Artistic Research
Summer 2026 Writing Residency at KuBa Kulturbahnhof, Germany
Invitation writers’ residency at KuBa: Kulturbahnhof This August, I have been invited by KuBa: Kulturbahnhof for a writers’ residency. Alongside me, other writers and visual artists will also be working there during this period. The two women who run it are artists themselves, and they have gathered a very inspiring and dynamic group of people…
Experimenten en schetsen van kleurenthrillers te zien in De Vishal Haarlem
Voor de tentoonstelling KLEUR! vroeg curator Tonneke Sengers me om een aantal kleurexperimenten en artists’ books te tonen in twee vitrines. Kleuronderzoek – gekleurd papier en Riso-prints Barbara Collé maakt kleurenthrillers: spannende verhalen verteld in kleur. In deze vitrine zie je schetsen en kleurexperimenten waarin ze onderzoekt hoe kleuren elkaar versterken. Welke grijzen tillen elkaar…
The Ouroboros Orbit – 5-7 september presentation at Studio Trouble, Berlin
Throughout August, I will be collaborating with Uta Neumann on our Ouroboros Project. We will conclude this working period with a presentation at Studio Trouble in Berlin. You are cordially invited, please join! Friday 5 to Sunday 7 September 2025 (Opening times will follow soon)Studio TroubleAudre-Lorde-Straße/Manteuffel Straße – Kreuzberg Berlin Ouroboros Orbit – along the…
A month in the Sahara – Tissardmine artist residency
… We were in a place where the sky was an orange and where we could touch the milky way simply by stretching out our arms. January 2025 artist residency Tissardmine, Rissani, Morocco. I was lucky enough to spend a whole month in a dazzling part of the Sahara. In south-eastern Morocco, seven kilometres from…
Presentation of sketches; the dance of the rainbow serpent and the ouroboros
The month in Tissardmine was full of dreams. Daydreams were everywhere in the vast landscape, during walks, on dune ridges illuminated by the rising or setting sun, the golden hour, the moonlight, the starry sky. Dreamtime I read about the perception of sounds in dreams in an essay on Deep Listening by Ione. And one…
Bilboard Print, Part of exhibition at Artists Unlimited
From 27 September till 13 October, a work by Uta Neumann and me will be on display in Bielefeld. The work is part of Uta Neumann’s exhibition ‘When the Mountains Sway, I Hum’ at the gallery Artists Unlimited in Bielefeld. Detail from the Ouroboros series Untitled (Billboard print), 2024, billboard, 2.52m x 3.85m,Part of exhibition…
Earth’s Shadow Artistic Research
There is something very illogical about looking at the earth’s shadow, because you are ‘actually’ looking in the wrong direction. Because to perceive the earth’s shadow, you have to turn your back on the miracle of the setting sun. The shadow is a less intense, grotesque, overwhelming visual spectacle, until you do something that makes…
Writing residency Summer 2024
A whole month, really a whole month! That’s what I thought in advance as I looked forward to the artist residency at Libken in Germany’s Uckermark. Writing in the kitchen, in bed, in the library, in the archive of the library where a special corner has been created for people who really want to concentrate…
Collective residency at Frans Masereel Centrum
December 2023, Uta Neumann and I were invited to the Frans Masereel Centrum to spend two weeks working nonstop on our project on the Ouroboros. It was a total blast! We completely indulged in all the silkscreen pigments that artists had mixed but not used up in the months before us. We printed, totally and…
Artistic research at The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
Embassy of the Free Mind For the long-running project for which we already went to the Kulturbahnhof residency in Brandenburg, and for which we have been invited for an artist residency at The Frans Masereel Centrum later this year, Uta and I now dive into the archives. Between 18 and 25 May, we may browse…
Artistic Winter Retreat at KuBa: Kulturbahnhof
kuBa: Kulturbahnhof Brandenburg, near Berlin I’m so excited and so is Uta: we’re going to do another artist residency. This time we are invited to KuBa: Kulturbahnhof. It is about a two hour train journey from Berlin. KuBa:kulturbahnhof is located in the disused train station of the village Klein Warnow in Brandenburg. They have a…
Our work on view at Zabriskie, Berlin
Our Special Edition at Zabriskie We are happy and proud and happy and proud and so proud and happy: our special edition art prints of the Sasso series is now for sale at the most beautiful, interesting and addictive bookstore we know: Zabriskie Buchladen in Berlin. Please have a look at their webshop and if…
Tentoonstelling bij NDSM FUSE
NDSM FUSE9 t/m 25 september 2022Tentoonstelling Our Sasso’s travel. They sailed from Lago Maggiore to Het IJ of Amsterdam and can now be seen in the former shipyard in Amsterdam North in the gallery of NDSM FUSE. Much is different here, but the warm, sweltering heat seems to accompany them from place to place. But…
Sasso is a wishing stone | Residency together with Uta Neumann
Sasso means stone. We didn’t know that when we sent in our book. In our artist book, we printed 24 images of a stone. It wasn’t until four weeks after we were invited that someone told us; ‘Everything is called Sasso there, because that is Italian for stone.’ Uta has been accompanied by stones for…
Celebrate the light | Colour Meditation
Sommer Solstice June 21, 2022 This year, during the day with the almost infinite light, the longest day, I’m staying as an artist in residence at Sasso. Together with Uta Neumann, I invited our fellow artists from the house to celebrate the light. Because when we celebrate light we also celebrate colour, we prepared a…
Research at Bibliothek Andreas Züst
Location:Die Bibliothek Andreas Züst Date:5 – 10 June 2022 Research at Bibliothek Andreas Züst For more than a week, exactly the week before the library closed for a longer period of time, Uta Neumann and I were guests in the Alpenhof and the Bibliothek Andreas Züst. With a research proposal and a pretty solid bibliography,…
Artist Book: Von Farben, die in Steinen wohnen
Von Farben, die in Steinen wohnen Artist BookNo.1 | Teal – Orange – Grey24 Riso prints (printed by Knust at AGALAB Amsterdam)Edition of 3. by Uta Neumann and Barbara Collé They kept pointing out colours and placing stones in each other’s hands From the moment the two women met they walked for hours through the…
Chartres Bleu versus Uckermark Blau
Joan Didion, Maggie Nelson, Blue de Notre Dame Joan Didion compares in her book ‘Blue Nights’ the evening blue with ‘Le Blue de Notre Dame de Chartres’. Maggie Nelson is also immediately aware in her ‘Bluets’ that she cannot write about blue without planning a trip to Chartres. Nelson never got there. ‘That will not…
Blauwen in Libken | week 1 van mijn residentie
Blauwen in Noordoost-Duitsland Mijn eerste week hier ligt achter me. Langzaam begin ik te begrijpen waar ik ben. Ik ben hier als artist in residence te gast bij Libken om aan mijn blauw te werken. De hemel is zo weids uitgestrekt en onvervuild van licht dat me vergapen aan de hemel automatisch gaat. Ook de…
Intimate dialogues with Colours | tentoonstelling
Lucila Kenny en ik maakten een tentoonstelling over de samenwerking tussen natuurlijke kleuren en kunstenaars. ‘Dyeing with various kinds of plants, is the act of receiving colours from nature.’ Fukumi Shimura Natuurlijke kleuren zijn levende personages met een karakter en een temperament. Net als de plant, van wie we de kleur ontvangen, hebben deze kleuren…
De bloedmaan heeft een nieuw thuis gevonden
Deze twee Riso werken uit mijn bloedmaan-serie hebben een nieuw thuis gevonden.