EXHIBITIONS 2023
MANDO
paintings
22 – 28 december 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
ELORA SPERBER
MIXED MEDIA
15 – 17 dec. 2023
OPENING on Saturday from 16:00h
Elora Sperber is a mixed media artist whose work explores the unpredictability of nature, the vulnerability of femininity and the place those two intersect. She often uses animals for their symbolic value to express emotions that feel too difficult to put into words. Consistent across her body of work is a style that feels reminiscent of antique etchings and art nouveau-style ornaments.
LAURIEN RENCKENS
Everything is urgent and urgency is everything
24 nov. – 30 nov. 2023
OPENING on Saturday from 17:00h
(1966, lives / works in Nijmegen)
Clean, often oblique lines and smooth surfaces characterize Laurien Renckens’ work. An effective combination of light colors and pastels with fluorescent colors.
As a result, your attention is instantly drawn, on a subconscious level, towards these abstract canvasses and panels. Like aesthetic, visual sirens.
We live in a world that is full of urgency: numerous crises, from the climate to the housing to the refugees’ crises. Because of the internet, we are incessantly informed about everything. Renckens’ work appeals impeccably to those emotions. Her research topic is: what colors and which combinations evoke this sense of urgency?
Although urgency may come across as a heavy topic, Renckens’ work is positive and alluring, with bright colors and clean lines. Using as little as possible, she creates a strong image and pulls the spectator towards her, only to hit him with that one single question: what does urgency mean to you?
MYLÈNE VAN ARK
THIS IS ME – paintings
10 – 17 nov. 2023
OPENING on Saturday from 17:00h
‘THIS IS ME’
Who am I ? Writing about yourself is not always easy…which part of me would I like to show ….woman, mother, friend, lover, sister, daughter, artist… these are all parts of me, like the pieces in my paintings, always looking for a connection. Insights from all the different parts….trying to stay close to myself and every time from a different perspective.
A connection of love, sorrow, happiness….A connection from life translated to my life expressed on canvas…
That’s what art is for me, exposing my soul… ‘THIS IS ME’
YVONNE BROEREN
&
ANTON VAN DE WATER
03 – 09 nov. 2023
OPENING on Saturday from 17:00h
Yvonne Broeren – paintings
For over 38 years i have been living in Ouddorp by the sea. The silt air, the blues and greens of the sea and every season that leaves its traces in shape and colour are a great source of inspiration for my work!
Driven by my connection with nature, painting is a way to express my feelings.
Each piece is a discovery, i search with colour and texture to an abstract/ impressionistic composition.
My work is built up with many layers of acrylic or oilpaint and sometimes textures with material from nature.
You are very welcome to visit my studio in Ouddorp!
Anton van de Water – sculptures
The work of Anton van de Water is the result of an ongoing search of many years.
The infinite possibilities of clay mean that Anton does not choose a direction, he wants Everything!
Initially, he is interested in the wide possibilities of modelling.
He sees classic turning as a tool that he can use when the situation calls for it.
Once all spectacular forms have passed, simplicity exerts its appeal.
Clean, straight lines, pleasing to the eye, is what he offers his audience.
The confrontation with social values that have a restrictive effect is a struggle.
Breaking free from those values without too much violence is gradual. Always considering whether it is the right direction.
Until the space is once visible and tangible.
Getting out of breath when working out an idea.
Vision, technique, skills, creativity flow smoothly into each other.
The clay allows itself to be guided, is willing in Anton’s hands and allows the imposed form.
The process is at top speed and Anton is eager.
Developing is the essence.
And shape this essence.
The process of the maker and the process of his audience is clear.
Getting even more to the core and staying there.
If the public can be touched from there, the next step has been achieved.
ALEX COVERT
Expansion
27 – 29 october 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
A visual exploration of vulnerability and the resulting experience of empowerment.
In this performance, the artist sheds as many layers as possible: blindfolding herself to restrict visibility and removing her clothes as an act of full surrender. She performs an expressive dance to the music while creating an artwork, unattached to the outcome of the piece.
Alex Covert is self-taught multidisciplinary artist originally from the United States and currently based in Amsterdam.
Her current focus is on the intersection of painting and performance, exploring the power of vulnerability as she attempts to shed her conditioned layers to discover her authentic self.
LOTTE ISBOUTS
paintings The exhibition is Canceled
13 – 22 october. 2023
OPENING on Saturday from 16:00h
Lotte Isbouts, the woman behind the brand Lois Artworks
Born in Eindhoven, in the south of the Netherlands, Lotte Isbouts is a self-taught, abstract artist now living and working in Deurne.
Lotte’s philosophy of art is simple; she thrives on abstract as it allows her carefree spirit the freedom to create acting on impulse, driven by instinct. She desires to create visceral works that engage her viewer, triggering a sensory response and strong emotion within them. She aims to create artworks, that come to life, almost becoming their own life form, while pleasuring the eye and hinting at a world that lies deep beyond the surface of her paintings.
Lotte needs space, and creates mostly large abstract paintings. She paints bold, with active brush strokes and captures a bright palet, layer upon layer, with full focus for detail. She sometimes adds pumice, sand or other raw material to literally feel the environment of where she gets her inspiration from.
It is through painting that Lotte shares her soul and her own authentic discovery with the world.
Her only intrusion is the title.
BURNOUT* MANIFESTATIONS
*For the lack of a better word
06 – 12 october 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
In 2022, Margherita and Hanna connected on a shared experience of burnout. Through their respective practices, the artists explored the use of art and craft as a means to illuminate and process their experiences. Each artist utilises textile techniques – with Hanna focusing on patchwork and quilting and Margherita on knitting – to convey their personal narratives and employ the creative process as a tool for healing. The invaluable supportive resource that sparked into being when the two artists connected has highlighted the significance of community and connectivity during a healing process. During this week, we invite you to visit, interact and celebrate the outcomes of this first collaboration cycle.
Hanna Steenbergen-Cockerton (UK/NL, 1989) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam working at the intersections of art, theory, and textile craft. Margherita Soldati (IT/NL, 1991) is an artist with a strong curiosity for tactile perception at the intersection of art and sensory well-being.
Margherita
LENA LEIKO
IMMENSITY
photo exhibition
22 – 24 september 2024
OPENING on Saturday from 16:00h
Have you ever noticed how infinite the universe is? It is surprisingly filled with such massive objects as stars, galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments, and also contains the smallest building blocks, such as cells, atoms, molecules and quarks. Lena believes that the magic of our universe can be conveyed through macro photography. She has a passion for creating visual narratives that convey both known and unknown phenomena, blending the familiar with the mysterious aspects that humanity has already become aware of and those that await our discovery. Exploring her images, you will discover a fusion of the familiar and the alien, revealing the fullness of our understanding and beyond, where hidden mysterious, and sometimes unnerving phenomena of the universe.
THIJS WESTERBEEK
Sculptures
29 sep. – 01 oct. 2023 from 12-18h
OPENING on Saturday from 17:00h
Brings out the beauty of the stone by simplifying shapes as much as possible with few or no details, less is more.
ELINOR & MAX
paintings
15 – 17 september 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
Elinor Shapiro is a mixed media painter whose works capture the complexity of human relationship and emotion. Born in 1997 Los Angeles USA, she attended a special education academy for the final seven years of her pre university education. This time in her life was incredibly influential to her art, as it was both a most enlightening and a terribly traumatic experience. The school environment exposed her to both the best and the worst of human psychology, watching friends go from genius to psychotic. Seeing the swells of depression consume creativity and suicidal tendencies eating away at brilliance, the vast variation of the human psyche and how it relates and communicates with others. Elinor’s work explores the multifaceted experience of being human and being different.
Max is an artist and explorer from Brooklyn returning from an 18 month journey that included trekking through the tiger-filled jungles of Western Nepal and hunting for treasure in the Arabian deserts with the Bedouin Mafia. He is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary creative known for his surrealist oil-paintings and barbaric use of chemistry in alternative darkroom printmaking. His blood type is O negative, but he tries to be a positive person. He has mixed feelings about 3rd person narratives.
HELMA MOSTART
visual artist
08 – 10 september 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
In my pitch-black drawings it is not entirely clear what is there to be seen. From deep planes of darkness, spaces loom up. The eye is drawn in by a scarce light. Objects and spaces remain undefined in this light that is shed by an unknown source. People are absent, and when their absence is felt it’s not about them; it’s about the shimmering of light that forms and distorts.
By applying many layers of different types of charcoal, I work black in black. The blacker the black, the more the light becomes visible. With sponge, brush, erasers, pastels and pencil a world of its own is created. A world where nothing is and everything could be.
BOGI MUIS & GERRIE VAN HEUN
photography
23 – 25 June 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
Bogi Muis
Form, color, composition, light, and shadow are important. I work a lot with different series of conceptual approaches to show an idea or theme. That brings me to the next level. It gives me the power to explore further.With each series of photos, I try to build a strong image to project the events as I see or read them from the situation. This representation is usually supported by symbolic objects.
Gerrie van Heun
Names her photo series “Wilderness Longing” and “Far-reaching Existence,” with nature as her source of inspiration. She uses plants from her garden or balcony, and more recently, digital techniques to create an image that takes the viewer along in her own sense of wonder.
LARISSA STEL
paintings
16 june – 22 june. 2023 from
OPENING on Saturday from 17:00h
A mixed media, digital artist and photographer. Born in Argi-Pagi, Sakhalin, the Soviet Union and living and creating in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
I use acrylic paint, charcoals, oil pastels, epoxy resin, photography and other media (such as mica powders) on dibond, paper and canvas boards… Sometimes I bring my works to the digital world and back to paper to finish by hand – whatever works to express a feeling or emotion when I’ve got an urge to draw.
My art is entirely intuitive. I have no model nor vision when I start a work – I just let it happen, I keep drawing until I feel that I have transformed my feeling into something other people can see.
I love photography too; it has always been my passion. At this exposition, I am pleased to present the Amsterdam Sail (2015) series.
FRANK NIJHOFF
sculptures
09 – 11 june, 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
The work of Frank Nijhoff is mostly abstract, and he can best express himself using materials that can be sculpted in a three dimensional shape. With ceramics, shortly with blown glass, in stone, and now again in ceramic. In both ceramic and stone he looks for limits of the material and methods, maybe caused by a background in Material Science. Going back to ceramics also meant a new relation with the material and the process, and a new work place. This weekend the new results are shown. Please check out more on www.franknijhoff.com
SRAVANI PANCHAVATI
“Waft of Wilderness” paintings
11 – 07 October, 2024
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
Sravani is an Indian Visual Artist currently living in Amsterdam.
Her creative practice is inspired by daily interactions with nature. Simple things like golden sun rays kissing lush green leaves, the sound of a stream of water in a quiet forest, the depth of the ocean and the colours of the sky during a sunset- these things excite Sravani’s senses. She likes to call her paintings ‘Earth Inspired’.Sravani likes to capture the essence of her subject through an expressive colour palette and rich impasto strokes. Through her art, she intends to bring a piece of this creation/nature close to the viewer and hopes to help them build a deep connection with it.
MARLOES BOMERS
26 / 27 / 28 may 2023
Opening on Saturday, May 27th from 16:00h
Marloes Bomers is a painter and also draws en works with ink, collage and mixed media. She works from perception as well as from imagination. In her work her feelings and thinking with both head and hands come together. It comes forth out of her fascinations and wonder and she embraces serendipity. She looks for interesting and often whimsical forms that can also represent other forms. She works in series where she starts figuratively with a subject to end up with more abstract work by enlarging or reducing or by omitting more and more.
You are welcome to experience her work during the exhibition.
FEMKE MOEDT
painting / collage
19 – 21 may. 2023
opening saturday from 16:00
The Amsterdam based Visual Artist
Moedt has been working on an introspective oeuvre related to gender since 2021.With their Non-binary portraits, the artist is not only concerned with physical appearances, but more importantly, to translate a fragmented, inner world into expressive and meaningful (mixed media) paintings.The work can be recognized by its powerful compositions, strong contrasts and the use of magazine cut outs (collage) in combination with painting.
Moedt studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and obtained the diploma in Visual Arts in 2010.
In addition to the art practice, Femke is also a host and social media coordinator at art space NDSM FUSE, located at the NDSM LOODS in the north of Amsterdam.
ILSE VALKENBURG
paintings
12 May – 14 May 2023
Opening on Saturday, May 13th from 16:00h
Ilse works with different techniques and materials, intuitively, impulsively, from her feelings, pushing boundaries and fighting with the material. Ilse’s work is abstract or figurative, mostly women figures. You can recognise her work by the use of color, the materials like clay and pigments from nature..
MINA VISSER
paintings
05 – 07 may 2023
opening saturday from 16:00
Mina Visser has her studio in Amsterdam where she also lives. Through years of experimenting with acrylic paint on canvas, she has developed her own technique and signature style.
Painting is a spontaneous process for her with no predetermined outcome, “chance” is an important part of this painting process.
In her studio, she turns on the music, puts on her painting apron, grabs her palettes, and completely loses herself in her creativity.
Her work is mainly created by working with palettes, but she also uses spray paint, scrapers, brushes, and her hands.
She likes to work with many layers, giving an extra texture that comes to life with the right lighting.
Mina often works on multiple canvases simultaneously, and by observing, updating, and changing, the painting improves over time.
On average, Mina works on a canvas for 4 to 6 weeks.
HANNA SUNDERMEIER
paintings
21 – 27 april 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
Hanna Sundermeier is an Amsterdam based German artist who creates abstract pieces. With a focus on expressing emotions through her work, Hanna uses a unique combination of color, form, and composition to bring her pieces to life.
“In art, She strives to balance form and feeling to create pieces that not only captivate the eye, but also resonate on a deeper level. Hanna’s goal is to bring a unique and meaningful perspective.”
TALI FARCHI
paintings
14 apr. – 20 apr. 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
Everything and everyone is interesting.
Everything and everyone have a story to tell or to paint.
Any landscape figure or still life can be a subject for Tali Farchi’s paintings.
Her free and wild brushstrokes seem to try to liberate her subjects from the mundane, searching for the shapes and movements, and the space in between. That space between the leaves, where the air emerges, the different color values, layers and transparencies, these are the materials that particularly interest Farchi’s work.
Another aspect of her work are the multimedia performances where she has been cooperating with dancers and actors. In these performances she seizes the moment with quick freehand drawing, building a dialogue between dance, music, and acting, transforming the movement and sound to her brushstrokes . The same goes for the paintings she creates in the studio in the old city center of Zwolle or when she goes out in nature for her PleinAir retreats. The shades of green and yellow are dominant in her works, and if you can tell, the green is a green that Tali mixes and creates herself, so she can reach all the subtle shades of nature sprouting in front of her.
LUCI STERRE
paintings
07 – 09 april 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
As long as I can remember I’ve been observing and creating. Always searching for bold, vibrant energy is why I love to capture colorful floral pieces and abstract portraits. They remind me that we can grow and bloom from a place of darkness, to shine our light and can be vulnerable at the same time. Inspiration is all around us, what inspires me besides nature, is the energy people bring into a room and how a positive attitude can change the world around you.
My work is not for the faint hearted, but for those who get up after been down, for the people who light up the room just by being themselves and for those who try to keep living on the bright side of life. I hope my pieces bring out these qualities and give you comfort when you might need it.
MANDO
paintings
31 march – 06 april 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
MARIAN VISSER &
CAROLINE KIEBOOM
paintings & sculptures
24 mar. – 30 mar. 2023
Opening on Saturday 25 march from 16:00
Marian Visser is a painter and art teacher. She works with oil paint and mixed media. The addition of textile or recycled fabrics creates more layering and relief, both literally and figuratively. The atmosphere that emerges in her work is that of wonder about natural phenomena and the effect on us as observers. Her love for skies is evident in this. Personal experiences are also incorporated into more abstract works. She works in thematic series. Fascinated by the way in which color, light and space manifest themselves on the canvas, she expresses intense emotional experiences and involvement in current events.
Caroline Kieboom paintings and ceramic work are technically founded in her professional career as an art teacher. Since she bought a French home with an art studio in the garden in 2011, she is most productive as an artist. Every free moment she experiments with the elements earth, water and fire to create ceramics. In her paintings she tries to capture light. The endless ways in which light colours our world intrigues her. Cycles of nature are the biggest inspiration. In particular, the healing power in nature, through which everything that lives renews itself again and again. Sometimes traumas leave scars, that results in fascinating new structures. Recurrent themes are growth or connection. She loves to be surprised by playing with shapes, colours, paint, clay, water and fire.
NOAM BEN-JACOV
Between intimacy and alienation
10 – 16 march 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
To the existence of my work…it is sorts of collection, small anecdotes, situations, perhaps just series of experiences which I collected & translated into sketches, reliefs, forms-work-.
It is very much about the ‘journey ‘my own journey, there I am in away both, the viewer and the participants at same time. It is as I am far and above but also walking along the same path, kicking some stones along the way.
It is about this walk, sorts of journey like, experiences, thoughts, imaginations and scenery… perhaps it is first and foremost about the atmosphere I’m experiencing during this – ‘being there’- in the walk.
I do not look at my works as belonging to any ‘one’ specific category or direction, as for me it is after all more about the search than anything else.
And yes, at the end of the day when I’m Looking at my work as an over whole, as total… then I like them to talk, scream? preferably just sing…
ECE ABAY
woodcut prints
24 – 26 february 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
I find inspiration from the places I travel but most of all Istanbul, New York, Rome, Paris, Stockholm has influenced my creative style and process. I create art because art is not only a self reflection of my inner emotions but also the connection with our spiritual heritage. I specialize in woodcut prints on both paper and canvas and I focus on Ancient Temples as a way of finding our path through the light of our ancestors’ reflection on earth. I also enjoy working with sculpture, especially bronze molding.
My art style is symbolist expressionist. I am motivated by history, nature, animals, music, different cultures. I’ve been creating art for 22 years. My favorite artist is Yayoi Kusama and I find their work to be transcendental and immersive as it creates an obsessional impact as you glaze into their depth! I connect with the art community through gatherings, gallery and exhibition openings, social media and online channels. My work has shown at Agora Gallery in NYC, Bruce Gallery and Bates Gallery in Pennsylvania USA, Chelsea Art Society 71st Annual Exhibition in London, Karl & Ein Art Gallery in Istanbul, London, mayfair miartgallery and latest will be again Nyc this year in 2023 with Agora Gallery again.
ELISABETE ALMEIDA
paintings
10 – 12 february 2023
Opening on Saturday from 16:00h
“A Portuguese artist based in Amsterdam, who, through painting, found that one can speak so much and so loud!
I was once told that an artist is anyone who has something to say to the world, and I, with a mind filled with thoughts, started to paint to externalize them, blending colors and textures to speak a language where words have no meaning.
The abstract is my style of excellency, it allows me to express my thoughts as I want, however, allows the viewer to have their own interpretation, triggering different emotions in each individual viewer.”
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