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Atelier Volten

Atelier Volten is the still-intact former studio of André Volten (1925-2002) in Amsterdam-North. Volten was among those in the vanguard of geometric abstract sculpture. His iconic sculptures are an inherent part of our experience of urban design. He realized about 60 outdoor sculptures, both in the Netherlands and abroad, of which 21 in Amsterdam.

Trude Hooykaas

Designer, curator; advisor to the André Volten Foundation

What happens to the work when the artist passes away?

Asterdorp

Atelier Volten is housed in the former 'Poortgebouw', the gatehouse of Asterdorp, meanwhile recognized as what had become the fourth ghetto of Amsterdam during World War II. Volten squatted the place in the 1950s and prevented demolishment. Today, the gate building houses a gallery space, where the André Volten Foundation regularly organizes exhibitions and at which time Atelier Volten is open to the public. The living area upstairs is left untouched. Atelier Volten is part of the international Iconic Houses Netwerk of unique museum houses.

Atelier Volten

Conservation

UvA students of the master Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage in the specialisation Contemporary Art have been workig on the maquettes of André Volten in his former living room during the exhibition André Volten in het Poortgebouw, 11 February–27 May 2018. Nearly two years later, a new group has been working in Volten's former studio to preserve his early paintings in December 2019 and January 2020, in preparation of the catalogue,The Splendour of Youth and Error and the exhibition De jonge Volten, 10 April–30 October 2022.

University magazine Folia interviewed one of the students participating in this project