2010

November/

December          "Accrochage"   part 1   

                              Jos Berkers, bronce and mixed media

                              Dré Devens, drawings

                              Craig Roper, photographs, installation (paintings, bundles)

                              Bedrich Dlouhy, installation (paintings, plexiboxes, columns)

                              Petra Orieskova, painting, drawings

                              Marian Warzecha, mixed media

Oktober               "Group show"

                             Piet Killaars, sculptures

                             Jos Berkers, sculptures

                             Peter Broeren, sculptures

                             Erik Habets, sculpture

                             Dré Devens, drawings

                             Marie van Vollenhoven, drawings

                             Craig Roper, realitybundels

                             at Media Groep Limburg, Hoofdkantoor Sittard

                             in cooperation with 'Galeriesmaastricht'

September       Craig Roper              "My Western Landscape"

                           (Roadtrip or something about the space)

                           photos, paintings, objects, realitybundles

                           featuring Sydney Lynch

                           unique handmade jewelry

                           at St. Nicolaasstr. 26c,  Maastricht

                        “It's pretty good stuff if I do say so myself.” (Craig Roper)

Craig Roper is an artist with a rather raw and reckless style. His works do not usually follow a specific theme nor do they originate from a specific plan or methodology.

“My Western Landscape” groups together some of Craig Roper’s paintings and photo-bundles around his series of silver prints “From a Truck”. This series features photographs of the Nebraska landscape that were taken while driving a pick-up truck, and attempts to go beyond a mere depiction of the landscape to the story that lies underneath it.

Juli             "In and out of Africa"

                    Teté Azankpo (Togo), Norman Catherine (South Africa)

                    Godfried Donkor (Ghana, UK), Sokari Douglas Camp (Nigeria, UK)

                    Sokey Edorh (Togo),  Amouzou Glikpa (Togo, D)

                    George Afedzi Hughes (Ghana, USA), El Loko (Togo, D)

                    Toyin Loye (Nigeria, NL), Luis Meque (Zimbabwe)

                    Owusu Ankomah (Ghana, D), Rikki Wemega-Kwawu (Ghana)

                    Zinkpé  (Benin)

               A collaboration with  Art Co Gallery, Herzogenrath, D                                              at St. Nicolaasstr. 26c,  Maastricht

May           Kunsttour                                "Group show"                             

                  Monika Radhoff-Troll, Janice Orth, Isabelle Linotte                     

                  Ron Bernstein, Erik Habets, Carla Cremers

                  Chris Rovers, Hank Beelenkamp, Dorthe Goeden

                  Inrid Breuers, Stefan Cools, Tanja Rauschtenberger

                  at Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht

April         Rob Mentzen                   “Back to the future”

                Meubel- en lichtobjecten   

                Limmy  Scheres 

                Schilderijen,  video’s, filmstills          

                at St. Nicolaasstr. 26c,  Maastricht

April        Alice Smeets                     “Haïti Cherie”

               Photography  (Benefit exhibition)                                          

               at  St. Nicolaasstr. 26c,  Maastricht

This young Belgian photographer has produced an impressive range of photographs, taken moments after the earthquake in Haïti. It was also in Haïti, more specific, in the slums of Port-au-Prince, where she took the photo of the 12 year old girl Landa that won the UNICEF photo of the year competition 2008. At that time, Alice was only 21 years old, thereby becoming the youngest photographer ever to receive this award.

March      "Made in Germany" 

                Jörg Immendorff, Sascha Berretz, Karl Fred Dahmen, 

                Karl Heinz Jeiter, Felix Droese, Jupp Linssen,

                Karl Otto Götz, Aloys Rump, Bernhard Schultze,

                Emil Sorge, Fritz Martin, Karin Kahlhofer,

                Herbert Kaufmann,  Hanns Pastor, Francois Du Plessis.

                A collaboration with  Art Co Gallery, Herzogenrath, D                                            at  St. Nicolaasstr. 26c,  Maastricht

January    Marie van Vollenhoven      “Scapes”

                     Drawings and paintings

                at St. Nicolaasstr. 26c, Maastricht

Marie van Vollenhoven often feels like a landscape painter. Not only when the characters she paints are located in a turbulent, intensely present nature. She also experiences the many other worlds that exist somewhere around her as ‘scapes’. Some of them are nearby, like a bar table, a ‘city duck’ that stuffs itself with cold fries, or a peaceful meadow, but other farther simultaneously existing worlds are always noticeable and tangible in her work. A matchbox is just as present as the hurricane that destroys an island on the other side of the world. A fish in the ocean, or an odd character out on the street: cityscape and landscape are coincident and equal to her. Everything is connected. We know and perceive so much at the same time; it’s impossible to understand it all from just one perspective. Marie’s drawings and paintings are in a sense timescapes. She displays the essence of our time: coincidence, complexity and the manifold perspective, the simultaneous awareness of our surroundings.

This also makes Marie van Vollenhoven’s work an escape: even though it depicts our present-day world, at the same time it tries to offer a way out of it.