Unconditional Love

Shoot Us With Love!

Support Het HEM: donate and declare your love

The pandemic and the related economic downturn hit Het HEM early in its existence and demand a new approach. Amerborgh International enabled the development of Het HEM last year, but decided as the main supporter that the obligations and risks of an organisation such as Het HEM could no longer be guaranteed. The company Het HEM BV is therefore closed down, while the Foundation remains intact.

Consequently, Het HEM will reduce its staff to a minimum and postpone its activities until 2021. Het HEM will use 2020 to find and develop an alternative financial model that will further consolidate the existence of this young cultural institution in the future. We have found new investors who will help secure the institution's viability, but it is not enough. While we are working passionately on securing long-term financial support, your immediate donation would help us immensely to safeguard our peculiar situation.

Shoot Us With Love! These words inaugurate the crowdfunding campaign that will enable us to open Het HEM and its current exhibition Chapter 3HREE: Maarten Spruyt to the public. The campaign will run until June 21, 2020, exactly one year after our grand opening. We could not wish for a better birthday present!

Find our campaign here, in collaboration with Voordekunst.

Unconditional Love

Shoot Us With Love! With these words, we appeal to our loyal visitors to donate towards our crowdfunding campaign in favour of public service and general operations of opening up our 9,000 m2 building.

Every financial contribution will be rewarded, but your support and unconditional love in the form of beautiful words make us proud too. The quotes below from our Guests, creators and friends have not left us unaffected.

Show us your unconditional love too and use the hashtag #ShootUsWithLove

We have always followed our own course, at all times. It makes us who we are, shows where we come from, with whom and ho and what are the things most important to us.

In our own way, on our own course, we meet people and bring them along. If they are open we collaborate on a project or a common goal, or we might expand our own goals. Either way, we do it together.

It doesn't happen often, however, that the people or institutions we meet have such an impact on our core, that one can virtually determine a before... and an after. When that happens, it's unique. Het HEM is such a unique case. The team was able to reveal and see things in us we didn't yet see for ourselves, they have given us insights we didn't have yet, and acknowledged talents that made the outside world believe in us. All this work with a confidence and a pleasure that you would expect to come from a well-oiled machine that has done it many of times... but in fact, they did it for the first time.

We believe the biggest achievement one can have is to be able to continue learning. Het HEM gave us the chance to learn. And they give themselves, with every chapter, the opportunity to learn from their Guests, over and over again. Each time for the first time.

There's absolutely no way Het HEM is finished before properly getting started, that they have to close the doors already. If anything is needed NOW, it's what Het HEM stands for and what their mission statement enforces.

Not the individual or the person... The Community.

That's what we stand for!

>Gee & Edson