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Says: ❤ Art! 🎨 #artreviews 🔜 expo Osaka🇯🇵

Explore the Glich by artist @muxingye_chen @the_ne $Explore the Glich by artist @muxingye_chen @the_new_current @rotterdamartweek This work is my favourite. It’s personal, original and immersive👍👍👍 More than 20+ new artists in the field of immersive art tech are now on show in an aboned warehouse at the Nassaukade. This weekend only! Daily open 11am-9pm, Sun till 6pm Rooted in Muxingyes personal experience as a 🇨🇳 immigrant in the Netherlands, the project constructs an interactive, sensory environment that reflects the fluidity and reconstruction of identity within the digital and physical worlds. It explores cultural identity, fragmented memory, and the role of digital technology in shaping selfhood and social relationships. The project employs the “glitch” as a metaphor to express the fractures and uncertainties inherent in diasporic cultural identity. A glitch, often representing interruptions in technological systems, here symbolizes the continual reshaping and adaptation of identity #immersiveexperience #rotterdamartweek #rotterdamartweek2025 #rotterdamart #artrotterdam$

Einder (Horizon) by @marlene_dumass @boursedecomm

Einder (Horizon) by @marlene_dumass @boursedecommerce

“When my mother was alive l never painted flowers for her. After her death, in 2007, I tried to paint the flowers on her grave 💐🪦I wanted to paint a portrait of her without painting her. I was trying to paint something had no end.”

#marlenedumas 2021

The title comes from Afrikaans poem by Elizabeth Eybers in which the word “einder” suggests both “the end”, and a horizon one cannot reach

Part of the exhibition “Corps et âmes”, an exploration of representations of the body in contemporary art. Until August 20 inside the #boursedecommerce

Sweet memories to the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto🇯

Sweet memories to the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto🇯🇵
Check out NOW🌼the exhibition in 🇬🇧@gagosian Grosvenor Hill by @takashipom 🥳

The original 17th-century works finely depicts Kyoto across two six-panel folding screens. Murakami’s version in 2024, created for Mononoke Kyoto at the @kyotocitykyoceramuseum replaces its gold-leaf clouds with skulls and other iconographics like the smiling flower-faced figures

See also @takashimurakami_mononoke_kyoto

#goldenpavilionkyoto🇯🇵 #goldenpavilion #kinkakuji #murakami #takashimurakami #gagosian #artgallery #gold #murakamiflower #takashipom #japanesearthistory #japaneseart

Good to be back in London @horizon22b 🤍🇬🇧

Good to be back in London @horizon22b 🤍🇬🇧

This 278-meter-tall skyscraper in the heart of London @22bishopsgate_ is designed by @plparchitecture with Europe’s highest free public viewing gallery on the 58th floor. The Shard and Skygarden feel like scale models🐣

#londonlife #thingstodoinlondon #thingstodo #freethings #horizon #horizon22 #londonview #londonviewpoints #skyline #london #londonskyline #cityview

ONLY Female designers & artists at #abstractart th

ONLY Female designers & artists at #abstractart then and now. Just a few weeks left! @stedelijkmuseumschiedam

#sabinemarcelis #elsemarijnbruys #christavansanten #machteldrullens #womenartists #womenartistsofinstagram

Brutalist architecture in Pristina; the National U

Brutalist architecture in Pristina; the National University Library of Kosovo!

Designed by Croatian architect Andrija Mutnjaković, in 1944, the library is topped with 99 translucent acrylic domes that were created to imitate Byzantine and Ottoman architectural styles. To create a unified design, the domes are also displayed inside the lecture hall’s wooden walls

Given the fact that it survived the Kosovo War, this location is an actual example of the resilience and artistic heritage of Kosovo💪🏻

It has been listed among the “world’s ugliest buildings” due to its distinctive brutalist architecture. Not to me, though. Shoutout to my fellow traveller Shane and his drone. We were so lucky with the weather! ☀️

#library #brutalistarchitecture #pristina #culturalheritage #interiordesign #architecturestudent #architecturelovers #interiorinspiration #architecture #kosovo #prishtina #exteriordesign #brutalism #dji3 #andrijamutnjaković

Gold!☀️ @wereldmuseum.leiden aka #museumvolken

Gold!☀️ @wereldmuseum.leiden aka #museumvolkenkunde

The gold leaf room is by the performance artist #jamesleebyars ✨and explores themes of mortality and transformation. It is an exact copy of the work from 1994. It is adorned with delicate Swarovski crystals. This took some serious time, patience, and care to apply! Loving the result 🙏🏻👍

Courtesy of the @vanhaerents_art_collection ✨

Other artists in GOLD in the #museumvolkenkunde are: #marinaabramovic #sarahvansonsbeeck #borisvanberkum #keithharing #jeancocteau #thompuckey #tedvannoten #goldleaf #goldleafart #goldleafartist #museumtok @stadvanontdekkingen

Nice to meet you @annemoongeurts @kazerneehv right

Nice to meet you @annemoongeurts @kazerneehv right in Eindhoven’s center and thanks for showing me around☺️

The “Human = Non-Human” exhibit – blurring the lines between us and everything else got me thinking..Is designing with nature our best bet for what’s next? 🌱

🪵 @benvankemenadestudio “Regenerated” installation preserves a legacy of woodworking by pairing old wood with fresh willow🌱, whose moisture protects the older material while embodying the continuation of craft traditions

🟤@agablonska_studio CoWave creates a personalized 3D artwork from biodegradable wood fiber that matches your preferences

🔥🌴@liselotcobelens designs objects that give tangible form to complex narratives, like her “California Drought” carpet, translating themes of climate change and shifting landscapes into pieces that resonate with both our senses and our conscience

🌽🔆@studioroex designed these modular, 3D-printed Hex Pixel Lights. Playing with familiar lamp forms while minimizing waste through the use of biodegradable PLA, which is made of corn starch

The most confusing exhibition of the Netherlands.

The most confusing exhibition of the Netherlands. Each work on it’s own is beautiful ☺️ until March 2 @vanabbemuseum

Featuring 120 artworks, the Delinking and Relinking collection presentation spans all five floors of the museum’s collection wing. Here are my favourites:

👔🖤 #wimvanderplas
💁🏻‍♀️💁🏿‍♀️ #marlenedumas
⛵️☁️ #basjanader
🔲🟦 #pietmondriaan
🐳⛳️&🎨🎼 #olafurolafsson & #libiacastro

Happy Grey Man 🩶@casperbraat with ‘Work in Pr

Happy Grey Man 🩶@casperbraat with ‘Work in Progress’ @torchgallery

Standing in his fictive workshop, surrounded by marble recreations of a Porsche 911, you can’t help but admire the patience and craftsmanship it takes to transform raw stone into something so detailed and precise. Each piece, from engine blocks, fasteners, and even incomplete forms, blurs the distinction between tool and sculpture. Heavy art💪🏻💪🏿

Braat does more than just replicate; he raises, questioning our perceptions of luxury, function, and art. What you think is, timeless design, monumental art or.. rocks?🗻

Until February 22, Lauriersgracht 94, Amsterdam

#marbleart #sculptured #carart #casperbraat #torchgallery #tonsurton #contemporaryart #greyman #bluemonday

Music, like art, often feels untouchable, but @maa

Music, like art, often feels untouchable, but @maarten.baas challenges this by smashing musical instruments and reimagining them as art objects🎻➰🟤

The title Crescendo! of Maarten Baas’ first solo exhibition at @galerieronmandos is now open until March 9. It’s a total experience you have to see it in person. You see his previous works like the Real Time video clock, the Empty Chair and the smoked Biedermeijer cabinet. His collab with Ted van Noten is worth checking out 🐊 just as his flexible 🎹🎹

Variations in E Minor, which features balls of various sizes on stage, is my highlight of his exhibition🎺🎻

These balls, though simple in appearance, are compressed versions of a full symphony orchestra 🟤🟤🟡🎼

Baas plays with duality: Is the instrument’s essence trapped in its spherical form, or does it hold a different potential, much like the Japanese concept of kintsugi—where broken objects are repaired and transformed into something more beautiful? 🇯🇵❤️‍🩹 While design often seeks definitive solutions, art thrives on self-questioning.

Baas moves beyond design into conceptual art, turning functional objects into provocative pieces. What do you think, is it art, design, or both?

#maartenbaas #galerieronmandos #artdesign #musicisart

Chasing the Dot ⭕️🔘🔵 @studiophilipvermeu

Chasing the Dot ⭕️🔘🔵
@studiophilipvermeulen @rijksmuseum_twenthe

Until January 5th. Immersive kinetic art. Beautiful overview of new and existing artworks by Philip Vermeulen

#kineticart #kineticartwork #kineticartist #dutchartist #immersiveart #lightartist #moiré #rijksmuseumtwenthe #chasingthedot #jamesturrell #immersiveexperience

What a nice discovery of the sunset works by @sask

What a nice discovery of the sunset works by @saskiaboelsums ✨@zerpgalerie @pan_amsterdam

If William Turner would be still be alive, he would be a she. And painting would become photography!

#sunsetlovers #saskiaboelsums #fineartphotography #sunsetphotography #williamturner

Capital city of LIGHT x @gloweindhoven 🟪 My fa

Capital city of LIGHT x @gloweindhoven 🟪

My favourite is BRUTE³ by @ruestungsschmie.de at the Hooghuis tower in green and pink

The cutest is the walking men in blue by @motioninblue

Until November 16! #projectionmapping #videomapping #3dmapping #lightart #gloweindhoven #gloweindhoven2024

Just smile 👧🏾 ..fashion, graphic design, tex

Just smile 👧🏾 ..fashion, graphic design, textile art, and sculptures by 9 contemporary artists at @museumjancunen 🏰 What a nice first time visit!🥳

Each room showcases a different artist, inspired by local Bergoss carpet design drawings. Unique perspectives from @yesimakdeniz @sigridcalon @maartjefolkeringa @christievanderhaak #fransjekillaars @baskosters @esmee.seebregts #karhangmui via @kaaikunstenaars & #sjimmieveenhuis

Curated by @merelvdn & expo design by @danadijkgraafdesign
On display until April 2025

@sigridcalon made this site-specific installation

@sigridcalon made this site-specific installation in a monumental room of @museumjancunen with #gouache paint ◽️🔹◽️My favourite graphic artist🔹◻️🔹

Inspired by the original Bergoss drawings, a textile giant that was taken over by #desso in the 80s. Not only the blue works are painted by Sigrid, also the white backdrop with red stripes

If Museum Jan Cunen is new to you, now’s the time to visi, 9 contemporary artists, each with their own room await. Curated with care by @merelvdn

Until April 6, 2025 and your @museumkaart is valid

Rotterdam has so many great artists, designers and

Rotterdam has so many great artists, designers and creative entrepreneurs. Where do they work? For five years, the @grootrotterdamsatelierweekend has provided an inside peek at all of these destinations. Looking back on a weekend where over 700 artists welcomed visitors to nearly 100 places, I wish there were more opportunities to visit these creative hotspots! Into edition 2024 we go! 🥳

Cover image: illustrator @maximdegilder

Favorite hub: @ackersdijkstraat_20 with
@mirjamsomers 🎭✍️
@geertmul 📷🍀&💻 @sigmund_de_jong 🟦⬛️
@hans.van.der.ham 🗿@katrijnverstegen 🧹🎨
@fransverschoor 📷 🌳

Design Discovery: Design lamps by @atelierrobotiq 🛋️and stained glass by @thijs_kelder 😬near central station

Fashion hub: @dewasserij with @guusjeverbaarschot 🖤&🤍@maori_kimura 🏺 & @lookbookbabs 💕🐵

Kunst in de Doelen 💎🛋️ @freerkwilbers

💒: Dorpsingel 6

#supportlocal #meettheartist
#rotterdamart

Washi Futurism @washifuturism is about the love fo

Washi Futurism @washifuturism is about the love for Japanse paper. It’s an AR book and now with an expo @nieuweinstituut

Design duos @cream__on__chrome and @craft.portrait are launching their new book! 📖✨ this hybrid edition combines 14 traditional #washipaper you can touch and pages with some #futurism #augmentedreality movies embedded

Put your phone on it, no app needed, and watch AR films about how washi is made. In addition, you can visit the expo at The New Institute and work with washi or checkout the light installations which shows you the different qualities of papers 🎥🌸

So nice to meet you @paulineagustoni @omushima and also @monojapan_fair

#paperart #lightinstallation #lovejapan #japaneseculture #japan #artsandcrafts #exhibition #hybridpublishing

Beautiful Blue city Chefchaouen💙 👀🐐⛰️

Beautiful Blue city Chefchaouen💙 👀🐐⛰️

Dating back to the 15th century, Jewish refugees painted the houses blue to mirror the sky and remind them of God. After Marrakesh, this city should be on your bucket list when visiting Morocco

Every two years, the entire city needs to be painted a fresh colour of blue. The local government provides paint to and you can buy the blue pigments on the streets 🎨 Most art and clothes you can buy also has this blue color

This is the only walled inner city, a medina, in Morocco where you can’t get lost. Just look up and spot the twin 1,700-meter-high peaks that give Chefchaouen its name. The shape of the peaks refer to Chaoua 🐐 which means ‘horns of a goat,’ and Chef 👀 means ‘looks at.’

You can visit this city as a full daytrip from Tanger or Fez. Pack light for the steep, narrow streets. Thanks @leroyjoey for the day!📷 #chefchaouen #bluecitymorocco #bluecity

The Worlds Most Iconic Garden.. with the trademark

The Worlds Most Iconic Garden.. with the trademark color Majorelle Blue 💙😍💙

Thanks to the French designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé the @jardinmajorellemarrakech has been restored in its full glory since the 80s

But was the artist Jacques Majorelle who acquired this four-acre plot of land in Marrakech in 20s and commissioned the French architect Paul Sinoir to design a painting studio, which today is the museum.

The intense cobalt blue 🟦accents the art deco buildings, Moorish details, fountains, and edges of the garden, creating a striking contrast against the desert landscape of Morocco. In fact, the electric blue hue became a trademark color known as Majorelle Blue💙

The property became so expensive to maintain that he was forced to open it to the public in 1947 until his death in Paris in 1962. The garden gradually fell into a state of disrepair and was slated for development.

Fast forward to now, the garden is open and also houses the Musee Yves Saint Laurent @myslmarrakech paying tribute to the designer’s legacy and connection to Marrakech and a Berber museum

Simon says: book your time slot a few days before you visit Marrakesh and book *only* via the official website @jardinmajorellemarrakech since there are many fake websites online

When you visit the garden in the afternoon, when it’s most warm, as we did, you can enjoy the quieter atmosphere and take great pictures 🪴🌴
#lejardinmajorelle #paulsinoir #yvesaintlaurent
📷: thanks @leroyjoey

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