2025 – Page 2 – Quartair

Drawing Inventions

From February 27 to March 16, Quartair will present Drawing Inventions 2025. The forty-seven participating artists have followed the Drawing Inventions Academy, a master program guided by Arno Kramer, Caren van Herwaarden and Marisa Rappard. In this masters, artists are encouraged to reflect on their owns and each other’s works and make new steps in their development. The works of this exhibition have been selected under the supervision of Arno Kramer, visual artist and advocate of drawing art as an autonomous discipline in the Netherlands.

Opening on March 1st, 16.00 –18.00
Hoogtij on March 7th, 19.00–23.00
Finisage on March 16, 16.00 – 18.00

Opening hours: Thursday to Sunday, between 12.00 and 18.00

Participating artists: Ana Rocha, Anja Sijben, Anna J van Stuijvenberg, Anne-Marie Joosten, Carien Vugts, Cindy van Woudenberg, Dick van Dijk, Egbert Jan Brink, Esther Eggink, Gerard Pouw, Godelieve Smulders, Hellen Abma, Helma Mostart, Hils Robbé, Ike Smitskamp, Inge van der Storm, Ingrid Pasmans, Iris Frerichs, Jeroen Paalvast, Josė Krijnen, Kai Kuper, Lea Adriaans ✝, Maja Badnjević, Mara Liem, Marie-Josée Comello, Marieke Smink, Marielle van den Bergh, Marijke Breuers, Marijke de Pous, Marike Hoekstra, Marjolein Spitteler, Mark Schalken, Marly Hendricks, Michiel Knaven, Monique van Stokkum, Nelleke Bosland, Rita Rutten, Sander Wiersma, Sarah Linde, Sonja Hillen, Sophie Mastenbroek, Susana Mulas Lastra, Teodora Ionescu, Thea Zweerink, Tienke Zijlstra, Ursula Metzler, and Wilma Stegeman.

Drawing Inventions 2025 (detail) at Quartair, The Hague from Feb 27 to March 16, 2025

Tabaria Café: A Year in Exile

Tabaria Café is a pop-up café bridging past and present, aiming to honour and preserve Palestinian culture. Tabaria Café began as a dream of resistance, rooted in the history of exile and the fight for liberation. One year later, it has become a space of solidarity, community, and hope for Palestinians and the SWANA diaspora in the Netherlands.

From Friday, February 7th through Sunday 9th, each day from 1 PM – 6 PM, Quartair created a space for gathering and reflecting on what Tabaria Café has been built together, sharing its journey, and the ongoing struggle for justice and liberation.

We were honored to feature Maisara Baroud, a talented Gazan artist, whose mural from his collection ‘I’m Still Alive’ will be part of the exhibition. Through timelines, stories, and art, we honor the resilience of the past and the hope of the future.

I’m still alive, reproduction of mural series by Gazan artist Maisara Baroud

The centre piece of the exhibition was a mural reproduction of Gazan artist Maisara Baroud from the collection I’m Still Alive. Contorted bodies are illustrated in various states of being, from a calm figure whose stillness is about to be disrupted by missiles in the background, to figures whose pain of loss is expressed in dispositions of death and grief. Despite being forced to move his family ten times, Baroud continues documenting the destruction happening around him. The title I’m Still Alive is a testament to his resilience and resistance against a genocidal occupation.

Our deep thanks to the volunteers who painted it Quartair.

Program:

Feb 7
Broadcast on how to preserve Palestinian heritage Radio
Intuitive Embroidery / Tatreez workshop (14.00-17.00)
Evening: The Bonfire Diwan: Storytelling inside/outside, recorded by radio (18.00-20.00)

Feb 8
Crochet workshop (all day)
Evening: Film screening: Bye bye Tiberia/Jenin Jenin/Arna’s Children (17.00-18.30)

Feb 9
Collective Brunch (13.00-15.00)
Music evening (17.30-18.30)

*A Year in Exile:* Intuitive Embroidery / Tatreez workshop at Quartair

The program also included on-going Learning Palestine: 12-hour radio programme; a reading corner, a craft corner, and letter writing: dedicated to palestinian political prisoners.

Sarajevo Winter Festival 2025

Once again, in collaboration with Nine Dragon Heads, Quartair participates in the Sarajevo Winter Festival / Sarajevska zima, from Feb 5th to 12th, 2025. Quartair will present works and performances by Jessy Rahman, Ilona Senghore, Ira van der Valk, Dana LaMonda, Paul Bruijninckx, Anja Zwanenburg and Paul Donker Duyvis. With thanks to Stroom Den Haag.

Poster by partner Nine Dragon Heads 2025: