Het Meisje En De Krokodil
New cassette! Out Now
released July 11, 2025
All tracks written and recorded by Danielle Lemaire.
Recorded in collaboration with WORM sound studio, where Danielle Lemaire recorded on the ‘Synthi’, a rare EMS Synthi A synthesizer.
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.
2025
exhibitions
13 july – 23 aug
750 Years Amsterdam
CBK Zuid Oost, Summersalon
Bijlmer, Amsterdam
6 september- 12 october
The Big Draw by ACEC
with Niels Janssen
Roggestraat 44 Apeldoorn
13 september 2025 – 1 march 2026
De Collectie Verzet/The Collection Resists
Missiemuseum Steyl
GROUP SHOW
curator: Oscar Ekkelboom
11 october – 16 november
Making litho as Annual Yearprint
Basement Press Diepenheim
artist-in-residence icm Aad Hekker
exhibitions
2026
April – September
De Geschiedenis Is Mijn Gezelschap / History is my Company – SOLO, Museum W
In four beautiful exhibition halls we will show
a broad and varieted insight on my work. With a view from my Indonesian roots to the museumhistory and her collection.
curator: Haiko Sleumer
conservator: Lennart Willems
collaboration with: Wilhelmietenmuseum
2027
Fall – Winter
SOLO, Drawing Centre Diepenheim
Starting from my drawing and research practice, we dive into the history….
on invitation by Noa Zuidervaart
mtba
Summer (july – september)
Shadowgarden, Kasteel Geldrop
collaboration with Weverijmuseum Geldrop
artistic research and weaving project on colonial history Geldrop-Dutch Indie.
With an eye on weaving rooted in Indonesia and the Moluccas
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.
In 2024 I collaborated for the first timewith Weverijmuseum Geldrop.
The ‘translation’ of my drawings into weaving takes place on a computer-controlled Itema jacquard machine that is quite new at the old Weverij. The ‘slow’ making and ‘weaving with lines’ is related to my own daily drawing practice, in which time investment plays a role.
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
