coming up
2025
17 january – 29 june 2025
Hollywood op Flores
Missiemuseum Steyl
two small drawings and a print, related to colonial film-footage from SVD father Simon Buis
shot in Flores Indonesia, 1920’s
curator: Eddy Appels
7 july – 13 july 2025
extended studio at De Kruisruimte Eindhoven, presentation 12+13/7
13 september 2025 – 1 march 2026
De Collectie Verzet/The Collection Resists
Missiemuseum Steyl
Group Show
SVD 150 years, reflecting on the missionary museumcollection
curator: Oscar Ekkelboom
2026
april – september 2026
Museum W
Solo expositie
curator: Haiko Sleumer
juli – september 2026
Schaduwtuin/Shade Garden, Weverijmuseum Geldrop
Solo project in collaboration
artistic research and weaving project on colonial history Geldrop-Dutch Indies
PUBLICATIONS
2025
feb/march
Ria Rago, de Heldin van het Ndona Dal
Risobook (Knust, Nijmegen) with contribution of Jolanda Kooijmans
Het Meisje en de krokodil
Audiotape, cassettelabel Barreuh Records
recent
PUBLICATION
‘Il Ne Pourrait pas Disparaître’
Book A4, 32 full colour pages, printed on biopure paper (offset) small edition of 50
€ 27,- incl. 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.
BANDUNG INDONESIA
Oh Tina! Before Eulogy
a site-specific magical performative artproject with Goethe Institute Bandung
curatora: Architect Dea Widya and writer Suina Latersia.
On “The Tina and Joi” Trilogy; a fictional story about a young couple struggling in a conflictual marriage and their daily life in the city. At a former colonial house, home to Goethe Institute Bandung, managed by The Lodge Foundation in Bandung’s DAGO district, the performance-related installations were staged in various media responding to the story of the mysterious Tina. In this artistic re-enactment, the house regained its original status as the home of the disappeared bride Tina. The multimedia disciplines of the participating artists complemented each other in a hybrid route through different rooms in the house. The audience felt Tina’s presence in “traces she left behind” and her spirit 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. Drawings and real plants 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
Danielle Lemaire
Generaal Bothastraat 5 K
Eindhoven
daniellelemairestudio at g mail dot com
“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.
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
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 next to exhibitiing
curating:
– curator artprogram Extrapool
Nijmegen, 2008-2022
– guest curator ZUIVER. 2022
– master and yearmaster Kunstpodium T
2018-2019
teaching:
– private and group lessons drawing-painting
– CKE visual arts, children & adults
– guest teacher Dutch Design Academy
– guest teacher KSE highschool (2022)
– Vincent’s Tekenlokaal (2018-2024)
– guest Sandberg Dirty Art Dept (2017)
– summerschool Stedelijk Museum Breda
(2019-2021)
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 (2022)
lectures 2023-2024:
– 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“
My love for drawing figurative and natural elements and stories connect to drawings in the Custodia Foundation collection. 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 and inspired by the beautiful folders of drawings Frits Lugt collected for the Custudia Foundation collection.