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About Banksy
Banksy is the pseudonym of a street artist whose identity remains unknown and is known for his controversial, and often politically themed, stenciled pieces.
Banksy’s career started in the 90’s
In the early 1990s, Banksy began his graffiti career in the Bristol’s graffiti gang DryBreadZ Crew. In the late ’90s, he began using stencils predominantly although before hand it was mostly freehand.
Banksy developed his signature style and become more widely recognized around Bristol and in London.
Banksy characteristics
The artwork of Banksy is characterized by striking images, often combined with slogans. Often engaged with political themes, satirically critiquing war, capitalism, hypocrisy and greed. Common subjects Banksy uses include rats, apes, policemen, members of the royal family, and children.
Banksy: two-dimensional and installation artwork
In addition to his two-dimensional work, Banksy also creates installation artwork. One of the most celebrated of these pieces features a live elephant painted with a Victorian wallpaper pattern.
Media attention for Banksy
Banksy has drawn attention with his other pieces that have edgy themes or the boldness of their execution. Banksy’s work on the West Bank barrier (between Israel and Palestine) received great media attention in 2005. Copyrighted material and subversion of classic images is also something Banksy is known for. An example of this is Banksy’s version of Monet’s famous series of water lilies paintings, adapted by Banksy to include drifting trash and debris.
Banksy worldwide fame
Banksy’s worldwide fame has transformed his artwork from acts of vandalism to high art pieces. Interest in Banksy escalated with the release of the 2010 documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Academy Award.
Banksy in the streets of New York
Banksy took to the streets of New York City in October 2013. He wanted to create a new piece of art for each day of his residency where he stated that the plan was to live there and react to things, to see the sights — and paint on them. Some would be pretty elaborate, and some would just be a scrawl on a toilet wall. In that month, he also sold some of his works on the street for $60 a piece, well below the market value for his art.
Banky’s Identity
Despite intense speculation Banksy’s identity remains unknown. The two real names most often suggested for Banksy are Robert Banks and Robin Gunningham. Pictures that surfaced of a man who was supposedly Banksy pointed toward Gunningham, an artist who was born in Bristol in 1973. Gunningham moved to London around 2000, a timeline that correlates with the progression of Banksy’s artwork. In 2016 a scientific study of heat maps normally used to catch criminals claims to have finally confirmed identity of mystery street artist Banksy.
News
New in the Moco collection
“SWAT Van” by Banksy
SWAT Van is one of the most ambitions works by Banksy to appear on the open market; nowhere else have his greatest strengths been combined to such success as in the present work.
Banksy’s classic response to fear and tyranny is laughter and in the case of the present work the artist toys with his anti-establishment persona, ridiculing the police not just by depicting a scene in which heavily armed, faceless Special Forces agents are hoodwinked by a small boy but by doing so on the very apparatus of their strength. Banksy’s best works combine vicious black humour with clarity of message that many of the best advertisers would kill for and a rage that simply will not be ignored. His playfulness is the velvet glove that hides the iron fist of a social conscience honed on the streets of Bristol and which found its apotheosis in his breakout show Barely Legal in Los Angeles in 2006. The SWAT Van was acquired directly from this exhibition and has remained in the same magnificent collection of Lord Edward Spencer Churchill -Rothschild ever since.
Moco Banksy water in Kenya with Join the Pipe!
Nursery and students with disabilities at Arap Moi Primary school in Ongata Rongai (Kajiado North) were so happy to receive Join The Pipe Amsterdamwater bottles enabling them to bring drinking clean water fom home since at school there is no clean water except rain water.
See more at join-the-pipe.org
Moco Museum brings Banksy to the streets of Amsterdam
Moco (Modern/Contemporary) Museum blijft verrassen met toonaangevende kunstwerken en plaatste eerder vandaag permanent een levensgroot werk van Britse Street Art-legende Banksy in de tuin van het museum. Moco stelt Banksy’s vrijstaande muurschildering ‘Heart Boy’ vanaf vandaag geheel kosteloos tentoon aan alle voorbijgangers van het Museumplein in Amsterdam, waar het museum gelegen is. Nog nooit eerder werd er een street piece van de activistische kunstenaar geplaatst in Amsterdam.
Moco Museum in Amsterdam opent zijn deuren met exposities van Warhol & Banksy
Mocomuseum is een uniek museum omdat het als eerste museum in de wereld een tentoonstelling van Banksy laat zien. Het werk van deze Iconische graffiti-artiest komt uit diverse privé collecties. Alle bekende doeken zijn vertegenwoordigd, The girl with balloon, the flower thrower, noem ze maar op.Maar ook onbekende stukken zijn te zien, waardoor een breed beeld van de nummer een artiest van de wereld duidelijk wordt. In het museum voor Modern en contemporary art in Amsterdam is behalve streetart ook een expositie te zien van legende Andy Warhol. De koning van popart. De expositie “Royals’, laat naast zijn liefde voor beroemde mensen zijn liefde voor het gewone, zoals zijn favourite tomaten soep van Campbell zien.
Middels quotes en een videoroom, leer je in een aangenaam moment meer over deze top kunstenaars.
Plan your visit / buy tickets
Opening hours
Open daily from 10-18 h.
Order your E-tickets here.
You can order your ticket directly via the ticket counter at the museum.
But if you order your e-ticket now, you do not have to go to the ticket counter with an E-ticket or Membership card.
This also goes for or an admission ticket purchased in a hotel, from a boat tour company or through a Moco Museum reseller.
- Ticket price 12,50 euro.
- Students 10,00 euro.
- Children (6-16 years): 7,50 euro.
Amsterdam Museum card
The Amsterdam Museum card is in application. Unfortunately we can not accept it at this time.
As a gesture we give museum card holders a 10% discount on the admission price.
Directions
The Moco Museum is situated on the Museum Square opposite of the Rijksmuseum and next to the Van Gogh Museum.
Groups
For group visits please contact hello@mocomuseum.com
Exhibitions
Banksy: Laugh Now
April 9, 2016 until December 31, 2016
Warhol: Royal
April 9, 2016 until October 15, 2016
Step into the world of Banksy and Warhol. Explore the works by these two icons in Moco Museum in Amsterdam, featuring masterpieces such as Beanfield by Banksy and Marilyn by Andy Warhol
Banksy: Laugh Now
On the ground floor you will find the elaborate Banksy “Laugh Now” exhibition. The exhibition contains around 50 original works by Street Art-legend Banksy. For the first time in history there is a Banksy exhibition in a museum. More info.
Warhol: Royal
On the lower ground floor you will find the exhibition “Royal” by Pop Art-protagonist Andy Warhol. More than twenty years after his death Andy Warhol remains one of the most influential figures in contemporary art and culture. More info.
Banksy Amsterdam
Banksy: Laugh Now
On the ground floor you will find the elaborate Banksy “Laugh Now” exhibition. The exhibition contains around 50 original works by Street Art-legend Banksy. For the first time in history there is a Banksy exhibition in a museum.
Moco museum is displaying all his famous works like Laugh Now, Barcode, Girl with Balloon, Kids on Guns, Pulp Fiction, Flower Thrower, Monkey Queen, Kate Moss, Bomb Hugger, Soup Can and many more.The main piece during this exhibition is the painting “Beanfield”, which is 2,5 x 3,5 meters. This piece has not been on display since 2009. A very important canvas that characterises Banksy as an activist artist. Banksy is well known for his outdoor art. You can find his pieces of street art all around the world. In London you can even buy maps marking the locations where you can find these pieces of art, which are mostly protected. Not everyone knows that Banksy also makes art for indoors. Original and unique works on canvas, wood and paper.
At Moco museum you will find his indoor art, owned by collectors who bought these pieces at Banksy’s exhibitions in the past. There are also a few pieces at Moco that were rescued from the rubble of buildings that were torn down.
Warhol
Warhol: Royal
On the lower ground floor you will find the exhibition “Royal” by Pop Art-protagonist Andy Warhol. More than twenty years after his death Andy Warhol remains one of the most influential figures in contemporary art and culture. More info.
Warhol’s life and work inspires creative thinkers worldwide thanks to his enduring imagery and artfully cultivated celebrity. A skilled (analog) social networker, Warhol parlayed his fame, one connection at a time, to the status of a globally recognized brand. Decades before widespread reliance on portable media devices, he documented his daily activities and interactions on audio and tape. Warhol captured life’s every minute detail in all its messy, ordinary glamour and broadcast it through his work, to a wide and receptive audience.
In Moco you will find his love for Celebrities and Royals. In original and silkscreen works you will learn about his favorite things in life, such as shoes and of course his Campbell soup, which is on display next to Banksy’s Tesco soup.
Groups / Events
business meetings / exclusive events / receptions
private art tours after opening hours
What a dream, an entire museum for you and your people to have a private evening diner or lunch
You can have business lunches, seminars, lectures or product presentations surrounded by masterpieces and have meetings in our great board member art rooms.
Give your staff members or relationships a day to remember. Delicious food and drinks, music and a private tour in the newest museum of Amsterdam.
We open our museum for your special guests after we closed the museum for the public.
Have a lovely evening on the museum square in the center of Amsterdam with a spectacular view on the Rijksmuseum.
For more information please contact us via hello@mocomuseum.com.
About Moco
The Modern Contemporary (Moco) Museum Amsterdam wants to make a wide range of modern and contemporary art available to the general public. Moco Museum focuses on proven pioneers and protagonists , the so-called ” Rock Stars of Art” within various art movements. With exciting exhibitions and high-profile guest curators, Moco fulfils the need of a large audience. The wish to take a glance in to the art world which is usually hidden to the public.
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The museum is located in Villa Alsberg, which is set in the middle of the Amsterdam Museumplein. This townhouse was designed in 1904 by Eduard Cuypers, cousin of the renowned Pierre Cuypers who was responsible for the Rijksmuseum, which is on the opposite side of the square. The restyling of all the quarters was done by Studio Piet Boon. Within the museum you will find a museum shop and it is possible to host events there.
The museum is a private initiative of gallery owners Lionel and Kim Logchies, and the artworks are made available by their carefully accumulated international network. A part of the earnings will be donated to charities that are close to the couples hearts.
For decades Lionel and Kim Logchies worked with renowned artists like Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Picasso and Salvador Dali. But they have also developed a big interest in the up and coming Street Art movement and they keep themselves up to date about all novelties within the underground scene, led by the new Warhol of the street art, Banksy. Names that will follow are Os Gemeos, KAWS and Maya Hayuk.
