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This summer, Antony Gormley (1950) takes over the museum and estate of Voorlinden. The British artist is renowned worldwide for his sculptures and installations that investigate the relationship between the human body and the space around us. GROUND brings together work spanning Gormley鈥檚 career, from his early lead sculptures to new installations that are custom made for Voorlinden. The groundbreaking show is the biggest solo exhibition Voorlinden has ever presented and will be on display from 26 May through 25 September 2022. 

Gormley approaches the age-old subject of the human body in his own unique, yet universal and philosophical way, building on art history and conceptual sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s. And his solo exhibition GROUND will be one of the most ambitious exhibitions in the history of Voorlinden, the first to occupy both the museum and the surrounding estate.

Head of Exhibitions Barbara Bos: 鈥楾hrough sculpture, Gormley invites us all to explore, experience and question our place in the universe.鈥�

The exhibition includes artworks from the Voorlinden collection that are on display for the first time in the Netherlands. This includes Passage, a 12-metre-long human-shaped tunnel that offers a journey into darkness and the unknown. Another Dutch premiere is Breathing Room, an expansive work in which you can experience standing in a three-dimensional drawing in space, while in Amazonian Field, 24,000 handmade terracotta puppets stare at you confrontationally. Extending outside, Critical Mass puts sculpture in dialogue with the museum鈥檚 extensive grounds: sixty solid cast iron bodyforms will be placed in relation with the trees, lawns, canals and reedbeds of the park.