Come to Your Senses: Seven artists on seeing and feeling

What does it mean to come to reflection? Galerie kunstRUIM in Jodenbreestraat asks that question in a very concrete way: with work by seven artists who want to appeal to your senses, not just your eyes. Come to Your Senses opens on Saturday, May 9, and runs through May 24, 2026.

Behind the exhibition is the C3 collective, with artists each working from their own discipline. Anastasia Eggers and Christine Saalfeld bring painting work. Iza van den Baar and Koes Staassen also work with paint and sculpture. Ovidiu Spaniol adds sculpture to the mix, while Lotus Rooijakkers and Ruud Goedhart further broaden the palette. Together they form a group with a wide range, from figurative to abstract, from intimate to spatial.

The disciplines vary considerably. Painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic art and textile art are all on the program. This is not a random mix: the exhibition is built around the idea that art can touch multiple senses. A ceramic object has weight and texture. A textile work has structure. Paintings draw your eye, but also invite you closer. The theme, contemplation in the double sense of the word, runs like a thread throughout the exhibition.

You buy the work directly from the creator, which makes it a little more personal than buying through a gallery employee.

The opening on Saturday, May 9, is from 4 to 6 p.m. That is immediately a good time to talk to the artists, as they will all be there. Admission is free, both for the opening and for the rest of the run. For those who want to take something with them: so you buy the work directly from the maker. That makes it a little more personal than buying through a gallery employee. Nineteen days, seven artists, five disciplines. That's the setup. Simple and direct.