The exhibition
The title plays with two meanings: “come to your senses” AND “use your senses.” Come to Your Senses explores how visual experience not only stimulates the eye but also invites one to literally feel art - so that works are both seen and felt. This sounds abstract, but it is a concrete programmatic choice: the seven selected artists all work from materials and forms that have a physical presence.
The spectrum of disciplines is broad. Caspar Claasen, Vivien Collingwood and Tarja Laine bring paintings and drawings. Herman Deen is in sculpture, Nine Grooters in ceramic sculpture - materials that you experience differently from three meters away than a canvas on the wall. Dan Gonen works in textile art, a medium in which structure and surface are inseparable from the image. Jacqueline Steinhoff closes the line with graphic linocuts, where the pressure of the material remains visible in the end result. Seven artists, seven approaches to the same question: what happens in your body when you look at art?
Seeing art with your eyes is the beginning. Come to Your Senses asks you to go beyond that.
The gallery
Galerie kunstRUIM at 25 Jodenbreestraat is a platform for and by professional Amsterdam visual artists. The gallery of approximately 250 square meters has large windows, excellent lighting and a display window visible from the street. The entrance is via the Valkenburgerstraat. Every three weeks kunstRUIM changes the exhibition, making the gallery an active place rather than a static collection.
During opening hours, the artists are present to explain their work - a deliberate choice by kunstRUIM, which places direct exchange between creator and visitor at its core. Anyone wishing to purchase a work does so directly with the artist: no middleman, no waiting time.
The opening is on Saturday, May 9, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. The exhibition runs through May 24, Wednesday through Sunday from 12:00 to 5:00 pm. Admission is free.