Han Nefkens started to collect art in 2000. The H+F Collection, named after himself and his partner Felipe, is in long-term loan to various museums in The Netherlands and abroad. Nowadays Han Nefkens is not only active as a collector but also as an initiator of international art projects, often in collaboration with museums and other art institutions.
The Han Nefkens Foundation is a private non-profit organisation that was set up in Barcelona in 2009 with the aim of promoting the production of contemporary artworks. The mission is to stimulate artistic creation in Barcelona by offering international artists an opportunity to create artworks and interventions in the city, and to promote other fields of contemporary creation.
According to Han Nefkens, sharing is the antidote to loneliness, and he does so through his artistic and anti-AIDS projects and his writing. In 1995, he made his debut with the autobiographical novel Bloedverwanten (“Parents”), which was followed by Twee lege stoelen (“Two empty chairs”, 2006) and De gevlogen vogel (“The bird flew”, 2008). Nefkens also writes short pieces, “vignettes”.
Chattiya Nitpolprasert
Chattiya Nitpolprasert is a Bangkok-based curator whose work focuses on contemporary sociological issues. She received her MA in Cultural Management from Chulalongkorn University in 2005. In February 2008 she curated a group show entitled Paradise Engineering, scrutinising common mythologies in Thai society. She has recently worked as part of the curatorial team for Underlying, a travelling exhibition in Southeast Asia organised as part of the Mekong Art and Culture Project. Nitpolprasert is the curator of the 2008 More to Love project.