Ballroom Project #6
NMAG looks forward to participate in the 6th edition of the Ballroom Project during Antwerp Art Weekend. The gallery will be showing works by Tobias Thaens and Benjamin Francis.
Ballroom Project
16.05 - 19.05.2024
Tobias Thaens
Benjamin Francis
On the ground floor Pieter Vermeulen will curate the group exhibition Les Fleurs du mal, including works by Sam Samiee.
Eggtooth, 2023, Tobias Thaens, oil on linen, 12 x 20 cm
dandelions milk | Afra Eisma
30.05.2024 - 21.07.2024
Opening Thursday May 30th from 5 - 8 pm
(afterwards at Bos en Lommerweg 88 until late)
Chances are it’s morning, looking out to smell that yellow sun; bright before, orange after. This ear, this early — that ant crawling on your shoulder. Their arms warm to hold me, perhaps there is a life here. “Oh dandelions milk, will you carry my thoughts and dreams?” Wide awake, she told me: “all ear all ear had you heard me that first time.” Do not be afraid of your own heart jumping. The tendrils crawled back to the house, so you forgot to mention what she told you. I whispered back: “i-loooove-you too”.
No Man's Art Gallery is honoured to present dandelions milk, Afra Eisma's debut solo exhibition with the gallery. In the echoing worlds of two gallery spaces, where lips speak, drips fall, and ants scurry alongside otherworldly beings, Afra Eisma brings magical worlds to life, where emotion serves as a source of strength and trauma acts as a catalyst for self empowerment and change. The vibrant and colourful nature of Eisma's installations is a strategy to address sensitive issues and illuminate the darker sides of personal experiences.
Tactile worlds exude playfulness and tell numerous interwoven stories. Eisma describes her rich imagination as a politically charged terrain; a universal space for gathering, exchange, and dialogue. dandelions milk emphasises the potential of radical imagination to build new world views; placing care, solidarity, and trust at the forefront. The role of mutual and reciprocal relationships within the artist’s ecosystem takes centre stage.
dandelions milk is part of Amsterdam Art Week and extends to both gallery locations: Willem de Zwijgerlaan 327 and Bos en Lommerweg 88 and runs until July 21th 2024. For more information or inquiries contact info@nomansart.com
Afra Eisma (b. 1993, NL) lives and works in Den Haag, the Netherlands. She studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague, and Central Saint Martins, London. Using craft techniques in novel ways, the artist explores and manifests personal stories through immersive and intimate installations of textiles, sculptures, and ceramics. Recently, Afra Eisma has been dedicated to creating immersive installations that actively involve the viewer, turning the sanctuary into an extension of the body. Generosity becomes a form of resistance.
Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: Hop to Hope, Wälnö Aaltosen Museo, Turku, FN (2023); Splashdown Tetley, The Tetley, Leeds, UK (2023); Your silence will not protect you, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL (2021); Feline Whispers, 1646, Den Haag, NL (2020); Rooms of now #3, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL (2019). Recent group exhibitions include: Outside the soup, W139, Amsterdam, (2024); Very small feelings, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, IN (2023); Multiplied Voices, CIAJG, Guimaraes, Portugal (2022), De Scheffer Prijs, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands (2022); 84 steps, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2021); Utsuro Bune, garden lab, Kyoto, Japan (2020); The sticky beaver show, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria (2019); Royal Award for Modern Painting exhibition at the Royal Palace, Amsterdam, NL (2018). Eisma’s work is included in private and public collections, which include: Kiran Nadar Museum, New Dehli, IN; Textielmuseum, Tilburg, NL, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL; AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL; Fries Museum, Friesland, NL.
True Colors | AKZO NOBEL at Kunstmuseum Den Haag
In True Colors, Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents a selection of works from the AkzoNobel Art Foundation’s contemporary collection, in dialogue with iconic works from the museum’s own collection. The exhibition centers on the universal themes of color, space, the individual and society. A unique combination of artists brings these themes to life in the museum’s magnificent galleries.
ANTSONG | Maxim Santalov
online catalogue
28.03 - 05.05 2024
Opening
Thursday March 28th from 5 - 8 pm
No Man’s Art Gallery is honoured to present ANTSONG, Maxim Santalov’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Extending to both gallery spaces, ANTSONG shows the artist’s large body of intricately composed geometrical drawings that form a narrative of a rhythmic trail, moving through the planetary mesocosms of Santalov’s worlds. He reconstructs childlike reveries of the past, searching for their elements and atmospheres in the future.
“My work is my own insectarium, filled with vanishing species and unidentifiable creatures,” Santalov poses. Through his signature technique, he highlights the juxtaposition of the modern and the rural, the adult and the childlike, the harsh and the soft - while creating a need for motion, for a search and a pathway, amongst wandering insects, the dripping waters, falling stars and the explosive fires.
Prickling past the surface of his cultural memory, Santalov builds pheromonal bridges ‒ just as those blossomed by his ant-characters ‒ to connect various themes emerging within the landscape of Russian art history to his unique integration of realism and surrealism. Touching the array of values and principles embedded in movements such as Constructivism and Suprematism, as well as his own Ävangraphics. Santalov masters the rigidity of minimal shapes and their carved-out dimensionality along with a contrasting intensity and vibrancy of his colour palette. In his self-taught practice, the artist moves across from concealment directly into mapping, marking, and reeking storytelling. “At first glance, it may seem as if my drawings are devoid of air, but look more closely. The work is marked with scratches and ripples which impose shape and texture. Space binds together the elements of composition,” Santalov explains.
As symbols of symbiotic relationships, the techniques used by the artist are left within their own capsules of existence, communicating with each other and the viewer as the trails left behind. The yellow acrylic under the layers of wax crayon and pencil markings remain visible, tying the echoing niches of Santalov’s drawing environment to his methodology. As such, the artist simultaneously enchants with an arthropodic cosmos and leaves space for narratives of our own fabrication, memory, and emotion.
The exhibition extends to both gallery locations: Willem de Zwijgerlaan 327 and Bos en Lommerweg 88 and runs until May 5th 2024. For more information or inquiries please contact info@nomansart.com
Photos Tommy Smits
Cape Town Art Fair 2024
Booth TT 5
María Sosa
No Man's Art Gallery is honoured to be invited to Tomorrows/Today with a solo booth by María Sosa (1985, MX) on Cape Town Art Fair, curated by Mariella Franzoni.
Art Rotterdam 2024
Booth 47
Mia Chaplin
Afra Eisma
Alejandro Galván
Jamal Nxedlana
Marilyn Sonneveld
No Man's Art Gallery is honoured to present a group presentation at the upcoming edition of Art Rotterdam, presenting works by Afra Eisma, Alejandro Galván, Jamal Nxedlana and Marilyn Sonneveld.
Heat Wave | Marilyn Sonneveld
No Man’s Art Gallery is honoured to open Heat Wave, the third solo exhibition by Marilyn Sonneveld at the gallery. Through a vivid interplay of color and form, Sonneveld’s oil paintings and glass objects express intimate narratives that communicate universal notions around the body, touching upon (self)acceptance, vulnerability and sexuality. Last summer, the artist began painting with glass, focusing on herself and her own body for the first time. When the Sun Comes Up, a large scale glass installation exhibited at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, showed the transformative journey of Sonneveld’s own physicality in anticipation of impending motherhood. For Heat Wave, the artist takes it a step further and delves deeper inwards, revealing a shift towards abstraction.