ALLUMINOUS

FESTIVAL

Artistic director and curator of ALLUMINOUS, a festival dedicated to innovative theatrical forms and artistic methodologies in the genre of light art in the city of Almere. ALLUMINOUS presents artworks commissioned to collaborating duos of theatre professionals and visual artist, as new concepts for the artistic realm of light art, presented along a five kilometer route around Almere’s Weerwater-lake. 

2024 festival edition in preparation.

FEATURED ARTISTS:
2023 - In duo commissions: Theun Mosk & Oceanic, Maaike Fransen & Juul Dekker, MAISON the FAUX & Linda Bosch, Zindzi Witte & Serano Pinas, Enric Monfort/Black Pencil & Jurjen Alkema. Additional artworks: Vendel & de Wolf, UXU studio, Iwan Smit.
2022 - In duo commissions: Meeus van Dis & Neal Groot, Simon Wald-Lasowski & Hendrik Walther, Heleen Blanken & Marieke Nooren, Daphne Karstens. Additional artworks: Gali May Lucas, Mads Vega, Clay Dorse Odom, Nicole Banowetz.

PARTNERS:
Vis à Vis, Suburbia, Gouden Haas, BonteHond, Black Pencil, Light Art Collection, Carte Blanche, Ulrike Quade Company,  M. Museum. TSR AV, Circuloco. 

2022, 2023, 2024

PREPPER PARADISE

EXHIBITION

Curation of upcoming exhibition about the aesthetics of preparing for dystopia. The exhibition will explore the ethics and luxury or DIY aesthetics of prepper culture as a debate for design fiction solutionism and proposes visual utopias for dystopian times.

FEATURED ARTISTS:
Stine Deja, Liam Young, Brent Watanabe, Rustan Söderling, Dennis de Bel, Meeus van Dis, Theo Triantafyllidis & Kostis Stafylakis, Paul Kuipers, Floor van het Nederend, Ted Noten, Let Death Dance Again

DESIGN:
Stefan Schäfer - Let Death Dance Again

2022 > MARCH 26 - AUGUST 15

FLORIADE EXPO 2022: SUPER-ULTRA-NATURAL

WORLD EXPO OFFICIAL ART PROGRAMME

Curation of the official visual art programme of Floriade Expo 2022, a Bureau International des Exhibitions official Wolrd Expo, in 2022 in Almere, The Netherlands. The visual art programme focuses on commissioned large scale art installations proposing new experiences and viewpoints on nature’s wilder, naturally magical side as technology intersects. 

2022 > APRIL 14 - OKTOBER 9

M. PAVILION: NATURALLY, WILD FUTURES

INAUGURAL MUSEUM EXHIBITION

Curation of the first exhibition of the M. pavilion at Floriade Expo 2022, official world expo in Almere, The Netherlands. M. as a new art museum of Almere/Flevoland will open in 2026, but will present its programme in a temporary location in the coming five years. The exhibition proposes future concepts of nature in a technology induced state of flux, and the presentation of nature as a subject in exhibition formats ranging from the archaic to the immersive. The exhibition presents all newly commissioned artworks by artists defying disciplinary boundaries in art, design, scenography, theatre and technological experimentation.

2022 > APRIL 14 - OKTOBER 9

UPCOMING:

HAPPY CHAOS, FINAL FANTASIES

EXHIBITION

Upcoming curatorial project in collaboration with fashion house Maison the Faux for upcoming exhibition programme about fashion in chaos mode regarded through activism and corporate greenwashing, fantasy models in flux, ugliness aesthetics as chic neo-grunge, experiments in visual effects marketing strategies and Instagram maximalism. 

Project in development.

FEATURED ARTISTS:
TBA

2022