Albert van der Weide - "all power to Art" mixed media on canvas "running force 10" signed.

Albert van der Weide (Meppel, September 22, 1949) is a visual artist, teacher, curator, writer and worked for fourteen years as a director in higher art education.

Course Van der Weide studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem between 1970 and 1975. In addition to the visual arts, he also took classes in fashion and scenography, which he reflected in his later professional practice.
Visual practice
Performance 'Apartheid', Mickery TheaterAmsterdam in collaboration with Stichting de Appel 1979 In the first years after graduating, he was mainly active as a poster designer for Gerakan Pattimura and the Boycott Outspan Action, and as a performance artist. After this, he focused on installations, often in series with titles such as: Reflections, Alle macht aan de kunst, Stars of the World, In Situ. The 'Alle macht aan de kunst' theme in his work regularly returns, including in a multidisciplinary exhibition he put together in 2019 for Omstand in Arnhem. Also important were collaborative projects, with visual artists in, among others, With & For / Shared Humanity (2006-2023), various projects with composer Armeno Alberts, including Het leven in 7 for the Orgelpark in Amsterdam and with Introdans in Het Verlangen (1982), Het Lachen (1986-1987) and Lines (2013). He was one of the curators of the Dutch Art Foundation exhibition The Personal is Political in 1981. In the last ten years he has also devoted himself to columns and TV blogs, such as The Construction of the World for Arnhem aan Zee and drawings, including the series 1006 Park Sonsbeek Drawings, part of a study into the experience and use of Park Sonsbeek in Arnhem in the year 2016/2017.

His visual work, consisting of drawings, sculptures, videos, artist's books and photo documentation of performances, are included in the collections of, among others, Museum Arnhem, the Province of Gelderland, Algemene Spaarbank Den Haag, Aegon Kunstcollectie Den Haag, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, TextielMuseum Tilburg, Instituut Collectie Nederland, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo, Museum Coda Apeldoorn, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Panstwowe Muzeum, Lublin (Poland), Muzeum Ziemi Pan Warschau; documentation of his work is included in the archives of MoMA New York, RKD Den Haag, Documenta Kassel, Erfgoed Centrum Arnhem.