Met gepaste trots presenteer ik Stichting Het Zwols Stadsatelier. Vrijdag 20 juni J.L. opgericht en statutair vastgelegd en bij de notaris beëdigd (heet dat zo?) Samen met Gina Draaisma en Jos Mulder vorm ik nu het 3 koppige bestuur van een concept wat hopelijk binnen nu en 6 maanden vaste vorm gaat krijgen.
Omdat we nog volop in een onderzoeksfase zitten en nog allerlei punten op I’s moeten zetten, zeg ik er inhoudelijk nog niet te veel over.
Wel kan ik zeggen dat we hele vruchtbare gesprekken hebben gehad met beleidsmakers en leegstandbeheerders. Het is nog best een ingewikkelde maar mooie culturele, sociaal maatschappelijke puzzel die we moeten leggen.
Meer hierover volgt maar dit eerste concrete wapenfeit wilde ik vast met jullie delen.
Ik bedank de regeling ‘Oog voor Impuls’ die deze onderzoeksfase/verkenning mede mogelijk heeft gemaakt.
Wordt vervolgd.
Denk je toch hierin iets te kunnen of willen betekenen, mail of bel mij.
(English version)
With pride I present The Zwols Stadsatelier Foundation. Friday, June 20, J.L. established and statutory and sworn in at the notary (is that how it’s called?) Together with Gina Draaisma and Jos Mulder, I now form the 3-person board of a concept that will hopefully take shape within the next 6 months.
Because we are still in a research phase and still have to fill in some blancs, I won’t say too much about the content.
What I can say is that we have had very fruitful discussions with policy makers and vacancy managers. It is still quite a complicated but beautiful cultural, social puzzle that we have to put together.
More on this will follow but I wanted to share this first concrete achievement with you.
I would like to thank the ‘Oog voor Impuls’ (Eye for Impulse) organization that made this research phase/exploration possible.
To be continued.
Do you think you can or want to mean something in this, please mail or call me.
Hereby I present my latest work, Life Is Too Short, To you
Life is Too Short- Digital artprint (on Dibond) 90cm x 150 cm x 0,5 mm- 2025
Life is too short to be negative.
Life is too fickle to be naive
Life is too dynamic to be relaxed
Life is too unfair to be positive
Life ends that makes it relative.
This image is a digital collage of pictures I made in Rome (2022) Man holding his head and massaging his temples was posted on a bridge crossing the Tiber, the Tiber is now flooding behind the man, the graffiti found on a wall somewhere in Rome. La Grande Bellezza.
Wankel Evenwicht is een groepsexpositie in het Hoogkoor van het Academiehuis, Zwolle. De expositie is van 25.04.25 tot 08.06.25. Deelnemers: Everdien Post – Marian Dorothe Visscher – Jan Pieter Gootjes – Ludie Gootjes Klamer en Jolan van de Waeter en ikzelf, Marit Otto
Opening 25 april om 11u – Academiehuis Zwolle. Welkom!
Speciaal voor deze expositie heb ik de kunstinstallatie W.I.P. (Work In Progress) gemaakt. Een interactieve installatie van 4 meter breed en 2 meter hoog. Waarover ik later meer zal vertellen.
Expositie: Wankel Evenwicht
De expositie Wankel Evenwicht is een bijzondere verkenning van het maatschappelijke thema: “Hoe kunnen we samen leven” in een tijd van verandering. Deze tentoonstelling is het resultaat van een unieke samenwerking tussen zes Zwolse kunstenaars, ontwerpers en de gemeenschap, waarin kunst en erfgoed samenkomen om de complexe vraagstukken van onze samenleving aandacht te geven en in beweging te krijgen.
W.I.P. in Academiehuis ZwolleIK- WIJ- ZIJ
Deze tentoonstelling is geen eindpunt, maar een startpunt voor gesprekken, bewustwording en actie. Laten we samen verder verkennen en ontdekken wat het betekent om echt samen te leven.
W.I.P. in Academiehuis Zwolle: klik hier voor video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnaj7ERvC0W.I.P. Installatie (In opbouw atelier)ZAAI- Onderdeel van de W.I.P. installatie
Hereby I present my latest artworks to you; ‘Enable & Disable (diptych)
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 50 x 1cm each
2025
Enable & Disable – acryl op canvas – 50 x 50 cm- 2025
Enable and disable; these words hold power to switch on or off. Each time we are asked to enable or disable we take a turn in one direction. This trivial action may have implications.
As individuals we sometimes seem and feel powerless but together we can be a force of change, if we choose to.
Sadly, the global unregulated free market in its current form has been proving destructive to the planet but is now endangering our democracies as well.
At the root of every product is a producer, but then there is also, ultimately, a user. We are that users. Without a user a producer is a king without a kingdom, an empty, harmless shell. So what we as consumers do, buy and use matters. We are able to enable and disable. Switch on and off. With every purchase, we enable someone at the end of the line. We are able to make kings rise and fall and disable or enable anyone who can or can’t handle our confidence and saves or steals our future.
Wonderful news, my painting ‘ Last Gatekeepers Of Lost Revolutions’ has been shortlisted in the Singulart International Women’s Day 2025 Award!
The jury states that it stands out with its unique perspective on the theme of (female) Bravery.
Acryl op canvas 100/150 cm
About the work itself: Hovering female figures spreading their arms wide open and floating around. They are jumping and moving simultaneously. They are clearly present and strong. The last gatekeepers is referring to a world where young men, the proverbial sons, are sent to war by other men. This is why, I believe, when women rule, wars will end. No mother in her right mind will ever send her child voluntarily to a war, any war.
Last Gatekeepers Of Lost Revolutions is part of the Metropolitan series and is currently on display in Bruxelles handled by Bernice, Art Rental and Gallery in Temse.
Sea Of Tranquility – acrylic on canvas – 155 x 90 cm – 2025
This painting features 7 alienated versions of me.
I am not truly at ease with the concept of AI, but as an image creator, I felt the need to know where the future of image creation is heading. So I started my first investigation into AI in Photoshop.
I used a recent picture of myself and simply instructed the conceptual toolbar: ‘’improve‘’. The result of this one instruction was a bit of horror meets a VR-loving alien. A surprising and baffling introduction to AI, but not really a compliment.
I now imagine that in its eyes, my request for improvement could only lead to something that would visually resemble a physical version of itself, just like the creator who created humankind in his own image. As uncanny as this outcome was, it inspired me to create this canvas on which a more sympathetic version of this raw first artificial draft, times seven, rises from a restless sea of tranquillity.
What AI made of me
I thank AI for this inspiration, but I am not sure if I will become a frequent flyer, though; probably I will and without knowing that I do, just like the rest of us. She is beyond us.
I’m not sure our lives will get better with AI and all that it embeds and will encapsulate in the future.
If it were up to me (it is not), I would rather live life with all its beautiful, natural imperfections and oddities with the certainty of death than become a servant of a perfect faceless system with a poor imagination.