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”.
Javier Peñafiel
(Saragossa, 1964)
Javier Peñafiel is an artist who uses photography, drawing, video, installation, writing and performance to explore the paths of language, the construction of the self and the individual’s relationship to different social structures. He then displays points of contact, crossroads where we may find possible critical portrayals of society.
Participates in On the outside looking in with the work:
Victim of Diagnosis (2009)
Drawings, variable dimensions.
eople living with HIV suffer a double dose of victimisation. When they are diagnosed they are branded with everything that the statistics say. The source of the transmission, behavioural patterns and the possibilities of the illness progressing explain their past, present and future, in a compendium that doesn’t come from them, but from others.