It appears that your browser has JavaScript disabled. The SecSign ID login requires your browser to be JavaScript enabled.SecSign Support

Please donate!

We invest in our journalism. We are independent. Thanks to donations from readers like you!

Donate

Choose a payment method

Would you like to share your details with us?

No Yes

Name

First name

Surname

E-mail (not compulsory)

Confirm E-mail (not mandatory)

If you are human, leave this field blank.

Karin Sommerer

Participant in the fourth edition of the Leadership in Culture programme.

Keith Haring, Untitled (velum), 1986. Installation 2017. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

I call on the cultural sector of the Netherlands: put 80% of your marketing budget into cultural education.

by Karin Sommerer
29 January 201829 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL, Leadership in Culture, PERSONAL, SPECIALS, SPONSORED

In my work, I entice people to come into contact with art. And especially art with a big K. The art that is often marketed as 'difficult' or, in an attempt to get rid of its negative image, as 'vulnerable'. Liberal politicians would perhaps say art that 'doesn't act normal'. It is the kind of...