Created in 2022, the Mondrian Initiative invites an international art professional for a nine-month artist in residency period through the annual Mondrian Prize. With selected peers and the local community, the art professional works on a collaborative project from the colony.

The colony belongs to the Dooyewaard Foundation. It is located on the border between Laren and Blaricum and includes Piet Mondrian’s studio, where he stayed during the years 1916-1918. This period was crucial for his development toward radical abstraction and for the founding of the De Stijl art movement.

The Mondrian Prize builds on the very rich history of artists’ colonies in Laren and Blaricum, to which artists and private patrons have flocked since the late nineteenth century.

“By once again bringing innovative and influential thinkers to Laren, The Mondrian Initiative aims to revive the revolutionary spirit of the first decades of the twentieth century.”
– Maarten Rutgers, chairman of The Mondrian Initiative board

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