The new season will open festively in Wall House #2 on Saturday, April 13, with the exhibition ‘At Home’, featuring works by three artists from the Northern Netherlands.
These three artists each give their interpretation of the concept of ‘home’. They offer an insight into what that means for them. The exhibition Home features works by Douwe Engels, Maartje Mulder and Marc van Vliet.
Grand opening
Traditionally, an artistic cake is cut at 12 noon to officially start the new season. Programmer Gea Schenk also introduces the artists and their work. The exhibition can be visited until 5 p.m.
About the artists
With Bevingssteen, Marc van Vliet pays tribute to houses in Overschild in Groningen. Almost all of these houses, in the middle of the earthquake zone, are being demolished or radically reinforced. Van Vliet made Beving Stones from the rubble released during the demolition: memories that can be seen in the exhibition Home. Van Vliet is self-taught. His work is characterized by a mix of image, movement, music and sound.
Maartje Mulder was inspired by unconscious hand gestures. During conversations she captured these hand gestures with her camera, from which she later made plaster sculptures. Both the photographs and the sculptures can be seen in Wall House #2. Maartje Mulder graduated from the Minerva Academy in Groningen in 2023.
Finally, Douwe Engels turns a house into a home during the exhibition by asking visitors what a ‘home’ means to them. He enriches his wooden frame of a house as time passes with input he receives. His work is inspired by his past. Growing up between two cultures, the Netherlands and Brazil, he experienced the contrast of his home. As a child he did not feel at home in the Netherlands; and in Brazil he was a foreigner.
Opening hours
From April to November 2024, Wall House #2 is open to the public free of charge every weekend, on Saturday, Sunday and Whit Monday from 12 noon to 5 p.m. Activities, workshops and tours are also organized during these Wall House Weekends.
The program can be found at groningermuseum.nl/wallhouse.
