Nazif Lopulissa

Nazif Lopulissa rethinks the shapes and forms of the children’s playground. The Dutch artist’s childhood helped to inspire his latest projects reinventing the playground. His work looks into moving it away from a regimented space into one that triggers playful imagination.

Lopulissa’s colorful, poetic and optimistic work “At least you can smile”, results from his personal experience during the COVID19 lockdown. An artist has always experienced space for rest and reflection in his studio. For him, staying at home and working from home soon felt like normal. Now that the world around him has almost come to a standstill, he realizes all the more that mankind is not built for the speed of our existence. Busy jobs dictate our daily rhythm, we are absorbed by our activities, so that we lose sight of the essence of life.

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Willem de Haan

Willem de Haan believes in the value of humor in his work. The work he produces functions as a kind of tribute to the funny and absurd situations that he experiences or searches for on a daily basis.

With this location-specific sculpture, Willem de Haan investigates an alternative form of bringing together two elements that are inextricably linked; a sailing boat and water. While every boat is made to float on water, the sailboat also has other formal features that can keep it afloat. Although this fulfills the basic condition of every boat, the sailboat ‘Liberty’ loses its function in this work. As a result, the boat falls into place among the other sculptures in the Museum Park.

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Helmut Smits

Helmut Smits is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Straightforward, critical and witty, Smits is a ceaseless producer of ideas that comment on society and situations in a frank and often humorous way.

For this exhibition he proposed a tree to be planted at the top of an old disused industrial chimney in the historic district of Delfshaven. The chimney previously responsible for emitting large plumes of pollution can now be used to help clean the air. The static green cloud of foliage can also be seen as a symbol of nature’s power to reclaim sites of human activity.

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Katrein Breukers

Katrein Breukers creates images and
installations that arise in close relation to her own life. Originating from an artist and musician family, elements such as the stage, costumes, set pieces and music return in her installations. Often the installations also refer to everyday actions and objects. Characteristic in this is the way in which Breukers creates new meanings by combining these objects. 

She believes you will look differently at the environment ,when an artwork is placed digitally, since imagination starts playing an important role. The title: Tooth Mark, a dental impression, is also about this absent presence of the impression of teeth in your skin. By placing an image online, you break through all physical limits and limitations. You do not have to take the money and time into account that goes into making a large sculpture. And you can play with scale. For me it meant a playful handling of material around me, suddenly salty sticks from my kitchen cupboard are massive solid building elements.

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