Rik Laging & Anemoon Fokkinga

From an early age Anemoon Fokkinga has been fascinated by fantasy creatures like dragons and deep-sea monsters. She loves everything that is even a little bit creepy. Anemoon speculates about the influences of climate change on the ocean, like marine plastic spills and nuclear disasters, and translates these ideas into mysterious new life forms.

She shares these rather dystopic speculations about the future with Rik Laging, who is into science-fiction and the stories of HP Lovecraft. Together, Anemoon and Rik present an abandon lab that once researched a series of mutated and evolved deep-sea creatures. However, due to an electronic shutdown only analogue images, cryptic notes and speculative lore can be found in the lab. Through Rik’s digitale image manipulation and green screen video techniques they bring Anemoon’s ceramic sculptures to life.

The Grand Palace of Everyone

In collaboration with No Limits! Art Castle

Curator
  • Heske ten Cate & Jan Hoek

Welcome to ‘The Grand Palace of Everyone’, a land without borders where collaboration reigns.

Together with No Limits! Art Castle (formerly known as Outsiderland) we tear down the walls between fantasy and reality, art and design, and ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ artists. Why would anyone decide who is ‘professional enough’ to enter the gates?

The Grand Palace of Everyonerolls out a black and white carpet for the work of over sixty artists in 26 unique collaborations between talented and dedicated artists. Side by side they find their way in the art world and present a broad scope of collaborations in every nook and cranny of Nest. Never before have so many artists shared the space in one exhibition.

Sponsors
  • Mondriaan Fonds
  • Gemeente Den Haag
  • Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds