Where art is exhibited, art can surely also be produced. Within the walls of Het HEM, we offer studio spaces in an organised environment where artists can develop their practice, free from any specific participation in a programme or group show. Some artists stay for a week, others for six months.

Marilyn Sonneveld
Anan Striker
Simon Keizer
Isa van Lier
Tom van Veen

With great joy we welcome you to 'Once you enter my house, it becomes our house', a group exhibition presenting the work of artists who currently have their studio at Het HEM: Lisette Van Hoogenhuyze, Simon Keizer, Marilyn Sonneveld, Anan Striker and Tom van Veen

Once upon a time there was a group of houses, all houses overlook a village square. A village square with concrete beams on it. Two blue cars in the parking lot and two blue bikes in the bike racks.

If you pay close attention you’ll hear the friendly brushstrokes of Marilyn, sense the slight movement of Lisette’s fabrics, seize the gentle touch of Simon’s fingers on his organ, smell the sweet scent of drying paint on Tom’s canvas and feel the grindy sound of Anan’s cassettes. Once you enter my house, it becomes our house.

On the village square works derived from the personal and intimate are out in the open and exposed to grow into something different. Through chatter and time and maybe some more chatter and some more time, here, on the square, the artists scratch each other’s backs and push each other forward. During shared times of confinement, their thoughts, emotions, and personal trajectories all meet in this communal space.

In ‘Once you enter my house, it becomes our house’ the artists will reach out of their studios and make their space and ideas, our space, and our ideas.