Bibliography
La utópica Nueva Babilonia de Constant
2016
CID: 1724
Article on the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia at Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid in Hoyesarte, January 5, 2016.
De gedroomde stad van Constant Nieuwenhuys
2016
CID: 1721
Review of the exhibition Constant. New Babylon at Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, October 20, 2015 till February 29, 2016 by Karel Ankerman for Financieel Dagblad, January 2, 2016.
Constant Thinking, Museo Reina Sofía
2016
CID: 2140
A blog about a visit to Museo Reina Sofía and the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia by writer, curator and art historian Alexandra Goldman.
La Nueva Babilonia del artista Constant
2016
CID: 1726
A review of the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia at the Museo Reina Sofía, by José Catalán Deus on periodistadigital.com, October 23, 2015.
La nueva Babilonia de Constant
2016
CID: 2065
Review of the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia at the Museo Reina Sofía Madrid.
Constant. New Babylon. Aan ons de vrijheid
2016
CID: 2005
This book and catalog to the exhibition in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, (28.05 2016 - 02.10.2016) focuses not only on the architectural aspects but embraces them as an artist’s synthesis of the arts. Besides his models, drawings, and collages, attention is also given to the designs in order to trace the creative artistic process. This not only provides extensive insight into utopian urban planning, but to a greater degree into a mode of thought and imagination.
Constant. New Babylon. To Us Liberty
2016
CID: 2006
This book and catalog to the exhibition in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, (28.05 2016 - 02.10.2016) focuses not only on the architectural aspects but embraces them as an artist’s synthesis of the arts. Besides his models, drawings, and collages, attention is also given to the designs in order to trace the creative artistic process. This not only provides extensive insight into utopian urban planning, but to a greater degree into a mode of thought and imagination.
Constant. Ruimte + kleur
2016
CID: 2003
Catalogue of the exhibition Constant. Ruimte + Kleur at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen, May 28-September 25, 2016.
Constant. Space + colour
2016
CID: 2004
Catalogue of the exhibition Constant. Ruimte + Kleur at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen, May 28-September 25, 2016.
Constant. Spelen in Nieuw Babylon
2016
CID: 2008
The book Constant - Spelen in Nieuw Babylon takes children on a journy into the world of Constant. Constant is a visionary artist, who lives in a big, grey city, where people have to work hard and nobody has time to play.
European Stars
2016
CID: 7632
Catalog with the exhibition European Stars - Miró & CoBrA at Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum Bratislava from June 30 till November 13, 2016.
Human Animals | The Art of Cobra
2016
CID: 2290
Organized by NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale and guest-curated by UMass Amherst assistant professor Karen Kurczynski, a leading scholar of Danish Cobra artist Asger Jorn (1914–1973), who represents a new generation of art historians specializing in Cobra, the exhibition presents the history of Cobra through paintings, sculpture, prints, and primary documents by artists such as Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Constant, and Corneille.
Le Rêve
2016
CID: 7770
Catalogue for the exhibition Le Rêve held from 17 September 2016 till 22 January 2017 at Musée Cantini in Marseille, France.
On “Constant. New Babylon”
2016
CID: 7123
The Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Den Haag, will be hosting an exhibition called Constant. New Babylon until 29 February 2016, bringing together some 150 works by the founder of the CoBrA European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951.
Zie de mens
2016
CID: 3178
Book accompanying the exhibition Zie de mens. 100 jaar, honderd gezichten in Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle.
Manifesto
2015
CID: 2496
A video installation of 13 short films (10 min) by Julian Rosenfeldt starring Cate Blanchet. The installation premiered in 2015 in Australia. The short where Cate Blanchet plays a homeless man is amongst others based on the text from Constant's Manifest for the Experimental Group Holland in 1948.
Nueva Babilonia, el país sin bandera de Constant
2015
CID: 1723
A review of Constant. Nueva Babilonia, by Javier Montes for ABC.es, November 13, 2015
Hoe creativiteit een talent van iedereen en een oplossing voor alles werd
2015
CID: 1795
Essay by Lynn Berger for de Correspondent about the commercialisation of creativity and Constant's New BabylonFebruary 16, 2015
Max Arian | Journalist
2015
CID: 2769
In this interview for the Oral History Project of Fondation Constant journalist Max Arian speaks about his interview with Constant for his article in magazine De Groene Amsterdammer in 1995 (published in January 17, 1996). He recollects how the interview with Constant influenced his biography of Willem Sandberg and Constant's personality. His critical view of Sandberg shed new light on his impression of the legendary museum director.
Interviewer: Karel Ankerman
Karel van Stuijvenberg | Collector
2015
CID: 2767
In this interview for the Oral History Project of Fondation Constant art collector Karel van Stuijvenberg tells about his encounters with Constant, his obsession with collecting CoBrA art, organisingexhibitions in South-Amerika and the exhibition he made in Caracas with Graphic Work by Constant. | Interviewer: Karel Ankerman
Audio of the full interview, executed and documented in Dutch, is available in the archive for research purposes. Email Kim van der Horst for more information.
Critic's Choice 'The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up' at Blum & Poe: Startling work of Cobra artists
2015
CID: 2087
Review of the exhibition The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
Constant y Bill, nuestra utopía, nuestra realidad
2015
CID: 2067
Review of the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia at Museo Reina Sofía Madrid.
Europe’s 1940s Cobra Movement Rears its Head in the Contemporary Art World
2015
CID: 2088
Review of the exhibition The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
The Avant Garde Won't Give Up
2015
CID: 2092
Radio: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp talks about the plucky CoBrA artists at Blum & Poe.