Oscar Ekkelboom: ‘Haar tekeningen verkennen natuurreligie, mythologie en kosmologie. Lemaire beeldt verhalen uit waarin missionarissen en de lokale bevolking elkaar ontmoeten en, ondanks hun verschillen, een gemeenschappelijke spirituele taal vinden.’
Voor het eerst in een eeuw wordt de indrukwekkende historische presentatie van het museum doorbroken.
Vijftien kunstenaars zijn uitgenodigd op basis van hun affiniteit met de collectie en presentatie van het Missiemuseum.
De interventies zijn het resultaat van diepgaand artistiek onderzoek naar de collectiepresentatie en de daarmee verweven geschiedenis van zendingswerk, kolonialisme en wetenschappelijke verzamelwoede. Wat betekent het om voorwerpen uit de hele wereld in deze vitrines te bewaren? Wiens stemmen ontbreken er?
Voor mijn grote tekeningen installatie bestudeerde ik teksten van de Tilburgse indoloog SVD-pater Piet Heerkens, die aan het begin van de vorige eeuw op Flores werkte, en putte ik uit contacten met SVD-paters en -broeders, zoals Wiel Swinkels (1945, Melderslo), die vijftig jaar in Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea (Sepik) werkte. Mijn installatie is te zien in de ‘Primitieve afdeling’ van het museum, achterin het museum. Ik werkte er meer dan een jaar aan.
2026
exhibitions
untill 1 march
De Collectie Verzet/The Collection Resists
Missiemuseum Steyl
group
curator: Oscar Ekkelboom
12 April – 21 September
De Geschiedenis Is Mijn Gezelschap / History is my Company
Museum W
solo
curator: Haiko Sleumer
collaboration with: Wilhelmietenmuseum
events
14 march
closed lecture Danielle Lemaire Vriendensalon
Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven
Workperiod making bronze at MAKE Eindhoven
19 November – 1 March 2026
supported by Cultuur Eindhoven
2027
exhibitions
September
Drawing Centre Diepenheim, SOLO
artistic director: Noa Zuidervaart
curator: Petra Boonstra
Het Meisje En De Krokodil
New cassette! Out Now
released July 11, 2025
All tracks written and recorded
by Danielle Lemaire.
in collaboration with WORM sound studio, where Danielle Lemaire recorded on the ‘Synthi’, a rare EMS Synthi A synthesizer.
Limited Edition of 50.
review in VITAL WEEKLY 1491 DANIELLE LEMAIRE - HET MEISJE EN DE KROKODIL (cassette by Barreuh Records)
By Frans de Waard, 23 july 2025: “In her practice as an artist, Danielle Lemaire works primarily with pencil and paper, creating drawings, but music also holds a strong interest for her. She was one of the sponsors for the repair of an EMS Synthi A, donated by Goodiepal to Worm in Rotterdam. To label Worm a venue is painting a tiny picture, as the building houses much more, inc a studio. The Synthi A required repair after an accidental stumble in a bath (it’s best to record your music outside bathrooms, which is what we take away from this story), which cost € 8,900. Sponsors were granted access to the machine, and Lemaire spent some time behind it, doing what everybody else would do: tape a bunch of sounds for home use. That’s what Lemaire did, and she has some surprising results. The two lengthy pieces on the first side (in the download, all pieces on both sides are combined into one, making it difficult to distinguish between them) feature harsh beeps and peeps alongside spacious synth music, and some frog sounds
at the start of the side. This is an interesting collision between harsher sounds and more gentle ones, sounding at times very much like a test record and sometimes wonderfully composed.
The second side has five pieces, and sounds like one piece. In these pieces, we hear Lemaire discuss her practice, including making drawings, and she cuts up her voice, incorporating Indonesian gamelan sounds (from her family background) and her singing. The Synthi A may not play a significant part in these recordings, but knowing the machine (well, the digital version, that’s), I am aware of its capability to transform external sounds, so maybe that’s what’s done here too. It sounds like a radio play, and perhaps it isn’t easy to follow if the Dutch language is something of a mystery to you. I suppose it becomes something mysterious and poetic, with Lemaire’s voice not always at the forefront, which makes this a wonderful hörspiel”. (FdW)
Also Read >>>>> Second Review on LUMINOUS DASH
Danielle Lemaire
Generaal Bothastraat 5K / Eindhoven
daniellelemairestudio at g mail dot com
record label / publications: Inner Landscapes
articles / interviews
TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEED TO KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM From the foreword by Maureen Welscher:
According to UNESCO, intangible heritage is ‘living heritage’. It includes social customs, rituals, traditions, expressions, special knowledge or skills that communities and groups recognize as a form of cultural heritage. A special feature is that this heritage is passed on from generation to generation. Let us cherish the heritage treasures of our ancestors. It is a reminder of where we come from, a legacy of the past, which we pass on to those who come after us.
2024
SOLO EXHIBITION
Gallery Traits Libres
former address Rue de Verneuil 31,
PARIS, FRANCE
Le Chant De Saka Ladja
BANDUNG INDONESIA.
Oh Tina! Before Eulogy
a site-specific magical performative artproject
with Goethe Institute Bandung
curators: Architect Dea Widya and writer Suina Latersia.
On “The Tina and Joi” Trilogy; a fictional story about a young couple struggling in a conflictual marriage and their daily life in the city. At a former colonial house, home to Goethe Institute Bandung, managed by The Lodge Foundation in Bandung’s DAGO district, the performance-related installations were staged in various media responding to the story of the mysterious Tina. In this artistic re-enactment, the house regained its original status as the home of the disappeared bride Tina. The multimedia disciplines of the participating artists complemented each other in a hybrid route through different rooms in the house. The audience felt Tina’s presence in “traces she left behind” and her spirit in the atmosphere.
I elaborated on the story with a magical installation consisting of large printed 400 cm high endurable textile panels that hung down in the patio. Drawings and real plants were projected via two mobile overhead projectors on the panels. Performative presentations were done two times on 7 nights. The audience became part.
read: Bandung Bergerak article by Awla Rayul / Ahmad Fikri
publications
“il pourrait ne pas disparaître“
inspired by the collection of Frits Lugt at Fondation Custodia
I see my love for drawing figurative and natural elements and stories in the drawings of the Custodia Foundation collection. During the working period at Atelier Néerlandais in April, I worked on a collection of ‘miniature drawings’ that took up residence in an antique art nouveau album I found at the flea market. The album is reminiscent of the beautiful folders of drawings Frits Lugt collected for the Custudia Foundation collection.
JaDa – De Missie Residency project
From March 1 to May 31, 2021, JaDa worked at the studio of
AIR De Missie, in nursing home Park Zuiderhout. We lived and worked among the priests and missionaries, who reside there in the last phase of their working lives. We studied the history of the institution and its residents. The former missionaries traveled the world; they worked in Congo, Ghana, the Philippines, Brazil, Papua New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies and have amazing stories. JaDa was also on a mission: the mission to propagate the arts.
support JaDa releases: Cultuur Eindhoven and Constant van Renesse Fonds
Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen & Danielle Lemaire
i.s.m. Stedelijk Museum Breda, en Kunstloc Brabant
