Ceramics AIR Arita Japan 2026 by Anne Verhoijsen

Nakba Commemoration

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.

Vrijdag 15 mei 2026

19:30 – 22:00u
Dominicuskerk, Amsterdam
Toegang gratis
Aanmelden via: www.tinyurl.com/nakba-day78
ℹ️ Meer info via: www.nakbaherdenking.nl

Met bijdragen van onder anderen:
•⁠ ⁠Omar Barghouti — grondlegger van de BDS-beweging
•⁠ ⁠Ammar Hijazi — Palestijnse ambassadeur in Nederland
•⁠ ⁠Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad — Dichter der Nederlanden
•⁠ ⁠Ghayath Almadhoun — Palestijns-Syriesche dichter
•⁠ ⁠Janneke Stegeman — Schrijver en universitair docent
•⁠ ⁠Rasha Hilwi — Schrijver en Journalist
•⁠ ⁠Geeske Hovingh — Pastor Dominicuskerk
• Presentatie: Naeeda Aurangzeb — Journalist en schrijver
• Muziek van Qusai Naim — Cellist

AIR Arita Japan

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 eyes

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 Producties

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

Het heeft nut - expo Anne Verhoijsen en Jos Houweling

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

A&J13 Book Anne Verhoijsen en Jos Houweling

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.

A-en-J-artists book Anne Verhoijsen-Jos Houweling

I have to do something

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.

a wall for Palestine, a flag every day, Arti Amsterdam

I have to do something - by Anne Verhoijsen - Arti Amsterdam

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,=)

Two perspectives one journey

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/

Getekend Anne

September 2024
SIGNED ANNE

The Green Room project space of Galerie Madé van Krimpen.
SIGNED ANNE is an exhibition with three faces. Drawings, book and ceramics.

The drawings draw you into Anne’s world, a world with magicians, yoga, no yoga, cheerfulness, chance encounters, friends and with imaginative patterns. With texts by Nina Folkersma, Kees Keijer and Jos Houweling.

The book GETEKEND ANNE VERHOIJSEN, with more drawings than at the exhibition, more Anne, packed in a white box. On each box a small drawing, different each time. Limited edition boxes. 102 pages, larger than A4, 35 euros, edition book 250. Published by: weiw publishers Stralsund/Amsterdam

The book: GETEKEND ANNE VERHOIJSEN is on sale for 35 euros ( excluding shipping). Click here to order.

Ceramics. Pots of clay, pots with a loving lack on which drawings with spatiality, it lives.

Festive opening by Maze de Boer
Sept. 20, 2024 at 5 p.m.
Exhibition lasts until 2-11

Prinsengracht 645, Amsterdam
Entrance Frozen Fountain

Madé van Krimpen
www.madevankrimpen.com

With thanks to the
Elisabeth Vermaat Müller Fund

Click here for article by Jos Houweling, Kees Keijer and Nina Folkersma

Recensie Groene Amsterdammer over Anne Verhjoijsen, getekend Anne — **Recensie in De Groene Amsterdammer door Joke de Wolf, 10 oktober 2024**

All drawings:
Material: colour pencil, watercolour, charcoal, inkt, acrylic.
Size: 60 x 42 cm.

Drawings out of the book Drawings by Anne Verhoijsen

Drawing 03 from Drawings out of the book Drawings by Anne Verhoijsen

Drawing 04 from Drawings out of the book Drawings by Anne Verhoijsen

Drawing 05 from Drawings out of the book Drawings by Anne Verhoijsen

Opening en boekpresentatie ‘Getekend Anne’ in The Green Room op 20 september 2024.
Foto’s door Valentina Vos.

Anne Verhoijsen exhibition in The Green Room at Galerie Madé van Krimpen

Het Parool – Splitzij – 2024

Artikel Parool Verwey Museum Splitzij van Anne Verhoijsen

Splitzij

Vier mannen en een tafelkleed.
Four men and a table cloth.
(Ongoing project)

Tentoonstelling D(R)AAD
Over borduren als protest en beweging
Exhibition D(R)AAD
Embroidery as protest and movement

Verwey Museum, Haarlem
26-1 – 28-4-2024
Lees meer op de website van Verwey Museum….

Splitzij Verwey Museum 2024 Anne Verhoijsen

Four men and a table cloth and Anne Verhoijsen

Aatje Veldhoen embroids his own 'Veldhoentje' — Aatje Veldhoen embroids his own ‘Veldhoentje’

Embroidery Floss

Amsterdam – 1999-2001

Four men dressed in dark suit and tie, sitting in a circle, are concentrating on their needle work. The white table cloth they are adorning is draped over their knees in such a way that the men seem to sit around a table. Filling in the preprinted design, they slowly work their way towards the centre of the cloth. The work was performed in several places including the window of department store De Bijenkorf in Amsterdam.

A significant aspect of the performance is the mutual influence between the work and its context is: the setting is essential for the perception of the performance and the performance in its turn affects the surroundings in which it takes place. The response of the audience is intertwined with the performance to form a whole.

In a separate video the demented 85-year-old Mrs. Rijpsma vividly recalls how she used to give embroidery lessons for two cents an afternoon. This work turns a fading technique and a fading memory into a powerful testimony of history’s accessibility and topicality.

Albert Wulfers, one of the participants embroiding his name

Embroidery lessons given by Anne in her atelier – Harry Heyink a.o.

Part of the performence: 24 men and 1 woman embroiding table cloths at the Winston Hotel

In November 2001 Anne gathered all the participants at the Arena stadion to make a group portrait with their names embroided on their ‘broddellap’ – a Dutch term for a piece of fabric to practice your skills on.

Het Parool 2024

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I wash here

I wash here
2020

What you see is a moving image that actually has ia functional purpose, but in this way shows an asesthic dimension on his own. It sprung from my fascination with water and movement and was recorded like this.

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Open Stal

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