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Instagram – WhatsApp

February 2025

I left Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook in early February because of Mark Zuckerberg’s close association with (the administration of) Donald Trump.
I now use Signal.

Vouch III

April 1, 2023

The day before yesterday, the Vouch III exhibition opened; just like last year during Vouch II, 25 diverse artists are exhibiting in Loods 6.Participating artists:
Aletta Bos – Andre Pielage – Anuli Croon – Barbara Polderman – Celine van den Boorn Danielle Lemaire – Femke Dekkers – Gabi Rets – Jackie Mulder – Jolanda Schouten Kiki Lamers – Lenneke van der Goot – Lotte van Lieshout – Machteld Aardse – Maaike Kramer – Matthias Schaareman – Michiel Kluiters – Neil Fortune – Pim Palsgraaf
René Korten – Tammo Schuringa – Wafae Ahalouch – Wim Bosch – Wim Jacobs

Verrukkelijke baby’s – 6

April 1, 2023

Lotte Rijkes (text) and Heike Gülker (design) made some beautiful Verrukkelijke baby’s spreads in Volkskrant magazine on March 25 2023.

Verrukkelijke baby’s – 5

April 1, 2023

Dirk-Jan Arensman wrote an iniformative article about the Verrukkelijke baby’s in VPRO-gids #11 (18-24 maart 2023)

Verrukkelijke baby’s – 4

March 19, 2023

Verrukkelijke baby’s – 3

March 17, 2023 – baby’s on the radio:

Saturday 11 March I was a guest of Dolf Jansen, NPO Radio 2, in the programme Spijkers Met Koppen.

Wednesday 15 March I was a guest of Annemieke Bosman, NPO Radio 4, in the programme Opium.

Thursday 16 March I was a guest of Patricia Nagelkerke, NH Radio, in the programme Lunchroom.

Verrukkelijke baby’s – 2

March 12, 2023

Yesterday, newspapers Het Parool and De Standaard dedicated many pages to my book ‘Verrukkelijke baby’s’, which will be published this week.

In the afternoon I was a guest on the radio programme Spijkers Met Koppen (NPO Radio 2), where Dolf Jansen was interviewing me about my book ‘Verrukkelijke Baby’s’.

Verrukkelijke baby’s – 1

January 26 2023

I am finalising my book Verrukkelijke baby’s, de geboorte in kaart gebracht (Delightful babies, birth mapped). The text is finished, the images have been selected, the first proof is imminent.
In 2012, I bought a remarkable postcard on Amsterdam’s Waterlooplein, depicting a flying fish holding a baby in its mouth. The card became the starting point of a miraculous quest.
In Verrukkelijke baby’s, I use old folk tales to unravel the origins of babies. Anyone paying close attention around 1900 could see infants everywhere. Babies were hidden in eggs, cabbages, trees, flowers and wells. And on 1 April, they were delivered to homes.
During the first 20 years of the last century, the postcard was an extremely popular medium of communication. Billions of cards went around the world. The surreal baby cards shown in this book were briefly a very popular subgenre. Verrukkelijke baby’s depicts both the genesis of the baby and that of the postcard and tells the story of their successful extravagant marriage.
The book will be published by Atlas Contact on March 14 and can also be ordered online from the publisher.

Collage Peepshow

November 12 – December 11 2022

Kalbskummer Phantomstute

July 29, 2022

Today I received the collection of poems in which publisher Suhrkamp combined the poems of Kalfsvlies and Fantoommerrie, written by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, into one edition, and for which I made a new cover image. The German translation can be found next to the Dutch original.