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AKI Academy of Art & Design 2021
voorwoord | preface
2021 – De keuze voor een studie aan de kunstacademie is enerzijds eenvoudig en anderzijds ook best lastig. De eenvoud zit ’m in de noodzaak: als je eenmaal voelt dat je op de kunstacademie thuishoort, dan heb je geen andere keuze dan hieraan gehoor te geven. Het lastige zit ergens anders. In de jaren op de academie moet je namelijk de ruimte in jezelf zien in te vullen die je wel al voelt, maar die je nog niet kent. Dit is een proces van vallen en opstaan, van vreugde en twijfel en natuurlijk van heel hard werken. En nu – aan het einde van deze prachtige maar ook soms angstaanjagende tocht – vraag je je misschien af of dit voelen en kennen bij elkaar zijn gekomen. En temeer omdat de laatste anderhalf jaar van dit proces zich in een buitengewoon vreemde pandemische claustrofobie heeft voltrokken, is het moment van het openbaren van je werk aan de buitenwereld wellicht nog nooit zo spannend geweest als nu. En dan komt plots het besef dat die buitenwereld misschien nog wel veel meer twijfels heeft dan dat je zelf ooit gehad hebt. Je ziet dat je werk staat, dat jij staat en sterker nog: juist in dit ongekend vreemde en paradigma verschuivende moment in de geschiedenis sta je daar, zeker en sterk, naast het werk waar je met recht trots op kunt zijn. Je kijkt naar de buitenwereld en weet dat er maar weinig dingen zijn die meer zekerheid bieden dan je eigen kracht van het samenbrengen van voelen en kennen. De AKI lichting 2021 presenteert zich hier, daar zijn wij ongelooflijk trots op, zeker en sterk, op een moment dat de wereld dat meer nodig heeft dan lang tevoren. Dr. Marc Boumeester Directeur AKI Academy of Art and Design
2021 – The choice of study at the art academy is easy on the one hand and quite difficult on the other. The simplicity is in the necessity: once you feel that you belong in art school, you have no choice but to comply. The hard part is somewhere else. In the years at the academy you have to fill in the space in yourself that you already feel but that you do not yet know. This is a process of trial and error, of joy and doubt and of course of very hard work. And now – at the end of this wonderful but also sometimes terrifying journey – you may wonder if this feeling and knowing have come together. Especially because the last year and a half of this process has taken place in an extraordinarily odd pandemic claustrophobia, the moment of revealing your work to the outside world has perhaps never been more exciting than now. And then suddenly comes the awareness that the outside world may have even more doubts than you yourself have ever had. You see that your work stands, that you stand, and what is more: it is precisely in this unprecedentedly strange and paradigm-shifting moment in history that you stand there, confident and strong, beside the work you can rightly be proud of. You look at the outside world and know that there are few things more certain than your own power of bringing feeling and knowing together. The AKI class of 2021 presents itself here, which we are incredibly proud of, confident and strong, at a time when the world needs it more than ever. Dr Marc Boumeester Director of AKI Academy of Art and Design
moving image bogdana alexandrescu
Bogdana Alexandrescu (1996, Focșani, Romania) makes films, media art, and mixed media artworks. With a subtle minimalistic approach, she creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic, and cool and neutral imagery is used. Her practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for maneuvering with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of film: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. By emphasizing aesthetics, she creates with daily, recognizable elements an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his perception and has to reconsider his biased position. Her works sometimes radiate cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama to clarify our existence and find poetic meaning in everyday life. Her work urges us to renegotiate film as part of a reactive or – at times – autistic medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society. By applying abstraction, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.Her works don’t reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Bogdana Alexandrescu currently lives and works in The Hague.
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crossmedia design bas arkes
As a visual musician and filmmaker, the interwoven relationship between visual and sound take an important role. Music, as well as the visual arts, have a lot of the same elements. harmony, composition, rhythm, colour, dynamic, structure, etc. This is no coincidence because music is not sound alone, it can also be dance or visual art. Music is what we feel inside and a way to express ourselves. Trying to grasp the elusive by combining the digital with the analogue world. By doing so new ways to play with the senses originate. Discovering different and new perspectives. 11 Leavesway, visual scratch disk, live performance with Deev Bennes (music), 2020.
12 | 13 Stills from Interviews with electronic music producers from N.E.W. Selection, Nobuka, Presethead and Mallard, made in collaboration with Laure Haverkort, 2020-2021. 14 | 15 Still from Linescapes #1, motion graphic, 2020.
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Collision, Interactive Audiovisual Installation, made in collaboration with Ilja Kolosovs, 2021.
crossmedia design jurel bakker
Searching for the boundary of what we consider as nature and how we can question this limit. Committing to urgent matters and always beeing involved with topics related to the climate crisis. I want to create awareness in an accessible way.
17-18 From the series Neonature, 2021.
19 Information overload, 2019.
20 | 21 Analoge, 2021. 16
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Natural deformation, 2019.
crossmedia design jip bertelink
23-24 Blickwechsel, collages, A1, 2018.
25 Walking legs, keramiek, 60 x 15 cm, 2017.
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Untitled.
moving image chandan biswas 28
I am Chandan; an aspiring filmmaker. Film making is my hobby and passion. I love to tell stories that remain locked behind the door. Visual language and emotion are a main part of my storytelling. I like composition and cinematography. They play a strong role in my films. I love both narrative and non-narrative way of film making. I love to try and experiment with new ideas. And I like to collaborate with another filmmaker or creative artist.
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crossmedia design sophie buitenhuis
35 Pattern from the series Between the ears.
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Patterns from the series Stay home.
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fine art painting nienke van der burg
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moving image tarek chokri
fine art sculpture melissa cijntje 52
What does it mean to be prideful or to have pride in where you come from? Do you learn it, or are you born with it? Of course, the literal meaning of having pride is to have that feeling of love, devotion and a sense of attachment to a homeland. For example, to have that connection with other citizens who share the same sentiment. Identity and pride in where I come from have been playing a bigger and bigger role in my creative process. I always thought that it would be cliche to do works about Curaçao because that was what was expected of me. However, the more I thought about it I came to realize that I didn’t know much about Curaçao in the first place, so how could it be possible for me to create something impactful? Something worthwhile? Or something that spoke to others? With my works, I would like to do extensive research on the topic of Curaçao. That being the people and their costumes. The community in general. I want to learn every aspect of the place I came from and share that information with others that might have the same background as me. Not in a way to educate them but more as an appreciation for a place that is often overlooked. Prideful, that’s what I want my fellow Yu di Kòrsou to feel when they look at my works.
moving image miguel corado
About Only Human – A static image, with little progression, finding a form. This image was created back in 2019 when Miguel was searching and learning about images. ‘Only Human’ is a project that wasn’t complete until Miguel started making music, where he further searched to progressively understand the link between audio landscapes and visual feedback. His process is about starting with an image, an imagination playout of something He wants to bring into the real, constructing performance, and creating music that bleeds out the feeling he’s trying to provide. The work is intuitive, molding all these mediums into something that emanates that of the original image; even though the construction might look different, the essence of an association is present.
59 Only Human, 2020.
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Continuüm.
crossmedia design anouk daams
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Verkenning van het portret.
fine art sculpture inbar damhuis
The work is about unnoticed irrepressible organisms grown within, between, underneath and on top of objects that have been left behind. It’s a liberating sight to see the transition of the untamed in our world of rules, control, and restrictions. To notice these combined creations that cannot be changed to their original shape anymore feels as if they were caught in the act. This forgotten world of the struggle with nature is constantly present, even if no one is paying attention. Together they create something new, something unwanted. Like growth, it feels uncontrollable. And this unexpectedness is what is fascinating. The never-ending tension between the confined and the freed, portraying them both at the same time.
71 Are you paying close attention? mixed media, 2021.
72-74 Untitled, mixed media, 2021. 75 70
inbar.nl
Untitled, transfer, 2021.
crossmedia design celile demir
The search for the right solutions starts by asking the right questions. Standing strong and not being afraid to ask or answer difficult questions. Then, through research, trying to understand the subject both broadly and deeply. Finding the answers to these questions to create meaning. It is important that the world is shaped in a meaningful way. Sometimes it appears that we are in a standstill, but this is not the case. After carefully considering various options, a route is mapped that is followed through with a bang. The process is never a straight line. Not to be limited to one area. Making new discoveries by sailing through uncharted territory. Authenticity is central. Perception and expression, as well as creating an authentic connection with the target audience, are important. Ultimately, creating something of value, small or big.
77 Movement and Jacco, photographs from a series of portraits.
78 | 79 Stills from the video Compact.
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celiledemir.com
Photographs from the series Visuality.
fine art sculpture kaja dunnewind 82
The intangible, the lightness: The work is a series of hopeful attempts (perhaps even bordering on desperate attempts) at grabbing the supernatural before it disappears. It fully dissolves, dissipates into thin air, similar to how fleeting dreams evaporate the moment you open your eyes. Or the quickly disappearing, shifting shapes of light left behind on the insides of your eyelids the moment you close them. Or water that, time and time again, slips through your fingers or mysteriously evaporates into nothingness. The very moment it disappears, when it is there, but it is not, that is what is captured.
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fine art sculpture julia van eijden
Everything is centered around the theme of remembering. Specifically focussing on the aspect of letting go, but not being able to, and clinging to a memory and the certainty of the changing memory. For this, inspiration is drawn from souvenirs. Usually considered trivial, kitsch or trash, souvenirs inherently contain a very poetic element: reminiscing. They also presume to have the ability to capture an entire place or event in one single object. The scenes are supposedly captured in bright and precise settings, but they can never live up to the actual experience. Do they even alter our remembering? Founded by the urge not to forget, to have proof of your endeavors, but simultaneously never truly capturing it, the souvenir becomes an in-between object, somewhat bittersweet and melancholic in its essence. Using this intrinsic value of the souvenir (from French meaning ‘to remember’ or ‘remembrance’), the work tries to keepsake specific events, places or objects. Other than that, it is also an ode to ‘the greatest invention of our ancestors: the container, the vessel’.*
* From: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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crossmedia design emmy elferink
95 Een warm onthaal op eenzame hoogte. Uit de serie ‘Verandering’, 2021.
96 | 97 Regelmatig gebruik van onzekerheid, 2018.
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Uit de serie ‘Ontdekken’, 2020.
crossmedia design talitha fruneaux
101-103 Een ode aan het stadsbankje.
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Onderzoek naar de mogelijkheden van drogerstof: 15 in 16 uit.
fine art sculpture sabine gosenshuis
Why do we pollute the earth so much? Why do we do nothing? This question often pops up. The world is currently radicalizing. We are no longer concerned with the environment. There are more and more attacks, and young people are radicalizing. Freedom of speech is suppressed. The world has become cleaner because of Corona, but we must also be able to maintain this without Corona. The future of our children is at stake. I see more negative sides than positive sides to the world we now live in. I want to combat pollution and help animals and plants against extinction. I cannot do this alone, and I would never be able to do this alone. This has to be done by everyone, and I want to be the one who opens the eyes of a lot of people.
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108 | 109 Puppet, ceramics, wood, lamp working, 2019. Hugs, ceramics, glass, 2017.
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Salamander, ceramics, wood, 2016.
fine art sculpture elma greven
Elma Greven her art is driven by her dream of a work of complete balance. She gives shape to the astonishing by creating a moment of wonder. Being intrigued by the void, she finds immutable and serene alternatives to everyday surroundings. Heavily influenced by Minimal Art, Elma incorporates objects into her work to define the essence of simplicity. Not limited by the walls of a room or the confines of a plot of land, her projects grow in a digital environment.
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114 | 115 August 11:41AM May 2:11PM
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October 12:04AM
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crossmedia design lianne haafkes
fine art painting marysha van hattem
Exploring nature, the organic, transience, and the unexpected. The painting process grasps the essence of nature’s energy. Dark tones, abstract-looking worlds with hints of figurative, organic shapes and forms, cause alienation and a sense of incomprehension. Creating depth in the image by means of light and dark is essential in the formation of the paintings. Her artistic research currently evolves around the universe and how that expresses itself in an artwork. The cosmos itself is of great importance in the development. Everything is connected, from the smallest atoms to galaxies millions of light-years apart. The large-scale emptiness that fills the cosmos is closely related to the nullity of existence. We are part of that void. Painting is a way to compensate for this emptiness and in this way give meaning to life, to everything. Nature on a large scale and in its essence is represented in leaf shapes that merge into an abstract world. The painting becomes an amalgamation of feelings and an experience that meet each other and take shape on the canvas. Ultimately, it becomes a place where one can relate to the work and where the viewer can decide what to see or feel. The act of painting is something natural in itself. Constantly looking for the purity of nature and how that manifests itself. By embodying an unpredictable force while painting, means creating something natural is as close to nature as possible. Nature is in continuous metamorphosis, and so are the paintings.
125 Organic Environment, oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm, 2020.
126 | 127 Diverging, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm, 2020. Untitled, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2021.
128 | 129 Transience and Decay, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2020.
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Merging, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm, 2020.
crossmedia design laure haverkort
The human perspective has a central position in this work. A clean grid is being build up to be subsequently questioned and destroid. The designer as a subjective translator. Serious philosophical subjects that are difficult or impossible to comprehend are often elaborated in a playful way. The viewer will recognize certain elements, but nothing is what it seems. In the project Naturally is everything (except obvious) the sham structure created by humanity will be dismantled. People do their very best to make nature as predictable as possible. The infinite need to control and order has reached its limit long ago. The project does not encourage us to take good care of nature again. It is rather an example that we once again place ourselves above nature. Who are we to think that nature is submissive to us? The wild fascination for the strange human attitude towards nature is the starting point of the project. The work is an experimental journey full of philosophical questions and selfreflection, but also one to laugh at its absurdity.
131 It’s not what it seems: a minimalistic translation of Quantum Supremacy, film installation, 2020.
132 | 133 From the series Natuurlijk is alles (behalve vanzelfsprekend).
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Toilet things, acrylics on concrete, 2020.
crossmedia design laura heemink
137 Vergaan – Een visueel onderzoek naar vergankelijkheid. Zelve – Een oefening om niet verzonken te raken in details, maar te kijken naar het groter geheel.
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moving image julia hofman
Bringing the craziest dreams to life is what Julia Hofman does with her artworks. By using different mediums as film, drawing, and painting, artist Julia Hofman creates a variety of realities, from completely absurd in scriptwriting to photo realistic when drawing. She challenges herself to combine comedy, absurdism, and fantasy into each of her works, making each piece eccentric and unique.
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Stills from the hand drawn animated short film Kyro the Wendigo.
fine art painting muzammil hussain
My work stems from the basic phenomenon of investigating and questioning the thematic content of the human psyche. Embodying a language based on desire and instincts. Digging into the ether of repressed sexuality, frustration, shame, and intimacy. So far, my quest has been to understand the dichotomy of the human body and its visceral suppositions to sentimentalism, emotions, and morality. Contextualizing the work on the peripheries of its impact on the work’s relationship on the viewer. My work proliferates within numerous subjective parameters. For one, it could be seen as a fragmented moment of reminisces, analogous to the environment that I inherit. In my practice, I view painting partly as a personification of life where the undertaking of search correlates to imagination and fantasies. How fantasy occupies the psyche in our daily lives and that part within us that strives to make it an acute reality resonates with the dialectics of painting and how this search is similar in a sense; I have to find that median and draw the line between fantasy and reality. I see my recent interest in psychoanalysis as a valuable economy to rely on. This allows me to perceive my works as a simulacrum between the acts of play that constitutes my interior being in transference with the viewer, formulating semantics between the two coinciding worlds. Juxtaposed with subject-object dualism, where the element of imagination acts as a tool to inculcate these coinciding worlds, which possesses the omnipotence of making a collision that intertwines with the multiplicity of our brains. The objective use of material can open up dimensions of bodily impulses that one may find difficult to justify through linguistics. For me, the magic lies in experiencing an associative code that transcends our rational approach and flirts with reality. Given my Indian heritage, I find it astonishing to see how my experience living in the Netherlands has molded me into a single vessel of two different clays. It acts as a juncture between my self-conflicting identities, orchestrating a homogeneous mixture that unshackles cultural differences to understand its peculiarities and pluralities.
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fine art sculpture babet kanis
Onderzoek door middel van documentatie. Het vastleggen van een toestand. Eén plaats in één tijd, meerdere plaatsen in meerdere tijden. Op basis van ontdekkingen die mijn verstand te boven gaan. Het uit de context halen van eigenschappen. Gebruik maken van de wetenschap. En niet meer laten zien dan nodig, een versimpeling. Research through documentation. A capture of a condition. One place in one time, multiple locations in multiple times. Based on discoveries that are beyond my understanding. Taking properties out of context. Making use of science. And not showing more than required, a simplification.
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Recurrence of the moment, film and sculpture, 2021.
fine art sculpture jana keijdener
Jana Keijdener is a photography and installation artist working on understanding different human connections and abstracting concepts. She looks to create a visual language that speaks differently to each audience member and the artist herself. Through photography, she can begin her visual language, and through the installations, in differing mediums, she can create new insights for herself. Applying a photograph to a medium and having the capability to manipulate a world in a way that makes sense to her. Compromising of the pieces she creates. She constantly looks to inputs in any aspects of life for her to expand her knowledge.
161 Untitled.
162 | 163 Clap Clap.
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Hunting.
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fine art painting hannah kiefmann
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fine art sculpture yuka kimura
crossmedia design kate kirillova
Ruimtes waarin de kijker wordt uitgenodigd om een interactie met het werk aan te gaan. De wisselwerking tussen de ontwerpen, de toeschouwer en de omgeving is intrigerend. Deze interacties komen tot stand door gebruik van concepten die in verschillende media tot uiting komen. Het wel of geen grip hebben op het proces levert een verrassend eindresultaat op. Hetgeen wij gewoon vinden wordt ontregeld door middel van van een serie interventies. De aandacht wordt getrokken naar de belevenis van de context waarin we ons bevinden. Met de interventies wordt een ruimte gecreëerd voor de waarnemer om stil te staan bij zijn eigen gewoon. De bewustwording van het hier en nu draagt bij aan de zoektocht naar de betekenis van het gewone.
179 Interventie no. 2, 2021.
180 | 181 Interventie no.1, 2021.
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Choose your name. Score, 2020.
crossmedia design cas klaver
Als maker bevraag ik alledaagse situaties. In het proces van het zoeken naar absurditeit binnen het normale ontstaat er nieuw beeld. Hierbij speel ik met de relatie tussen mens/object/ patroon en doel ik op de onderliggende gedachten.
185 Concept design AKI Catalogus 2019.
186 | 187 6pck.
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Klaver Kas.
crossmedia design tamara klein
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Alive is a live performance of someone’s life. A person we do not really know but we recognise the facade of happiness when we first meet someone. During this performance we will take a journey through the facades until we reach the true soul of this person.
fine art painting roman knol
An idiosyncratic and sensual, versatile world appears. Each work is like a season, and always a different season, and also many more seasons than the one known to us. The result is a world in the making in which I, as a spectator, participate. I am not alone looking, I am in the happening of the picture. As if this is a vision. This awareness of the spectator brought about by the works precisely determines the engagement of the works. Because that is how we are in the event of the great changes in the world and the earth, in its overwhelming refinement, the work also evokes the feeling of glory, of ecstasy, and euphoria as a counterforce to the impoverishment and confusion that surrounds us. “I see the paintings as an ark of imaginary objects of pre-and past history, before and beyond the unified conscious self, where the dimension of the psychological persona ends, lays the shore of mythopoetic noesis. A realm stripped of the garment of language and linear time, in which imaginary vision withstands rational order to reclaim conventional reality.” The constant and coherent work in the group is a sensation because, as a spectator, you can always be absorbed in yet other visual overtones. At the same time, the other works also vibrate along. The full movement, the atmosphere, the eye becomes a swallow that flies through the picture, and the picture becomes a room in which I live as a spectator. It is then no longer necessary to see another form, a figure.
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198 | 199 Jagd im Tageslicht (detail). Dem Feuer gehorsam.
200 | 201 Untitled. 196
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Leser, Erzaehler und handelnde Person I.
moving image ilja kolosovs
Ilja Kolosovs is a Latvian-born Russian artist based in Enschede. Involving a variety of media and technology his work is driven by a curiosity for electronics, programming, design and experimentation. With a strong focus on conceptual thinking coupled with a understanding of design and hands-on technical knowledge, Ilja works on interactive art installations, real-time media and computer generated visuals.
202-205 Stills from different series.
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From the series Untitled Street.
crossmedia design jasmijn krikhaar
We bevinden ons in een tijd waarin de nuance van het individu meer aan de zijlijn lijkt te liggen en het gevoel van polarisatie stijgt. Het leven onder regels en orde is iets wat door niemand als vreemd wordt ervaren. De maatschappij is hard. Maar onze keuzes, onze levensfase en onze denkwijze hoeven niet zwart/wit te zijn. We mogen twijfelen, onzeker zijn of ons bevinden in een tussenfase. Grijswaarde is een visueel onderzoek naar de behoefte van grijze gebieden binnen de maatschappij. Een verzameling, niet van het individu, maar van het collectief, geabstraheerd tot een basale vorm.
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Grijswaarde.
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crossmedia design lynn muijtstege
moving image arianna c. ninà 220
Real emotions drive Arianna’s work. Spirituality, culture, religion, and politics dance together in her art. During her studies, she turned real scenarios into meaningful and abstract stories, turned feelings into places. Everything in the image has a meaning, has a soul. The creation of her short documentary as her graduation project came from the feeling of misunderstanding. Coming from Barcelona to the Netherlands was a shock; how could so few people know what was politically happening in one of the most visited European places? Her Spanish father acts as a metaphor to help explain the story. This documentary serves as an informative source, even if in its depth is a love letter to Catalonia and its citizens.
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Freedom of opinion and expression Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1-0 (1st October 2017) Neither forget nor forgive
moving image lydia nijhof
Complications are a form of inspiration. Finding solutions to conceptual and practical problems is incredibly rewarding. The work revolves around experimentation and new ways of looking at cinema as a medium as well as a form of communication. Communication and experiment are in-balance in a way to challenge the viewer. In provoking new thoughts and convictions, the work is to inspire and encourage discourse. In consistently aiming for unreachable goals, a never-ending circle of improvement and reflection is created. This is the best aspect of film itself, the idea of never being able to reach the top since it is a medium that is constantly developing and reaching new heights. Besides its continuous advancements, the multifaceted character of cinema also fuels a fascination with the medium. A film is as much a singular piece of work as a book, but it is open to the implementation of different specializations within the creative spectrum. A movie does not exist merely out of a sequence of images; it moves within a realm of aural as well as visual artistry, with each film department bringing its own specialty to elevate the other. In doing so, they weave together an experience that can only exist if these forces collaborate and work together.
227 Nachtegaal, short movie, 2017.
228 Pointcloud, installation, 2021.
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Stills from hand drawn animation, 2020.
moving image lisa oosterbeek 232
Lisa is an artist with a passion for equality. She strives to induce feelings and raise awareness by tackling complex subjects and creating intense stories on screen. Her love for the planet shows through her dedication to living and work as sustainably as possible, creating artworks with minimal impact on the environment but the maximal impact on the viewer. Her current project is a visual slam poem that comments on gender norms in the Netherlands.
fine art sculpture kristen oosthuizen
Colours and the way they work with and within materials is something that has always been of interest. How does a colour work in combination with shapes and lines? As well as how a colour works in combination with different materials that are hard and soft, plaster/clay and textiles/wool. Looking for a way to visualize the conversation the colour has with the viewer, the materials and the space. Looking specifically at one colour at a time, allows to research that colour in depth and further translate it. The goal is to create a space or composition where you can feel this conversation. A space where it’s all about the colour, materials and details. This year the colour orange has entered and did not leave.
239 Orange Weight (rework) wood, wool, plaster, plastic, rope, and the color orange, 100 x 25 x 100 cm, 2021.
240 | 241 Untitled (The main piece in the Orange room)wooden frame, rope, plaster, acrylic paint pigments and the color orange, 200 x 200 x 200 cm, 2021.
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Orange Brothers (1/2) plaster, wood, pigments, 40 x 40 x 35 cm, 2021.
moving image laurynas pikutis 244
In his graduate work, Laurynas Pikutis tackles a personal common issue amongst immigrants living abroad, and the issues they face with integrating themselves into society.
pikutis.com
fine art sculpture maran post 250
The works are heavily influenced by humanity, in both defi nitions of humankind: as a group and the fact being human. It investigates the aspects of being human and the influence of these different parts on each other. What are the struggles within ourselves? And (how) are these struggles of the one a reflection of the efforts of the whole of society. It is a search of universal, comprehensive structures/ truths and discovering more profound knowledge. The ultimate goal would be to capture the entirety of everything, exposing its core, in one piece. There’s playing with movement, usually through connection. There’s the interaction between materials, between the physical and the perceived, and also the observer. There is a focus on the textures, the materials, and how they are used together. The colours are generally muted or calm, and the works have a certain tactility to them. Through interaction and connection, we can learn, research, move closer together, and unite what needs uniting.
maran-anouk.com
crossmedia design rosan quattrocchi
“It’s easy to express yourself in private, but it takes a community to express yourself in public.” - Sasha Velour By making big themes reachable, Rosan's work invites you to take in a position. Her work aims to reduce the distance among people by building bridges between different points of view. These don’t have to be complicated bridges, it’s more important that they are crossable for everyone. Possessed skills do not define design practice, but how to apply these skills to urgent matter, does defines design practice.
257-259 Stills from The Meaning of a Word is it’s Use, an examination of the relationship between language and it’s medium, series of 5 videos, 2019.
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rosanquattrocchi.nl
Mail-Art Zine, an international mail-art project searching for the ultimate collaboration, resulting in 4 limited edition magazines with contributions from more than 25 people, 2019.
crossmedia design laura scheffer
263 De vorm van roze, zeefdruk, 2021.
264 | 265 Make-up masker, fotoserie, 2019.
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laurascheffer.com
Het roze papiertje, zeefdruk, 2021.
fine art painting bas schippers
Painting comes from a place of inner conflict. Being a lot softer than other boys and didn’t understand how they could hurt one another. The confusion of growing up and living up to a particular ideal are shown in the works through raw and wild brushstrokes. The bodybuilding lifestyle shows as an undocumented performance that informs the painting practice. When you are your own muse, you have to confirm and challenge hyper-masculine traits and features. Painting as an approach enables approaching with more distance and the ability to explore alternative views. 269 Adolescence, acrylics and markers on MDF, 70 x 122 cm, 2020.
270 | 271 Flowers and frustration, acrylics, spraypaint and markers on MDF, 50 x 35 cm, 2021. Bravado, acrylics, spraypaint and markers on MDF, 122 x 100 cm, 2021.
272 | 273 Archangel, acrylics, spraypaint, airbrush and markers on canvas, 180 x 150 cm, 2020.
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Steed, acrylics and markers on MDF, 80 x 80 cm, 2020.
fine art painting tobias thaens
Bringing objects up close into a context of transformation and impermanence, where the boundary between what the painted subject is and what it can become will be erased.
275 Untitled, oil on linen, 30 x 24 cm.
276 | 277 Untitled, oil on linen, 15 x 10 cm. Untitled, oil on linen, 130 x 100 cm.
278 | 279 Untitled, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm. 274
tobiasthaens.com
Untitled, oil on linen, 90 x 80 cm.
crossmedia design cas thorsen
A strong interest in identity and the power of visual culture. By focusing on the essence of a concept or story his work aims to give pronounced character to recognizability. Portraying figurative motives in unconventional ways to convey unique character through (moving) image. Enabling to contribute to the visual lexicon of visual culture through graphic explorations, motion design and illustration in a conscious manner. Recognizability and representation play a big role in the shaping of visual culture. It is fascinating that design can be very influential in this, as it has the property to give insight about the world in between ourselves, and make space for new ideas. The final work researches queer identities and shallow descriptive properties of labels. Personal notions of identity are visualized by not only focussing on authentic queer experiences, but also their collisions with the ‘normal’, where the intersections between the common and the strange in these experiences expose the complexities of creating our own sense of identity.
281 Ceramic sculpture.
282 | 283 Motion design for Uncover.
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casthorsen.com
Cover design A Gay Thesis.
fine art painting celina veenendaal
“Het is een misverstand dat iemand, die zijn identiteit niet wil ver anderen of niet als problematisch ervaart, geen genderidentiteit bezit.” – Julius Thissen Gender is a topic some people still try to avoid or maybe believe to be confusing and unimportant. Still, a sense of sentimentality and connectivity between people of all spectra is created in this work. This work incorporates some sensitivity and contrasts by combining different things but can still harmonize together. The photography can be categorized as raw, intimate, personal and atmospheric. In order to further strengthen that raw and personal feeling, analogue film techniques are used
287-289 From the series Wees zacht.
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Instagram: @celinavphotography
Mildness.
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fine art sculpture heidi vestin
crossmedia design beau voerman 298
Wij hechten ons aan elkaar en verkrampen soms door de dingen die tussen ons in staan. Bezonnen maak ik een fragiel bouwwerk en creëer ik steeds draagbare ruimtes.
beauvoerman.nl
fine art painting eline vonk
Plaatsen en herinneringen zijn belangrijk. Loslaten kan lastig zijn. De persoonlijke aard van deze momenten brengt een melancholische tint in de tekeningen en schilderijen. Deze zwaarte wordt vervolgens omgekeerd door middel van absurditeit en humor, gevonden beelden en symbolen, of kleurgebruik. Tekst speelt ook een belangrijke rol: in een poëtische vorm, ironisch, of schijnbaar betekenisloos. Al deze dingen komen samen: Soms in één schilderij, vaker nog in de de combinatie van verschillende werken. Al met al geeft het een kijkje in een eigen ‘silly’ wereld.
305 R.I.P. Hutje, acryl en potlood op papier, 29 x 21 cm, 2020.
306 | 307 Stilleven op het dak III, acryl, potlood en krijt op karton, 21 x 30 cm, 2020.
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Echt huilen, gemengde materialen op papier, 30 x 42 cm, 2021.
fine art painting sytze woudsma
Het werk vindt zijn wortels in verschillende bronnen zoals objecten, observaties, analoge fotocollages of ander (gevonden) beeldmateriaal. Samen met de fascinaties voor Hip hop, Graffiti en schilderkunst vormen zij de basis van de beeldtaal die gehanteerd wordt. Het idee van werken met verschillende concentraties en stijlen binnen de kaders van het doek biedt ruimte voor experiment en interpretatie, zowel voor de maker als de toeschouwer. De vrijheid in de manier waarop met het materiaal om gegaan wordt is als een een visuele reis die zowel speels en doeltreffend is. De werken zijn uitingen van verschillende onbewuste vragen over de eigen identiteit, en een zoektocht naar het creëren van een eigen beeldtaal en pallet. Het heropbouwen en het toeëigenen van mijn bronmateriaal middels reproducties of het maken van impressies is één van de technieken. In een samenleving waarin beelden steeds minder waarde krijgen door de explosieve dagelijkse toename, is de schilderkunst een medium waar een afbeelding zijn waardigheid kan behouden. Daar kunnen ze shockeren, traumatiseren, of juist verstillen of een helende functie kunnen hebben.
311 Tintin, oil paint on canvas, 120 x 120 cm.
312 | 313 St. Pauls Conversion, oil paint on canvas, 190 x 150 cm. The red baron, oil paint on canvas, 140 x 140 cm.
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Gallipoli, oil paint on canvas, 320 x 120 cm.
fine art sculpture esmee van zeeventer
Stimulated by something and lose yourself in a scene that might have happened or might be about to happen while moving around. An in-between moment. An image seeking for unconscious memory. A desire to better understand the world around or to not understand. Longing for a place you’ve never been to. Thick sticky air above sand too cold darkened by purple clouds Glass scatters in low-light diner where fish can’t breathe Skyscraper Soup White-paper-skin haunted from above
317-320 From the series Longing for a place I’ve never been to.
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eamy.nl
From the series Echoes of a culture.
crossmedia design carmen zomer
323 Uit de serie Perceptie, 2020.
324 | 325 Cosrigo, 2021. Uit de serie (on)opvallend, 2018.
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carmenzomer.nl
Serie Cijferkunde, 2018.
fine art painting Nienke van der Burg, 40 Marysha van Hattem, 124 Muzammil Hussain, 148 Hannah Kiefmann, 166 Roman Knol, 196 Bas Schippers, 268 Tobias Thaens, 274 Celina Veenendaal, 286 Eline Vonk, 304 Sytze Woudsma, 310
crossmedia design
Bas Arkes, 10 Jurel Bakker, 16 Jip Bertelink, 22 Sophie Buitenhuis, 34 Anouk Daams, 64 Celile Demir, 76 Emmy Elferink, 94 Talitha Fruneaux, 100 Lianne Haafkes, 118 Laure Haverkort, 130 Laura Heemink, 136 Kate Kirillova, 178 Cas Klaver, 184 Tamara Klein, 190 Jasmijn Krikhaar, 208 Lynn Muijtstege, 214 Rosan Quattrocchi, 256 Laura Scheffer, 262 Cas Thorsen, 280 Beau Voerman, 298 Carmen Zomer, 322 Melissa Cijntje, 52 Inbar Damhuis, 70 Kaja Dunnewind, 82 Julia van Eijden, 88 Sabine Gosenshuis, 106 Elma Greven, 112 Babet Kanis, 154 Jana Keijdener, 160 Yuka Kimura, 172 Kristen Oosthuizen, 238 Maran Post, 250 Heidi Vestin, 292 Esmee van Zeeventer, 316
fine art sculpture
Bogdana Alexandrescu, 4 Chandan Biswas, 28 Tarek Chokri, 46 Miguel Corado, 58 Julia Hofman, 142 Ilja Kolosovs, 202 Arianna C. Nina, 220 Lydia Nijhof, 226 Lisa Oosterbeek, 232 Laurynas Pikutis, 244
moving image
© 2021 AKI ArtEZ AKI Academy of Art & Design Hulsmaatstraat 35 7523 WB Enschede aki.nl Art Direction: Ina Bode Concept: Nadie van Wijk Portretfotografie: Esmee van Zeeventer, Maran Post Vormgeving: Gerhard van Dragt Eindredactie: Johan Visser Met dank aan: Alina Jonker, Marcel Vos en Mirjam Leppers. Realisatie: Academy Studios Druk: te Sligte-Olijdam ISBN/EAN: 9789075522419
