Image and Language, part 1

TASTEFUL ART IN THE SOCIETY

In Tasteful Art in Arti's society, the walls are richly adorned with works of art by living artists. What it's all about: the taste of art.

Photo: Martijn Engelbregt / Circus Andersom

Image and Language, part 1, from August 25 to September 19, 2025

Opening/closing Thursday, September 18 at 5 p.m.

Participating artists:

Marieke Coppens
The box of photos of parties and celebrations fell over, just after the archive of opening sentences for novels fell over. They got mixed up.

Dick Tuinder
“Autumn catalog of courses offered by the Active Indoorers Steering Group (North Holland East Division).” How does today's Active Indoorer deal with a reality in which, according to some, the distinction between indoors and outdoors is no longer important, or has even ceased to exist?

Rob Jongbloed and Jos Houweling
“Good, good.” Sometimes I hear things that I can't place. Sometimes I hear myself say things that I can't place. Jos can place everything and turns it into vivid collages. It's a script for a film that will never be made.

Merlyn Paridaen
Like a neurotic punk wizard, he paints away the trees to show us the forest. With a masterful hand, he hides historical complexity behind an apparent simplicity of colors—I repeat, apparent—I repeat, apparent. Nothing is less evident than this simplicity.

Jillis Stada
Photo collages. Every day, a few minutes of screenshots from the early NOS news broadcast for a foreground and background and a text, coincidental but topical, forming a new whole, sometimes witty or apt.

Moniek Spaans
Kneaded from clay: A blind finch that sees nothing and nonsense on a stick. I don't understand a word of it. Minkukels that have nothing to do with roosters, misfits that I nevertheless have to eat because everything breaks down in your stomach anyway. And other platitudes.

Sjouke Schaafsma
Book object. Stack poems. They originate in the exchange bookcases. Without a preconceived plan and quickly; one minute, two at most. Three titles are enough. Every day a stack poem on Instagram @amsterdamsestapelgedichten. Sometimes I take books with me and turn them into book objects.

Martijn Engelbregt
‘Worrying’ is not the right word. ‘Truthful’ does not do justice to reality. ‘Untruthful’ is beside the point. ‘Sincere’ is an unfair distortion of what is. Not forms of language but not forms of words. Text that misses the mark completely. You are worried. You are right.

Ramon Jan Vet
Surprise

Curated by,

Chef Kunst Sociëteit