Numerous fascinating stories lie behind the exhibition Venus & Mercury in Huis Marseille. Venus refers to lust and love Mercury to quicksilver Sassen also created a number of new installations specially for Huis Marseille, including one based on the residential history of this Amsterdam canal-side house. She wove these stories into a melancholic narrative drenched in eroticism, power, intrigue, illness, decay, and death. The exhibition was born in Versailles, where Sassen created new work inspired by various accounts of the French royal court in the 17th and 18th centuries. Click here for more information about our corona protocol.Įight years after her highly successful and acclaimed exhibition In and Out of Fashion, Viviane Sassen is returning to Huis Marseille with a monumental exhibition: Venus & Mercury, which will occupy all fourteen galleries as well as the museum garden.
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