2010

November/

December         "Accrochage"          part 1   

                              Jos Berkers,             bronce and mixed media

                              Dré Devens,             drawings

                              Craig Roper,            photographs, installation (paintings, bundles)

                              Bedrich Dlouhy,    installation (paintings, plexiboxes, columns)

                              Petra Orieskova,    painting, drawings

                              Marian Warzecha, mixed media

 

                              at St.Nicolaasstr. 26c, Maastricht

 

Oktober           "Group show"

                             Piet Killaars,                        sculptures

                             Jos Berkers,                         sculptures

                             Peter Broeren,                    sculptures

                             Erik Habets,                         sculpture

                             Dré Devens,                          drawings

                             Marie van Vollenhoven,  drawings

                             Craig Roper,                         realitybundels

 

                             at Media Groep Limburg, Hoofdkantoor Sittard

                             in cooperation with 'Galeriesmaastricht'

September       Craig Roper              "My Western Landscape"

                            (Roadtrip or something about the space)

                               photos, paintings, objects, realitybundles

 

                            featuring Sydney Lynch

                            unique handmade jewelry

 

                            at St. Nicolaasstr. 26c,  Maastricht

                        “It's pretty good stuff if I do say so myself.” (Craig Roper)

Craig Roper is an artist with a rather raw and reckless style. His works do not usually follow a specific theme nor do they originate from a specific plan or methodology.

“My Western Landscape” groups together some of Craig Roper’s paintings and photo-bundles around his series of silver prints “From a Truck”. This series features photographs of the Nebraska landscape that were taken while driving a pick-up truck, and attempts to go beyond a mere depiction of the landscape to the story that lies underneath it.

Juli     "In and out of Africa"

                    Teté Azankpo (Togo), Norman Catherine (South Africa)

                    Godfried Donkor (Ghana, UK), Sokari Douglas Camp (Nigeria, UK)

                    Sokey Edorh (Togo),  Amouzou Glikpa (Togo, D)

                    George Afedzi Hughes (Ghana, USA), El Loko (Togo, D)

                    Toyin Loye (Nigeria, NL), Luis Meque (Zimbabwe)

                    Owusu Ankomah (Ghana, D), Rikki Wemega-Kwawu (Ghana)

                    Zinkpé  (Benin)

 

                    A collaboraton with ArtCo Gallery, Herzogenrath, D

                    at St. Nicolaasstr. 26c, Maastricht

 

                                                             

 

 

May        Kunsttour         "Group show"                             

                   Monika Radhoff-Troll, Janice Orth, Isabelle Linotte,

                 Ron Bernstein, Erik Habets, Carla Cremers,

                 Chris Rovers, Hank Beelenkamp, Dorthe Goeden,

                 Ingrid Breuers, Stefan Cools, Tanja Rauschtenberger

 

                 at Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht

 

           

 

 April                   Rob Mentzen                         "Back to the future"

                              Meubel en Lichtobjecten

 

                              Limmy Scheres

                              Schilderijen, Video's, Filmstills

 

                              at  St. Nicolaasstr. 26c, Maastricht

 

April                   Alice Smeets            "Haiti Cherie"

                             Photography  (Benefit exhibition)

 

                             at  St. Nicolaasstr. 26c, Maastricht      

                   

This young Belgian photographer has produced an impressive range of photographs, taken moments after the earthquake in Haïti. It was also in Haïti, more specific, in the slums of Port-au-Prince, where she took the photo of the 12 year old girl Landa that won the UNICEF photo of the year competition 2008. At that time, Alice was only 21 years old, thereby becoming the youngest photographer ever to receive this award.

 

  

March                    " Made in Germany " 

                             Joerg Immendorf, Sascha Berretz, Karl Fred Dahmen,

                          Karl Heinz Jeiter, Felix Droese, Jupp Linssen,

                          Karl Otto Goetz, Aloys Rump, Bernhard Schultze,

                          Emil Sorge, Fritz Martin, Karin Kahlhofer,

                          Herbert Kaufmann, Hanns Pastor, Francois Du Plessis.

 

                            A collaboration with ArtCo Gallery, Herzogenrath, D

                          at St. Nicolaasstr. 26c, Maastricht

               

 

January             Marie van Vollenhoven        "Scapes"

                             Drawings and paintings

 

                             at St. Nicolaasstr. 26c, Maastricht

 

               

Marie van Vollenhoven often feels like a landscape painter. Not only when the characters she paints are located in a turbulent, intensely present nature. She also experiences the many other worlds that exist somewhere around her as ‘scapes’. Some of them are nearby, like a bar table, a ‘city duck’ that stuffs itself with cold fries, or a peaceful meadow, but other farther simultaneously existing worlds are always noticeable and tangible in her work. A matchbox is just as present as the hurricane that destroys an island on the other side of the world. A fish in the ocean, or an odd character out on the street: cityscape and landscape are coincident and equal to her. Everything is connected. We know and perceive so much at the same time; it’s impossible to understand it all from just one perspective. Marie’s drawings and paintings are in a sense timescapes. She displays the essence of our time: coincidence, complexity and the manifold perspective, the simultaneous awareness of our surroundings.

This also makes Marie van Vollenhoven’s work an escape: even though it depicts our present-day world, at the same time it tries to offer a way out of it.