Artists ALLUMINOUS 2024
Nederlandse versie »
The artists have been working on their artworks for ALLUMINOUS since spring. On this page we would like to introduce them to you and give you a small preview of the ALLUMINOUS program of 2024.
The full program will be announced on this website on October 25.
Louise te Poele & Tim Vermeulen (on behalf of Suburbia)
Visual artist Louise te Poele, together with scenographer and artist Tim Vermeulen (on behalf of Suburbia), creates a work of art that can be seen in the forest of the Lumièrepark. The campaign image of ALLUMINOUS 2024 already shows a preview. Louise te Poele often works from photography as a medium, but also creates large sculptures. Her work has been shown at the IJsselbiennale, Unseen Amsterdam, Art Rotterdam, Art Miami and many exhibitions internationally. It can also be found in various prominent collections such as those of Museum Arnhem, the Ministry of the Interior and Museum Villa Mondriaan. Tim Vermeulen often works from technology and designs for theater performances, such as Eva Line de Boer, BOG, Club Gewalt and Koen Vermeulen, but also as art director for large music shows by Jon Hopkins, Olafur Arnalds, Efterklang and Anoushka Shankar. His autonomous work often focuses on technological research and stylistic experimententation. In addition to his own practice, he is part of scenography collective SIDF.
Noortje van den Eijnde & Jos Agasi (on behalf of Vis á Vis)
Artist Noortje van den Eijnde (also known by her stage name Noralie) is working with light artist and scenographer Jos Agasi (on behalf of Vis á Vis) on a large-scale light art work that will be on display in the Lumièrepark. Noortje van den Eijnde worked for years as a VJ for festivals such as Lowlands, Le Guess Who, but also the Concertgebouw and Tivoli. She then expanded her practice with projects as diverse as video mapping, scenography for companies such as Silbersee, Orkater, Wunderbaum and Likeminds. She made video installations and worked on VR ballet ‘Narcissus & Echo) that was shown in Paradiso and Felix Meritis. Her recent collaboration with Studio Moniker for Nineties Productions, the digital artwork ‘To Be Continued’ was nominated for a Golden Calf. Jos Agasi is a versatile designer and artist. His works are often based on existing images and elements that he captures, collects, edits and intuitively sets in motion. He was previously an artist in the collective Blauwe Uur, with which he did projects at Oerol, Into The Great Wide Open and for the Van Gogh Museum. As an autonomous artist he showed large-scale works in Museum de Lakenhal, Museum Paleis Het Loo, on the lighthouse of Schiermonnikoog, and worked as a scenographer for several theatre performances. He recently unveiled a new permanent artwork for the entrance to the Bèta campus of Leiden University.
Pieternel Bollmann & Vasileios Apostolatos (both on behalf of BonteHond)
Theatre maker Pieternel Bollmann and scenographer Vasileios Apostolatos are working together on behalf of BonteHond on a special educational artwork for ALLUMINOUS that will be on display at the Atlantisstrand. For the project they are working together with hundreds of Almere schoolchildren from various primary schools in the city. Pieternel Bollmann has been working as an all-round theater maker since her training at the Maastricht Theatre Academy, often together with BonteHond. For example, she worked on theatre performances ‘Dit vind jij leuk’ (lunch performance Bellevue), the performance ‘Geen I.D.’ at AZC Almere and ‘Eigen schuld’, a performance about debt counseling. For BonteHond she also makes the ‘De Podcast van BonteHond', a podcast for and with children. Vasileios Apostolatos works as a theatre designer and visual artist on projects at home and abroad.
Black Pencil Ensemble & Touki Delphine
The Black Pencil Ensemble from Almere has been a new programme partner of ALLUMINOUS since 2023 and the music collective is creating a spatial presentation for the festival, together with a visual artist. In 2024 they will work together with the famous collective Touki Delphine. This collective (consisting of Bo Koek, John van Oostrum, Rik Elstgeest and Chris Doyle) works as an energetic mix of musicianship, performance art and visual art on technological interventions and installations. Touki Delphine is multidisciplinary in everything and works with themes such as technology and nature on projects that can be experienced somewhere between theatre and visual art. With themes that connect to current issues of our time, such as climate change, the collective consciously works with reinterpreting existing material that they recycle, rebuild and give a new life to. Their work has been shown at MU Hybrid Art House, Caprera Light Festival, MASS Moca, Amsterdam Bostheater and climate festival Warming Up. They worked together with partners from the performing arts such as De Warme Winkel, Asko | Schönberg and Boogaerdt Vanderschoot. You can discover the collaboration between Black Pencil Ensemble and Touki Delphine during the festival at the Stedenwijkstrand.
WERC Collective (on behalf of Carte Blanche & art museum M.)
In 2024, ALLUMINOUS will once again be working with Flevoland organization Carte Blanche and art museum M., who are joining forces this year to show a grand installation by WERC Collective to the ALLUMINOUS public. WERC Collective (consisting of Olav Huizer, Joachim Rümke and Jelle Valk) creates interactive technological installations that are about the convergence of science, nature and humanity. The interactive installation by WERC Collective can be seen at the Fantasiestrand.
Clinton Kabena
In 2024, ALLUMINOUS will be paying extra attention to artists from the region. Artist Clinton Kabena will create new commissioned work, which will be on display during ALLUMINOUS in Stedenwijk, on the Oeverpromenade. Clinton Kabena, born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and raised in Almere, is a visual artist who has previously shown his work to a large audience during Into the Great Wide Open, during Floriade in the art Labyrinth of art museum M., and in the Amsterdam Museum, at the NDSM wharf and The African Center in London. In his work, Clinton shows the different realities that exist side by side in the world, inspired by stories of African migration, in which the will to survive and travel to an unknown future clash with new world views. With his collective WeSellReality, he is a resident at the Rijksacademie.
Suze van Miltenburg & Stieneke Oeverbeek
Flevoland artists Suze van Miltenburg and Stieneke Oeverbeek are working together on a new version of their artwork Tussenland, commissioned by ALLUMINOUS, which was on display at the light festival Zilver op 't Water. The artists, who previously also collaborated through talent development initiative Flevolab, are presenting an artwork about the origins of the Flevoland Landscape, as a poetic story about the basic principles of the soil that remained after the draining. Suze van Miltenburg is a theatre maker and programme maker and has worked on productions by and for VEEM House for Performance, Ulrike Quade Company, Likeminds, Theater na de Dam and Over het IJ Festival. Stieneke Oeverbeek creates artworks that often start from research into classical crafts. Her work has previously been exhibited at StrandLab, Gemeentehuis Urk, Museum Schokland and Museum Nagele. The artwork by Suze van Miltenburg and Stieneke Oeverbeek can be seen at the Maastrichtkwartier, next to the De Fantasie residential area.
Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch
At ALLUMINOUS, visual artist Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch shows a combination of existing installations floating on the Weerwater. Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch uses painting to create experimental, grand installations in which he assembles striking materials into new shapes and textures, often in combination with light elements. His work has previously been on display at the Centraal Museum, Singer Museum, Museum IJsselstein, and at festivals such as Unseen, Into the Great Wide Open and Best Kept Secret. In 2020, the Neude Library in Utrecht unveiled a large public work that the artist made in the hall of the famous building. The work of Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch can be seen on the walking path along the Weerwater near the Maastrichtkwartier.
Atelier Haute Cuisine
On the Esplanade, on the city beach next to the Kunstlinie and Strand 22, an artwork by Atelier Haute Cuisine rises from the sand. This collective, originally from Belgium, was founded in 2009 by Bernd Tyskens and Benny Conings. Contrary to what their name might suggest, they make everything except food, namely art and design objects. The artwork by Atelier Haute Cuisine is presented in collaboration with Light Art Collection and can be seen on the Esplanade, at the start of the ALLUMINOUS walking route.
Kunstlinie presents: Solo exhibition Folkert de Jong - 'The Hero, the Villain and the Truth'
During ALLUMINOUS 2024, Kunstlinie will join as a partner. Visitors to the festival can visit the exhibition by Folkert de Jong, entitled ‘The Hero, the Villain and the Truth’ in the Kunstlinie art hall in the evening. Folkert de Jong’s spectacular works of art have already been on display all over the world in museums, biennials and galleries in New York, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Mexico City, Athens and Los Angeles. In the Netherlands, he previously showed his colourful but dark sculptures at Stedelijk Museum, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Museum Kranenburgh and De Oude Kerk. In his work, historical and mythical scenes meet in large installations of human figures that all refer to iconic figures from the power of the past and present, often with a grim but ironic undertone.