ARTISTS I POSITIONS
Bryan Claessen
Painter I Sittard I NL
Bryan Claessen (Sittard 1977) is a self taught artist who expresses his views on the world in paintings, initially, Bryan’s works contained a lot of abstraction and empty spaces. He then delved into history and presented his audience with his view of the decay of the American dream. He is currently reinventing the lonely – but not unhappy – presence of individuals in confusing situations. In his recent work he sketches atmospheric images, places that intrigue him. Often buildings or landscapes containing one or more people, In an alienating combination of realism and abstraction. He leaves it to the viewer to think about these situations so that we all think about why we end up in situations and where those situations lead us.
The question raised by Bryan’s paintings do not always lead to an answer. Sometimes it is pure enjoyment of composition and colors. Watch endlessly, without ever getting bored.
EXHIBITIONS
Expo Glo’art sinds 2014 vast in de collectie (Lanaken, Belgie)
Expo RIjkswaterstaat Maastricht 2017
Expo Underneath 2018
Expo Jeker Jazz art live Maastricht Juni 2018
Artichoque art gallery Maastricht sinds 2020 vast in de collectie
Limburg Biennale Marres Maastricht 2020
Artichoque juli 2021 Duo expo met Sophia Kirst
Lazzaro art doesn’t sleep 2021 (worldwide art project)
Expo In Between Glo’ art Lanaken (Belgie) 2021
Sophia Kirst
Drawing&Painting&DigitalArt I Sittard/Traunstein/Sprockhövel I D
Thee fascination in drawing human bodies and its anatomy started in her early childhood. What keeps her searching and researching is the inbetween, the gap between two person or more person wheere ìt happens`.. Whit this artistic search Sophia defines questions on social behavior and the influencee that people have on eachother. Is it possible to make ths gap visible ave it is not - only feelable.
During her studies Sophia developped an ink-tequnique that as a result of her deep fascinartion for water and its circulation.
She works with ink on paper or other material.
EXHIBITIONS
YOUNGSTERS. Groep Expo jonge posities. Landratsamt Traunstein. (D) 2023
BODYTALK. Tentoonstelling. Museum De Domeinen. Sittard. (NL ) 2023
LIEBE DEINE WELT. Genomineerde kunstenaars EN-kunstprijs. Märkisches Museum. Witten. (D) 2023
ARS ET AQUA. Groepsexpo. Glasmuseum. Rheinbach. (D) 2023
KYBAMETRUM. Solo Expo Galerie MarahArt. Bernau. (D) 2023
WATER. Duo-Expo met Jeanine vd Linde. GalerieGerritse. Middelburg. (NL) 2023
GROSSE HERBSTAUSSTELLUNG. Galerie im alten Rathaus Prien. (D) 2023
DANCERS IN COLL 'OR. Solo-Expo. Alte Feuerwache Freilassing. (D) 2023
AUF GEHTS STIPENDIUM. Projectsubsidie. Nordrhein-Westfalen. (D) 2023
ARTMUC. Kunstbeurs. München. (D) 2022
SALZACH ELEGIEN. Solo Expo. Rathaus Galerie Burghausen. (D) 2022
AUDHUMBLA. Solo-Expo. Galerie MarahArt. Bernau. (D) 2022
Artist in Residence. GLO'ART. Lanaken. (B) 2022
iNbetweeN. Groepstentoonstelling. GLO'ART. Lanaken. (B) 2021
DUO Expo met Bryan Claessen. ARTICHOQUE galerie maastricht. (NL) 2021
Meisterschüler Beurs. Masterclass met John Gerards. SOMMERAKADEMIE Homburg. (D) 2013
Zoë Schoonbrood
Mixed Media I Maastricht I B
Zoë grew up in Bilzen and graduated 2007 as a Master in Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp – discipline In Situ³, a direction at the interface between visual art and architecture, also known as 'site specific' work.
After her studies, Zoë taught art education for five years and represented groups of adolescents and adults. She then started as a curator and subsequently became Art Director at a large art center abroad.
Zoë is inspired by Berlinde de Bruykere, Marcel Mariën, Jospeh Beuys, Francis Bacon, Yorgos Lanthimos and Leonard Cohen. Her work is about transience, which actually stands for innovation. The skin is central. Our own 'house'. The idea grew to allow the viewer to sympathize with how change can be experienced through the application of time. Wrinkles. Dimples.
EXHIBITIONS
Y2020 -2021 "represented by" Artichoque Maastricht. NL
2021 Limburgse Biennale. Marres Maastricht. NL
2018 Expo "Jekerjazz" Luther Church Maasstricht. NL
2018 Duo Expo "Underneath" Schoonbrood / Claessen. Maastricht. NL
2016/2017 Performance GOALs, Stadspark Antwerpen. BE
2012 "Aanwezige Afwezigheid" Kruidentuin Leuven. BE
2010 "Looking Glass" Muntplein Antwerpen. BE
2008 "eMOTION" Library Bilzen. BE
2008 "There is somebody for everybody". Library Antwerpen. BE
2007 "All steamed up" Solway Antwerpen. BE
Marco Iannicelli
MARCO IANNICELLI www.marcoiannicelli.com
Product Design Artist I Aachen I D
His style heavily elaborates on extreme material contrasts expressed through friction between simple or archaic forms in movement. The tension field between natural shapes and industrial lines lends particular inspiration. Challenges in marrying the two in functional forms that retain the integrity of both the natural and the refined also help him skirt that which is merely decorative.
His skill has taken him to a multitude of national & international exhibitions and continues to earn him coverage in relevant media, including designboom, Der Spiegel Online and a cover story and interview for Ingenuity Magazine, China.
Additionally, he has won national German design and creativity awards such as the stipend “Creative Drive” and the title “Kultur- und Kreativpilot Deutschland”, awarded by the German Ministry of Economy and Technology.
AWARDS
2011 „Kultur- und Kreativpilot Deutschland“
2011 “Creative Drive”, cross-border scholarship for creatives in the
German/Dutch/Belgian ‘Euregion’
MITCH VAN SCHIJNDEL
Photographer, Curator I Maastricht I B
Mitch van Schijndel (1995 b.) is an art and portrait photographer who lives and works in Maastricht, he likes to continuously explore the boundaries of photography as an art form. Deftly navigating the disciplines of commercial and conceptual photography, Mitch attempts to combine the accidental beauty in the everyday with the aesthetic splendor of the visual arts.
Mitch heeft ervaringen opgedaan bij Lef Magazine, Team Peter Stigter, Richard Fieten en Studio 5981. Sinds 2023 is Mitch docent fotografie aan de Hogeschool Zuyd Maastricht.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Museum Arnhem 'Tussen Grenzen’ - foto onderdeel i.s.m. Kalkidan Hoex
2022 The School, Hasselt - tentoonstelling i.s.m. Fiamma G. Osimo
2022 GLO’art Lanaken - tentoonstelling ‘iNbetweeN’
2021 FashionClash - Expositie #THENEWTRIBE + short movie
2021 Eind Expositie - Zuyd Hogeschool - “Kloosterdorp” (genomineerd voor “Henriette Hustinxprijs"
2019 Lumière Bioscoop Maastricht - Race serie “Matadors”.
Sjang Niederwieser
Designer I Utrecht I NL
Sjang Niederwieser (1988) ontwerper & maker met een passie voor materialen en technieken en deze te combineren tot objecten en producten. Een samensmelting van design, kunst, ambacht en technologie.
Sjang houdt ervan om met zijn handen te werken maar laat ook machines het werk voor hem doen. Het vinden van de juiste balans tussen machines, vakmanschap, en het gebruik van alleen de beste materialen resulteert in unieke, functionele en prachtige kunstobjecten.
EXPOSITIES
YOOBJECT Rotterdam 2022
Art The Hague - DREAMLAND
Isola Talents Factory - Dutch Design Week
Glo’Art “iN betweeN 2021”
The Beginning, graduation Expo
MADEMaastricht X Bureau Europa
Isola Design Gallery
Dutch Design Week 2019
Maastricht Photo Festival
Hilde van Hees
Painter I Bilzen I B
Hilde is an architect and holds a bachelor's degree in painting from PXL-MAD. Although she primarily paints (flirting with the border between abstraction and figuration), she also creates murals and collages.
In the serie "Dive into" she studied "water" for some time. By zooming in on aspects such as fluidity, reflection, movement and transparency combined with a sense of elusiveness, atmospheric works are created.
Just as nature is always in motion, Hilde allows herself a constant evolution in her personal approach.
She literally works on top of the horizontal (unprepared) canvas and feels how her work unfolds under her feet. Hands and heart close - to evoke a unique and urgent expression. She likes to use a variety of richly colored paints, pigments, oil sticks, glitters....
She is highly motivated to encounter the unexpected or uncover the mysterious.
"Above the horizon" is now her fascination. And in the symbolism of clouds there is an autobiographical affinity at work.
EXHIBITIONS
-Expo ‘Made you look’, Glo-Art (2023)
Residentie Glo-Art (2023)
Prijs Beeldende Kunst ‘Georges d’heedene’ : 3e plaats (2023)
‘STEK’ cc de Kimpel, Bilzen (mei 2023)
solo expo ‘CLOSE UP’, CC. De Bogaard St.-Truiden, (maart – april 2023)
expo Collage ‘Fondation Arty’ ,Kunstberg Brussel (okt. 2022)
Solo Expo ‘BOUTIQUE DIPTYQUE’ in ‘The Gallery’, Genk (sept 2022)
groeps-expo ‘Clin d’oeil’ , Gallery ‘Nobody and friends’, Antwerpen (2022)
Creatie Lightbox ‘Read between the Lines’ voor OPEK, Leuven (jan 2022)
‘Dive into abstraction’ Solo Expo, Bottelarij, Wellen (2022)
Mural (100m2) in opdracht van ‘Mobile School’, Munsterbilzen (aug. 2021)
Prijs Beeldende Kunst ‘Georges Dheedene’: 1e plaats (2021)
groeps-expo ‘FLUX’, Stadhuis Hasselt (2021)
groeps-expo ‘Girls, girls, girls’, Gallery ‘Nobody and friends’, Antwerpen (2021)
‘Looking through Rose Colored Glasses’ PXL MAD, Hasselt (2021)
‘Different Strokes’ – collab met Pablo Hannon, La Vallée, Brussel (2021)
‘The Pixel Project’ , mural PXL-MAD, Hasselt (2020)
Solo Expo ‘All we have is now’, Bilzen (2020)
