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“The Rococo style is an upending,” ... “It’s a very rebellious understanding of space.”

I have been a rebellious admirer of Rococo since I was born and wanted to touch my smiling mother's curly hair: “The aesthetic of the Rococo feels very familiar to me, and there are lots of things that I, as a woman and also as a girl growing up, interacted with which seem to have a Rococo sensibility to them,” Read this article on artnet

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22-07-2024 / 25-8-2024 Masterspieces of Art, Salzburg

Very glad 😍 my work is shown in Salzburg by Helmut Reinisch Contemporary gallery in his Pop-up Gallery during the salzburger Festspiele. ,Masterpieces of Art' shows 'masterpieces' that are intended to appeal directly to the viewer through their distinctive style of expression. A.o.: Nobuyoshi Araki, Stephan Balkenhol, Arnulf Rainer, Katharina Grosse, Erwin Wurm... Thanks a lot Helmut and your gorgeous Lions Team. 22-7-2024 /25-8-2024 

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26-5-2024 / 30-6-2024 / La poesie d'été / Galerie Contour

My newest works are shown in the colourful exhibition 'La poesie d'été' together with works of Dan Lam, Saidou Dicko, Marie Pop, Mesut Ozturk, Elsemarijn Bruys and Studio Sodalime  Till June 30.

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13-4-2024 / 14-4-2024 Passages 2024 / Ode to Johanna / Welcome in our studiobuilding.

All emancipation starts with education in my latest photo, a girl is flying high.

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27-3-2024 / 1-4- 2024, Get your kicks @ Booth 66 / KunstRAI

Galerie Contour, Muriel Mager shows my newest works. The flowers of Het Heerlijke Land, an ecological garden in Nijmegen and flowers from our own studio garden play the leading role.

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November 19-26 PAN Amsterdam 2023, RAI

Last years October I got drunk on the colors of the red wild vine. Before the leaves would blow away I started picking and photographing them. They now meander through my new works on display at the upcoming PAN.

Galerie Dom 'Arte, Gerry Broos         Booth 63

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2020 /2022 Do You Want to Know a Secret?

Happy to announce a film has been made: Oogmerk, a series on Dutch artists. How I make these works.  

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9-13 November 2023, ART & ANTIQUE, Vienna

Helmut Reinisch and his team are presenting my work at the ART & ANTIQUE in Vienna at this gorgeous international fair inside the Hofburg palace. My works are surrounded in Reinisch Contemporary Art Gallery by works of among others: Herbert Brandl, Katharina Grosse, Arnulf Rainer, Erwin Wurm. Feel welcome to join the party!
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Till 12-09-2023 , An Angel at my Mirror @ galerie Dom'Arte

You can still see this summer show from the end of August till half September.  
Last day of the exhibition will be 12-09-2023
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Love in Eternity ❤️ Bob & Nienke

Where do I begin to tell the story of how great a love can be?
Golden beautiful couple Nienke Bawa and Bob Kootte fell in love, lived together and loved each other only for a few years and died last August of a mysterious poisoning in Colombia.
The questions around their death did not get clear answers yet.
I am so grateful the parents of Bob Kootte asked me to make an artwork to celebrate the lives of their beloved son Bob and his girlfriend Nienke with the flowers of their funeral.
We celebrated the revelation of their Eternal Love story.  Bob❤️Nienke

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