2024-12-21T21:54:00-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150346552/mvrdv-s-winy-maas-to-curate-biennale-on-threatened-van-gogh-landscapes Niall Patrick Walsh 2023-04-17T13:36:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/90/9084fa38231138efb654d0b0e6a1281d.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/327/mvrdv" target="_blank">MVRDV</a> founding partner <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1962758/winy-maas" target="_blank">Winy Maas</a> has been selected as curator for the Van Gogh Homeland Biennale. Set to launch in 2025, the event will draw attention to the Brabant landscapes in the Netherlands which featured in many <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/533210/van-gogh" target="_blank">Vincent Van Gogh</a> paintings more than a hundred years ago and are now under threat from climate change.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6c/6c8a896af249cf2e00a418a09ebdb7b2.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6c/6c8a896af249cf2e00a418a09ebdb7b2.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image credit: MVRDV</figcaption></figure><p>The <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/601880/biennial" target="_blank">Biennale</a> is part of a broader collaboration between Midpoint Brabant, MVRDV, and the Van Gogh Homeland Foundation, which aims to raise public awareness of the challenges faced by the Dutch landscape, where the number of flood events is increasing, and tensions are rising between farmers, cities, industries, and nature lovers over land use.&nbsp;<br></p> <p>The team hopes that a blend of architecture, landscape design, sustainability, and leisure backgrounds will &ldquo;show in an attractive and accessible way how the landscape that inspired Vincent van Gogh 150 years ago can be made more sustainable and greener in the future.&rdquo;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a9/a925160c8ada18fe5fac1d92af919f62.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a9/a925160c8ada18fe5fac1d92af919f62.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image credit: MVRDV</figcaption></figure><p>The Biennale will in...</p>