The identity of a city does not consist solely of history, architecture, and administrative policy, but is precisely shaped by the experiences, memories, and perspectives of its inhabitants.
In the self-organised exhibition ‘Wie zijn de Stad’ I explored the symbiotic relationship where the city and its inhabitant form each others identities by asking the question ‘who are the city?’.
Together with a small group of international artists we filled up the Moshpit of Creation with paintings, text, prints, illustration, animation and paper sculptures, forming a collage of urban clutter exhibiting the different relationships, experiences and perspective on the city.
The exhibition ended with URBAN CLUTTER punkfest: A night of bands that brought the chaotic city life as a cacophony to the stage.
During the Frank Mohr Institute graduation show in June 2026 I exhibited the remnants of URBAN CLUTTER, together with the works I made for the initial ‘Wie Zijn de Stad’ exhibition.
URBAN CLUTTER brings together these worlds approaching different ways to explore the diverse relationships that make up the city, as well as bringing together and collaborating with different artists, writers and performers.
One of the works exhibited is a collaborative poetic publication called ‘Wij zijn de Stad’, where I bundled the stories, thoughts and observations of 14 contributors into a riso-printed booklet. This work, alongside the others, showcases the diversity of eyes, experiences and voices that make up who the city really are.