De ZOUT in the City

De Zout (Salt) in the City is a tasting of art. Are you coming to taste it?

Salt has many variations and applications. It brings and enhances taste, is positively and negatively charged, and is indispensable in human existence. Like salt, art contributes to change by abrading, biting, drawing attention to, perceiving, or challenging the imagination. Like salt, art is much needed in our society.

De Zout in de Stad can be visited from August 7 to 25 in the kunstRUIM gallery, Jodenbreestraat 25 (Valkenburgerstraat entrance), Amsterdam. Open from 12:00 to 17:00 on Wednesday to Sunday. Free access.

The festive meet & greet with all artists is on Sunday, 18 August 18 at 16:00.

About the artists:

• Veerle Blaauw (3D): mesh structures with fabric, paper and painted tarpaulin. Structure and space or space for movement or constriction. What takes place or arises inside and outside the structure? A personal investigation designed in art.

• Maud Ramaekers (2D/3D): cardboard and electrical wires. The common thread is connection, inclusion and exclusion. Being connected is a desire for essential contact with yourself and others in an increasingly digitizing and erasing world. 'Rhythms of the soul' is a fusion of soul and material in rhythms that reveal themselves unconsciously and expose the painful meaning.

• Joke Noordstrand (3D): the history of women, the decline and traces of female life is her source of inspiration for making ceramics. In anticipation of her work period in China (ceramic porcelain centre JCUIS), she is busy with ceramic tests of prehistoric excavations, the crown of Empress Wu Zetian in the seventh century and fertility symbols at the time of the Cultural Revolution.

• Lily van Rosmalen (2D): natural structures are her inexhaustible source of inspiration. Intuitive and form-seeking, resulting in mixed media work, mainly 2D.

• Paulina Krijnen (2D): Fairytale and illustrative work. Seven paintings with a mythological story, 'The 7 Deadly Sins'.

• Evelien Grosheide (2D): abstract and figurative work with the theme of humans and animals.

• José Sierkstra (2D): her colourful works show great diversity in theme and painting techniques.

About The Salt

De Zout is an art collective with a social attitude. De Zout shows that art is accessible, visible, and affordable for everyone, and art is allowed to be an experience that is unpretentious and timeless! De Zout had a pop-up gallery in Haarlem and is looking for a new location.