Escape With Me

when: May 29, 2025 - June 29, 2025
where: EXboot

This exhibition is about the urge - and ways to escape reality, but not without wanting to take a part of this reality with you.

In ‘Escape with Me’ I invite you to escape together — not away from the everyday, but with the everyday as our baggage. Every fragment of reality travels with us: small gestures, loose memories, silent worries, real problems and big dreams.

We daydream into unknown futures, or dig our way back to places that only exist in us. Sometimes we hide in new worlds of our own making, not to disappear, but to deal with everything that concerns us.

Escaping here does not mean leaving reality behind, but recreating it. What we take with us are traces of life, and what we find is a new way of existing.

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Current exhibition

This exhibition is closed. This is showing at EXboot now:

A woman's face is visible through a sheer white lace veil with dark floral motifs, framed by cream-colored curtains.

Jan 2

Jan 31

The House of Self

Inês Da Silva Aguiar

Where do I belong, and what truly shapes our sense of self? Inês Da Silva Aguiar explores the fragile and complex nature of identity in The House of Self, a work influenced by her ethnically mixed background and upbringing on a politically divided island. Through personal reflection and conversations with her family, she reveals the challenges of navigating languages and cultures, and captures the experience of living between different worlds.

where

Nijverheidskade 15
3534AZ Utrecht

Due to the unique and limited size of the cultural-historical site, EXboot is only accessible on foot and is not wheelchair accessible. There are no facilities for the hearing impaired (yet).

Een groep jonge mannen kijkt door het raam van de EXboot naar binnen

Always at EXboot

The sand path museum

I cherish both my present and my past. Besides a space for high-profile art, one of my rooms also houses the Zandpad Museum. Here, I'll tell you about my illustrious past and introduce you to people who know me well—inside or out. Sit on my stool, gaze out the window, and listen to the many stories surrounding my life.

Short documentary 'The Sand Path'

The Zandpad Museum is screening a short documentary about the history of the Zandpad. You'll also find numerous audio clips of conversations with various people involved, including a former sex worker and former mayor Aleid Wolfsen.

This Zandpad documentary was made by Sylvie Kamphuis & Jaap Pronk (director), Bram Engelaar (camera), Doenja Abel (production), Twan Bracco Gartner (music), and Bald Beeld (editing). Thanks to the interviewees: Aleid Wolfsen (former mayor of the Municipality of Utrecht), Brenda Oude Breuil (criminologist at Utrecht University), Jannie Teunissen (De Tussenvoorziening), the former sex worker, and the former client of Zandpad. The documentary was made possible in part by the Municipality of Utrecht, KF Heinfonds, Mondriaanfonds, and RTV Utrecht.

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