Comfort
of Darkness
Group - Expo
Festive opening FRIDAY Oct. 30, 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM
including music by the Helloweeners & theater performance 'OP STERK Water'
Saturday and Sunday, Oct. - Nov. 1 and Nov. 7-8 from 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Festive opening of our art squad
October 30, 20:00 - 24:00
Comfort of Darkness
With music from the Helloweeners and the theater performance 'on strong water.'
For the opening night, we ask for a contribution of €10 to help keep these evenings possible. The art exhibition is free to visit on Saturday and Sunday, October 31 - November 1 and November 7-8 from 12:00 to 17:00, and there will be a children's matinee every Sunday.
Comfort of Darkness, as the days slowly withdraw and the nights lengthen, darkness awakens. We increasingly turn inward and less outward. Inside, it is cozy while storms rage through the dim streets outside. Autumn, a twilight period, a transformation, a journey from light to dark.
How is it inside for you? What needs to happen to maintain that coziness? To feel comfortable at home and look through the windows at an increasingly darkening world? Perhaps it is a struggle that returns each year? Can you accept the dark? Or do you thrive in a somewhat colder and darker environment...
This time calls for a 'dark' exhibition again. This time, it's less about death and more about how we as humans deal with this dark period. We have made our villa available again and invited several artists to express their vision on this.
In addition to everything to see, there will also be plenty to hear and do! As every year, there will be an altar to honor our deceased loved ones by lighting a candle and possibly placing a photo. We will, of course, start around Halloween, followed by All Souls' Day, so we also take a moment to reflect on death. It is, of course, part of life...
So, save the date!
Participating artists include: Mariska Nieskens, Paulo Box, Tyson Goudsmits, Project Pan, Darko Groenhagen, Jeroen Duijf, Eva Heerdink, Yara Eliens.
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We are Peter and Eva.
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.
But no 'gallery' 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.
Thus it was done.
The kitchen, utility room and garage were converted into a luxury senior apartment where they could stay together with the dog Iky, and we ended up in the rest of the beautiful house.
In May 2024, the first exhibition finally opened! A dream come true, and we hope to continue to delight, amaze, and (over)stimulate people for a long time to come, in all shapes and sizes.
Previous Exhibitions
The archive.
Villa Kakelbont!!
Cacophony of colors
ERROL D. BUWALDA
NOSCE TE IPSUM
CASA PASADO
house of the bygone
WILLEM DE WIJS - ZEEZUCHT
DAEMONICA
RUBEN ALDENHOVEN
Compositions that radiate a dark and mysterious atmosphere.
SKULL GALORE
