keizersgracht 62-64
1015 CS amsterdam
postal address: P.O. Box 15530 1001 NA amsterdam
t 020 5305500
info@khardzhiev.nl
keizersgracht 62-64
1015 CS amsterdam
postal address: P.O. Box 15530 1001 NA amsterdam
t 020 5305500
info@khardzhiev.nl
The foundation's activities focus on achieving its statutory objective, namely managing, conserving, exhibiting, and maintaining the collection of paintings, watercolors, gouaches, lithographs, etchings, drawings, manuscripts, and books collected by Khardzhiev. The statutory objective also includes promoting scientific study and public attention and appreciation for the art collection and archive that Khardzhiev built up – independently and in mutual connection, but also in relation to the avant-garde to which they relate.
Through the Stedelijk Museum, the foundation has also frequently collaborated on loans from the collection in recent years, including to museums in Berlin, Paris, and New York. As soon as the foundation was able to legally acquire the collection in April 2000, it entered into a loan agreement with the Stedelijk Museum. The works on loan have since been restored and conserved.
The foundation is currently working on expanding its contacts with Ukrainian and other (Central) European partners and museums. In addition, in the 2000s and early 2010s, in collaboration with the Russian state archive RGALI, it also realized the complete disclosure of the extremely valuable Khardzhiev archive. After intensive consultations with representatives of the archive and the Russian government, cooperation agreements were concluded in 2006 and 2011. The Dutch ‘physical’ part of the archive was transferred to the RGALI in Moscow.
The foundation currently has no ties with the RGALI archive, but the agreements stipulate that the archive has been reproduced on microfilm and that, in addition to the RGALI, it can also be consulted in Amsterdam. The collection can be viewed here by appointment at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and at the Special Collections Library of the University of Amsterdam. For contact details for these institutions, please refer to the museum's library page and the UvA's collection page respectively. The foundation's activities focus on achieving its statutory objective, namely managing, conserving, exhibiting, and maintaining the collection of paintings, watercolors, gouaches, lithographs, etchings, drawings, manuscripts, and books collected by Khardzhiev. The statutory objective also includes promoting scientific study and public attention and appreciation for the art collection and archive that Khardzhiev built up – independently and in mutual connection, but also in relation to the avant-garde to which they relate.
Through the Stedelijk Museum, the foundation has also frequently collaborated on loans from the collection in recent years, including to museums in Berlin, Paris, and New York. As soon as the foundation was able to legally acquire the collection in April 2000, it entered into a loan agreement with the Stedelijk Museum. The works on loan have since been restored and conserved.
The foundation is currently working on expanding its contacts with Ukrainian and other (Central) European partners and museums. In addition, in the 2000s and early 2010s, in collaboration with the Russian state archive RGALI, it also realized the complete disclosure of the extremely valuable Khardzhiev archive. After intensive consultations with representatives of the archive and the Russian government, cooperation agreements were concluded in 2006 and 2011. The Dutch ‘physical’ part of the archive was transferred to the RGALI in Moscow.
The foundation currently has no ties with the RGALI archive, but the agreements stipulate that the archive has been reproduced on microfilm and that, in addition to the RGALI, it can also be consulted in Amsterdam. The collection can be viewed here by appointment at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and at the Special Collections Library of the University of Amsterdam. For contact details for these institutions, please refer to the museum's library page and the UvA's collection page respectively.
As soon as the foundation gradually gained actual possession of the art collection and the archive, it placed them in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Since then, three exhibitions featuring works from the collection have taken place:
This last exhibition was organised by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in collaboration with Tate Modern in London and the Kunsthalle Bonn, where a selection of works from the Khardzhiev and Costakis collections were on display. The exhibition opened in Amsterdam and then traveled to Bonn and London.
In October 2013, the scholarly catalogue raisonné of the collection was published, in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Nai010 Publishers. The catalogue is the result of a decade of in-depth study and scholarly work by staff from the Stedelijk Museum and other international experts. This comprehensive catalogue (comprising 512 pages and 930 images, compiled by Stedelijk staff members Geurt Imanse and Frank van Lamoen) was presented at a symposium organised in 2014 in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum. The symposium focused on (art) historical aspects of private collections, particularly those that have left their country of origin, and on how the public interest in these private collections can be sustainably safeguarded.
