Between 1949 and 1987 artists in the Netherlands received subsidies for delivering their art to the Dutch state. At the start of the, so called Visual Artists Arrangement (BKR), around 200 artists made use of the regulation.
At the end of the wild sixties artists occupied the ‘Nightwatch’-hall in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum to demand access to the BKR for many more artists. In 1983 artists burned their art to protest against the budget cuts in the BKR budget. In 1992 around 3000 artists where supplying art to the Dutch state that at the time already had around 200.000 artworks in stock.
Now the Dutch state decided to get rid of the arrangement and in advertisements artists are asked to and pick up their work. December 1996 is the last month for the pick up, but the BKR depots are still bulging of art and many artists did not come to pick up their art work. The last destination of the subsidised Dutch art will be the oven! A Boulevard Europa reportage.
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