Accompanied by Yasha Young (Director of BLOOOM), Walter Gehlen: (ART FAIR director), Catherine Cramer (managing partner of the Warsteiner Group) and Joko Winterscheidt (TV), Edo Dijksterhuis represent the Netherlands for BLOOOM Award. Other organisations Edo is involved with to carry
Visual artist Shirin Neshat is one of the most well known female artists to emerge from the Middle East. Born in Qazvin, Iran in 1957, she moved to the U.S. to study art just before the Islamic revolution of 1979,
Talented photographer Milan Gies shot an impressive series of young Dutch guys from Turkish and Moroccan descent he met in Amsterdam. BLEND spoke to Gies about this project and the underlying message of his photography.
Photography: Narayana What was heard in all speeches at the graduations I visited thus far — KABK, GRA and AHK — were some words on the cuts in fundings of arts and culture by the Dutch government. Some graduates whom
Photography: Lonneke van der Palen Lonneke van der Palen is one to watch, with her vision she shows us bright stories of her own — and in collaboration with Marije de Haan and Joline van Schagen — at a high
Photography: Nick Knight, picture provided through the courtesy of Bart Hess. Since ghostbusters and the odd children’s tv programs, we haven’t seen anything or anyone do this: pour slime all over you ! Bart Hess just did that… to Lady
Stylist Majid Karrouch and collage artist Pablo Delfos collaborated on an inspiring series called Low-Key Lavishness. Read a short Q&A with the artists after the jump.
In the post 9/11 world, people don’t seem able to talk about the Middle East and Arabic world without putting every single word in a political context. So what would happen if you’d turn this around? What would happen if
Photography: Marlous van der Sloot Marlous van der Sloot (1986) touches the boundaries of applied photography and contemporary art, with a focus on an immaterial world, of feelings and emotions. In her attempt to make the modern human aware of
Photography: Jasper Abels Jasper Abels strikes me like an ultimatedutchsoninlaw-type or the one who could sell you anything. Totaly confident and happy with the result of his graduation project: Copy/Paste and other kinds of magic. Image manipulation is absolutely part