Comfort Zone
About this activity.
Comfort Zone Exhibition at Wall House #2
August 30 to October 26, 2025
Featuring work by: Sander Martens, Anita Oosterloo & Emily Wortel
Step outside your comfort zone – and discover the limits of photography and yourself
In the Comfort Zone exhibition, three artists – each with their own signature – challenge the boundaries of their medium and their own working methods. Photography forms their shared starting point, but the results are surprisingly multifaceted and personal.
A Body as Landscape and a Suitcase Full of Stories
On the ground floor, visual artist Emily Wortel presents a series of sculptural installations that combine photography, space, and physicality.
Her work revolves around looking and being looked at – around proximity and discomfort.
Upstairs, photographers Sander Martens and Anita Oosterloo present their collaborative project, Suitcase Conversations. Their working method is playful, intuitive, and outside their comfort zone. A game of passing around a suitcase containing objects forms the starting point for each new image. The rules are simple, the result surprising: a visual dialogue in which each photo responds to the previous one – without the photographer having seen it beforehand.
Want to participate?
As a visitor, you can participate in this "relay of images" by creating your own composition with the objects from the suitcase. By submitting your photo, you have a chance to enter the winning photo into this exhibition at Wall House #2.
Submissions are open until October 12th, and the winning photo will be added to the exhibition starting October 18th.
You can find the rules and conditions at the specially designed photo corner during your visit to this exhibition.
About the artists
Emily Wortel (Amsterdam, 1979) works in Groningen and studies at the Photo Academy. Her work is based on the body as both material and concept. With her images, Wortel questions social norms surrounding beauty, vulnerability, and normality. In "Kofferconversaties" (Suitcase Conversations), Sander Martens (Enschede, 1973) and Anita Oosterloo (Harlingen, 1964) use photography as a tool for play, collaboration, and creative innovation. Their project is a tribute to intuition and experimentation, a visual exchange.
COMFORTZONE is an exhibition about form, position, and perspective—and about daring to let go.
Location: Wall House #2 – A.J. Lutulistraat 17 in Groningen
Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 17:00
Opening: Saturday, August 30, 2025, at 12:00
Wall House #2.
Wall House #2 is een bezienswaardigheid, met zijn veelheid aan vormen, kleuren, interessante details, symbolen en betekenissen. Het is een exponent van de architectuur in de jaren tachtig en negentig van de vorige eeuw, toen de stad Groningen zich als podium voor internationale postmoderne architectuur profileerde. Het exuberante woonhuis werd ontworpen door de architect John Quentin Hejduk (New York 1929 - 2000 New York).
Location.
Wall House #2
A.J. Lutulistraat 17
tel 06-52065213
www.groningermuseum.nl/wallhouse