Stijn Peeters (Eindhoven / NL) says that in and through art he can deal with things that he considers important. For example, why it is important that everyone can express their opinion.
Stijn Peeters lives and works in Eindhoven (NL). Since he started at the Koninklijke Academie voor Kunst en vormgeving’s Hertogenbosch (NL) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL), drawing and writing has been central to his work process. – He says:
The movement made by my hand supports my thinking. I store information better and it helps with analyzing what I have seen and experience and to internalize it.
Stijn Peeters
Painting was added a little later, but its gesture is always close to drawing. In his moving paintings, Stijn Peeters tries to make the beginnings, the details and the different phases of creation tangible. For the viewer, this creates not only a perspective space but also a temporal space in which they can immerse themselves.
The works by Stijn Peeters have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, mainly in the Netherlands. In 1992 he received the Philip Morris Prize. His works are part of the collections of the Museum van Bommel van Dam in Venlo (NL) and the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL).
At DAS ESSZIMMER, Stijn Peeters shows new works from the last 1-2 years and presents his autobiographical publication project Ezel with a current issue called 10,000 – a number that matches the assessment of the missing refugee children up to 2016.
Ezel (EN: donkey) is based on Stijn Peeters‘ experiences as a human and as an artist. It reflects as well greater as everyday things, being interwoven in each other both intellectually and visually. Peeters processes in Ezel his analogous archive of diaries, letters, transcripts, telephone notes, books, newspapers and many other media of the non-digitalized world.
Art for me is the way in which I can involve myself with issues I deem of importance and why it is necessary for the individual to speak out and use his or her democratic right to do so. With this statement Peeters refers to his own struggles under the changing conditions in the Netherlands, where populism threatens the freedom of expression and suggests that the cultural and intellectual elite is located outside of society.
Stijn Peeters
Material for the exhibition
- Press release
- Invitation
- Exhibition Publication
- Article by Dr. Storm-Rusche for General-Anzeiger-Bonn from 03./04.09.2016 (in German)
The exhibition is a cooperation with SEA Foundation, Tilburg (NL)
