In 2005, the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam launched the series entitled Art Leaves home which is based on private collections . Otto L. Schaap. Content Art Consumer is the fourth exhibition in the series, and it displays the private collection of Otto Schaap to the general public for the first time. As a passionate collector of present-day art and African ethnographic art, he has now accumulated an impressive collection of almost 700 works, 125 of which are shown in the exhibition. They include works by Erik Andriesse, Stephan Balkenhol, Merijn Bolink, Tom Claassen, Marlene Dumas, Levi van Veluw, Loretta Lux, and Han Schuil, among others.

Art Leaves Home IV:
Otto L. Schaap
Content Art Consumer
22 June - 31 August 2008