During the process of defining their choices, Bik Van der Pol chose to be led by a few criteria: if a work generated recognition and discussion between them, if it 'spoke' and appealed to them, if they were eager to see a specific work that they had seen before, again, and last but not least, if they really wanted to use this opportunity to create the possibility to finally see works in real, works that they only knew from images or stories of others.
In principle unlimited, they were only restricted on practical grounds: work that were 'unavailable' when temporary on loan for an exhibition elsewhere, or 'impossible' when a piece is too big, too heavy and too complicated to transport and to install in this situation.