Erik Pape

Erik Pape IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Ever since the start of his long career, Erik Pape (1942) has been fascinated by the city of Paris. His first subjects were the Canal St. Martin and the round basins in the Tuileries gardens, rendered in an atmospheric, almost abstract manner. After this he started to paint bold images of Notre…

Dieter Mammel

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

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

Nour-Eddine Jarram IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Nour-Eddine Jarram (1956) feels a strong involvement in the fate of migrants and refugees. At the beginning of the refugee crisis he decided to take up the subject and started a series of watercolours that he continues to this day. As a Moroccan newcomer in Enschede, The Netherlands in the early 1970s,…

Christie van der Haak

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

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

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

Martin Fenne IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Martin Fenne (1964) has experimented with materials such as wood, cardboard, plexiglass, wax, and textiles. Since 2003, he has been working with piping: thin strips of satin fabric that follow the forms of bodies and objects in a wavy fashion. In doing so, he plays with the light caught by the shimmering…

Marcel van Eeden

Marcel van Eeden’s geboortejaar 1965 is cruciaal in zijn oeuvre. Alle voorstellingen die hij tekent zijn afkomstig uit de tijd vóór zijn geboorte. Dat betekent dat hij werkt naar bestaand beeldmateriaal, dat hij vindt in oude tijdschriften, boeken of kranten.