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Yamuna Forzani

Yamuna Forzani is a multidisciplinary artist and queer activist whose practice centers around a desire to build her queer utopia that celebrates her community, making them part of and inspiration of her creative outputs. Yamuna’s work takes form through textile, she explores the medium in collaboration with other design, artistic and social initiatives - often involving, organising events, dance performances, embedding fashion and costume, public art and versatile installations. 

Layla Gijsen

Layla Gijsen (1999) is an Amsterdam based conceptual artist and designer as well as a graphic designer, illustrator and analog printmaker. In her work, she lets herself get inspired by a changing city, and tackles big subjects such as ownership and social construct through interactive design. She has previously show her work in places like the Rijksmuseum, Dutch Design Week, Object Rotterdam, het Nieuwe Instituut, Glue and the SBK Sprouts exhibition.

Mattia Papp

Mattia Papp (1993, Florence) graduated in 2017 from the Royal Acadamy of Art in The Hague (KABK). In his work he combines Renaissance and Baroque aesthetics with contemporary themes to create new myths for the modern world. His work consists of sculptures, paintings and video installations with theatricality as a core element. His artistic practice is defined through strong material and narrative research and is rooted in a fascination for decadence and decay, natural history, mythology, and magic realism.

Sallie Harmsen

Sallie Harmsen is an artist from Amsterdam. Most people know her for being an actress, but besides acting she has always had the urge to translate her inner world into drawings and paintings. Allthough life led her into a succesfull film and theatre career, she never stopped drawing and painting, this being a true necessity to her.

Isa Roelink

Isa Roelink (1997) graduated from the painting department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. In her work, she blends dreams and science, myth and reality, history and current events, ancient tales, and modern pop culture. As an artist, she embraces the subtle power of textiles as a medium steeped in profound traditions and expressions, highlighting the value of craftsmanship in a modern context. Isa pulls her own world and the fictional one together, retelling ancient stories through modern devices and showcasing that their relevance is undying and an endless source of inspiration.

Maarten Bel

Artist Maarten Bel hatched from an egg in 1987. Since then, he has loved animals and questioned the status quo by imitating plants and playing the bagpipes. (Did you know that “piping” used to mean playing the flute?)

Maarten alienates his audience in a playful way by addressing big themes with humor, often drawing inspiration from everyday events. In his world, Smurfs melt due to climate change, cleaning up litter becomes a more competitive game than Monopoly, and few things are as sexy as a man embroidering. About his ‘Wenswerken’: Do you want to do something about poverty? Help someone directly? Then buy a Wenswerk (Wish Work), a creative initiative by artist Maarten Bel.
The Wenswerken showcase the wishes of various residents of Dordrecht living in poverty. Maarten Bel creates drawings of these wishes and sells them for the price of the wish. With the money from the sold drawings, he purchases what is depicted, fulfilling the wish!

Prins Nicolas

Prins Nicolas (b. 1987, Moscow) graduated from LUCA School of Arts Brussels. He’s an artist of Russian & Nigerian descent. Nicolas weaves imagery culled from photo archives, art history, film stills, hagiographic icons and personal photographs to explore themes of queer identity and tenderness. His evocative figurative paintings and drawings are formed by an incredible wealth of introspection. They negotiate feelings of loneliness, isolation, desire, and safety through the lens of the artist’s own autobiographical narratives and crafted mythologies.