Pop-up Exhibition 2
Details
Date: Saturday June 28th, 2025
Opening Times: 11:00 - 20:00
Location: Pop-up Studio 57E4
TREEHOUSE NDSM
T.T. NEVERITAWEG 55-57
1033 WB AMSTERDAM
TREEHOUSE NDSM
T.T. NEVERITAWEG 55-57
1033 WB AMSTERDAM
General info
Visitors are welcome throughout May, June & July (check the About page for updated opening hours). Once a month we will host an exhibition day with a special program to share progress on the project. More info on this below.
Program
Join us for the second project recap of Nature is Greater Than Us, where visual artists Bruna Souza, Karin Balog, Denis Gallen and Seçil Güven present powerful new works responding to the devastating impacts of Brazilian floods, tsunami warning systems, and Dutch storms. In addition to the mixed media exhibition, artists Karin Balog and Lyanne will screen their short films, offering cinematic reflections on disaster, memory, and resilience.
18:00
Artist introductions
18:15
Short film screenings:
• The Definition of Silence - Karin Balog
• Mountains of Life - Lyanne Keegstra
Artworks
Barren Earth (2025)
Bruna Souza
PU foam sculpture, acrylic paint
Bruna Souza
PU foam sculpture, acrylic paint
A material experimentation of scorched black earth. The charred terrain lies barren after the devastation of a fictional fire, each island held together with the suggestion of a river in between them. The soil that was once fertile can no longer host life, a landscape stripped of vitality, the blackened texture contrasting against the vibrant blue of the river. A reminder that nature endures beyond human destruction.
In Memory Of A Fallen Tree
Denis Gallen
Photography
Denis Gallen
Photography
In Memory Of A Fallen Tree is a Modular acetone ink transfer print. Which is part of a body of work called ‘A Sudden Gust Of Wind (after Poly), which responds to the aftermath of storm poly, a violent wind storm which hit the Netherlands in July 2023. Rather than documenting the event as a news or Journalistic report, the series reflects on the harm inflicted upon trees, centering them as living things whose deaths are overlooked in the human centered narrative of such disasters.
Artist Bio:
My practice moves between photography, video, and print, drawing from cinema, literature, and the everyday. I’m interested in the slippages between documentation and fiction, work and play, nature and infrastructure. Often beginning with intuitive image-making, my projects unfold into sequences—visual poems rather than narratives—where atmosphere trumps explanation.
My practice moves between photography, video, and print, drawing from cinema, literature, and the everyday. I’m interested in the slippages between documentation and fiction, work and play, nature and infrastructure. Often beginning with intuitive image-making, my projects unfold into sequences—visual poems rather than narratives—where atmosphere trumps explanation.
Does life hang by a thread? (2025)
Seçil Güven
Installation
Seçil Güven
Installation
This conceptual artwork confronts the fragility of life and the erasure of individual humanity in the face of systemic failure. A small house, suspended by a thread, symbolizes the delicate line between safety and catastrophe; a literal and metaphorical question: Does life hang by a thread?
Artist Bio:
I am a visual artist based in Amsterdam. My practice embraces accessible and versatile materials, allowing for a sense of fluidity and playfulness in the creative process. I am currently developing a conceptual narrative series that explores contemporary themes, including environmental, political, and social issues.
I am a visual artist based in Amsterdam. My practice embraces accessible and versatile materials, allowing for a sense of fluidity and playfulness in the creative process. I am currently developing a conceptual narrative series that explores contemporary themes, including environmental, political, and social issues.
Only the mild ones return
Karin Balog
Mixed media on canvas (polyester + paper)
Karin Balog
Mixed media on canvas (polyester + paper)
Only the mild ones return is a mixed media artwork about the names of tropical storms in 2024. A bizarre fact is that storm names themselves are reused by scientists. Only the most serious hurricanes have unique names and don’t return. Like hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Artist Bio:
As a mixed media artist, graduated from the Royal Academy in The Hague, Karin Balog uses various disciplines like dance, drawing and graphics in experimental films and she works with Concrete Poetry related texts on canvas. The art work deals with globalization, day and night rhythm and a sense of rewriting geography. The cosmos, the earth and the climate change cause a shift in relation to time that passes by. The artworks and films are on display at film festivals and exhibitions in India, London, New York and Italy.
As a mixed media artist, graduated from the Royal Academy in The Hague, Karin Balog uses various disciplines like dance, drawing and graphics in experimental films and she works with Concrete Poetry related texts on canvas. The art work deals with globalization, day and night rhythm and a sense of rewriting geography. The cosmos, the earth and the climate change cause a shift in relation to time that passes by. The artworks and films are on display at film festivals and exhibitions in India, London, New York and Italy.
The definition of Silence
Karin Balog
Experimental film 8:32
Karin Balog
Experimental film 8:32
The definition of Silence is a film about an earthquake below sea level in which the dancer plays Nabu, the messenger of the god of travel, translation and trade. He is trying to warn humanity for disasters, but what language does he need to speak to be heard? The experimental film is an eclectic poetry mix about chaos and failing warning systems. Dancer: Erwin Kiene.
Mountains of Life
Lyanne Keegstra
Video 4:21
Lyanne Keegstra
Video 4:21
A poetic visual journey through our life as humans. Representing the cycle of challenges we face, from feelings of fear to surrendering and eventually rising to the top.
Artist Bio:
Lyanne is a Dutch filmmaker and photographer based in Amsterdam. Her work explores themes of personal growth, transformation, and our connection to nature. To express the personal and emotional journey of being human, she uses elements of nature as metaphor.
With a background in cinematography and a curiosity for self-development, her storytelling is rooted in the desire to reflect on life’s challenges in a poetic and experimental form.
Lyanne is a Dutch filmmaker and photographer based in Amsterdam. Her work explores themes of personal growth, transformation, and our connection to nature. To express the personal and emotional journey of being human, she uses elements of nature as metaphor.
With a background in cinematography and a curiosity for self-development, her storytelling is rooted in the desire to reflect on life’s challenges in a poetic and experimental form.
Are you safe? (2025)
Bruna Souza
Mixed media installation: collage, paper, photography, audio
Bruna Souza
Mixed media installation: collage, paper, photography, audio
This multimedia artwork reflects on how we witness disaster, focusing on the Los Angeles Wildfires of January 2025. It's a combination of news article photographs, social media story screenshots, and audio snippets of a conversation with one of my sisters on the topic.
My sister lives in LA, and when the wildfires began (only 6 months after the Brazil floods of 2024), I couldn't help but think that these disasters are happening more frequently, more closely to people I love, and at a larger scale. Different events in very different parts of the world, but caused by many similar factors: lack of resources, neglect, willfull ignorance of scientific research, climate change exacerbation, pollution.
Researching the LA wildfires from a distance, I felt odd witnessing the disaster from far away: so much constant information was being fed to me by the media (onlines news outlets), through social media, via my sister and her friends. Caring from afar, wanting to stay updated, wanting to know if everything was going to be alright. Feeling like I wanted to help, but not being able to contribute anything.
I became interested in the way people use social media as a means of communication during the emergency: sharing information with each other; educating others on the status of the situation; sharing resources; updating which areas need help or attention. I was also interested in the beautiful community solidarity that emerged to support those affected: restaurants offering free meals; empty airbnbs offering shelter; psychologists offering trauma recovery; resources for legal help; what can be donated and where; volunteers helping wherever they can.
Are You Safe? encompasses the caring behaviours we express during these struggles, and gives value to the voices in their many forms (digital, written, spoken).
My sister lives in LA, and when the wildfires began (only 6 months after the Brazil floods of 2024), I couldn't help but think that these disasters are happening more frequently, more closely to people I love, and at a larger scale. Different events in very different parts of the world, but caused by many similar factors: lack of resources, neglect, willfull ignorance of scientific research, climate change exacerbation, pollution.
Researching the LA wildfires from a distance, I felt odd witnessing the disaster from far away: so much constant information was being fed to me by the media (onlines news outlets), through social media, via my sister and her friends. Caring from afar, wanting to stay updated, wanting to know if everything was going to be alright. Feeling like I wanted to help, but not being able to contribute anything.
I became interested in the way people use social media as a means of communication during the emergency: sharing information with each other; educating others on the status of the situation; sharing resources; updating which areas need help or attention. I was also interested in the beautiful community solidarity that emerged to support those affected: restaurants offering free meals; empty airbnbs offering shelter; psychologists offering trauma recovery; resources for legal help; what can be donated and where; volunteers helping wherever they can.
Are You Safe? encompasses the caring behaviours we express during these struggles, and gives value to the voices in their many forms (digital, written, spoken).
Progress (2025) & The River is a Body (2025)
Bruna Souza
Mixed media collages
Bruna Souza
Mixed media collages
Same works as first exhibition, read more about these two here.