King opens H’ART Museum: “This smile won’t ever depart my face”

The Hermitage has been often known as the H’ART Museum for nearly a yr because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, however at the moment was the Christmas opening by King Willem-Alexander. The opening additionally marked the beginning of the Kandinsky exhibition, a collaboration with the French museum Middle Pompidou.

Per week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke the museum’s relationship with Russia. “A break is at all times delicate and it at all times hurts. However it additionally brings plenty of magnificence and we’re going to present that magnificence from at the moment,” mentioned the radiant director Annabelle Birnie simply earlier than the official opening.

After the museum broke ties with the Russian Hermitage in 2022, it has made new collaborations with internationally famend museums such because the Middle Pompidou in Paris, the British Museum in London and the Smithsonian American Artwork Museum in Washington DC The renovated museum is devoted to Kandinsky, who is taken into account one of many pioneers of summary artwork.

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Fifteen years in the past, Princess Beatrix opened the Hermitage within the Amstelhof along with the Russian President Medvedev on the time. King Willem-Alasdair, who was nonetheless a prince on the time, was additionally there. “It is particular that he is again,” Birnie mentioned. “I am very joyful and pleased with everybody right here. We’re actually going to have a good time that tonight,” she laughs.