(Koh-sha vahn Broo-gun)
Born in Groningen, the Netherlands, on June 6, 1942, Coosje van Bruggen
received a master's degree in art history from the University of
Groningen. From 1967 to 1971 she worked in the curatorial department of
the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and was co-editor of the catalogue of
Sonsbeek 71, an exhibition of contemporary sculpture held in Park
Sonsbeek, Arnhem, and other sites throughout the Netherlands. Van
Bruggen was a...
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(Koh-sha vahn Broo-gun)
Born in Groningen, the Netherlands, on June 6, 1942, Coosje van Bruggen
received a master's degree in art history from the University of
Groningen. From 1967 to 1971 she worked in the curatorial department of
the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and was co-editor of the catalogue of
Sonsbeek 71, an exhibition of contemporary sculpture held in Park
Sonsbeek, Arnhem, and other sites throughout the Netherlands. Van
Bruggen was a member of the selection committee for Documenta 7 in
Kassel, Germany (1982); a contributor to Artforum (1983-88); and Senior
Critic in the Department of Sculpture at Yale University School of Art
(1996-97). She has also authored books on Claes Oldenburg's early work
and on John Baldessari, Hanne Darboven, Bruce Nauman, and the architect
Frank O. Gehry, among others. Van Bruggen's first collaboration with Claes Oldenburg was in 1976, when Trowel I, originally shown at
Sonsbeek 71, was rebuilt and relocated in the sculpture garden of the
Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands. In 1978 van Bruggen
moved to New York, where she continued to work with Oldenburg to
establish direct contact with a wider audience by creating large-scale,
site-specific works in urban settings. Their collaboration has extended
to smaller-scale park and garden sculptures as well as to indoor
installations.
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