Welcome to EX: exhibitions in Cultural Heritage

EXbunker zonder klimop in het Wilhelminapark

All about EXbunker

what I have now

Huff & Puff

Noud Boogaard

January 3, 2026 - January 25, 2026

All about EXboot

what I have now

The House of Self

Inês Da Silva Aguiar

January 2, 2026 - January 31, 2026

All about EXtern

Exhibitions in Cultural Heritage

Exhibitions in Cultural Heritage

We are EX: EXbunker, EXboot & EXtern. We were once a World War II bunker and a former Zandpad prostitution boat. Now we fill our spaces monthly with groundbreaking new art. Come take a look!

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We are EX

We are EX. Groundbreaking, accessible, and dedicated to emerging artists.

It began in 2014 with EXbunker in a former World War II bunker in Wilhelminapark. In 2019, EXboot was added, an exhibition space housed in a former prostitution boat at 't Zandpad.
We present art to everyone who encounters us in the unique public spaces where we are located. Admission is free, and our doors are open—especially to those who don't often encounter art.

The artists presenting their work are often recent graduates. For artists in this phase, EX offers a venue to exhibit, as well as support in the form of coaching and a budget for the realization of their work. The artists are often present at their work as mentors or speakers during the exhibition reception.

EX brings accessible, groundbreaking art to a diverse audience of enthusiasts and passers-by.

Artists

Meet some of the artists who recently had an exhibition at one of EX's locations.

Inês Da Silva Aguiar

Inês Da Silva Aguiar recently graduated from Fine Arts at HKU in Utrecht. Her interest in art developed at a young age as she realised that she gave expression to her thoughts and emotions in a visual form. Indeed, Aguiar’s feelings form the basis of her art and in this way, her artistic expression takes on a personal form and is entwined with her background and identity. Having a mixed ethnic heritage (Turkish Cypriot and Portuguese) and having grown up in a divided city of Nicosia in a contentious political and social environment has informed her interest in the precariousness of identity, which she explored in her final graduation show in an installation called the House of Self. Aguiar uses a variety of mediums, most particularly video, installation, fabric and linocut to explore themes of identity, memory and alienation. Her work, as well as being of a personal nature, aims to involve the audience to ponder topics that are universal to the human experience.

Iyanla Etnel

Iyanla Etnel is a photographer and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Her work departs from silence, not as emptiness but as a vessel for everything that could not be spoken. As an artist, Iyanla explores how trauma settles in the body, in space, and across generations. In her practice, she moves between past and present, between visibility and the invisible, between the body as an archive and the body as a channel.

Miro Nuaki

Miro Nuaki constructs symbolic narratives in which beauty coexists with weight, and vulnerability becomes a form of empowerment. Through this process of painting and translation, Nuaki finds freedom and a deeper connection to herself, while making complex themes such as female identity, family bonds, and generational trauma tangible. Her paintings evoke the feeling of dreams, where memories soften, fragment, or blend into one another.

Ken Stoové

Ken Stoové photographs the places he knows best - places he considers to be closest to home, or communities in which he finds comfort. By focusing on personal stories from his family, often relating to the Javanese-Surinamese community, he tries to explore the changing geographies of migration and resettlement. He examines how these histories can be found in the small details of our (the community’s) daily life.

Roos Gerritsen

Care, control, affection, dominance: our bonds with animals are rarely simple. Roos Gerritsen explores the layered and often contradictory relationship between humans and animals in her video installation. Her focus lies on domesticated animals, particularly the horse, which has been deeply intertwined with human culture for centuries. She reveals how we simultaneously care for and constrain these animals, offering affection while limiting their freedom. This tension underpins her work, where multiple perspectives on human-animal relationships are presented without imposing a single truth.

rayn

rayn (b. 1998) explores their environmental surroundings to question our existence within it. they focus on the in-between where the tension between apparent opposites don’t cancel each other out but instead create space where multiple perspectives coexist.the value we assign to materials plays a significant role in their work. recurring themes include what is shaped and what remains untouched, construction and deconstruction, control and vulnerability.

Hazel van Berkel

A handwritten note left on the street, the attentiveness of a bicycle repairer, and a pair of pigeons caught in a moment of stillness. Hazel van Berkel documents the small acts and gestures that often remain unseen.Through installations, performances, and carefully curated collections, she invites us to reflect on how we assign value to the things around us. While society tends to prioritise what is loud or visible, Van Berkel shifts our attention to the unnoticed, highlighting the subtle connections between human and non-human life and the meaning we give to the ordinary.

Glenelys Josefina

Glenelys Josefina's work revolves around the representation of identity and self-expression, with a specific focus on hair as a cultural symbol.

Noud Boogaard

Noud Boogaard explores how meaning takes shape, and how space, actions, and material influence that process. Over the past year, he developed a fascination with videos of police interrogations, in which the search for truth unfolds. Boogaard realised that, as an artist, he is both the interrogator and the one being interrogated.

Marco Sleumer

With his ceramic sculptures, Marco Sleumer gives shape to his inner world. The intricate details of his work invite viewers to lose themselves in the sculptures, encouraging not just observation, but an experience. His work moves between fantasy and science; he draws inspiration from natural forms and merges these influences with a vivid imagination. The result is a series of sculptures and installations that evoke a layered world of their own – both alienating and familiar at the same time.

Meet all the artists

Would you like to help us?

You can help us by volunteering or making a donation.

Donations

Because we do not charge an entrance fee or rent for the exhibition spaces, our income consists mainly of donations and subsidies.

Donations help us keep our spaces open. Send me an email, and I'll be happy to respond. Every donation is tax-deductible because the EX Foundation has Cultural ANBI status.

Volunteer work

Would you welcome my visitors and volunteer to look after my art? The artists exhibiting with me are often present during opening hours. Unfortunately, they're not always available, and I'd like to keep the exhibition open an extra day, namely on Fridays from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

Would you like to help me for a fee of €20 per afternoon in the EXbunker?

Subsidies

EXutrecht is subsidized by the municipality of Utrecht