What is your favourite work in the exhibition?
Christoph (depot manager): "For me, it's Hotel Chelsea Bathroom by Valerio Adami. I'm not normally a big fan of Adami, but I love this painting. Not only aesthetically, but it captures the pop art vibe."
"He paints a bathroom of a hotel in the 60s, where all the big name artists came together. It captures the imagination and it registers the atmosphere of the time very well. It's also a large work, which only makes it more impressive."
Brice (production manager): "My favourite work is Große Pyramide from 1966 by Gerhard Richter. It is an atypical work for pop art, but it was painted in the period of pop art, from the 'European' side. It does represent the everyday but the focus is not sharp. He painted a blurred painting of a sharp, realistic picture."
What should you pay attention to when hanging valuable works?
Christoph: "It seems obvious, but the most important thing is that the works of art hang straight. That is why you always have to focus on two points, because the museum walls can also be crooked."
"In addition, the work must also be hung in the correct position. We once hung a work upside down because the artist had signed 'at the bottom' on the back, but it was the signature that was wrong, not the image (laughs). Finally, an assembly also requires cleanliness and detail. You have to clean everything up afterwards, because sometimes a small skirting board is forgotten, and the drilling dust is left on it...".
What do you do between two exhibitions?
Brice: "Then I am mainly busy with the preparation of a new exhibition. We plan which exhibition will be held when, with which loans, and we prepare the rooms. I use the SketchUp programme to create the layout of the rooms and which artworks will be displayed where."
"In addition, we also have to literally check the works. We call that making a 'condition report'. That way, we look at the work carefully and see whether it needs to be restored by our colleagues of the collection team. We also arrange all transport - because we have a depot under the football field in Ghelamco, for example - transport and insurance..."Christoph: "I also work partly in the collection department where, after an exhibition has been built up, I start on the work that was left over there. For example, I prepare works of art for transport to another museum, or I literally make the box in which the work of art is stored."
