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NEW PUBLICATION
‘Il Ne Pourrait pas Disparaître’
Book A4, 32 full colour pages, printed on biopure paper (offset) small edition of 50
€ 20,- ex postage
exhibitions
Last Summer I collaborated for the first timewith Weverijmuseum Geldrop.
The ‘translation’ of my drawings into weaving takes place on a computer-controlled Itema jacquard machine that is quite new at the old Weverij.
The ‘slow’ making and ‘weaving with lines’ is related to my own daily drawing practice, in which time investment plays a role.
coming up
2024
14 december
Extrapool: ‘So, We Meet Again?’
Market
2025
Ria Rago, de heldin van het Ndona Dal
nieuw risoboek (Knust, Nijmegen) met bijdrage Jolanda Kooijmans
De Collectie Verzet, Missiemuseum Steyl
13 september 2025 – 1 maart 2026
groepsexpositie nieuw werk
2026
Solo tentoonstelling, Museum W
april – september 2026
info volgt
Schaduwtuin, Weverijmuseum Geldrop
juli – september 2026
info volgt
SOLO EXHIBITION Paris
Gallery Traits Libres, Rue de Verneuil 31
january-march 2024
At gallery Traits Libres Danielle Lemaire shows works that emerged from several projects she did related to colonial history. There is a focus on narrative drawings based on colonial archive material. One of the things she studied was the wonderful ‘The Song of Saka Ladja’ written by a Dutch priest, Piet Heerkens, based on spiritual songs of the indigenous people of Flores, about the mystical cycles in nature and the universe.
BANDUNG INDONESIA
Oh Tina! Before Eulogy
a site-specific magical performative artproject with Goethe Institute Bandung
Architect Dea Widya and writer Suina Latersia developed “The Tina and Joi” Trilogy; a fictional story that tells about a young couple struggling in a conflictual marriage and their daily life in the city.
A beautiful former colonial house, home to the Goethe Institute, managed by The Lodge Foundation in the heart of Bandung’s DAGO district, staged the performance-related installations in various media that respond to the story of the mysterious Tina.
In an artistic re-enactment, the house regains its original status during the project, as the home of the disappeared bride Tina. The multimedia disciplines of the participating artists complement each other, placed in a hybrid route through different rooms in the house.
As the audience enters, they feel Tina’s presence in “traces she left behind” and her spirit hangs in the atmosphere.
I elaborated on the story with a magical installation consisting of large printed 400 cm high endurable textile panels that hung down in the patio. New drawings and real plants from the houses environment were projected via two mobile overhead projectors on the panels. Performative presentations were done two times on 7 nights. The audience became part.
read: Bandung Bergerak article by Awla Rayul / Ahmad Fikri
ABOUT MY WORK
I have an interdisciplinairy practise
based on drawing.
My drawings should generate energy and consciousness in a world of decay. Provide space for contemplation, melancholy, spiritual comfort and confrontation.
My drawings in (multimedia) installations often tell about a specific history of a special place,
historical person or community, which I research in advance.
Symbolic figures in my works refer to universal and spiritual undertones. They refer to a shared (inner) knowledge.
I have a great interest in animism and the land where my father was born, Indonesia.
(then ‘The Dutch Indies’).
Nature gives direction to my work and the voices of my ancestors whisper in my ear.
My drawings are always part of a greater whole and can coexist seamlessly with other media and collaborations with others.
My drawings are created in a sensitive and organic way, in which time investment plays a big role.
This also goes for my audio en video works, paintings,installations.
It takes a lot of scrolling with elements before a work gets concrete form.
I look for inexplicable ‘throbbing’ moments in the studio, when all the examined and layered elements come together magically in their own final form.
Complexity produces clarity.
Shadows of human life become tangible in universal and timeless situations in large drawings that coincide with the architecture, or small drawings as momentum and intimate conversation with the subject.
For 2025 and 2026 I work, amongst more, towards exhibitions at Missiemuseum Steyl and Museum W, for which I will create new installations.
For contact or studio visit, welcome, you can mail me
Danielle Lemaire
Generaal Bothastraat 5 K
Eindhoven
daniellelemairestudio at g mail dot com
skills & experiences
curating:
– curator artprogram Extrapool
Nijmegen, 2008-2022
– guest curator ZUIVER. 2022
– master and yearmaster Kunstpodium T
2018-2019
teaching:
– private lessons drawing-painting
– CKE visual arts, children & adults
– guest teacher Dutch Design Academy
– guest teacher KSE highschool (2022)
– Vincent’s Tekenlokaal (2018)
– guest Sandberg Dirty Art Dept (2017)
– summerschool Stedelijk Museum
Breda (2021)
advising:
– Cultuur Eindhoven
– Mondriaanfonds scout Prix de Rome
(2017)
jury:
– Gilbert de Bontridder prijs Art Institute
Maastricht (2023)
– Municipality of Eindhoven
Art in Public Space, Light artwork
Meerhoven, Esplanade
lectures 2023:
– University of Missouri, MFA (online)
– ROC Koning Willem College, School
voor de Toekomst, BLIK, Den Bosch
– Design Academy Eindhoven
– Kopi Kecil, Indisch Atelier, Eindhoven
sound performances
– many occasions 1997 – 2023
I am available for lectures, art education and creating a project especially focused on your space and in collaboration with your organization. *Fair Practise
“il pourrait ne pas disparaître“
inspired by the collection of Frits Lugt at Fondation Custodia
I see my love for drawing figurative and natural elements and stories in the drawings of the Custodia Foundation collection. During the working period at Atelier Néerlandais in April, I worked on a collection of ‘miniature drawings’ that took up residence in an antique art nouveau album I found at the flea market. The album is reminiscent of the beautiful folders of drawings Frits Lugt collected for the Custudia Foundation collection.
JaDa – De Missie Residency project
From March 1 to May 31, 2021, JaDa worked at the studio of
AIR De Missie, in nursing home Park Zuiderhout. We lived and worked among the priests and missionaries, who reside there in the last phase of their working lives. We studied the history of the institution and its residents. The former missionaries traveled the world; they worked in Congo, Ghana, the Philippines, Brazil, Papua New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies and have amazing stories. JaDa was also on a mission: the mission to propagate the arts.
A double LP ‘Zij Zoeken Zich Zelf Niet’ next to the book (see top at this page) as a result of the project is in the make.
Also, a few documentary and art movies are in the make. To be released!
Presentation: september, 2022, NEXT, Stedelijk Museum Breda. i.c.w. kunstloc Brabant en Park Zuiderhout.
support JaDa releases: Cultuur Eindhoven and Constant van Renesse Fonds
Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen & Danielle Lemaire
i.s.m. Stedelijk Museum Breda, en Kunstloc Brabant
