Elise ’t Hart is a sound artist and founder of the “Instituut voor Huisgeluid”, or “institute for household sounds”. Elise uses sound to tell her stories and tells stories about sounds.
Founded in 1999, Studio Frank Havermans develops strategic interventions, both on commission and on his own initiative. The work arises from a combination of the social aspect of architecture and urban dynamics with a fascination for the design mechanics of constructions, gravity and tactile things.
Laura Henno is fascinated by the resilience of people living in the margins of society. Her political engagement is focused on isolated demographics in migration and survival situations: from California to the archipelago of the Comoros in the Indian Ocean, from Rome to the island of La Réunion.
Ann Veronica Janssens shows her audience a different, more “fluid” world that briefly embodies the immaterial. One of Janssens’s ongoing fascinations is the way coloured glass can make changes in lighting that spans days or seasons visible, and almost tangible.
Folkert de Jong is known for his lifesize sculpture groups made out of polystyrene and polyurethane foam, which is used as isolation material in fields like construction, architecture and Hollywood set design. Alongside contemporary political matters and current events, his work often evokes associations from art history, instilling a sense of a post-apocalyptic future.
The past five years, he has begun working in ceramic alongside synthetic materials.
Alicja Kwade Kattowice (PL), 1979 Website Instagram Alicja Kwade (1979 in Kattowice, Poland) lives and works in Berlin. Alicja Kwade‘s work investigates and questions the structures of our reality and society and reflects on our perceptual habits and supported facts in our everyday life. Her diverse practice is based around concepts of science and philosophy…
If you were to take the functions of landscape architect, cityplanner, designer, writer, botanist, anthropologist, ecologist and gardener, and draw a circle around them, Rudy Luijters would be standing in the centre of it as a visual artist. He practises none of these professions, and yet they make up an integral part of his practice.
Rick van Meel is fascinated by the way the laws of physics governing our universe are scientifically researched, described, understood and applied.
JCJ Vanderheyden (’s-Hertogenbosch, 1928-2012) made abstract paintings until the late 1960s. He then took a ten-year break from painting, which he devoted to audio and video experimentation and research of abstract notions like time, light and space
Romee van Oers makes paintings with forms that seem to want to move together, attract, or repel. As one plane leans forward, a line recoils. It’s a still image, but it seems to be on the precipice of something. One moves, another responds, the result is a matter of time.