As part of a new series on important Dutch Artists working today, Niewsuur visited Jacqueline de Jong's studio to discuss the artist's career.
Jacqueline de Jong lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and in Bourbonnais, France. In May 2023, De Jong was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2019 the AWARE Prize for Women Artists presented her with the Outstanding Merit Award in recognition of her exceptional career. That same year, These are Situationist Times! (Torpedo Press, Oslo), an in-depth history of the publication, was launched at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and MoMA PS1, New York, NY. Her archive, Jacqueline de Jong Papers, was acquired in 2011 by the Beinecke Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Solo museum exhibitions include The Ultimate Kiss, WIELS, Brussels (2021), touring to MOSTYN, Wales (2021-22) and Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany (2022); Pinball Wizard: The Work and Life of Jacqueline de Jong, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Jacqueline de Jong, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (2018-19); Jacqueline de Jong & The Situationist Times, Malmö Konsthall (2018-19); and Jacqueline de Jong: Undercover in de kunst, Cobra Museum for Contemporary Art, Amstelveen (2003).
De Jong was among the artists selected to be part of a new exhibition at Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, curated by Annabelle Ténèze, Director at Louvre Lens, and organised in collaboration with Musée du Louvre and Paris+ par Art Basel, opening October 2023. In 2024 she will have a major solo exhibition at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, FL.
De Jong is currently included in a Collection Presentation at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Everyday, Someday and Other Stories, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Cobra 75: Freedom without Borders, Cobra Museum for Contemporary Art, Amstelveen. Other recent group exhibitions include BPS22 Musée d’art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi (2023); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2022 and 2017); The Warehouse, Dallas (2021); Lenbachhaus, Munich (2020); Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2018); and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (2018).
Collections include Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Le Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris; Musée les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Amsterdam Museum; Cobra Museum for Modern Art, Amstelveen; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; Museum Arnhem; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum Jorn, Silkeborg; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; MONA, Tasmania; Elie Khouri Art Foundation, Dubai; Kunstmuseum Göteborg; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Rachofsky Collection, TX; and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
