For English see belowFemmy Otten (1981) behoorde in 2014 tot de selectie van drie kunstenaars die de ministeriële opdracht kregen om een staatsieportret van koning Willem-Alexander te maken. In haar werk laat Otten zich niet beperken door het kader van het doek of papier. Ze onderscheidt zich vooral door haar complexe wandcomposities waarin twee- en driedimensionale elementen samenkomen. Beelden van vrouwen en van mythologische wezens, gemaakt van gips of hout, rijzen op uit een spierwitte w...

The gaze that looks ahead and then slowly wanders down or to the side, looking for traces and signs of a landscape, rather than the landscape itself. Van den Broek paints what others pay no attention to or simply overlook. Cracks, borders, shadows, lines, corners, and also bridges, trees, trucks, reflections. They are set up crisply, and stripped of their frills (or as van den Broek puts it: “Cut away the snoopy!”), which leaves them somewhere between figuration and abstraction. Are we in...

This book celebrates Radicale1924, a contemporary art residency founded in 2020 by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans.

Located in the picturesque village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie in the Lot Valley in the south of France, the residency welcomed artists, researchers, and creators from 2021 to 2024 to live and work in the historic Maison Routier.

Carrying forward the village’s historical tradition as an artistic haven—once home to André and Elisa Breton and a circle of renowned surrealists...

As attested by her inclusion in several important survey exhibitions, including The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain at the Wende Museum, Los Angeles (2019–20), Drozdik is one of the most significant Eastern European women artists working in experimental performance and photography before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Following her move to New York, she worked in close relation to feminist, critical and experimental literary practices associated with New York...