Juulsplace

Mini-gallery 🖼 short stay 🛏 in Amsterdam 🚲 curated by Juul & Ruub 💋 All art in the room is for sale and 💯% of profit goes to our fellow artists 🧑🏽‍🎨

The perfect artistic and private city hide out. The best museums and most diverse restaurants of Amsterdam within couple minutes walk.

10/03/2023

Amsterdam based artist builds installations, makes drawings, woodcuts, ceramic work and animations. His paintings have magical realistic features; they feel alienating as if something ominous is about to happen. Jonat finds his inspiration in other cultures and religions: ''I need the supernatural. I need to know the mystery of human existence.'' His work can be seen in several international private and corporate collections.

The artist created a series of etchings titled ‘Progreso y Prosperidad’ during his residency in Arthouse Pani, a private residence located in the picturesque village of Tequisquiapan, three hours north of Mexico City. Jonat: “I've been to Mexico four times. These works are based on what I saw in San Cristobal. When you see the statues and paintings in the cathedral, you see a different kind of aesthetic. Nino Jesus, baby Jesus, is surrounded by flowers and plant sculptures. There is a plastic cloud and skippy balls have been placed with it. Mexico is a spiritual country, but the Mexicans interpret it completely differently from what we in Europe experience as authentic religious.”

🖼 title: Progreso y Prosperidad series | Jonat Deelstra | size 43*31 cm | etching | edition of 10 | price €550

10/03/2023

“We see our role as strengthening the relationship between us and the universe.” It is this sort of fundamental understanding of light and our deep connection to it that artist duo Children of the Light made up of Christopher Gabriel and Arnout Hulskamp, aspire to explore in their art. For the best part of a decade, the duo have been creating performative electric light installations and illuminate the spaces they’re placed in, from iconic exhibition spaces to 800 year old churches. Inspired by the Zero art movement, their work is pure – stripped down to the most essential of materials – and yet it always reaches for something sacred and profound.

For this picture with title ‘Looking Into The Great Wide Open’ the duo designed a trio of 'inward looking telescopes', an instrument that, instead of revealing distant objects, abstracts the immediate environment into pure light. A simple open metal tube creates a spectacle of circles, block and zigzag patterns. The result is an enchanting abstract kaleidoscopic image: a 'low tech' tool that transforms the natural environment.

🖼 title: Looking Into The Great Wide Open | Children Of The Light | size 35*35 cm | print | unique item framed | price €175

10/03/2023

Silvana Araoz-Fraser is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist, currently based in Amsterdam. Her practice and artistic research raise existential questions and touch upon metaphysical themes. She tries to capture connectivity of nature, its communication systems, memory and mystical properties through a very direct application of colour, lines and shapes.

Diptych painting ‘Crossing Spaces’ aims to crystallise the presence that is invisible to the naked eyes. Silvana: “The piece is about that feeling of chills when we find ourselves in another dimension, where things move differently and unexpectedly…”.

Araoz was chosen as 1 of 5 ‘Image Makers’ of the year in 2020 by newspaper and in 2022 she made it to the shortlist of the Municipal Art acquisition Currently she is exhibiting her second solo show in contemporary gallery space KB in Bogotá Colombia

🖼 title: Crossing Spaces | Silvana Araoz-Fraser | sizes 60*80cm & 35*50cm | paint on board | unique piece framed | price €1200

10/03/2023

With a background as a travelling documentary filmmaker working for e.g. National Geographic, captures an amalgamation of nature & people in her still photography. This portrait ‘Stardust Soul’ exudes a sense of mystery showing a young woman from her back, immersed by a vortex of particles. It’s one of the many Amsterdam people De Schepper portrayed in her work, making her stills collection a unique archive of Amsterdam culture.

🖼 title: Stardust Soul | Marijke De Schepper | size 24,3*36,5 cm | print on paper framed | price €350

10/03/2023

Due to a history of trade Dutch artists are living in Thailand and Thai artists are living in the Netherlands, inspiring each other’s cultures. We discovered this Thai-Dutch artist Phanee Metongkum who’s adept to the early abstract Dutch art of Mondriaan and the Dutch art school ‘De Stijl’. The juxtaposition of cultures creates a unique view on abstract geometric art made up of exotic colours and ornaments.

Unique in our country is organisation SBK (www.sbk.nl) where art can be rented. Their vision is that art belongs not only in a museum but should be part of everyday life. We initially rented this piece ‘Zonder Titel 2’ and reselling now to our international guests to enjoy!

🖼 title: Zonder Titel 2 | Phanee Metongkum | size 46*41 cm | print on paper framed | limited edition | price €268

22/10/2022

Photographer Slim Aarons worked mainly took pictures of rich Europeans and Americans. He was famous both before and after serving as a photographer for the military before and after the 2nd World War.

In this photograph “Kaufmann desert house 1”we experience an American nostalgic Hollywoodesque dream. A dream that we Europeans still chase this privileged day and age. But at the same time it’s a dream that seems to be fainting more and more, as a lurking ominous end of times…

🖼 title: Kaufmann desert house 1, 1970 | Slim Aarons | size 90*60 cm | photograph perspex framed | limited edition 224/500 | price €780

21/09/2022

This is a limited edition film still from ‘s (your BnB host 🏡) dance opera film ‘Symmetry’ shot on the Bolivian salt flats of Uyuni - lenses by - starring soprano Claron McFadden and choreographer / dancer

The other location in the film is shot inside the Large Hadron Collider of the largest science laboratory in the world where experts are researching the Big Bang on quantum scale in a 30KM tunnel 60M under ground on the border between Switzerland and France (see film stills attached).

The film story is about a particle physicist falling inside the particle accelerator when he can’t figure out a “theory of everything”. He ends up in another dimension, the moment before the Big Bang, where he meets his consciousness and finally discovers what he was looking for but now as a dancer.

The still in this artwork shows the moment the protagonist unites with his consciousness in an inner-dimensional endless landscape; the unification of the science and the arts…

[ AppleTV film link in bio 👆🏽++ for guests watch the film on the TV source: USB 📺 ]

🖼 title: Symmetry, 2022 | Ruben Van Leer | size 60*40 cm | film still framed printed on aluminium | edition of 2 | price €650

06/09/2022

This photograph of team shows one of two boats that once carried refugees across the Mediterranean and are now taking daytrippers along Amsterdam’s canals – a reminder to the city of its debt to immigrants.

Second person on the left is artist & initiator of the experiential art project and photographer of this picture. He explains: “Here in Amsterdam we have a big tradition of pleasure-boating. But I couldn’t watch it any more without thinking of migrants of the Mediterranean.”

Teun visited Lampedusa, the Italian island in the Mediterranean which has become an entry point into Europe for thousands of refugees, and was struck by its graveyard of smugglers’ boats. Someone said to him how rich Europeans must be, to throw these all away. He managed to persuade the mayors of Lampedusa and Amsterdam to help bring two of the boats here, to create an art-social project about immigration.

[ book a boat trip using link in bio 👆🏽]

🖼 title: Rederij Lampedusa, 2017 | Teun Castelein | size 30*21 cm | framed printed photograph on aluminium | unique edition | price €180

30/08/2022

We’ve placed this glazed porcelain plate ‘Bear & Policeman’ designed by next to the RAKU ceramics by Eva Van Leer, because the intention of the works seem opposite: Koons wants to provoke through a staged spectacle, although Van Leer tries to articulate the sublime through organic spontaneity.

This limited-edition set of bread and butter plates highlights the Koons’ Banality series. Each plate features a reproduction of a work from the series (1988).

Working with traditional craftspeople, Koons rendered the subjects in this series in gilt porcelain and polychromed wood, materials more often associated with decorative housewares than with contemporary art. He conceived of Banality as an elaborate allegory, aimed at freeing one to embrace without embarrassment our childhood affection for toys and trinkets.

A couple of blocks from our place in Amsterdam you can find the where works by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst are shown. Personally we’re critical about this museum, because they focus on “proven artists” and attract large sums of tourists for their popular art. With our mini gallery we’re trying the opposite: focus to unknown local art and give a dissenting voice to the gentrification of the city… We use the money of this Koons’ piece to reinvest into a local artist again ✊🏽

🖼 title: Bear & Policeman, 2013 | Jeff Koons | size 16*16 cm | glazed limoges porcelain with hanging frame | signed edition of 4500 | price €200

30/08/2022

Above Damien Hirst’s x-rays we’ve placed a beautiful drawing of a dog’s skeleton created by Juul’s niece by marriage .waterval

Gwenn drew this anatomical piece when studying art at the academy of Genk.

We’ve been always amazed by Gwenn’s natural talent for drawing. She’s a real outdoors person and an animal lover with a special care for cats. Her art is realistic, although she’s inspired by works that are based in fantasy. A unique juxtaposition that results in these types of work.

We’re looking forward to feature more new works bij Gwenn the years to come!

🖼 title: Dog Bones, 2016 | Gwenn Waterval | size 60*44 cm | framed drawing pencil on paper | original drawing | price €380

24/08/2022

Like the work “Next Rembrandt” Renaissance and modern times are juxtaposed in this photograph “Bubble Gum”. Argentinian artist raises questions on social nature with this work: how would someone behave from the Golden Age in today’s age?

Owner of a pictorial style, Romina Ressia is well known for her anachronisms and the use of the absurd and irony to comment on modern issues.

We’re excited to resell this photograph from in order to re-invest into a local Amsterdam artist when sold.

🖼 title: Bubble Gum, 2015 | Romina Ressia | size 35*45 cm | framed print | limited edition 115 of 140 incl. certificate | price €280

24/08/2022

If you think this painting looks like a Rembrandt, you’re not far off… Recently this piece called “Next Rembrandt” was unveiled in Amsterdam as a result of an 18-month project which asks whether new technology and data can bring back to life one of the greatest, most innovative painters of all time. The painting’s true creators are, however, data analysts, AI algorithms and computers.

Your host Juul created a film about this special project [👆🏽link in bio 🎬 for guests on SmartTV]

The film raises philosophical questions: What does creativity and being human mean? How can we understand ourselves through the mirror of technology…?

Make sure you also check out couple of blocks from our place and home museum of the Nachtwacht and many other real Rembrandt paintings.

🖼 title: Next Rembrandt, 2016 | teams @ W.Thomson, TU Delft & Mauritshuis | size 36*55 cm | print and framed | digital copy | not for sale

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