For my artworks I find inspiration in travels to different countries that have included China, Mongolia, Honduras, Mexico and India. These find my interest because traces of their past have not vanished in daily life but are often left in their rough and original states. This differs from European countries where so much of the past seems covered, cleaned up and polished. I find it interesting to see how people have lived and are living now. Silent witnesses of human activities in the present but especially in the past. The history that can be read from finds such as old shipwrecks on a beach in China, activities of nomads in India. I call them 'archaeological observations' and the resulting work is a hushed residue. I want to pass on some of those observations to the rest of the world.
Hanna Blom and Marieta Reijerkerk
The exhibition Timeline explores the connection between space and time, between what forms and what passes. Central to the work of both artists — Hanna Blom and Marieta Reijerkerk — is the search for the essential and elemental. Their approaches differ but converge in the way they reduce the world to structure, material, and stillness.
Hannah Blom creates sculptures that surprise and challenge. She plays with form and tension, works both figuratively and abstractly, and explores how matter relates to space with welds, glue, thread, or knots. In her work, every gesture seems an attempt to break through the obvious. Her sculptures invite us to look and to move with them; they create openings where the viewer’s imagination is given free rein.
Marieta Reijerkerk, on the other hand, departs from the traces of what has been. During her travels to China, Mongolia, India, Mexico, and Tajikistan, among other places, she collects impressions of places where the past is still visibly present. In her work — which ranges from paintings and prints to objects of wood, metal, and textiles — these impressions are transformed into new forms. They are silent witnesses to time and transience, found fragments that escape the moment.
Timeline brings these two worlds together. Where Hannah Blom touches space and brings it to life, Marieta Reijerkerk exposes the traces of time. Together, they create a dialogue between making and finding, between the interplay of the present and the residue of the past. Their work invites us to pause, to look, and to feel time flow for a moment.
Van February 28, 2026 t/m March 24, 2026
