The Facts
The Stedelijk Museum has updated its collection presentation 'Yesterday Today', which originally opened in 2022 and focuses on visual arts and design before 1950. The presentation features more than 300 works and highlights connections between art, design, and societal movements, including the Amsterdam School, Functionalism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, CoBrA, and the avant-garde surrounding Kazimir Malevich and Olga Rozanova. It emphasizes marginalized figures such as female collectors, curators, and artists like Charley Toorop, Else Berg, Nola Hatterman, Marlow Moss, and Sonia Delaunay, as well as female designers Margaret Kropholler and Charlotte Perriand. The display also explores themes of social justice, with artists like Julio González addressing workers' struggles, and gender norms, featuring figures like crossdresser Ferdinand Erfmann.
The Signal
The update reaffirms the Stedelijk's commitment to presenting a more inclusive and socially engaged art history, moving beyond canonical narratives. For collectors and curators, the emphasis on lesser-known female and queer figures from the early 20th century signals a broader institutional trend toward recovering marginalized voices. The presentation's focus on the interplay between art and political movements, such as theosophy and socialism, offers a model for how museums can contextualize historical works within contemporary debates on gender, labor, and technology.
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- Artists: Kazimir Malevich, Olga Rozanova, Charley Toorop, Else Berg, Nola Hatterman, Anneke van der Feer, Marlow Moss, Sonia Delaunay, Jacoba van Heemskerck, Margaret Kropholler, Charlotte Perriand, Julio González, Theo Colenbrander, Heinrich Campendonk, Sophia Elisabeth Warburg, Ferdinand Erfmann, Fré Cohen, Nico Schrier
- People: Sophia Adriana Lopez Suasso-de Bruijn
- Museums: Stedelijk Museum
- Locations: Amsterdam
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