Huis der Zotheid

Bima Engels
Darkling Summer —a summer veiled in darkness—forms the starting point of this group exhibition at Huis der Zotheid. Rotterdam-based artist Bima Engels presents abstract paintings that reflect the shifting dynamics of the natural world. Everything in nature is in constant motion. For this exhibition, his paintings explore how shadow, withdrawal, and melancholy move through the landscape of summer, transforming familiar scenes into immersive fields of colour, atmosphere, and movement.

Sabine Raatschen
Sabine Raatschen's practice centres on assemblage, using found materials to evoke memory while revealing the poetic potential of discarded objects. Combining photographic fragments, wire mesh, glass, wallpaper, wood, and *objets trouvés*, she creates new relics that suggest quiet, enigmatic narratives without offering fixed interpretations. The series *Ende/End-ende* explores the seemingly apocalyptic undertones embedded in German words ending in *-ende*. By deconstructing words such as *Sinnende*, *Herzende*, and *Fallende*, they acquire new meanings and resonances. Separated into *Sinn-Ende* ("end of meaning"), *Herz-Ende* ("end of the heart"), and *Fall-Ende* ("end of the fall"), the words generate unexpected images and associations.

Ovidiu Spaniol
Ovidiu Spaniol works across sculpture, painting, digital photography, text, and simple mechanics, bringing these media together in hybrid forms that respond to their context. His practice is driven by a desire to shift and reconfigure the relationships between past and present, reality and imagination. Through personal memory, dreams, clichés, and references drawn from popular culture, Spaniol examines how meaning is continually constructed, transformed, and reinterpreted.