Ger van Elk is a Dutch artist who works with sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work is generally seen as conceptual art

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

 and arte povera

Arte Povera

Arte Povera is a modern art movement. The term was introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance. Artists began attacking the values of established institutions of government, industry, and culture, and even questioning whether...

. Together with Marinus Boezem

Marinus Boezem

Marinus Lambertus van den Boezem is a Dutch artist.He is known for his radical view of art and his works in public space. Together with Wim T...

, Wim T. Schippers

Wim T. Schippers

Wim T. Schippers is a Dutch artist, comedian and voice actor, loosely related to the international Fluxus-movement....

 and Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets , is a Dutch conceptual artist.In 1994, he was commissioned by the Arago Association to create a memorial to the French astronomer François Arago, known as Hommage à Arago...

, he is seen as one of the main representatives of these movements in the Netherlands

Netherlands

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Van Abbemuseum

Van Abbemuseum

Van Abbemuseum is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in central Eindhoven, Netherlands, on the east bank of the Dommel river. Established in 1936, the Abbe Museum is named after its founder, Abbe Henri. Abbe was a lover of modern art and wanted to enjoy it there from Eindhoven...

 in Eindhoven and the Tate Gallery

Tate Gallery

The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...

 in London

London

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have work of Van Elk in their collection. Reflections on the arthistory are an important part of his work.