Drawings 'Cosmic Balance' each 218 x 150 cm. 2024
De Rijststampsters-The Rice Mashers- 270 x 215 cm. photo Peter Cox

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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.

with Gerard Craenen, weaving operator, and Frits van Hoof, jacquard designer
pilot presentation kruisruimte Eindhoven. 12-14 july

coming up

2025 – 2026

Zwart Wit, Missiemuseum Steyl 
17 januari 2025 – 29 juni 2025
solo tekeningen en nieuw risoboek

De Collectie Verzet, Missiemuseum Steyl 
13 september 2025 – 1 maart 2026
groepsexpositie nieuw werk

Solo tentoonstelling, Museum W 
april – september 2026
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Schaduwtuin, Weverijmuseum Geldrop
juli – september 2026
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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

supported by Mondriaanfonds International Art Presentation
Installation Danielle Lemaire in Oh Tina! Photo:with curator Suina Latersia

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

Veil with printed drawing, background: Kelvin Djunaidi
Artist talk Oh Tina! The Lodge Foundation, Goethe Instituut Bandung,8 nov 2023. (Foto: Syifa Ananda/Bandung Bermobil.id) Met o.a. Kristofer Svensson, Dea Widya, Asmujo Jono Irianto, Danielle, Ari Adipurwawidjana
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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

record label / publications: Inner Landscapes

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
 
In April 2023 I worked and presented with three other artists from NL at Atelier Néerlandais, Paris, reflecting on the phenomenon of ‘collections’. The first reason for this project was the wonderful collection of Fondation Custioda, which is located in the same building.
 
In june 2023 the results were part of the Pop Up Expo ‘Members Only’ at Atelier Néerlandais
with Sandra Mackus, Was Getekend

“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.

Sounds & stories of the fathers at Misssiehuis Teteringen

Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen & Danielle Lemaire

Release date: 16 october 2022


collaboration brother Wiro, father Wiel and Danielle
Drawing 'They came by boat' & drawings Flowers from the garden of Park Zuiderhout
Father Tony with his panting of a black Jezus, as they know Jezus in Ghana
Father Eef, he worked many years in the Congo, with my drawing 'Longing for Home'
Father Kees Maas and Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen with Christian batik from Flores
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Danielle and father Kees Maas, who worked msny years in Flores, Indonesia
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The workspace of brother Martien, who worked in the Congo and made over 200 bird houses at Park Zuiderhout
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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