"Vulnerability is your strength; it is permissible to be fragile." — Frieda Mellema, Photographer

Frieda Mellema, a Dutch female photographer, explores the theme of vulnerability as a form of strength in her photography. Her images are interconnected, forming a larger narrative much like people who share and understand each other's vulnerabilities. For Mellema, these images serve as a shield and an escape from the harsh realities of the world. Each photograph is not just a standalone piece but part of a cohesive story, akin to holding hands in solidarity. Her work emphasizes that being fragile is not only permissible but powerful.

Frieda Mellema

"Always seeking to tell a story that makes the jewelry not just conventionally beautiful but intriguing." — Truike Verdegaal, Jewellery pictures: Eddo Hartmann

Truike, based in Amsterdam, runs Maria Lux Jewellery and crafts unique jewelry inspired by personal themes developed over her 30-year career. Trained at Vakschool Schoonhoven and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, she creates eclectic pieces that blend old jewelry and materials like embroidery, wood, and gold into intriguing designs. Her work, which often incorporates elements with deep personal stories, is featured in museums and private collections worldwide. Truike specializes in transforming heirlooms into personalized, meaningful jewelry that captures memories and legacy.

Truike Verdegaal

"Without the body, there is no need for jewellery." — Anke Huyben, Jewellery

Anke Huyben, trained as a jewellery designer, creatively challenges traditional views of jewelry by using diverse materials and media to abstract the human body. Her work often combines color photographs with synthetic materials like silicon, exploring themes of control and power. One notable piece features her body printed on a curtain, engaging viewers in a dynamic interplay of control, revealing a subtle, underlying aggression. Her art redefines jewelry's connection to the body, focusing on psychological rather than physical impacts.

Anke Huyben

"When I enter a city, town, street, or space, my gaze immediately goes to the form—the shape of buildings, furniture, or objects." — Ted Jooren, Creator of ARCH

The individual behind ARCH has always been drawn to observing and creating. From a young age, his attention was captured by the shapes of buildings, furniture, and objects, whether they arose by chance or were crafted to perfection. His creative journey began with woodworking in childhood, followed by formal training as a furniture maker and further education at an art academy, where his passion for architecture deepened. Through his work under the name ARCH, he seeks to bridge art and architecture, focusing on how art relates to light and architecture to space, while ARCH emphasizes form.

Ted Jooren

"The constant consideration is the boundary between shape and reshape, solid and movements, vulnerability and strength." — Cecil Kemperink, Ceramics

Cecil Kemperink is an artist with a rich background in art, dance, textiles, and fashion. Her diverse experiences influence her sculptures, which explore the connection between space and the body through rhythm, shape, and movement. A significant motif in her work is the circle, symbolizing unity and infinity, which she integrates into her dynamic, interactive sculptures. Inspired by natural forces like wind and tides, Kemperink instinctively molds clay to capture time and energy. Her work, balancing form and fluidity, strength and vulnerability, is exhibited across Europe, Asia, and the Netherlands. Kemperink lives and creates on the island of Texel.

Cecil Kemperink

"Technology's double edges are both thrilling and concerning." — Katja Prins, Jewellery

Katja Prins is a jewelry artist who explores the complex relationship between technology and the human body through her work. She uses diverse materials such as silver, plastic, and glass to create unique pieces that have been exhibited worldwide. Prins's art investigates technology's dual nature—its potential to both enhance and endanger, capturing its intriguing and often unsettling implications. Her work is featured in major museum collections across the globe.

Katja Prins

"The scream of ambiguity and disorientation is a fundamental aspect of my work, luring with its vulnerability yet overwhelming with its beastly expression." — Eduard Hermans, Ceramics

Eduard Hermans is a visual artist based in Amsterdam, with a background from the Rietveld Academy. His artistic endeavors span porcelain ceramic sculptures, photography, and theater design. Hermans' current focus is on human anatomy, specifically capturing faces that express bewilderment and scream in confusion, which he uses to critique the spirit of the times. His porcelain works are particularly noted for their blend of smooth, vulnerable surfaces with intense, beast-like expressions, creating a powerful contrast that both attracts and confronts the viewer.

Eduard Hermans

"When you remove the sharp edges of the world or our hearts, you only see the round and soft parts." — Miho Bruin, Jewellery

The artist behind the "Peace of Heart" series creates sculptures that focus on the gentle and soothing elements of both the world and human emotions. These pieces are inspired by the natural contrasts found in life—soft and hard, light and darkness, beauty and ugliness, kindness and hardness. By using natural materials, the artist visually expresses these dualities. The series aims to soften the harsh edges of reality, offering viewers rounded, comforting forms that encourage happiness and a sense of peace.

Miho Bruin

"How non-functional must a vase be in order to exist as a sculpture?" — Esther Stasse, Ceramics pictures: Frieda Mellema

Esther Stasse is a sculptor who explores the intersection of functionality and art in her innovative vase designs. Initially crafting vases by stacking identical volumes, Stasse introduced a playful element that continues to echo in her work. As her focus deepened, she explored the relationship between form and emptiness from a sculptural perspective, often employing geometric shapes enhanced by horizontal and vertical beams to create dynamic structures. Recently, she has used black glaze to highlight the form without distractions, drawing attention solely to the structure of each piece. Her approach is rooted in the De Stijl movement's principles and inspired by the bold forms of 1960s and 1970s structuralism and brutalism in architecture.

Esther Stasse

"What remained the same is the inseparable bond with the material and the making process." — Wilma Bosland, Ceramics

Over the past decade, the artist's work has transitioned from organic abstract to minimalist styles, maintaining a consistent, deep connection with the materials and the process of creation. A key focus of the artist's recent work is the exploration of how different settings can alter the meanings of artworks. Participating in the fair represents a significant step towards independence and self-direction in their career. Collaborating with peers to publicly showcase their work embodies the belief that collective efforts can achieve more than solitary endeavors.

Wilma Bosland

"The sculptures are an ode to the heartbreaking simplicity of ordinary things." — Bibi Smit, Glass

Bibi Smit, born in 1965, is a Dutch artist celebrated for her sculptures that capture the ephemeral beauty of nature. Her works focus on the simplicity and fleeting moments in the natural world, such as a shriveling petal or twisting fruit, and are known for their vibrant colors and delicate curves. These sculptures invite viewers to appreciate the subtle yet profound beauty of mundane objects, encouraging a deeper engagement with the everyday environment. Smit's ability to evoke emotion and contemplation through her art has led to recognition and inclusion in prestigious collections like the Mauritshuis Museum in the Netherlands, the National Museums of Scotland, and the Glasmuseum Lette in Germany.

Bibi Smit

Tineke Bruijnzeels

"Working according to strict rules gives room for the unexpected" — Tineke Bruijnzeels, mixed media

Tineke Bruijnzeels' work varies from small abstract drawings to layered minimalist paintings and large space-filling installations. It arises from curiosity about the use and function of objects, shapes and materials. She works with a variety of materials: dozens of layers of acrylic paint, hundreds of sheets of paper, metal, yarn, wood, oil pastel, and copper and gold foil. She draws with combs, steel wire, pencil, tipp-ex, pen, nails, staples and chicken wire. She looks for what is essential and works within self-chosen rules.

Nel Punt

Nel Punt started as a woodturner about fourteen years ago and developed this technique with minimalistic beauty in a refined way. Her designs, mainly bowls and boxes, are smooth and slick, perfect in detail and balance. In sets of objects, colouring with ink, creates contrast and opposites, but keeping the grain of the wood visible. Sometimes she ads acrylic lids for transparence and reflexion. Her thematic groups of objects appear as a happy family, different but united.

"Reducing to pure form, an extremely minimalist approach, always resulting in a round shape" — Nel Punt, Wood

Nataliya Vladychko

My education as an artist was in the Ukraine, a classical art education with a great deal of emphasis on drawing and painting. Because of this, always start with a precise drawing or watercolor with a great deal of attention for detail. The details of delicate color changes and graceful movements, the way patterns, textures and movements repeat themselves, changing only slightly each time, and then, coming together to form larger structures, has always fascinated me.

"I always start with a precise drawing or watercolor with a great deal of attention for detail." —Nataliya Vladychko, Glass

Katrin Maurer

Katrin Maurer, is an Austrian visual artist residing and working in Amsterdam. Her artistic approach is rooted in the exploration of material and materiality alongside the use and interpretation of language. Maurer skillfully combines fragments of literature and poetry with personal experiences and her own texts to create large-scale, layered, and modular installations. These works reflect a deep engagement with both the physical and linguistic elements of art, presenting a unique synthesis that challenges and engages viewers.

"Our sensory perception is challenged when we find ourselves in a room full of allegories." — Katrin Maurer, Glass

Susanna van Caldenborgh

"Order, light and shadow, rhythmic geometric repetitions without the distraction of color have my preference."—Susanna van Caldenborgh, mixed media

Minimalism are my source of inspiration. Order, light and shadow, rhythmic geometric repetitions without the distraction of color have my preference. Looking for harmony within the shades of black and white, I shamelessly use all kinds of common materials I encounter. The originality of the work lies in its method: repetitional compositions without any further comment. Because of this predictable repetition it creates a rhythm and gives a feeling of harmony and recognition without attaching any specific function to them; which leaves the viewer with just the essence of form and composition.