Geert van Beijeren & Adriaan van Ravesteijn

Geert van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen (1933 – March 2005) and Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938 – 6 January 2015) were gallerists and art collectors in the Netherlands. Van Beijeren and Van Ravesteijn were the founders of the leading Dutch art gallery Art & Project (1968–2001) and publishers of the art magazine of the same name (1968–1989). During its thirty-year existence, the gallery as well as the magazine made substantial contributions to the Dutch art climate.

Geert van Beijeren began his career in the art world as a librarian at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum. From 1971 until 1979 he was curator of painting and sculpture at the museum. For that reason he temporarily withdrew from his job as co-administrator of the gallery that he and his partner started a few years earlier. At the Stedelijk Museum he organised solo exhibitions of Robert Ryman and Richard Long, both in 1973. From 1986 until 1988 he returned to the museum scene as head curator at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Adriaan van Ravesteijn studied architecture at Delft University of Technology. He and his partner Geert van Beijeren were both interested in modern art and from the mid-sixties they were both regular customers of Amsterdam's only contemporary art gallery with an international outlook, Riekje Swart's gallery at Keizersgracht. In September 1968 the couple opened their own gallery, named Art & Project, modestly housed in Van Beijeren's parental home in Amsterdam-Zuid. Adriaan van Ravesteijn took upon himself the day-to-day running of the gallery. Soon afterwards, the first issue of Art & Project Bulletin appeared, which would continue until 1989. It was in that year that the gallery moved from Amsterdam to Slootdorp, a small village north of Amsterdam. In December 2001 the gallery closed down.

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