Artists

Jonat Deelstra

Jonat Deelstra (1991) has been living and working in Amsterdam. In 2018, Jonat obtained his Bachelor in Illustration from the HKU. Since then, he has mainly worked as a painter, but he also likes to reach for new materials. Thus, he builds installations, makes drawings, woodcuts, ceramic work and animations. Jonat Deelstra's paintings have magical realistic features. his paintings are alienating as if something ominous is about to happen. Jonat finds his inspiration in other cultures and religions: ''I need the supernatural. I need to know the mystery of human existence.'' He can be seen in several private and corporate collections.

Selection of exhibitions: Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee - Hortus Botanicus 2022
Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee - Research Centre Wageningen (2022, Educational Art Show)
Painting present - ARWE Gallery - Gouda (2022, Group Show)
Solo/ Duo - Art Rotterdam (2022, Art Fair)
New Art Section - Art Rotterdam (2021, Art Fair)
My Mom is my Curator - NEUG - Mexico City (2021, Group Show)
Amsterdam Art Weekend - Capital C (2021)
‘Rituelen en bezweringen - GoMulan Gallery (2020, groupshow) gecureerd door sander Creman, Marie Jeanne de Rooij en Mulan Go.
Een gesloten paradijs - Museum Krona (Museum voor religieuze kunst) - Uden (2020, Group show)
‘Van Ostade Biënnale’ Galerie Fleur & Wouter - Amsterdam (2020, groupshow)
Nacht van de VN - Pakhuis de Zwijger (2019, congres / groupshow)
Jonat Deelstra Solo Exhibition - GoMulan Gallery - Amsterdam (2019, solo exhibition)

Residenties
Opium Atelier - Hilversum (2019)
Broedplaats Bogota - Halfweg (2019)
GinDs - Hoofddorp (2019)

Publications
Gallery viewer - Het atelier van… Jonat Deelstra (2022)
NH nieuws - Video item over Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee (2022)
Radio 1 België - live interview over Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee (2022)
Timur en Jorien - live interview 3FM over Uitvaartcentrum: De Noordzee (2022)
Museumtijdschrift - In het atelier van Jonat Deelstra (2021)
Tableau Magazine - Podium nieuw talent: Jonat Deelstra (2021)
Art Snap, mini-docu about my new project - Hogan Millar Productions (2021)
NH nieuws - Interview about ‘People’ (2021)
Radio Opium Radio 4 - audio rondleiding door Jonat Deelstra ‘Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Noord Hollands Dagblad ‘interview Jonat Deelstra Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Radio Opium ‘Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Noord Hollands Dagblad ‘interview Jonat Deelstra Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Winq, ‘Big Art Fair’ (2020)
Emilie van Kinschot (Volkskrant) - Dit is de blik van een kunstenaar op Europa (2019)
Luuk Heezen - Kunst is Lang (2019)
Radio 4: Opium- Interview: Jonat Deelstra - Opuim radio 4 (2019)
Het Parool- ‘Deze galerie scout via de socials’ (2018)

Collections
Normec Group Art Foundation
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
KPMG Art Foundation

Suzan Drummen

Suzan Drummen (1969) works in various disciplines and has created numerous artworks in public spaces. She is known for her installation works in the public space. However, at the core of all her work are large paintings she started creating in the 1990s. The fascination with illusions on the flat surface is unmistakable in the recent works as well. Distortions and optical effects tumble over each other. Spatial constructions in bright colors are combined with spheres in soft tones. It seems as if you can wander through these paintings just as you can in her installations. In her recent work, the effect of spatiality, of an infinite world, is even more prominently visible. Drummen: "The goal is still to make the work as generous as possible for the viewer's eyes; in that regard, nothing has changed, and yet everything is different."
Suzan's work can be found in several museum collections such as a big installation in the depot of Boijmans van Beuningen

Fabiola Burgos Labra

Fabiola Burgos Labra's artworks can be read as representations of, or moments in, a layered process-based practice. In them, she explores topics of gender, colonization, her own family history and our culturally determined relationship with materials. In search of different approaches to these materials and objects, she manages to create meaningful and sensitive sculptures and installations through simple gestures and fragile materials.

Burgos Labra's work subverts the dominant assumptions about the art object that shape the very framework of the art market. The friction with prevailing conceptions of completeness, permanence, object value and ownership is driven to its extreme in the context of the art fair.

Susanne Khalil Yusef

Susanne Khalil Yusef (1984) makes work about her Palestinian background. In this way she hopes to provide insight into the situation of Palestinians around the world. In her works of art, she incorporates stories and events that she herself or those close to her have experienced. Khalil Yusef makes colourful installations such as murals, paintings, textiles, ceramics, video, performances, bronze sculptures and self-created archives. At first glance, Khalil Yusef's brightly coloured work seems light-hearted and playful, but if you look closely, you will see references to displacement, identity and socio-geographic power relationships.

Ulrike Rehm

Ulrike Rehm (1976), trained in a woodworkers' guild, later studied at the Rietveld Academy. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2006 and her Master's degree from the Sandberg Institute in 2011.

Much knowledge has been lost in production and mass efficiency. Rehm hopes through her work that people will rediscover the value of materials. She achieves this by working with recognizable, almost domestic materials such as wood and soap.
Intentionally, Rehm employs craft techniques that could be translated into an industrial process but chooses not to. She aims to do this without romanticizing the past as. However, she does use these techniques in her work to demonstrate that even in this era where everything seems to have been thought of and crystallized, new inventions can still be found. Crafting is seen as a form of self-determination and reclaiming time within a society primarily focused on efficiency. For this reason, virtually all her works are produced as a one-woman show.

Dion Rosina

Dion Rosina (1991) makes oil paintings based on images he collects and manipulates and from which he makes collages. By drawing existing images and carefully sampling them, Rosina makes his work into a harmonious ensemble. For instance, in his work he refers to works by Albrecht Dürer and Emory Douglas. Rosina is inspired by various subjects such as spirituality, alienation and history. His work balances between figuration and abstraction.
After graduating from the Breitner Academy in 2021 (2016-2021), Rosina got off to a flying start. He was nominated for the Graduation Prize 2021, exhibited at the Rembrandt House in the exhibition 'Here. Black in Rembrandt's time' and was represented by the Black Archives at Documenta 15. Shortly afterwards, Rosina was nominated for The Royal Award for Modern Painting 2022. His work can be seen in several museums, for example in the group exhibition 'More en meer' at Museum More in Gorssel and this year in a solo exhibition at Kunsthal Light in Rotterdam.

Selection of exhibitions:
2022 More & meer, Museum MORE, Gorssel
2022 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst
2022 Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, Germany
2022 Enchant embrace them you odd peninsula – A gathering with love, for Kunstfort, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen
2022 Assembly, Ballon Rouge, Belgium
2022 Traces of you, GoMulan Gallery, Amsterdam
2021 A Funeral for Street Culture, Framer framed, Amsterdam
2021 Coloured Projections on the skin, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam
2020 Hier. Zwart in Rembrandts tijd, Museum Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam
2020 OSCAM x Patta: we will be here forever, you understand?, OSCAM, Amsterdam

Publications:
2023, 'Vijf bijzondere werken op Art Rotterdam', Gallery Viewer
2022 ‘Verheven en mysterieuze beelden van gewone mensen’, Gallery Viewer
2020 Zwart in Rembrandts tijd
2021 ‘Ik beschouw het toe-eigenen van beeld in mijn werk als een ode’, NRC
2020 Kunstenaar Dion Rosina speelt met verleden en heden in zijn kunst: ‘De manier waarop de geschiedenis belicht wordt, vind ik te selectief’, Noordhollands Dagblad
2020 GET FAMILIAR: Dion Rosina, Patta

Collections:
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation
Drents Museum

Sophie Steengracht

Sophie Steengracht (1991) creates beautiful, magical paintings of various types of plants. She often works with organic pigments that she grows herself in the garden next to her yurt in Driebergen, a garden she established with the help of the Mondriaan Fund. Through her colorful paintings, Steengracht not only showcases the beauty of nature but also demonstrates that with small changes in her materials and methods, artworks can be created that are less harmful to the environment.

The work of Sophie Steengracht can be found in serveral private and corporate collections. In 2018 Sophie won a grant of the van Vlissingen Art Foundation. Her work was afterwards exhibited in the Singer Laren Museum. On Art Rotterdam 2022 her work was exhibited in Prospects and Concepts. Sophies work can be found in several private and corporate collections.

Müge Yilmaz

Müge Yilmaz (1985) invites us to understand nature as its own thinking, acting being, and to join her in installations and rituals for protection of nature. Yilmaz’s sculptures and performances draw on myriad ancient references read through feminist lenses, ranging from hieroglyphics from Neolithic Anatolia and hamsas, or Hands of Fatima, amulets; to traditional tattoos, made from ash mixed with a mother’s milk made for a new daughter. Her sculptures appear like painted shadows of gods, animals, and gestures frozen in time against a temple or cave wall. Yilmaz participated in several Biennals an museum exhibitions, 4th Karachi Biennale 2024, 59th Venice Biennial, 2022, 16th Istanbul Biennial, 2019, and the 11th Shanghai Biennale, 2016. Tenminste Houdbaar Tot, Museum Arnhem, 2022 and PERFORMATIK 17, Brussels, 2017. And she has been a resident artist at ACC, Gwangju and is alumna of Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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