Ex aequo with the Vila Casa Foundation, Han Nefkens has been awarded the best collector’s prize as part of the 2012  GAC Prizes (Galeries d’Art de Catalunya) – V Nit del Galerisme. The Award recognises Han Nefkens’ commitment and international focus in his support for contemporary art.

08 March 2012 – 18 April 2012
In You Are Not Alone 16 contemporary artists from around the world will give their individual visions on the causes, consequences and current context of Aids, as well as ways of fighting it. The pieces presented offer a vision of Aids from the perspective of different countries on different [...]

Han Nefkens has been named the winner of the 2012 Award for International Private Art Collecting, organised each year by the Friends of ARCO Association. The Award recognises Han Nefkens’ commitment and international focus in his support for contemporary art. It will be presented at an awards ceremony during this year’s ARCO art fair in [...]

Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. 08-09-2011

The ArtAids Foundation is pleased to announce that Gabriel Mascaro is the recipient of the ArtAids video production Grant 2011!
The ArtAids video Grant is an annual project to commission the production of an artist film which approaches aids/hiv or related issues in an innovative way. For this issue prestigious international curators, with a focus on [...]

21 October 2011 – 22 January 2012
“When you share, you are not alone”. Han Nefkens Founder and President of the ArtAids Foundation.
The Fundació Joan Miró, the  Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo (MARCO) and the ArtAids Foundation presented You Are Not Alone, an exhibition curated by Hilde Teerlinck, director of FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais/Dunkerque [...]

8 September. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona Lucy + Jorge Orta
70 x 7 The Meal act XXVI 70 x 7
The Meal act XXVI was the 26th act in Lucy + Jorge Orta’s ongoing banquets took place at the Fundació Joan Miró in support the ArtAids Foundation.
70 x 7 [...]

The Fundació Joan Miró, the Museo de Arte Contemporànea, Vigo (MARCO) and the ArtAids Foundation present You Are Not Alone, an exhibition curated by Hilde Teerlinck, director of FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais/Dunkerque and Irene Aristizábal.  The exhibition has the support and involves the collaboration of Mr Han Nefkens and is sponsored by [...]

The Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds has bestowed a Silver Carnation on arts patron Han Nefkens (Rotterdam, 1954). As a collector and promoter of arts projects, Nefkens plays an important role in bringing the ambitions of cultural institutions to fruition. By awarding him the Silver Carnation, the foundation honours Nefkens’ dedication and highlights the importance of patronage [...]

1 July – 18 September 2011 Opening: on Thursday, June 30 at 7.30 PM
“When you share, you are not alone”. Han Nefkens Founder and President of the ArtAids Foundation.
The Fundació Joan Miró, the  Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo (MARCO) and the ArtAids Foundation presented You Are Not Alone, an exhibition curated by Hilde Teerlinck, [...]

An Experimentem amb l’Art project organised by the ArtAids Foundation
From December 1 to 19, 2010
Tecla Sala Art Centre (L’Hospitalet)
The ArtAids Foundation presents the exhibition Intimate Spaces. Talking about AIDS, which is the fruit of an artistic and educational project in which a series of groups are invited to reflect on the concept of intimacy using [...]

After its Barcelona season, ‘On the Outside Looking In’ will be presented in Astúries  from September 15th to  December 2nd, 2010.

Exhibition Venues:

Sala de Exposiciones del Banco Herrero , Oviedo
Oviedo Meliá Hotel de la Reconquista, Oviedo
UTE Centro Penitenciario de Villabona, Llanera
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, [...]

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Saturday May 8th.
At 4.30 p.m Island of Gorée, near Dakar
At the Dak’art Biennale Off
Curator: Stef Van Bellingen
Dates: May 8 – 9, 2010
Venues:
City of Dakar: (performances from May 5th on)
Ferry to the Island of Gorée
Island of Gorée: (opening festivities May 8th at 4.30 p.m.)

Tous ensemble is an exhibition by ArtAids for Dak’art Off, part of [...]

Curator: Stef Van Bellingen
Dates: May 8 – 9, 2010
Venues:
City of Dakar: (performances from May 5th on)
Ferry to the Island of Gorée
Island of Gorée: (opening festivities May 8th at 4.30 p.m.)
Tous ensemble is an exhibition by ArtAids for Dak’art Off, part of the Dakar Biennale. African and European artists will work together, [...]

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Exhibition: ”More to Love. Thinking about AIDS from Art”
Casa Asia-Madrid Center
From the 17th of April to the finals of July 2010
Opening: Friday, 16th of April, at 7.30pm.
This exhibition is the result of the collaboration of Casa Asia with the ArtAids Foundation to promote the reflection on AIDS from the area of visual arts. The works that [...]

On February 24, the Catalan Association of Art Critics (ACCA) conferred the 2009 ACCA Award for Best Initiative to the ArtAids Foundation for the multiple-venue project ‘Mirant des de fora/From the Outside Looking In.’ The exhibition, curated by Miquel Bardagil, reflects on the feelings experienced by people living with HIV, through [...]

LA VANGUARDIA 25
15 March 2010
The writer and collector Han Nefkens recounts his experience living with HIV
“It awakened in me the desire to share”
The writer and art collector Han Nefkens (Rotterdam, 1854), has been fighting HIV for his own life since he found out he was HIV positive in 1987. He was 33 years old, [...]

Pilot Light: Debates and exchanges on contemporary art, artist talks and decoding societal issues
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Artist talks with artists in residence:
Mehdi A. and Anna-Katharina Scheidegger
Lille, Maison Folie Moulins
16.02 at 18h30
The discovery of art work is always exciting. Come meet the artists Anna-Katharina Scheidegger –in residence at the Hôpital St Vincent de Paul in Lille- and Mehdi A [...]

Mehdi A.
Transfert, 2009
Production of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque

The work of Mehdi A. is centered around meetings and connections. His performances reflect daily life, revealing small details previously unseen, and perhaps adding a bit of magic to it. The installation Transfert is being built gradually, following the path of the public, the residents, [...]

In cooperation with the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and the ArtAids Foundation, Espace le Carré, Maison Folie Moulins, Lycée Européen Montebello, Cinéma associatif de quartier l’Univers, Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul (Lille) and Hôpital Gustave Dron (Tourcoing) will offer an international approach which is closely linked to the onset of AIDS in the 80s, as [...]

The 1st Big Book of HIV Prevention will be produced in La Mina. The collaborative book will be created through the contributions of young and old, members of organisations and associations, workers and students, volunteers and participants in social projects: in short, by all the local residents who want to take an active role.
The book [...]

A 2-hour program aimed at secondary school students. Based on an analysis of the exhibited works, students will construct a new space of knowledge around AIDS and people who live with this illness. From December 3rd to 10th
The educational project that accompanies the exhibition “From the Outside Looking In” aims to use contemporary art as [...]

A project organised by ArtAids with the participation of twenty artists from Barcelona or with a special link to the city. The project is driven by a desire to increase awareness of the need for prevention and to reflect on the feelings of people living with HIV. The curator of the exhibition, Miquel Bardagil, sees it as the culmination of a project that began in 2008 and encompasses a very wide range of activities, some in collaboration with other institutions. In general, most of the artists participating in the project had not previously worked with the subject of Aids in any significant way, and thus the exhibition avoids predictable approaches and opens up new ways of seeing.

Opening ‘More to Love. The Art of Living Toguether’
December 1st, 2009 at 6.30pm
Casa Asia
Palau Baró de Quadras. Av. Diagonal, 373
Barcelona
An exhibition presented at Bangkok and Chiang-Mai (Thailand) in the summer of 2008. ArtAids brought together twenty European and Thai artist with people living with AIDS and others who are involved in the fight against the [...]

Visitors of the event Ontwikkelingssamenwerking.nu will be able to see one of Adriana Bertini’s ‘condom dresses’ and Cover, the series of photographs by Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig, commissioned by ArtAids. Ontwikkelingssamenwerking.nu is initiated by Bert Koenders, the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation. The event will take place on September 26, 2009 in the Fokker [...]

BECA/GRANT ART AIDS
Mataró artist, Veronica Aguilera, with her project “En volver”, has been named winner of the Grant awarded by the ArtAids Foundation in collaboration with Can Xalant. The Grant provides production funding for a new video project relating to the issue of AIDs. The completed work will be exhibitied in December.

Interview with Han Nefkens in the program Anima in TV3 talking about the Art Aids foundation and its participation in FIB 2009.
http://www.tv3.cat