For ‘A Room With Teeth’, artist duo Mishmash has been invited by Galerie Atelier Herenplaats in Rotterdam. Under the name Fine ART pop-up, they bring artists together in temporary exhibitions at changing locations.
Mishmash approaches an exhibition not as a sum of works, but as a spatial whole. Drawing on their experience in autonomous art and spatial commissions, they work with sightlines, rhythm, and interrelationships. Space is not a background, but part of the work.
Galerie Atelier Herenplaats works with artists often categorized as outsider art. In A Room With Teeth, Herenplaats artists are presented alongside carefully selected guest artists. Different visual languages exist side by side here without hierarchy. Not background, but visual power is the guiding principle.
The exhibition is clearly structured and forms its own setting in which images reinforce and question one another. Two sculptural guardians mark the entrance. First, the image draws you in; subsequently, depth emerges.
Stay for a moment; the space does not bite — but it does not let go either. Participating artists Galerie Atelier Herenplaats: Jolanda van Cortenberghe, Mies van der Perk, Paulus de Groot, Sharon van Dams, Otte Jacob, Edward Teeuw, Cengiz Imamdi.
Guest artists Fine ART pop-up: Alien Smid, Netty van Osch, Mishmash.