Nienke Bakker
Nienke is the Van Gogh Museum’s Senior Curator of Paintings. She was part of the editorial team behind the online version of Van Gogh’s complete correspondence and the six-volume publication Vincent van Gogh: The Letters (2009).
She has contributed to many exhibitions and publications on Vincent van Gogh and late nineteenth-century art, including:
- Van Gogh at Work (Amsterdam, 2013);
- Félix Vallotton (Paris, Amsterdam and Tokyo, 2013–14);
- Splendours & Miseries: Images of Prostitution in France, 1850–1910 (Paris and Amsterdam, 2015–16);
- On the Verge of Insanity: Van Gogh and his Illness (Amsterdam, 2016);
- Van Gogh & Japan (Sapporo, Tokyo, Kyoto and Amsterdam, 2017–18);
- Van Gogh and the Olive Groves (Dallas and Amsterdam, 2021–22), and
- Van Gogh in Auvers. His Final Months (Amsterdam and Paris, 2023-24).
Bregje Gerritse
Bregje is a Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum. She curated the exhibitions The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece? (Amsterdam, 2021–22) and Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine (Chicago and Amsterdam, 2023–24), contributed to the exhibition and publication On the Verge of Insanity: Van Gogh and his Illness (Amsterdam, 2016), and the publication Van Gogh in Auvers. His Final Months (2023).
She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam; her research topic is The Reception of Vincent van Gogh in Paris, 1886–1914.
Teio Meedendorp
Teio is a Senior Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum. He is interested in authenticity issues and everything connected to the places where Van Gogh lived and worked.
He wrote the catalogue of Van Gogh’s drawings in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, and has contributed to various publications on Van Gogh, including Van Gogh’s Studio Practice (2013), The Vincent van Gogh Atlas (2015) and the exhibition catalogue Van Gogh and the Olive Groves (Dallas and Amsterdam, 2021–22). He also contributed to the exhibition and publication Van Gogh in Auvers. His Final Months (Amsterdam and Paris, 2023-24).
Sara Tas
Sara is an Associate Curator at the Van Gogh Museum, where she curated the exhibition Etel Adnan: Colour as Language (Amsterdam, 2022). She is currently engaged on a long-term research project into Dr Paul Gachet. As part of this work, she presented the small exhibition Dr Gachet & Van Gogh: Experiments in Etching (Amsterdam, 2023).
She contributed to the publication Van Gogh in Auvers. His Final Months (2023). Sara is also working on the online catalogue of paintings and drawings by Van Gogh’s contemporaries in the Van Gogh Museum. From 2013 to 2019 she was a Curator at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam.
Louis van Tilborgh
Louis is a Senior Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum and Emeritus Professor of Art History, specializing in Van Gogh, at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Van Gogh and was jointly responsible for several exhibitions on the artist, including:
- Van Gogh & Millet (Amsterdam, 1988–89 and Paris, 1998–99);
- the major survey of Van Gogh’s paintings at the Van Gogh Museum (1990);
- On the Verge of Insanity: Van Gogh and his Illness (Amsterdam, 2016);
- Van Gogh & Japan (Sapporo, Tokyo, Kyoto and Amsterdam, 2017–18), and
- Van Gogh in Auvers. His Final Months (Amsterdam and Paris, 2023-24).
