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Close-up menselijke huid. Tekst: STUDIO HANS, DICHT OP DE HUID. 18-09 t/m 02-10-2026. Westerkade 38, Utrecht.

Sep 18

Oct 2

Dicht op de huid

Studio HANS

With Dicht op de huid, Studio HANS explores the personal stories, feelings and experiences people carry in relation to their bodies. Through memories, comparisons and personal reflections, they share how they experience their bodies and what their bodies mean to them. Their stories touch on feelings of connection and strength, as well as distance, alienation, doubt and discomfort.The portraits reveal the complex and changing relationship we have with our bodies. They show moments of distance, comfort and uncertainty, and how these feelings can shift over time. Together, they create an intimate reflection on how we see, experience and relate to our own bodies.The exhibition can be visited at Westerkade 38 in Utrecht.

cat elfrink: work in progress. EXbunker. Open 5 sep 16-20u. 5-27 sep. Wilhelminapark 24A Utrecht.

Sep 5

Sep 27

Werk in uitvoering

Cat Elfrink

For the past year I’ve started viewing my workspace more and more as the work itself, placing the process of working and play at the center. The surprises I encounter when I focus on the process instead of the result. The discovery instead of the conclusion. The work ‘work in progress’ uses the skip container as a starting point to explore value and desires in creating.In the EXbunker, a situation develops where the content remains changeable and the action keeps changing. Using scrap wood and objects found on the street that previously held a different purpose, I work on a space that holds balance between function and form. Everything that’s in the space is used to make the space. Here, inventive, coincidental or awkward connections continuously play a different role. Where does the act end and the work begin? Or can these two terms coexist in the same sense of the word?

Beschadigde filmstrook (400 KOD) met blauw, webachtig patroon over oranjebruine en groengrijze lagen.

Sep 3

Sep 27

Memories in Cellulose

Marit Hofman

Memories in Cellulose invites the visitor to step into a workshop of co-creation, connection, and transformation, where microorganisms and humans work together.It is a space to reflect on how we, as individuals, position ourselves within local ecosystems.In this installation, the maker has entered into a collaboration with her ecosystem by having analog film edited by microorganisms both from the maker’s skin and from plants growing around her house. The seemingly magical images resulting from this are projected onto canvases of bacterial cellulose in a three-dimensional space. The creative process is also displayed through projections, living fermentation, and material research.

Black and white photo of a crowd, many people looking at phones. A man in a white Nike polo has sunglasses on his collar.

Aug 1

Aug 30

the escalator is always rolling

Thomas L. Fontein

Every day the same game repeats itself, at the same time and place as yesterday, just with different players. Your body gets absorbed into the flow of the rush hour, while your mind is disconnected. As the train leaves the station, you take your seat in the midst of absent gazes. ‘the escalator is always rolling’ is an exploration of the mental numbness of repetition, predictability and the drag of going somewhere that doesn't fulfill you.

Jul 30

Aug 30

Masque

Sire Mane

In Sire Mane’s new work "Masque," the viewer is placed within a field of tension between honesty, concealment, and adaptation. The installation consists of two large masks behind which personal and vulnerable stories are hidden. Behind the masks, you hear two individuals speaking in their own languages—French and Wolof (a local language from Senegal) about topics they find difficult to discuss in their daily lives. The emotions behind these masks are clearly audible, yet the words remain largely unclear to most visitors. The masks draw the viewer in, but remain impenetrable. They do not reveal their inner world. In this way, a sense of distance and misunderstanding emerges, connected to differences in language, identity, and culture.

Familieportret: vader met stropdassenmasker houdt baby vast, moeder met rood bloemenmasker zit in stoel.

Jul 4

Jul 26

De muren hebben oren

Adriënne Verburg

"De benen nemen" (to take to one's legs/to bolt)—why do we say it that way? Instead of just saying "I'm leaving"? At the same time, people are judged if they don't speak "correct" Dutch. We accept all sorts of crazy proverbs, yet a tiny grammatical error can sometimes be enough to dismiss someone.I am fascinated by how we communicate with one another. How we take it for granted. How words follow rules, how objects communicate with us, and how we, in turn, interpret them. And then there are those proverbs, which often describe things whose meaning is no longer literal at all. Do we truly understand each other, or is that not the case and are we just pretending? In my work, I look for the confusion within proverbs sometimes by depicting them literally, sometimes by changing something small about them.

Blauw doorschijnend paneel met donkere kegel in zwart kubusframe, aan een witte muur bevestigd.

Jul 2

Jul 26

Maybe I was too impatient, or the movement too subtle

Indira de Boer

Last January, Indira de Boer spent two weeks walking through the Himalayas. This physical journey formed an artistic research process focused on the relationship between human, material, and landscape. During this trek, the artist explored how meaning-making shifts when the human scale is decentered in relation to the overwhelming presence of non-human entities.De Boer is interested in situations where form and structure meet under constraint. Rather than working with natural objects as given forms, they construct conditions that test how materials behave. Meaning is not predetermined; instead, each work is approached as a situation in which material can actively participate in the production of meaning.

Left: a crude, abstract face painting with "nightmare TEENAGE" text. Right: a vibrant, realistic portrait of a blue-haired person.

Jun 6

Jun 28

We Stellen Ons Bloot

Lenny van Hout & Mees van de Voren

We Stellen Ons Bloot is a duo exhibition by Lenny van Hout and Mees van de Voren — two self-taught artists who each explore mental health, personal growth, and everything that comes with it in their own distinct way. Their styles differ, sometimes even clash, yet both emerge from the same vulnerable core.The exhibition presents work born from chaos and the search for identity. An honest exhibition about vulnerability, about starting over, and about daring to show yourself — both as an artist and as a human being.

May 28

Jun 28

HKU EXPOSURE 25 tm 29 JUNE

HKU Theater

HKU Theatre will settle at the Nijverterrein again this June for the second time, including at EXboot. Graduates from the Theatre Design, Interactive Performance Design programs, and the Master Scenography are working on their graduation projects, which will be on display during EXPOSURE from Thursday, June 25 through Sunday, June 29. Come and check it out!

Een close-up van blauw-witte geweven stof met een abstract, onregelmatig patroon van lijnen en golven.

May 2

May 31

Dweilen met de Kraan Open

Isabela Verhagen

Since the heavy rainfalls flooded the streets of Valencia in 2024, I could not stop thinking about the images of the residents sweeping the muddy streets. Amid the enormous amounts of mud and water, the act of sweeping seemed futile. These pictures conveyed a clear message: people are trying to manage the damaging consequences of climate change. Starting from this image, my project depicts men sweeping the floor while standing in the water, ankle deep. In front of the sweepers, on the floor, is a house and a car swept away by the floods. The tapestries are accompanied by a ceramic fuel nozzle with a knitted oil spill attached, symbolising the fossil fuel companies that accelerate climate change. The installation is created to show the stark contrast between individuals fighting the consequences of climate change, while elsewhere, the oil tap is still running. The title refers to a Dutch saying, literally translated as ‘mopping the floor with the faucet open.

Een bewegende figuur in een volumineus wit, wolkachtig en geplooid kledingstuk staat voor een donkerblauwe achtergrond.

Apr 30

May 24

Een Ode Aan

Babs Groote Schaarsberg

My collection consists of sculptures centered around the body, paying homage to the Bottermarkt in my village Raalte and the Salland traditional attire. It is not a repetition of the original, but a personal interpretation meant to astonish and engage people, so these traditions won’t disappear. The title Een Ode Aan gives me freedom in my creative process and invites the audience to wonder and be intrigued, just as I feel when I walk through the Bottermarkt.

Abstract, blurred background with a warm orange-yellow gradient that fades into a cool blue-gray.

Apr 4

Apr 26

Views from Closed Eyes

Florentien Stikkelorum

Come and look with your eyes closed at a new artwork by Florentien Stikkelorum, created for the Exbunker. The darkness of the Exbunker can become even darker, and at the same time lighter. Views from Closed Eyes invites you to pause and look where you normally see nothing: your eyelids. What you see does not appear in front of you, but within you. What’s to be seen there when you give it your attention? And how vast is the space behind your closed eyes? Together, we turn the Exbunker into an infinitely large place for a moment , a place of imagination.