31 October - 1 November 2026 - Group show at gallery LOS - Arnhem

 

Participating artists in this weekend show: Frank Mabelis, Studio Crin, Judith Stolker, Ruben Heerings, Suski Store, Paulus Noomen, Felix Verheijden en Jeroen Huisman.

September 26 + 27 2026 - Exhibition Gegroeide Tijd (Grown Time) - Ecologische Tuin - Prins Hendrikstraat Arnhem

 

During the weekend of 26 September 2026 300 people visited the lovely Ecological Garden in the Spijker neighborhood in Arnhem (NL), packed with art of 11 artists.

My contribution consisted of a fresh sculpture - Vortex Naturae (2026) - and the collaboration-project Wat Voorbij Blijft (What remains) with writer/poets Anke van Oostveen en Maarten Buser, which evolved around imagery seen through view-masters. 

Artist statement Wat voorbij blijft

Anke van Oostveen, Maarten Buser en Jeroen Huisman in Gegroeide Tijd

Time is open to interpretation. We all experience it differently, yet we all live by it—some more loosely and indulgently, others more strictly and efficiently. Time accumulates in layers of successive moments while, at the same time, eroding our lives. Human time plays almost no part in the vastness of the universe; in that sense, everything we experience passes in an instant. And yet, the time allotted to us offers ample room for condensation, magnification, and interpretation.

Anke, Maarten, and Jeroen came together for this exhibition to explore the subject through free association. Anke and Maarten, both poets and writers, did so through text and images, while Jeroen worked primarily with images.

We chose the View-Master as our medium because it is an iconic, nostalgic relic of childhood—a device through which we once discovered entertaining or unfamiliar worlds. Although we belong to different generations, we all grew up with this wondrous object. Looking into a View-Master takes you somewhere else, if only for a moment. The seven pairs of images on each reel—as the round slide holders are called—allowed us to forget about time for a while.

Anke van Oostveen wrote several essays on time and photographed situations in which a scene unfolds in a brief moment. Taking a photograph gave her a fleeting grasp on time: for a moment, the moment became hers as an image. By inviting others to view those same photographs through the View-Master, she gives that time—and what happened within it—away. Each viewer sees their own version: a moment that arises anew and differently in every pair of eyes.

Maarten Buser regularly photographs strange things he encounters on the street, preferably (textual) instructions that are somehow illogical. The View-Master’s mechanism reminds him of cinematic editing techniques, an important source of inspiration for his poetry. By assembling the reels, he was able to apply those techniques visually, too, inviting viewers to see whether they can create their own story or “film” from each sequence of images.

For this project, Jeroen Huisman selected images from his photo project Fragmented City. During city walks, he focuses on the ground like an archaeologist, searching the layer where abandoned human-made objects and impressions enter into a kind of courtship with nature.

Participating artists in this weekend show: Gijs Verschoor, Anneke Savert, Karel van der Eijk, Jeroen Huisman, Joanneke Jouwsma, Lee Eun Young, Thijs Helder, Anke van Oostveen, Ivonne Zijp, Maarten Buser, Martin van den Oever.

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