Stijn explores how people relate to history. Is there one story to tell, or is it always subjective? Through his collages and assemblages, he demonstrates that the idea of history is complex and often colored by our Western perspective. He incorporates insights from history, anthropology, and philosophy into work that broadens our view of the

Maurice Braspenning (1968) was born in Rotterdam, works and lives in Zoeterwoude. He was educated at the Rijksakademie of visual arts and the Rietveld Academy, both in Amsterdam. His teachers at the Rijksakademie included Luc Tuymans, Bernard Frize and Emo Verkerk. They motivated him to show his own world. ‘Beginning 2018 I got ill, (virus

Bio Eva Bartels is a young autodidact artist based in Amsterdam.  In 2008 she started painting and participated in Amsterdam and Belgian group exhibitions.  In 2010 she worked on her paintings in the residency of Karl Hofer Gesellschaft of the Art Academy in Berlin and soon started experimenting with performance art. She investigated her passion for acting, while being

Having grown up in Hoog-Keppel, a small town in near the Dutch/German border, Jochem Esser (1988, NL) uses the contrast between tradition and being the son of an employee of the tech-company IBM in his work. Through IBM he came into contact with advanced technology at an early age. Drawing upon this he created a

Le Grand Verre – Jaybo Monk (DE) and Marco Grassi (IT) Le Grand Verre is an artist collective dedicated to the experiences in the aesthetic of controlled accidents. Retracing simple ways of nature, Marco Grassi, Jaybo Monk and in a posthumous manner, Matteo Bologna engage with help from randomness and alchemy of nature and time, on a path of

Willehad Eilers (1981, Peine, Germany) also works under the pseudonym Wayne Horse. Beginning his career in the German graffiti scene, Eilers later went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Arts in Amsterdam. He continues to live and work in the Dutch capital today. His eclectic body of work comprises video, drawing, performance and

Art van Triest presents a preview of his new project ‘Preppers Paradise’. For this, he studies the phenomenon of  ‘preppen’ which deals with the absolute basic human needs; will this be food, water, clean air and energy? or is this mainly about beauty, critical thinking and empathy? Van Triest develops recognizable objects and machines that ‘preppers’

MILK collaborates with different artists and focuses on site-specific performances and installations. Because a fair is not often the domain of site-specific artists, MILK offers a new sales concept with home-specific works. For a specific living room, Janneke Kornet, Esther Hoogendijk and Joyce Overheul develop a special artwork. These works are not for sale but

Brendan Anton Jaks (1983, US) is an artist who works mainly in sculpture, sculptural assemblage, and installation. He studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and last year completed his residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Exhibitions include Potlach at De Ateliers, Amsterdam and Who Controls the Smoke Controls the Mirrors at Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam.

Raoul Island is a remote volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, that New Zealand wants to preserve from the rest of humanity. Each year for a few months, a handful of people are appointed to remove alien vegetation, adjusting a land to fit an idea of original nature.   Naïmé Perrette (1989, France), looks at