COMMON GROUND
Waanders Uitgevers
Book
240 × 170 mm / offset print
2025
Voor kunst en vrouwenrechten (For Art and Women’s Rights), written by Chris van Weel. Mathilde Cohen Tervaert-Israëls emerged as a passionate feminist from 1900 onwards. She fought against the double standards that applied to men and women. She was particularly concerned with the fate of unmarried mothers and prostitutes. In this fight, she focused on achieving full citizenship for women through the acquisition of suffrage and political participation.
in the twilight of her feminist career, the sudden death of her brother Isaac Israels left her tasked with clearing out his studio. She had to find a suitable home for the extensive collection of paintings, watercolors, and sketchbooks it contained, both by Isaac and her father Jozef Israëls. This resulted in major donations to various museums in the Netherlands.
in the twilight of her feminist career, the sudden death of her brother Isaac Israels left her tasked with clearing out his studio. She had to find a suitable home for the extensive collection of paintings, watercolors, and sketchbooks it contained, both by Isaac and her father Jozef Israëls. This resulted in major donations to various museums in the Netherlands.
COMMON GROUND
European Cultural Foundation
Magazine
255 × 175 mm / offset print
2024
The fifth issue of Common Ground, the annual magazine of the European Cultural Foundation, created to celebrate Europe Day. Europe Day is celebrated on May 9, since on that date in 1950 a statement (the Schuman declaration) was made by French foreign minister Robert Schuman. It proposed to place French and West German production of coal and steel under one common High Authority. This organization would be open to participation of other Western European countries. This cooperation was to be designed in such a way as to create common interests between European countries which would lead to gradual political integration, a condition for the pacification of relations between them. It was the beginning of what would become our current European Union.
Robert Schuman: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.’
Cover Photo: Patricia Morosan
Robert Schuman: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.’
Cover Photo: Patricia Morosan
Tonia Stieljes: model and activist
Singer Laren
Exhibition
Divers
2023
Singer Laren shows the life of (role) model: Tonia Stieltjes (1881-1932). Model of Jan Sluijters, best friend of Mondriaan, but above all a well-known trade union leader. Around 1900, she quickly became a beloved example of the largest group of working women in the Netherlands: the domestic servants.
In the exhibition, curated by art historian Esther Schreuder, in addition to works of art from Jan Sluijters, Wim Schuhmacher and documentary material, an important part of Tonia's life will be depicted by two contemporary artists: Iris Kensmil and Brian Elstak.
Curation and research: Esther Schreuder
Photos: Suzanne Ophof
In the exhibition, curated by art historian Esther Schreuder, in addition to works of art from Jan Sluijters, Wim Schuhmacher and documentary material, an important part of Tonia's life will be depicted by two contemporary artists: Iris Kensmil and Brian Elstak.
Curation and research: Esther Schreuder
Photos: Suzanne Ophof
Feminist Day
LFMC
Button
35 × 35 mm
2024
Button for International Feminist Day (8 march). This beautiful sentence was found by Sahar Shirzad (in work of Henriette Roland Horst and Marjolijn van Heemstra) and is a powerful sentence we can still take a lot of wisdom from every single day. De zachte krachten zullen winnen / The soft forces will win