Artists

Jonat Deelstra

Jonat Deelstra (1991) has been living and working in Amsterdam. In 2018, Jonat obtained his Bachelor in Illustration from the HKU. Since then, he has mainly worked as a painter, but he also likes to reach for new materials. Thus, he builds installations, makes drawings, woodcuts, ceramic work and animations. Jonat Deelstra's paintings have magical realistic features. his paintings are alienating as if something ominous is about to happen. Jonat finds his inspiration in other cultures and religions: ''I need the supernatural. I need to know the mystery of human existence.'' He can be seen in several private and corporate collections.

Selection of exhibitions: Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee - Hortus Botanicus 2022
Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee - Research Centre Wageningen (2022, Educational Art Show)
Painting present - ARWE Gallery - Gouda (2022, Group Show)
Solo/ Duo - Art Rotterdam (2022, Art Fair)
New Art Section - Art Rotterdam (2021, Art Fair)
My Mom is my Curator - NEUG - Mexico City (2021, Group Show)
Amsterdam Art Weekend - Capital C (2021)
‘Rituelen en bezweringen - GoMulan Gallery (2020, groupshow) gecureerd door sander Creman, Marie Jeanne de Rooij en Mulan Go.
Een gesloten paradijs - Museum Krona (Museum voor religieuze kunst) - Uden (2020, Group show)
‘Van Ostade Biënnale’ Galerie Fleur & Wouter - Amsterdam (2020, groupshow)
Nacht van de VN - Pakhuis de Zwijger (2019, congres / groupshow)
Jonat Deelstra Solo Exhibition - GoMulan Gallery - Amsterdam (2019, solo exhibition)

Residenties
Opium Atelier - Hilversum (2019)
Broedplaats Bogota - Halfweg (2019)
GinDs - Hoofddorp (2019)

Publications
Gallery viewer - Het atelier van… Jonat Deelstra (2022)
NH nieuws - Video item over Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee (2022)
Radio 1 België - live interview over Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee (2022)
Timur en Jorien - live interview 3FM over Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee (2022)
Museumtijdschrift - In het atelier van Jonat Deelstra (2021)
Tableau Magazine - Podium nieuw talent: Jonat Deelstra (2021)
Art Snap, mini-docu about my new project - Hogan Millar Productions (2021)
NH nieuws - Interview about ‘People’ (2021)
Radio Opium Radio 4 - audio rondleiding door Jonat Deelstra ‘Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Noord Hollands Dagblad ‘interview Jonat Deelstra Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Radio Opium ‘Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Noord Hollands Dagblad ‘interview Jonat Deelstra Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Winq, ‘Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Emilie van Kinschot (Volkskrant) - Dit is de blik van een kunstenaar op Europa (2019)
Luuk Heezen - Kunst is Lang (2019)
Radio 4: Opium- Interview: Jonat Deelstra - Opuim radio 4 (2019)
Het Parool- ‘Deze galerie scout via de socials’ (2018)

Collections
Normec Group Art Foundation
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
KPMG Art Foundation

Matt Chaim de Groot

Matt Chaim de Groot (1969) was born in Amsterdam and grew up in Israel where conflicts and contradictions in the broadest sense of the word exist. Conflicts on a physical and mental level are the source of inspiration for his images. From 1996 - 2000 Matt studied at the Fotoacademie Amsterdam. Later from 2000 to 2004 he studied Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Soon after his studies Matt started teaching and coaching young artists, at the Fotoacademie, in their postgraduate quest as he developed his artistic practice: ''I'm looking for the bridge between the photography of the last century and the photography of the future. As an artist I not only create, but also try to inspire others''. Artist Matt Chaim de Groot grew up in Israel. At the age of eighteen he served his military service. Via road 98 he travelled to the front line, the border between Syria and the Golan Heights. Since 1973 this border has had a ceasefire on paper, but reality seems to be different. For Matt this place has several meanings. It is a place where he is at home and a place full of conflict.

Selection of exhibitions:
Solo exhibition LUMC 2022
Unseen 2021
Group Exhibition Circle Gallery 'Tipping Point' (2019)
E+ collective (2019)
Exhibition “Rebel without a cause” Gallery Zic Zerp Rotterdam 2018
Solo exhibition Galley Pantheon 2017
Art Festival Aalsmeer 2016
Exhibition City Hall
Exhibition DCP gallery Pantheon
Exhibition at kunstfort Vijhuizen with G.Bahir
Group exhibition Sandberg Institute Amsterdam
Group Exhibition Haarlem NS gebouw

Merel Jansen

Merel Jansen paints colorful portraits of people. She has completed no less than three studies: ArtEZ Product Design,(2008-2010), ArtEZ/AKI Fine Art Painting (2010 - 2013) and LUCA School of Arts Textile Design (2013 - 2016). Merel is not only limited to traditional oil paintings but can also express herself by painting and embroidering on textiles. These canvases were previously on display at NAIRAC in Barneveld. She paints her models with all their imperfections. Think of an oiled-up bathing guest with a can of beer in his hand, or a reclining woman with her larders meticulously worked out. Because that, too, is beauty. Sometimes Merel's works tend towards abstraction. For example, when she allows a hand of the person being portrayed to flow into the background. In her paintings Merel succeeds in elevating the everyday to something sacred. An 'ordinary' adolescent girl on the beach is elevated to a true Maria. Her version of the Mystic Lamb will be exhibited in Museum Arnhem in 2023.

Ulrike Rehm

Ulrike Rehm was born in Germany in Halle. In 2006, she graduated from the Rietveld Academy and received her BA in Fine Arts. In 2011, she graduated for her MA at the Sandberg Institute. Rehm's greatest sources of inspiration are folkloric narratives, traditions, archetypal figures and their inherent symbolism and associations. Curiosity and experimentation drive Rehm's artistic development and inform her versatile use of materials. Rehm can be found in various private, museum and corporate collections. Such as, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation (Amsterdam), Louis Vuitton (Asia) and Museum Arnhem.

Selection of exhibitions:
2022 «Totaliter Aliter» GoMulan Gallery, Amsterdam
2022 «Ornamenta Transferium - zum Eros» Stadtmuseum Pforzheim
2021 «All Eyes» Art Space AkzoNobel Artfoundation, Amsterdam
2019 «Sofreh» No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam
2018 «Flesh & Stone» (met Gijs Assmann & Lucassen), Galerie Nouvelles Image, Den Haag
2018 «Common Ground» Art Space AkzoNobel Artfoundation, Amsterdam 2017 «Wunderball»
2017 «Schwerer werden. Leichter sein» Ron Lang Art, Amsterdam
2015 «Salon de Céramique Contemporaine» Paris (France)
2014 Kunstvereniging Diepenheim @ Kunstmoment (met Gijs Assmann)
2014 «Klei ! (een eeuw keramiek aan de Gerrit Rietveld Academie)», Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
2013 «Kerstshow» Metis Galerie, Amsterdam
2013 «Hain» Thomas Eyck @ Salone del Mobile, Milaan, Italie
2012 «De Nieuwe Rembrandt - Uitzending gemist» Korenbeurs, Schiedam 2012 Sandberg Instituut
2011 «Schwarm» RaR @ Princessehof, Leeuwarden
2011 «Schwarm» Thomas Eyck @ Salone del Mobile, Milaan, Italie
2011 «Wat zijn mijn wolken nog en wegen» Kunstvereniging Diepenheim 2011 «Duty/Free» Sandberg Instituut @ CBK Amsterdam en Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
2010 «Kunstvlaai» Galerie Cornelie Frech, Amsterdam
2009 Sandberg Instituut @ Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
2004 «Gold» Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Collections:
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
Spazio Rossana Orlandi
Museum Princessehof
Louis Vutton / Asia

Dion Rosina

Dion Rosina (1991) makes oil paintings based on images he collects and manipulates and from which he makes collages. By drawing existing images and carefully sampling them, Rosina makes his work into a harmonious ensemble. For instance, in his work he refers to works by Albrecht Dürer and Emory Douglas. Rosina is inspired by various subjects such as spirituality, alienation and history. His work balances between figuration and abstraction.
After graduating from the Breitner Academy in 2021 (2016-2021), Rosina got off to a flying start. He was nominated for the Graduation Prize 2021, exhibited at the Rembrandt House in the exhibition 'Here. Black in Rembrandt's time' and was represented by the Black Archives at Documenta 15. Shortly afterwards, Rosina was nominated for The Royal Award for Modern Painting 2022. His work can be seen in several museums, for example in the group exhibition 'More en meer' at Museum More in Gorssel and this year in a solo exhibition at Kunsthal Light in Rotterdam.

Selection of exhibitions:
2022 More & meer, Museum MORE, Gorssel
2022 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst
2022 Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, Germany
2022 Enchant embrace them you odd peninsula – A gathering with love, for Kunstfort, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen
2022 Assembly, Ballon Rouge, Belgium
2022 Traces of you, GoMulan Gallery, Amsterdam
2021 A Funeral for Street Culture, Framer framed, Amsterdam
2021 Coloured Projections on the skin, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam
2020 Hier. Zwart in Rembrandts tijd, Museum Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam
2020 OSCAM x Patta: we will be here forever, you understand?, OSCAM, Amsterdam

Publications:
2023, 'Vijf bijzondere werken op Art Rotterdam', Gallery Viewer
2022 ‘Verheven en mysterieuze beelden van gewone mensen’, Gallery Viewer
2020 Zwart in Rembrandts tijd
2021 ‘Ik beschouw het toe-eigenen van beeld in mijn werk als een ode’, NRC
2020 Kunstenaar Dion Rosina speelt met verleden en heden in zijn kunst: ‘De manier waarop de geschiedenis belicht wordt, vind ik te selectief’, Noordhollands Dagblad
2020 GET FAMILIAR: Dion Rosina, Patta

Collections:
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation
Drents Museum

Joran van Soest

In his work Joran van Soest (1994) explores the human drive for connection and how we can nurture our relationships, regardless of distance. Joran: ''Our relationships, how we are to each other, are subject to our individual imagination. The further away someone or something is, the easier it is to hold on to a beautiful memory.'' This fragmentary feeling van Soest tries to convey by using intense colours and pitch black in one work and other work consisting of a few light lines, making it look almost like a sketch.

Joran uses different media such as video, painting, photography, printing and drawing techniques to create installations and collages. His artworks are impressive and intense, inviting reflection on how we experience and can understand relationships with others. Joran van Soest graduated from the AKV St. Joost art academy in Den Bosch two years ago. He exhibited at Art Rotterdam 2022. And was featured in several museum exhibitions. Most recently at the NoordBrabants Museum and the Gorcums Museum. In 2023, he stayed at the EKWC in Oisterwijk.

Selection of exhibitions:
2023 Solo exhibition, Go Mulan Gallery, Amsterdam
2022 Art Rotterdam, Go Mulan Gallery, Rotterdam
2022 Veers Museum, Het Veerse Licht 2.0, Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars, Veere
2022 As the world turns, Curated by Jessy Koeiman & Stichting Debsaysyes , Huis voor de Fotografie, Rotterdam
2022 Galerie van den Berge, Goes
2022 Tini Mini Room, Dordrecht
2022 Amsterdam Art, Capital C, Amsterdam
2022 AG kunstprijs, AG Sociëteit, Eindhoven
2021 CBK Zuidoost, ZomerSalon Royaal 2021, Amsterdam
2021 Het Noordbrabants Museum, Museaal grafiek, Den Bosch
2021 Tekenbiennale, Studio Pulchri, Den Haag
2020 Zeppelin Chapter 2, De Fabriek, Eindhoven
2020 I love you still, I loved you, Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch
2020 Amsterdam Art Gallery Weekend 2020 / Go Mulan, The Observer Effect, Amsterdam
2019 Velvet Ropes, Showhouse JayJay, Antwerpen
2019 Solo Exhibition, SBK (Stichting Beeldende Kunst), Otto Hetterscheidt Prize, Amsterdam
2019 Go West! Preview Exhibition LA, Amsterdam
2019 The In Between, Solo, Twelve Twelve Gallery, The Hague
2018 Nomination and screening TENT Academy Awards, TENT, Rotterdam
2018 SBK Sprouts Young Talents 2018 Amsterdam

Artist in residencies
2022 EKWC, European Keramic Work Center, Oisterwijk
2022 Parallel Art Foundation, Budapest, HU
2021 Berlin Residence, Monika Dahlberg, Berlin DE
2020 De Fabriek Eindhoven, Performance Generator, Eindhoven
2018 - 2019 Lab Kalkhorst Aldo van den Broek, Germany
2018 - 2019 De Belofte 14, Kunstliefde, Utrecht

Nominations and prizes
2022 Nominatie AG Kunstprijs Eindhoven
2019 Genomineerd de Piket Kunstprijzen 2019 : Schilderkunst// Nominated for the Piket Art prize 2019: painting
2019 Nomination Lucas price for best graduationwork AKV St. Joost door gemeente Den Bosch
2018 SBK-Otto Hetterscheid Stimuleringsprijs
2018 Nomination TENT Academy Awards

Collections:
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
NoordBrabants Museum

Sophie Steengracht

During her childhood Sophie Steengracht (1991) was surrounded by animals and nature. Transformations and the symbolic relationships between man and nature are a common thread in her work. She is inspired by the processes in nature. In 2021 Steengracht laid out a biodynamic garden in which she grows and studies plants, draws and photographs them. She also uses pigment from her garden. Sophie: "I use the plants - all of their parts - in artworks in which an animistic perspective is important. In the drawings I depict landscapes in which the plants, stones, water and planets have a soul. I long for a general perception, in which man is a link in processes of nature, rather than ruler of his environment."

The work of Sophie Steengracht can be found in serveral private and corporate collections. In 2018 Sophie won a grant of the van Vlissingen Art Foundation. Her work was afterwards exhibited in the Singer Laren Museum. On Art Rotterdam 2022 her work was exhibited in Prospects and Concepts. Sophies work can be found in several private and corporate collections.

Selection of exhibitions:
2023 From one world to another, Gomulan Gallery, Amsterdam
2023 Art Rotterdam, Gomulan Gallery, Rotterdam
2023 Spirituele urgentie, Stedelijk museum Schiedam
2022 PAN Amsterdam with MIAP, Amsterdam
2022 Big art, Gomulan Gallery, Amsterdam
2021 ALL EYES, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
2021 Natural Dependencies, Trixie, Den Haag
2021 Prospects, Art Rotterdam
2020 See/Saw #4, Just Shout, Gallery 21, Hamburg DE
2020 AGALAB Residency, Amsterdam / Residency
2020 Nature Calls, Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Jubileum van Vlissingen Art Foundation, Den Haag
2019 Affordable art fair, Hamburg DE
2019 Little Big Art Show, Amsterdam
2019 PAN, Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Art on Paper, Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 KunstRAI Amsterdam
2018 Solo exhibition at Museum Singer Laren
2018 Solo exhibition at Fountain art, Bussum
2017 Group Exhibition, Galerie KIS, Amsterdam
2016 Escape from Syria, OT301, Amsterdam
2016 Pilgrimage of perception, LAR, Lagos, PT
2016 PRALAC Artistic Residency, Lagos, PT
2016 ikbennetalsjij, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam
2015 The First Blossom at Bart Invites, Amsterdam / november
2015 CLOUD/Danslab, Den Haag
2012 Pulchri Studio's, Den Haag

Grants:
2021 MIAP Future of nature collective
2020 Mondriaan Start
2018 Van Vlissingen Art Foundation

Publications
LAC(Laboratorio Actividades Criativos) / juli 2016
Pakhuis de Zwijger / maart 2016
LAC (Laboratorio Actividades Criativos) / april 2016
deFusie / februari 2013
deFusie / oktober 2013

Commissions
2017 Buch Brothers, Kombucha Project, Sandberg Instituut / januari
2015 Illustrations of de Biogasboot project, de Ceuvel / september
2015 Series of portraits, Emmelie van de Wall Bake / oktober
2014 Witte de With center for contemporary art; tekeningen van de performance x&y vs france, the legal precedent, Rotterdam / maart
2013 Illustrations of FPA projecten
Assmann has made many sculptures in public spaces and has exhibited in the Netherlands and abroad, in recent years in solo exhibitions at Schloss Ahaus (Germany), the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and the Jan Cunen Museum in Oss, and recently in a group presentation at the Gemeente Museum in The Hague.

Assmann studied at the AKI in Enschede and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam and EKWC, Oisterwijk. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is included in a variety of public and private collections including the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Since 1999, Assmann has also held various positions in art education, including coordinating the Department of Ceramics at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and currently as a tutor Handwork and Materiality at the Fine Arts Department at ArtEZ Arnhem and as a mentor at the Masters Contextual design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.
The work of Sophie Steengracht can be found in serveral private and corporate collections. In 2018 Sophie won a grant of the van Vlissingen Art Foundation. Her work was afterwards exhibited in the Singer Laren Museum. On Art Rotterdam 2022 her work was exhibited in Prospects and Concepts. Sophies work can be found in several private and corporate collections.

Selection of exhibitions:
2023 From one world to another, Gomulan Gallery, Amsterdam
2023 Art Rotterdam, Gomulan Gallery, Rotterdam
2023 Spirituele urgentie, Stedelijk museum Schiedam
2022 PAN Amsterdam with MIAP, Amsterdam
2022 Big art, Gomulan Gallery, Amsterdam
2021 ALL EYES, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
2021 Natural Dependencies, Trixie, Den Haag
2021 Prospects, Art Rotterdam
2020 See/Saw #4, Just Shout, Gallery 21, Hamburg DE
2020 AGALAB Residency, Amsterdam / Residency
2020 Nature Calls, Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Jubileum van Vlissingen Art Foundation, Den Haag
2019 Affordable art fair, Hamburg DE
2019 Little Big Art Show, Amsterdam
2019 PAN, Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Art on Paper, Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 KunstRAI Amsterdam
2018 Solo exhibition at Museum Singer Laren
2018 Solo exhibition at Fountain art, Bussum
2017 Group Exhibition, Galerie KIS, Amsterdam
2016 Escape from Syria, OT301, Amsterdam
2016 Pilgrimage of perception, LAR, Lagos, PT
2016 PRALAC Artistic Residency, Lagos, PT
2016 ikbennetalsjij, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam
2015 The First Blossom at Bart Invites, Amsterdam / november
2015 CLOUD/Danslab, Den Haag
2012 Pulchri Studio's, Den Haag

Grants:
2021 MIAP Future of nature collective
2020 Mondriaan Start
2018 Van Vlissingen Art Foundation

Collections:
AkzoNobel Art Foundation

Jan Steenman

Jan Steenman (1995), currently residing in Geneva, is a multidisciplinary artist who creates performances, paintings, and sculptures. Steenman completed his studies at KABK in The Hague in 2018 and obtained his MA from Haute école d'art et de design in Geneva in 2022. His sculptural work is inspired by micro-anatomy and incorporates cellular structures to form surrealistic creatures. Examples include two-headed entities or meter-long DNA strands gracefully floating above the ground.

Peter Zegveld

Peter Zegveld's (1951) work consist of clear images in which universal themes are expressed in calligraphy and dynamic objects. Zegveld shows a world that becomes accessible and insightful through its simple form. In his work he shows new angles in relation to prevailing traditions. He expresses himself in various media: he paints, makes spatial work, develops sound machines, uses them to make music and gives performances in theaters and at festivals. Zegveld's work is regularly exhibited in the major museums in the Netherlands, including Rijksmuseum Twenthe and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.

Zegveld is a visual artist and performer. Mulan Go can also be approached for his installations, performances and art projects on location.

Gijs Assmann (guest artists)

Gijs Assmann makes drawings, collages, sculptures and spatial installations in which the artist shows his connection with human emotions and the facts of life: penetrating, disarming, confrontational, personal and sincere.

Assmann has made many sculptures in public spaces and has exhibited in the Netherlands and abroad, in recent years in solo exhibitions at Schloss Ahaus (Germany), the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and the Jan Cunen Museum in Oss, and recently in a group presentation at the Gemeente Museum in The Hague.

Assmann studied at the AKI in Enschede and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam and EKWC, Oisterwijk. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is included in a variety of public and private collections including the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Since 1999, Assmann has also held various positions in art education, including coordinating the Department of Ceramics at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and currently as a tutor Handwork and Materiality at the Fine Arts Department at ArtEZ Arnhem and as a mentor at the Masters Contextual design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.

Susanne Khalil Yusef (guest artist)

Susanne Khalil Yusef (1984) makes work about her Palestinian background. In this way she hopes to provide insight into the situation of Palestinians around the world. In her works of art, she incorporates stories and events that she herself or those close to her have experienced. Khalil Yusef makes colourful installations such as murals, paintings, textiles, ceramics, video, performances, bronze sculptures and self-created archives. At first glance, Khalil Yusef's brightly coloured work seems light-hearted and playful, but if you look closely, you will see references to displacement, identity and socio-geographic power relationships.

Rinke Nijbug (guest artist)

In his work, Rinke Nijburg addresses the question of what it means exactly to be a human being who relates to animal instinct on the one hand and the divine and the cosmic on the other. Religion is therefore an important source of inspiration for his paintings, drawings, mixed media and installations; in his work, Nijburg connects cultural expressions and heritage in the broadest sense, religion, mythology, philosophy, comics, film, fairytales and current social events, into a fascinating private cosmology. Although a Protestant by birth, Nijburg finds plenty of inspiration in the iconography and image-rich traditions of Catholicism, as well as in Eastern religious thought such as Buddhism and Hinduism in recent years.

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