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Moulding Life: Artists Craft with Fungi and Bacteria
27 March 2024
From pathogens to nature's binmen - fungi, bacteria and algae have many functions and associations. Artists and designers are increasingly embracing the sensory properties and sustainable potential of these obstinate microorganisms. Say hello to bioluminescent fungi and microbial weaving.
Rafaël Rozendaal Bridges The Gap Between The Online And Offline World
22 February 2024
With an oeuvre at once connected to art history and contemporary technology, Rafaël Rozendaal has made a name for himself as a prominent digital artist. His works often also take physical form, raising exciting questions about the relations between the online and offline world.
Revulsion and Fascination: Hybrid Creatures in Visual Art
27 June 2023
From medieval sin to modern climate catastrophe: in art, hybrids of humans, animals and objects confront the reader with the inconceivable.
Yair Callender Brings the Everyday Into Ceremonial Art
3 April 2023
Yair Callender's sculptures and installations are part of a tradition with a religious element. It’s difficult however to pin the Surinamese-Dutch artist down to one approach, as both he and his art are as philosophical as they are practical.
Hilde Onis Balances Objects and Meaning
18 January 2023
Dutch artist Hilde Onis considers her installations a kind of arithmetic sums: the addition of objects, plus the space itself, plus the viewer. She doesn't like hierarchy, and the boundary between person and thing within her work is often blurred.
Narges Mohammadi Makes Teacups Out of Concrete
22 November 2022
The Afghan-Dutch artist Narges Mohammadi designs installations and sculptures like chefs create dishes: bringing together seemingly incompatible forms and materials. With these unexpected combinations, she creates “in-between spaces”, places where everything and nothing happens at the same time.
The Sensitive Sound Archive of Elise ‘t Hart
15 September 2022
Dutch artist Elise ’t Hart captures everyday sounds in order to share them through installations that evoke a highly sensitive experience. She calls her growing archive the Institute for House Sound, and it played a central role in her first solo exhibition, Cosy Corner at the CODA Museum (Apeldoo
Lisa Spilliaert Lets Facts Rise Above Themselves
31 August 2022
Does something as factual as genealogy research leave room for fiction and fantasy? Or is kinship no more than just a story? The Japanese-Flemish artist Lisa Spilliaert (1990) seeks out these kinds of tensions in videos such as her episodic Growth Record, for which she periodically takes pictures of
Jaya Pelupessy Draws Attention to the Construction That Lies Behind the Photo
9 June 2022
Unique works of art all about reproduction processes: the wonderful paradox at play in the work of Dutch artist Jaya Pelupessy. In two exhibitions by the same name, he was displaying work from his most recent project Manufactured Manual – focusing on photography without taking any pictures himself
Form Follows Function? For Artist Kevin Bauer It’s the Other Way Round
28 April 2022
Kevin Bauer's sculptures are all unique and simultaneously flirt with the uniform imagery of mass production and the concept of ready-made.
There’s a Particle Accelerator in Salim Bayri’s Throat
1 April 2022
Salim Bayri prefers working with materials that he’s never used before. Bayri was born and raised in Morocco and eventually ended up in the Netherlands via art school in Spain. Media, cultures and languages collide in his mutually diverse works of art.
Vera Mennens Challenges the Boundaries of Time, Facts and Fiction
2 February 2022
Vera Mennens wonders how you can research historiography as an artist. She moves between art and research, between natural landscapes and historical archives. In her video essays, she goes for walks with a long-dead pioneer in the field of nature conservation. In this way, the boundaries between pas