During the h3h biennial, on two Saturdays – June 28 and July 5 – you can participate in the biblical painting workshop at St. Paul’s Abbey, an inspiring day where faith, silence and art come together.
Ethiopian Sister Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru (1923-2023) developed into one of the world’s most distinctive pianists and composers.
One of the crafts by which the monastics supported themselves was ceramics. In the showroom of the pottery at the time will be a mini-exhibition featuring ceramics by Venezuelan-Aruban artist Samuel Sarmiento.
Artist and atheist Bronwen Jones used needle and thread and natural dyes to conjure new pieces from the bit of textile waste – cut-up clothes, sheets and tablecloths – of the radically recycling sisters.
Ceija Stojka was a particularly resilient woman. As a Roma girl, she survived three concentration camps. Around age 50, she began painting her traumas from scratch.
On a wide, tens of meters long roll of paper, Vincent de Boer calligraphs the names, birth and death dates of all the sisters of this community during the h3h biennial A Deeper Shade of Soul.
‘Plotseling Vertrokken’ is een muzikale vertelling van het waargebeurde verhaal van de bescheiden monnik Jacques Kerssemakers uit de Sint-Paulusabdij en de jonge Jan Huijbregts uit Breda.
The fourth edition of h3h biennale will take place from 21st June till 3rd August 2025, in The Holy Triangle region in Oosterhout, North Brabant. The exhibition offers a visitor route along three still-active convents and monasteries. Nanda Janssen is the curator for the programme, titled “A Deeper Shade of Soul”.
The fourth edition of the h3h biennial is entitled A Deeper Shade of Soul and is curated by curator Nanda Janssen and assistant curator Véronique Baar. The h3h biennial 2025 will take place from 21 June to 3 August 2025.