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Jerry Ruiter

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“I work with many different media, and for the exboot I intend to develop this work so that it is custom made for the space.An installation consisting of small works made in different media that exist/breath with the space so that they don’t over power it, no structural alterations made to the space beside maybe a few screws in the wall. My intention for the work is for it to be a welcomed visitor, keeping into account the history and present of the space it is in.”

Luka Slijkerman

Luka Slijkerman (Utrecht, 1996) is a visual artist who makes spatial installations and sculptures in which the subjects of decay (and its aesthetic value), faded glory and nostalgia often recur. The transition made by objects and buildings from financially valuable to emotionally valuable is also a recurring theme. Slijkerman mainly works with accessible materials such as concrete, tiles, tie-wraps and objects he finds on the street or in thrift stores. These are transformed and brought together by him to evoke new meaning. Slijkerman places his work both within the walls of the “art world” and in public space in order to investigate what context means for his work and art in general.

Luus Damen

Luus Damen (2001) graduated from HKU, Product Design last year. The nostalgia she feels about going camping when she was a child is a repeating theme through her work. Those vacations, full of freedom and excitement are times she still yearn for.

Maribel Beekman Hetharia

“As a designer I am looking for the dividing line between art and product design. In this way I present myself as an artist. With my work I like to touch 3 subjects; the philosophy, functionality and sustainability of the work. How do they relate to each other. My love for ceramics and metal arose during my studies. I noticed while experimenting that I found the opposite characteristics of the material very interesting. These contrasts created a common thread in my work. Always looking for a way to visualize my issues without judging other people. I only try to encourage my audience to look differently at products/artwork, in order to see an object more as a whole.”

Noreen Riepma

Noreen about herself: ” I feel liberal and free, but at the same time conservative and religious. Religious, yet asinner. In my work I explore what it means to navigate back and forth between my Pakistani and Dutch upbringing. Am I a good Muslim or a liberal Dutch artist? Or could I be both? Being a product of an unhappy marriage of parents who culturally and morally clash with each other in various ways has questioned the meaning and purpose of my own identity.

Adriana Joëlle Jochems

Through her art practice Adriana Joëlle Jochems discovers the subjects of the finite and infinite, experience of time and memories. How do we (humans) deal with everything that has happened in the past and how does it influence our being in the here and now? Why do we cherish objects from the past, and why do we hold on to something that has already been? Investigating how these objects and materials can carry the meaning of the past, she tries to get a grip on these objects and their spirits through experimentation. What happens if there are no people to fixate these objects, and what is the hierarchy between these humans and objects and materials?

Ahmad Mallah

Parents will tell their children often ‘the walls have ears’. Freedom of speech is a taboo in Syria. So, Ahmad was silent. In the bunker he captures his stories in art and language, in order to share them with people.His past in Syria is the inspiration behind the work. By painting and portraying he observes his fears. His sorrows and frustrations.He is the maker and the artwork. And even though the walls have ears, He is silent no more.

André Ploeg

André Ploeg intervenes in public space. This can be in a street in a suburb, a dune pan in a nature reserve or on a field. The interventions are not planned in advance, he usually reacts spontaneously to what he finds somewhere. He finds the materials used on the spot and adds as little as possible.

Angel-Rose Oedit Doebé

Angel-Rose Oedit Doebé (The Netherlands, 1995) is a Dutch-Surinamese visual artist from Amsterdam. Oedit Doebé is an alumnus of HKU BA Fine Arts and winner of the HKU Keep an Eye Photography Stipend and the HKU Prize Gemeente Utrecht for social relevance in 2021.She describes herself as a visual artist who is rooted in the medium of photography but dissected the medium to a form installation. She creates photos, mainly self-portraits, installations, ready-made sculptural work and works with archives.Besides her visual art, angel-rose is invested in activism, social rights, feminism, writing, creative direction, and is involved with children in a creative manner.

Anja Fredin

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Anna Reerds

In her work, Anna Reerds celebrates man’s craziness, ignorance, and sadness. By combining photography, scale models, film, animation and illustration, she plays with reality and thus creates a world that is very recognizable on the one hand and feels absurd on the other.‘Soelaas’ is about snackbars, laundries and public toilets. Places like this – places that radiate human loneliness in a certain way – show us that humankind is not perfect. Not that this is a bad thing: it is part of being human. We don’t have to pretend that we always eat healthy, that we are never lonely, that we have mastered life. These places comfort us.