Launch year:
1974

Number of artworks:
7.000

Status of collection:
International

Artistic domain:

Art at ING: A moving collection

Delve into ING’s global art collection and you’ll find a story of commitment. A commitment to freedom, a commitment to authenticity and a commitment to consciousness. The collection is about breaking conventions, opening minds and challenging boundaries. 

Artists in the ING Collection help to expand our perspectives. Their art questions the times we live in and help our community to face the future.

ING believes in the role and impact that art plays in our lives. It started in the 1970s when the first figurative pieces were brought together in the Netherlands. Since then, ING has become more international and has integrated artworks from all over the world into its collection. 

The collection reflects the rhythm of changing times. New experimental artists are invited to contribute even more surprising ideas. The collection has moved people in the past and will move others in the future.

ING supports art in society and wants to make it as accessible as possible. It wants to connect art with the public and wants us to engage with our environment, embracing determination and imagination. Customers and employees are driven by the desire to be inspired by what they see around them.

More than just a collection

The ING Collection is a living, evolving collection that is constantly questioning its relationship to art and it its boundaries. It is a modern collection that reflect ING’s international, contemporary and innovative character. It reflects the figurative tradition of ING in an experimental and new way. 

Moving beyond a traditional acquisition policy, ING wants to foster a culture of innovation and change. It wants to connect art with the public and to support artists. In recent years, this has led to interesting collaborations, such as commissions, loans and various projects with artists and different institutions.

The history of the ING Collection began in 1974 with the opening of a new head office for NMB (the Dutch bank for SMEs) in Amsterdam. In 1998, ING merged with Bank Brussel Lambert (BBL); and the acquisition of Barings Bank in 1995 and a majority stake in ING Bank Slaski in 2001 led to the addition of other important international collections.

Commission program / Site-specific order(s) :

ING regularly commissions artists for specific projects:

Street artists Jeroen Erosie en Boris Tellegen received a commission for ING NL's head office, to create a monumental mural where the outside world is brought inside.   

During the past year, photographers Jaap Scheeren (1979) and Ine Lamers (1954) were commissioned to give their own intriguing take on the landscape of the Netherlands. Their photographs now provide a window on the world outside at some 150 branches in the Netherlands.

For our Private Banking offices ING commissioned several talents in the field of photography to create a series of new work within a socially relevant theme: Elspeth Diederix, Krista van der Niet and Natascha Libbert.