GROEN

GREEN

Our love of green. From 8 September onwards, divine green will descend upon the walls of Arti Sociëteit for all eternity. Then again, nothing lasts forever, and much green certainly does not.

We at Smakelijke Kunst invited artists to present their most beautiful, special, beloved, and favourite green. Anything was allowed, from a green painting to the scent of green soap, a green ceiling, or green chewing gum. Ah, green is so versatile and carries so many positive meanings. Green is the most common colour on our planet, if we do not count the colour of the oceans and melting ice. Wear as much green as possible, cherish green. During the exhibition, the soup will be green, as will the booklets. We are green and will remain green until 12 October.

Nathalie Faber
Fotoserie NETJES (2025-2026)

As a disposable product, they are slowly disappearing from supermarkets, much like the once-familiar blue mushroom tray. Yet a green mesh bag can hold much more than fruit or vegetables. From the iconic bottle of Andy all-purpose cleaner to a lettuce in the wrong net.

Moniek Spaans
"All signals are red in Greenland! Protect the Nunap Qeqqa peninsula, a natural paradise that has existed for millions of years. It is an internationally protected area where oil drilling has been prohibited since 2021, but a company with ties to Trump is now on the verge of drilling for oil under an old permit."

Linda Zhang
Invisible Growth

Green usually makes us think of nature, renewal and growth. But our economic system is also driven by continuous growth, more production, consumption and use of resources. Invisible Growth brings cracked earth, polluted water and industrial and electronic waste into an imagined landscape, asking what is left behind when endless growth takes place in a world of finite land, water, energy and resources.

Collective Exclusion looks at how stories and judgements can spread through language and social relationships, and how repeated narratives may influence the way we see others. Green networks grow across the painting, connecting human figures while one remains outside the group. The work explores how something initially invisible can grow into a division between “Us” and “Others” and become destructive.

Sjouke Schaafsma
The colour GREEN runs like a common thread throughout my work.

Paul Glazier
My work departs from the image of a dense, almost impenetrable forest. The power and unstoppable energy of nature form its point of departure; the constant growth and movement of all living things reflected in the process of painting.

Serge-Henri Valcke
GROEN ZONDER GROEN

Ineke Bakker
Oud groen mooi groen

Achter groen schuilen zoveel verhalen.

de overweldigende natuur
vergankelijkheid en jonge loten
het dagelijks leven groen
doorleefde objecten
afgebladderde restjes
jarenlang goed afgedekt biljartlaken
serviesgoed met een heel leven achter zich
en dan de boontjes.

De tand des tijds

Helmi Wakkie
Photograph of the garden, pots with plants.

Erik Romme
Groen

Koosje, aged 14, was not allowed into the classroom (in 1994) because she had apple-green hair. She was very angry: surely having green hair does not make you think any less well.

Don Duyns
Head. Green head. Better than a blue head? Why is green better than blue? No idea, it just is.

Rob Renoult
The work on display is a study for a series in which he uses traditional Indonesian techniques: batik stamps.

He has been experimenting with them for quite some time and considers it important to create work that refers exclusively to his Indonesian heritage.

Timon Hagen
Schommels

For me, swinging is freedom while remaining bound to the earth. That is why I chose green rather than blue, for example, when printing the image.

Bob Bunck
GREEN is the result of the love between Blue and Yellow and subsequently evolved into an independent colour, ready to be squeezed straight from the tube. It is my task to turn it into a good painting. Sometimes I succeed.

Machteld Aardse
Sketchbook impressions take me back to remarkable places I encountered on my travels: the forests filled with pagodas and shrines on the sacred Mount Haguro in Japan, the oak trees shaped by sea winds along the coast of Corsica, and a paradisiacal artist's garden in Switzerland.

Anne Verhoijsen
GEDRAGEN GROEN

PJ Roggeband
Green thinker, eco-futurist and garden fantasist. He explores the boundaries of what a garden can be and what green can do.

Mieke Gerritzen
Save the Humans – Posters

This poster series from the Save the Humans booklet visualises the vision of Next Nature: technology is no longer the opposite of nature, but a new layer of it. Humans, machines and ecosystems are becoming increasingly intertwined. Through powerful typography, iconic figures and thought-provoking quotations, the posters invite viewers to look differently at the relationship between biology and technology. They present a world in which the natural and the artificial continuously influence one another, and in which humans stand not outside but at the centre of this ongoing cross-pollination.