Galerie Maurits van de Laar

25/08/2026

Startng the new season Saturday 5 september with the duo show
INTO OTHER HANDS - Dieter Mammel, Rubens Präg
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29/07/2026

Earlier this year, nine of Nour-Eddine Jarram's watercolours featured in the group exhibition When I was You, drawn from the collection of Annelies and Bob van Eerd at Chabot Museum Rotterdam. In October this year, Jarram returns to Chabot Museum, this time in dialogue with Henk Chabot (1894–1949) himself.
From 24 October 2026 to 7 March 2027, Mensen zoals wij, brings the two artists together for the first time. Despite the decades and cultures between them, both share a deep concern for the vulnerable among us. Engagement, compassion, freedom, identity and human dignity run through both bodies of work. Chabot painted refugees and those in hiding during the war years of 1940–45; Jarram, since 2015, has drawn on news photos and social media to create watercolours and oil paintings of people in flight and youth in search of identity.
Right now, Jarram’s portrait of a man caught between suspicion and shadow can still be seen in the summer group exhibition Satansbraten.

1 Nour-Eddine Jarram, 2024, Fatherhood, watercolour on paper and Henk Chabot, 1947, Gezin met Sinaasappels, oil paint on canvas

2 In a hurry, 2022, watercolour on paper
3 Exhibition view Satansbraten

4 no title, 2024, watercolour on paper
5 The Walking in My Head, 2025, watercolour on paper
6 Mocro Pride, 2025, acrylic and charcoal on linnen
7 Family Matters, 2025, watercolour on paper

Nour-Eddine Jarram Chabot Museum Rotterdam

08/07/2026

The soundtrack of this reel comes from Sebastiaan Schlicher's new noise machines, presented in the summer group show SATANSBRATEN. For Schlicher, randomness, glitches and unexpected encounters are not disturbances to be eliminated, but conditions for adaptation, growth and the emergence of something new.
Inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1976 film of the same name, SATANSBRATEN brings together artists from Berlin and the Netherlands who share a certain mentality: raw, humorous, critical and unwilling to fit neatly into predefined categories. The title refers both to Fassbinder's film and to the idea of the artist as rascal or enfant terrible, as someone who finds a way to survive and continue working in the realities of the Grossstadt.
Artistic practice is challenged and nurtured by this environment - intellectually, emotionally and financially. Behind many of the works lies something equally important: friendships, conversations and artistic communities that have developed organically over many years, across studios, cities and borders.

13/05/2026

Between the everyday and the dreamlike, the works of Derk Thijs, Axel Linderholm and Jantien Jongsma are shaped by their distinct painting techniques. They capture everyday scenes with a sensitivity that transforms deeply personal moments into something universally recognisable. Their works evoke an immediate sense of closeness and empathy with the people and situations unfolding in their paintings and drawings.
Derk Thijs and Axel Linderholm use rich, intense colour palettes to capture scenes of the ordinary. Linderholm often applies paint thickly and in layers, scratching lines and contours directly into the surface. In works such as Last Dinner, brick walls, tabletops and the two seated figures seem to emerge slowly from the canvas, their textured surfaces giving the scenes a tactile presence. Derk Thijs creates delicate, grainy textures by mixing sand into acrylic or oil paint, allowing thin layers of colour to overlap while preserving subtle shifts in tone.
Jantien Jongsma works with ink and gouache. Her paintings often capture intimate, suspended moments: young women and girls with flowers, seated around tables, or resting together in nature. In Girls at the Waterfront, girls relax at the lakeside on green towels, gazing into the landscape and towards a figure in a rowing boat, all wrapped in vivid magenta and pink tones.

09/05/2026

09/05/2026

So nice to have Jantien Jongsma visiting the exhibition today, the gallery is open tomorrow Sunday 10 May from 1 - 5. Come see her work and Axel Linderholm and Derk Thijs' paintings: daily life enchanted.

02/05/2026

Susanna Inglada’s solo exhibition All Parts of Us at Drawing Lab Paris enters its final week. Inglada won the Drawing Now Prize last year and was honored with an exhibition curated by Giuliana Benassi.
For the exhibition Susanna created a forest of enormous hands through which the viewer walks to discover the monumental collage drawing Ojos Cerrados (Closed Eyes) on the back wall of the exhibition space. Her animation Rumors / Can We Be Birds, about the biblical story of Susanna and the Elders is also on show alongside various collage drawings including two corner pieces.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue featuring texts by curator Giuliana Benassi, Iranian poet and writer Leila Hekmatnia, Christine Phal founder of Drawing Lab and Carine Tissot, director of Drawing Now Art Fair.
Drawing Lab on Rue Richelieu 17 is open every day from 11 to 19 hours. The exhibition runs until Sunday 10 May.
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30/04/2026

Jantien Jongsma, Axel Linderholm, Derk Thijs, digital catalogue now online

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26/04/2026

05/04/2026

Wonderful finissage today with a talk by Piet Bakker about figure-stones, possibly the earliest forms of sculpture, and Simone Albers elaborating on the earth as a cyclical system. Science meets art meets nature.albers