Louise Bourgeois At Rijksmuseum

Gigantic spiders, huge eyes, aluminium spirals and a majestic wingnut tree...

This spring the Rijksmuseum presents Louise Bourgeois in the Rijksmuseum Gardens, an outdoor exhibition of twelve sculptures spanning half a century of the artist’s oeuvre – from The Blind Leading the Blind in the late 1940s to 2003’s Crouching Spider. Many of the works have never before been shown in the Netherlands, and this is the first exhibition to focus on Bourgeois’s outdoor sculptures. Internationally, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is one of the most renowned and important female artists of the 20th century. She became famous all over the world for her monumental sculptures of spiders.