artistlife Archives - Julia Kaiser

New studio at ACTA – let’s share

I found a new studio at Broedplaats ACTA. The space is wonderful. But for me alone it is even slightly too big. It has a mezzanine of roughly 12 square meters that is more or less empty. It would be fun to share the space on a temporary basis. If you have a project* that […]

Workbook ‘Thank you for being an Artist’

Our weekly sessions at the tuinatelier of K.F. Hein Fonds are completed. Together with spoken word artist wordbites I was allowed to use this space for three months as an artist in residence. We met once every week and had a conversation about our work as artists and related aspects that we felt like giving a […]

Thank you for being an Artist

I realise how much I am fascinated and stimulated by artists, from all kinds of different disciplines of art. How much I ow to art in general. And how grateful I am for being an artist myself. But this is to ALL artists: Thank you for being an artist. Thank you for being such an […]

Into her studio: Liselot Veenendaal, painter

Liselot Veenendaal is a pure-bred painter who recently graduated from art school HKU in Utrecht. I saw her work at Cloud Gallery in Amsterdam last year and got intrigued by her power- and colourful images. Currently she lives and works in a residential house-studio in Blaricum. How did you get here? When I graduated from Art College last year, […]

Into her studio: Minke Havelaar, artist and advisor

Minke is a communication advisor and runs an ‘Agency for Contemporary Communication’. She gives trainings and workshops on online marketing and social media. The past two years she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Minke shares a studio space in the Aardappelpakhuis in Amsterdam Wittenburg. What did you study? I have a Masters […]

Art and happiness are connected

For me, art and happiness are connected. They belong together since my childhood and they go hand in hand ever since. My parents are huge art fans and already at young age they made us part of their passion: we went constantly to museums, galleries and art shows and my father shared his knowledge about art and art history with […]