With his performances, TV programmes, publications, drawings, installations, tours, videos and educational projects, Maarten Bel expresses the desire to offer new perspectives on ideas and behaviour. He incorporates these into the visual aspect of his work in which he directly interacts with his audience. In all his diverse disciplines, Bel uses humour and absurdism to

Andrew Clausen (US, 1977) My practice incorporates contemporary engineering materials and techniques to produce delicate works that capture an atmosphere of stillness and material honesty. Cast concrete serves as a matrix for compositions that include canvas, resin, graphite and 3D-printed composite polymers. The process begins in the realm of 2-dimensional graphical design and is transformed

“In her recent works Joyce Overheul reveals social structures and interaction behind that what sounds familiar. In January 2019 she travelled to Tehran, Iran and visited the protest sites where women protested the mandatory hijab enforced by the government. […] Pictures of their surroundings have been transferred to fabric works made from organza and velvet,

I have a sandpaper fetish. I find the service of sandpaper poetic. How the service of the paper turns into a specific surface. While sanding an object to its core, the paper pollutes itself with cracks and dust. The material of the sanded object and the movement over the object are stored in the sandpaper.

The confrontation with technology is the central feature of art today: as ground, subject, signal and noise. Art’s utopian, emancipatory, critical, political and cult potential no longer provides the questions that vex our days and nights. Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, mother of the Muses, sends a message that always arrives. Artists are necessarily contemporary; they live

Kate van Harreveld’s work is a combination of drawing, painting and collage-techniques. Materials like glitter, wood, stone or thread are sometimes added to bring a three-dimensional element into the image. She is searching for the boundaries of drawing and has a need to feel free in the use of materials and subject matter. The subjects

It is not that important to always point at things that have happened to you; the point is to find something recognizable which other people may reflect on. It is the same with the things that we create our works around. Sometimes one is more obvious than the other. Even when it may not always be clear what you are

Frans van Tartwijk’s works are based on found images, artworks, or snapshots. Painted in a style midway between cartoons and realism, these familiar pictures are twisted, turned and manipulated in a way that reveals the loneliness of his characters and the absurdity of the situations they are caught up in.

During his adventures on and around the train tracks, impressions emerge, which Guido van Amelsfoort, in his studio, transforms into sculptures. But the images may also cause him to develop a new sketch. By repetitively presenting the same figures in a piece of graffiti, drawing, sculpture and/or photograph, they become recognizable. The variation in texture

Tessa Hendriks is a community and tree house artist, living and working in Amsterdam. At the moment she is busy with her tree house project (as there are not enough tree houses or tree house affairs), but she also creates other playful places. In order to escape in the middle of reality, to hide and