W-1938 · in 12 August
Groeve, ochre
Ruben Steijns, 2026 · oil and quarry dust on linen · 1180 × 880 mm · 1.04 m² · out since 3 September
Catalogue · updated Monday 06:00
1 940works,1 246 m²of them.
The depot holds more wall than it can ever lend at once. Everything here is sorted the way the hangers sort it — by the area it takes, because that is what you are paying for.
Four size classes, one allowance
Pick a class and the panel below re-forms a 6.5 m² Vloer wall out of it. The same money buys thirty-eight small works or three large ones; most members end up with a mix, because a wall of one size reads as wallpaper.
38 works fill 6.5 m² · average 0.15 m² · the hang takes about three hours
What the depot holds
Five materials, and how much wall each one is
Oil and acrylic on canvas or board814612 m²
Prints and editions on paper, glazed587286 m²
Drawing — graphite, carbon, chalk268121 m²
Textile and relief on stretcher171178 m²
Photography, framed behind glass10049 m²
1 246 m² in the racks, 1 184 m² on walls. The difference is what came back last Thursday and has not been checked in yet.
Accessioned in the last eight weeks
Twenty-two new works, nine of them already out
W-1929 · in 29 July
Nachtregister 31
Marthe Okkerse, 2026 · graphite, carbon and chalk on board · 680 × 900 mm · 0.61 m² · in the racks
W-1941 · in 26 August
Band VI
Nkechi Baptiste, 2026 · dyed cotton on poplar · 1200 × 1200 mm · 1.44 m² · reserved for hang 34
W-1944 · in 2 September
Grauwwerk 9
Marthe Okkerse, 2026 · graphite on gessoed board · 420 × 340 mm · 0.14 m² · out since 9 September
W-1946 · in 15 September
Vouwlijn 14
Teodor Mlynar, 2026 · five-colour silkscreen, edition 1 of 12 · 520 × 400 mm · 0.21 m² · in the racks
The short list
What we will not lend you
Not because we are precious. Because these are the five things that come back damaged, and the artist carries it when they do.
- 01Anything declared above €8 000. That is the per-work ceiling on our policy and we will not lend over it, even if you offer to cover the difference.
- 02Unglazed pastel, charcoal or chalk. Four went out unglazed in 2019 and three came back with fingerprints in them.
- 03Anything into a kitchen, a bathroom, a south-facing conservatory, or within 600 mm of a radiator. We measure on the day and we will move it.
- 04Works an artist has flagged for a show. The flag stays up until the show closes, and we do not override it for a member who asks nicely.
- 05Anything to a venue that serves food at the wall, unless it is glazed and above 1.9 m. Two restaurants on our books, both under those terms.
Come and pull things out of the racks
The depot is open to members and to anyone thinking about it: Tuesday to Friday 10:00–17:30, Saturday 11:00–16:00. Bring the measurement of your wall and we will put a hang on the floor for you in half an hour.