♡ 𝒥𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃 𝒦𝑒𝓉𝑒𝓁𝒶𝒶𝓇 ♡ 𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝓉 ♡ 𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓃𝓉 ℯ𝓃𝓉𝒽𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒶𝓈t ♡ ℴ𝓇𝑔𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓈ℯ𝓇 ♡ 𝓅𝓇ℴ𝒹𝓊𝒸𝓉𝒾ℴ𝓃 𝓉ℯ𝒶𝓂 ♡ 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓂 𝒸𝑜𝑜𝓇𝒹𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓉𝑜𝓇 @ 𝓋𝓇𝑜𝓁𝒾𝒿𝓀𝒽𝑒𝒾𝒹 ♡ 𝒷𝒶𝓈ℯ𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝑔𝓇ℴ𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔ℯ𝓃, 𝓃𝓁 ♡

During our residency with Franka Geister at Cotranspose we researched the power of taking breaks and the fear that can hold us to do so. The fear of being lazy, the fear of underachieving, the fear of missing out. But taking breaks can also be a form of self care and of resistance, and gives space to unexpected encounters, thoughts and ideas. What does it mean to take a break in Dikia, how do the people in Dikia take breaks, and are they experiencing the same fears? With our findings we made a publication, email me if you would like one.

Supported by Culture Moves Europe. Dikea, Greece, April 2023

A zine by Lola and me, made for the zine exhibition at Drawing Centre Diepenheim.It invites the reader to trace every day encounters in different ways using drawing as a tool.

Stitch and chat is a table with a fabric as a table top. Around the table you can take a seat and join the collective embroidery, talking about life, art, struggles, politics, opinions, love, food or whatever is on your mind. A project with Lola Diaz Cantoni, presented at Supermarket art fair in Stockholm and at Sign and Galerie Noord in Groningen.

During September 2020 you could see 34 works of Louwrien Wijers behind residents window throughout Groningen. Each work is a quote from 'when science meets science and spirituality in a changing economy', a symposium organised by Louwrien 30 years earlier in the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam. Together with ARTisBOOK, Lola and I curated this exhibition; found the windows, hung the posters, made an information centre in ARTisBOOK and organised five different tours by five local artists. Because windows were selected on size many different people got involved in this project.

Supported by Mondriaan Fonds, Kunstraad Groningen, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and Stichting ARTisBOOK

During autumn 2023 I did a residency with No Discipline Limited at HKICC creative school in Hong Kong. I gave printmaking workshops, doing an artist talk, taking part in classes, and joining lectures. If I wasn't in school I was walking around the city, exploring everyday life in the streets and art spaces. During the residency i worked with ceramics, and made a publication about spending time and walking in Hong Kong.

Tea Mobile is a pink cart that carries around six blue stools, a teapot, a thermos with hot water, tea from Azerbeijan and some snacks. It moved around the city of Groningen, and became a tea stall in different public spaces. Its is inspired by the tea shops in the streets in Vietnam; a space to meet, share and drink tea. A collaboration between Giang Nguyen, Rafiq Bassova and me during our summer residency at academie Minerva.

Art as a tool is the graduation work of Collective Constructs, a collective by Lola, me, and fluctuating other members. The installation invites people who visited the graduation show to sit down for a coffee or tea, have a conversation, read, relax and maybe leave something behind. With what was left behind we made a daily zine, presenting the views, ideas, thoughts and visuals of the visitors.

Together with Floor van Meeuwen we went into the Tarwewijk in Rotterdam with a mobile clay studio and invited passers by to clay something for the neighbourhood. After firing and glazing we made a public guerrilla sculpture route with all the objects by polymaxing them in the neighbourhood. Floor also made a small publication with a map to find all the sculptures.

Rotterdam, August 2023

In Porto many buildings are decorated with hand painted tiles. But because there are a lot of vacant buildings. around the city that are not taken care of by the owners, many tiles are missing. During a two month work period i researched who decides what visuals we surround us with in public space, and how we can react to that. I asked people on the street and during our open studio to paint thoughts on who owns public space, and decides what we see there. These tiles i guerilla glued on empty houses where tiles were missing. Also During this work period we made a other ceramic objects and a publication.

Homescreen is an online platform presenting artists and musicians in time of lockdown. Every Friday night 9 artists and musicians present works, and there is an artist talk they participate in. After lockdown Homescreen continued as Homezeen, publishing zines with contributions of various artists. A collective with Kamile Cesnaviciute, Lola Diaz Cantoni, Radina Kordova en Thomas Scholing.

Mahalas is Greek for hanging out. It's when older ladies go for a walk together and at some point decide to put their chair somewhere in public space to hang out, chat and enjoy the sun. Together with Laureen Langkamp we took over a small empty cafe in Dilofos in Greece during our spring residency at Cotranspose. The cafe we called Mahalas; a place to meet and hang out and reclaim space. In the months towards the residency we made ceramics to serve coffee in, made a screen to print aprons, tablecloths, and the tshirts of our guests. During the two weeks we hosted workshops, easter celebrations, gatherings and a birthday party. Dikea/Dilofos, Greece.

Together with Floor van Meeuwen we gave a clay workshop making candle holders before dinner, to have dinner by candle light at co^event organised by Cotranspose and Radiometrics
in De Tanker Noord in Amsterdam.

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𝓂𝓊𝓁-𝓉𝒽𝑒𝑒-𝒻𝓊𝒽𝓃𝑔𝓀-𝓈𝒽𝓊𝒽-𝓃𝓁 taking part in the second edition of the exhibition underdeveloped in Garage Rotterdam!

mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl (2024)

mahalas (2024)

claydiner (2023)

something foreign (2023)

wasserette de printer (2022)

klei kunst zoektocht (2023)

power of breaks (2023)

we see us (2023)

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traces (2022)

stitch and chat (2022)

homescreen (2020)

tomorrows language (2020)

vrijplaats voor verbeelding (2021-2022)

tea mobile (2019)

art as a tool (2019)

Vrijplaats Voor Verbeelding was a one year project in Bierum (north Groningen), related to the Bierumer School. The project tried to connect to locals through publishing and spreading every month a newspaper, bringing the project at peoples homes via the mailbox in times of a pandemic. Each newspaper was totally different in content, making and visual outcome. For the project we had the VVV-kantoor, the small cart below that travelled through the area with the newspapers. We also did several happenings, like collective walks, a cooking & talking with Louwrien Wijers and workshops. In September was the Collective Wandering, were 13 performances took place in the village and on the dike. As a visitor you had to wander to stumble upon the performances, not sure what and where they were so everything around you became a potential performance, questioning how we perceive everyday activities once we change our expectations. The last two months of the project I was in residency in the Bierumer School. This project we presented at Supermarket art fair in Stockholm in May 2022. Supported by Mondriaan fonds, Kunstraad Groningen and Stichting Stokroos.

That One Time The Landscape Changed (2024-2025)

A nomadic art program that is traveling through the province of Groningen between October and June. Eight artists are immersing themselves in the landscape, researching the developments and changes, and following the footsteps of De Ploeg. From this research, they will develop new works, which will be exhibited in the final showcase in Wehe-den Hoorn. That One Time the Landscape Changed kicked off with the wadloop wandering, during which all eight artists presented a work on the mudflats during a mudflat walk. Between november and march 3 short research residencies take place on different locations. In May the exhibition with all the works spread over the village of Wehe den Hoorn opens with a symposium. During the program we publish 4 newspapers, documenting, presenting and communicating the process of the program. Together with Radina Kordova we wrote the full program, curate and produce it. This program leads to the opening of Kunstcentrum de Ploeg, a new art centre evolving around de Ploeg. Artists involved: Klaudija Ylaite, Hedwich Rooks, Toni Brell, Lila Bullen-Smith, Megan Headfield, Olivia D'Cruz, Mylan Hoezen and Kamile Cesnavicute. Supported by Mondriaan fonds, Beringer Hazewinkel, Kunstraad Groningen, Emmaplein foundation, JM fonds.

Pictures by Heleen Haijtema, flag designed by Jeroen Klootsema

volkssnakkel (2023~ongoing)

I made contributions for the Volkssnakkel; a very irregular published screenprinted A0 sized newspaper by Laureen Langkamp with contributions of others. For the boredom version I made a twerkshop poster explaining how to twerk, for the games, horoscopes and advertisement version Kamilė and me made drawings with which I made a game horoscope. Soon we will start working on a new one about community.