Photo by: Peter Schlegel

Jan Dibbets

Visual artist

Artist Jan Dibbets (born 1941) is considered one of the leading international Dutch artists of recent decades. Since the 1960s, he has built a body of work that focuses on perception and the representation of space.

As an artist, Dibbets is part of the generation that produced Stanley Brouwn, Ger van Elk and Wim T. Schippers.

After being awarded a grant by the British Council, Dibbets moved to London, where he studied at Saint Martin's School of Art and started creating conceptual work. He sealed his international reputation in 1969 with his series titled Perspective Correction, consisting of photographs of walls, floors and lawns onto which he had drawn or carved simple geometrical shapes.

His international fame brought him commissions, including the Hommage à Arago series, consisting of 135 bronze medallions stretching across Paris. Dibbets' work can be viewed at home and abroad, for example in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, the MoMA in New York and the Tate Gallery in London. Jan Dibbets lives and works in Amsterdam.