Adriaan van Ravesteijn and his partner Geert van Beijeren were former gallery owners and art collectors in The Netherlands. They were the founders of the leading Dutch art gallery Art & Project (1968–2001) and publishers of the art magazine with the same name (1968–1989). During the more than thirty years of its existence, the gallery (as well as the magazine) made a substantial contribution to the Dutch art climate.
In 1965, Van Ravesteijn en Van Beijeren began putting together a collection of contemporary art. The history of the collection, which was later dubbed "depot VRVB", largely coincides with that of the Art & Project gallery and magazine. The emphasis lay on Conceptual Art, Land Art and Minimal Art. The following artists were represented in the collection: Alan Charlton, Francesco Clemente, Adam Colton, Tony Cragg, Ad Dekkers, Ger van Elk, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Richard Long, Juan Muñoz, Nicholas Pope, Peter Struycken, David Tremlett, Richard Venlet, Carel Visser and Leo Vroegindeweij.
The largest part of the collection, approximately a thousand works, has been gradually handed over to the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschedé. Other Dutch museums that received loans from the Van Beijeren-Van Ravesteijn collection: the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. In 2008, after the death of Geert van Beijeren, the Museum of Modern Art in New York received a collection of some 230 prints, books, posters, photographs and other ephemera from Art & Project co-founder Adriaan van Ravesteijn.
In 2009, the Museum of Modern Art will be staging an exhibition "In & Out of Amsterdam", drawing largely on the Van Ravesteijn-Van Beijeren bequest.[1]