Category: Extracurricular

Sonja van Kerkhoff is based in The Hague and New Zealand. She is currently under lockdown in New Zealand but before that was enforced she jointly curated an exhibition at the Geoff Wilson Gallery in Whangārei which included artists from The Netherlands . . . Another shell in the exhibition hails from the province of Zeeland. “ogen zijn de spiegels der ziel” (eyes are the mirrors of the soul), by Hague-based Martje Zandboer inside an oyster shell is a trick of the eye. A convex image on a concave shape. An eye photographed in the Hague, hung on a wall in a gallery on the other side of the globe, now, in the video, seen, virtually, everywhere.

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As arguments have raged in Europe about how to fund the heavy cost of the corona pandemic, French President, Emanuel Macron, has led calls for a European response. Macron’s political career is defined by his strongly pro-European stance but the pandemic may prove the greatest test of Europe and Macron thus far. SOUWIE BUIS has read the book . . .

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Until the spread of Covid 19, the Hong Kong protest movement was one of the leading stories in world news. Beginning in 2019 in response to the proposal of a new extradition law, the movement grew in strength and violence in a manner hitherto unseen in this small city state . . .

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The current crisis is only the latest in a series of epidemics that have struck over the centuries. While researching a specific topic for a publication, ArtsTalk Magazine’s Kate came across articles about a mysterious disease that arrived in Groningen in northern Netherlands in 1826. It seemingly arrived out of nowhere and hit the city hard.

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ArtsTalk Magazine’s SOUWIE BUIS has some thoughts on the context and consequences of the current crisis.

As lock down continues and once bustling cities, streets and buildings empty – many European capitals resemble something out of a dystopian novel. Living under lock down in fear of a deadly virus, unaware if we are carriers, surely has the makings of the next dystopian Netflix series?

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The art of building lasting relations is mixture of sincerity and repetitive encounter. For eight years, the hylsom collective have been returning to an artefact lookalike stone found in Coppenhagen, documenting its journey from Europe to Japan. Itte Kaete: Back and Forth relates the physical experience of transporting a 200 kilogram mass and its effects…

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Maria Kirova and Marina Margallo are preparing a film on the Dutch band Sunfire, a Western Folk band based in Den Haag. Both are students from the CampusDoc program at Hogeschool Utrecht.

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The lifestyle included more than just the notorious looting. Vikings were also very skilled traders with an extensive network, from which the Dutch coastal inhabitants also benefited. Frisians might even join the Vikings and take part in their raids.In We Vikings over 500 objects from the Netherlands and abroad illustrate the complex relationship between Dutch coastal inhabitants and Vikings.

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