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”.
SpainPERFECT LOVERS. ART IN THE TIME OF AIDS. BARCELONA 01/10/2014 – 24/01/2015
The exhibition PERFECT LOVERS opens up new paths and new approaches for interacting with our environment, and allows us to share with everyone an experience that cannot fail to move us all.
Artists: Derek Jarman, Pepe Espaliú, Peter Hujar, Robert Gober, General Idea, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Eulàlia Valldosera, Keren Cytter and Willem De Rooij.