News from Herenplaats

Brenda paints award for the Most Accessible Municipality!

Oude IJsselstreek wins the election for Most Accessible Municipality in the Netherlands! Many municipalities are already working accessibility. But of course, there is always room for improvement. That is why the Association of Dutch Municipalities organizes the election Most Accessible Municipality in the Netherlands. The VNG wants to put municipalities that are already doing well […]


Anuja Hoogstad @ ‘Shrouded In Mystery’

Anuja has been working at Atelier Herenplaats since 2011. Her style can be defined as feminine and clean. Her delicate drawings depict a world of fantasy and nature. She loves working with ink on paper, but nowadays she also works more with acrylic on wooden panels. Where she previously made more black and white works, […]


hurrah! 40 year jubilee Richard Bennaars

Last week we celebrated Richard’s 40th anniversary at Pameijer. As one of the founders of Herenplaats, we can’t just let this pass us by! Richard’s hospitality has ensured that everyone feels involved at Herenplaats for years. People who pass by get infected with the ‘Herenplaats virus’, which ensures that they keep coming back, want to […]


Book presentation “A place at the table”

At the beginning of this year, Ignace Cami was a guest at Zuid. Boijmans Van Beuningen for his project A Place at the Table. Together with a broad group of Rotterdammers, including some artists from the Herenplaats, he worked on a series of facial jugs. In doing so, he was responding to the medieval pointy-nosed […]


Art Central Rotterdam XL

During the opening of our new exhibition ‘Shrouded in mystery’, a new edition of Art Central Rotterdam XL will take place. The city of Rotterdam as a whole is dominated by the opening of the new cultural season during Art Central Rotterdam XL. A cultural event in which thirty-six art spaces and institutions in Rotterdam […]


Ronald Schriel @ ‘What goes down, must come up’

Ronald is an artist who mainly works from his feelings. For him, art is a way to create his own visual reality, as opposed to the (sometimes hard, difficult) reality of the real world. Ronald Schriel has been working at atelier Herenplaats since 2008. For Ronald, making art is something that allows him to express […]


Dialogue “Art and I” – Saturday, May 29, 2021

“I feel like thinking about how the world sees me. And I want to know who I am.” Jonathan Sugendro. In the context of the exhibition ‘Face Time’  Galerie organizes Atelier Herenplaats a dialogue meeting about identity/personality fueled by art/creativity. Beautiful works are constantly being made in the studio. It is of course very important […]


Face to Face

Portrait drawing in the gallery on Saturday March 20 and April 17 With the same theme as the exhibition ‘Face Time’, the human face – the encounter, there will be ‘Face to Face’ on Saturday 20 March  and on April 17. People meet people, people look at each other, Herenplaats artists meet the public (in […]


Grietje Killian wins the Japanese ‘Overseas Works Award’

>Three works by Grietje Killian have been selected for the Japanese project ‘Nippon Foundation – Diversity in the Arts‘. This is an annual event in Japan in which work by ‘outsider artists’ is central. An international selection takes place and a touring exhibition through Japan follows. Works by Sharon van Dams and Mies van der […]