A group exhibition featuring twelve regional artists. What makes them so different is exactly what also connects them.
ONE is a group exhibition featuring twelve regional artists. What makes them so different is exactly what also connects them. Each has their own expertise, favorite medium, and material they enjoy working with. They all use this expertise to support and guide the artists of the future. At AKI, they work in the studios and act as behind-the-scenes drivers of the art. Here, in the exhibition ONE, they step into the spotlight, showing the work that fuels their passion.
With work by Rudi Bastiaans, Erik Kok, Tom ten Voorde, Patrick Mangnus, Jurgen Kuipers, Marcel Vos, Aalt van de Glind, Alina Jonker, Ferdinand Boers, Jan Guichelaar, René Damen, and Harry van Aartsen.
Our art viewing tips
Programmer Petra Boonstra provides helpful tips and insights on the works in ONE!
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Background information about the exhibition: handouts in Dutch and Twents
Download the regular (Dutch) handout or the Twents version below, the latter in collaboration with Twentehoes! These handouts provide more background information about the artists and the works shown. Keep the handout handy when, for example, you watch the streamed tour by visual art programmer Petra Boonstra.
Artist talk with Aalt and Patrick
On Friday, May 8, our visual art programmer Petra Boonstra spoke with ONE artists Aalt van de Glind and Patrick Mangnus.
Batterij in de Binnenstad
Unwind and recharge in the middle of a busy city, which has already been possible at Concordia exhibitions. Now it’s even clearer with a permanent spot: Batterij! At designated points in the exhibitions, you can listen to meditations by Gill Bollegraf.
[Meer over Batterij]
Program during the exhibition period
- Friday, March 13 2020, 16:30 – Opening -> [Bekijk hier het fotoverslag van de opening]
- Friday, March 27 2020, 16:30 – Guided tour (followed by a reception) -> [Bekijk hier de live gestreamde rondleiding]
- Sunday, April 19 2020, 15:00 – Artist talk with Rudi Bastiaans and Erik Kok -> canceled, a new date will be scheduled
- Friday, May 8 2020, 16:30 – Live online artist talk with Aalt van de Glind and Patrick Mangnus
- Thursday, August 6 2020, 10:00 – Haiku workshop by Jan Guichelaar
- Sunday, August 16 2020 – Finissage of the exhibition
The artists and makers in brief
Erik Kok
Erik’s work expresses personal emotions, focusing on concepts such as birth, nurturing, love, life expectations, and death. In his work, he seeks balance, where beauty and imagination enhance the theme rather than oppose it.
Rudi Bastiaans
“Anything within a square meter can inspire the creation of something; found objects, nature, or anything that catches my eye. In my work, I often use screen printing and photography as a starting point. This is rarely the final product.”
Tom ten Voorde
“In my work, I search for contrasts between materials and enjoy operating in the tension between control and chaos.” Tom often works at the intersection of art and graphic design.
Harry van Aartsen
The inspiration for his installation came from the scent of a specific perfume. Harry is interested in whether others experience the same reaction to certain smells, images, or other sensory inputs, and what triggers their emotions.
Jurgen Kuipers
With his fascination for nature, technology, and mechanics, Kuipers creates both useful and useless objects, products, and vehicles.
Jan Guichelaar
“When writing a haiku, I feel a strong connection with all that lives, grows, and blooms. Attention to small changes in eternal patterns and capturing glimpses of the smallest elements brings me closer to the coherence and unity of the universe.”
Aalt van de Glind
“My work aims to create stillness within today’s flow of images and information. I am a photographer who appreciates what my ‘backyard’ offers. I tell universally engaging stories using what I find in my immediate surroundings and everyday life, without long journeys or major societal themes.”
Patrick Mangnus
“In my work, I try to detach from any value judgments about materials; a print has the same value as a snippet from a popular magazine.”
Marcel Vos
“For this series of photographs, I returned to my AKI training: documentary photography.” Marcel photographed 'suikernichtje' Do over a thousand times. Most are not suitable for publication due to intimacy, recognizability, or other reasons.
Alina Jonker
Recurring themes in Alina’s work are fragile and fractured family relationships. She stages her works to express her emotional world.
René Damen
René focuses on photography that continuously challenges him to find and create new images. His work zooms in on things most people overlook. Sometimes it is a play of colors, shapes, or objects, sometimes a play of light and shadow.
Ferdinand Boers
On a wall space of 2 by 1 meter, Ferdinand demonstrates his versatility in discipline, style, and material. “What you see is what you get.”
ONE is made possible with support from the Pictoright Fonds.