For me, the boxing match became a metaphor for the artist who has to find their place in the art world.’Ĭlose-up of ‘House of Fools’, Anne Wenzel, 2023. Or, as boxing trainer Hans de Jong always likes to say: “You don’t play boxing”. It reflects your own strengths and weaknesses. It was quite intense boxing isn’t only physically but also mentally demanding. In the run-up to the fight, I spent eight months training at Hans de Jong’s boxing school in Schiedam. But that boxing match against the director gave me the chance to finally fight my battle on an equal footing. Not only because, unlike Carasso, I had never boxed before, but also because, as an artist, I generally feel that a museum should invite me to an exhibition rather than to events that have absolutely nothing to do with what I do. The current museum director, Anne de Haij, is now honouring that promise and has granted Anne Wenzel complete freedom on a floor of one of the wings of the museum, as well as the support of the museum’s team, to do whatever she likes with it.Īnne Wenzel: ‘When the former director Deirdre Carasso invited me to fight her in a boxing ring in 2019, I hesitated at first. Wenzel defeated Carasso and won carte blanche at the museum. Her opponent was the museum’s director at the time, Deirdre Carasso. The words ‘ Fuck the Dictator‘ adorned the boxing robe that visual artist Anne Wenzel wore when she stepped into the ring at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam on 14 September 2019.
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