Matthieu Ronsse creates paintings that often seem unfinished, comprised of references to old masters, fragments from his private life, or clippings from books on photography and architecture. He challenges the traditional painting method, questioning its qualities of materials, techniques, subject, and history. ‘A Procession of Lobsters’ offers an overview of work that Ronsse creates ‘in situ’: at a petrol station, in the house of a collector, for a catering company, within watchtower...

This project by Dutch photographer Mariken Wessels (1963) is a multifaceted artistic translation of her fascination with an anonymous woman who posed for Eadweard Muybridge’s camera in 1885. In the 24-image sequence “Arising from the Ground”, the obese woman, who was supposedly named Miss Cox, can be observed as she moves from lying down to a fully upright position. Wessels was inspired by this woman to start making large clay sculptures and photographing obese female models swimming un...

This volume comprises the textual and visual translation of a two-year research trip undertaken by the ArtEZ Dance Academy and its Theory in the Arts research department. The project tackles the praxis and practice of urban dance, its manifestation in public space, making modern dance more accessible to a wider audience, how urban dance is learned and how this can affect ideas and movements, and more. The questions it raised have led to exploring the urban circle form that has emerged ass the...

This book is as much about making architecture as it is about world making. Herman Hertzberger has never considered his works as stand-alones, but always as parts of webs of connections on different scales. Shaping freedom integrates his architecture, texts, photographs, drawings, quotes, and art and architecture of others. All these layers are reciprocally related to each other. Together, they form Hertzberger’s architectural universe.

Exponential population ageing is changing how we coexist in urban spaces. The Architecture of Ageing is de Architekten Cie.’s long-term collaborative project on housing, ageing, and care in the city. It is where we synthesise our knowledge and share our experience through continuous dialogues at home in the Netherlands and internationally.

Improving discourse on ‘care’ is high on the agenda in our globally ageing world. Our task of densifying cities with hundreds of apartments in single...

This publication celebrates the 10 th anniversary of the Master of Choreography programme of the ArtEZ School of Dance. It marks this particular moment in time by creating a discursive and dynamic object in which memories of the past and visions of the future converge. 'Inventing Futures' is a mixture, a hybrid of an art book, a selection of essays, a score or a choreography itself, which comes to life in its encounter with the reader. The book consists of five clusters reflecting upon a cent...

The magazine's focus is to explore images created for practical purposes, in this case, the photographs used to guide solvers of jigsaw puzzles in their endeavours. These pictures, from animals, television and sports to postcard-perfect destinations, are printed on cardboard and cut into various pieces of different shapes that must be fitted together to form the whole. Usually found on the puzzle box's exterior, they are exact duplicates of the completed game - the perfect version of the puzz...

Launching the series 'ArtEZ Press Essay Issues', this first instalment features feminist Nishant Shah, who argues that the idea of a future in crisis and future as fake pervades almost all our global and immediate dialogues. Whether it is climate change deniers, flat Earth advocates, anti-vaxxers, incels, men’s rights advocates, neo-Nazi supporters, or fascist states eroding democracy, these two aspects link them all together. However, if fake is not an absolute category and not an inquiry ...