De Pont has been named after the attorney and businessman J.H. de Pont (1915-1987), whose estate provided for the establishment of a foundation to stimulate contemporary visual art in 1988. In the southern Dutch city of Tilburg,

De Pont is housed in a former woolspinning mill that has been transformed by Benthem Crouwel Architects into a space where contemporary art can be seen at its best. The vast, light main area of the monumental old factory and the intimate ‘wool-storage rooms' constitute a beautiful environment for the many works of art that De Pont has collected since its opening to the public in September 1992.
 
About the collection
  

Board of Trustees

Jos de Pont (Chairman)
Jan Maarten Boll
Lucius Grisebach
John Leighton
Steven Vis (secretary/treasurer)
  

Director & Chief Curator

Hendrik Driessen
  

Curator of the Collection

Esther Lampe