Dieter Mammel IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Dieter Mammel (1965) over the years developed a special technique, he paints with ink on raw canvas which is made wet which makes the colour run out and branche whimsically. The images he paints are based on photographic examples. First, he used pictures from his own family album in the series Family…
Stan Klamer IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Stan Klamer (1951) conceives drawing and painting as a form of cartography. By abstracting reality into a map, space is created for reflecting ideas and thoughts. Often Stan Klamer represents islands. The island forms a closed world, offering space for experiments and for the development of ideas because of its isolated position.…
Nour-Eddine Jarram IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Nour–Eddine Jarram (1956) got known in the 90’s through his paintings in which he mixed elements from the paintings of Dutch old masters with motives from islamic culture. He replaced the heads of the physicians from Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson with tulips, for example. After this he developed his own landscapes in which…
Henri Jacobs IntroductieBiografie Henri Jacobs (1957) has been working an a continuous series of drawings since 2003. These Journal Drawings originate from a project he developed as a teacher in which he instructed his students to draw anything that impressed them or caught their attention on a given day. From there he started to use…
Susanna Inglada (1983) makes highly expressive collaged drawings of people engaged in intense, sometimes even violent interaction with each other
Christie van der Haak IntroductionBiographyIntroduction In the 1980s Christie van der Haak (1950) established her name as an artist with paintings of madonnas, which she partly covered with ornamental shapes. The ornament has been a constant in her work ever since. Around 2003, Christie van der Haak gradually switched from painting to designing textile patterns.…
Diederik Gerlach IntroductionBiographyIntroduction In his paintings, Diederik Gerlach (1956) frequently refers to the past, not only drawing from his archive of pictures from old travel magazines and advertising brochures, but also quoting from art history, in particular from German Romanticism. After a careful process of formation and deformation these images become transformed. The result is…
Andrea Freckmann IntroductionBiography Reality and the theatrical merge in Andrea Freckmann’s (1970) paintings. An interior featuring a sleeping woman for instance is transformed into a park with trees where three dogs are guarding her bedside. The images often originate directly from personal experiences. She thus places her own life on a stage where fantasy and…
Martin Fenne IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Martin Fenne’s (1964), by origin a painter, uses strips of satin piping to produce figures, following the shapes of the bodies and objects in an undulating motion, just like the lines in a copper engraving. The bands of shiny material partially overlap and are slightly lifted from the surface, thus they catch…
Nare Eloyan IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Nare Eloyan (1988) is interested in art that has close ties to everyday life; as a kind of ethnography of urban society where the boundaries between high and low culture have faded. She collects ceramic vases on markets and in second hand shops which she considers as material handed to her by…
