Simone Albers
Stan Klamer
Kevin Simón Mancera
spatial work, paintings,
drawings, work on paper
1 March through 5 April 2026
vernissage Sunday 1 March at 16:00 hours
In her newest body of work, The Middle Realm, Simone Albers (1990) approaches the Earth as a living, cyclical system. To better understand the role of organisms and the interaction between living and inorganic matter, she studied geological, paleontological and archaeological collections. Her paintings open windows onto primordial paleolandscapes and are framed by meandering ceramic elements bearing fossil specimens. (The fossils presented in this exhibition are from the collection of Piet Bakker.) In this way, collection objects enter the artwork itself, blurring the boundaries between artwork, artefact and natural object. With the title The Middle Realm, Albers refers to a domain in which the borders between art and science become fluid. Her sculptural works are partly cyclical as well: using recycled clay, she created a chain of bones from which insect-like creatures hang, their segmented bodies composed of remnants of laser-cut wood.
Simone Albers also participates in the exhibition Stairway to? at Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, where the ladder takes centre stage. For this occasion, she created a new work featuring tapering ladders that together form a circular structure reminiscent of a spider’s web. More information: www.kunsthalkade.nl
Stan Klamer (1953) employs cartography in a free and associative manner to create maps of land, sea and sky in which geography merges with historical, religious and literary concepts. For Klamer, too, the Earth is a recurring motif. In horizontal bands he depicts cross-sections of mountains and hills that are mirrored downward, continuing as subterranean landscapes. Often, he overlays these horizontal strata with a circular form, combining a bird’s-eye perspective with a lateral view. Klamer has previously explored mirroring in drawings of ships and boats, their black silhouettes doubled downward into a blue sea animated by varied wave patterns. Parallely Stan Klamer presents several of his celestial maps in the exhibition Apocalypse, Fear and Hope at Museum Huis van het Boek, The Hague. More information: www.huisvanhetboek.nl
Kevin Simón Mancera (1982) previously exhibited at the gallery in the group exhibition MONSTER, where he portrayed hybrid beings—half human, half wolf—sharing traits of both. His work is distinguished by the remarkable precision with which he renders these figures in watercolour and ink. In a later series titled Forget Me Not, he meticulously depicted collections of extinct birds, reptiles and mammals—an encyclopaedia of lost species. In the current exhibition, he presents four new drawings in which animals are combined in unexpected pairings. An eagle and a rabbit, for example, are brought together without predator or prey dynamics; they exist side by side, without direct interaction.













