Jan van Eyck Academy

The Jan van Eyck Academy is an international post-academic institute for visual arts. The institute is housed in a 1958 - 1961 building by architect Frits Peutz and a municipal monument.

The academy accommodates visual artists, designers, architects, curators, contemplators, poets and writers. Within the Jan van Eyck Academy / Margaret van Eyck Academy, they are given the space and time to develop their talents. The Van Eyck has a number of workshops for technical experimentation using different materials and techniques. About forty artists work at the academy every year, who can be active in the fields of fine art, wood- and metalwork, film, video and photography, or writing and poetry.

Jan Van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) was court painter to the Burgundian duke Philip the Good (1396-1467). The flamboyant duke and his company surrounded themselves with the best artists.