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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.

Numerous small, colorful buttons of different sizes and shades are scattered over a light-colored, textured surface.

Apr 2

Apr 26

De Unbuttoning

Judith Spil

Suddenly, something falls to the ground: what could it be? Something that was previously hidden has just become visible through the falling of a button. Judith Spil explores how vulnerability can be made visual. In this work, she uses buttons. Everyday objects often appear in her work. The falling buttons detach from the canvas and form a continuously changing landscape on the floor.The buttons are connected to a thread that is slowly being pulled, and inevitably another button will fall. This happens slowly, just like when you share vulnerable parts of your life. You reveal parts of yourself, bit by bit. It's an irreversible process: once you share something with someone, you can't go back. It might strengthen your bond, but it also feels like something is falling away. A protective layer is missing; something is now being exposed. It's a beautiful, yet painful process in which you give away a part of yourself, which could connect you with other people. You take a risk by doing this, because you never know how others will react to your fragility.

An ornate, light-colored ceramic sculpture with abstract engravings stands on bricks, against a hazy, layered fountain and green plants in the background.

Mar 7

Apr 7

How to Practice Paradise

Sasja Houba

How to Practice Paradise invites visitors to see their outdoor spaces as more than just extensions of their homes. By weaving together art, history, and personal stories, this work explores the elements that transform an ordinary garden into a vision of paradise, and investigates how the modern human revives the ‘lost paradise’ in their own backyard.By visiting people’s backyards and examining depictions of paradise across time and cultures, five recurring elements emerged, present both in historical imagery and in the contemporary garden: (1) a

A bald man with glasses and tattoos gestures from a stool, barefoot, to a woman behind the counter in a busy room.

Mar 5

Mar 29

Ik probeer je te heugen

Ken Stoové

This research portrays the inner quest of Ken Stoové, who feels a deep longing to travel to Suriname, the country where his grandfather and father took their first breaths. Although he has never been there himself, Suriname lives vividly in his imagination, shaped by stories, written accounts, and dreams. For Ken, the country symbolizes ancestry, identity, and a possible homecoming, but also uncertainty. He wonders whether he will find warmth and belonging there, or whether he will instead feel like an outsider, standing at the edge of his own origins.

Two red-tinted photographs with abstract, dark shapes hang from a string, tied with clothespins. A blurry person stands in a red-lit room.

Feb 28

Mar 29

ONE FRAME AT A TIME

Het Kleinste Kamertje

"One frame at a time" An archive of portraits created over five years, emerging from a practice that resists the instantaneous. Each photograph requires extended exposure time, inviting subjects into a temporal space outside the rhythm of daily life. In the stillness required by the camera, something shifts. Participants encounter their own breath, involuntary movements, the effort of holding presence. What begins as a technical constraint becomes an unexpected threshold, a pause where accelerated time momentarily suspends.

Feb 5

Feb 28

de zachtheid van een vreemdeling

Hazel van Berkel

The loneliness that winter can bring was the driving force behind Hazel van Berkel's exhibition "de zachtheid van een vreemdeling". This installation, consisting of dozens of lost gloves, depicts the hidden connection between people in times of withdrawal and isolation. Van Berkel picked up the gloves, as one might hold another's hand in need of help. In this way, the gloves become more than just a lost object, but also a source of support and comfort in difficult times.

Light blue sky with white and peach-colored clouds, severely distorted by multiple vertical bands and digital interference.

Jan 31

Feb 22

Between Lines

Roos Gerritsen

A multimedia/video installation with the sky as its subject, interrupted and then reordered. Through projection this fragmented sky becomes a metaphor for the urban view, where buildings, lines, and levels continually break the gaze. Below, on, and above the ground of the EXbunker a new play of edges and depths emerges, a horizon that is constantly shifting. Roos connects the sky to vulnerability and freedom, giving it a spontaneous presence in contrast to the concrete reality of the space.

A strange, flesh-colored clay figure: a face with large eyes, on a potter's wheel, on a dark gray table in front of a white wall.

Jan 3

Jan 25

Huff & Puff

Noud Boogaard

HKU alumnus Noud van den Boogaard investigates how meaning takes shape and how space, actions, and materials influence that process. Repetition and truth play a key role in his models. These models are more than miniatures: they explore the relationship between material and meaning, while simultaneously creating distance and perspective, conviction and disorientation. Through a careful layering of references, Van den Boogaard constructs a world that constantly refers back to itself. Upon closer inspection, one space appears to be part of the next. The result is an installation that constantly questions itself, folds inward, and gradually dissolves all certainty.

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.

Dec 6, 25

Dec 28

ongoing, still

rayn

An interior space filled with the outdoors. In this installation, the floor is covered with earthen tiles, which lose their shape over time. In a stack of tiles, the gesture of ordering, building, and breaking down repeats itself. Your presence unfolds a rhythm of creation and decay. Besides the tiles, the space contains a pallet sculpture that alludes to suspended movement. Because it is unusable for transport, the sculpture exposes how material and function relate to our world and questions your judgment and presence within it.

Dec 4, 25

Dec 23

Unbound Identity

Glenelys Josefina

In this installation, three generations meet in light, movement, and silence. The white masks represent not concealment, but revelation: they show how identity is formed across personal, familial, and cultural layers.My grandmother, my mother, and I share a deep-rooted ancestry in the Caribbean, in waters that carry Dominican, Curaçaoan, and Latin American stories. The sea in the film isn't a specific place, but a symbol of origin, memory, and the legacy of our ancestors.

Nov 1, 25

Nov 30

Between Tides

Marco Sleumer

Between Tides is an immersive installation in which Marco Sleumer explores a new part of his inner world and enters a new stage of life. Just as tide pools form between ebb and flow, he finds himself in a liminal phase, a transitional space between being a student and entering adulthood. This symbolism lies at the centre of the project.The installation features organic sculptures inspired by a symbiosis of corals and fungi. Their growth patterns, shapes, structures, and colors are translated into imaginative creations that seem almost alive.