In the context of its anniversary the museum has invited ten collectors who are closely involved with the Van Abbemuseum to share their personal passion for the arts with the public. The collectors, who are all members of the Van Abbemuseum Promoters Foundation, selected one important work from their collection and explained their choice in a video interview which formed part of the exhibition. The museum itself also made a selection from these collections and in this way focused on a number of story lines within every individual collection. The works are exhibited on the five floors of the tower of the Van Abbemuseum, a very special setting for this exhibition. The internationally well-known designer Piet Hein Eek is responsible for the spatial design of the exhibition.

With The Collectors Show, visitors have a unique opportunity to see various works from private collections which are only rarely on display in the public domain. This reveals an important and generally invisible link in the history of the Van Abbemuseum.

Van Abbemuseum
Bilderdijklaan 10
5611 NH Eindhoven
The Netherlands