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.
Han Nefkens
Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat was born in 1957 in Qazvin, Iran, and currently lives in New York.
Neshat has had numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museums worldwide, including the National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Serpentine Gallery, London; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, León, Spain; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, and the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. She has won a number of prizes, including the Golden Lion Award at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999 and the Lillian Gish Prize in 2006.
Her first feature film, Women Without Men, won the Silver Lion Award at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009.