Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Japan
International Open Call
June 16 – June 21 2026

The Illusion of an Encounter

On a lawn near  Voorlinden Museum, I encountered the sculptures of Antony Gormley. Partly due to my years of meditation and yoga,I sensed an immense power and awareness in the presence of this work. I felt compelled to connect with his sculptures and responded by immersing myself in the aura of his work—a process of making physical and visual contact. Ultimately, it became a series of 24 drawings and a tribute to Antony Gormley. 

The illusion of a Meeting.

Welkom op deze herdenking waarin we samen onze solidariteit voor Palestina kunnen ervaren en geïnspireerd worden Op deze avond ook aandacht voor de cultuur. 

Ik zal De Toren voor Gaza opbouwen. De toren bestaat uit porseleinen stenen gemaakt naar een mal van stukken zeep gemaakt in de Zeepfabriek van Nablus. 

During my AIR residency in Arita, I developed several projects in which ceramics, drawing, and imagination came together.

I continued working on My Dream Garden, an ongoing project centered around fantasy figures and imaginary worlds. In addition, I created Tower for Gaza, a ceramic work in which architecture, vulnerability, and human resilience play a central role.

Alongside these projects, I experimented with drawing on ceramics. Working on both vessels and flat ceramic plates, I explored how line, image, and surface can interact to create a narrative space.
The residency gave me the opportunity to connect traditional ceramic techniques with a more intuitive and personal visual language.

The watchful eye has always been there. It started in church, above the tabernacle. God sees everything. When I looked back, I saw my father’s eyes watching me from the choir. Much later, I spent days drawing in the tombs of Thebes. There were eyes there too. Now there are 33 ceramic eyes in an ever-expanding spiral.

A&J – Anne Verhoijsen en Jos Houweling
Presentatie: WELKOM
Op de schouw in Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Een A&J productie
Digitale print 2.00 bij 1.00

Het heeft nut

In the video ‘Het Heeft Nut’, It Makes Sense , two very different visions are combined to make a whole, from a line of ants marching along the jungle floor to insect-like markings moving over an animation. Traffic collides with it’s abstract counterpart sparking associations. Trees rush by in the subway like a filigree of graffiti as swear-words are glimpsed. There is walking and dancing, playing and clapping. 

Verhoijsen’s camera looks out and her images bounce off and through Houweling’s shifting frames giving the film a sense of a stream of consciousness, a half seen language of marks in a kaleidoscopic flow.

Music by Blom is poured through the mix binding the disparate elements into a poetry of free association and visual rhythms. Elements cross over, dissolving and transforming, strengthening and enforcing before being whisked away into another combination. 

Through Glazier’s edit the viewer is swept into a stream of imagery evoking a narrative that never resolves. Instead it is the experience of the procession that becomes the subject of this adventure.

Anne Verhoijsen, Jos Houweling, Paul Glazier, Ruurd Blom.

Link to trailer: https://vimeo.com/1092549834

Open Stal

“Oorsprong”
Olderbekoop
19 juli t/m 17 augustus 2025    
Opening 19 juli
Website Open Stal

Inleiding bij het boekje De Oorsprong een van de boekjes uit de fijne boekjes reeks

Hoe het alles, 

het alles, van ons zijn, begon

 en wat is het begin is,

bestaan meerdere verklaringen,

die soms botsen, die elkaar uitsluiten 

of elkaar versterken 

en die allemaal waar kunnen zijn.

In dit boek de oorsprong in vierenveertig kunstwerken.

Een A&J. productie. Anne Verhoijsen & Jos Houweling, geluidkunst. Tom America.
Inspiratie, Open Stal, Oldeberkoop, 2025

Interview door Hans Kuiper met Anne Verhoijsen en Jos Houweling over samen werken.
Voor Arts Magazine Articula van de vereniging Arti et Amicitiae.
Lees hier het interview

31-5-2024
De kunstenaar uitgelicht. Een gesprek over ons werk (Anne Verhoijsen en Jos Houweling) in Arti et Amicitiae.
17.00 – 18.00 uur.

Een concept van Anne Verhoijsen en Jos Houweling.
Meer info op www.1en1is1.nl
Opening 17 mei 2024 om 19.00u in Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

Artist’s book A&J 13

Artist Book  A&J 13 – Presentatie en tentoonstelling van 2 t/m 9 mei 2024 in  Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Artist Book A&J 13 – Presentation and exhibition from May 2 to 9, 2024 at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

Artist’s book A&J
Drawings by Anne Verhoijsen, photos and collages by Jos Houweling.
Merged into 130 surprising images.
Self-published.

Price 40 euros. Can be ordered through e-mail.

This work is part of a new project.

-I have to do something-

As a human being, I want to do something. As an artist, this is what I do.

Out of a deep sense of powerlessness and concern, I set out to create something tangible. I ordered traditional soap bars from Nablus, in the West Bank—objects shaped by hand, carrying with them a long history of craft and survival. Using these bars, I made five molds, each one precisely capturing their size and structure, as if preserving their form against disappearance. With two of these molds, I traveled to Arita in Japan, a city renowned for its porcelain tradition. There, I cast 239 fragile porcelain soap bars. What was once soft and perishable became hard, yet brittle transformed into another state of vulnerability. Stacking the blocks, I built a tower that could collapse at any moment—an echo of the precarious existence in Gaza and the West Bank. At the same time, it is an act of construction: each block contributes to a larger whole, forming a community, a monument.

A tower in Arita porcelain, cast from the form of Palestinian Nablus soap, embodies a fragile act of remembrance and solidarity with Gaza.

A wall for Palestine. A flag every day. Exhibition protest at Arti et Amicitiae from January 5 to February 12.

This multiple gathers the Palestinian flags I have been drawing and painting over the past months — small acts of attention, held together on paper.
The cover remains uncoloured, an unfinished gesture, inviting your hand to complete the image.
It is one of the works born from the feeling that I must do something.

Price: €35

Proceeds will be donated in support of humanitarian aid for Palestine.

Order your book via e-mail (€ 35,=)

Een boek met foto’s van Paul Glazier en Anne Verhoijsen.
Het boek wordt uitgegeven in eigen beheer op 3 januari 2025
Prijs: € 35,=.  Click here to order.

Meer info: /portfolio/two-perspectives-one-journey/