Art Gallery | Villa Diepenvoorde

This name often comes to mind, so it’s time to pay attention to it! Not much needed to happen for this transformation into Pippi Longstocking's natural habitat, and soon a cacophony of colors, music, visual art, and live performances emerged. You can witness the wonderful processes of artists, stroll through the messy market, and enjoy a real stunt show outside in the garden!

Children can express themselves with drawing and crafting activities, enjoy beautiful face painting, and even have their photo taken as a strongman while lifting Pippi’s horse, Little Old Man! And if it gets a bit too busy, you can take a breather while listening to Big Dennis read stories... A colorful fair where people and children from diverse backgrounds won't have a second of boredom!

More work to admire from Darko Groenhagen, Leoke, Eva Heerdink, Jolanda Aveyanda Skye, KIKI Art, Munne, Tyson Goudsmits, Peer Vink, poetry performance by Ronny Dijksterhuis, and music from Woody and Truus.

Keep an eye on the socials for changing activities.

Schedule for the opening evening at Villa Kakelbont:

20:00 Opening

20:30 Veneman and de Groot - music by Woody & Truus

21:30 Ronny Dijksterhuis - poetry performance

22:00 Captain Catastrophe - stunt show

22:15 Frikandellenfestival feat. Lee Swinkels - music and comedy by Denvis

23:00 Closing

For years, we both explored Eindhoven's music and café scene until fate connected us in 2010. We soon discovered we shared a passion for art, culture, and music.

Another thing we had in common was that we were both horders in the broadest sense of the word, meaning that very soon after we moved in together, we had filled the entire house with statues, paintings, small framed objects, lamps, books, plants, souvenirs, posters, glasses, and vases. Dragons, superheroes, skulls, Buddhas, statues of Jesus and Mary, flowers, boats in bottles, boxes of marbles, children's crafts and baked goods we couldn't throw away, things we were "going to use someday," and so on… in short, we soon lived in a "mini-museum." People and children stared in amazement, often with a look like, "How on earth can you live here?"

That passion became a fantasy about a real mini-museum, a kind of gallery.

A place where crazy things happen and where people leave with a strange sense of confusion, yet inspired by it. A place where various exhibitions are organized, both our own and those of others. Where one moment a stand-up comedian delivers his or her story, and the next the gods are invoked for a ritual after a Pilates class. Where lectures can be given, or special meetings held. It's impossible to describe in a single sentence.

Something like this would never have been possible in the house we lived in on Hortensiastraat in Eindhoven, so we slowly but surely began searching for a suitable place to make it happen. Oh yes, and we also had to be able to live there, together with our five children, only one of whom now lives at home.

After searching for several years, Peter's father came up with the bold idea of doing this in their house. They had been living in the Diepenvoorde villa in Aalst-Waalre for quite some time and missed the hustle and bustle. They were also getting older and couldn't bear the thought of having to leave one day.