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WELCOME STRANGER IN brief
Welcome Stranger has organized several projects. All intended as a comment on the official art circuit - not from recalcitrance or idealism, but to seek reflection. Instead of a preconceived subject, motto or motif, the focus is simply on the discoveries that naturally arose from the situation: a house in the city, and with that the interaction between private space and public space, publicness and privacy. As the relevance of these and their related issues only grows Welcome Stranger continues to explore them unabated. Notions of privacy, hospitality, being a stranger and belonging to a place have taken on new social and political significance. For Welcome Stranger creating space for dialogue between artists and opportunities to devolop art in unexpected places that is also experimental for the artists involved, is important.
Since 2020, a meandering line of temporary works has been forming in public space, on facades and roofs of artists' houses - with works by Bastienne Kramer, Simon Wald-Lasowky and Lily van der Stokker, among others. Walks and meet-ups involve the public more intensively with the works, often in conversation with the artist.
ABOUT US
Initiator and curator Marianna van der Zwaag (1971) studied art history (MA) at the University of Amsterdam and is interested in new forms of art production and presentation and fostering collaborations between artists. From 2017, she is revitalising Welcome Stranger.
Graphic design: Tariq Heijboer
Communication: Joanie Croes
Advisory board: Ann Demeester, art critic and museum director, Marijn van Kreij, visual artist
The foundation's supervisory board consists of Saskia Janssen (chairman), Simon Wald-Lasowski, both visual artist, Wytske Visser (secretary), coördinator Public Program Museum De Lakenhal. The board members receive no remuneration for their work.
Before: Marjolein Schaap en Ken Zeph, instigators in the '90's. Hester Elzerman, arthistorian, teacher and researcher, was committed from 1998-2020.
PRESS
Welcome Stranger Foundation
by adress Da Costakade 19hs
1052 SE Amsterdam
Chamber of Commerce number: 41212760
RSIN: 802067700
welcomestrangerfoundation@gmail.com
Welcome Stranger foundation is a cultural ANBI. This makes donating to the foundation fiscally attractive. Foundation Welcome Stranger RSIN 802067700
The activities of Welcome Stranger are generously supported by:
