Jouw huis is mijn huis
Smakelaarshoek (opposite inntel hotel)
In 1991, the Centraal Museum organized the controversial exhibition Night Rules. 25 Artists from the Netherlands and abroad made new work that could be seen in the city at sunset. This artwork by Sef Peeters (1947 – 2019) is a remake of the work he made for this exhibition. In the summer, the artwork will move to the museum’s inner garden, as a prelude to the new collection set-up that will open in 2023.
“‘My house is your house’ is the expression for ultimate hospitality. Peeters turns it around: ‘Your house is my house’ and this makes a claim to the viewer’s world of thoughts with a wink. The person who reads the text gives shelter to the work of art”
Artist: Sef peeters
Dutch
Sef Peeters developed visual arts at various academies in Tilburg, Amsterdam, Krefeld (DE) and Maastricht (1965-1973) and then studied in Breda. As early as 1976, the importance of his work was recognized by the initiators of the legendary art initiative De Appel in Amsterdam. Not much later (1978-79), Bureau Buitenland invited Peeters for a traveling group exhibition Personal Worlds, including work by Bas Jan Ader, Pieter Laurens Mol and Moniek Toebosch.
This was followed by exhibitions at home and abroad. His work is represented in the collections of the Centraal Museum (Utrecht), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Stedelijk Museum Breda, Noord Brabants Museum (‘s-Hertogenbosch) and Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen Bremen (DE). The exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Breda in 2020 is the last major project in which the artist himself was closely involved.
Language is an important tool for Sef Peeters. His often conceptual works are playful and deadly serious at the same time.
