Can the Seas Survive Us?
SWEET - SWEAT will be part of the program 'Can the Seas Survive Us?' at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. Project 'Meet the Salt Loving Community' will be part of the exhibition 'A World of Water' curated by John Kenneth Paranada. The show brings together works by British and international artists from the last 250 years who have all offered a unique perspective of evolving marine ecosystems and oceanic habitats. Taking the North Sea and the historical relationship between Norfolk and the Netherlands as its starting point, the exhibition looks at the human impact on the sea.
An Evening About: Louis Le Roy
In the 1970s, Louis Le Roy became famous for his wild gardens, which anticipated today’s ecological thinking. Iris Vogt (Initiator of the Le Roy Academy and granddaughter of Louis and Inge Le Roy) opens the evening with a short presentation on his life and work. After that, garden architect Joost Emmerik talks to René Boer, Ronald Boer, and Maike van Stiphout about how Le Roy’s work continues to inspire contemporary designers.
BACKUP. VAVILOV
Group exhibition curated by Natlia Sudova where new work 'On the same Ribbon' will be shown. The work will be developed from our experimental station, the Shadow Garden in the Amstelpark. At the heart of the project is the life of scientist Nikolai Vavilov, who made groundbreaking contributions to genetic diversity. Vavilov was a founder of the world’s first gene bank assembling a seed collection of 250,000 samples. The project emphasizes the critical importance of preserving genetic diversity for global food security.
Textile Biennial 2025 – Interwoven Futures: Utopia/Dystopia in Textile
With the work “Growing a new sort of Spine,” we will participate in the Textile Biennial 2025 with the theme Interwoven Futures: Utopia/Dystopia in Textile. Utopias represent the ideal world, perfect societies we dream of, full of harmony, innovation, and aesthetic beauty. In contrast, dystopias highlight the dark sides of human societies: oppression, decay, and chaos. How can these contrasting visions be depicted and experienced through and with textiles?