H+F
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.
Fundació Han Nefkens
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.
Han Nefkens
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”.
Jacqueline van Tongeren
Jacqueline van Tongeren is a member of the Board of ArtAids. She is Director of Communications of the Center for Poverty-related Communicable Diseases (CPCD), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the PharmAccess Foundation and Health Insurance Fund and Liaison Officer to Professor Joep Lange. She has worked in the field of HIV/Aids since 1986, heading an HIV/Aids ward in the clinic, and in the out-patient clinic as coordinating research nurse. Now she coordinates many HIV/Aids- and health-related projects. She ran an art gallery in Amsterdam in the 1970s and 1980s.