Willem Van Genk
MEGALOPOLIS
Exhibition
04.03.21 – 27.06.21
Opening
04.03.21, 18:30
![The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/OTJL8kQizUqxrtDKtjWginYP6zMcNu0cSRHn69OO.jpeg)
![The Project Asbery Moscow, ca. 1970, oil on fibreboard, 84 × 189 cm, Collection Dolhuys, Haarlem](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/pe0HB2P1mBmvu62bTUR3lyh3LVhfbxQu0CGyo4jL.jpeg)
![The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom, Collection Dick Walda](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/yDlROW6GgeyG9GDPU2RAWVWmC53KMQMLPqtCIMbF.jpeg)
![The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/eHpGeFxGIwOAqN4dphuuj33pXEaxPFzPuGOUzujm.jpeg)
![The Project Asbery Moscow, ca. 1970, oil on fibreboard, 84 × 189 cm, Collection Dolhuys, Haarlem](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/lFjOFVuIEHjxvbN03ky8oQjAcxesXLHafkXIY3nC.jpeg)
![The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom, Collection Dick Walda](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/FUZEktQmVJaYHOrtpAeyJvnBQ0rpeRxOt3Q58yww.jpeg)
![Tube Station, 1970, mixed media and collage, 75 x 124 cm, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne photo : AN – Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/FEs93IXKFlZ69PSVqirHwPlMEFAYwt1TzZcJYeEC.jpeg)
![Parnasky Culture, 1972, oil on fibreboard, 70 x 142 cm, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne photo : AN – Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/2y5zn6ABoxkH9aaLFPz8jbAfnygk55gPhiUKwQ8y.jpeg)
![Moskou, 1966, collage and drawing on paper, 94,5 × 173 cm, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne photo : AN – Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/TKQJGNvaogGTmLS8FnlAUfOP0gFagkM3AboMPBUf.jpeg)
Willem van Genk (1927–2005) is a Dutch Art Brut artist whose works – drawings, paintings and model buses - entered the Lausanne museum in the 1980s, when Jean Dubuffet introduced him to Michel Thévoz, the first director of the Collection de l'Art Brut.
Artist
Willem Van Genk
Curators
Pascale Jeanneret, Sarah Lombardi
Participants
Fondation Willem van Genk, Museum Dr. Guislain, Museum of the Mind | Outsider Art, Stedelijk Museum
Download
Press release (PDF)
Location
Collection de l'Art Brut
11, av. des Bergières
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
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Website
https://www.artbrut.ch