32 doors > 5 artists > 5 weeks > 5 artworks
24 October – 22 November 2026
cud[kʌd] noun.
Food brought up into the mouth by a ruminating animal from its first stomach to be chewed again and again and again and again and again.
What happens when five different artists are given the same material, the same amount of time and the same set of rules? Each week, one artist gets five days to make a work from one material – 32 doors salvaged from home renovations – for the next artist to take over and create from whatever has been left the week before. What the doors will have become by week five, they really don’t know.
Nothing will be preserved of this experiment, but the whole process will be documented in a publication of 100 copies. Come back each week to watch it change.
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺
𝟮𝟰 𝗢𝗰𝘁 . Frans van Hoek
𝟯𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁 . Jasper Niens
𝟳 𝗡𝗼𝘃 . Karin Iturralde Nurnberg
𝟭𝟰 𝗡𝗼𝘃 . Jette Kelholt
𝟮𝟭 𝗡𝗼𝘃 . Ossip Blits, Omer van Soldt & Ruben Dijkstal
Openings every Saturday 17:00–22:00, exhibition Sundays 13:00–17:00
cud series is initiated by Ossip Blits, Omer van Soldt, and Ruben Dijkstal.
This exhibition is supported by Stroom Den Haag, Amarte Fonds and Powerpitch.
poster by Lucy Gengler
cud began during a residency at Helicopter Studios in The Hague. Searching for a studio in the city, initiators Ossip Blits, Omer van Soldt and Ruben Dijkstal were offered the use of the project space for one week. One week is rarely enough to develop a research project or finish an artwork, especially with no studio to return to afterwards, so they decided to turn this precarity into a feature. Within one week they would gather material, make a work and produce a show. The limitation became the framework: a hyper-concentrated atmosphere of intuitive making, where decisions had to be made quickly and there was no time to overthink the outcome.
Five artists, one material
Conceptual artist Frans van Hoek, architect and visual artist Jasper Niens, visual storyteller Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Jette Kelholt, who works with found material, and the initiating collective follow one another through the same 32 doors. Each brings their own practice, instincts and way of thinking. They will have to get the most out of what is there, respond to what the previous artist left behind and, in turn, leave something for the next. The doors become a meeting point between different disciplines and personalities, and the series itself becomes a form of research carried out collectively and in public.
Nothing will be kept, everything will be recorded
No work from cud 2026 will be physically saved. Instead, the whole process is documented, from the door inventory to how each artist finds the material in the space, builds it up and arrives at a final work, five times over. A five-week timelapse records the space throughout. After the series, all of this will be gathered in a publication limited to 100 copies.
32 doors that have lived lives
The doors were collected through an online marketplace, mostly from people renovating their homes. They are used, and some of them really show it. Before anything was made with them, the initiators photographed each door front and back and recorded its dimensions, creating a portrait inventory of all 32. Choosing doors was deliberate: they carry their own associations and possibilities, and it quickly became clear how differently the same material could be read and how many stories it could hold. The doors are the one constant, a fixed point from which each artist can take off in a different direction.
