Dumas’ first solo show in South Africa after moving to The Netherlands 30 years ago provided occasion for this catalogue. Featured are more than 50 paintings, drawings and prints presented at the exhibition, as well as personal letters, documents and photographs collected by the artist. A selection of the artist’s own writings is included, ranging from her unique commentaries on art to aphoristic writings and poetry that are once insightful, witty and thought-provoking.

This cahier is a visual sketchbook for an exhibition by Marlene Dumas at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in dialogue with the museum's collection. Although the exhibition has been postponed towards 2025, this anticipatory publication already arose from Dumas' enthusiasm and affection for this combination. The enigmatic Cycladic antiquities, dating from 3000-2000 BC, speak to us in the same timeless language as Dumas' contemporary works.

In de zomer van 2011 gaf de Kulturstiftung des Bundes in Berlijn in samenwerking met de Haus der Kulturen der Welt onderdak aan het festival Über Lebenskunst. Dit culturele festival gaat over duurzaamheid, en heeft als doel verschillende visies ten aanzien van duurzaam wonen en leven in de 21ste eeuw te presenteren. Het eten en drinken voor de 8.000 festivalgangers werd voorzien uit de Vorratskammer / Pantry, een kunstproject van myvillages.org.In juli 2010 begon myvillages.org, de voorraadk...

Het valt mij moeilijk om hier op papier in het kort uiteen te zetten wat mij heeft bewogen om te gaan schilderen en in een later stadium te gaan

houtbeeldhouwen.

Na een periode van ziekte ben ik gaan zoeken naar iets creatiefs wat  uiteindelijk naast mijn dagelijkse werk tot een ontspannende bezigheid is gaan worden.

Ik hoop dat u met voldoening zult genieten van de werken die een Vriezenveens hobbyist heeft geprobeerd zo goed mogelijk uit te beelden. 

Vriezenveen, oktober 1979

Facsimile van een notitieboek

| A new book project by Alex Farrar, including an index of 49 questions about happiness.

| Limited-edition publication bound with several different covers, cut from a single drawing by Daniel Jacoby.

Are Dutch people happy people?

Does art make you happy?

What was your earliest memory of happiness?

What have you taught your children about happiness?

Notes on Happiness is a book project by artist Alex Farrar. The book is a long reflective text, based on conversations that Farrar had with peop...

How do you make a book about a period that is behind you? The publication Six impossible things before breakfast is a journey across twenty-five years of Verzameld Werk [Collected Work] and beyond. Verzameld Werk was an open house in the heart of Ghent. A playground for designers and guests, architects and artists. Tailor-made by thinkers and doers. It was founded in 1991, with Ingrid De Coster as one of its founders.

For this book, Ingrid De Coster collaborated with Loes Verstappen and Bas S...

Joost Colpaert (°1965, lives and works in Oudenaarde, Belgium) has been producing paintings and videos for many years in which recurring cycles, fluent progress and the force of water play a central theme. He is inspired by his musical background: where a painting is spatially restricted, music can continue to flow (eternally). In a series of paintings from around 2000 the idea of recurring cycles was expressed in the form of rings, streamers and tyres which wound around and through each oth...

"I can resist everything", wrote Oscar Wilde, "except temptation". What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers in Amsterdam. About the pleasures and pitfalls of painting, forbidden favourites and the flirtation between the art of painting and other muses.