Banks Violette, whose interests both in minimalist form and in the transmissions of subcultural communities have determined the course of his artistic practice since 2000, has been increasingly drawn to collaboration as the conceptual support for his installations. These collaborations have, more often than not, paired Violette with Stephen O’Malley, the musician most frequently associated [...]

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Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “ready-made artist” and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people’s work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can [...]

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Sigrid Calon graduated in 1993 at the academy of Tilburg. The first few years of her professional career she worked mostly as a designer. Since 2005 she chose to be a visual artist and works steadily on her artwork. Her art exists in the urge to explore, discover and create. Forcing new connections and the [...]

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(The Island of Dr. Morgeau by Morgan Betz) What’s up! is an exhibition that contains the youngest artpainting in the Netherlands. For this exhibition thirty artists are selected that give a representative overview of today’s contemporary art of painting in the Netherlands. What’s up! originated from the need of a broad audience, they wanted to get [...]

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The artistic practice of Tris Vonna-Michell (b. 1982, Rochford, UK) is an explosive mix of performance, installation, music, literature, slang and rhythm. It adds a new chapter in a long tradition of storytelling. In his performances he takes the audience on a mental and physical journey, in which objects in space get a deeper meaning, [...]

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For his first solo-exhibition the artist/movie maker/composer Gabriel Shalom, who lives and works in Berlin, presents a videomusicsuite in 5 movements. Videomusic is a term whom Shalom came up with himself for work in where he composes with image and sound. Shalom’s work is half avant-garde electronic music and half hyperkubistic visual esthetic. Influenced by the [...]

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The English artist Matt Stokes (1973) makes work in which performance, music ans social engagement come together. His artistic practice is marked by anthropological research and an interest in events of informal movements theat bind people together. His work exists from intensive research and active collaboration with local communities, studying  the social and visual language [...]

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PAL stands for ‘Phase Alterning Line‘. It is a live ‘audio-video art performance’ by two artists from Tilburg, Albert van Abbe (1982, Eindhoven The Netherlands) and Wim-Jan Smits (1984, Tilburg The Netherlands). In this project Albert and Wim-Jan will research ‘signals‘ (physical and metaphysical signals as we think our universe and everything in it is [...]

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Femke Dekkers lives in Breda and works on various places. She graduated just last year at Sint Joost in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. In her photographs she tries to capture “impulses of certainty”, she says in her statement. “Somewhere between my longing for gaining control over these moments, and great appreciation for their resistance to my attempts, I [...]

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We came across this video (see below) of twenty-four-year old artist Neil Beloufa a while a go, and immediately loved it! This is where minimalistic, conceptual art, which you normally just find between the white walls of a museum, meets the real world, occupying daily routine (see above). Looking at more of his work, it seems [...]

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