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Now showing | Fleeting Emotions

MAY 28 - JUN 13

Now on show: the group exhibition Fleeting Emotions.

Opening | Thursday, May 28 at 5 p.m.
On view through June 13
Photography | Hussel Zhu

Participants: Yubin Lee, Lotus van Zoggel, Milan van der Stouw, Sam Zanardo, Ouiee Park, Arya Rambod, Merel Hoogendijk, and Chenxin Feng.

In collaboration with BEAR and ArtEZ, we curate the display case located in front of the Palace of Justice in Arnhem. Each year, four students are given the opportunity to present work they have created specifically for this location. This means that visitors can view contemporary work by emerging artists day and night.

At the moment, we are hosting a group exhibition featuring works by artists who have exhibited there over the past two years. Eight presentations of promising work offer an exciting glimpse of what is still to come. Among the pieces on display is a papier-mâché stove with ceramic pots and pans. Hanging in the kitchen are atmospheric photographs of everyday street life in China, alongside carefully executed drawings of hands and birds. There is also an intense video exploring the many ways people push their physical limits in the gym, accompanied by a boxing bag and a mat where visitors can try out some exercises themselves. Across one wall stretches a broad constellation of small, fleeting drawings, scattered and expanding in every direction - sprawling, all over the place.

And outside, on the billboard, an apt summary has been posted: My god I love it!

Arya Rambod (2004, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Zurich. His work explores the relationship between infrastructure, human behaviour, and economy through moving image, installation, and digital media. Combining research and experimentation, he reconfigures infrastructural systems within affective and historical frameworks, exposing their latent tensions.

Lotus Parel van Zoggel is a BEAR Fine Art student at ArtEZ. In her work, she combines ceramics, painting, and papier-mâché sculptures in installations where different disciplines engage in dialogue. She explores themes of family dynamics, social pressure, idealization, nostalgia, and relationships. Her work examines often overlooked domestic labour and the persistence of traditional gender roles within everyday family life.

Merel Hoogendijk (2003) is an artist who works primarily with drawing, and occasionally with painting, animation, and installation. She lingers on curious fleeting moments, like a bird on its eggs, finding consolation in their warmth before they transform and fly by.

Milan van der Stouw (2001) works with materials undergoing their own quiet rebellion. After developing a practice based on collecting and reassembling discarded objects, he now applies this research into potentiality and meaning-making to drawing. Following the pencil’s intention, graphite lines form shapes that emerge from the character of the line itself. Treating sketching as a medium in its own right, he explores openness, emptiness, and form. His interest in materiality also draws him to woodworking and traditional hand tools, which increasingly feature in his mixed-media installations. Besides his individual practice, van der Stouw is part of The Barattolo Projects, a collective focused on sharing artistic knowledge and fostering sustainable, communal living.

Ouiee Seo Yeon Park playfully performs an autopsy on image qualities—resolution, captions, and aftereffects—through paper-based sculptures and films. Revisiting moments of laughter, fascination, and conviction, Ouiee researches how pleasurable and familiar forms can obscure discussion and consent by producing shared desires and beliefs. Their research draws on personal experiences with TV comedy shows, exhibition routes, noise cancelling, and military Armed Forces Day festivals.

Sam Zanardo is a visual and performance artist from Italy, currently based in the Netherlands. Coming from a background in dance and martial arts, their practice centres on endurance, constriction, and repetition, investigating how transformation can occur within predetermined structures and rules. Through physically demanding actions and the use of mass-media platforms, they address subjectivity as a process of constant decomposition and reconfiguration. Their current work explores storytelling through performance, filmmaking, and writing, drawing on folklore, rituality, and magic in Southern Italy, where religious traditions, personal narratives, and media archives intertwine.

Yubin Lee explores questions of existence, transformation, and self-reflection through drawing. Rooted in the Buddhist art of Thangka and meditative practice, Lee’s work unfolds through Saerang-i (새랑이), an autobiographical character navigating growth, desire, acceptance, and consciousness. While grounded in personal experience, the work also engages with political, environmental, and social structures, challenging dualism, hierarchy, stereotypes, and anthropocentrism. Through detailed, contemplative imagery created with materials such as Hanji, ink, and rice paper, Lee invites viewers into spaces of introspection and reflection.