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Coosje van Bruggen (June 6, 1942 – January 10, 2009) was a Dutch-born American sculptor, art historian, and critic. [1] She collaborated extensively with her husband, Claes Oldenburg.
Jan 13, 2009 · Coosje van Bruggen, a critic, art historian and artist known for the colorful public sculptures she created around the world with her husband, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, died on Saturday...
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Shared History. 'From the modest to monumental', Pace Gallery 's latest exhibition in New York (Claes & Coosje: A Duet, 26 March–1 May 2021) highlights the sculptural collaborations of artist-duo Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, spanning the 1980s until the late 2000s.
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The duo met in 1970, when Claes Oldenburg's first major retrospective exhibition travelled to Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. Oldenburg had by then built a reputation as a key player in the Pop Art movement, becoming renowned for his enlarged sculptures of everyday items including French Fries and Ketchup (1963) and Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpilla...
In 1984, the duo expanded their practice into performance with Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife). Conceived for the 41st Venice Biennale that year, it culminated in Knife Ship I (1985), a giant Swiss army knife that doubled as a fully functioning ship floating in the Venetian Arsenal. The project was also a product of a collaboration ...
The commonplace nature of Oldenburg and van Bruggen's exaggerated objects often attracted controversy for their placement in public, and often prestigious, spaces. Shuttlecocks, the monumental, feathered projectiles proposed for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, in 1991, is one such example. However, the works were safely installed in 1...
Oldenburg and van Bruggen married in 1977 and continued to collaborate until van Bruggen's death in 2009. In 2021, Pace Gallery New York organised Claes & Coosje: A Duet, which highlighted the 'poetic explorations of objecthood' central to their practice, as Tessa Moldan wrote for Ocula Magazine. Among the works on view was Dropped Bouquet(2021), a...
Claes & Coosje: A Duet, Pace Gallery, New York (2021); Oldenburg and van Bruggen: The Typewriter Eraser, A Favored Form, Norton Museum of Art, Florida (2019); Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Things Around the House, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2015); Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Theater and Installation 1985–1990: II Corso de...
The Art of Collaboration, Venus Over Manhattan, New York (2018); American Masters 1940–1980, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2018); The Long Run, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (2017); Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980, Met Breuer, New York (2017); Sculpture on the Move 1947–2016, Kunstmuseum Basel (2016); America is...
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Jan 13, 2009 · Coosje van Bruggen, an art historian, writer, and curator whose professional partnership with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg, turned ordinary objects into startling monuments around the world, died of breast….
Jan 10, 2009 · Coosje van Bruggen was a Dutch-born American sculptor, art historian, and critic. She collaborated extensively with her husband, Claes Oldenburg.
Oct 7, 2022 · Remembering Claes Oldenburg, who died aged 93 on 18 July 2022, we revisit our 2021 article celebrating his partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, as the duo’s final work together, Dropped Bouquet, was realised and exhibited at Pace New York’s ‘Claes & Coosje: A Duet’
