibition Uitgepakt (No expense spared) featuring selections from seven private collections (with publication).
2001-2002:
Guest curator of Iets wat zo veel kost, is alles waard: tien Nederlandse privé-collecties (Anything costing that much is priceless: ten Dutch private collections) at De Beyerd in Breda, April-May 2002 (publication: commercial edition of PhD thesis).
1997-1998:
Coordination of a series of exhibitions in 22 Dutch art museums under the title Tentoongesteld! Kunstenaressen van de laatste 100 jaar (On Show! Women artists of the last hundred years), as part of the Honderd jaar Vrouw en Arbeid 1898-1998 (Century of Women and Work 1898-1998) national event (with publication).
1990-1991:
Guest curator at Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh of the Il faut être de son temps exhibition, jointly with Riekje Swart, gallery owner (with publication).
1989-1992:
Member of Museum Het Kruithuis, Den Bosch purchasing committee. Compiled various acquisitions shows (with publication).
1988-1989:
Collated research for exhibition of artists initiatives at Rijksmuseum Twente (with publication).
Scientific career
2010-2011:
Development of a scientific chair for the the study of Patronage in Europe, at a Dutch university, to be established in 2012
Since 2009
Guest lecturer on Collecting and Patronage at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam
Since 1997:
Guest lecturer at University of Amsterdam and University of Leiden (Art History, Art and Cultural Sociology and Cultural Studies). Lectures and supervision of research into cultural heritage, collecting, art criticism and PhD research.
1997-2001:
Research coach. Parallel to own PhD research, supervision of fifteen trainees and supervision of content of research for various MA theses about collecting and patronage.