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Zuiderzee Settings by Kiki van Eijk and The Poor Man’s Gold by Joost van Bleiswijk.

Zuiderzee Settings is a series of seven pieces of furniture based on the applied art collection of the Zuiderzee Museum and the history of the Zuiderzee. Kiki van Eijk paid several visits to the depot and stayed in the Museum Park for a brief period. She has designed new objects referring to everyday domestic customs and crafts. The cupboards and the ceramics have been manufactured by the most reputable Dutch firms using traditional methods.

The Poor Man’s Gold is a series of four chests based on the travels of the Dutch East India Company. As a rule these trade missions sailed from Enkhuizen, the home base of the Zuiderzee Museum. Joost van Bleiswijk gives his interpretation of this part of Dutch history. The chests are about the battle of good and evil, prosperity and poverty and about robbing or being robbed.

The Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen focuses on the history, current events and future of the IJsselmeer. The Zuiderzee was dammed by means of the IJsselmeer Dam in 1932 and thus became the IJsselmeer. The Zuiderzee Museum is a museum of the region, which has an international allure and attraction due to its activities, approach and forms of cooperation. Communities, crafts and water are central.

Each year the Museum commissions prominent artists and designers to visualize their views of the collection and the Museum. Through their contemporary interpretations, the story of the Zuiderzee, the battle of land and water, is retold. In the past few years commissions were given to Studio Job, Maarten Baas, Atelier van Lieshout, Hugo Kaagman, Scholten and Baijings, Christien Meindertsma, Aldo Bakker and Zoro Feigl.

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