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Tommy van Avermaete @tommyvav.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Twee keer ‘De lezende’ op de prachtige tentoonstelling rond Lou Loeber in het Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam, gecureerd door de geweldige @liekew.bsky.social Ik zou deze wel boven mijn bureau willen hangen - maar hoe toegankelijk Loeber kunst ook maakte, dit zal wel niet tot de mogelijkheden behoren.🥲

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Zo leuk dat je geweest bent! Ja, haar lezenden zijn fantastisch :))

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I have many, many favorites in the Lou Loeber exhibit. I’ll just post one every now and then ❤️ Lou Loeber, Composition (relief), 1923. On loan from Museum Belvedere, Oranjewoud. On view in the exhibition “Lou Loeber. Artist and Idealist” at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

She’s here, and now officially opened as well. “Lou Loeber. Artist and Idealist”, now on view at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam ❤️

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

- Tulpen in een blauwe gemberpot, 1919, collectie RCE - Schetsboekje, ca. 1916-1919, collectie Centraal Museum /5 - end.

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Afbeeldingen (details): - Wervelend Landschap, 1961, particuliere collectie - Zelfportret, 1921, collectie RCE, in bruikleen aan Museum De Wieger - Land, lucht en water, 1949-51, particuliere collectie - Verten, 1956, particuliere collectie /4

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Lou Loeber stelde haar leven in het teken van het maken van kunst om de wereld mooier en socialer te maken. Een vrouw naar mijn hart ❤️ /3

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Het was geweldig om als curator deze tentoonstelling te maken, samen met een heleboel collega’s. Dank ook aan alle bruikleengevers en iedereen die herinneringen aan, of kennis van, Loeber wilde delen! /2

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ze is er!! Vanaf dit weekend is “Lou Loeber. Kunstenaar en idealist” in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam te zien! Je leert deze bijzondere kunstenaar, haar vooruitstrevende werk en haar geëngageerde drijfveren kennen. Mijn laatste in Schiedam, waarvan ik hoop dat jullie allemaal enorm zullen genieten!

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

uit. echt een heel mooi boek. totaal niet mijn onderwerp, maar zo mooi geschreven!

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

update: ik ben nu op p.189 en vind het wonderschoon!

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ik sloeg vandaag Als de dieren open, begon met lezen, en dacht na zo'n 30 pagina's aan jouw Libris shortlist bespreking. Snel even gekeken, en verheugd te zien dat deze jouw #1 is geworden. Ik lees door!

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

details of artwork: Kathe Köllwitz, Mothers, 1919 Collection of Kunstmuseum, The Hague Seen at @centraalmuseum, Utrecht

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Remember what’s at the heart of Christmas: a newborn family who were refused access, hospitality and care, fleeing from persecution, while eventually bringing hope and light for so many across the world. Let’s try to see the light in one another a little more in the new year ⭐️✨💫 #ArtAdvent 6/ end

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

As we are heading towards Christmas and the new year, I wish for wisdom for the powers that be and somewhat more kindness and care for those in need. It honestly is not that hard, why do we keep failing? 5/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

the enduring worry and fear they experience as children grow up to become adults in a world full of uncertainty, and the simultaneous power and powerlessness they endure in making this world a safer place. 4/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Köllwitz lost her son in WWI, she portrayed many mothers who shared the same life-changing experience. This print is titled Mothers - and to me expresses the endless love parents feel for their children, 3/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

There’s simply too much going on in the world. The many crises humans have caused to itself and others, are endlessly entangled and we seemingly cannot find a way out. So, I chose this print by Kathe Köllwitz, whose Pièta was featured in the Art Advent before. 2/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

ART ADVENT #25/ Dec. 24 I long doubted what to select for the final Advent post. A post to mark the culmination of many days of anticipation, of light, and promise. The celebration of new life, of eternity. It’s beautiful and warm. Yet, I didn’t manage to select a glowing, celebratory artwork. 1/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

A fascinating allusion to the power of the collective, which can be both frighteningly out of control and a beautiful sense of connectedness. Anri Sala, Take Over, 1974 Collection of, Seen at AROS, Aarhus #ArtAdvent #PowerOfMusic 5/ end.

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Sala is intrigued by the narrative potential and power of musical sounds. In the installation at first hands are playing the pieces, but after a while the piano plays itself - the system has taken over. 4/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

- which together constitute a cross form. The sounds produced by the piano play are from two famous compositions: the Marseillaise, and the Internationale. Both musical compositions are tied to revolutionary events and ideologies in history - 3/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

In the basement of AROS museum, several rooms are especially dedicated to installation art. That floor is all about immersion, perception and the senses. The installation “Take Over” by Anri Sala addresses all: two screens on which a piano is played are combined with two transparent glass walls 2/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

ART ADVENT #24 / Dec. 23 I’m looking forward to a new year in which music will play a bigger role in my professional life again. It’s one of the reasons why I think fondly of having seen this installation during my summer holiday in Denmark. 1/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

and with that the sense of these figures being alone together. Edward Hopper, The Nighthawks, 1942. Collection of, Seen at Art Institute, Chicago. #ArtAdvent #NightHawks 3/ end.

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Hopper made it to evoke the loneliness of life the city. People living in close vicinity but completely along side each other, without really making valuable contact. The abnormal cleanliness of the street and the absence of other urban details heightens the eeriness of the scene, 2/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

ART ADVENT #23 / Dec. 22 Another icon I got to see for the first time in my life this year: Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. I fully understand why this is an icon. What a magnificent painting! The sense of loneliness it embodies is strongly palpable. 1/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The primary colors that invoke a miraculous spatial experience. It made me have an experience of wonder again, similar to that very first experience. James Turrell, Milkrun III, 2002. Collection of, Seen at Aros, Aarhus #ArtAdvent #LightArt 4/end.

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

About your state of being at a certain moment in time, and how art has the power to transform that being - if only for a little while. This summer it was such a pleasure to see Turrell’s red installation in Denmark again, with subtle yellows and blue. 3/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Being led into one of Turrell’s Wedgework installations during a schooltrip, taking the time to sit down and letting your eyes get used to the light: I suddenly understood how art could be about perception. 2/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

ART ADVENT #22/ Dec. 21 For the shortest day, I chose a work by one of my favorite light artists: James Turrell. Seeing a work by Turrel when I was in high school, was my first encounter with contemporary art. Until then, I had had no real experience with it. 1/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Fiona Lutjenhuis, Ankhmania (detail of exhibition space), 2025 Seen at 1646, The Hague #ArtAdvent 5/ end.

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

For me, this duality of eeriness and embrace is key to everything she makes. I can’t wait to see where she will take her work next. Fiona was one of the four nominees for this year’s Prix de Rome NL. Although she was not awarded the prize, for me she certainly was the winner. 4/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

She surrounded the visitors to this exhibition with both feelings of eeriness and embrace. One of the ways she achieves this, is to create rotating doors which you have to step through in order to reach a new part of the exhibit (which is why I chose this photo). 3/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

With an abundance of symbols and visual atmospheres, she completely drew me in. For her work, Fiona draws on her younger years growing up in a religious cult and the feelings and emotions that still accompany her from that time. 2/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

ART ADVENT #21/ Dec. 20 One of my favorite exhibitions this year was Fiona Lutjenhuis’ solo at 1646 in The Hague. It was a total installation, with wall paintings, her (by now) iconic room dividers, sculptures, bread installations and a soundscape. 1/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

ps. I’ve posted a detail of the work, because of stupid censorship rules. which kind of underlines the point…

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I find it a mesmerizing, telling painting, but it also saddens me as it is perhaps a bit too recognizable to my liking. Yet, it was an encounter to remember. William Merritt Chase, A Modern Magdalene (detail), ca. 1888 Collection of, seen at @mfaboston #ArtAdvent #MaryMagdalene 4/ end.

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

And yes, the interior in which this modern Magdalene is located is indeed filled with such fabrics. But above all, for me, she exemplifies the dominant sexual and physical moral projected onto women. Turning away, modestly, ashamed for her nudity, due to the gaze that we (you and I) cast at her. 3/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

As it is part of the permanent displays, the loan was not granted, and it kind of slipped my mind where it was located. Until I was in Boston, turned a corner, and there she was!! In the most unexpected of places: the applied arts section about 19th c. fascination for Japanese prints and fabrics. 2/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

ART ADVENT #20 / Dec. 19 It was such an unexpected pleasure to see this small work in the modern European arts section of the MFA in Boston. I knew it from the books, and we had requested it for the Mary Magdalene exhibit back in 2021. 1/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Both artistic and family dynamics make the Toorops a fascinating part of Dutch 20th-c. art history. Charley Toorop, View on Utrecht with Apple Tree in Blossom, 1917. Collection of, Seen at Centraal Museum, Utrecht #ArtAdvent #CharleyToorop 4/ end.

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

She tried everything in her power to be an artist different than her father, to be singular in her own way. In turn, Charley’s son Edgar Fernhout, who also became an artist, was adamant about being a different artist than his mother. 3/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

She made these as younger artist, creating these paintings that have an equally stark expression and soul to them. Here is her View on Utrecht, made in 1917 when she was 26 year old. Charley was the daughter of Jan Toorop, who had been a nestor to the early modernist art world in the Netherlands. 2/

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

ART ADVENT #19 / Dec. 18 Dutch painter Charley Toorop is probably best known for her stark (self) portraits with their mesmerizing eyes. But I also have a soft spot for her landscapes and still lives. 1/

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