The garden of the wall
Installation

At the exhibition space of Heden, Mark van Overeem shows an installation titled: 'The garden of the wall'. This installation is a work in progress in which the artist will make a sequence of alterations. These changes are to be seen as from 29 August via this website.

Mark van Overeem is fascinated by walls, i.e. by walls in the metaphysical sense. He calls them 'people's walls', mental bounds. Within these mental bounds a garden comes into being, 'the garden of the wall'.

The exhibition will be a walk back in the time, back to the start of an 'apocalyptical happening'. You have been warned! 

Including Lidy Jacobs, Joris Laarman, Mark Manders, Suze May Sho, Thomas Rentmeister and Maurice van Tellingen

1 exhibition on 2 locations: Denneweg 14a and Patrijsplantsoen 23 Den Haag (7X11)

Opening: Sunday 14 September at 12.30pm (Denneweg 14a)

Inspired by the theme of house and the rooms that make up this house, including its existing furniture, the curator of this exhibition, Marten Hendriks, went to look for artists who have a fascination for this subject. The exhibition originates from the virtual house that is to be found on the website of 7X11: www.7X11.nl.

Opening: Sunday 26 October, 12.30pm

The exhibition Masked focuses on four artists with works in which the hiding of the face plays an important role. Piet Ouborg (1897-1956) stayed in the former Dutch East Indies, where he started a special collection of masks. Heden shows masks from what used to be Ouborg's collection as well as his works, in which the mask plays a perceptible role. The other artists live and work in Indonesia: Wimo Ambalah Bayang (1976) shows photographs of masked couples, which depict the announcement of their wedding; Terra Bajraghosa (1980) created a digital cartoon in five images, in which Ouborg is placed in a contemporary setting. Eko Nugroho (1977), inspired by comics, made a mural and some embroidered works for the exhibition.

The exhibition will be documented by a catalogue.

Heden op een voetstuk is a biennial art prize set up by Heden in 2007. This prize will be rewarded to a Hague artist who has contributed to Heden's development into a fully-grown art centre. It is homage to a representative of a growing group of artists in their middle years who makes work of specified quality, but who has become less visible for the public. Heden shows a retrospective of the first laureate, Jean van Wijk.